Mlle: Remaldi, appeared last night at the Italian Comedy, for the first time, in the part
of Lyse, in le jugement de
Midas,1 and succeeded very well.
1. By Thomas Hales, known as d’Hèle, Paris, 1778, with music by André Grétry (Brenner, Bibliographical
List description begins Clarence Dietz Brenner, A Bibliographical List of plays in the French Language, 1700-1789, Berkeley, 1947. description ends ).
“20th.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0007-0003-0010. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Diary of John Quincy Adams, vol. 1, November 1779 – March 1786, ed. Robert J. Taylor and Marc Friedlaender. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981, p. 216.]