In the forenoon Mr. D went and took a walk. After dinner Mr. Colombi came to see us. I
went to the postoffice with Mr. Artaud. Windy weather. Finished the first volume of Watson’s
history of Phillip the II. 443 p: and begun the 2d.
“3d. Friday.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0004-0006-0003. [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. 125.]