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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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| 201 | Adams, John Quincy | 22d. | 1786-09-22 | Mr. Read sent for me this morning, informed me, that the Exhibition was to come on next Tuesday;... | |
| 202 | Adams, John Quincy | 23d. | 1786-09-23 | I have done nothing all this Day. Every Day thus lost doubles the obligation of improving the... | |
| 203 | Adams, John Quincy | 24th. | 1786-09-24 | Mr. Hilliard gave us an occasional Sermon, occasioned by the Death of Mr. Warland, a young Man,... | |
| 204 | Adams, John Quincy | 25th. | 1786-09-25 | Almost all this Day was employ’d in preparing for the exhibition. The musical Parts take up some... | |
| 205 | Adams, John Quincy | 26th. | 1786-09-26 | The exhibition began at about a quarter after 12, with, the Latin Oration by Bridge, it was a... | |
| 206 | Adams, John Quincy | 27th. | 1786-09-27 | I feel quite indolent as I have finally got rid of the affair which has kept me employ’d this... | |
| 207 | Adams, John Quincy | 28th. | 1786-09-28 | We had a meeting of the ΦBK, in the morning at Little’s Chamber. Chandler read a Dissertation,... | |
| 208 | Adams, John Quincy | 29th. | 1786-09-29 | It is a most unhappy Circumstance, for a Man to be very ambitious, without those Qualities which... | |
| 209 | Adams, John Quincy | 30th. | 1786-09-30 | I see not why I should not relate what anecdotes I can collect concerning myself; and why I... | |
| 210 | Adams, John Quincy | [October 1786] | ≈1786-10-01 | Mr. Paine, preached here, in the forenoon from Acts IV. 12. Neither is there salvation in any... | |
| 211 | Adams, John Quincy | Sunday October 1st. 1786. | 1786-10-01 | Mr. Paine, preached here, in the forenoon from Acts IV. 12. Neither is there salvation in any... | |
| 212 | Adams, John Quincy | 2d. | 1786-10-02 | We recite this week to Mr. Burr the new Tutor; but he was absent this Day. The A B Society met... | |
| 213 | Adams, John Quincy | 3d. | 1786-10-03 | A number of the Students have been very ill in consequence of eating cheese from the Buttery. It... | |
| 214 | Adams, John Quincy | 4th. | 1786-10-04 | We had this morning a forensic given out, to be read next week, on the Question whether the... | |
| 215 | Adams, John Quincy | 5th. | 1786-10-05 | A very bad cold, has prevented my studying much, this day. In the morning we finished reciting in... | |
| 216 | Adams, John Quincy | 6th. | 1786-10-06 | A stormy day. Very unwell, especially in the former part of the Day. I have had several Times... | |
| 217 | Adams, John Quincy | 7th. | 1786-10-07 | I have been studying almost all day what to write for a Forensic; the subject is so copious, that... | |
| 218 | Adams, John Quincy | 8th. | 1786-10-08 | Mr. Hilliard preached in the morning from Ephesians V. 1. Be ye therefore followers of God, as... | |
| 219 | Adams, John Quincy | 9th. | 1786-10-09 | No reciting. Mr. Burr is engaged to preach several Sundays at Hingham, and does not return early... | |
| 220 | Adams, John Quincy | 10th. | 1786-10-10 | The ΦBK. met at Burge’s chamber at 11 o’clock. Beale and Burge read dissertations. The extempore... | |
| 221 | Adams, John Quincy | 11th. | 1786-10-11 | The Class from 9 to near twelve were reading their forensic; I read in the affirmative as... | |
| 222 | Adams, John Quincy | 12th. | 1786-10-12 | Mr. Burr gave out this morning a subject for our next forensic. “Whether an extorted promise be... | |
| 223 | Adams, John Quincy | 13th. | 1786-10-13 | Had a great deal of fuss about some Tea spoons, which I lost some days since. I have found most... | |
| 224 | Adams, John Quincy | 14th. | 1786-10-14 | Went to Boston, in order to get some books which were sent by Callahan; but I could not get them:... | |
| 225 | Adams, John Quincy | 15th. | 1786-10-15 | Was excused from attending meeting this day: being somewhat unwell. Finished the first volume of... | |
| 226 | Adams, John Quincy | 16th. | 1786-10-16 | We recite two or three times more, in s’Gravesande’s, but next quarter, we shall begin upon... | |
| 227 | Adams, John Quincy | 17th. | 1786-10-17 | Charles and my Cousin, went away in the morning, immediately after commons. Tom, went to Boston,... | |
| 228 | Adams, John Quincy | 18th. | 1786-10-18 | Loitered away, a great part of my Time, as I most commonly do in vacation Time. I intend however... | |
| 229 | Adams, John Quincy | 19th. | 1786-10-19 | Spent the day, in alternately reading, writing, walking, and playing. This is dull life, and... | |
| 230 | Adams, John Quincy | 20th. | 1786-10-20 | My two brothers were gone all the morning on a gunning party. My cousin and I went, in the... | |
| 231 | Adams, John Quincy | 21st. | 1786-10-21 | Mr. Thaxter stop’d about half an hour, this morning, on his return from Hingham, where he has... | |
| 232 | Adams, John Quincy | 22d. | 1786-10-22 | Mr. Tread well, preach’d in the forenoon from Matthew XI. 15 “he that hath ears to hear, let him... | |
| 233 | Adams, John Quincy | 23d. | 1786-10-23 | Mr. Cranch went this morning to Boston. His Son, went with him, and will proceed to Haverhill,... | |
| 234 | Adams, John Quincy | 24th. | 1786-10-24 | Went down to my uncle Adams’s in the afternoon, and spent a couple of hours. Finished reading... | |
| 235 | Adams, John Quincy | 25th. | 1786-10-25 | Thayer and Charles returned from Scituate this afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Hilliard came to pass the... | |
| 236 | Adams, John Quincy | 26th. | 1786-10-26 | We have been left alone again this day. Mr. and Mrs. Hilliard went away this morning. I employ... | |
| 237 | Adams, John Quincy | 27th. | 1786-10-27 | Mr. Read came here in the afternoon, to spend a day. Though he cannot entirely lay aside the... | |
| 238 | Adams, John Quincy | 28th. | 1786-10-28 | Mr. Read set out in the afternoon to return to Cambridge. In the Evening Mr. Cranch returned from... | |
| 239 | Adams, John Quincy | 29th. | 1786-10-29 | Mr. Wibird preach’d all day from John I, 47. Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him,... | |
| 240 | Adams, John Quincy | 30th. | 1786-10-30 | Snow’d all the morning. Mr. Cranch went to Boston and Charles with him: he return to Cambridge.... | |
| 241 | Adams, John Quincy | 31st. | 1786-10-31 | Miss B. Palmer, came from Germantown, this afternoon, to spend the night here. We prepared to... | |
| 242 | Adams, John Quincy | [November 1786] | ≈1786-11-01 | We returned through Boston, to Cambridge. The road from Charlestown was full of carriages coming... | |
| 243 | Adams, John Quincy | Wednesday November 1st. 1786. | 1786-11-01 | We returned through Boston, to Cambridge. The road from Charlestown was full of carriages coming... | |
| 244 | Adams, John Quincy | 2d. | 1786-11-02 | Attended the court in the forenoon, and afternoon, but there were no causes of any consequence... | |
| 245 | Adams, John Quincy | 3d. | 1786-11-03 | Reading, Reid on the Mind. This author in some places pleases me very much; but in others he is... | |
| 246 | Adams, John Quincy | 4th. | 1786-11-04 | Charles and Cranch went to Boston. Wrote part of my forensic; and as I was obliged to support a... | |
| 247 | Adams, John Quincy | 5th. | 1786-11-05 | Mr. Hilliard preach’d in the morning from Matthew XXIV 13. But he that shall endure unto the end,... | |
| 248 | Adams, John Quincy | 6th. | 1786-11-06 | We recited this morning for the first time in Ferguson’s astronomy. The part which I have read is... | |
| 249 | Adams, John Quincy | 7th. | 1786-11-07 | We had a lecture from Mr. Wigglesworth in the afternoon, and in the evening the weather being... | |
| 250 | Adams, John Quincy | 8th. | 1786-11-08 | Mr. Williams gave a public astronomical lecture this afternoon, relating to the different... |