This forenoon Mr. D. went and took a walk in the garden. After dinner I went with Mr.
Artaud to the Shops. We took a ride out of town. Went to Mr. Rimberts took a walk to the
garden. Mr. Artaud supp’d out. Fine weather.
“5th. Wednesday.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0004-0007-0005. [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. 130.]