Adams Family Correspondence, volume 4

James Lovell to Abigail Adams

Elizabeth Cranch to John Quincy Adams

John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 30 May 1781 JA JQA

1781-05-30

John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 30 May 1781 Adams, John Adams, John Quincy
John Adams to John Quincy Adams
My dear John Amsterdam May 30. 1781

If there are any extraordinary Productions of Nature or Art, exhibited, at the Fair of Leyden, write me an Account and a description of them, and insert them in your Journal.1

There were so many Rarities, at the Fair of Amsterdam, that I think these Fairs worth seeing. A Youth may store his Mind with many new Ideas, and with many usefull Reflections by attending to these Things. To open your Views and enlarge your Ideas of Nature, you ought not to neglect any innocent Opportunity.

J. Adams

RC (Adams Papers).

1.

See Waterhouse to JA, 21 May, above. If JQA followed his father's advice, no record of it appears. No “Journal” kept by him has been found for this period, though he resumed his diary in a new booklet on 9 June (D/JQA/4 in the Adams Papers, Microfilms, Reel No.7).