Diary of John Quincy Adams, volume 1
1783-01-01
We found here Mr. Schiebe a gentleman who left Stockholm about a week before us.
Norrkiöping is distant from Stockholm eighteen swedish miles or 120. English. Its situation is exceeding fine, at present every thing is covered with Snow;1 but it is in the midst of a plain which is bordered all round at about 6. or 8 English Miles from the town by high mountains from which you at first discover the city and in summer it seems to be in the midst of a large garden.
After having dined I went to the coffee house, and found there Mr. Charles Bernard Wadström a gentleman whom I knew in Stockholm and whom I owed a great many obligations during my stay there; he presented me to all his family which was assembled together at one of his brother's, where I stay'd and supped.
Reporting to AA on his journey from St. Petersburg to The Hague,
JQA wrote that he “was obliged to stop at a small town, called Norrköping ...
for a fortnight, because of a very heavy fall of snow, which happened just at that time”
(JQA to AA, 23
July,
Writings
, 1:8).