Mr. Jarvis came out and dined with us at Auteuil. In the afternoon, Mr. Jefferson came
out; he drank tea with us. No Rain yet: the drought is very great: the verdure is but small,
tho’ the trees are covered with Leaves.
“Sunday May 1st. 1785.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0007-0007-0001. [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. 259.]