Diary of Charles Francis Adams, volume 2

6. IX:10.

8. IX.

7. VIII:30. CFA

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7. VIII:30. CFA
7. VIII:30.

Morning at home, Blackstone’s Commentaries,1 Beaumont and Fletcher, walk, John, evening with the family.

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JQA’s copy of Sir William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England, 4 vols., London, 1791, is in the Stone Library. Among JA’s books in the Boston 23Public Library are two sets of the Commentaries; the Philadelphia edition, 1771–1773, 4 vols., contains JA’s annotations. See Catalogue of JA’s Library , p. 28.