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Saturday December 1st. 1787. -

[1787-12-01]
I dined at Mr. White's; after ...

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Docno: DQA02d629

Author: JQA
Date: 1787-11-30
I passed the forenoon with Leonard, who has been making two or three unsuccessful attempts to make phosphorus; his glass vials melt in the process.
Dined at Mr. Duncan's. Mrs. Thaxter has got two or three wrinkles on her forehead. I went to see the house in which they are to live. Pass'd the afternoon with him. His honey moon is not yet past. I was at Mr. White's in the evening.
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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