record number: 430378

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Dates:

( conjectural )

1759 to 2 Aug. 1779

Original paper slip text:12 Feb. 1778 - 2 Aug. 1779, [1759]-1766

Author:

John Adams

Original paper slip text:JA

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Title:

[Diary] and account book

Length:

210 p. (accounts, 35 p.; transcripts, 175 p.)

Notes:

Account book, 12 Feb. 1778 - 2 Aug. 1779, and transcripts of JA's early diaries, [1759]-1766.
Microfilmed. Original entries on Reel No. 2; transcripts on Reel No. 3.
In the blank pages of this account book JQA had the transcripts of JA's early "Journal Fragments" continued, beginning a new pagination, with a title page by CFA: "No. 2. Copies of Old Diaries of John Adams in small paper books as described. [Slips inserted in the following pages indicate where transcription of each of the "paper books" of the original diary begins.] All the essential parts published in the Works of J.A. [Initialled:] C.F.A."

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