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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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| 311 | Adams, John | [November] 1760. | ≈1760-11-22 | Pater was in a very sociable Mood this Evening. He told 3 or 4 merry stories of old Horn. Old... | |
| 312 | Adams, John | Novr. 25th. 1760. | 1760-11-25 | Rode to the Iron Works Landing to see a Vessell launched. And after Launching went to smoke a... | |
| 313 | Adams, John | 1760. Novr. 26th. Wednesday. | 1760-11-26 | Ten days are now elapsed, since I began Hale the 2d time, and all the Law I have read, for 10... | |
| 314 | Adams, John | 1760. Novr. 26th Wednesday. | 1760-11-26 | Night before Thanksgiving.—I have read a Multitude of Law Books—mastered but few. Wood. Coke. 2... | |
| 315 | Adams, John | 1760 Novr. 28th. Friday. | 1760-11-28 | I have not read one Word of Law, this Day. But several Points, and Queries have been suggested to... | |
| 316 | Adams, John | 1760. Novr. 29th. Saturday. | 1760-11-29 | Read no Law.—An exclusive Property is certainly claimed and enjoyed, by private Persons, in Tombs... | |
| 317 | Adams, John | Novr. 30th. Sunday. | 1760-11-30 | Read no Law. Read Bolinbroke. | |
| 318 | Adams, John | [December 1760] | ≈1760-12-01 | I am beginning a Week and a month, and I arose by the Dawning of the Day. And by sun rise had... | |
| 319 | Adams, John | 1760. Decr. 1st. Monday. | 1760-12-01 | I am beginning a Week and a month, and I arose by the Dawning of the Day. And by sun rise had... | |
| 320 | Adams, John | 1760. Decr. 2d. | 1760-12-02 | Spent the Evening at Coll. Q.’s with Captn. Freeman. About the middle of the Evening Dr. Lincoln... | |
| 321 | Adams, John | Decr. 6th. 1760. | 1760-12-06 | Talked with Zab about Newton, Bacon, Lock, Martin, Chambers, Rowning, Desaguliers, S’Gravesende... | |
| 322 | Adams, John | 1760. Decr. 8. | 1760-12-08 | Began Machiavells Machiavell The illegible word begins with “D” but is not “Discourses.” JA ’s... | |
| 323 | Adams, John | Decr. 14th. 1760. | 1760-12-14 | Hunt v. White. Complaint to Coll. Quincy—of a scandalous Lye, made and published to Hunts Damage.... | |
| 324 | Adams, John | 1760. Decr. 16th. Tuesday. | 1760-12-16 | Attended the Tryal all day, between Hunt and White before Coll. Quincy, at James Bracketts. What... | |
| 325 | Adams, John | 1760 Decr. 18th. Thurdsday. | 1760-12-18 | Yesterday spent in Weymouth, in settling the Disputes between old Thos. White and young Isaac... | |
| 326 | Adams, John | 1760. Decr. 18. | 1760-12-18 | Justice Dyer says there is more Occasion for Justices than for Lawyers. Lawyers live upon the... | |
| 327 | Adams, John | 1760. Decr. 18th [i.e. 19th?] Fryday. | 1760-12-19 | I am an old Man seventy odd, and as I had my Education, so I have passed my whole Life in the... | |
| 328 | Adams, John | 1760. Decr. 22nd. Monday. | 1760-12-22 | This day and Tomorrow are the last. I have but one Blank left that I can use. | |
| 329 | Adams, John | 1760. Decr. 27th. Saturday. | 1760-12-27 | Governor Bernards Speech to the two Houses, at the opening of the present sessions, has several... | |
| 330 | Adams, John | [January 1761] | ≈1761-01-01 | The Representatives in their Address to the Governor, have told him that “Great Britain is the... | |
| 331 | Adams, John | Jany. 2nd. 1760 [i.e. 1761]. Fryday. | 1761-01-02 | The Representatives in their Address to the Governor, have told him that “Great Britain is the... | |
| 332 | Adams, John | 1760 [i.e. 1761]. Jany. 2nd. Friday. | 1761-01-02 | Nathl. Bayley Administrator v. Nathll. Niles.—Plea in Abatement. Defendant lives on the Castle,... | |
| 333 | Adams, John | Jany. 8th. 1761. | 1761-01-08 | Last Monday, had a passionate Wrangle, with Eb. Thayer, before Major Crosby. He called me, a... | |
| 334 | Adams, John | [January? 1761.] | ≈1761-01-01 | I am an old Man, seventy odd, and as I had my Education, so I have spent my whole Life, a few... | |
| 335 | Adams, John | 1761. Tuesday Jany. 27th. | 1761-01-27 | Last Fryday I borrowed of Mr. Gridley, the second Volume of the Corpus Iuris Canonici Notis... | |
| 336 | Adams, John | [February 1761] | ≈1761-02-06 | I have now almost finished the first book of Peter Lancelotts Institute, which first Book is... | |
| 337 | Adams, John | 1761. Friday [6] Feby. | 1761-02-06 | I have now almost finished the first book of Peter Lancelotts Institute, which first Book is... | |
| 338 | Adams, John | 1761 Monday. Feby. 9th. | 1761-02-09 | This morning, as I lay abed, I recollected my last Weeks Work. I find I was extreamly diligent,... | |
| 339 | Adams, John | 1761. Feb. 9th. | 1761-02-09 | His Majesty has declared him self, by his Speech to his Parliament to be a Man of Piety, and... | |
| 340 | Adams, John | [March 1761] | ≈1761-03-01 | Mem. To enquire of Tufts, Gould, Whitmarsh, Hunts, Whites, &c. about their Method of mending High... |