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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 201 | Adams, John | Wednesday [18 October]. | 1758-10-18 | Went to Boston. Bob Paine . I have ruined myself, by a too eager Pursuit of Wisdom. I have now... | |
| 202 | Adams, John | Thurdsday [19 October]. | 1758-10-19 | I borrowed yesterday of Quincy, the 1st Volume of Batista Angeloni’s Letters, and a general... | |
| 203 | Adams, John | Saturday [21 October]. | 1758-10-21 | Rose with the sun. Brot up the Horse and took a Ride over Penns Hill, as far as John Haywards in... | |
| 204 | Adams, John | [Sunday 22 October]. | 1758-10-22 | Conversed with Capt. Thatcher about commercial affairs.—When he receives a freight of Goods on... | |
| 205 | Adams, John | Monday [23 October]. | 1758-10-23 | Monday 23 October . | |
| 206 | Adams, John | Tuesday [24 October]. | 1758-10-24 | Rode to Boston. Arrived about 1/2 after 10. Went into the Court House, and sett down by Mr. Paine... | |
| 207 | Adams, John | Wednesday [25 October]. | 1758-10-25 | Went in the morning to Mr. Gridleys, and asked the favour of his Advice what Steps to take for an... | |
| 208 | Adams, John | Thurdsday [26 October]. | 1758-10-26 | Went in the morning to wait on Mr. Prat. He inquired if I had been sworn at Worcester? No. Have... | |
| 209 | Adams, John | Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday [27–30 October]. | ≈1758-10-27 | All Spent in absolute Idleness, or what is worse, gallanting the Girls. | |
| 210 | Adams, John | Tuesday [31 October]. | 1758-10-31 | Set down, and recollected my self, and read a little in Van Muyden, a little in naval Trade and... | |
| 211 | Adams, John | [November 1758] | ≈1758-11-01 | Read a little in Van Muyden, and a little in naval Trade and Commerce. Rode as far as Smelt... | |
| 212 | Adams, John | Wednesday [1 November]. | 1758-11-01 | Read a little in Van Muyden, and a little in naval Trade and Commerce. | |
| 213 | Adams, John | Thurdsday [2 November]. | 1758-11-02 | Rode as far as Smelt Brook. Breakfasted, made my fire and am now set down to Van Muyden in... | |
| 214 | Adams, John | Sunday [5? November]. | 1758-11-05 | Drank Tea at Coll. Quincy’s. He read to me a Letter Coll. Gouch wrote him in answer to his... | |
| 215 | Adams, John | Monday [6? November]. | 1758-11-06 | Went to Town. Went to Mr. Gridleys office, but he had not returned to Town from Brookline. Went... | |
| 216 | Adams, John | [December 1758] | ≈1758-12-01 | Bob Paine is conceited and pretends to more Knowledge and Genius than he has. I have heard him... | |
| 217 | Adams, John | Tuesday. December 3 or 4 [i.e. 5?]. | 1758-12-05 | Bob Paine is conceited and pretends to more Knowledge and Genius than he has. I have heard him... | |
| 218 | Adams, John | [Marginalia in Winthrop’s Lecture on Earthquakes … | ≈1758-12-01 | “O! there is no getting out of the mighty hand of GOD!” This Exclamation was very popular, for... | |
| 219 | Adams, John | Monday. December 18th. 1758 | 1758-12-18 | I this Evening delivered to Mr. Field, a Declaration in Trespass for a Rescue. I was obliged to... | |
| 220 | Adams, John | Wednesday [20 December]. | 1758-12-20 | I am this forenoon, resuming the Study of Van Muyden. I begin at the 99th Page. | |
| 221 | Adams, John | Thurdsday [21 December]. | 1758-12-21 | Yesterday and to day I have read loud, Tullius 4 Orations against Cataline. The Sweetness and... | |
| 222 | Adams, John | Tuesday, 26 of December. | 1758-12-26 | Being the Evening after Christmas, the Dr. and I spent the Evening with Mr. Cleverly and Major... | |
| 223 | Adams, John | Friday [29 December]. | 1758-12-29 | Let me see, if Bob P aine dont pick up this Story to laugh at. Lambert will laugh no doubt, and... | |
| 224 | Adams, John | Saturday [30 December]. | 1758-12-30 | How a whole Family is put into a Broil sometimes by a Trifle. My P. and M. disagreed in Opinion... | |
| 225 | Adams, John | [January 1759] | ≈1759-01-01 | Drank Tea at Coll. Quincies. Spent the Evening there, and the next morning. In the afternoon,... | |
| 226 | Adams, John | Wednesday [January 1759]. | ≈1759-01-01 | Drank Tea at Coll. Quincies. Spent the Evening there, and the next morning. In the afternoon,... | |
| 227 | Adams, John | Tuesday [January 1759]. | ≈1759-01-01 | Took a ride after Dinner to Gullivers Brook in Milton, returned home. Went over to Deacon... | |
| 228 | Adams, John | [February 1759] | ≈1759-02-01 | I intend a Journey to Worcester to morrow. How many observations shall I make on the People at... | |
| 229 | Adams, John | Feb. 1. | 1759-02-01 | I intend a Journey to Worcester to morrow. How many observations shall I make on the People at... | |
| 230 | Adams, John | Feb. 2. 1759. | 1759-02-02 | At Westtown, in Dr. Webbs Chamber at Hammonds. His landlady is an odd Woman. She seems good... | |
| 231 | Adams, John | Worcester Feb. 11. 1759. | 1759-02-11 | I have been in this Town a Week this night. How much have I improved my Health by Exercise, or my... | |
| 232 | Adams, John | [March 1759] | ≈1759-03-14 | Reputation ought to be the perpetual subject of my Thoughts, and Aim of my Behaviour. How shall I... | |
| 233 | Adams, John | March 14. 1759. | 1759-03-14 | Reputation ought to be the perpetual subject of my Thoughts, and Aim of my Behaviour. How shall I... | |
| 234 | Adams, John | March 18 [i.e. 19?]. Monday | 1759-03-19 | This whole Day is dedicated to walking, riding, talk, &c. No Reading to day. Twas Avarice, not... | |
| 235 | Adams, John | [April 1759] | 1759-04-08 | Spent the Evening at Captain Bracketts. A Case was proposed and my Opinion asked, which gave me... | |
| 236 | Adams, John | Sunday. April 8th. 1759. | 1759-04-08 | Spent the Evening at Captain Bracketts. A Case was proposed and my Opinion asked, which gave me... | |
| 237 | Adams, John | [Spring 1759.] | ≈1759-04-01 | The Road is walled on each side with a Grove of Trees. The stillness, silence, and the uniformity... | |
| 238 | Adams, John | [June 1759] | 1759-06-29 | Have this moment finished Woods new Institute of the Imperial or civil Law. It is a great Help in... | |
| 239 | Adams, John | June 29. 1759. | 1759-06-29 | Have this moment finished Woods new Institute of the Imperial or civil Law. It is a great Help in... | |
| 240 | Adams, John | [Summer 1759.] | ≈1759-06-30 | Mr. Wibirt . Ld. Chancellor Hardwick used at night to take off the Robes of his office and lay... | |
| 241 | Adams, John | [October 1759] | ≈1759-10-01 | The true End, which we ought to have in View, is that praeclarum ac Singulare quiddam, which... | |
| 242 | Adams, John | Extract of a Letter to Jona. Sewall, Octr. 1759 | ≈1759-10-01 | The true End, which we ought to have in View, is that praeclarum ac Singulare quiddam, which... | |
| 243 | Adams, John | 1759. | ≈1759-01-01 | Began Octr. 12th, in Pursuance of the foregoing Plan to transcribe from Brightlands english... | |
| 244 | Adams, John | [May 1760] | ≈1760-05-26 | Spent the Evening at Mr. Edd. Quincy’s, with Mr. Wibird, and my Cozen Zab. Mr. Quincy told a... | |
| 245 | Adams, John | Monday May 26th 1760. | 1760-05-26 | Spent the Evening at Mr. Edd. Quincy’s, with Mr. Wibird, and my Cozen Zab. Mr. Quincy told a... | |
| 246 | Adams, John | Tuesday [27 May]. | 1760-05-27 | At home. Read, in Naval Trade and Commerce. | |
| 247 | Adams, John | Wednesday [28 May]. | 1760-05-28 | Loitered the forenoon away upon this Question in Arithmetic. 3 men give 20 shillings for a... | |
| 248 | Adams, John | 1760. May 29. Thurdsday. | 1760-05-29 | Rose and breakfasted. Have done nothing yet to day, and God only knows what I shall do. The... | |
| 249 | Adams, John | May 30 1760. Friday. | 1760-05-30 | Rose early. Several Country Towns, within my observation, have at least a Dozen Taverns and... | |
| 250 | Adams, John | 1760 May 31th. Saturday | 1760-05-31 | Read in naval Trade and Commerce, concerning Factors, Consuls, Embassadors, &c., and the South... |