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31 Wednesday. -

[1756-03-31]
A cool morning. Drank Tea with the ...

2. Fryday. -

[1756-04-02]
Cool and very windy. Drank Tea, ...

April 1756. 1 Thurdsday.

Docno: DJA01d082

Author: JA
Date: 1756-04-01
A very rainy Day. A little Snow.1
 
1. On this day JA wrote a remarkable letter to his classmate Charles Cushing, who was then keeping a school in Newbury, on the choice of a profession. Extracts are printed in JA, Works , 1:29–30, 32; a complete text is in MHS, Procs. , 46 (1912–1913):410–412.
Cite web page as: Founding Families: Digital Editions of the Papers of the Winthrops and the Adamses, ed.C. James Taylor. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2007.
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