Adams Papers

Feb. 4.
[from the Diary of John Adams]

Feb. 4.

Breakfasted with the Abbe Raynal, at his House at his particular Invitation, with a large Company of Gentlemen and Ladies. The Abbé is more than Sixty, seems worn with Studies, but he has Spirit, Wit, Eloquence and Fire enough.

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    Feb. 4.
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    Adams, John
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    4 February 1779

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    “Feb. 4.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/01-02-02-0009-0001-0002. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, vol. 2, 1771–1781, ed. L. H. Butterfield. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1961, p. 344.]