Wednesday 23d of August 1780.

Pappa went out in the morning and came home and dined at home. Our Master comes every morning at six and every noon. Nothing very remarkable this day.

Reading a Volume entitled the World I found this fable.1

1. A fable about wisdom and folly, copied on the following half-page of the Diary, appeared in The World No. 120, 17 April 1755. The edition that JQA used is not known.

Index Entries

You Are Looking At

Source Project: Adams Papers
Title: Wednesday 23d of August 1780.
Author: Adams, John Quincy
Date: 23 August 1780

Reference

Cite as: “Wednesday 23d of August 1780.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0002-0004-0023. [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, pp. 58–59.]