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Dates:

31 Mar. 1780

Original paper slip text:31 March–16 Aug. 1780

Author:

John Quincy Adams

Original paper slip text:"John Quincy Adams

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Title:

"A Book of Translation from Fontains Fables" The Fable of La Fontaine is copied in French on the left half of the page;

John Quincy Adams

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English translation is on the right. At the end of the 14th fable is written

John Quincy Adams

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August the 16th 1780 has translated this Fable of La Fontaine into English. Amen." 14 fables translated, 15th begun.

Length:

12 p.

Document Type:

JQA—Literary Exercises, Translations

Notes:

[For JA's entry in accounts, Feb.–July 1780, about purchases of La Fontaine's Fables for JQA and CA, see Lb 4431.]

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Adams Papers microfilm: reel 237

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Massachusetts Historical Society

From the collection: Adams Family Papers

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