Tuesday[7th].

Dined at Mr. Tracy’s and went in the evening to see la métromanie, and Crispin Rival de son Maitre,1 at the french Comedy.

1. Alexis Piron, La métromanie, ou, le poète, Paris, 1738 (Brenner, Bibliographical List description begins Clarence Dietz Brenner, A Bibliographical List of plays in the French Language, 1700-1789, Berkeley, 1947. description ends ). JQA had seen Le Sage’s Crispin while living in St. Petersburg.

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Source Project: Adams Papers
Title: Tuesday[7th].
Author: Adams, John Quincy
Date: 7 September 1784

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Cite as: “Tuesday[7th].,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0006-0002-0007. [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. 211.]