The weather has moderated very considerably. In the evening, I walked with Thompson and Putnam, to Little’s where we past the evening till 9 o’clock: Quite agreeably without ceremony or restraint.
“6th.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-02-02-0003-0002-0006. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Diary of John Quincy Adams, vol. 2, March 1786 – December 1788, ed. Robert Taylor J and Marc Friedlaender. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981, p. 357.]