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Browsing: Diary of John Quincy Adams, Volume 2

Wednesday August 1st. 1787. -

[1787-08-01]
Tom set out this morning for ...

31st.

Docno: DQA02d506

Author: JQA
Date: 1787-07-31
A cold north-east storm.
Reading and writing all day. Wrote a letter to my mother, and one to my Sister.1 Read some pages in Bolingbroke's philosophical works: the stile and matter both inferior to his political writings.
 
1. JQA to AA, 1 Aug. (Adams Papers); his letter to AA2 has not been found.
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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