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20th. Thursday. -

[1788-03-20]
We met this evening at Thompson's. ...

21st.

Docno: DQA02d741

Author: JQA
Date: 1788-03-21
I can read tolerably well when I am alone in the office, and make as much progress in one day, as I can sometimes in a week, when all the other gentlemen are here. I have read through the first volume, and have made some progress in the second of Blackstone...1 And I read it I think with more advantage, than I did the first time; but my progress is slow; too slow.2
 
1. JQA's ellipses.
 
2. In his line-a-day entry, JQA mentions “Mrs. Hooper's. Evening” (D/JQA/13, Adams Papers, Microfilms, Reel No. 16).
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