366120th. (Adams Papers)
Proceed slowly in the third volume of Blackstone. As this is the most important author of all...
366221st. (Adams Papers)
I this morning requested of Mr. Parsons his opinion, whether it would be most advantageous for me...
366322d. (Adams Papers)
Weather remarkably mild for the Season: I have been rather unwell for a week or 10 days back,...
366423d. (Adams Papers)
The events of the day were quite uninteresting. I had however an opportunity to observe the...
366524th. (Adams Papers)
I went in the forenoon, and exhibited my complaints to Dr. Swett, but he told me, they were not...
366625th. (Adams Papers)
I thought I was too unwell to pass two hours in a cold meeting house this forenoon, and staid at...
366726th. (Adams Papers)
I took an additional cold, yesterday, and am still more unwell than I have been. I pass’d the...
366827th. (Adams Papers)
Better than I have been for these ten days past: all the time again at the office, or at my own...
366928th. (Adams Papers)
Finished the third volume of Blackstone, and began upon the fourth, which is upon public wrongs....
367029th. (Adams Papers)
Thanksgiving day: between 8 and 9 o’clock this morning I set out for Haverhill and got to Mr....
367130th. (Adams Papers)
I passed the forenoon with Leonard, who has been making two or three unsuccessful attempts to...
3672[December 1787] (Adams Papers)
I dined at Mr. White’s; after dinner I went to Mr. Shaw’s, stay’d about an hour, and just before...
3673Saturday December 1st. 1787. (Adams Papers)
I dined at Mr. White’s; after dinner I went to Mr. Shaw’s, stay’d about an hour, and just before...
36742d. (Adams Papers)
I attended Mr. Carey’s meeting this afternoon, and in the evening I went to Mr. Carter’s. Mrs....
36753d. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Moore breakfasted with us. Mr. Parsons is quite unwell, and has been so for two or three days...
36764th. (Adams Papers)
White returned this morning to Haverhill. At the office all day. Mr. Parsons still very...
36775th. (Adams Papers)
I pass’d the evening with Little and Townsend at Miss Cazneau’s. We play’d Commerce, and whist:...
36786th. (Adams Papers)
Spent the evening with Thompson and Little, at Putnam’s lodgings. We conversed upon a diversity...
36797th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Parsons, has recovered in a great measure from his illness: so that he was the chief part of...
36808th. (Adams Papers)
Amory went to Ipswich this afternoon. He cannot yet get entirely over his old habits. He intends...
36819th. (Adams Papers)
Attended Dr. Tucker’s meeting in the forenoon. He gave us an excellent sermon upon the story of...
368210th. (Adams Papers)
This forenoon Townsend, sat off for Boston. Mr. Parsons intended to have gone likewise, as the...
368311th. (Adams Papers)
Reading Blackstone all day; and I pass’d the evening, at the office till eight: after which I...
368412th. (Adams Papers)
This day I finished reading the fourth and last volume of Blackstone’s Commentaries. This is one...
368513th. (Adams Papers)
The repetition of the same events, from day to day, is the only variety which can supply...
368614th. (Adams Papers)
I was about an hour with Dr. Kilham at his shop, Immediately after dinner; I took up one of the...
368715th. (Adams Papers)
A violent North-west wind, blew, the whole day, but we have no snow yet. Dined with Amory at Mr....
368816th. (Adams Papers)
I waited upon Parson Cary this forenoon, in expectation of much edification; but he gave us a...
368917th. (Adams Papers)
I have continued reading in Sullivan’s lectures. The book is entertaining, and the author so far...
369018th. (Adams Papers)
Passed the day at the office; Townsend and Thompson were there in the evening. The question, what...