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2451 Adams, John Quincy [September 1788] ≈1788-09-01 Rain. Pass’d the evening with Stacey. Finished Hume and Blackstone. Little &c. I went over the...
2452 Adams, John Quincy 20th. 1786-11-20 Snow’d almost all day. White set out early in the morning for Haverhill; his sister is to be...
2453 Adams, John Quincy 6th. 1785-08-06 Visited young Mr. Chaumont in the morning, who arrived a few days since from Philadelphia. I went...
2454 Adams, John Quincy 13th. 1786-05-13 No reciting, this morning: was employ’d all day in mathematical Studies, of which I begin to grow...
2455 Adams, John Quincy 10th. 1786-12-10 The weather cleared up this morning; but the wind was so high, and the snow so deep; that Mr....
2456 Adams, John Quincy 10th. 1785-08-10 In the forenoon I went, and sat about an hour with Mr. King. Mr. Gerry was sitting at the grand...
2457 Adams, John Quincy 3d. 1786-06-03 We had a Lecture this morning upon Electricity; we received two small shocks, which however, gave...
2458 Adams, John Quincy 4th. 1785-01-04 Old Mr. Grand, and Dr. Bancroft. In the evening Mr. Chaumont and Mr. Franklin. Dr. Edward...
2459 Adams, John Quincy 25th. 1786-10-25 Thayer and Charles returned from Scituate this afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Hilliard came to pass the...
2460 Adams, John Quincy 19. 1788-10-19 Meeting to hear Mr. Wibird. W. Cranch. And rews .
2461 Adams, John Quincy 23d. 1785-07-23 After breakfast I went to see Coll. Monroe, and Mr. Hardy, of the Virginia delegation. Call’d...
2462 Adams, John Quincy 9. 1788-11-09 Parson Wibird dined at Mr. C’s. Folks came home.
2463 Adams, John Quincy [10th.] 1784-08-10 Tuesday 5. A. M. arrived at Calais, in the afternoon took Post, and went as far as Boulogne, 4....
2464 Adams, John Quincy 26th. 1788-02-26 This forenoon while I was at the office I received a billet from Mr. Dalton, with an invitation...
2465 Adams, John Quincy 23. 1788-10-23 Mr. Russell’s and returned at Night.
2466 Adams, John Quincy 16th. 1788-03-16 In the forenoon I attended at Mr. Carey’s meeting. The man that appeared in the pulpit I...
2467 Adams, John Quincy 13. 1788-11-13 Returned to Braintree in the forenoon.
2468 Adams, John Quincy 6th. 1788-04-06 A Parson Allen preach’d this day for Mr. Carey. I went to hear him in the forenoon. His Sermon...
2469 Adams, John Quincy 3. 1788-12-03 Gibbon 5th. vol. 4th. gone which I much regret.
2470 Adams, John Quincy 20th. Thursday. 1788-03-20 We met this evening at Thompson’s. Pickman came; but rather late in the evening. Young Sawyer was...
2471 Adams, John Quincy Adams, John John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 2 April 1786 1786-04-02 After having suffered so long an interval of Time to pass, since I wrote you last, it is...
2472 Adams, John Quincy Thursday Novr. 20th. 1783-11-20 Dined at Mr. Rogers’s.
2473 Adams, John Quincy 10th. 1788-04-10 From the divers interruptions which we met with in the course of the day, we did but little at...
2474 Adams, John Quincy 28. 1788-09-28 Meeting Forenoon. Mr. Marsh. L. White.
2475 Adams, John Quincy 16th. 1787-01-16 Dined at Mr. Dana’s, and pass’d part of the evening with the Judge and his Lady at Mr. Gerry’s....
2476 Adams, John Quincy Cranch, Elizabeth John Quincy Adams to Elizabeth Cranch, 7 April 1786 1786-04-07 My things, are yet pretty much in Confusion, and I do not expect to get well settled till the...
2477 Adams, John Quincy Tuesday Novr. 25th. 1783-11-25 Went to the Covent Garden Theatre, and saw the Castle of Andalusia, with the Devil upon two...
2478 Adams, John Quincy 6th. 1787-02-06 This being the last day before the close of the vacation, I was part of the day employ’d in...
2479 Adams, John Quincy 3d. 1787-10-03 Continued in the first volume of Blackstone. In the course of my reading this day; I came across...
2480 Adams, John Quincy 20th. 1787-01-20 Snow’d all day. We were rather tired after our expedition. I have been idle; and do not by any...
2481 Adams, John Quincy 6th. 1786-01-06 Went down in the Evening and was a couple of hours at Mr. White’s. They were to have had Company,...
2482 Adams, John Quincy 10th. 1787-02-10 Very few of the students have arrived. Not more than 15 of our Class have yet appeared. The tea...
2483 Adams, John Quincy 28th. 1787-07-28 Writing all the forenoon. In the afternoon I went out, with my brother Tom, upon a shooting...
2484 Adams, John Quincy 10th. 1786-01-10 Leonard White came up in the morning, and proposed to me, to make one of a small slaying party to...
2485 Adams, John Quincy 17th. 1787-08-17 At home all the forenoon, reading Tom Jones, one of the best novels in the language. The scenes...
2486 Adams, John Quincy 8th. 1787-09-08 I arose in the morning quite refresh’d, and immediately after breakfast went and took my station...
2487 Adams, John Quincy 21st. 1787-08-21 Hazy weather again all the forenoon. I went and pass’d an hour with my friend White before...
2488 Adams, John Quincy 12th. 1787-09-12 Training day for the alarm list. From 16 to 60 years the inhabitants of this Common-wealth, are...
2489 Adams, John Quincy 26th. 1785-10-26 I was greatly disappointed to find, that neither of my Cousins nor my brother had any Letters for...
2490 Adams, John Quincy 18th. 1786-07-18 Rain’d a great part of the Day. Miss Hiller is only fourteen, her person comes very near to my...
2491 Adams, John Quincy 26th. 1785-03-26 Paris afternoon. Froullé, books upon astronomy. Went to see Mr. West and Mr. Waring but neither...
2492 Adams, John Quincy 15th. 1785-11-15 All day at home. My Uncle, was applied to last Saturday by a man, to do a little jobb for him, as...
2493 Adams, John Quincy 8th. 1786-08-08 Read through the remainder of the Dialogues, which Reid says, “prove by unanswerable arguments,...
2494 Adams, John Quincy 22d. 1786-07-22 Mr. Shaw went over to Weymouth. Mr. Cranch returned from Boston, and Mr. Standfast Smith came...
2495 Adams, John Quincy 11th. 1785-04-11 Dined with Mr. Adams at the Marquis de la Fayette’s. There was not much American Company: M: le...
2496 Adams, John Quincy 5th. 1785-12-05 After passing all the day, at pretty Close Study, I went and spent the Evening at Mr. White’s....
2497 Adams, John Quincy 30th. 1785-03-30 Mr. Adams dined at the Spanish Ambassador’s, Count d’Aranda, an old man 70 years of age, who...
2498 Adams, John Quincy 12th. 1786-08-12 Charles and myself went over to Weymouth, and dined at Doctor Tufts’s. We were overtaken by a...
2499 Adams, John Quincy 16th. 1785-04-16 Went with Mrs. A into Paris in the afternoon. Got a book of Pissot, and Brindley’s Terence, la...
2500 Adams, John Quincy 2d. 1786-09-02 I have been too busily employ’d, to have much to say. Study, does not afford, a rich source for...