Diary of John Quincy Adams, volume 1
1785-02-28
Paris. Bought of Froullé bookseller quai des Augustins
Crevier's Histoire des Empereurs Romains.1 Spent
half an hour with Mr. Blakely: he goes for London next monday. Mr. Pickman was not at home,
nor Mr. Waring, nor any body at Mr. Jefferson's; I waited there an hour for them to return;
but in vain. I passed an hour with the abbés de Chalût and Arnoux: Abbé de Mably was with
them. This gentleman is very famous in the litterary world: he has written a great deal;
upon the subject of 228morals and politics, and of late four
letters containing Observations upon the Constitutions of America,2 which he addressed to my father.
This may be the twelve-volume, Paris, 1749–1755, edition of Jean Baptiste Louis Crevier's
Histoire des empereurs romains, depuis Auguste jusqu'a
Constantin at MQA, which bears
JQA's bookplate.
Observations sur le gouvernment et les loix des Etats-Unis
d'Amérique, Amsterdam, 1784; transl. Remarks Concerning the
Government and Laws of the United States of America: In Four Letters, Addressed to Mr.
Adams, London, 1784. Copies of both are in JA's library at MB.