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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3851 | Adams, John Quincy | 22d. | 1788-05-22 | I was up before eight, and had not slept well, even the short Time I was in bed; I felt stiff and... | |
| 3852 | Adams, John Quincy | 23d. | 1788-05-23 | Continual North east winds have prevailed for a week past. This evening, I past, with Thompson at... | |
| 3853 | Adams, John Quincy | 24th. | 1788-05-24 | Pickman went to Salem this morning. In the evening, I took a long walk with Thompson, down... | |
| 3854 | Adams, John Quincy | 25th. | 1788-05-25 | Mr. Webber preach’d here, for Mr. Andrews; and I was much pleased with his discourses. They were... | |
| 3855 | Adams, John Quincy | 26th. | 1788-05-26 | In the afternoon, I took a walk with Thompson, to see Little. He has the small pox full, upon him... | |
| 3856 | Adams, John Quincy | 27th. | 1788-05-27 | Mr. Jackson, sent one of his sons to inform me, that he heard last evening at Beverly, that... | |
| 3857 | Adams, John Quincy | 28th. | 1788-05-28 | Election Day. And there is not a poor Devil, who has lost his election, in the Commonwealth, that... | |
| 3858 | Adams, John Quincy | 29th. | 1788-05-29 | Club at Thompson’s this evening. Putnam inform’d us, he must leave us at a quarter before nine. I... | |
| 3859 | Adams, John Quincy | 30th. | 1788-05-30 | I called this morning at Mr. Bradbury’s office, and affronted Putnam by rallying him upon his... | |
| 3860 | Adams, John Quincy | 31st. | 1788-05-31 | Finished, this forenoon with Hawkins. Dined at Mr. N. Carter’s. As did Mr. Farnham and Thompson:... | |
| 3861 | Adams, John Quincy | [June 1788] | ≈1788-06-01 | Mr. Allen preached for us this day; and I attended to hear him. His Sermons are judicious and... | |
| 3862 | Adams, John Quincy | Sunday June 1st. 1788. | 1788-06-01 | Mr. Allen preached for us this day; and I attended to hear him. His Sermons are judicious and... | |
| 3863 | Adams, John Quincy | 2d. | 1788-06-02 | Pickman returned this day from Salem, where he has been for ten days past. I began to read Wood’s... | |
| 3864 | Adams, John Quincy | 3d. | 1788-06-03 | I walk’d with Thompson a mile or two in Newbury. The prospects on that road are delightful; and I... | |
| 3865 | Adams, John Quincy | 4th. | 1788-06-04 | Walk’d into Newbury in the evening with Thompson; and we returned through Joppé, by a different... | |
| 3866 | Adams, John Quincy | 5th. | 1788-06-05 | We met in the evening at Stacey’s lodgings. Putnam was not present. At about seven we received a... | |
| 3867 | Adams, John Quincy | 6th. | 1788-06-06 | In the forenoon I sent my letter to Putnam, and in about an hour received the following reply... | |
| 3868 | Adams, John Quincy | 7th. | 1788-06-07 | Mr. Parsons came home from Boston this evening; where he has been attending at the general court;... | |
| 3869 | Adams, John Quincy | 8th. | 1788-06-08 | Mr. Webster from Salisbury preached for us this day: a venerable old gentleman who has been... | |
| 3870 | Adams, John Quincy | 9th. | 1788-06-09 | Mr. Parsons had so much information to give every one who came into the office this day that, we... | |
| 3871 | Adams, John Quincy | 10th. | 1788-06-10 | Stroll’d a mile or two with Pickman: he has the appearance of a true and faithful Lover, and... | |
| 3872 | Adams, John Quincy | 11th. | 1788-06-11 | I walk’d this evening with Stacey. The weather was very beautiful, and we proposed to form a... | |
| 3873 | Adams, John Quincy | 12th. | 1788-06-12 | Townsend arrived in town this forenoon: I called at Mrs. Hooper’s to see him immediately after... | |
| 3874 | Adams, John Quincy | 13th. | 1788-06-13 | Townsend, and one or two more of my friends dined with me this day. He went in the afternoon to... | |
| 3875 | Adams, John Quincy | 14th. | 1788-06-14 | Finished reading in Wood’s Institutes; a book which has been rendered almost useless by the... | |
| 3876 | Adams, John Quincy | 15th. | 1788-06-15 | Mr. Allen preach’d; and as usual delivered a good Sermon, in a very bad manner. After meeting; I... | |
| 3877 | Adams, John Quincy | 16th. | 1788-06-16 | Townsend intended to have set away this morning; to go to Medfield; but the weather was so chilly... | |
| 3878 | Adams, John Quincy | 17th. | 1788-06-17 | Townsend left Town this morning, but as the wind soon got easterly, I imagine he did not go far.... | |
| 3879 | Adams, John Quincy | 18th. | 1788-06-18 | I went to the Office in the forenoon; but found myself incapacitated to do any thing, and... | |
| 3880 | Adams, John Quincy | 19th. | 1788-06-19 | The Stage was full from Portsmouth and consequently I could not obtain a seat. I could not think... | |
| 3881 | Adams, John Quincy | 20th. | 1788-06-20 | I was up early in the morning, and mounted my horse at about seven. It was ten when I got into... | |
| 3882 | Adams, John Quincy | 21st. | 1788-06-21 | The weather was very warm. I went down to my uncle Quincy’s, and from thence on the shore. One... | |
| 3883 | Adams, John Quincy | 22d. | 1788-06-22 | Parson Wibird preached in his usual dull unanimated strain. Of late indeed he has lost it is said... | |
| 3884 | Adams, John Quincy | 23d. | 1788-06-23 | A second lighter came up this day with things from the ship. We were very busy in unpacking... | |
| 3885 | Adams, John Quincy | 24th. | 1788-06-24 | This day we got so far in order as to make a home of the house. I dined at my uncle Cranch’s. The... | |
| 3886 | Adams, John Quincy | 25th. | 1788-06-25 | This afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Shaw came in from Haverhill; they found us still in great disorder:... | |
| 3887 | Adams, John Quincy | 26th. | 1788-06-26 | We all dined at Mr. Cranch’s. Charles came from Cambridge to spend a day or two with us. I... | |
| 3888 | Adams, John Quincy | 27th. | 1788-06-27 | The day was spent like the preceding ones. There was some company here in the afternoon. I give... | |
| 3889 | Adams, John Quincy | 28th. | 1788-06-28 | Mrs. Welch and Betsey Smith came from Boston this morning; we all went to Weymouth and dined at... | |
| 3890 | Adams, John Quincy | 29th. | 1788-06-29 | I attended at meeting and heard Mr. Wibird. The weather was rather dull and somewhat sultry. I am... | |
| 3891 | Adams, John Quincy | 30th. | 1788-06-30 | Mr. and Mrs. Shaw return’d to Haverhill this morning: and this day I finished unpacking the... | |
| 3892 | Adams, John Quincy | [July 1788] | ≈1788-07-01 | It was nine o’clock before I could get away from Braintree this morning, and I arrived at the... | |
| 3893 | Adams, John Quincy | Tuesday July 1st. 1788. | 1788-07-01 | It was nine o’clock before I could get away from Braintree this morning, and I arrived at the... | |
| 3894 | Adams, John Quincy | 2d. | 1788-07-02 | The weather was extremely warm. I amused myself part of the day in reading, and part in shooting.... | |
| 3895 | Adams, John Quincy | 3d. | 1788-07-03 | Between nine and ten I went with my father from Braintree. We got into Cambridge at about twelve.... | |
| 3896 | Adams, John Quincy | 4th. | 1788-07-04 | We left Cambridge by nine o’clock, and got into Boston in the midst of the bustle. We went... | |
| 3897 | Adams, John Quincy | 5th. | 1788-07-05 | We called this morning at Dr. Welch’s, and at Mr. Guild’s; but left town at about ten o’clock: It... | |
| 3898 | Adams, John Quincy | 6th. | 1788-07-06 | The weather was rather disagreeable in the morning, and Mrs. Warren was disposed to stay and pass... | |
| 3899 | Adams, John Quincy | 7th. | 1788-07-07 | W. Cranch went to Boston this morning; and I suppose, I shall have but very little of his company... | |
| 3900 | Adams, John Quincy | 8th. | 1788-07-08 | I past the greater part of the day in gunning, with my brothers. The weather was as it has been... |