Typewritten copy of entries from the diary of John Quincy Adams, Aril 1786.

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Typewritten copy of entries from the diary of John Quincy Adams, Aril 1786.

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Two-page typewritten transcription of the April 3, 1786 entry from the diary of John Quincy Adams. The entry mentions his schoolwork and a student uprising encouraged by James Lovell (Harvard AB 1787): "This evening, there was it is said upwards of 100 Scholars out on the common, armed with Clubs, to fight the People, belonging to the Town."

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