15th. Wednesday.

Went and took a walk with Mr. Artaud in the Jardin d’été.1 Spent the evening and supp’d at Mr. Rimbert’s. Fine weather. Thermometer 16. degrees above.0. Took off our double windows.

1. A public garden located on the banks of the Neva and originally part of Peter the Great’s summer palace (Storch, Picture of Petersburg description begins Henry Storch, Picture of Petersburg, English transl., London, 1801. description ends , p. 40–41).

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Source Project: Adams Papers
Title: 15th. Wednesday.
Author: Adams, John Quincy
Date: 15 May 1782

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Cite as: “15th. Wednesday.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0004-0006-0015. [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. 127.]