This forenoon I went to the shops and bought some things. After dinner I went and took
leave of Mr. Wolff who gave me a letter of recommendation for Hamborough [Hamburg]. Went to Mr. Rimberts’.
“29th. Tuesday.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0004-0011-0029. [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. 153.]