14301Thursday July 26th 1781. (Adams Papers)
Nothing remarkable this day.
1430224th. (Adams Papers)
Eliza, spent the day here. Received some books from Braintree. Studied Watts’s logic, in the...
1430317th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Hilliard preach’d in the forenoon from Isaiah V. 12. But they regard not the work of the...
1430431st. (Adams Papers)
Charles went to Boston in the morning. I began upon Trigonometry in my mathematical manuscript....
1430517th. (Adams Papers)
Immediately after breakfast I went to Mr. Barclay’s. The wind has changed, so that we shall not...
14306John Quincy Adams to William Cranch, 17 March 1780 (Adams Papers)
As there is a very good opportunity of writing to you by a Gentleman from South carolina who is...
143077th. (Adams Papers)
I have been studying almost all day what to write for a Forensic; the subject is so copious, that...
1430821st. (Adams Papers)
I really do not know what I have done this day. I am always sensible, that what with one trifle...
1430918th. (Adams Papers)
Our wind is still good but is almost all gone, and we have not run more than 20 or 25 leagues,...
14310From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 3 February 1807 (Adams Papers)
I have hardly been able to reconcile it to my own conscience for some weeks that so much time had...
14311Saturday May 21st. 1785. (Adams Papers)
At 6 o’clock in the morning a person came from the Captain, to inform me that the wind was fair,...
14312From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 9 August 1809 (Adams Papers)
Often as it has been my fortune in the course of my life, to be parted from my Parents, and...
1431318th. (Adams Papers)
This afternoon I wrote a couple of letters to send by Mr. Atkins, who goes to Boston to’morrow....
1431411th. (Adams Papers)
The Class from 9 to near twelve were reading their forensic; I read in the affirmative as...
14315John Quincy Adams to William Cranch, 7 April 1790 (Adams Papers)
As you were somewhat in my debt in the article of Letters, when I left Boston, I expected ere...
14316From John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 5 December 1817 (Adams Papers)
Yours of the 24th. ulto. with the draft on the Branch Bank for 3000 Dollars in received.—Messrs:...
14317To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 24 April 1815 (Adams Papers)
I wrote you by Mr Storrow, and by Mr Smith who left this City, with the intention of embarking in...
1431830th. (Adams Papers)
The weather is very good, but the winds begin to be very variable as we approach to the term of...
143198th. (Adams Papers)
This afternoon the delegates from Newbury, and from this town, returned home from Convention. A...
14320From John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 6 February 1807 (Adams Papers)
Your letter of 26. Jany: enclosing one to your Mamma, reached me the same day that I wrote you...
143215. (Adams Papers)
Weymouth at meeting. Dr. Tufts’s.
14322Friday 14. (Adams Papers)
This morning we set away at about sun rise. We came two leagues and then went a league up hill...
1432322d. (Adams Papers)
This afternoon, Leonard White called on me; and sat about half an hour. He came from Haverhill,...
14324Friday July 1st. 1785. (Adams Papers)
Calm weather all day. In the evening it began to lighten, and our thunder spire was fix’d; this...
14325[June 1785] (Adams Papers)
Small wind. The Season for Calm weather is coming forward, and I am afraid we shall have a long...
14326From John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 30 June 1806 (Adams Papers)
You will receive I presume at the same time with this a letter from me written yesterday at...
1432712th. (Adams Papers)
In the beginning of the evening I called upon Mr. Hutchinson, and look’d over his music: he plays...
14328John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 2 April 1803 (Adams Papers)
The House of Bird, Savage and Bird have stop’d payment, and probably the bill I drew upon them...
14329From John Quincy Adams to Josiah, III Quincy, 5 June 1822 (Adams Papers)
Conformably to the suggestion in your favour of the 24th ultimo, I have written to Mr Cruft,...
14330[October 1785] (Adams Papers)
I have been arguing with myself, whether I had best continue my Journal, or break it off at...
14331From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 25 May 1818 (Adams Papers)
I am ashamed to find upon my file of Letters to be answered , one from you of 29. January;...
143322d. (Adams Papers)
We had no meeting at Parson Carey’s. I was employ’d in writing all the forenoon; but after...
14333From John Quincy Adams to John Adams Smith, 19 June 1824 (Adams Papers)
The British Government have not yet consented to admit Consuls into their West India Colonies. An...
14334[February 1786] (Adams Papers)
Slept none last Night. Felt unwell all day. Went in the evening to Mr. White’s but nobody was...
14335John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams 2d, 15 March 1786 (Adams Papers)
What shall I say to justify the date of this letter, after so many fair promises to be punctual,...
14336[24 August–2 September] (Adams Papers)
Here, this journal very abruptly breaks off. I had long doubted whether the utility attending the...
14337From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 30 January 1811 (Adams Papers)
I wrote you on the last day of the old year, Old-Style, and sent my letter under cover to Mr:...
14338Tuesday Novr. 4th. (Adams Papers)
This forenoon we went with Messrs. Jay, Bingham, and W. Vaughan, to see the Holophusicon, or Sir...
1433927th. (Adams Papers)
St John’s Day. An entertainment for the Society of free-Masons. In consequence of Stacey’s...
14340Sunday Septr. 13th. [i.e. 14th]. (Adams Papers)
I did not sleep a wink the whole night. My nerves are in a very disagreeable state of irritation....
143412d. (Adams Papers)
I pass’d the evening with Mr. Andrews, at Professor Pearson’s. He is fond of music, to...
14342To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 28 March 1806 (Adams Papers)
I have two letters from you which ought to have been answered some time since, but I have only...
1434331st. (Adams Papers)
In the Evening I went with Townsend, to see Miss Cazneau, and to fulfill a promise, of playing on...
14344John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 16 February 1779 (Adams Papers)
I have now the pleasure to acquaint you some news which will be agreable to you. Yesterday...
14345Majus. 1783. 20me. (Adams Papers)
Diné à Rotterdam chés Mr. Van Berkel ancien bourguemaitre de la ville, et presentement ministre...
1434624th. (Adams Papers)
Attended meeting all day. Mr. Shuttlesworth preach’d; I was much better pleased with him, than I...
143474th. Wednesday. (Adams Papers)
This forenoon Coll. Vallentin arriv’d from Holland and brought us, letters from my Father. Mr. D...
1434827th. (Adams Papers)
Bridge went to Boston again: in the evening we went down, with Mr. Ware, and Freeman, to Judge...
14349From John Quincy Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 14 August 1820 (Adams Papers)
I received with much concern your kind favour of the 8th instt. particularly as it mentions your...
1435014th. (Adams Papers)
Went with my cousin in the forenoon to the meeting house, in order to exercice ourselves in...