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Monday Decr. 1st. 1783. -

[1783-12-01]
This evening I went with Mr. West ...

Friday Decr. 5th. 1783. -

[1783-12-05]
In the evening I went to the ...

Tuesday Decr. 2d.

Docno: DQA01d640

Author: JQA
Date: 1783-12-02
This day my father dined out; in the evening I went to the Drury Lane Theatre, had the Beaux Stratagem with the Ladies Frolick. 1
 
1. George Farquhar's The Beaux' Strategem, London, 1707; The Ladies' Frolick, London, 1770, by James Love, pseudonym for James Dance ( Biographia Dramatica ; Allardyce Nicoll, A History of English Drama, 1600–1900, 6 vols., Cambridge, Eng., 1952–1959, 2:322; 3:283).
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/