231Friday April 1st. 1785. (Adams Papers)
The Marchioness appointed two o’clock for us to be at her Hôtel. We dined at half after twelve,...
23227. (Adams Papers)
Dined at Judge Greenleaf’s. Foster came home.
233John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 18 May 1784 (Adams Papers)
I have only time to write a few lines for the present as the Post is about to depart. On Saturday...
23431. (Adams Papers)
Eve with Foster at Mr. Jackson’s, He was out.
23524th. (Adams Papers)
Pickman went to Salem this morning. In the evening, I took a long walk with Thompson, down...
23627th. (Adams Papers)
Judge Sargeant, went away this forenoon proceeding on his way to Cambridge. Tom went to Lincoln....
23714th. (Adams Papers)
Finished reading in Wood’s Institutes; a book which has been rendered almost useless by the...
2384th. (Adams Papers)
We left Cambridge by nine o’clock, and got into Boston in the midst of the bustle. We went...
23931st. (Adams Papers)
Saw Charles in Boston, on his way to Cambridge, as the vacation closes this day. At about noon I...
2407th. (Adams Papers)
Quite industrious this day in copying forms. Alone in the office a great part of the day. Amory,...
24124th. (Adams Papers)
We had last evening a Class meeting; a petition drawn up by Little, as additional to that already...
24224th. (Adams Papers)
Another Snow storm; almost all day. Closed the Acts, in the Testament, and began the Romans. In...
24314th. (Adams Papers)
Spent the day very much like the two former. We have destroy’d almost all the birds within five...
24411th. (Adams Papers)
Attended meeting, with Townsend, the whole day at Dr. Tucker’s: much pleased with this gentleman...
24514th. (Adams Papers)
At 7 in the morning, we mounted our horses, and went about half a mile up the River where a...
2464th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Williams at 11 o’clock gave us a philosophical lecture in which he blended two of those he...
247Saturday December 1st. 1787. (Adams Papers)
I dined at Mr. White’s; after dinner I went to Mr. Shaw’s, stay’d about an hour, and just before...
2487th. (Adams Papers)
We had a lecture from Mr. Wigglesworth in the afternoon, and in the evening the weather being...
24914th. (Adams Papers)
We went down to General Palmer’s at German town. Went to catch fish, forenoon and afternoon, but...
25011th. (Adams Papers)
We had another Lecture at 11 from Mr. Williams, to give us the theory of solar and lunar...
2514th. (Adams Papers)
No reciting this morning, on account of the last Nights Class meeting. This is a privelege, that...
252Friday December 1st. 1786. (Adams Papers)
It was on Wednesday, that the troop of horsemen from Boston went up in search of Shattuck. They...
25329th. (Adams Papers)
Young Lakeman, who studies with us, came over the river in the morning upon the Ice. The river...
254[April 1788] (Adams Papers)
The Court sits this day at Ipswich. Mr. Parsons went in the afternoon, I dined with him. Pickman...
255Monday August 1st. 1785. (Adams Papers)
Return’d to the City at 7 in the morning. Breakfasted with Mr. Jarvis in William Street. Mr....
25626th. (Adams Papers)
The exhibition began at about a quarter after 12, with, the Latin Oration by Bridge, it was a...
25716th. (Adams Papers)
We recite two or three times more, in s’Gravesande’s, but next quarter, we shall begin upon...
25830th. (Adams Papers)
I see not why I should not relate what anecdotes I can collect concerning myself; and why I...
25927th. (Adams Papers)
Heard Parson Carey, the whole day. In the forenoon he was intolerably lengthy, as the weather was...
26020th. (Adams Papers)
My two brothers were gone all the morning on a gunning party. My cousin and I went, in the...
26114th. (Adams Papers)
Yesterday at about 8 o’clock in the morning, we spied a sail, at our windward; her course was...
26217th. (Adams Papers)
Parson Carey is very sick; and consequently we had no meeting: so I staid at home; wrote a long...
263Tuesday October 14th. (Adams Papers)
My occupations have been very regular, and similar for a week past. Last Thursday night I again...
26431st. (Adams Papers)
The weather somewhat cold. My brothers dined with me and between 3 and 4 o’clock, we all set off...
26518th. (Adams Papers)
At about 9 in the morning, I went on shore with my trunks, which were search’d, so that I almost...
2667th. (Adams Papers)
The weather begins to abate of its severity; yet people cross’d the river on the ice all this...
2674. (Adams Papers)
Went to Boston with Mrs. Cranch. Returned.
26821st. (Adams Papers)
Mrs. Emery and her daughter were going to Exeter this morning in a single sleigh. Dr. Kilham and...
26911th. (Adams Papers)
Townsend and Pickman, returned, this afternoon from Salem. Townsend, has been on to Boston and to...
27028. (Adams Papers)
Walk’d with Stacey. Curious conversation. Greenough’s.
271Monday Novr. 10th. (Adams Papers)
Went to the Covent Garden Theatre. King Henry VIII. and the Lord Mayor’s day, or a flight to...
272Tuesday April 1st. 1788. (Adams Papers)
The Court sits this day at Ipswich. Mr. Parsons went in the afternoon, I dined with him. Pickman...
27319. (Adams Papers)
Spent my time in visiting &c.
2747th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Hilliard preach’d all day; pretty much in the common stile. Dined at Judge Dana’s; and...
275Friday Novr. 14th. (Adams Papers)
Dined with Mr. Grierson. In the evening; we went to see Hughes’s Royal Circus, or exercises of...
27623. (Adams Papers)
Lincoln went home. Dr. Price’s Sermons.
277Friday Decr. 5th. 1783. (Adams Papers)
In the evening I went to the Covent Garden Theatre, and saw the Merchant of Venice , with Love a...
27811th. (Adams Papers)
The weather is yet unsettled, but it has not storm’d this day. Saunders, and Barron of the junior...
27929th. (Adams Papers)
I intended to have gone to Cambridge this afternoon, but could not get an horse. My Cousin went...
280Thursday February 1st. 1787. (Adams Papers)
It snow’d, the greatest part of the day; but gently, and without wind. Miss Jones, this forenoon,...