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Field name | Value |
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Collection Reference Number | GLC00958.03 |
From Archive Folder | Collection of letters from John Quincy Adams to Harvard classmate James Bridge |
Title | John Quincy Adams to James Bridge about studying hard, Gibbons' "Decline and Fall" and other works |
Date | 25 January 1789 |
Author | Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848) |
Recipient | Bridge, James |
Document Type | Correspondence |
Content Description | Adams describes acting like a recluse, spending most of his time in study. He praises the fourth volume of Edward Gibbon's "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." Adams asks that if Bridge sees a mutual friend, Stacey, to ask him to return Adams' copy of a work by Henry St. John Bolingbroke. He also asks Bridge to retrieve Adams' copies of Saunderson's Algebra and four volumes of Busson's works in French. |
Subjects | President Law Literature and Language Arts Classical World and Ancient Civilization Mathematics |
People | Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848) Bridge, James (1765-1834) |
Place written | Braintree, Massachusetts |
Theme | Arts & Literature; The Presidency; Law; Education |
Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859 |
Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |
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