This morning when we got up we found our Thermometer stolen. In the forenoon Mr. D. and
Mr. Artaud went to take a ride; we dined at Mr. Rimbert’s; Mr. Artaud supp’d out. In the
evening Mr. Hoogwerst came to pay us a visit.
“14th. Thursday.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0004-0004-0014. [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. 113.]