Adams Papers

6 Tuesday.
[from the Diary of John Adams]

6 Tuesday.

A fair Day. Drank Tea at Coll. Chandlers, and fixt1 a Letter for Cushing, Wentworth, Dalton, Lock [Locke], my Father, and Dr. Savel.

1Fix: to set down in writing (OED description begins The Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford, 1933; 12 vols. and supplement. description ends , fix, vb., 5b). None of the six letters enumerated here, the first four of which were addressed to Harvard classmates, has been found.

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