Adams Papers

Saturday. Decr. 6th. 1783.

Saturday. Decr. 6th. 1783.

Dined at Mr. W. Vassal’s1 at Clapham.

1William Vassall, once a prominent Bostonian, now a loyalist refugee, whom JA later described as “one of my old friends and clients ... a man of letters and virtues, without one vice that I ever knew or suspected, except garrulity” (Sibley-Shipton, Harvard Graduates description begins John Langdon Sibley and Clifford K. Shipton, Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge and Boston, 1873- . description ends , 9:349–359; JA, Works description begins The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: with a Life of the Author, ed. Charles Francis Adams, Boston, 1850-1856; 10 vols. description ends , 10:214–215).

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