1 August 1806
adams-john10 Neal Millikan Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory
249 August 1806

1. So much of my time was engaged in reading this forenoon that I wrote scarcely half a page of my first Sketches— Dined with the Corporation at the Steward’s— At 2. O’Clock I read my fourth lecture— It was received with more than ordinary attention— Accomplished my afternoon’s writing; and in the Evening walk’d to the Bridge— Mr: Shaw was here at my lecture and told me that my brother’s wife had a daughter—

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