26519th. (Adams Papers)
Thompson went to see Miss Roberts at Newtown. I cannot read with so much satisfaction for some...
265223d. (Adams Papers)
I had almost promised Mr. Thaxter to wait till the afternoon; but as there was an appearance of a...
2653Tuesday. 21st. (Adams Papers)
Set away from St. Just at about 7 ½ o’clock; dined at Amiens; the Capital of the Province of...
265429th. (Adams Papers)
Attended meeting all day. Mr. Hilliard preach’d in the forenoon, and Mr. Willard, brother to my...
265526th. (Adams Papers)
I took an additional cold, yesterday, and am still more unwell than I have been. I pass’d the...
265613th. (Adams Papers)
Mrs. Emery who has been very ill these four or five weeks, died last night, leaving to the wide...
265719th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Thaxter was here, about half an hour, on his return to Haverhill. Mr. Williams, gave us...
265816th. (Adams Papers)
I waited upon Parson Cary this forenoon, in expectation of much edification; but he gave us a...
2659Wednesday September 3d. (Adams Papers)
I went over the river with Stacey and Romain upon a shooting party. We had tolerable success. It...
266030th. (Adams Papers)
I passed the forenoon with Leonard, who has been making two or three unsuccessful attempts to...
26619th. (Adams Papers)
This morning the president returned my theses to transcribe a fair copy for the press. I past the...
266223d. (Adams Papers)
This day, we had a lecture upon electricity: we received a shock, which was much more violent...
266320th. (Adams Papers)
The cold weather appears to be for setting in seriously; and indeed it is high time that it...
266429th. (Adams Papers)
Went to Mr. Dana’s, in the afternoon, upon some business. There were two gentlemen, there, one of...
266526th. (Adams Papers)
Attended meeting for the first time these three weeks. Dined at Judge Dana’s. Captain Hobby, who...
266613th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Wigglesworth gave a lecture this forenoon, but I did not attend; engaged the chief of the...
266719th. (Adams Papers)
I was informed, that Captain will sail to-morrow for Europe; went to Mr. Reed, and requested to...
266816th. (Adams Papers)
Tom, came from Boston this forenoon. Fifteen persons were buried there this afternoon, who...
26693d. (Adams Papers)
At about 8 this morning I went set off with my Cousin, for Cambridge, where we arrived, just...
267030th. (Adams Papers)
The reports of Shays, and Shattuck coming, at the head of thousands to stop the Court, grow more...
267116th. (Adams Papers)
We were going this morning by 5 o’clock, and proceeded as far as Stamford, 12 miles from Rye; 5...
26729th. (Adams Papers)
Quite unwell almost all day. We had a Lecture from Mr. Williams, upon magnetism. The weather has...
267323d. (Adams Papers)
We could not recite this morning, because Mr. Reed, was not in at prayers. This morning a number...
267419th. (Adams Papers)
Paris. Mr. Appleton, and Mr. Parker, went for England. Saw Mr. Waring. Breakfasted at the Hôtel...
267520th. (Adams Papers)
I have been rather more attentive this day, than for this week, past, and have written...
26766th. (Adams Papers)
At about 9 o’clock in the morning I again tackled my horse into my uncle’s Chaise, and we put...
267720th. (Adams Papers)
We tried my horse this morning in Mr. Chaumont Chaise, but could not make him go at all: so we...
267813th. (Adams Papers)
No reciting this morning. This reciting in Locke, is the most ridiculous of all. When the Tutor...
267926th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. A: Paris. A Gentleman brought a Letter from Mr. Jay, which came by the Marquis de la Fayette:...
268010th. (Adams Papers)
We all dined this day at Mr. White’s. The only other strangers present, were Mr. Smith, the...
26815th. (Adams Papers)
Stormy Weather. Mr. A. went to Passy in the morning, and to the Marquis’s afternoon. A Letter...
2682Tuesday [17th.] (Adams Papers)
Moved out to Auteuil. Over the course of the preceding four months, JA in correspondence with...
268329. (Adams Papers)
Went with Tom to Cambridge. Returned.
268419. (Adams Papers)
My health happily recovered. Rain; part of the day.
2685Sunday August 22d. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Jefferson and his Daughter, Coll: Humphreys, and Genl. dined with us. Martha Jefferson had...
26869. (Adams Papers)
Went to Haverhill. Wet through.
2687Friday [3d]. (Adams Papers)
Mr. and Mrs. Mather, and Mrs. Hay dined with us. Went to the French Comedy and saw le mariage de...
268826th. (Adams Papers)
I took a long walk, this afternoon with Putnam, and as we came back we stop’d at Mrs. Hooper’s....
268923. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Everett of Dorchester: dined with us.
269016th. (Adams Papers)
Breakfasted at Judge Dana’s. Doctor Waterhouse came, in and entertained us for some time with his...
269113. (Adams Papers)
Put my horse at Tappan’s. Eve with Dr. Kilham.
269230th. (Adams Papers)
Parson Toppan of Newtown preach’d at our meeting this day. I attended all day and was very much...
26936th. (Adams Papers)
In the beginning of the evening, I took a walk with Pickman, up to Mrs. Atkins’s. We found only...
269420th. (Adams Papers)
I pass’d the forenoon at home in writing. In the afternoon, I attended meeting and heard Mr....
26959th. (Adams Papers)
I received a short letter from W. Cranch. I make a pretty rapid progress with my book of forms,...
269626th. (Adams Papers)
General Lincoln, it seems, finds more difficulties in the affair he has undertaken, than were...
269710th. (Adams Papers)
The storm continued all this day, and rather with increasing violence. Thompson and I again dined...
269816th. (Adams Papers)
I rose just before the commons bell rung for dinner, quite refreshed, and not more fatigued, than...
269913th. (Adams Papers)
Captain Wyer was in the office this afternoon, a couple of hours; very zealous for the new...
270030th. (Adams Papers)
Mrs. Cranch, Miss Betsey, and her brother, came from Braintree this morning, dined at Mr....