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May 17. Monday. -

[1779-05-17]
L. gave Us an Account of St. ...

May 19. Wednesday. -

[1779-05-19]
Pleasant. My State is tedious ...

May 18 Tuesday.

Docno: DJA02d466

Author: JA
Date: 1779-05-18
On Board all day, reading Don Quixot.1
 
1. Surviving among JA's books in the Boston Public Library are a single volume of a six-volume set of Don Quixote in French, Paris, 1768, and a four-volume set in Spanish, Madrid, 1777 ( Catalogue of JA's Library ).
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.
http://www.masshist.org/ff/