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256 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS.
THOMAS JEFFERSON TO JAY.
Paris, October 8, 1787.
Dear Sir:
The Count de Moustier, Minister Plenipotentiary from the
Court of Versailles to the United States, will have the honour
of delivering you this. The connection of your offices will
necessarily connect you in acquaintance ; but I beg leave
to present him to you on account of his personal as well as
public character. You will find him open, communicative,
candid, simple in his manners, and a declared enemy to
ostentation and luxury. He goes with a resolution to add
no aliment to it by his example, unless he finds that the
disposition of his countrymen require it indispensably.—
Permit me at the same time to solicit your friendly notice,
and thro' you, that also of Mrs. Jay, to Madame la Marquise de B. sister-in-law to Monsieur de Moustier. She
accompanies him in hopes that a change of climate may
assist her feeble health, and also that she may procure a
more valuable education for her son, and safer from seduction, in America than in France. I think it impossible to
find a better woman, more amiable, more modest, more
simple in her manners, dress and way of thinking. She
will deserve the friendship of Mrs. Jay, and the way to
obtain hers is to receive her and treat her without the shadow
of etiquette.
The Count d' Aranda leaves us in a day or two. He
desired me to recall him to your recollection and to assure
you of his friendship.—In a letter which I mean as a private
one, I may venture details too minute for a public one, yet
not unamusing nor unsatisfactory. I may venture names
too, without the danger of their getting into a newspaper.
There has long been a division in the council here on the
question of war and peace. M. de Montmorin and M. de
Breteuil have been constantly for war. They are supported
in this by the queen. The king goes for nothing: he hunts
| Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 3 |
| Creator | Jay, John |
| Publisher | G.P. Putnam's Sons |
| Place of Publication | New York, London |
| Date | [1890-93] |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000291 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 256 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. THOMAS JEFFERSON TO JAY. Paris, October 8, 1787. Dear Sir: The Count de Moustier, Minister Plenipotentiary from the Court of Versailles to the United States, will have the honour of delivering you this. The connection of your offices will necessarily connect you in acquaintance ; but I beg leave to present him to you on account of his personal as well as public character. You will find him open, communicative, candid, simple in his manners, and a declared enemy to ostentation and luxury. He goes with a resolution to add no aliment to it by his example, unless he finds that the disposition of his countrymen require it indispensably.— Permit me at the same time to solicit your friendly notice, and thro' you, that also of Mrs. Jay, to Madame la Marquise de B. sister-in-law to Monsieur de Moustier. She accompanies him in hopes that a change of climate may assist her feeble health, and also that she may procure a more valuable education for her son, and safer from seduction, in America than in France. I think it impossible to find a better woman, more amiable, more modest, more simple in her manners, dress and way of thinking. She will deserve the friendship of Mrs. Jay, and the way to obtain hers is to receive her and treat her without the shadow of etiquette. The Count d' Aranda leaves us in a day or two. He desired me to recall him to your recollection and to assure you of his friendship.—In a letter which I mean as a private one, I may venture details too minute for a public one, yet not unamusing nor unsatisfactory. I may venture names too, without the danger of their getting into a newspaper. There has long been a division in the council here on the question of war and peace. M. de Montmorin and M. de Breteuil have been constantly for war. They are supported in this by the queen. The king goes for nothing: he hunts |
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