Finished the 6th. Volume of Hume’s history. 480 pages. Went to the English Library and
took out the 7th. and 8th. volumes of Hume’s history. Begun the 7th. In the afternoon I went
with Mr. Artaud to the Shops.
“18th. Monday.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0004-0003-0018. [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. 106.]