Adams Papers

22d. Monday.

22d. Monday.

This forenoon I went to the English Library and took out the 2 last volumes of Clarissa and Nichols’s collection of Poems.1 In the afternoon I wrote a letter to Mr. Thaxter in Holland.2 Mr. D. wrote to my Father.3 Windy Rainy weather. Finish’d Cicero’s oration pro Milone.

1John Nichols, A Select Collection of Poems: With Notes, Biographical and Historical, 8 vols., London, 1780–1782. JQA copied several of the poems into his small commonplace books at this time (M/JQA/24, 26, Adams Papers, Microfilms, Reel Nos. 219, 221).

2Adams 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 4:352–353.

3That of 22 July (Adams Papers).

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