Sunday, August 09, 2009

Young Man Eloquent

"Today, he writes a concise 109-character entry on the weather and his current location: 'Thick fog. Scanty Wind. On George’s Bank. Lat: 42-34. Read Massillon’s Careme Sermons 2 & 3. Ladies are Sick.'"

Amy Farnsworth of The Christian Science Monitor reports that the Massachusetts Historical Society has started a Twitter feed reprinting John Quincy Adams's diary of an 1809 trip to Russia.

1 comment:

Liam said...

Awesome. I am now following it.