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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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161 | Adams, John | 24 [–27] Thurdsday. Fryday. Saturday. Sunday. | ≈1756-06-24 | Spent the Evening at the Colonels. Presumably the text of this entry pertains to the last day in... | |
162 | Adams, John | 28 Monday. | 1756-06-28 | 28 Monday. | |
163 | Adams, John | [July 1756] | ≈1756-07-19 | Sat out for Boston. Borrowed the Idea of a Patriot King of Ned. Quincy. Rode to Cambridge. Lodgd.... | |
164 | Adams, John | July. 1756. 19. Monday. | 1756-07-19 | Sat out for Boston. Borrowed the Idea of a Patriot King of Ned. Quincy. Rode to Cambridge. Lodgd.... | |
165 | Adams, John | 20 Tuesday. | 1756-07-20 | Eliot and Trumble lodged here with me. | |
166 | Adams, John | 21 Wednesday. | 1756-07-21 | Kept School.—I am now entering on another Year, and I am resolved not to neglect my Time as I did... | |
167 | Adams, John | 22 Thurdsday. | 1756-07-22 | Fast day. Rose not till 7 o clock. This is the usual Fate of my Resolutions! Wrote the 3 first... | |
168 | Adams, John | 23 Friday. | 1756-07-23 | Rose at 7. Wrote the 2 last Chapters of St. James. Spent the Evening at the Majors and drank Tea... | |
169 | Adams, John | 24 Saturday. | 1756-07-24 | Rose at 7. Wrote a little in Greek. Afternoon wrote Bolinbroke. | |
170 | Adams, John | 25 Sunday. | 1756-07-25 | Rose 1/2 after 6.—Good Sense, some say, is enough to regulate our Conduct, to dictate Thoughts... | |
171 | Adams, John | 26 Monday. | 1756-07-26 | Rose at 7. Read carefully 30 lines in Virgil. | |
172 | Adams, John | 27 Tuesday. | 1756-07-27 | Rose at 7. Read carefully 30 lines, in Virgil. Wrote a little in Bolingbroke at noon and a little... | |
173 | Adams, John | 28 Wednesday. | 1756-07-28 | Read about 40 lines in Virgil, and wrote a little at noon. Nothing more. | |
174 | Adams, John | 29 Thurdsday. | 1756-07-29 | Rose half after 6. Read a little Greek. | |
175 | Adams, John | 30 Fryday. | 1756-07-30 | A very rainy Day. Dreamed away the Time. | |
176 | Adams, John | 31 Saturday. | 1756-07-31 | A rainy forenoon. Dined at Mr. Paines. A fair after noon . The Nature and Essence of the material... | |
177 | Adams, John | [August 1756] | ≈1756-08-01 | Heard Mr. Maccarty all Day. Spent the Evening at the Collonels.— The Event Shews that my... | |
178 | Adams, John | August. 1756. 1 Sunday. | 1756-08-01 | Heard Mr. Maccarty all Day. Spent the Evening at the Collonels.— The Event Shews that my... | |
179 | Adams, John | 2 Monday. | 1756-08-02 | Agreably to the Design laid last night, I arose this Morning before the sun. Dined at Pains.... | |
180 | Adams, John | 3 Tuesday. | 1756-08-03 | Dind at the Colonels. Lodged at Put nam’s . | |
181 | Adams, John | 4 Wednesday. | 1756-08-04 | Breakfasted at Put nam’ s. | |
182 | Adams, John | 7 Saturday. | 1756-08-07 | All this past Week my designs have been interrupted, by the Troubles and Confusion of the House.... | |
183 | Adams, John | 12 [–13] Thurdsday. Fryday. | ≈1756-08-12 | I know not what became of these days. | |
184 | Adams, John | 14 Saturday. | 1756-08-14 | I seem to have lost sight of the Object that I resolved to pursue. Dreams and slumbers, sloth and... | |
185 | Adams, John | 15 Sunday. | 1756-08-15 | If one Man or Being, out of pure Generosity, and without any Expectation of Returns, is about to... | |
186 | Adams, John | 22 Sunday. | 1756-08-22 | Yesterday I compleated a Contract with Mr. Putnam, to study Law under his Inspection for two... | |
187 | Adams, John | 23 Monday. | 1756-08-23 | Came to Mr. Putnams and began Law. And studied not very closely this Week. | |
188 | Adams, John | 29 Sunday. | 1756-08-29 | 29 Sunday. | |
189 | Adams, John | [October 1758] | ≈1758-10-05 | Yesterday arrived here from Worcester. I am this Day about beginning Justinians Institutions with... | |
190 | Adams, John | Braintree Octr. 5th. 1758. | 1758-10-05 | Yesterday arrived here from Worcester. I am this Day about beginning Justinians Institutions with... |