Left the ball at about 1. o’clock, after Midnight, and set out for St. Petersbourg.
Arrived at about. 5. distance. 32 wersts. Went to bed and slept till noon. Stay’d at home
all day. Fine weather.
“11th. Thursday.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0004-0008-0011. [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. 136.]