John Quincy Adams' Twitter page

Starting today, the Massachusetts Historical Society will be offering up excerpts from John Quincy Adams’ line-a-day diary as tweets. The diary entries track Adams’ voyage to Russia, which kicked off on Aug. 5, 1809. Two hundred years after Adams’ journey began, accounts of his trip and his ensuing work as the first American ambassador to Russia will be chronicled daily on Twitter.

“We’ll be posting [Adams’] exact words (his entries really do work perfectly as 140-character tweets), and, where possible, we will augment the posts with maps showing his location (thank him for providing regular latitude and longitude readings), links to longer diary entries, and other information,” Jeremy Dibbell, a librarian with the Massachusetts Historical Society, wrote in a blog post. “His short entries are surprisingly rich, full of wonderful details about his reading, meals, weather, and shipboard activities.”

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