Transcriber’s Note:

The author’s spelling and hyphenation of words and names is inconsistent, e.g. Adams/Adames. Lower case Roman numerals often end with a ‘j’ instead of an ‘i.’

Footnotes were renumbered sequentially. In the diary, footnotes were moved to the end of the entry for the date in which the anchor occurs. In the Appendix, footnotes were moved to follow the piece of correspondence in which the anchor occurs.

To accommodate display on narrow screens, where braces were used in the book to group data horizontally across the page, the text was formatted as indented lists instead. The entry on Febrary 13, [here], is a typical example.