2401[October 1782] (Adams Papers)
This day several gentlemen dined and supped here. Rainy stormy weather. This day I went to the Comedy where the French troop represented, Le Pere de Famille. with a Ballet. Denis Diderot, Le Père de famille, Amsterdam, 1758 ( Brenner, Bibliographical List Clarence Dietz Brenner, A Bibliographical List of plays in the French Language, 1700-1789 , Berkeley, 1947. ). This day, I dined and supped...
2402N(1782)S. October. 1st. Tuesday. (Adams Papers)
This day several gentlemen dined and supped here. Rainy stormy weather.
24032d. Wednesday. (Adams Papers)
This day I went to the Comedy where the French troop represented, Le Pere de Famille. with a Ballet. Denis Diderot, Le Père de famille, Amsterdam, 1758 ( Brenner, Bibliographical List Clarence Dietz Brenner, A Bibliographical List of plays in the French Language, 1700-1789 , Berkeley, 1947. ).
24043d. Thursday. (Adams Papers)
This day, I dined and supped at Mr. Rimberts. After dinner I went with Mr. and Mm. Peyron to the Academy. We saw the cabinet of natural history. Cloudy weather.
24054th. Friday. (Adams Papers)
Stay’d at home all day. In the afternoon Mr. D. went and took a ride. Cloudy weather.
24065th. Saturday. (Adams Papers)
Stay’d at home all day. Mr. D. went out before dinner. Cloudy weather all day.
24076th. Sunday. (Adams Papers)
This day I din’d and supp’d at Mr. Rimberts.
24087th. Monday. (Adams Papers)
Mr. D dined at Mr. Wolffs. Mr. Artaud went to the concert. Stay’d at home all day.
24098th. Tuesday. (Adams Papers)
This day the French comedians play’d at the summer garden theatre. L’honnete criminel. Charles Georges Fenouillot de Falbaire de Quingey, L’honnête criminel, ou l’amour filial, Paris, 1767 ( Brenner, Bibliographical List Clarence Dietz Brenner, A Bibliographical List of plays in the French Language, 1700-1789 , Berkeley, 1947. ).
24109th. Wednesday. (Adams Papers)
Stay’d at home all day. The young gentlemen from Mr. Rimberts dined here. Cloudy weather.
241110th. Thursday. (Adams Papers)
Went to the Academy to have my name advertised. Dined and spent the evening at Mr. Rimberts.
241211th. Friday. (Adams Papers)
Several gentlemen dined here this day. Cloudy weather, freezes already.
241312th. Saturday. (Adams Papers)
Stay’d at home all day. Mr. D. unwell. Cloudy weather.
241413th. Sunday. (Adams Papers)
Dined out with Mr. Artaud. Rainy stormy weather. Went to the Clubb in the evening.
241514th. Monday. (Adams Papers)
This evening I went to the concert with Mr. Artaud. Mr. Gummer came here and supped after the concert. He would become one of JQA ’s traveling companions on his return to western Europe through Finland and Sweden.
241615th. Tuesday. (Adams Papers)
This afternoon Mr. D. went and took a ride. Stay’d at home all day.
241716th. Wednesday. (Adams Papers)
This day all Mr. Rimberts family dined here; in the evening we went to the play and saw Tancrede a tragedy with Le dépit amoureux. Voltaire, Tancrède, Geneva, 1761; Molière, Le dépit amoureux, Paris, 1663 ( Brenner, Bibliographical List; Clarence Dietz Brenner, A Bibliographical List of plays in the French Language, 1700-1789 , Berkeley, 1947. Cioranescu, Bibliographie du dix-septième siècle...
241817th. Thursday. (Adams Papers)
This day I dined at Mr. Rimberts with Mr. D. Return’d directly after dinner. Mr. Artaud stay’d There. Cloudy weather.
241918th. Friday. (Adams Papers)
This afternoon I went with Mr. Artaud to the shops and bought some things.
242019th. Saturday. (Adams Papers)
Stay’d at home all day. Before dinner Mr. D went and took a ride. Mr. Wolff came here.
242120th. Sunday. (Adams Papers)
This day I dined and supped at Mr. Rimberts. Return’d at about 11 o’clock.
242221st. Monday. (Adams Papers)
This day Count Greco, My travelling companion to Stockholm dined here. In the evening I went with Mr. Artaud to the Concert. An Italian gentleman of dubious reputation. Facts supplied by a Mr. W olff and later confirmed compelled Dana to write to JQA shortly after his departure from St. Petersburg. He asked JQA to leave the Count at the earliest opportunity, but until that time warned him to...
242322d. Tuesday. (Adams Papers)
This forenoon I went to the shops with Mr. Artaud. Went to the exchange. Mr. Peyron and Mr. Montréal dined here.
242423d. Wednesday. (Adams Papers)
This afternoon I went with Mr. Artaud to Mr. Rimberts and from thence to the play. They represented Le Barbier de Seville and les trois freres rivaux. After the play we return’d and supped at Mr. Rimberts. Beaumarchais, Le Barbier de Séville, ou la précaution inutile, Paris, 1775; Joseph de Lafont or La Font, Les trois frères rivaux, Paris, 1713 ( Brenner, Bibliographical List Clarence Dietz...
242524th. Thursday. (Adams Papers)
This forenoon I went round to see the fortress with Mr. Montréal Mr. Gummer and Mr. Artaud. Mr. Artaud dined and spent the evening at Mr. Rimberts.
242625th. Friday. (Adams Papers)
This day I dined with Mr. D. and Mr. Artaud at Mr. Colombi’s. After dinner I went to Mr. Rimberts. Mr. Artaud went to the Clubb. Between p. 84 and 85 of the Diary, there has been placed a loose drawing, approximately 3″ × 4″, of a female figure, presumably a Nereid, leaning on an anchor with a banner overhead reading “Meliora speramus.” The source of the drawing, presumably rendered by JQA ,...
242726th. Saturday. (Adams Papers)
This day the Count Greco, Mr. Gummer and Mr. Peyron dined here. In the evening I went with Mr. Artaud to Mr. Rimbert’s; spent the evening and supped there.
242827th. Sunday. (Adams Papers)
This morning I went with Mr. Artaud to Mr. Rimberts and from thence we set out, eight in one large carriage and two other gentlemen in another small one for Czarsko-Zelo her Majesty’s ordinary residence in the summer. Before we had got half ways the small carriage’s axletree broke and we were obliged to take the two other gentlemen in; so that we went all ten in the same carriage. We arrived...
242928th. Monday. (Adams Papers)
This forenoon I went with Mr. Peyron to the Baron Albedhyl’s to take his orders for Stockholm. In the afternoon Mr. Gummer came here and I went with him to the concert. Return’d at about 9 o’clock. Gustaf Baron von Albedhyll , Swedish chargé d’affaires to Russia, 1782–1783, and later minister to Denmark, 1785–1789 ( Repertorium der diplomatischen Vertreter aller Länder Repertorium der...
243029th. Tuesday. (Adams Papers)
This forenoon I went to the shops and bought some things. After dinner I went and took leave of Mr. Wolff who gave me a letter of recommendation for Hamborough Hamburg . Went to Mr. Rimberts’.
243130th. Wednesday. (Adams Papers)
This morning I went and took leave of the Baron Albedyhll the Swedish chargé d’affaires here, and he gave me a couple of letters for Stockholm. At about noon I took leave of Mr. D. and of Mr. Artaud and set out upon the road for Wibourg Vyborg . We arrived at about 11. o’clock P.M. at the third station and as it was extraordinarily dark we stay’d there till 7 o’clock the next morning. For 30...
2432Thursday. 31st. (Adams Papers)
We rode all day that day and all the night and arriv’d at the gates of Wibourg the next morning at about 5 o’clock.
2433[November 1782] (Adams Papers)
We were obliged to wait about 2 hours at a Dram Shop out of the city waiting for the gates to be opened. And there Mr. Gummer overtook us. He had left St. Petersbourg the same day with us, at about 4 o’clock. P.M. At seven o’clock the gates were opened and we went and stopp’d at the tavern. Mr. Gummer dined out. I was very unwell. The Count and Mr. Gummer spent the evening out: I was so unwell...
2434N(1782.)S. November: 1. Friday. (Adams Papers)
We were obliged to wait about 2 hours at a Dram Shop out of the city waiting for the gates to be opened. And there Mr. Gummer overtook us. He had left St. Petersbourg the same day with us, at about 4 o’clock. P.M. At seven o’clock the gates were opened and we went and stopp’d at the tavern. Mr. Gummer dined out. I was very unwell. The Count and Mr. Gummer spent the evening out: I was so unwell...
24352d Saturday. (Adams Papers)
This morning at about 11 o’clock we set off from Wibourg for Frederichshamm; we rode all night and arriv’d, the next day at about 4. o’clock P.M. The Diary continues into the following day’s entry without a break.
24363d. Sunday. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Gummer arrived there at about 8 o’clock in the morning. Here people generally change their russian money for Swedish Rixdallers. We paid 1 Rbl. 40 cop. for each Rixdaller. Mr. Gummer supped out. From Wibourg to wersts Terwajoki Tervayokki 20. Willajoki Willayokki 17. Urpala Urpola 23. Pytterlax Puterlar 16 Kouckis 18 Frederichshamm 16. 110.
24374th. Monday. (Adams Papers)
This forenoon at about 10 ½ o’clock we left Frederichshamm and rode till about 7. P.M. when we arriv’d at the last russian station. There we stopped.
24385th. Tuesday. (Adams Papers)
This morning at about 10 o’clock we pass’d the russian frontiers and arriv’d at Abbo r fors which is the first place in Swedish Finland. Here we were visited. We arriv’d at Lovisa at about 12. o’clock. Mr. Gummer arrived last night about 10 o’clock. When you come into Swedish Finland you pay every thing in Swedish money. You give 4. schillings pr. horse for each Swedish mile which is 10....
24396th. Wednesday. (Adams Papers)
This day we dined with the major of the garrison here whose name is Grippenwald. After dinner we set off from Lovisa for Helsingfors Helsinki and went two stations. Lovisa is as yet but a village without fortifications, or gates. It is but about twenty years since it was founded but it is said they intend to begin soon to fortify it.
24407th Thursday [–8th Friday]. (Adams Papers)
This afternoon at about 4 o’clock we passed thro’ Borgo Borga which is a small fortified town. We rode all night and arrived at about 7 o’clock in the morning on the 8th. at Helsingfors, a small town not very strongly fortified, but remarkable for the fortress of Sweaborg Sveaborg an island situated at about ¼ of a Swedish mile from Helsingfors and which they say is as strong as Gibraltar. At...
24419th. Saturday. (Adams Papers)
This morning we went to see the fortress of Sweaborg. Dined with the General Posse. Prince Galitzin arrived here this evening. Possibly a brother or son of Prince Dmitri A. Gallitzin (1734–1803) , a man of letters and Russian ambassador at Paris, 1763–1768, and at The Hague, 1770–1782 ( Repertorium der diplomatischen Vertreter aller Länder Repertorium der diplomatischen Vertreter aller Lander...
244210th. Sunday. (Adams Papers)
This morning at about 8 o’clock we left Helsingfors, at the same time as the Prince Galitzin. We went this day, three stations. The Prince went but two.
244311th. Monday. (Adams Papers)
This day we went only two stations and stopp’d at the country seat of Mr. Hising an acquaintance of Mr. Gummer’s at Fagerwik.
244412th. Tuesday. (Adams Papers)
We went only 3. swedish miles. Stay’d at the country house of Captain Anrinoff son in law to Mr. Hising, at Åmine.
244513th. Wednesday [– 14th Thursday]. (Adams Papers)
We left Åmine at about 10 o’clock A.M. and rode all day, and all the night and arrived at about 12. o’clock at Åbo, on the 14th. This is a small town not much fortified but it is the capital of the province of Finland and is said to be the largest town in Sweden except Stockholm. From Lovisa to Swed: Miles Perna 1 1/4. Forsby. 1. Ilby. 1 1/4 Borgo. 1. Wäkaski 1 1/4 Sibbokykeky Sibbo 1 1/4
244615th. Friday. (Adams Papers)
This forenoon we went and paid a visit to General Armfeldt governor of Finland. We dined at his hotel with the Prince Galitzin who arriv’d last night. After dinner we went to see the curiosities of the town, but there is nothing extraordinary altho there is a famous University here. In the evening the General Armfeldt came and paid us a visit. Gustaf Mauritz, Baron von Armfelt , a native of...
244716th. Saturday. (Adams Papers)
This morning at about 10 o’clock we left Åbo at the same time with the Prince Galitzin, but Mr. Gummer intends to stay there about a week because he has all his family here and has been a long time absent. We went this day 7 ½ Miles as far as the first passage at Helsings.
244817th. Sunday. (Adams Papers)
This morning we took boat and went as far as Varsala Wartsala i.e. two miles: we could go no farther.
244918th. Monday. (Adams Papers)
This morning we set off from Varsala in a boat and went 5. miles as far as Kůmlinge. Fine weather.
245019th. Tuesday. (Adams Papers)
This day we passed from Kůmlinge to Skarpans by water. The distance is, 6. Swedish miles. We went also two stations by land.