Diary of Charles Francis Adams, volume 2
1826-03-10
Morning at home, Burlamaqui,1 walk to the Capitol, Vanderlyn’s Paintings, Ariadne, Marius,2 dinner party at home, Mr. S. C. Allen.3
JQA’s copy of Jean Jacques Burlamaqui, The Principles of Natural and Politic Law, 2 vols., London, 1784, together with a French edition published in Geneva in 1764, is in the Stone Library. A 1763 edition of the work, published in London, is among JA’s books in the Boston Public Library (
Catalogue of JA’s Library
, p. 39).
Two of the most famous paintings of the American artist DAB
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Biog. Dir. Cong.
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