This day Mr. D. and Mr. Artaud went to the play, where was presented Alzire one of
Voltaire’s tragedies.1 Went in the morning to
see the Statue of Peter the great.
1. Alzire, ou les Américains, Paris, 1736 (Brenner, Bibliographical
List description begins Clarence Dietz Brenner, A Bibliographical List of plays in the French Language, 1700-1789, Berkeley, 1947. description ends ).
“23d. Friday.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0004-0009-0023. [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. 142.]