15513d. (Adams Papers)
Was all the morning writing for the Packet. Dined with the Delegates from Virginia. Coll. Monroe,...
155210th. (Adams Papers)
We finished the Andria of Terence this morning. The Class began it last Feby. I went through it...
155328th. (Adams Papers)
We had a meeting of the ΦBK, in the morning at Little’s Chamber. Chandler read a Dissertation,...
1554[October 1788] (Adams Papers)
“Oh gentle sleep Nature’s soft Nurse, how have I frighted thee That thou no more wilt weigh mine...
155518th. (Adams Papers)
Loitered away, a great part of my Time, as I most commonly do in vacation Time. I intend however...
155629th. (Adams Papers)
It snow’d part of the forenoon; then turn’d to rain, and after making the streets very...
155722d. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Tread well, preach’d in the forenoon from Matthew XI. 15 “he that hath ears to hear, let him...
155816th. (Adams Papers)
This morning at 7 ½ o’clock the weather, which had been all night very cloudy, began to clear up...
155919th. (Adams Papers)
Called upon Putnam after leaving the office, and passed the evening at his lodgings: I have a...
156016. (Adams Papers)
Dr. Tufts &c. Mr. Shaw went to Hghm.
156120th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Mölich went away at about 6 o’clock. In the forenoon, I delivered the remaining Letters, I...
15629th. (Adams Papers)
Parson Carey got out to meeting this forenoon; but he was still so weak, that the effort was too...
15636. (Adams Papers)
Evening at Mrs. Quincy’s. Parson Wiberd. The entry concludes with shorthand for “no feeling.”
156423d. (Adams Papers)
When I went to the office this morning I found young Pickman of Salem there. I was acquainted...
156520. (Adams Papers)
Cranch went to Boston. Rain.
156613th. (Adams Papers)
Thompson, Pickman and Little, pass’d the eve at my lodgings: Townsend, was so unwell, that he...
156710. (Adams Papers)
Madam preparing for New York. AA was planning to visit AA2 ( AA2, Jour. and Corr. Journal and...
15683d. (Adams Papers)
Thompson went yesterday morning to Ipswich and returned last evening. I dined with him to day....
15699th. (Adams Papers)
Snow’d part of the day. Reading Watson’s chemical essays. They are written in a very plain...
1570John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams 2d, 1 April 1786 (Adams Papers)
What shall I say to my sister? Indeed, I am quite at a loss. I spend much more time in thinking...
1571Sunday Novr. 16th. (Adams Papers)
Dined at Mr. Hartley’s.
157225. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Noyes. Afternoon with White.
157313th. (Adams Papers)
The weather very cold all day with a strong wind. We had a Quantity of company, in the forenoon...
15743d. (Adams Papers)
A Snow storm came on, in the afternoon, and continued in the night. We saw Mr. Ellery this...
1575John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 6 October 1785 (Adams Papers)
I am afraid my dear Mamma, will accuse me again of neglect for not having written to her, since I...
15763d. (Adams Papers)
A heavy Snow storm, all day. Not less I imagine, than two feet fell, upon a level. Mr. Thaxter...
157725th. (Adams Papers)
Was all the forenoon again on the marshes, with my cousin and my brother Tom: Charles set out...
1578John Quincy Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 8 October 1785 (Adams Papers)
Mr. Thaxter will want a horse in a short time, to go a journey, and I should be glad, if mine is...
157914th. (Adams Papers)
It was so warm again this day, that I did not set out from Haverhill, till between 3 and 4 in the...
158028th. (Adams Papers)
Doctor Tufts went by in the morning, and took with him, a small trunk for me, to Boston. At about...
15815th. (Adams Papers)
Took an early breakfast, and walk’d with Cranch to Cambridge. We got to Packard’s chamber, just...
158219th. (Adams Papers)
We went out between 9 and 10 this morning, in order to take, a walk, and look at the troops, for...
1583John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 6 August 1784 (Adams Papers)
We have not received as yet any answer to the letters we wrote you the day I arrived in town; and...
15848th. (Adams Papers)
My Aunt spent the afternoon at Mr. White’s. I was not outside of the gate once. Closed my Letter...
158523d. (Adams Papers)
Attended the meeting forenoon, and afternoon. After tea, I went down with my Cousin to Mr....
158615th. (Adams Papers)
Read part of the volume of anecdotes concerning Dr. Johnson. He appears to have been a brute; a...
158723d. (Adams Papers)
Paris. Hotel de york, rue Jacob: for Mr. West. I went with him and presented him to the Marquis...
158812th. (Adams Papers)
All day at home. Miss Nancy came in the Evening, but did not stay more than half an hour: she has...
15895th. (Adams Papers)
We were up at four in the morning; but were so long in preparing our things that we did not set...
15907th. (Adams Papers)
Mrs. Hewson, and her children Mr. Franklin, Mr. Ruston, Mrs. Barclay, and Mr. West dined with us....
15912d. (Adams Papers)
I have got through in four mornings, the preface to the Cyropaedia, but it is a crabbed piece of...
1592John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 25 May 1784 (Adams Papers)
Yesterday, I met Mr. Bridgen at the Coffee House; he told me he had a book for you, and this...
159328th. (Adams Papers)
Election Day. And there is not a poor Devil, who has lost his election, in the Commonwealth, that...
1594[September 1783] (Adams Papers)
Dined at Auteuil. French Comedy: le Joueur et le Retour imprévu. Jean François Regnard, Le...
159518th. (Adams Papers)
I went to the Office in the forenoon; but found myself incapacitated to do any thing, and...
15968th. (Adams Papers)
I past the greater part of the day in gunning, with my brothers. The weather was as it has been...
159722d. (Adams Papers)
Parson Wibird preached in his usual dull unanimated strain. Of late indeed he has lost it is said...
159828th. (Adams Papers)
Employ’d, part of the day in projecting the Eclipse for April 1791. We had a meeting of the...
159912th. (Adams Papers)
In the diverse amusements of reading, of shooting birds, and playing upon our flutes we past the...
160028th. (Adams Papers)
Company to dine. Assembly Night. Went, with Eliza, but did not dance. There were 27 Ladies...