Tuesday Decr. 2d.

This day my father dined out; in the evening I went to the Drury Lane Theatre, had the Beaux Stratagem with the Ladies Frolick.1

1. George Farquhar’s The Beaux’ Strategem, London, 1707; The Ladies’ Frolick, London, 1770, by James Love, pseudonym for James Dance (Biographia Dramatica description begins David Erskine Baker and others, eds., Biographia Dramatica; Or, A Companion to the Play House ..., London, 1764-1812; 3 vols, in 4. description ends ; Allardyce Nicoll, A History of English Drama, 1600–1900, 6 vols., Cambridge, Eng., 1952–1959, 2:322; 3:283).

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Source Project: Adams Papers
Title: Tuesday Decr. 2d.
Author: Adams, John Quincy
Date: 2 December 1783

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Cite as: “Tuesday Decr. 2d.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0005-0013-0002. [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. 206.]