Adams Papers

31st.

31st.

I amuse myself in reading Junius’s letters; which though the factious productions of a partizan, contain many excellent observations upon men and manners.

We met this evening at Putnam’s. Thompson left us to go to Lecture!1

1. Below JQA’s line-a-day entry for 31 July in D/JQA/13, he has written in Byrom’s shorthand method “year August 28th,” the significance of which is unknown to the editors, but may be related to his earlier notation in Byrom’s shorthand. See entry for 30 June, note 1 (above).

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    Adams Papers
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    31st.
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    Adams, John Quincy
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    31 July 1788

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    “31st.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-02-02-0003-0007-0031. [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. 437.]