Diary of John Quincy Adams, volume 1
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24th. Tuesday.
JQA
24th. Tuesday.
Adams, John Quincy
24th. Tuesday.
1.
1782-09-24
This forenoon I bought Moliere's works.1 Mr. D. went to Mr. Colombi's in the afternoon. Stay'd at home all day. Cloudy weather.
JQA's set in MQA, perhaps
imperfect (in two editions) and possibly incomplete when he bought it, is Moliére's Oeuvres, Paris, 1760, vols. 1–4, 6, and 7, and Paris, 1753, vol.
8. An inscription in vol. 1, “J. Q. Adams, St. Petersbourg, Septr. 23, 1782. 2
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