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Browsing: Diary of John Quincy Adams, Volume 2


12th.

Docno: DQA02d029

Author: JQA
Date: 1786-04-12
I went down to our Office,1 to see if there was a Gravesande, there, but none was to be found;—while we were at dinner my Cousin came in from Boston, where he went last night from Cambridge. In the afternoon Charles, and I went out fowling, but came home, as deeply laden as we went. We went in the Evening, and Cranch play'd to an Echo; it has a very agreeable effect.
 
1. That is, JA's law office, a ground-floor room in what is now known as the John Quincy Adams Birthplace.
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/