Diary of Charles Francis Adams, volume 2

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24. VII. CFA

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24. VII. CFA
24. VII.

Morning at home, Montesquieu,1 Ben Jonson, Horace, evening, solitary walk, Don Juan.

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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.