Dined at Mr. W. Vassal’s1 at Clapham.
1. William Vassall, once a prominent Bostonian, now a loyalist refugee,
whom JA later described as “one of my old friends and clients ... a man of
letters and virtues, without one vice that I ever knew or suspected, except garrulity”
(Sibley-Shipton, Harvard Graduates description begins John Langdon Sibley and Clifford K. Shipton, Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge and Boston, 1873- . description ends , 9:349–359; JA,
Works description begins The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: with a Life of the Author, ed. Charles Francis Adams, Boston, 1850-1856; 10 vols. description ends , 10:214–215).