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Aug. 21st. Thursday.

Aug. 21st. Thursday.

This day My Father had a great Company to dine with him.1

1. The occasion for the dinner party is not known.

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    Aug. 21st. Thursday.
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    Adams, John Quincy
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    21 August 1783

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    “Aug. 21st. Thursday.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0005-0009-0011. [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. 185.]