In the forenoon I went to the English Library for some books but the keeper was not at
Home. Finished the third volume of Mrs. Macaulay’s history of England. 443 pages.
“8th. Friday.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0004-0004-0008. [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. 112.]