Begun the fifth volume of Mrs. Macaulay’s history. Finished the third oration of Cicero
against Catiline. Stay’d at home all day. Mr. Artaud supp’d out. Our German master gave us a
lesson.
“26th. Tuesday.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0004-0004-0026. [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. 116.]