Diary of John Adams, volume 1

19 Thurdsday.

21 Saturday.

9 20 Fryday. JA

1756-02-20

20 Fryday. Adams, John
20 Fryday.

A dull Day. Symptoms of Snow. Writing Tillotson.1

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That is, copying out extracts from the published sermons of John Tillotson (1630–1694), sometime Archbishop of Canterbury and a celebrated preacher ( DNB ). There survives among JA’s papers a literary commonplace book (Adams Papers, Microfilms, Reel No. 187) containing a good many exercises of this kind during his years in Worcester.