Stay’d at home all day. In the evening Mr. Hoogwerst came here. Mr. Artaud din’d at Mr.
Rimbert’s. Cloudy weather, and a heavy shower of Rain in the evening.
“18th. Thursday.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0004-0008-0018. [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.]