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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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3551 | Adams, John Quincy | 6th. | 1787-08-06 | Down upon the water side, and along upon the marshes with my cousin all the forenoon, but we were... | |
3552 | Adams, John Quincy | 7th. | 1787-08-07 | My Cousin went to Boston in the morning, and did not return till night. I had an opportunity by... | |
3553 | Adams, John Quincy | 8th. | 1787-08-08 | This morning Emerson went to Hingham, and I walk’d over to Weymouth, and dined with Doctor Tufts.... | |
3554 | Adams, John Quincy | 9th. | 1787-08-09 | I breakfasted this morning with Mr. Andrews, and after breakfast called upon Jack Forbes; in... | |
3555 | Adams, John Quincy | 10th. | 1787-08-10 | Spent the whole of the forenoon at Mr. Thaxter’s office. Dined at Mr. Shaw’s. In the afternoon I... | |
3556 | Adams, John Quincy | 11th. | 1787-08-11 | This forenoon, I took a ride with Mr. Shaw, to see my classmate Welch, who lives about four miles... | |
3557 | Adams, John Quincy | 12th. | 1787-08-12 | Mr. Tappan, from Newbury preach’d here the whole day. Both his sermons were doctrinal, but very... | |
3558 | Adams, John Quincy | 13th. | 1787-08-13 | I intended to have gone this day to Newbury-Port, but the weather was so excessively warm, that I... | |
3559 | Adams, John Quincy | 14th. | 1787-08-14 | It was so warm again this day, that I did not set out from Haverhill, till between 3 and 4 in the... | |
3560 | Adams, John Quincy | 15th. | 1787-08-15 | In the forenoon I went to see Mr. Parsons, and inform’d him that I should probably attend at his... | |
3561 | Adams, John Quincy | 16th. | 1787-08-16 | I went again this forenoon to see Miss Jones, and offered to call in the afternoon and take a... | |
3562 | Adams, John Quincy | 17th. | 1787-08-17 | At home all the forenoon, reading Tom Jones, one of the best novels in the language. The scenes... | |
3563 | Adams, John Quincy | 18th. | 1787-08-18 | This forenoon I took a ride, with White, to see our class mate Eaton. We spent about an hour with... | |
3564 | Adams, John Quincy | 19th. | 1787-08-19 | Mr. Kimball preach’d a couple of practical discourses, the subjects of which I liked better than... | |
3565 | Adams, John Quincy | 20th. | 1787-08-20 | I had some thoughts of leaving Haverhill this morning; but it rain’d all the forenoon; and as I... | |
3566 | Adams, John Quincy | 21st. | 1787-08-21 | Hazy weather again all the forenoon. I went and pass’d an hour with my friend White before... | |
3567 | Adams, John Quincy | 22d. | 1787-08-22 | Dined at Judge Sargeant’s, with Mr. and Mrs. Shaw. Mr. Porter and his lady are there upon a visit... | |
3568 | Adams, John Quincy | 23d. | 1787-08-23 | I left Haverhill this morning at about 9 o’clock; and at 12 arrived at the tavern in Wilmington,... | |
3569 | Adams, John Quincy | 24th. | 1787-08-24 | I lodg’d last night with Lincoln, the senior, whose chum was out of town. Breakfasted this... | |
3570 | Adams, John Quincy | 25th. | 1787-08-25 | In the forenoon I went to Weymouth, to return Dr. Tufts’s horse. Dined at the Doctor’s, and... | |
3571 | Adams, John Quincy | 26th. | 1787-08-26 | I did not attend meeting this day—Employ’d myself chiefly in reading and writing. Mr. Weld... | |
3572 | Adams, John Quincy | 27th. | 1787-08-27 | I employ’d myself in the forenoon with making some necessary preparations before my final... | |
3573 | Adams, John Quincy | 28th. | 1787-08-28 | Rode out in the morning with Mrs. Cranch. It rain’d hard all the afternoon—chilly north-east... | |
3574 | Adams, John Quincy | 29th. | 1787-08-29 | Rain’d in the fore part of the day but cleared up in the afternoon: I went with my gun down upon... | |
3575 | Adams, John Quincy | 30th. | 1787-08-30 | Staid at home the whole day. Doctor Tufts was here in the morning, on his road to Boston, and in... | |
3576 | Adams, John Quincy | 31st. | 1787-08-31 | A very warm day. Rambling all the morning; I met a couple of french officers gunning on my... | |
3577 | Adams, John Quincy | [September 1787] | ≈1787-09-01 | Between 9 and 10 o’clock this morning I departed from Braintree with Mrs. Cranch: we got to Mr.... | |
3578 | Adams, John Quincy | Saturday September 1st. 1787. | 1787-09-01 | Between 9 and 10 o’clock this morning I departed from Braintree with Mrs. Cranch: we got to Mr.... | |
3579 | Adams, John Quincy | 2d. | 1787-09-02 | Attended meeting all day. Mr. Hilliard preach’d; much in the old way. The meeting house however... | |
3580 | Adams, John Quincy | 3d. | 1787-09-03 | I pass’d about an hour, before dinner with Mr. Winthrop, the late librarian. He is much of a... | |
3581 | Adams, John Quincy | 4th. | 1787-09-04 | After breakfast I return’d to College, and on the way stopp’d at the President’s. He was not at... | |
3582 | Adams, John Quincy | 5th. | 1787-09-05 | Took an early breakfast, and walk’d with Cranch to Cambridge. We got to Packard’s chamber, just... | |
3583 | Adams, John Quincy | 6th. | 1787-09-06 | This morning after breakfasting with Mr. Andrews I walk’d leisurely to Boston. Just before I left... | |
3584 | Adams, John Quincy | 7th. | 1787-09-07 | At three in the morning I was roused, and got into the carriage in company with, a merchant of... | |
3585 | Adams, John Quincy | 8th. | 1787-09-08 | I arose in the morning quite refresh’d, and immediately after breakfast went and took my station... | |
3586 | Adams, John Quincy | 9th. | 1787-09-09 | I did not attend meeting this day for several reasons. At home the whole day; it was extremely... | |
3587 | Adams, John Quincy | 10th. | 1787-09-10 | Attended at the office the whole day. Continued Robertson. Thomson engaged this morning to take... | |
3588 | Adams, John Quincy | 11th. | 1787-09-11 | Thomson began his attendance upon the school this morning, and attended at the office, all the... | |
3589 | Adams, John Quincy | 12th. | 1787-09-12 | Training day for the alarm list. From 16 to 60 years the inhabitants of this Common-wealth, are... | |
3590 | Adams, John Quincy | 13th. | 1787-09-13 | Dined with Dr. Kilham at Mr. Carter’s. This is a very friendly, obliging old gentleman, about 73... | |
3591 | Adams, John Quincy | 14th. | 1787-09-14 | The weather for this week past has been from day to day alternately very warm and very cold.... | |
3592 | Adams, John Quincy | 15th. | 1787-09-15 | Dined with Townsend and Thomson at Mr. Parsons’s. I finished this day the first volume of Vattel.... | |
3593 | Adams, John Quincy | 16th. | 1787-09-16 | I took a walk this morning as far as Dr. Tucker’s meeting house; but it was to little purpose,... | |
3594 | Adams, John Quincy | 17th. | 1787-09-17 | Three of us in the office were employ’d the whole day, in taking copies of the writs which are to... | |
3595 | Adams, John Quincy | 18th. | 1787-09-18 | We had some more writing to do this forenoon. Mr. Parsons, went to Exeter, where the supreme... | |
3596 | Adams, John Quincy | 19th. | 1787-09-19 | The equinoctial storm, which has been gathering in the heavens for a week past, has now appeared,... | |
3597 | Adams, John Quincy | 20th. | 1787-09-20 | I expected this morning when I waked up, to hear the winds whistle and the tempests roar: but all... | |
3598 | Adams, John Quincy | 21st. | 1787-09-21 | Quite still in the office this day. I read a good deal. This afternoon Amory arrived; and thus we... | |
3599 | Adams, John Quincy | 22d. | 1787-09-22 | This forenoon I finish’d Vattel. The third book treats of War, and the fourth of Peace; much in... | |
3600 | Adams, John Quincy | 23d. | 1787-09-23 | Attended upon Mr. Carey the whole day. His manner is not very agreeable; but his stile is much... |