Stay’d at home all day. In the forenoon Dr. Blondot came and took his leave of us, going
for Moskow. Mr. D took a walk in the forenoon. Clear in the forenoon, but Rain after
dinner.
“17th. Friday.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0004-0006-0017. [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.]