Diary of John Quincy Adams, volume 1
1785-05-10
Mr. A: went to Versailles, to take leave, of the Court. Mr. Carnes1 came out. Was all day preparing for my departure, in the evening Mm. de la Fayette, with two of her Children, came out: and Mr. Jarvis and Mr. Randall.
Burrill Carnes, a merchant at Nantes, appointed American agent there in 1786 by Thomas
Barclay (Jefferson, Papers
, 9:303).