Adams Papers

9th.

9th.

Had the whole day to myself; as I did not attend the afternoon recitation. Spent my Time in reading Ferguson, and Saunderson.1

1. Nicholas Saunderson, The Elements of Algebra, In Ten Books..., 2 vols., Cambridge, England, 1740 (Harvard, Catalogus Bibliothecae, 1790 description begins [Isaac Smith, comp.], Catalogus Bibliothecae Harvardianae Cantabrigiae Nov- Anglorum, Boston, 1790. description ends , p. 1). JQA may have used his personal copy of Saunderson, recorded among his books in 1784, which is no longer in his or the other Adams’ libraries ([Christian Lotter], Inventory of JQA’s books, 6 Nov. 1784, Adams Papers).

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    9th.
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    Adams, John Quincy
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    9 November 1786

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    “9th.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-02-02-0001-0010-0009. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Diary of John Quincy Adams, vol. 2, March 1786 – December 1788, ed. Robert Taylor J and Marc Friedlaender. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981, p. 123.]