Diary of John Quincy Adams, volume 1
Several persons dined and supped here this day. Mr. D. receiv'd some letters from America. Stay'd at home all day. Cloudy weather.
A French Gentleman dined with us this day. I wrote a letter to my Father.1 Stay'd at home all day. Cloudy weather. Finished Mrs. Macaulay's second volume 498. pages: and begun the third. Mr. Artaud went to the concert in the evening.
Went to Mr. Wolff's and to Mr. Rimbert's in the afternoon to carry letters to be sent to Holland.1 Mr. D. went after dinner to take a walk. Cloudy weather.
In addition to his own letter of the 4th to his father, JQA probably carried Dana's to JA of the same date (Adams Papers).
Went in the forenoon with Mr. Artaud to take a walk. Mr. D stay'd at home all day. Cloudy weather in the morning, and snow in the afternoon.
This morning Mr. D. went with Mr. Artaud to get some maps at the Academy. I went to a bookseller's and bought Manstein's Memoir's upon Russia, and Anecdotes du Nord.1
Mr. Artaud dined and supped out. Clear weather.
Christoph Hermann von Manstein, Memoires historiques sur la Russie depuis 1727 jusqu'à 1744, Paris, 1771, with JQA's notation: “bo't at St. Petersbourg, March 7th., 1782, No. 20”; Pierre Antoine de La Place and others, Anecdotes du Nord, la Suede le Danemarck, etc., Paris, 1770, with notation: “bo't at St. Petersbourg, March 7, 1782. No. 21. RCatalogue of JQA's Books
). The book numbers refer to JQA's book purchases in St. Petersburg.