This morning Mr. D and Mr. Artaud went to take a ride, in the afternoon I went with Mr.
Artaud to take a ride in a slay. In the evening, news came of Port Mahon’s being taken. Fine
weather.
“20th. Wednesday.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0004-0004-0020. [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. 114.]