Monday August 28th 1780.

This morning Pappa went out to take a walk and did not get back till about half after one o clock. At about two o clock Pappa went out to dine at Mr. Staphorst where I dined Some Time agone.1 At about half after four o clock Mr. McCrery2 came here with another Gentleman to see Pappa but not finding him they went away again. At about Six o clock Pappa got back to our lodgings. I received three Letters from Paris from my Schoolmates3 which Mr. McCrery brought with him.

1. JQA’s marginal note here, “Vide Volume 1st page 42 of my Journal,” refers to his entry of 14 Aug. (above).

2. William McCreery, an American merchant at Bordeaux (JA, Diary and Autobiography description begins Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1961; 4 vols. description ends , 2:294, 450).

3. Letters not found.

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Title: Monday August 28th 1780.
Author: Adams, John Quincy
Date: 28 August 1780

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Cite as: “Monday August 28th 1780.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0002-0004-0028. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Diary of John Quincy Adams, vol. 1, November 1779 – March 1786, ed. Robert J. Taylor and Marc Friedlaender. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981, p. 61.]