Adams Papers

21st.

21st.

I can read tolerably well when I am alone in the office, and make as much progress in one day, as I can sometimes in a week, when all the other gentlemen are here. I have read through the first volume, and have made some progress in the second of Blackstone...1 And I read it I think with more advantage, than I did the first time; but my progress is slow; too slow.2

1. JQA’s ellipses.

2. In his line-a-day entry, JQA mentions “Mrs. Hooper’s. Evening” (D/JQA/13, Adams Papers, Microfilms, Reel No. 16).

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    Adams Papers
    Title
    21st.
    Author
    Adams, John Quincy
    Date
    21 March 1788

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    “21st.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-02-02-0003-0003-0021. [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. 377.]