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CONTENTS

Guide to Editorial Apparatus                vii
Jefferson Chronology                            2


{ 1785 }
 continued
November  December  

{ 1786 }


November

From John Adams, 1 November                          3
Jefferson's Account of the Stanhope Affair,
  [1 November]                                       4
From John Christian Senf, 1 November                 7
From John Jay, 2 November                            8
From Charles Thomson, 2 November                     9
[From Richard O'Bryen, 3 November]                  10
From Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 3 November      10
From John Adams, 4 November                         10
From Borgnis Desbordes, Freres, 4 November          12
To William Carmichael, 4 November                   13
To Richard O'Bryen, 4 November                      17
From John Adams, 5 November                         18
To Castries, 5 November                             22
To John Paul Jones, 5 November                      23
From William Carmichael, 6 November                 23
From Daniel and Theodorick Fitzhugh, 7 November     25
From William Carmichael, 8 November                 25
[From Gazaigner de Boyer, 9 November]               25
From Favi, 10 November                              26
From the Abbes Arnoux and Chalut, 11 November       26
[From Thomas Boylston, 11 November]                 26
To Daniel and Theodorick Fitzhugh, 11 November      27
To Andre Limozin, 11 November                       27
To William Wenman Seward, 12 November               27
From the Abbes Arnoux and Chalut, 13 November       28
To Lafayette, with Thomas Boylston's Proposal
  [ca. 13 November]                                 29
From Lister Asquith, 14 November                    31
To vergennes, with State of the Case of the
  William & Mary Catherine, 14 November             31
From James Madison, 15 November                     38
From Samuel Henley, 16 November                     39
From Edward Bancroft, 18 November                   40
To John Adams, 19 November                          41
To Abigail Adams, 20 November                       47
To Jean Baptiste Huron, 20 November                 49
To Vergennes, 20 November                           50
From Andre Limozin, 21 November                     51
From Jean-Armand Tronchin [after 22 November]       52
To Lister Asquith, 23 November                      52
From William Drayton, 23 November                   53
From Abigail Adams, 24 November                     53
To Borgnis Desbordes, Freres, 24 November           55
To Jean Diot & Cie., 24 November                    56
To J. A. Gautier, 24 November                       56
From Ferdinand Grand, 24 November                   57
[From Andre Limozin, 24 November]                   57
From De Laflotte, 25 November                       57
To Thomas Elder, 25 November                        58
To Andre Limozin, 25 November                       59
To Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 25 November           59
To Jean-Armand Tronchin [ca. 25 November]           60
To John Adams, 27 November                          61
To Samuel Henley, 27 November                       65
From Lister Asquith, 28 November                    66
[To Andre Limozin, 28 November]                     66
From Andre Limozin, 28 November                     67
To Philip Mazzei [28] November                      67
From Borgnis Desbordes, Freres, 30 November         72
From Vergennes, 30 November                         72


December

From John Adams, 2 December                         73
From John Banister, 2 December                      75
[From Andre Limozin, 2 December]                    76
To Vergennes, 2 December                            76
To David Humphreys, 4 December                      77
From Lister Asquith, 5 December                     77
From Antoine-Felix Wuibert, 5 December              78
From C. W. F. Dumas, 6 December                     79
[From the Commissioners of the Treasury,
  6 December]                                       80
From Geismar, 6 December                            81
From Neil Jamieson, 6 December                      82
[From Andre Limozin, ca. 6 December]                82
From P. Tourtille Sangrain, 6 December              82
From Neil Jamieson, 7 December                      83
From John Jay, 7 December                           83
From John Langdon, 7 December                       84
To William Carmichael, 8 December                   85
[To Gazaigner de Boyer, 8 December]                 86
[To P. Tourtille Sangrain, 8 December]              86
From Diodati, 9 December                            86
From John Jay, 9 December                           86
From Janet Livingston Montgomery,
  9 December                                        87
[From Richard O'Bryen, 9 December]                  88
From Jean Baptiste Pecquet, 9 December              88
To John Adams, 10 December                          88
From David Ramsay, 10 December                      89
To Abigail Adams, 11 December                       90
To John Adams, 11 December                          91
To Francis Eppes, 11 December                       91
From George Gilmer, 11 December                     93
To James Monroe, 11 December                        94
From David Humphreys [ca. 12 December]              96
From Antoine-Felix Wuibert, 12 December             97
From John Adams, 13 December                        97
From Lister Asquith, 14 December                    98
From Jean Diot & Cie. [14 December]                 99
From Pierre-Andre Gargaz, 15 December               99
From Patience Wright, 15 December                  101
From Cosimo Mari, 16 December                      102
From William Carmichael, 17 December               103
From Garreau, 17 December                          106
From William Robeson, 18 December                  107
Jefferson's Amplification of Subjects
  Discussed with Vergennes
  [ca. 20 December]                                107
From Abigail Adams, 20 December                    115
From John Adams, 20 December                       116
To William Robeson, 21 December                    118
From William Stephens Smith,
  21 December                                      118
To Vergennes, 21 December                          119
[From Richard Cary, 22 December]                   120
To the Governor of Georgia, 22 December            120
To Garreau, 22 December                            121
To the Georgia Delegates in Congress,
  22 December                                      121
From Barre, 23 December                            122
From Cosimo Mari, 23 December                      123
To John Jay, 24 December                           123
From Borgnis Desbordes, Freres, 
  26 December                                      124
From La Rouerie, 26 December                       125
From Antoine-Felix Wuibert, 26 December            125
To Abigail Adams, 27 December                      126
To John Adams, 27 December                         126
From Anne Cleland Kinloch, 27 December             129
From Capello, 28 December                          129
[From H. Fizeaux & Cie., 29 December]              129
From Castries, 30 December                         130
[From John Jay, 30 December]                       130
From Buffon, 31 December                           130
[From Frichet, 31 December]                        131
From Francis Hopkinson, 31 December                131
From Abbe Morellet [ca. December]                  133
Queries Concerning Trade with the
  French Colonies [ca. December]                   134



{ 1786 }

January  February  March
April  May  June 1-22
ILLUSTRATIONS

January

From Lister Asquith, 2 January                     135
From Borgnis Desbordes, Freres, 
  2 January                                        136
To John Jay, with Report on Conversations
  with Vergennes, 2 January                        136
To Francis Hopkinson, 3 January                    146
From La Rochefoucauld, 4 January                   150
To George Washington, 4 January                    150
To David Humphreys, 5 January                      152
To John Paul Jones, 5 January                      153
From Philip Mazzei, 5 January                      154
From Francis Coffyn, 6 January                     154
From Jean Nicolas Demeunier, 6 January             155
From La Lande, 6 January                           156
From John Paul Jones, 6 [January]                  156
To Archibald Cary, 7 January                       158
To Francis Eppes, 7 January                        159
To John Sullivan, 7 January                        160
To George Washington, 7 January                    160
To William Whipple, 7 January                      161
To Borgnis Desbordes, Freres, 8 January            162
To Castries, 9 January                             162
From Cambray, 10 January                           164
[To Cosimo Mari, 10 January]                       164
[To Philip Mazzei, 10 January]                     164
From George Wythe, 10 January                      165
To John Adams, 12 January                          165
To John Adams, 12 January                          167
To Nathanael Greene, 12 January                    167
To La Rouerie, 12 January                          169
To Lister Asquith, 13 January                      169
To Barr, 13 January                                170
From Borgnis Desbordes, Freres, 
  13 January                                       170
To Cambray, 13 January                             171
To William Carmichael, 13 January                  171
[To Frichet, 13 January]                           173
To Thevenard, 13 January                           173
From Thomas Barclay, 14 January                    174
From Pierre-Andre Gargaz, 14 January               175
From Louis Guillaume Otto, 15 January              176
From Lister Asquith, 16 January                    177
To John McQueen, 16 January                        178
From William Temple Franklin, 18 January           178
From Vergennes, 18 January                         180
From John Adams, 19 January                        181
From John Banister, 19 January                     184
From John Jay, 19 January                          185
From James Monroe, 19 January                      186
To Cambray, 20 January                             191
To Vergennes, 20 January                           192
From Jean Nicolas Demeunier, 21 January            192
From Neil Jamieson, 21 January                     193
From Lewis Littlepage, 2[1 January]                193
From La Rouerie, 22 January                        193
To John McQueen, 22 January                        194
From James Madison, with Enclosure, 
  22 January                                       194
From Jean-Armand Tronchin, 22 January              209
From Thomas Barclay, 24 January                    209
To John Bondfield, 24 January                      210
To Francis Eppes, 24 January                       211
To the Governor of Virginia, 24 January            212
To John Jay, 25 January                            215
To David Rittenhouse, 25 January                   215
To Archibald Stuart, 25 January                    217
To John Banister, 26 January                       219
To William Buchanan and James Hay,
  26 January                                       220
From William Carmichael [ca. 26 January]           223
[To Charles Dilly, 26 January]                     223
To Francis Hopkinson, 26 January                   224
To La Rouerie, 26 January                          224
To the Commissioners of the Treasury,
  26 January                                       225
To David Ramsay, 26 January                        228
To John Bartram, with Enclosure, 27 January        228
From C. W. F. Dumas, 27 January                    230
To Benjamin Franklin, 27 January                   232
To David Howell, 27 January                        233
To John Jay, 27 January                            233
To James Monroe, 27 January                        236
To David Ramsay, 27 January                        238
From John Adams, 28 January                        238
To James Currie, 28 January                        239
From David Humphreys, 30 January                   241
From C. W. F. Dumas [31 January]                   242


February

From Ferdinand Grand, 1 February                   243
William Carmichael to the American
  Commissioners, 3 February                        244
[From Henry Skipwith, 3 February]                  250
From William Carmichael, 4 February                250
From John Walker, 4 February                       251
To Antonio Giannini, with a List of
  Seeds Wanted, 5 February                         252
To Nicholas Lewis, 6 February                      255
From Philip Mazzei, 6 February                     256
To John Adams, 7 February                          258
[To Archibald Cary, 7 February]                    260
[From La Rouerie, 7 February]                      260
From John Ledyard, 7 February                      260
[To Thomas Mann Randolph, 7 February]              261
From Lafayette [before 8 February]                 261
To James Bowdoin, 8 February                       262
To Thomas Cushing, 8 February                      263
To James Madison, 8 February                       264
From Teresa Murphy, 8 February                     271
To Joseph Nourse, 8 February                       272
To James Warren, 8 February                        273
To Lafayette, 9 February                           273
To Francis Lewis, 9 February                       274
To James Madison, 9 February                       274
From Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 
  9 February                                       275
[From Thomas Boylston, 10 February]                275
From Thevenard, 10 February                        276
From George Wythe, 10 February                     276
From Abigail Adams, 11 February                    277
From C. W. F. Dumas, 12 February                   279
From Favi, 12 February                             280
From Edward Bancroft, 13 February                  280
From William Stephens Smith, 13 February           281
John Lamb to the American Commissioners, 
  16 February                                      283
P. R. Randall to the American Commissioners, 
  17 February                                      284
From John Adams, 17 February                       285
From Hilliard d'Auberteuil, 17 February            288
[From Madame d'Anterroches, 19 February]           289
From Lister Asquith, 20 February                   290
To Hilliard d'Auberteuil, 20 February              290
To Lafayette, 20 February                          291
To Rayneval, 20 February                           293
To Thevenard, 20 February                          294
From John Adams, 21 February                       295
To Edward Bancroft, 21 February                    295
From Joseph Jones, 21 February                     296
From Thomas Barclay, 24 February                   298
From John Adams, 25 February                       298
From Thomas Boylston, 25 February                  299
To Edward Bancroft, 26 February                    299
From C. W. F. Dumas, 27 February                   301
From James Lyons, 27 February                      302
From Thevenard, 27 February                        302
From Burrill Carnes, 28 February                   303
From C. W. F. Dumas, 28 February                   303
From John Paul Jones, 28 February                  305
To Vergennes, 28 February                          307


March

From Thomas Boylston [1] March                     307
From Zachariah Loreilhe, 1 March                   308
From John van Heukelom & Son, 1 March              308
[To Madame d'Anterroches, 2 March]                 311
[To Giovanni Fabbroni, 2 March]                    311
From David Humphreys, 2 March                      311
To James Monroe, 2 March                           312
[To Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 
  2 March]                                         312
To Rayneval, 3 March                               312
To Ferdinand Grand, 4 March                        313
From John Sullivan, 4 March                        314
[To Lister Asquith, 5 March]                       314
To Borgnis Desbordes, Freres, 5 March              314
From David Hartley, 5 March                        315
To John Jay, 5 March                               316
[To Rayneval, 5 March]                             317
From Rayneval, 5 March                             317
To Martha Jefferson, 6 March                       318
From Lafayette [ca. 6 March]                       318
From Francis Hopkinson, 8 March                    320
From Suffren, 8 March                              322
From John Banister, Jr., 11 March                  322
From Madame d'Anterroches, 12 March                323
To John Jay, 12 March                              325
John Adams to Carmarthen, 13 March                 327
From Thomas Barclay, 13 March                      327
To David Humphreys, 14 March                       328
From Louis Joseph de Beaulieu, 17 March            328
From David Humphreys, 17 March                     329
From Andre Limozin, 17 March                       330
From William Macarty, 17 March                     330
From Samuel Henley, 18 March                       331
From James Madison, 18 March                       332
From Lafayette, with "Avis au Comite 
  du Commerce," 18 [19] March                      337
[From La Rouerie, 19 March]                        346
From William Short [19? March]                     347
From Lister Asquith, 20 March                      348
From Thomas Barclay, 20 March                      348
From Benjamin Franklin, 20 March                   349
An Interlude at Dolly's Chop House 
  [21 March?]                                      350
From Nathaniel Tracy, 22 March                     352
From Thomas Barclay, 23 March                      352
From William Temple Franklin, 26 March             353
From William Short, 26 March                       353
From the Rev. James Madison, 27 March              355
American Commissioners to John Jay, 
  28 March                                         357
From Nicolas Darcel, 28 March                      359
From C. W. F. Dumas, 28 March                      360
From Francis Hopkinson, 28 March                   361
To William Short, 28 March                         362
From John Lamb, 29 March                           364
From Ferdinand Grand, 30 March                     365
[From Alexander McCaul, 30 March]                  365
From Thomas Barclay, 31 March                      365
From David S. Franks, 31 March                     366
[From William Jones, 31 March]                     367


April

From William Short, 2 April                        367
To William Short, 3 April                          368
Notes of a Tour of English Gardens 
  [2-14 April]                                     369
American Commissioners to Carmarthen, 
  4 April                                          375
[From David Humphreys, 4 April]                    376
From Thomas Barclay, 5 April                       376
William Carmichael to the American 
  Commissioners, 5 April                           377
From LeJeune, 5 April                              378
From Charles Thomson, 6 April                      379
[From Nathaniel Tracy, 7 April]                    380
From St. Victour & Bettinger, 8 April              381
From Jean Nicolas Demeunier, 9 April               382
Thomas Barclay to the American 
  Commissioners, 10 April                          383
From C. W. F. Dumas, 11 April                      384
[From Francis Eppes, 11 April]                     385
William Carmichael to the American 
  Commissioners, 13 April                          385
[From Lucy Necks, 17 April]                        386
[To Lucy Necks, 18 April]                          386
From the Captains of American Ships at 
  L'Orient, 19 April                               386
To Alexander McCaul, 19 April                      388
From American and French Merchants at 
  L'Orient, 21 April                               390
From Lister Asquith, 21 April                      393
[To George Rogers Clark, 22 April]                 395
To Francis Eppes, 22 April                         395
To Anna Scott Jefferson, 22 April                  397
To Richard Henry Lee, 22 April                     397
To Nicholas Lewis, 22 April                        399
To Charles Thomson, 22 April                       400
To John Jay, 23 April                              402
To John Jay, 23 April                              403
From Sir John Sinclair [24 April]                  405
American Commissioners to John Jay, 
  25 April                                         406
Negotiations for a Treaty of Amity and 
  Commerce with Portugal [Mch.-Apr. 1786]          409
To James Madison, 25 April                         433
From Theophile Mandar, 25 April                    435
To Sir John Sinclair, 25 April                     435
To Carmarthen [ca. 26 April]                       436
From C. W. F. Dumas, 27 April                      436
[From Alexander McCaul, 28 April]                  437
From William Stephens Smith, 28 April              437
From Pierre Dessin, 29 April                       438


May

From Lister Asquith, 1 May                         439
From Francis Hopkinson, 1 May                      439
From David Ramsay, 3 May                           440
To Vergennes, 3 May                                442
From Wilt Delmestre & Co., 3 May                   443
To Richard Cary, 4 May                             444
To John Page, 4 May                                444
To John Paradise, 4 May                            446
To William Stephens Smith, 4 May                   447
To William Carmichael, 5 May                       448
From John Jay, 5 May                               450
From John Jay, 5 May                               450
To Andre Limozin, 5 May                            451
To Theophile Mandar, 5 May                         452
From Malesherbes, 5 May                            452
From Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 5 May                  454
To Jean Baptiste Pecquet, 5 May                    455
To Thevenard, 5 May                                455
To John Banister, 6 May                            457
From Simon Berard, 6 May                           457
To William Drayton, 6 May                          461
To C. W. F. Dumas, 6 May                           462
C. W. F. Dumas to Humphreys and Short, 
  6 May                                            463
To Henry Skipwith, 6 May                           464
To William Temple Franklin, 7 May                  466
To Elbridge Gerry, 7 May                           467
To David Humphreys, 7 May                          469
[To Janet Livingston Montgomery, 7 May]            470
To Louis Guillaume Otto, 7 May                     470
To the Commissioners of the Treasury, 
  7 May                                            471
From Andre Limozin, 8 May                          471
To Thomas Pleasants, 8 May                         472
To David Ross, 8 May                               473
From Ezra Stiles, with Enclosure, 8 May            476
To John Banister, Jr., 9 May                       478
To Louis Joseph de Beaulieu, 9 May                 479
From the Commissioners of the Treasury, 
  9 May                                            479
To Francis Hopkinson, 9 May                        482
From Francis Lewis, 9 May                          483
To Le Veillard, with Enclosures, 9 May             483
To William Macarty, 9 May                          498
To John McQueen, 9 May                             498
From John Jay, 10 May                              499
To James Monroe, 10 May                            499
From Louis Guillaume Otto, 10 May                  504
To Charles Thomson, 10 May                         505
To John Adams, with Enclosure, 11 May              506
From Francis Lewis, 11 May                         509
From James Monroe, 11 May                          510
From William Duer, 11 May                          512
To Wilt Delmestre & Co., 11 May                    512
From John Banister, with a Note from 
  Anne Blair Banister, 12 May                      513
To John Jay, 12 May                                514
From James McHenry, 12 May                         516
From James Madison, 12 May                         517
To St. Victour & Bettinger, 12 May                 523
From De La Serre, 13 May                           523
From St. Victour & Bettinger, 13 May               524
P. R. Randall to the American Commissioners, 
  with Enclosures, 14 May                          525
From St. Victour & Bettinger, 14 May               536
From Lister Asquith, 15 May                        537
From William Macarty, 15 May                       537
From John Adams, 16 May                            538
From William Carmichael, 16 May                    538
To John Adams, 17 May                              540
To John Bondfield, 17 May                          540
From Louis Joseph de Beaulieu, 17 May              541
To Pierre Dessin, 17 May                           542
From D'Estaing                                     542
[From Patrick Henry, 17 May]                       544
To Rayneval, 17 May                                544
To William Stephens Smith, 17 May                  545
From Thevenard, 17 May                             545
From William Carmichael, 18 May                    546
From P. R. Randall, 18 May                         547
To J. A. Gautier, 19 May                           548
From J. A. Gautier, 19 May                         548
John Lamb to the American Commissioners, 
  20 May                                           549
From Andre Limozin, 21 May                         554
From William Stephens Smith, 21 May                554
From William Stephens Smith, 21 May                557
To Lister Asquith, 22 May                          558
To Borgnis Desbordes, Freres, 22 May               559
[From Martha Jefferson Carr, 22 May]               560
From John Wayles Eppes, 22 May                     560
From Mary Jefferson [ca. 22 May?]                  560
To John Jay, 22 May                                561
To LeJeune, 22 May                                 563
To Antoine-Felix Wuibert, 22 May                   563
From John Adams, 23 May                            564
Thomas Barclay to the American 
  Commissioners, 23 May                            566
[From Francis Eppes, 23 May]                       567
To John Jay, 23 May                                567
From John Paradise, 23 May                         570
From Troyes, 23 May                                570
To Louis Joseph de Beaulieu, 24 May                571
To Giovanni Fabbroni, 24 May                       571
From Ebenezer Gearey, Jr., 24 May                  572
From Teresa Murphy, 24 May                         578
[To Thomas Walpole, 24 May]                        578
To John Paradise, 25 May                           578
From Thomas Barclay, 26 May                        580
From John Bondfield, 27 May                        581
To John Jay, with Enclosure, 27 May                582
To John Jay, 27 May                                590
From Vergennes, 27 May                             590
From Charles Bellini, 29 May                       591
From Andre Limozin, 29 May                         591
To Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 29 May                   592
From St. Victour & Bettinger, 29 May               593
To Archibald Cary and Others, 
  Introducing John Paradise, 29 May                593
To George Wythe, 29 May                            594
To John Adams, 30 May                              594
To John Adams, 30 May                              595
From Ebenezer Gearey, Jr., 30 May                  595
From Teresa Murphy, 30 May                         596
From Vergennes, with Regulations 
  Concerning Tobacco, 30 May                       597
To Lewis Alexander, 31 May                         598
To John Bondfield, 31 May                          599
Circular Letter to Francis Coffyn 
  and Others, 31 May                               599
To the Governors of Virginia and 
  Maryland, 31 May                                 599
To John Jay, 31 May                                600
To Vergennes, 31 May                               601
From Thomas Boylston, May                          601
From Lafayette                                     602


June 1-22

[From Troyes, 1 June]                              602
To Clerisseau, 2 June                              602
From Clerisseau, 2 June                            603
Clerisseau's Account of Expenditures 
  for Architectural Plans, &c., 2 June             603
From La Morliere, 2 June                           604
To La Morliere, 3 June                             604
From Francis Coffyn, 4 June                        605
To William Stephens Smith, 4 June                  605
From John Banister, Jr., 5 June                    606
[From Francis Coffyn, 5 June]                      607
From Jean Baptiste de Gouvion, 5 June              607
From Ebenezer Gearey, Jr., 5 June                  607
From David Humphreys, 5 June                       608
From John Lamb, 5 June                             610
From John Adams, 6 June                            611
To Breteuil, 7 June                                613
From Guiraud & Portas, 8 June                      613
From Richard O'Bryen and Others, 8 June            613
From Ebenezer Gearey, Jr., 9 June                  622
From Antonio Giannini, 9 June                      623
From Lewis Alexander, 10 June                      624
Thomas Barclay to the American 
  Commissioners, 10 June                           626
From John Bondfield, 10 June                       627
From Burrill Carnes, 10 June                       628
[From Delahaie, 10 June]                           629
From Thomas Barclay, 12 June                       629
[From Borgnis Desbordes, Freres, 
  12 June]                                         629
From Ebenezer Gearey, Jr., 12 June                 630
To Stael de Holstein, 12 June                      631
From William Stephens Smith, 12 June               634
From Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 
  12 June                                          635
To James Buchanan and William Hay, 
  13 June                                          636
Instructions for Unpacking the Model 
  of the Virginia Capitol, with Invoice 
  [ca. 13 June]                                    637
Memorandum of Customs Paid on Model 
  for the Virginia Capitol [13 June]               638
To Ebenezer Gearey, Jr., 13 June                   638
To Andre Limozin, 13 June                          639
From Ebenezer Gearey, Jr., 14 June                 640
From Benjamin Hawkins, 14 June                     640
To John Banister, Jr., 15 June                     642
To Lafayette, 15 June                              643
Passport to William Langborn, 15 June              643
From Andre Limozin, 15 June                        644
From De Riario, 15 June                            644
From William H. Sargeant, 15 June                  645
To John Adams, 16 June                             645
From William Carmichael, 16 June                   647
To Jean Diot & Cie., 16 June                       649
From John Jay, 16 June                             650
[From Mary Walker Lewis, 16 June]                  651
To Andre Limozin, 16 June                          652
From Andre Limozin, 16 June                        652
From James Monroe, 16 June                         652
To William Stephens Smith, 16 June                 655
From Edward Bridgen, 17 June                       656
To Borgnis Desbordes, Freres, 17 June              656
To Lafayette, 17 June                              656
From Daniel and Theodorick Fitzhugh, 
  18 June                                          657
From Ebenezer Gearey, Jr., and 
  John Arnold, Jr., 19 June                        658
From James Madison, 19 June                        659
To William Carmichael, 20 June                     665
To John Lamb, 20 June                              667
To P. R. Randall, 20 June                          667
From Antonio Giannini, 21 June                     668
[To Francis Coffyn and Others, 22 June]            669



ILLUSTRATIONS

                                                                FACING PAGE
MODEL OF THE VIRGINIA STATE CAPITOL                                     226

  Model in plaster, executed by Bloquet after the Jefferson-
  Clerisseau plans for the building. Although the plans for the
  capitol were completed in January and forwarded with Jeffer-
  son's letter to William Buchanan and James Hay, 26 Jan.
  1786, q.v., the model was not ready for shipping until June
  and was further delayed at Le Havre; it was not in fact shipped
  from France until almost a year after the plans were sent, by
  which time the building in Richmond had progressed beyond
  the windows of the first story. See Clerisseau to Jefferson, 2
  June 1786 (two letters and account); instructions for unpack-
  ing the model, under 13 June 1786; memorandum of customs
  paid on the model, same date; Andre Limozin to Jefferson,
  19 Dec. 1786; Jefferson to Buchanan and Hay, 26 Dec. 1786;
  Edmund Randolph to Jefferson, 28 Jan. 1787. (Courtesy of
  the Virginia State Library.)


MAISON CARREE AT NIMES                                                  226

  Engraving from J. G. Legrand's edition of Clerisseau's An-
  tiquites de la France (Paris, Didot, 1804). When Jefferson
  decided to use this Roman structure, which he considered "the
  best morsel of antient architecture now remaining," as a model
  for the Virginia capitol, his knowledge of it was derived solely
  from drawings-especially those in the 1778 edition of Cleris-
  seau's Antiquites. He first visited Nimes in March 1787, and
  on 20 March wrote to Mme. de Tesse from that place: "Here I
  am, Madam, gazing whole hours at the Maison quarree, like a
  lover at his mistress. The stocking-weavers and silk spinners
  around it consider me as an hypochondriac Englishman, about
  to write with a pistol the last chapter of his history." See Jeffer-
  son to James Madison, 1 Sep. 1785; to Buchanan and Hay, 26
  Jan. 1786; to Mme. de Tesse, 20 Mch. 1787.


PARIS AND ENVIRONS, ca. 1787                                            227

  This map, published by Le Rouge, shows the immediate neigh-
  borhood of Paris as Jefferson knew it. The new wall of the
  farmers-general, under construction during Jefferson's residence
  in the city (see Jefferson to Mrs. Bingham, 7 Feb. 1787), is
  here indicated by a single black line marked "Nouveaux Murs."
  Beyond this, the main highway to Brittany leads westward
  through the suburbs of Chaillot, Passy, Auteuil, across the
  Seine at Sevres, through Chaville, to Versailles (at lower left).
  The road to Normandy, continuing the axis of the Champs
  Elysees (where Jefferson lived in the Hotel de Langeac),
  skirts the Bois de Boulogne, crosses the Seine by the Pont de
  Neuilly, then, leaving Suresnes and Mont Calvaire to the south,
  leads to St. Germain en Laye (left margin). The road to Pic-
  ardy, taken by Jefferson when he went to England and to Hol-
  land, leads north out through the suburb of St. Denis. The road
  to Orleans, leading south, is shown here as far as Berni, the
  site of Calonne's country residence, where the American Com-
  mittee met and adopted the "resolutions of Berni" concerning
  the tobacco trade (see Jefferson to Jay, 27 and 31 May 1786;
  Vergennes to Jefferson, 30 May 1786). (Courtesy of the Bib-
  liotheque Historique de la Ville de Paris, through Howard C.
  Rice, Jr.)


LAFAYETTE'S "AVIS AU COMITE" AS REPRODUCED BY A
NEW METHOD OF ENGRAVING                                                 386

  Lafayette's "Resume" of his advice on the American tobacco
  trade was first delivered orally at a meeting of the American
  Committee, probably early in March of 1786, and put in writ-
  ing while Jefferson was in London. Lafayette then had copies
  reproduced in facsimile by the "Hoffman process," one copy of
  which-the only uncorrected copy known to be extant-he en-
  closed in his letter to Jefferson of 19 Mch. 1786, q.v., where
  this document is printed in full. For the Hoffman process, see
  Jefferson to David Rittenhouse, 25 Jan.; to Benjamin Franklin,
  27 Jan.; to James Currie, 28 Jan.; to Ezra Stiles, 1 Sep. 1786
  (the latter in Vol. 10). (From copy in TJ Papers, courtesy of
  the Library of Congress.)


MODELS BY BOULTON & WATT OF GRIST MILLS DRIVEN BY
STEAM POWER                                                             387

  The Albion Mill at Blackfriars Bridge which captivated Jef-
  ferson's imagination in London in 1786 and caused him to
  speculate upon the future use of steam power in America (see
  Jefferson to Thomson, 22 Apr., 17 Dec. 1786) was destroyed
  by fire in 1791. The above models in wood were of the rotative
  type of engine developed in 1783; these were acquired from the
  Boulton & Watt firm by the Science Museum, London, in 1876,
  and, in the words of Boulton's biographer, "there cannot be any
  doubt that these were Boulton's schemes" (H. W. Dickinson,
  Matthew Boulton, Cambridge, 1937, p. 122). (British Crown
  Copyright; from an exhibit in the Science Museum, London,
  through courtesy of H. A. Salter, Deputy Museum Superin-
  tendent.)


FINAL PAGE OF THE PROPOSED TREATY WITH PORTUGAL                         418

  This final text of the proposed treaty with Portugal, the nego-
  tiations for which were the prime reason for Jefferson's hurried
  trip to England in March 1786, was prepared just prior to Jef-
  ferson's return to Paris. Since there was no reason to doubt that
  the treaty would be ratified, he signed it on 25 Apr., the day
  before his departure from London, and left this copy with
  Adams. The impression of the seal reproduced here is one of
  several seals known to have been used by Jefferson during his
  lifetime. He probably had it made shortly after he went to
  Paris and examples of it are to be found intact on several letters
  of this period. See American Commissioners to John Jay, 25
  Apr. 1786; projet of a treaty with Portugal, same date. See also
  TJ's Autobiography, Ford, I, 90, in which the assertion is
  made that De Pinto signed the draft treaty; this, however, must
  have referred to the duplicate copy of the final text which De
  Pinto's courier transmitted to Portugal-a copy that was pre-
  sumably signed by all three ministers. See Adams to TJ, 16
  July 1786. (Courtesy of the Adams Manuscript Trust and the
  Massachusetts Historical Society.)


PLAN OF MOUNDS AT THE MOUTH OF THE
MUSKINGUM RIVER                                                         419

  This plan (enclosed in Ezra Stiles' letter to Jefferson, 8 May
  1786, q.v.) was described by Stiles: "Plan of Works or
  Mounds of Earth & Lines of Circumvallation covered with
  Forest Trees, at the Entrance of the River Muskingham into
  the River Ohio: taken 1786 by Gen. Parsons & communicated
  to Ezra Stiles. May 5 1786." Samuel H. Parsons' speculations
  concerning the mounds and their builders are to be found in his
  letter to Stiles of 27 Apr. 1786 (enclosed in Stiles' letter of
  8 May). (Courtesy of the Library of Congress.)
			

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