1451Tuesday March 1st. 1785. (Adams Papers)
Coldest weather we have had this year. Reaumur’s thermometer at 8 degrees below the freezing...
1452[February 1785] (Adams Papers)
Paris. In the afternoon with Mr. A. went for the books arrived from London. Not to be found....
145328th. (Adams Papers)
Paris. Bought of Froullé bookseller quai des Augustins Crevier’s Histoire des Empereurs Romains....
145427th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Pickman brought a Letter from Mr. Tracey. Cold weather. Benjamin Pickman , son of the Salem...
145526th. (Adams Papers)
M: de St: Olympe: Mr. Franklin and Mr. Williams dined with us. The first is a west Indian; who is...
145625th. (Adams Papers)
Paris. At the Opera. Panurge dans l’lsle des Lanternes ; a new Opera. 12th time. Words, which are...
145724th. (Adams Papers)
Paris in the morning. Mr. Williams and Mr. Franklin went with us. They breakfasted at M: de St....
145822d. (Adams Papers)
My father went to Versailles. Mr. Short went with him to be presented at Court. Variable Weather:...
145921st. (Adams Papers)
All dined at the Marquis de la Fayette. There was a considerable company, mostly composed of...
146019th. (Adams Papers)
Dined at the Swedish Ambassadors: the Company was not very numerous: a number of Sweeds, one, who...
146116th. (Adams Papers)
Paris, afternoon. Returned to Messrs: le Couteulx, for Mr. Gs business and finished it. Mr....
146215th. (Adams Papers)
Paris, afternoon. Carried Mr. A’s Letter to the Abbé de Mably, requesting him to write a moral,...
146314th. (Adams Papers)
Dined at Dr. Franklin’s with a great deal of Company, among the rest Dr. Jeffries who lately...
146412th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. A. Dined in Paris at the Duke of Dorset’s. Very cold weather: as much so, I think, as any, we...
146511th. (Adams Papers)
Paris Afternoon. Coll. Humphreys and Mr. Short, went with us to see Astley’s equestrian exercises...
14668th. (Adams Papers)
Coll. Humphreys. In the afternoon, went through Passy, to Paris. Mr. Jefferson’s. Saw the Masks...
14677th. (Adams Papers)
Dined at Mr. Jefferson’s. Masks in the rue de Fauxbourg St. Antoine and in the ruë St. Honoré....
14686th. (Adams Papers)
Enter Miss A. in the evening, and cries out, “Callahan is arrived, and a bushel of Letters. One...
14695th. (Adams Papers)
Stormy Weather. Mr. A. went to Passy in the morning, and to the Marquis’s afternoon. A Letter...
14704th. (Adams Papers)
Snowy, stormy weather all the morning, but clear in the afternoon. Mrs. and Miss A. went to...
14714th. (Adams Papers)
Letters from America as late as January 1st. by the way of England: One from Mr. Jay at New York,...
14723d. (Adams Papers)
Paris. In the afternoon with Mr. A. went for the books arrived from London. Not to be found....
1473[January 1785] (Adams Papers)
Compliments to the Royal family at Versailles. My father carried twenty Guineas to distribute...
147431st. (Adams Papers)
Paris in the afternoon. French Theatre. Abdir, and le Roi de Cocagne. Abdir is a new piece. This...
147530th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. A. met Mr. Jefferson, at Paris, in the forenoon. 31 The Marquis de la Fayette was here in the...
147629th. (Adams Papers)
Paris afternoon, alone. Mr. Jeffersons. He looks much afflicted. The last letters, brought him...
147728th. (Adams Papers)
Paris in the Evening. French Theatre. Iphigenie en Aulide , of Racine, and l’Aveugle Clairvoyant...
147827th. (Adams Papers)
Company to dine Mr. d’Asp, and another Swedish gentleman. Mr. Setaro a Portuguese gentleman in...
147926th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. A: Paris. A Gentleman brought a Letter from Mr. Jay, which came by the Marquis de la Fayette:...
148025th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Jefferson, and Mr. Short. The Marquis de la Fayette is not arrived. Mrs. Barclay. William...
148121st. (Adams Papers)
Paris. Dined at Mr. Jeffersons. Captn. Paul Jones told us the Marquis de la Fayette was arrived....
148220th. (Adams Papers)
Mlle: Remaldi, appeared last night at the Italian Comedy, for the first time, in the part of Lyse...
148319th. (Adams Papers)
Paris. Mr. Appleton, and Mr. Parker, went for England. Saw Mr. Waring. Breakfasted at the Hôtel...
148418th. (Adams Papers)
Ambassador’s day at Versailles, every Tuesday. Mr. A. went. Alexis et Justine , succeeded very...
148517th. (Adams Papers)
Paris. Italian Theatre. 1st. Representation of Alexis et Justine . Went before 5. o’clock. Could...
148614th. (Adams Papers)
Paris. At the post; paid 235. livres for a parcel of packets. Walk’d in the Palais Royal. Large...
148710th. (Adams Papers)
Varietés. Le faux talisman, La théatromanie; Oui ou non . Poor Stuff. A good deal of genteel...
14887th. (Adams Papers)
Company to dine. The Abbés wrote a billet to excuse themselves.
14894th. (Adams Papers)
Paris. Varietés ; at the palais Royal . Small Théatre, built in three weeks time. Le nouveau...
14904th. (Adams Papers)
Old Mr. Grand, and Dr. Bancroft. In the evening Mr. Chaumont and Mr. Franklin. Dr. Edward...
1491January 1st. 1785. Saturday. (Adams Papers)
Compliments to the Royal family at Versailles. My father carried twenty Guineas to distribute...
1492John Quincy Adams to William Cranch, 14 December 1784 (Adams Papers)
I have been so much taken up these four or five days, in copying both for my Pappa and Mamma,...
1493John Quincy Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 12 December 1784 (Adams Papers)
My Mamma has desired me, My dear Aunt, to give a Copy of a few cursory minutes, that I took at...
1494[September 1784] (Adams Papers)
Dined at Dr. Franklin’s. Thursday morning went into Paris. Mr. and Mrs. Mather, and Mrs. Hay...
1495Saturday[11th]. (Adams Papers)
Had Company to dine with us. Following this last entry in D/JQA/9 are the following notations:...
1496[10th.] (Adams Papers)
Friday went into Paris in the afternoon.
1497Tuesday[7th]. (Adams Papers)
Dined at Mr. Tracy’s and went in the evening to see la métromanie , and Crispin Rival de son...
1498[6th.] (Adams Papers)
Monday Mr. Tracy dined with us. Nathaniel Tracy had come to France via Cowes with Jefferson and...
1499[5th.] (Adams Papers)
Sunday dined at Mr. Grand’s at Passy. Went after dinner to the Chateau de la Muette and saw the...
1500Saturday[4th]. (Adams Papers)
Dined with Mr. Jefferson. Went to the Italian Comedy in the Evening; had la fausse magie, and...