Went this morning to the English Library. Took out the 2d. volume of the Preceptor and 3
volumes of Clarissa. In the afternoon Mr. D went and took a ride. Very fine weather.
“13th. Saturday,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0004-0008-0013. [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. 137.]