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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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3351 | Adams, John Quincy | 25th. | 1787-01-25 | The weather has been all along quite unsettled. Yesterday was very cold, but to day, it thaws... | |
3352 | Adams, John Quincy | 26th. | 1787-01-26 | General Lincoln, it seems, finds more difficulties in the affair he has undertaken, than were... | |
3353 | Adams, John Quincy | 27th. | 1787-01-27 | Fay was here this morning, and Freeman return’d this day from his Tour to visit his friends. Part... | |
3354 | Adams, John Quincy | 28th. | 1787-01-28 | Mr. Fiske supplied Mr. Hilliard this day: and gave satisfaction in general. His sentiments are... | |
3355 | Adams, John Quincy | 29th. | 1787-01-29 | Bridge went to Salem, upon some business this day, and returned. Miss Ellery and Miss Williams,... | |
3356 | Adams, John Quincy | 30th. | 1787-01-30 | Mrs. Cranch, Miss Betsey, and her brother, came from Braintree this morning, dined at Mr.... | |
3357 | Adams, John Quincy | 31st. | 1787-01-31 | Mr. Harris arrived this afternoon from Springfield, but did not bring any further accounts of... | |
3358 | Adams, John Quincy | [February 1787] | ≈1787-02-01 | It snow’d, the greatest part of the day; but gently, and without wind. Miss Jones, this forenoon,... | |
3359 | Adams, John Quincy | Thursday February 1st. 1787. | 1787-02-01 | It snow’d, the greatest part of the day; but gently, and without wind. Miss Jones, this forenoon,... | |
3360 | Adams, John Quincy | 2d. | 1787-02-02 | Drank tea again at Mr. Pearson’s. Miss Ellery, Miss Williams, Miss Mason, Miss Wigglesworth, Miss... | |
3361 | Adams, John Quincy | 3d. | 1787-02-03 | A Snow storm came on, in the afternoon, and continued in the night. We saw Mr. Ellery this... | |
3362 | Adams, John Quincy | 4th. | 1787-02-04 | The wind was very high all the forenoon; and although the sky was clear, the drifting of the... | |
3363 | Adams, John Quincy | 5th. | 1787-02-05 | The occurrences of the day, were not remarkable. I did not study much. I have been reading... | |
3364 | Adams, John Quincy | 6th. | 1787-02-06 | This being the last day before the close of the vacation, I was part of the day employ’d in... | |
3365 | Adams, John Quincy | 7th. | 1787-02-07 | This morning I returned to my old quarters N: 6. My Brothers and Cousin got here just before... | |
3366 | Adams, John Quincy | 8th. | 1787-02-08 | White lent me his horse this morning, to go to Boston. Dr. Tufts, had sent by my brothers,... | |
3367 | Adams, John Quincy | 9th. | 1787-02-09 | Return’d to the library the books I had taken out, and took the second volume of the Idler. After... | |
3368 | Adams, John Quincy | 10th. | 1787-02-10 | Very few of the students have arrived. Not more than 15 of our Class have yet appeared. The tea... | |
3369 | Adams, John Quincy | 11th. | 1787-02-11 | Mr. Hilliard entertained us all day, with a couple of Sermons, upon the whole armour of god. The... | |
3370 | Adams, John Quincy | 12th. | 1787-02-12 | We recite this week to Mr. Burr, but this disagreeable exercice returns at present only once a... | |
3371 | Adams, John Quincy | 13th. | 1787-02-13 | At nine o’clock this morning, the Class read a forensic disputation: I had written in the course... | |
3372 | Adams, John Quincy | 14th. | 1787-02-14 | Mr. Wigglesworth gave us this morning a private lecture, and Mr. Williams had a public one, in... | |
3373 | Adams, John Quincy | 15th. | 1787-02-15 | I went down in the morning to Mr. Pearson’s, with an intention of inviting Miss Bromfield to... | |
3374 | Adams, John Quincy | 16th. | 1787-02-16 | I rose just before the commons bell rung for dinner, quite refreshed, and not more fatigued, than... | |
3375 | Adams, John Quincy | 17th. | 1787-02-17 | Was at Kendall’s chamber after dinner; and likewise drank tea there. At home all the evening... | |
3376 | Adams, John Quincy | 18th. | 1787-02-18 | Mr. Hilliard preached to us in the forenoon, and the president in the afternoon, when we were... | |
3377 | Adams, John Quincy | 19th. | 1787-02-19 | We recite this week to Mr. Read. So few of the Class have yet arrived, that we have all something... | |
3378 | Adams, John Quincy | 20th. | 1787-02-20 | Was part of the afternoon at Bridge’s chamber. Had tea at Little’s. Charles and Cranch, pass’d... | |
3379 | Adams, John Quincy | 21st. | 1787-02-21 | Mr. Williams gave us a public lecture this afternoon, containing, an account of the different... | |
3380 | Adams, John Quincy | 22d. | 1787-02-22 | Very cold weather. We drank tea at Williams’s. Bridge, and I went and pass’d the evening at Judge... | |
3381 | Adams, John Quincy | 23d. | 1787-02-23 | About one half the Class are here at present: they have been coming in, quite slowly; and they... | |
3382 | Adams, John Quincy | 24th. | 1787-02-24 | Committee met again at Mr. Ware’s chamber; after reading all the letters, I was requested to... | |
3383 | Adams, John Quincy | 25th. | 1787-02-25 | I was absent from meeting all this day. Bridge dined with me, at my chamber. I begun, and read... | |
3384 | Adams, John Quincy | 26th. | 1787-02-26 | We recite again in Ferguson. Mr. Pearson gave a lecture this afternoon; it was still upon the... | |
3385 | Adams, John Quincy | 27th. | 1787-02-27 | Almost all our Class have arrived. This morning I was not waked by the ringing of the prayer bell... | |
3386 | Adams, John Quincy | 28th. | 1787-02-28 | Mr. Williams gave us an astronomical lecture this afternoon. The sodality met, in the evening at... | |
3387 | Adams, John Quincy | [March 1787] | ≈1787-03-01 | Charles went to Boston this morning: in the afternoon, I was at Foster’s chamber; he introduced... | |
3388 | Adams, John Quincy | Thursday March 1st. 1787. | 1787-03-01 | Charles went to Boston this morning: in the afternoon, I was at Foster’s chamber; he introduced... | |
3389 | Adams, John Quincy | 2d. | 1787-03-02 | Mr. Andrews was at my chamber in the forenoon. I went with him, and Cranch and my class mate... | |
3390 | Adams, John Quincy | 3d. | 1787-03-03 | Dined with, Bridge, Cranch, Freeman, Little and White, at our classmate Foster’s in Boston. Just... | |
3391 | Adams, John Quincy | 4th. | 1787-03-04 | Was absent from meeting all day. Read a Sermon, from Blair, in the forenoon, upon the duties of... | |
3392 | Adams, John Quincy | 5th. | 1787-03-05 | Snow’d moderately, a large part of the day. We recite to Mr. Burr. Professor Pearson, gave a... | |
3393 | Adams, John Quincy | 6th. | 1787-03-06 | Engaged an horse, to go to Haverhill to-morrow; White went to Boston for the same purpose. Mr.... | |
3394 | Adams, John Quincy | 7th. | 1787-03-07 | At about 11, in the morning I set off, with Foster and White, for Haverhill. At half past one, we... | |
3395 | Adams, John Quincy | 8th. | 1787-03-08 | In the forenoon, I went and paid a number of visits, to my old acquaintance in this place; Mr.... | |
3396 | Adams, John Quincy | 9th. | 1787-03-09 | Walk’d about the town, with Mr. Hazen, White and Foster. Went to see Miss Hazen, the Miss... | |
3397 | Adams, John Quincy | 10th. | 1787-03-10 | We had not obtained leave to be absent from College, and were therefore obliged to be at meeting,... | |
3398 | Adams, John Quincy | 11th. | 1787-03-11 | Attended meeting all day. Mr. Hilliard preach’d; but not very much to the purpose: what with the... | |
3399 | Adams, John Quincy | 12th. | 1787-03-12 | This morning the parts for the ensuing exhibition were distributed. Foster has the English... | |
3400 | Adams, John Quincy | 13th. | 1787-03-13 | Somewhat idle, the greater part of the day: rather dull, and low spirited: the Sophimores this... |