Diary of John Quincy Adams, volume 1
1781-06-29
This morning brother Charles and I packed up our trunks, and I went to take leave of our riding master; in the afternoon Pappa came here but stay'd only ten minutes; we went to Mr. Lynch's at about 4 o'clock; he asked us to go into water with him at 5 o'clock, we told him we would, we went then to take leave of Mr. Luzac.1 At five o'clock we went again to Mr. Lynch's and went with him into water. Mr. Cook2 told us that he would go to Amsterdam with us. We got home at about 7 o'clock.
From Pope's works (continued from yesterday).3
Although this is the first mention in the Diary, Jean Luzac had taken special interest in
JQA and CA during their brief attendance at the University of
Leyden in 1781. Luzac was editor of the widely influential Gazette
de Leyde, as well as a lawyer and a scholar of history and the classics. He was on
JA's list of persons to be consulted in Holland in 1780 and became an
invaluable supporter of the campaign to obtain Dutch recognition of American independence
and financial support (JA, Diary and Autobiography
, 2:444–445;
Adams Family Correspondence,
4:xiv).
DNB
).
JQA copied on about the next three and one-quarter pages in the Diary the
concluding two sections of Pope's “Ode for Music on St. Cecilia's Day,” begun in the
previous entry (Pope, Works, Balfour edn.,
1:71–73).