Adams Papers Digital Edition

Diary of John Quincy Adams, volume 1

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Went all to dine with Mr. Jefferson. The two abbés Dr. McMahon1 and Dr. Ruston, were there. After dinner I walk'd to the Hôtel de Bretagne, and found Mr. West better, though his hand is still very much swelled. Dr. Ruston appears to be a man of learning; very well versed in English reading.

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Dr. I. MacMahon was apparently an Irish physician living in France whom Franklin met in Paris shortly after the beginning of the Revolution; he became a member of the American minister's social circle, a source of some American news, and a partisan for both America and his native Ireland ( Cal. Franklin Papers, A.P.S., index).