This morning I went to the English library and took out 2 volumes of a collection of poems
one of Popes works and one of Dryden’s. Rain’d hard all the forenoon. In the afternoon Mr.
D. took a walk.
“7th. Wednesday.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0004-0009-0007. [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. 140.]