Adams Papers

15th.

15th.

Paris, afternoon. Carried Mr. A’s Letter to the Abbé de Mably,1 requesting him to write a moral, and political Catechism. The Abbés de Chalût and Arnoux read it. Went to Messieurs le Couteulx,2 for money, and was bad to come tomorrow. Bought the abridgement of Wolff’s course of Mathématics in french.3

1. Letter not found, but see Mably’s reply, 25 Feb. (Adams Papers).

2. Le Couteulx & Cie., Paris merchant bankers (JA, Diary and Autobiography description begins Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1961; 4 vols. description ends , 3:61, 151).

3. JQA’s “abridged” version has not been found, but JA’s library contains a copy of Christian Wolff’s Cours de mathématique, contenant toutes les parties de cette science... Traduit en François, & augmenté, ed. Charles Antoine Jombert, 3 vols., Paris, 1757.

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    15th.
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    Adams, John Quincy
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    15 February 1785

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    “15th.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0007-0004-0010. [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. 222.]