Diary of Charles Francis Adams, volume 2
1825-10-24
Morning at home, Montesquieu,1 Ben Jonson, Horace, evening, solitary walk, Don Juan.
The Stone Library contains three sets of Montesquieu’s Oeuvres, the earliest published in London, 3 vols., 1769. JQA had two identical sets of De l’esprit des lois, 3 vols., Amsterdam, 1749; one is in the Stone Library, and the other in the Boston Athenaeum.