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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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211 | Adams, John | [November 1758] | ≈1758-11-01 | Read a little in Van Muyden, and a little in naval Trade and Commerce. Rode as far as Smelt... | |
212 | Adams, John | Wednesday [1 November]. | 1758-11-01 | Read a little in Van Muyden, and a little in naval Trade and Commerce. | |
213 | Adams, John | Thurdsday [2 November]. | 1758-11-02 | Rode as far as Smelt Brook. Breakfasted, made my fire and am now set down to Van Muyden in... | |
214 | Adams, John | Sunday [5? November]. | 1758-11-05 | Drank Tea at Coll. Quincy’s. He read to me a Letter Coll. Gouch wrote him in answer to his... | |
215 | Adams, John | Monday [6? November]. | 1758-11-06 | Went to Town. Went to Mr. Gridleys office, but he had not returned to Town from Brookline. Went... | |
216 | Adams, John | [December 1758] | ≈1758-12-01 | Bob Paine is conceited and pretends to more Knowledge and Genius than he has. I have heard him... | |
217 | Adams, John | Tuesday. December 3 or 4 [i.e. 5?]. | 1758-12-05 | Bob Paine is conceited and pretends to more Knowledge and Genius than he has. I have heard him... | |
218 | Adams, John | [Marginalia in Winthrop’s Lecture on Earthquakes … | ≈1758-12-01 | “O! there is no getting out of the mighty hand of GOD!” This Exclamation was very popular, for... | |
219 | Adams, John | Monday. December 18th. 1758 | 1758-12-18 | I this Evening delivered to Mr. Field, a Declaration in Trespass for a Rescue. I was obliged to... | |
220 | Adams, John | Wednesday [20 December]. | 1758-12-20 | I am this forenoon, resuming the Study of Van Muyden. I begin at the 99th Page. | |
221 | Adams, John | Thurdsday [21 December]. | 1758-12-21 | Yesterday and to day I have read loud, Tullius 4 Orations against Cataline. The Sweetness and... | |
222 | Adams, John | Tuesday, 26 of December. | 1758-12-26 | Being the Evening after Christmas, the Dr. and I spent the Evening with Mr. Cleverly and Major... | |
223 | Adams, John | Friday [29 December]. | 1758-12-29 | Let me see, if Bob P aine dont pick up this Story to laugh at. Lambert will laugh no doubt, and... | |
224 | Adams, John | Saturday [30 December]. | 1758-12-30 | How a whole Family is put into a Broil sometimes by a Trifle. My P. and M. disagreed in Opinion... | |
225 | Adams, John | [January 1759] | ≈1759-01-01 | Drank Tea at Coll. Quincies. Spent the Evening there, and the next morning. In the afternoon,... | |
226 | Adams, John | Wednesday [January 1759]. | ≈1759-01-01 | Drank Tea at Coll. Quincies. Spent the Evening there, and the next morning. In the afternoon,... | |
227 | Adams, John | Tuesday [January 1759]. | ≈1759-01-01 | Took a ride after Dinner to Gullivers Brook in Milton, returned home. Went over to Deacon... | |
228 | Adams, John | [February 1759] | ≈1759-02-01 | I intend a Journey to Worcester to morrow. How many observations shall I make on the People at... | |
229 | Adams, John | Feb. 1. | 1759-02-01 | I intend a Journey to Worcester to morrow. How many observations shall I make on the People at... | |
230 | Adams, John | Feb. 2. 1759. | 1759-02-02 | At Westtown, in Dr. Webbs Chamber at Hammonds. His landlady is an odd Woman. She seems good... | |
231 | Adams, John | Worcester Feb. 11. 1759. | 1759-02-11 | I have been in this Town a Week this night. How much have I improved my Health by Exercise, or my... | |
232 | Adams, John | [March 1759] | ≈1759-03-14 | Reputation ought to be the perpetual subject of my Thoughts, and Aim of my Behaviour. How shall I... | |
233 | Adams, John | March 14. 1759. | 1759-03-14 | Reputation ought to be the perpetual subject of my Thoughts, and Aim of my Behaviour. How shall I... | |
234 | Adams, John | March 18 [i.e. 19?]. Monday | 1759-03-19 | This whole Day is dedicated to walking, riding, talk, &c. No Reading to day. Twas Avarice, not... | |
235 | Adams, John | [April 1759] | 1759-04-08 | Spent the Evening at Captain Bracketts. A Case was proposed and my Opinion asked, which gave me... | |
236 | Adams, John | Sunday. April 8th. 1759. | 1759-04-08 | Spent the Evening at Captain Bracketts. A Case was proposed and my Opinion asked, which gave me... | |
237 | Adams, John | [Spring 1759.] | ≈1759-04-01 | The Road is walled on each side with a Grove of Trees. The stillness, silence, and the uniformity... | |
238 | Adams, John | [June 1759] | 1759-06-29 | Have this moment finished Woods new Institute of the Imperial or civil Law. It is a great Help in... | |
239 | Adams, John | June 29. 1759. | 1759-06-29 | Have this moment finished Woods new Institute of the Imperial or civil Law. It is a great Help in... | |
240 | Adams, John | [Summer 1759.] | ≈1759-06-30 | Mr. Wibirt . Ld. Chancellor Hardwick used at night to take off the Robes of his office and lay... |