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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1591 | Adams, John Quincy | 2d. | 1785-12-02 | I have got through in four mornings, the preface to the Cyropaedia, but it is a crabbed piece of... | |
| 1592 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, John | John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 25 May 1784 | 1784-05-25 | Yesterday, I met Mr. Bridgen at the Coffee House; he told me he had a book for you, and this... |
| 1593 | Adams, John Quincy | 28th. | 1788-05-28 | Election Day. And there is not a poor Devil, who has lost his election, in the Commonwealth, that... | |
| 1594 | Adams, John Quincy | [September 1783] | ≈1783-09-02 | Dined at Auteuil. French Comedy: le Joueur et le Retour imprévu. Jean François Regnard, Le... | |
| 1595 | Adams, John Quincy | 18th. | 1788-06-18 | I went to the Office in the forenoon; but found myself incapacitated to do any thing, and... | |
| 1596 | Adams, John Quincy | 8th. | 1788-07-08 | I past the greater part of the day in gunning, with my brothers. The weather was as it has been... | |
| 1597 | Adams, John Quincy | 22d. | 1788-06-22 | Parson Wibird preached in his usual dull unanimated strain. Of late indeed he has lost it is said... | |
| 1598 | Adams, John Quincy | 28th. | 1787-03-28 | Employ’d, part of the day in projecting the Eclipse for April 1791. We had a meeting of the... | |
| 1599 | Adams, John Quincy | 12th. | 1788-07-12 | In the diverse amusements of reading, of shooting birds, and playing upon our flutes we past the... | |
| 1600 | Adams, John Quincy | 28th. | 1786-02-28 | Company to dine. Assembly Night. Went, with Eliza, but did not dance. There were 27 Ladies... | |
| 1601 | Adams, John Quincy | 18th. | 1787-04-18 | At about 11, this morning, we went from Mr. Freeman’s to the meeting house: it was much crowded:... | |
| 1602 | Adams, John Quincy | 15th. | 1787-11-15 | Amory, and Thompson went upon a dancing party yesterday. They invited me to join them, but I did... | |
| 1603 | Adams, John Quincy | 2d. | 1788-08-02 | Mr. Farnham proposed to me this morning to join a party, which was formed to go in the afternoon... | |
| 1604 | Adams, John Quincy | 8. | 1787-05-08 | Began to pay some attention to my theses. Studied fluxions, a little in the forenoon: and the... | |
| 1605 | Adams, John Quincy | 5th. | 1787-12-05 | I pass’d the evening with Little and Townsend at Miss Cazneau’s. We play’d Commerce, and whist:... | |
| 1606 | Adams, John Quincy | 22d. | 1787-04-22 | Somewhat fatigued in consequence of my journey: for which reason, I did not go to meeting to hear... | |
| 1607 | Adams, John Quincy | 12th. | 1787-05-12 | The storm continued the whole day with unabated violence. Mr. Williams gave a philosophical... | |
| 1608 | Adams, John Quincy | 18th. | 1786-04-18 | My Uncle Cranch, and Mr. Tyler went to Boston in the morning. About noon it began to Storm; at... | |
| 1609 | Adams, John Quincy | 15th. | 1786-11-15 | Mr. Burr went to an Ordination, and consequently we had no reciting in the afternoon. Mr.... | |
| 1610 | Adams, John Quincy | 2d. | 1787-06-02 | This day the government met, upon the subject of the disorders of which the Sophimores were... | |
| 1611 | Adams, John Quincy | 8th. | 1786-05-08 | We recite this week in Terence, and Caesar to Mr. James. This is the tutor of the oldest standing... | |
| 1612 | Adams, John Quincy | 5th. | 1786-12-05 | The storm continued with unabated violence, a great part of the day. In the evening however it... | |
| 1613 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail | John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 1 August 1787 | 1787-08-01 | At length the scene of my collegiate life is closed, and about a fortnight ago I made a public... |
| 1614 | Adams, John Quincy | 22d. | 1786-04-22 | I went to Boston this morning, with a Chaise, for Mr. Cranch to come home. Stop’d at Milton, and... | |
| 1615 | Adams, John Quincy | [August 1788] | ≈1788-08-01 | The day was spent in the usual uninteresting manner: indeed it may be generally observed that the... | |
| 1616 | Adams, John Quincy | 5th. | 1785-08-05 | I went and spent some time with Mr. Fontfreyde, in the forenoon. Dined with a large Company at... | |
| 1617 | Adams, John Quincy | 12th. Friday. | 1786-05-12 | We had a Lecture, this day from Mr. Williams upon Hydraulics. Studied Algebra, in the morning; as... | |
| 1618 | Adams, John Quincy | [December 1788] | ≈1788-12-01 | Charles return’d to Cambridge. Winslow Warren. Rode in the afternoon. Gibbon 5th. vol. 4th. gone... | |
| 1619 | Adams, John Quincy | 2d. | 1786-06-02 | We had another Lecture from Mr. Williams to day, with an explanation of the different optical... | |
| 1620 | Adams, John Quincy | 4th. | 1785-01-04 | Paris. Varietés ; at the palais Royal . Small Théatre, built in three weeks time. Le nouveau... | |
| 1621 | Adams, John Quincy | 24th. | 1786-10-24 | Went down to my uncle Adams’s in the afternoon, and spent a couple of hours. Finished reading... | |
| 1622 | Adams, John Quincy | 18. | 1788-10-18 | Madam and Tom went to Boston. Violent Thunder. | |
| 1623 | Adams, John Quincy | 22d. | 1785-07-22 | Waited upon Mr. Salvius in the morning. He is in a disagreeable situation here; his trunk having... | |
| 1624 | Adams, John Quincy | 8. | 1788-11-08 | Quite lonesome. Mrs. C. came home. | |
| 1625 | Adams, John Quincy | [9th.] | 1784-08-09 | Monday arrived at Dover and sailed for Calais. The trip from London to Paris is reported in... | |
| 1626 | Adams, John Quincy | 25th. | 1788-02-25 | Pass’d the evening at Merrill’s, with Mr. Hutchinson: and had some very agreeable musical... | |
| 1627 | Adams, John Quincy | 22. | 1788-10-22 | Rode my horse. Andrews went towards Nby Pt. | |
| 1628 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Thomas Boylston | John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 3 May 1788 | 1788-05-03 | We have mutually been deficient in those attentions, which absent connections ought always to... |
| 1629 | Adams, John Quincy | 15th. | 1788-03-15 | I called this evening at Putnam’s lodgings, and pass’d an hour or two with him. He went home last... | |
| 1630 | Adams, John Quincy | 12. | 1788-11-12 | Went to Boston. Mrs. A. N. York. Lodgd at Camb. | |
| 1631 | Adams, John Quincy | 5th. | 1788-04-05 | Rain’d again a great part of the day. Putnam pass’d the evening at my lodgings. We conversed upon... | |
| 1632 | Adams, John Quincy | 2. | 1788-12-02 | Winslow Warren. Rode in the afternoon. | |
| 1633 | Adams, John Quincy | Tuesday Novr. 18th. | 1783-11-18 | Dined at Mr. Oswald’s. Richard Oswald , the British peace commissioner who negotiated and signed... | |
| 1634 | Adams, John Quincy | Saturday September 27th. | 1788-09-27 | Another tedious sleepless night. Charles and Russell returned to Cambridge. I dined at Mr.... | |
| 1635 | Adams, John Quincy | 15th. | 1787-01-15 | The weather very moderate. The snow went off quite fast. Drank tea at Mr. Hilliard’s. His... | |
| 1636 | Adams, John Quincy | Monday Novr. 24th. | 1783-11-24 | Genl. Roberdeau, and his Son dined with us. In the Evening, we went with Mr. West to the Academy... | |
| 1637 | Adams, John Quincy | 5th. | 1787-02-05 | The occurrences of the day, were not remarkable. I did not study much. I have been reading... | |
| 1638 | Adams, John Quincy | 2d. | 1787-10-02 | I have at length recovered my usual tone, and have been able this day to attend to business with... | |
| 1639 | Adams, John Quincy | 5th. | 1786-01-05 | It snow’d again almost all day. Mr. W. White, and Leonard, came, and pass’d an hour here, in the... | |
| 1640 | Adams, John Quincy | 27th. | 1787-07-27 | Wrote all the forenoon. In the afternoon I read a novel, which arrived from England by the last... |