Browsing: Papers of John Adams, Volume 8

1. On this day at “half after two” in the afternoon, JA and his party set off for Paris, where they arrived on 9 Feb. 1780. Lagoanere accompanied the party to its first stop at Betanzos. For accounts by JA and JQA of this long and arduous journey, see JA, Diary and Autobiography , 2:415–435; 4:213–240; JQA, Diary , 1:19–32; Adams Family Correspondence , 3:258–260. John Thaxter's letters to AA, Adams Family Correspondence , 3:267, 276–278, and Francis Dana's Journal, 1779–1780, MHi, supplement these accounts.