5017th. (Adams Papers)
Company to dine. The Abbés wrote a billet to excuse themselves.
502Thursday September 1st. 1785. (Adams Papers)
Went and sat with Mr. de Chaumont a couple of hours, and afterwards accompanied him, and Mr....
50326th. (Adams Papers)
We have been left alone again this day. Mr. and Mrs. Hilliard went away this morning. I employ...
50430th. (Adams Papers)
Snow’d all the morning. Mr. Cranch went to Boston and Charles with him: he return to Cambridge....
50524th. (Adams Papers)
Went in the forenoon to St. Paul’s church and heard Mr. Doughty preach a sermon upon a text in...
506[11th.] (Adams Papers)
Wednesday went from Boulogne to Amiens.
50727th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Hutchinson sailed yesterday for Ireland. The weather for several days past has been quite...
50824. (Adams Papers)
Gunning in the morning with Charles. Tired.
50928th. (Adams Papers)
Dr. Crosby came and paid me a visit in the morning. I went to see Mr. Jay, and staid about an...
51017th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Parsons held a court this forenoon at ten; and at the same hour I attended at Mr. Atkins’s,...
51114. (Adams Papers)
Justinian’s Inst. Foster’s Cr. Law. Gibbon &c. Justinian’s Institutes , a textbook of Roman law...
5127th. (Adams Papers)
I went with Thompson, to Mr. Atkins’s, to answer to an action which we had brought before him...
5134. (Adams Papers)
Very cold. At Mr. Cranch’s. Dr. Fogg. Mr. Thayer.
51421st. (Adams Papers)
I can read tolerably well when I am alone in the office, and make as much progress in one day, as...
515Friday Novr. 21st. (Adams Papers)
Dined with Mr. Fitch at the St. Albans Tavern. The Tavern, on St. Albans Street, Pall Mall, was...
51611th. (Adams Papers)
I set out with Pickman this morning at about nine o’clock: the weather was clear though rather...
51729. (Adams Papers)
Tea at Mr. Adams’s.
51817th. (Adams Papers)
My Chum went to Boston, but return’d early in the afternoon. After tea we went down to Mr....
519Thursday May 1st. 1788. (Adams Papers)
Pickman returned this afternoon from Salem. The Club were in the evening at my room: Young Fowle,...
520Wednesday Novr. 26th. (Adams Papers)
Went again to the Covent Garden Theatre, and saw the Magic Picture with the Quaker. The Magic...
5217th. (Adams Papers)
This morning I returned to my old quarters N: 6. My Brothers and Cousin got here just before...
5224th. (Adams Papers)
I this day concluded the first volume of my author: and employ’d all the afternoon in copying...
52321st. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Hilliard again entertained us all day, with his own composition. Bridge, and I dined at Mr....
5247th. (Adams Papers)
Dined at Mr. Bartlett’s. There were 15 persons at Table, of whom I was not acquainted with Mr....
52511th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Hilliard entertained us all day, with a couple of Sermons, upon the whole armour of god. The...
52629th. (Adams Papers)
Attended parson Wibird the whole day. He recommended very highly humility, or spiritual poverty;...
52711th. (Adams Papers)
Finished in the forenoon, the second Book of the Cyropaedia; which I began, the 2d. of this...
528Thursday March 1st. 1787. (Adams Papers)
Charles went to Boston this morning: in the afternoon, I was at Foster’s chamber; he introduced...
52918th. (Adams Papers)
This forenoon I took a ride, with White, to see our class mate Eaton. We spent about an hour with...
530Wednesday February 1st. 1786. (Adams Papers)
Slept none last Night. Felt unwell all day. Went in the evening to Mr. White’s but nobody was...
5319th. (Adams Papers)
I did not attend meeting this day for several reasons. At home the whole day; it was extremely...
53222d. (Adams Papers)
Dined at Judge Sargeant’s, with Mr. and Mrs. Shaw. Mr. Porter and his lady are there upon a visit...
53313th. (Adams Papers)
Dined with Dr. Kilham at Mr. Carter’s. This is a very friendly, obliging old gentleman, about 73...
53415th. (Adams Papers)
Between 9 and 10 in the morning, I went to the President’s, and was there admitted examined,...
53527th. (Adams Papers)
This morning Miss Nancy return’d, upon hearing Lucy Cranch, was here, as they are very intimate...
53619th. (Adams Papers)
At about 7 1/2 in the morning I set out for Cambridge, and arrived there just as the Clock struck...
537[March 1786] (Adams Papers)
Between 9 and 10 in the morning, I went to the President’s, and was there admitted examined,...
53827th. (Adams Papers)
Sunday. Mr. Adams dined with Mr. de St. Olympe’s and spent the evening at Mr. Jefferson’s. At...
53916th. (Adams Papers)
Two persons in the town, died in the Course of this day. A young Woman by the name of Bradly, and...
5409th. (Adams Papers)
All the forenoon down in the Library; reading and writing. Pass’d the afternoon at my uncle...
54131st. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Allen, and Mr. Quarles, two clergymen, dined here to day. In the afternoon Charles went over...
54223d. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Davies preach’d in the forenoon from Matthew V, 20. For I say unto you, that except your...
54312th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Williamos came out in the morning, and went with Mr. A, to Versailles. Good weather: very...
5446th. (Adams Papers)
Miss Betsey Cranch came and stay’d here all day. Miss Nancy went out to day, and will spend the...
54531st. (Adams Papers)
Madame de la Fayette sent a Card to offer us places for the Te Deum, which is to be sung tomorrow...
54620th. (Adams Papers)
We had two sermons to day, upon a text from Proverbs: 19th. Chap: 20:v: Hear counsel and receive...
54713th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Weld preach’d all day from Micah VI. 8. He hath shewed thee O man, what is good, and what...
54818th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. D’Asp, the secretary of the Swedish Ambassy, came out and dined with us en famille. After...
54910th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. I. Smith came over before dinner. He is to preach to-morrow at Bradford for Mr. Allen, who is...
5503d. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Hilliard gave us a Sermon in the forenoon from Isaiah LV. 6. Seek ye the Lord while he may be...