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Tuesday[7th].

Tuesday[7th].

Dined at Mr. Tracy’s and went in the evening to see la métromanie, and Crispin Rival de son Maitre,1 at the french Comedy.

1Alexis Piron, La métromanie, ou, le poète, Paris, 1738 (Brenner, Bibliographical List description begins Clarence Dietz Brenner, A Bibliographical List of plays in the French Language, 1700-1789, Berkeley, 1947. description ends ). JQA had seen Le Sage’s Crispin while living in St. Petersburg.

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