John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 30 May 1781

John Adams to John Quincy Adams

Amsterdam May 30. 1781

My dear John

If there are any extraordinary Productions of Nature or Art, exhibited, at the Fair of Leyden, write me an Account and a description of them, and insert them in your Journal.1

There were so many Rarities, at the Fair of Amsterdam, that I think these Fairs worth seeing. A Youth may store his Mind with many new Ideas, and with many usefull Reflections by attending to these Things. To open your Views and enlarge your Ideas of Nature, you ought not to neglect any innocent Opportunity.

J. Adams

RC (Adams Papers).

1. See Waterhouse to JA, 21 May, above. If JQA followed his father’s advice, no record of it appears. No “Journal” kept by him has been found for this period, though he resumed his diary in a new booklet on 9 June (D/JQA/4 in the Adams Papers, Microfilms, Reel No.7).

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Title: John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 30 May 1781
Author: Adams, John
Recipient: Adams, John Quincy
Date: 30 May 1781

Reference

Cite as: “John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 30 May 1781,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04-04-02-0103. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Adams Family Correspondence, vol. 4, October 1780 – September 1782, ed. L.H Butterfield and Marc Friedlaender. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1973, p. 146.]

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