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January 1st. 1785. Saturday.

January 1st. 1785. Saturday.

Compliments to the Royal family at Versailles. My father carried twenty Guineas to distribute among the servants of the great folks, a tribute every minister is obliged to pay annually.

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    January 1st. 1785. Saturday.
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    Adams, John Quincy
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    1 January 1785

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    “January 1st. 1785. Saturday.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0007-0003-0001. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Diary of John Quincy Adams, vol. 1, November 1779 – March 1786, ed. Robert J. Taylor and Marc Friedlaender. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981, p. 212.]