Adams Papers

22d. Monday.

22d. Monday.

This forenoon I went to the English Library and took out the 2 last volumes of Clarissa and Nichols’s collection of Poems.1 In the afternoon I wrote a letter to Mr. Thaxter in Holland.2 Mr. D. wrote to my Father.3 Windy Rainy weather. Finish’d Cicero’s oration pro Milone.

1. John Nichols, A Select Collection of Poems: With Notes, Biographical and Historical, 8 vols., London, 1780–1782. JQA copied several of the poems into his small commonplace books at this time (M/JQA/24, 26, Adams Papers, Microfilms, Reel Nos. 219, 221).

2. Adams Family Correspondence, description begins Adams Family Correspondence, ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1963- . description ends 4:352–353.

3. That of 22 July (Adams Papers).

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    22d. Monday.
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    Adams, John Quincy
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    22 July 1782

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    “22d. Monday.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0004-0008-0022. [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. 138.]