record number: 031485

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Dates:

Feb. 1782

Original paper slip text:Feb. 1782

Author:

John Quincy Adams

Original paper slip text:JQA.

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Title:

Literary commonplace book. Includes a play copied in German script, quotations from Homer's Iliad followed by Pope's translation. On flyleaf "John Q. Adams Bôt at St. Petersbourg Feby 7/18 1782" and "J. Q. ADAMS."

Length:

106 p.

Document Type:

JQA—Literary Exercises, Translations

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Notes:

[The German play is Der Geschwätzige Barbierer (The Talkative Barber), which JQA finished copying 17/28 Aug. 1782. See D/JQA, 21 March 1782 and note.]

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Adams Papers microfilm: reel 220

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Massachusetts Historical Society

From the collection: Adams Family Papers

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