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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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151 | Adams, John | 19 [i.e. 20] Tuesday. | 1756-04-20 | A lovely Day after the Storm. Drank Tea at Major Chandlers. Walked with the Coll. to his Saw-mill... | |
152 | Adams, John | 20 [i.e. 21] Wednesday. | 1756-04-21 | Charming Weather. The Fields begin to look verdant. The leaves begin to shew themselves on the... | |
153 | Adams, John | 21 [i.e. 22] Thurdsday. | 1756-04-22 | Cloudy, black morning. Cleared away very pleasant about 9. Dined at Capt. Stearns’s, with the... | |
154 | Adams, John | 22 [i.e. 23] Fryday. | 1756-04-23 | A pleasant Day. I can as easily still the fierce Tempests or Stop the rapid Thunderbolt, as... | |
155 | Adams, John | 23 [i.e. 24] Saturday. | 1756-04-24 | A cloudy morn. All my Time seems to roll away unnoticed. I long to study sometimes, but have no... | |
156 | Adams, John | 24 [i.e. 25] Sunday. | 1756-04-25 | Astronomers tell us, with good Reason, that not only all the Planets and Satellites in our Solar... | |
157 | Adams, John | 25 [i.e. 26] Monday. | 1756-04-26 | The Reflection that I penned Yesterday, appears upon the review to be weak enough. For 1st. we... | |
158 | Adams, John | 26 [i.e. 27] Tuesday. | 1756-04-27 | We had a few soft, vernal Showers to Day. | |
159 | Adams, John | 27 [i.e. 28] Wednesday. | 1756-04-28 | A cool but pleasant morning. Dined at Mr. Paines. Drank Tea at Mr. Putnams. Walked with him to... | |
160 | Adams, John | 28 [i.e. 29] Thurdsday. | 1756-04-29 | Fast day. Heard Mr. Maccarty. Spent the Evening at Mr. Putnams. Our proper Business in this Life... | |
161 | Adams, John | 29 [i.e. 30] Fryday. | 1756-04-30 | A hazy, dull Day. Reading Milton. That mans Soul, it seems to me, was distended as wide as... | |
162 | Adams, John | [May 1756] | ≈1756-05-01 | A rainy Day. If we consider a little of this our Globe we find an endless Variety of Substances,... | |
163 | Adams, John | 30 [April, i.e. 1 May] Saturday. | 1756-05-01 | A rainy Day. If we consider a little of this our Globe we find an endless Variety of Substances,... | |
164 | Adams, John | May. 1756. 1 [i.e. 2] Sunday. | 1756-05-02 | Last night we had rain all night accompanied with a very high Wind, and the storm continues.... | |
165 | Adams, John | 3 Monday. | 1756-05-03 | I was mistaken one Day in my reckoning. A pleasant Day. Spent the Evening and supped at Mr.... | |
166 | Adams, John | 4 Tuesday. | 1756-05-04 | Let any man, suppose of the most improved understanding, look upon a watch, when the Parts of it... | |
167 | Adams, John | 5 Wednesday. | 1756-05-05 | A very cold Day. Drank Tea at the Colonels. Spent the Evening at the Majors. | |
168 | Adams, John | 6 Thurdsday. | 1756-05-06 | A cold day. Spent the Evening and supped at Mr. Putnams. | |
169 | Adams, John | 7 Fryday. | 1756-05-07 | Spent the Evening and supped at Mr. Maccartys. A mans observing the Flux of the Tide to Day,... | |
170 | Adams, John | 8 Saturday. | 1756-05-08 | Went a Shooting with Mr. Putnam. Drank Tea with him and his Lady. | |
171 | Adams, John | 9 Sunday. | 1756-05-09 | Since last Sunday I have wrote a few Papers of the Spectators, read the last Part of Butlers... | |
172 | Adams, John | 10 Monday. | 1756-05-10 | A pleasant Day. | |
173 | Adams, John | 11 Tuesday. | 1756-05-11 | A pleasant day . The first Day of Court. Nature and Truth or rather Truth and right are... | |
174 | Adams, John | 12 Wednesday. | 1756-05-12 | Rambled about all Day, gaping and gazing. | |
175 | Adams, John | 12 [i.e. 13] Thurdsday. | 1756-05-13 | Spent the Evening with Mr. Swan at home. | |
176 | Adams, John | 13 [i.e. 14]. Friday. | 1756-05-14 | Drank Tea at the Colonels.—Not one new Idea this Week. | |
177 | Adams, John | 14 [i.e. 15]. Saturday. | 1756-05-15 | A lovely Day. Soft vernal Showers. Exercise invigorates, and enlivens all the Faculties of Body... | |
178 | Adams, John | 15 [i.e. 16]. Sunday. | 1756-05-16 | A pleasant morning. The Week past was Court week. I was interrupted by Company, and the noisy... | |
179 | Adams, John | 16 [i.e. 17] Monday. | 1756-05-17 | The Elephant and the Lion, when their Strength is directed and applyd by Man, can exert a... | |
180 | Adams, John | 17 [i.e. 18] Tuesday. | 1756-05-18 | 17 i.e. 18 Tuesday. | |
181 | Adams, John | 18 [i.e. 19] Wednesday. | 1756-05-19 | 18 i.e. 19 Wednesday. | |
182 | Adams, John | 19 [i.e. 20] Thurdsday. | 1756-05-20 | Spent the Evening at Gardiners. | |
183 | Adams, John | 20 [i.e. 21] Fryday. | 1756-05-21 | After School, rode to Shrewsbury, went to Capt. Hows, to see Dr. Flynt, spent an Hour, and then... | |
184 | Adams, John | 21 [i.e. 22] Saturday. | 1756-05-22 | Dined at Judge Chandlers. | |
185 | Adams, John | 22 [i.e. 23] Sunday. | 1756-05-23 | Heard Mr. Maccarty. He is particularly fond of the following Expressions. Carnal, ungodly... | |
186 | Adams, John | 23 [i.e. 24] Monday. | 1756-05-24 | A pleasant morning. Drank Tea at the Colonells.—Had the projectile Force in the Planets been... | |
187 | Adams, John | 24 [i.e. 25] Tuesday. | 1756-05-25 | A cool, but pleasant Day. | |
188 | Adams, John | 25 [i.e. 26] Wednesday. | 1756-05-26 | Election Day. I have spent all this Day at Home reading a little and eating a little Election Cake. | |
189 | Adams, John | 26 [i.e. 27] Thurdsday. | 1756-05-27 | Drank Tea at the Colonels with a Number of Ladies. Spent the Evening partly at Putnams and partly... | |
190 | Adams, John | 27 [i.e. 28] Fryday. | 1756-05-28 | Dined at the Majors. A pleasant Day.—If we examine critically the little Prospect that lies... | |
191 | Adams, John | 28 [i.e. 29] Saturday. | 1756-05-29 | Drank Tea at Mr. Putnams.—What is the proper Business of Mankind in this Life? We come into the... | |
192 | Adams, John | 29 [i.e. 30] Sunday. | 1756-05-30 | Heard Mr. Maccarty. “You who are sinners, are in continual Danger of being swallowed up quick and... | |
193 | Adams, John | 30 [i.e. 31] Monday. | 1756-05-31 | When we see or feel any Body, we discern nothing but Bulk and Extention. We can change this... | |
194 | Adams, John | [June 1756] | ≈1756-06-01 | Drank Tea at the Majors. The Reasoning of Mathematicians is founded on certain and infallible... | |
195 | Adams, John | June 1756. 1 Tuesday. | 1756-06-01 | Drank Tea at the Majors. The Reasoning of Mathematicians is founded on certain and infallible... | |
196 | Adams, John | 2 Wednesday. | 1756-06-02 | Went to Spencer in the afternoon.—When we come into the World, our minds are destitute of all... | |
197 | Adams, John | 3 Thurdsday. | 1756-06-03 | Heard Mr. Maccarty preach the Lecture, drank Tea with him, and spent the Evening at the Majors. | |
198 | Adams, John | 4 Friday. | 1756-06-04 | 4 Friday. | |
199 | Adams, John | 5 Saturday. | 1756-06-05 | Dreamed away the afternoon. | |
200 | Adams, John | 6 Sunday. | 1756-06-06 | Heard Mr. Maccarty all Day. Drank Tea at home with Crawford. Spent the Evening at home with Mr.... |