Diary of John Quincy Adams, volume 1
1782-01-30
Went to the Shops, bought this book,1 with some other matters. Began to translate Cicero's first Catilinary.2 Finish'd Hume's first volume of the History of England 503. Pages.
That is, his Diary booklet, D/JQA/5.
Probably the edition JQA used for his translations into French was Selectae . . . Orationes . . ., Paris, 1747, p. 510–525, in which
JQA has inscribed “J.Q.Adams, a present from Mr. Cussy Catalogue of JQA's Books
, p. 90Selectae . . . Orationes bear MS markings by
JQA presumably made while he was translating.