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6 Tuesday.
[from the Diary of John Adams]

6 Tuesday.

A fair Day. Drank Tea at Coll. Chandlers, and fixt1 a Letter for Cushing, Wentworth, Dalton, Lock [Locke], my Father, and Dr. Savel.

1. Fix: to set down in writing (OED description begins The Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford, 1933; 12 vols. and supplement. description ends , fix, vb., 5b). None of the six letters enumerated here, the first four of which were addressed to Harvard classmates, has been found.

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    6 Tuesday.
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    Adams, John
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    6 April 1756

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    “6 Tuesday.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/01-01-02-0002-0004-0006. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, vol. 1, 1755–1770, ed. L. H. Butterfield. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1961, p. 19.]