Adams Papers

9th.

9th.

Snow’d part of the day. Reading Watson’s chemical essays.1 They are written in a very plain intelligible manner, and are quite entertaining. The subject I have never before paid any great attention to. We pass’d the evening at the professor’s. Small conversation, with women, can be interesting, only at the time it is going forward.

1. Richard Watson, Chemical Essays, 3d edn., 3 vols., London, 1784 (Harvard, Catalogus Bibliothecae, 1790 description begins [Isaac Smith, comp.], Catalogus Bibliothecae Harvardianae Cantabrigiae Nov- Anglorum, Boston, 1790. description ends , p. 37). There is a four-volume set of this 3d edn., London, 1784–1786, among JA’s books (MB).

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    Adams Papers
    Title
    9th.
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    Adams, John Quincy
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    9 January 1787

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    “9th.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-02-02-0002-0001-0009. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Diary of John Quincy Adams, vol. 2, March 1786 – December 1788, ed. Robert Taylor J and Marc Friedlaender. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981, p. 147.]