I enclose you a letter
containing my testimony on your general conduct, which I have written to
relieve a debt of justice pressing on my mind, well knowing at the same
time, you will not stand in need of it in America. Your conduct is too
well known to Congress, your character to all the world, to need any
testimonials.
The moment I close my despatches for the packet, which will be the
9th instant, I shall with great pleasure go to pay my respects to
Mrs. Barclay at St. Germain, to satisfy her on the subject of your
transactions, and to assure her that my resources shall be hers, as long
as I have any. A multitude of letters to write, prevents my entering
into the field of public news, further than to observe, that it is
extremely doubtful whether the affairs of Holland will, or will not
produce a war between France, on one side, and England and Prussia, on.
the other.
I beg you to accept assurances of the sincere esteem and respect, with
which I have the honor to be, Dear Sir, your friend
and servant,
Th: Jefferson.
LETTER LXXVII.--TO E. CARRINGTON, August 4,1787
TO E.
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