Adams Papers Digital Edition

Diary of John Adams, volume 1

1760. Decr. 18.

1760. Decr. 22nd. Monday.
1760. Decr. 18th [i.e. 19th?] Fryday.<a xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" href="#DJA01d303n1" class="note" id="DJA01d303n1a">1</a> JA 1760. Decr. 18th [i.e. 19th?] Fryday. Adams, John
1760. Decr. 18th i.e. 19th Fryday.1
Sir

I am an old Man seventy odd, and as I had my Education, so I have passed my whole Life in the Country, &c.

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This is the third entry the diarist dated 18 Dec., but since 19 Dec. 1760 fell on a Friday, an editorial correction seems justified. JA went on with the present canceled draft in an entry conjecturally assigned to Jan. 1761 (p. 190–192, below).