This day a French Gentleman dined with us. Mr. D took a ride in the afternoon. Mr. Artaud
went to the Clubb. Stay’d at home all day. Cloudy weather. First vessels arrived, at
Cronstadt.
“24th. Friday.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0004-0006-0024. [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. 128.]