Saturday Novr. 29th.

In the morning at about 9 o’clock, set out for Richmond which is 10. miles from London, and said to be the most Beautiful Spot in England, and perhaps in Europe. It is upon a hill, which Commands a vast plain in which Plain the River Thames runs winding about for a great ways <~~in the midst~~> of the Meadows, which even at this Time are covered with verdure.1 Returned to Town to Dine.

1. The purpose of the excursion, JA later recalled, was to visit former Massachusetts governor Thomas Pownall and Pennsylvania proprietor Richard Penn (Diary and Autobiography description begins Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, Mass., 1961; 4 vols. description ends , 3:151).

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Title: Saturday Novr. 29th.
Author: Adams, John Quincy
Date: 29 November 1783

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Cite as: “Saturday Novr. 29th.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0005-0012-0024. [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. 206.]