Diary of John Quincy Adams, volume 2

31st.

Thursday November 1st. 1787.

[Titlepage] JQA [Titlepage] Adams, John Quincy
Titlepage
Paris. J. Q. Adams. Aug: 20th. 1783. Ephemeris. Vol: III.1 1787. 1.

Titlepage of D/JQA/12, the third of three leather-bound blank books that JQA presumably purchased in Paris on 20 Aug. 1783. For a fuller physical description of these volumes, see the note for the titlepage of D/JQA/10, ante 1 Jan. 1785 (above). This Diary volume contains entries from 1 Nov. 1787 to 24 Aug.–2 Sept. 1788 , followed by scattered entries, twelve for September and five for Oct. 1788, and thirteen for Sept. 1789. See entry for 24 Aug.–2 Sept. 1788, note 1 (below). The volume concludes with line-a-day memoranda for Aug. through Dec. 1788, and all of 1789 and 1790, copied over from the later Diaries 13, 14, and 15.