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, Marc Friedlaender, Richard Alan Ryerson, Margaret A. Hogan, Sara Martin, Hobson Woodward, 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, Marc Friedlaender, Richard Alan Ryerson, Margaret A. Hogan, Sara Martin, Hobson Woodward, 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, Marc Friedlaender, Richard Alan Ryerson, Margaret A. Hogan, Sara Martin, Hobson Woodward, 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, Marc Friedlaender, Richard Alan Ryerson, Margaret A. Hogan, Sara Martin, Hobson Woodward, and others, Cambridge, 1963– . description ends ,
p. 297).
