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[1782-11-07 to 1782-11-08]
This afternoon at about 4 o'clock ...

10th. Sunday. -

[1782-11-10]
This morning at about 8 o'clock we ...

9th. Saturday.

Docno: DQA01d491

Author: JQA
Date: 1782-11-09
This morning we went to see the fortress of Sweaborg. Dined with the General Posse. Prince Galitzin1 arrived here this evening.
 
1. Possibly a brother or son of Prince Dmitri A. Gallitzin (1734–1803), a man of letters and Russian ambassador at Paris, 1763–1768, and at The Hague, 1770–1782 ( Repertorium der diplomatischen Vertreter aller Länder , p. 354, 359; JA, Diary and Autobiography , 3:3, 15, 29; Eufrosina Dvoichenko-Markoff, “Benjamin Franklin, the American Philosophical Society, and the Russian Academy of Science,” Amer. Philos. Soc., Procs., 91 [1947]:252–253).
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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