I dined at Mr. Pasch’s with a great deal of company. We had a ball, in the evening which
did not break up till about 4 o’clock in the morning of the 9th.
“8th.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0005-0001-0008. [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. 164.]