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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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31 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail | John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 16 February 1779 | 1779-02-16 | I have now the pleasure to acquaint you some news which will be agreable to you. Yesterday... |
32 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail | John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 20 February 1779 | 1779-02-20 | I last night had the honour of reading a letter from you to my Pappa dated Jany. 4th. in which... |
33 | Adams, John Quincy | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from John Quincy Adams, 12 April … | 1779-04-12 | ALS : Dartmouth College Library I am obliged to you, for the Mention you have been so good as to... |
34 | Adams, John Quincy | [November 1779] | ≈1779-11-01 | Titlepage and cover for JQA ’s early Diary, designated D/JQA/1 by Adams editors to indicate the... | |
35 | Adams, John Quincy | [Titlepage and Cover] | ≈1779-11-01 | Titlepage and cover for JQA ’s early Diary, designated D/JQA/1 by Adams editors to indicate the... | |
36 | Adams, John Quincy | [Revised Titlepage] | 1779-11-12 | Revised titlepage located on the inside front cover of D/JQA/1. This titlepage and the first page... | |
37 | Adams, John Quincy | 1779 November Friday 12th. | 1779-11-12 | This Morning at about 11 o clock I took leave of my Mamma, my Sister, and Brother Tommy, and went... | |
38 | Adams, John Quincy | Saturday 13th. | 1779-11-13 | To day at about 1 o clock Pappa, and my Brother Charles, came to town, and at about 5 o clock we... | |
39 | Adams, John Quincy | Sunday 14th. | 1779-11-14 | This morning a great number of Gentlemen came on board, and amongst others Col Johonnot, with a... | |
40 | Adams, John Quincy | Mond 15th. | 1779-11-15 | This morning a brig and a schooner went out I suppose after wood to the eastward. About 8 o clock... | |
41 | Adams, John Quincy | Thursday 18th. | 1779-11-18 | Yesterday and day before there was nothing remarkable only that all day yesterday there was a... | |
42 | Adams, John Quincy | Friday 19th. | 1779-11-19 | 12 o clock. The Gale continues. Nothing else remarkable. 6 o clock. The wind has abated a great... | |
43 | Adams, John Quincy | Saturday 20th. | 1779-11-20 | This morning about 6 o clock spy’d a sail about 2 miles of f . We sent the courier de L’europe to... | |
44 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail | John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 20 November 1779 | 1779-11-20 | This moment gives me an Opportunity of writing to you but I have very little to write. We are now... |
45 | Adams, John Quincy | Sunday 21st. | 1779-11-21 | Nothing remarkable to day except calm all day. 6 o clock. It begins to freshen. We go about 3... | |
46 | Adams, John Quincy | Monday 22d. | 1779-11-22 | A fresh breeze all day from the SSE. The Captain says we are about fifty Leagues from the Grand... | |
47 | Adams, John Quincy | Tuesday 23d. | 1779-11-23 | The weather is very much like that of the Bank. The Courier has taken two fish. At twelve o clock... | |
48 | Adams, John Quincy | Wednesday 24th. | 1779-11-24 | This morning the Courier lost herself in the fog but at about ten o clock we found her again. I... | |
49 | Adams, John Quincy | Thursday 25th. | 1779-11-25 | This morning about nine o clock the courier lost her foretopmast. About twelve o clock she got it... | |
50 | Adams, John Quincy | Friday 26th. | 1779-11-26 | This Morning a very fresh breeze from the N.W. 7 o clock. We now go 12 knots an hour; every face... | |
51 | Adams, John Quincy | Saturday 27th. | 1779-11-27 | I could not write any more yesterday because a Gale of wind came on which hinder’d me but to day... | |
52 | Adams, John Quincy | Sunday 28th. | 1779-11-28 | 6 o clock. Calm and cloudy. 9 o clock. It begins to freshen. 6 o clock P.M. A very fresh breeze.... | |
53 | Adams, John Quincy | Mon 29th. | 1779-11-29 | The ship is very leaky. The passengers are all called to the Pump four times per day. 8 o clock... | |
54 | Adams, John Quincy | Tues 30th. | 1779-11-30 | To day a middling breeze from the S.E or SSE. At 12 o clock to day being at the Pump there being... | |
55 | Adams, John Quincy | [December 1779] | ≈1779-12-01 | We housed all the Guns to day because she rolled a great deal. A fresh breeze from the S.S.E.... | |
56 | Adams, John Quincy | 1779 December Wed 1st. | 1779-12-01 | We housed all the Guns to day because she rolled a great deal. A fresh breeze from the S.S.E.... | |
57 | Adams, John Quincy | Thur 2d. | 1779-12-02 | A fresh breeze from the South. Continual Squalls thunder and lightning. 6 o clock PM. The weather... | |
58 | Adams, John Quincy | Friday 3d. | 1779-12-03 | Pleasant weather. A fresh breeze from the S.W. The Captain intends to go to Spain to search the... | |
59 | Adams, John Quincy | Satur 4th. | 1779-12-04 | A middling breeze from the SW. This afternoon about four o clock a land Bird came a hovering over... | |
60 | Adams, John Quincy | Sun. 5th. | 1779-12-05 | A middling breeze from the S.W. We replaced our guns. We took in the Main, and forsails in order... | |
61 | Adams, John Quincy | Mon 6th. | 1779-12-06 | This morning my brother Charles look’d out of Pappa’s window and said he saw a flock of Wild... | |
62 | Adams, John Quincy | Tuesday 7th. | 1779-12-07 | Last night about nine o clock we saw a number of fish. We could not tell what they were; some say... | |
63 | Adams, John Quincy | Wednes 8th. | 1779-12-08 | This morning about half after four o clock we saw a sail. At about seven o clock we could see her... | |
64 | Adams, John Quincy | Thursday 9th. | 1779-12-09 | This morning My Pappa, Mr. Dana, Mr. Allen, Mr. Thaxter, Sammy Cooper, my brother Charles, and... | |
65 | Adams, John Quincy | Friday 10th. | 1779-12-10 | This forenoon I took a walk about the town but saw nothing worth remarking. At about half after... | |
66 | Adams, John Quincy | Saturday 11th. | 1779-12-11 | This forenoon a Captain of one of the french men of War came and very politely invited me on... | |
67 | Adams, John Quincy | Sunday 12th. | 1779-12-12 | This morning I went to the French Consuls to ask him if he went to day. He said that it blew so... | |
68 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Thomas Boylston | John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 12 December … | 1779-12-12 | As I have wrote to Mamma and Sister I have but very little to write to you but I cannot let an... |
69 | Adams, John Quincy | Monday Evening 13th. | 1779-12-13 | Very rainy all this day. It is impossible to go to Coronna to day. 10 o clock. I have been to the... | |
70 | Adams, John Quincy | Tuesday 14th. | 1779-12-14 | The French consul was here last night (he is to go to Coronna with us). He told us that he would... | |
71 | Adams, John Quincy | Wednesday 15th. | 1779-12-15 | This morning at 5 o clock the Consul’s servant came and wak’d us up. We dress’d and drank a cup... | |
72 | Adams, John Quincy | Thursday the 16th of December. | 1779-12-16 | This morning I took a walk about the town to see and found that it was a much more pleasant town... | |
73 | Adams, John Quincy | Friday 17th. | 1779-12-17 | This morning I went to see the tour de fer (as the French call it and the spaniards Tour... | |
74 | Adams, John Quincy | Saturday 18th. | 1779-12-18 | This morning I went to the French Consul’s and from there to the Governor’s of this place. We saw... | |
75 | Adams, John Quincy | Sunday 19th. | 1779-12-19 | This forenoon we all went to the Consuls where we dined. There were 16 Gentlemen 51 dishes, and... | |
76 | Adams, John Quincy | Monday 20th. | 1779-12-20 | Very rainy all this forenoon. This morning Pappa, Mr. Dana, Mr. Allen and Mr. Thaxter went to... | |
77 | Adams, John Quincy | Tuesday 21st. | 1779-12-21 | This forenoon Sammy Cooper Charles and I went to the Consul’s in order to go a Gunning. The... | |
78 | Adams, John Quincy | Wednesday 22d Of December. | 1779-12-22 | Rain’d all day with intermissions. At about 3 o clock PM we went a Gunning with Flamand. We got... | |
79 | Adams, John Quincy | Thursday 23d Of December. | 1779-12-23 | A good day. At about 11 o clock we saw a Sail and at one o clock we saw a nother one of which... | |
80 | Adams, John Quincy | Friday 24th. | 1779-12-24 | This morning a Spanish 80 Gun Ship went out of this harbour. At about 10 o clock the Consul came... |