This forenoon I took a walk to the academy with Mr. Artaud and bought some maps. Mr.
Artaud dined out. In the afternoon Mr. D went to take a walk. Fine weather. Thaw.
“3d. Wednesday.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0004-0005-0003. [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. 117.]