Saturday 21st. In Convention. Dined at Springsbury with the Club of Gentn. & Ladies. Went to the Play afterwards.
The play was the tragedy Edward and Eleanora, by the Scots poet James Thomson (SEILHAMER description begins George O. Seilhamer. History of the American Theatre. 3 vols. 1888–91. Reprint. New York, 1968. description ends , 2:221).
“[Diary entry: 21 July 1787],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-05-02-0002-0007-0021. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 5, 1 July 1786 – 31 December 1789, ed. Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1979, p. 176.]