N(1782)S. July. 1st. Monday.

This morning I went to the English Library and took out 1. volume of the preceptor, and thrée of Clarissa.1 Rained all the afternoon.

1. Robert Dodsley, The Preceptor: Containing a General Course of Education. Wherein the First Principles of Polite Learning are Laid Down . . . for . . . the Instruction of Youth . . ., 2 vols., London, 1748; and Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa; Or, The History of a Young Lady . . ., 8 vols., London, 1747–1748.

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Title: N(1782)S. July. 1st. Monday.
Author: Adams, John Quincy
Date: 1 July 1782

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Cite as: “N(1782)S. July. 1st. Monday.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0004-0008-0001. [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. 134.]