Adams Papers

14th.

14th.

Gunning all the forenoon. Received this afternoon several Pamphlets,1 from my Sister. Read the heiress;2 a good play; much more regular, and more chaste, than those that are acted on the English stage generally are.

1. Neither found nor identified except, presumably, The Heiress, mentioned in note 2 (below).

2. London, 1786, a comedy in five acts by John Burgoyne, the defeated British general turned playwright. The Heiress met with enthusiastic popular success and went through ten editions in a year (James Lunt, John Burgoyne of Saratoga, N.Y., 1975, P. 324).

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    14th.
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    Adams, John Quincy
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    14 July 1786

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    “14th.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-02-02-0001-0006-0014. [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. 65.]