This evening at about 11. o’clock Mr. Artaud return’d from the country. Stay’d at home all
day. Mr. D took a ride in the afternoon. Rainy weather in the morning but clear’d up about
noon.
“26th. Monday.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0004-0009-0026. [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. 143.]