Thursday the 14th of September 1780.

Rain’d in the afternoon but clear’d up at night.

Reading a Volume of the Spectator I found a dream of his which I will copy.1

1. Here follows, on eight pages of the Diary, “Spectator Vol 2d. No. 83,” published on 5 June 1711, but omitted are the first two paragraphs of the piece (ed. Bond description begins The Spectator, ed. Donald F. Bond, Oxford, 1965; 5 vols. description ends , 1:354–356).

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Title: Thursday the 14th of September 1780.
Author: Adams, John Quincy
Date: 14 September 1780

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Cite as: “Thursday the 14th of September 1780.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0002-0005-0016. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Diary of John Quincy Adams, vol. 1, November 1779 – March 1786, ed. Robert J. Taylor and Marc Friedlaender. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981, p. 70.]