Adams Papers

4th.

4th.

The weather was extremely warm, all the forenoon.

Rambled about, upon Mr. Cranch’s farm with my cousin.1 In the afternoon, I went into the water with him: towards evening the weather began to grow more comfortable: a letter was brought me, from Mr. Belknap2 in Boston.

1. Terminal punctuation has been supplied.

2. On this letter and JQA’s reply of the 6th, see entry for 18 July, note 9 (above).

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    4th.
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    Adams, John Quincy
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    4 August 1787

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    “4th.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-02-02-0002-0008-0005. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Diary of John Quincy Adams, vol. 2, March 1786 – December 1788, ed. Robert Taylor J and Marc Friedlaender. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981, p. 271.]