314112th. (Adams Papers)
This day I finished reading the fourth and last volume of Blackstone’s Commentaries. This is one...
314218th. (Adams Papers)
Unwell, so that I could not do much all day. Finished my elements for an eclipse, and finally...
31435th. (Adams Papers)
This morning after Commons we had a meeting of the ΦBK, at Cranch’s chamber: We began by...
314424. (Adams Papers)
Comédie Italienne voyage de Rosine et Felix ou l’enfant trouvé. Pierre Antoine Augustin de Piis...
31458th. (Adams Papers)
It Snow’d in the morning till 10 o’clock, and it was feared the exhibition, must be again...
314625th. (Adams Papers)
Weather still the same. Mr. Wibird spent the afternoon at Mr. Cranch’s. I went with my brother...
314722d. (Adams Papers)
We had a lecture in the forenoon from Mr. Wigglesworth. Wrote off something upon conic Sections;...
31488th. (Adams Papers)
I went out with Mr. Harrison, Mrs. Swift, and Miss Riché, to Content to see Lady Wheate, who is...
314915th. (Adams Papers)
We recite this week to Mr. Hale, in Locke. This is upon the whole, the most unpopular Tutor in...
315012th. (Adams Papers)
The government, this morning, determined that if more than half the students should be destitute...
315124th. Friday. (Adams Papers)
This day a French Gentleman dined with us. Mr. D took a ride in the afternoon. Mr. Artaud went to...
315212th. (Adams Papers)
This morning Mr. Chaumont came, and proposed to me, to buy an horse, so that we might go to...
31535th. (Adams Papers)
We had a Lecture from Mr. Williams, concerning heat, proper Lecture for the weather. Je fus le...
315414th. Friday. (Adams Papers)
Mr. D. went and took a ride in the afternoon. Stay’d at home all day. Cloudy weather.
315510th. (Adams Papers)
Varietés. Le faux talisman, La théatromanie; Oui ou non . Poor Stuff. A good deal of genteel...
31562d. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Chaumont intended to set out early in the morning for Philadelphia (or rather Albany,) but it...
31574th. Thursday. (Adams Papers)
Dined this day with Mr. D. at the Dutch Embassador’s; went in the evening to the German Comedy....
315827th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Read came here in the afternoon, to spend a day. Though he cannot entirely lay aside the...
315931st. (Adams Papers)
Miss B. Palmer, came from Germantown, this afternoon, to spend the night here. We prepared to...
316025th. (Adams Papers)
Waited upon Major L’Enfant in the morning; gave him a Letter for le Chevalier d’Antroches. The...
3161[12th.] (Adams Papers)
Thursday, from Amiens to Chantilly.
316228th. (Adams Papers)
The severity of the weather has been increasing, and is this night but little inferior to the...
316325. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Thaxter. Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Mr. Shaw.
316429th. (Adams Papers)
Dined with the president and Mr. Harrison, Mr. Osgood was so kind as to give me a Letter for Mr....
316518th. (Adams Papers)
I am sinking again into the same insipidity which I have so often lamented. The circumstances...
316615. (Adams Papers)
Cold Weather. Dr. Tufts this evening.
31678th. (Adams Papers)
Pickman returned last evening from Salem. The votes in that Town, and in several others from...
31685. (Adams Papers)
Wm Cranch came from Boston. Heard from N. York. Presumably the letter written by AA to JA between...
316922d. (Adams Papers)
Amory and Stacey, return’d from their expedition: They got to Cape-Ann at about twelve on...
3170Friday 4th of August. (Adams Papers)
This morning we set away at about 5 o clock. We went about two leagues on the pavements and then...
317112th. (Adams Papers)
In the forenoon I went down, and spent a couple of hours with Mr. Thaxter: the rest of the day I...
317218th. (Adams Papers)
Fine weather, till the evening, which was very blustry. The men have been selected who are to go...
31732d. (Adams Papers)
After passing the day at the Office, I stroll’d with Pickman, as far as Sawyer’s tavern, where we...
3174Saturday Novr. 29th. (Adams Papers)
In the morning at about 9 o’clock, set out for Richmond which is 10. miles from London, and said...
31758th. (Adams Papers)
White lent me his horse this morning, to go to Boston. Dr. Tufts, had sent by my brothers,...
31765th. (Adams Papers)
After writing a few lines in my common place book, I took the second volume, of Blackstone, which...
3177Thursday 25th. (Adams Papers)
This morning about nine o clock the courier lost her foretopmast. About twelve o clock she got it...
317822d. (Adams Papers)
Employ’d all day, in translating some german observations for Mr. Dana: finished them: and in the...
31798th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Adams, the Minister of another Parish, belonging to this Town changed with Mr. Shaw, and...
3180Satur 4th. (Adams Papers)
A middling breeze from the SW. This afternoon about four o clock a land Bird came a hovering over...
318112th. (Adams Papers)
We recite this week to Mr. Burr, but this disagreeable exercice returns at present only once a...
318212th. (Adams Papers)
Began in the forenoon upon the third book of the Cyropaedia; Eliza Duncan, Miss Stevenson and Mr....
31832d. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Andrews was at my chamber in the forenoon. I went with him, and Cranch and my class mate...
318424th. Tuesday. (Adams Papers)
This forenoon I bought Moliere’s works. Mr. D. went to Mr. Colombi’s in the afternoon. Stay’d at...
31852d. (Adams Papers)
Lecture day. Mr. Adams, Mr. Allen, and Master Parker, dined here. I did not go. In the afternoon...
318617th. Sunday. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Montréal came in the forenoon to pay us a visit. Mr. D. went out for the first time since his...
318714th. Monday. (Adams Papers)
This evening I went to the concert with Mr. Artaud. Mr. Gummer came here and supped after the...
3188Julius. 1783. 14. (Adams Papers)
Je fus à Delft avec Monsr. Fitch et sa compagnie, qui partent pour L’Angleterre. Most likely...
318923d. (Adams Papers)
I left Haverhill this morning at about 9 o’clock; and at 12 arrived at the tavern in Wilmington,...
31907th. Thursday. (Adams Papers)
This morning Mr. D. went with Mr. Artaud to get some maps at the Academy. I went to a...