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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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| 1551 | Adams, John Quincy | 18th. | 1786-01-18 | The severest day we have had this Season. Did not stir out of the house, all day. Nancy,... | |
| 1552 | Adams, John Quincy | 8th. | 1787-03-08 | In the forenoon, I went and paid a number of visits, to my old acquaintance in this place; Mr.... | |
| 1553 | Adams, John Quincy | 22d. | 1787-02-22 | Very cold weather. We drank tea at Williams’s. Bridge, and I went and pass’d the evening at Judge... | |
| 1554 | Adams, John Quincy | 8th. | 1786-02-08 | At home all day. Mr. True, was here all the afternoon. There is something extraordinary about... | |
| 1555 | Adams, John Quincy | 22. | 1786-01-22 | The Weather has softened so much, that, it thaw’d last Night, and has, all this day. We had... | |
| 1556 | Adams, John Quincy | 12th. | 1787-03-12 | This morning the parts for the ensuing exhibition were distributed. Foster has the English... | |
| 1557 | Adams, John Quincy | 12th. | 1786-02-12 | Mr. Howe, preached us two Sermons from John III. 3. Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily,... | |
| 1558 | Adams, John Quincy | 2d. | 1787-04-02 | Recite this week in Burlamaqui: This is the day on which the election of a governor is made... | |
| 1559 | Adams, John Quincy | 22d. | 1786-03-22 | At about 10 o’clock, Lucy and I, set out from Braintree. She came with me to Boston, to purchase,... | |
| 1560 | Adams, John Quincy | 2d. | 1786-03-02 | Finished, the sixth book of Homer’s Iliad in the forenoon, and shall go no further in it here. I... | |
| 1561 | Adams, John Quincy | [September 1786] | ≈1786-03-04 | Studied Algebra all the forenoon. Took books from the Library, Brydone’s Tour vol: 2d. Ossian’s... | |
| 1562 | Adams, John Quincy | 24th. | 1787-09-24 | Townsend went to Topsfield to hear a cause tried before a justice. Stedman has been hunting all... | |
| 1563 | Adams, John Quincy | 26th. | 1786-03-26 | Mr. Patten, a young Clergyman from Rhode Island, preach’d in the forenoon, from Proverbs III. 17.... | |
| 1564 | Adams, John Quincy | 2d. | 1786-04-02 | The storm continued all night with unabated violence, and it blew so hard that one of our Windows... | |
| 1565 | Adams, John Quincy | 27th. | 1785-11-27 | The forenoon discourse was upon Revelations, III. 15 and 16. I know thy works, that thou art... | |
| 1566 | Adams, John Quincy | [February 1787] | ≈1787-02-01 | It snow’d, the greatest part of the day; but gently, and without wind. Miss Jones, this forenoon,... | |
| 1567 | Adams, John Quincy | 17th. | 1785-12-17 | Mr. Thaxter return’d from his journey this Evening. He had a very disagreeable time to-day; as... | |
| 1568 | Adams, John Quincy | 24th. | 1786-08-24 | Went down to the President’s, for an order to take a book from the Library, but he did not know... | |
| 1569 | Adams, John Quincy | 30th. | 1785-04-30 | I went into Paris in the morning, and called upon Mr. d’Asp the secretary of the Sweedish... | |
| 1570 | Adams, John Quincy | 21st. | 1785-12-21 | All day at home. I am often at a great loss, what to say at the End of a day, in this Journal, of... | |
| 1571 | Adams, John Quincy | 14th. | 1786-09-14 | White went to Haverhill. I determined with Little upon two Pieces, to publish in the next... | |
| 1572 | Adams, John Quincy | 14th. | 1785-05-14 | At 5 in the morning I was in my Cabriolet, and never stopp’d anywhere untill I arrived at Rennes,... | |
| 1573 | Adams, John Quincy | 4th. | 1786-10-04 | We had this morning a forensic given out, to be read next week, on the Question whether the... | |
| 1574 | Adams, John Quincy | 11th. | 1785-06-11 | This day being Captain Fournier’s, jour de fête, he gave us an excellent entertainment on board:... | |
| 1575 | Adams, John Quincy | 15th. | 1788-01-15 | After passing the day as usual at the office, Townsend, came spent the evening and supp’d with... | |
| 1576 | Adams, John Quincy | 5th. | 1788-02-05 | The weather this day has been extreme cold: I have not experienced the severity of the Season, so... | |
| 1577 | Adams, John Quincy | Thursday October 2d. | 1788-10-02 | I took my seat in the stage, in Company with a Lady who came from Portsmouth, and Mr. Vaughan, a... | |
| 1578 | Adams, John Quincy | [March 1785] | ≈1785-02-04 | Coldest weather we have had this year. Reaumur’s thermometer at 8 degrees below the freezing... | |
| 1579 | Adams, John Quincy | 27th. | 1788-07-27 | Mr. Andrews preached for us this day; and was somewhat longer than usual to the great... | |
| 1580 | Adams, John Quincy | Sunday Octr. 26th. | 1783-10-26 | We came away from Dartford at about 8. o’clock; and arrived at London at about 11: the distance... | |
| 1581 | Adams, John Quincy | 17th. | 1788-08-17 | Mr. Andrews preach’d for us; this forenoon he was lengthy in his prayer upon the late misfortunes... | |
| 1582 | Adams, John Quincy | 31st. | 1788-07-31 | I amuse myself in reading Junius’s letters; which though the factious productions of a partizan,... | |
| 1583 | Adams, John Quincy | Friday Octr. 31st. | 1783-10-31 | Dined at Mr. Vaughan’s: in the evening we went to the Drury Lane Theatre, where Isabella, or the... | |
| 1584 | Adams, John Quincy | Sunday September 7th. 1788. | 1788-09-07 | The Marquis to Sainneville, commander of the french Squadron now in the harbour, and the... | |
| 1585 | Adams, John Quincy | 21st. | 1788-08-21 | Upon Stacey’s invitation I went with him and Putnam, and two young lads by the name of Greenough,... | |
| 1586 | Adams, John Quincy | Saturday November 1. 1783. | 1783-11-01 | This morning I went with Mr. W. Vaughan to see the Paintings of Mr. Pine, and Mr. Copley, and Sir... | |
| 1587 | Adams, John Quincy | 27th. | 1787-05-27 | Attended Mr. Hilliard, the whole day: he preach’d in the afternoon a Charity Sermon, and a... | |
| 1588 | Adams, John Quincy | 24th. | 1787-12-24 | Began upon Coke-Littleton, and read about a dozen pages. Pass’d about an hour in the evening with... | |
| 1589 | Adams, John Quincy | 11. | 1788-09-11 | Mrs. Smith and Louisa. W. Cranch. | |
| 1590 | Adams, John Quincy | 17th. | 1787-06-17 | Attended meeting all day. Mr. Hilliard preach’d us two good occasional sermons from Proverbs II.... | |
| 1591 | Adams, John Quincy | 31st. | 1787-05-31 | The Sophimores are very fearful that their yesterday’s conduct has brought them into... | |
| 1592 | Adams, John Quincy | 7th. | 1787-07-07 | Mrs. Cranch and Miss Betsey return’d from Boston this evening. Presumably this was written by JQA... | |
| 1593 | Adams, John Quincy | 21st. | 1787-06-21 | This is the day, when our Class should by rights, have quitted college; but they have been... |