31st. Saturday.

Went this morning to the English Library. Went to a bookseller’s shop and bought some books.1 Mr. Wolff came here in the forenoon. Rainy weather.

1. One that can be identified is Jean de La Bruyère’s Les Caractères, 2 vols., Paris, 1768 (Catalogue of JQA’s Books description begins Worthington C. Ford, ed., A Catalogue of the Books of John Quincy Adams Deposited in the Boston Athenaeum. With Notes on Books, Adams Seals and Book-Plates, by Henry Adams, Boston, 1938. description ends ).

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Source Project: Adams Papers
Title: 31st. Saturday.
Author: Adams, John Quincy
Date: 31 August 1782

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Cite as: “31st. Saturday.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0004-0009-0031. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Diary of John Quincy Adams, vol. 1, November 1779 – March 1786, ed. Robert J. Taylor and Marc Friedlaender. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981, pp. 143–144.]