A French Gentleman dined with us this day. I wrote a letter to my Father.1 Stay’d at home all day. Cloudy weather. Finished Mrs.
Macaulay’s second volume 498. pages: and begun the third. Mr. Artaud went to the concert in
the evening.
1. Adams Family
Correspondence, description begins Adams Family Correspondence, ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1963- . description ends 4:286–287.
“4th. Monday.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0004-0004-0004. [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. 111.]