This day Mr. D receiv’d some letters from America through Holland. Mr. Artaud dined out. In the afternoon Mr. Hoogwerst came to see us. Bad weather. Stay’d at home all day.
“25th. Thursday,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0004-0008-0025. [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. 138.]