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2751 Adams, John Quincy 22d. 1786-12-22 Miss Cutts’s misfortune, last night, has been a subject of much diversion, to the Ladies; to Miss...
2752 Adams, John Quincy 8th. 1785-09-08 I went in the morning down to Mr. Thaxter’s office, and spent all the forenoon with him, talking...
2753 Adams, John Quincy 22d. 1785-08-22 At about 9 this morning, Mr. Broome, and Mr. Brush, left us and set out to return to New-Haven....
2754 Adams, John Quincy 15th. 1786-06-15 We did not recite this morning. The struggle between the Freshmen and Sophimores still continues....
2755 Adams, John Quincy 28th. 1785-01-28 Paris in the Evening. French Theatre. Iphigenie en Aulide , of Racine, and l’Aveugle Clairvoyant...
2756 Adams, John Quincy 12th. 1785-09-12 Spent part of the forenoon with Mr. Thaxter at his Office. At 12 o’clock, we went, to a...
2757 Adams, John Quincy 7th. 1785-02-07 Dined at Mr. Jefferson’s. Masks in the rue de Fauxbourg St. Antoine and in the ruë St. Honoré....
2758 Adams, John Quincy 2d. 1785-10-02 Attended the meeting forenoon, and afternoon. In the evening I took a walk with Mr. Thaxter....
2759 Adams, John Quincy Adams, Abigail John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 17 July 1785 1785-07-17 We are now sailing up North River; and have met the french packet about 6 leagues from New York:...
2760 Adams, John Quincy [25th.] 1784-08-25 Wednesday dined at the Abbé de Chalut’s.
2761 Adams, John Quincy [5th.] 1784-09-05 Sunday dined at Mr. Grand’s at Passy. Went after dinner to the Chateau de la Muette and saw the...
2762 Adams, John Quincy 28th. 1788-03-28 The weather was pleasant. Townsend rode, this day. I pass’d the evening with him: and found Miss...
2763 Adams, John Quincy 25. 1788-11-25 Charles came home from Cambridge.
2764 Adams, John Quincy 18th. 1788-04-18 A cold north east storm, confined us to the house all day. I read a few pages in one of Gilbert’s...
2765 Adams, John Quincy 15. 1788-12-15 Attended the office. Read a little. Mr. Jackson’s.
2766 Adams, John Quincy 8th. 1788-05-08 The town met this afternoon to make choice of representatives for the ensuing year. Jonan....
2767 Adams, John Quincy 22d. 1788-04-22 I took a ride in the forenoon with W. Cranch. Mr. Cranch came home from Boston, and brought young...
2768 Adams, John Quincy 28th. 1787-01-28 Mr. Fiske supplied Mr. Hilliard this day: and gave satisfaction in general. His sentiments are...
2769 Adams, John Quincy 12th. 1788-05-12 I have been quite unwell, these two or three days past; a disorder recurs with which I have been...
2770 Adams, John Quincy 18th. 1787-02-18 Mr. Hilliard preached to us in the forenoon, and the president in the afternoon, when we were...
2771 Adams, John Quincy 15th. 1787-10-15 Rather dissipated the whole day. Could not study with proper attention, and indeed gave the...
2772 Adams, John Quincy 2d. 1788-06-02 Pickman returned this day from Salem, where he has been for ten days past. I began to read Wood’s...
2773 Adams, John Quincy 18th. 1786-01-18 The severest day we have had this Season. Did not stir out of the house, all day. Nancy,...
2774 Adams, John Quincy 8th. 1787-03-08 In the forenoon, I went and paid a number of visits, to my old acquaintance in this place; Mr....
2775 Adams, John Quincy 22d. 1787-02-22 Very cold weather. We drank tea at Williams’s. Bridge, and I went and pass’d the evening at Judge...
2776 Adams, John Quincy 8th. 1786-02-08 At home all day. Mr. True, was here all the afternoon. There is something extraordinary about...
2777 Adams, John Quincy 22. 1786-01-22 The Weather has softened so much, that, it thaw’d last Night, and has, all this day. We had...
2778 Adams, John Quincy 12th. 1787-03-12 This morning the parts for the ensuing exhibition were distributed. Foster has the English...
2779 Adams, John Quincy 12th. 1786-02-12 Mr. Howe, preached us two Sermons from John III. 3. Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily,...
2780 Adams, John Quincy 2d. 1787-04-02 Recite this week in Burlamaqui: This is the day on which the election of a governor is made...
2781 Adams, John Quincy 22d. 1786-03-22 At about 10 o’clock, Lucy and I, set out from Braintree. She came with me to Boston, to purchase,...
2782 Adams, John Quincy 2d. 1786-03-02 Finished, the sixth book of Homer’s Iliad in the forenoon, and shall go no further in it here. I...
2783 Adams, John Quincy [September 1786] ≈1786-03-04 Studied Algebra all the forenoon. Took books from the Library, Brydone’s Tour vol: 2d. Ossian’s...
2784 Adams, John Quincy 24th. 1787-09-24 Townsend went to Topsfield to hear a cause tried before a justice. Stedman has been hunting all...
2785 Adams, John Quincy 26th. 1786-03-26 Mr. Patten, a young Clergyman from Rhode Island, preach’d in the forenoon, from Proverbs III. 17....
2786 Adams, John Quincy 2d. 1786-04-02 The storm continued all night with unabated violence, and it blew so hard that one of our Windows...
2787 Adams, John Quincy 27th. 1785-11-27 The forenoon discourse was upon Revelations, III. 15 and 16. I know thy works, that thou art...
2788 Adams, John Quincy [February 1787] ≈1787-02-01 It snow’d, the greatest part of the day; but gently, and without wind. Miss Jones, this forenoon,...
2789 Adams, John Quincy 17th. 1785-12-17 Mr. Thaxter return’d from his journey this Evening. He had a very disagreeable time to-day; as...
2790 Adams, John Quincy 24th. 1786-08-24 Went down to the President’s, for an order to take a book from the Library, but he did not know...
2791 Adams, John Quincy 30th. 1785-04-30 I went into Paris in the morning, and called upon Mr. d’Asp the secretary of the Sweedish...
2792 Adams, John Quincy 21st. 1785-12-21 All day at home. I am often at a great loss, what to say at the End of a day, in this Journal, of...
2793 Adams, John Quincy 14th. 1786-09-14 White went to Haverhill. I determined with Little upon two Pieces, to publish in the next...
2794 Adams, John Quincy 14th. 1785-05-14 At 5 in the morning I was in my Cabriolet, and never stopp’d anywhere untill I arrived at Rennes,...
2795 Adams, John Quincy 4th. 1786-10-04 We had this morning a forensic given out, to be read next week, on the Question whether the...
2796 Adams, John Quincy 11th. 1785-06-11 This day being Captain Fournier’s, jour de fête, he gave us an excellent entertainment on board:...
2797 Adams, John Quincy 15th. 1788-01-15 After passing the day as usual at the office, Townsend, came spent the evening and supp’d with...
2798 Adams, John Quincy 5th. 1788-02-05 The weather this day has been extreme cold: I have not experienced the severity of the Season, so...
2799 Adams, John Quincy Thursday October 2d. 1788-10-02 I took my seat in the stage, in Company with a Lady who came from Portsmouth, and Mr. Vaughan, a...
2800 Adams, John Quincy [March 1785] ≈1785-02-04 Coldest weather we have had this year. Reaumur’s thermometer at 8 degrees below the freezing...