2451[September 1788] (Adams Papers)
Rain. Pass’d the evening with Stacey. Finished Hume and Blackstone. Little &c. I went over the...
245220th. (Adams Papers)
Snow’d almost all day. White set out early in the morning for Haverhill; his sister is to be...
24536th. (Adams Papers)
Visited young Mr. Chaumont in the morning, who arrived a few days since from Philadelphia. I went...
245413th. (Adams Papers)
No reciting, this morning: was employ’d all day in mathematical Studies, of which I begin to grow...
245510th. (Adams Papers)
The weather cleared up this morning; but the wind was so high, and the snow so deep; that Mr....
245610th. (Adams Papers)
In the forenoon I went, and sat about an hour with Mr. King. Mr. Gerry was sitting at the grand...
24573d. (Adams Papers)
We had a Lecture this morning upon Electricity; we received two small shocks, which however, gave...
24584th. (Adams Papers)
Old Mr. Grand, and Dr. Bancroft. In the evening Mr. Chaumont and Mr. Franklin. Dr. Edward...
245925th. (Adams Papers)
Thayer and Charles returned from Scituate this afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Hilliard came to pass the...
246019. (Adams Papers)
Meeting to hear Mr. Wibird. W. Cranch. And rews .
246123d. (Adams Papers)
After breakfast I went to see Coll. Monroe, and Mr. Hardy, of the Virginia delegation. Call’d...
24629. (Adams Papers)
Parson Wibird dined at Mr. C’s. Folks came home.
2463[10th.] (Adams Papers)
Tuesday 5. A. M. arrived at Calais, in the afternoon took Post, and went as far as Boulogne, 4....
246426th. (Adams Papers)
This forenoon while I was at the office I received a billet from Mr. Dalton, with an invitation...
246523. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Russell’s and returned at Night.
246616th. (Adams Papers)
In the forenoon I attended at Mr. Carey’s meeting. The man that appeared in the pulpit I...
246713. (Adams Papers)
Returned to Braintree in the forenoon.
24686th. (Adams Papers)
A Parson Allen preach’d this day for Mr. Carey. I went to hear him in the forenoon. His Sermon...
24693. (Adams Papers)
Gibbon 5th. vol. 4th. gone which I much regret.
247020th. Thursday. (Adams Papers)
We met this evening at Thompson’s. Pickman came; but rather late in the evening. Young Sawyer was...
2471John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 2 April 1786 (Adams Papers)
After having suffered so long an interval of Time to pass, since I wrote you last, it is...
2472Thursday Novr. 20th. (Adams Papers)
Dined at Mr. Rogers’s.
247310th. (Adams Papers)
From the divers interruptions which we met with in the course of the day, we did but little at...
247428. (Adams Papers)
Meeting Forenoon. Mr. Marsh. L. White.
247516th. (Adams Papers)
Dined at Mr. Dana’s, and pass’d part of the evening with the Judge and his Lady at Mr. Gerry’s....
2476John Quincy Adams to Elizabeth Cranch, 7 April 1786 (Adams Papers)
My things, are yet pretty much in Confusion, and I do not expect to get well settled till the...
2477Tuesday Novr. 25th. (Adams Papers)
Went to the Covent Garden Theatre, and saw the Castle of Andalusia, with the Devil upon two...
24786th. (Adams Papers)
This being the last day before the close of the vacation, I was part of the day employ’d in...
24793d. (Adams Papers)
Continued in the first volume of Blackstone. In the course of my reading this day; I came across...
248020th. (Adams Papers)
Snow’d all day. We were rather tired after our expedition. I have been idle; and do not by any...