In the forenoon I received a letter from Holland, from my Father;1 and another From America.2 Mr. D went to take a ride after dinner. Stay’d at home all day. Cloudy weather. Finished
the first volume of Mrs. Macaulay’s history of England 420 pages and begun the 2d.
1. That of 5 Feb. (Adams Family Correspondence description begins Adams Family Correspondence, ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1963- . description ends ,
4:282–283), which JQA says he “receiv’d three days agone” (JQA to
JA, 4 March, same description begins Adams Family Correspondence, ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1963- . description ends , p. 286–287).
2. The only possibility, from evidence in surviving letters, is Elizabeth Cranch to
JQA, May 1781 (same description begins Adams Family Correspondence, ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1963- . description ends , p. 146–148), which JQA
states he received “some days agone” in his reply to her of 17 March (same description begins Adams Family Correspondence, ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1963- . description ends ,
p. 297).
