Paris, July 7,1789.
Dear Sir,
Your letter of yesterday gave me the first information that Monsieur de
Mirabeau had suggested to the honorable the Assembly of the Nation, that
I had made an offer to Mr. Necker to obtain from America a quantity
of corn or flour, which had been refused. I know not how Monsieur de
Mirabeau has been led into this error. I never in my life made any
proposition to Mr. Necker on the subject: I never said I had made such
a proposition. Some time last autumn, Mr. Necker did me the honor to
desire I would have notified in the United States, that corn and flour
would meet with a good sale in France. I conveyed this notice, in a
letter to Mr. Jay, Secretary for Foreign Affairs, as you will see by the
extract of my letter published by him in an American gazette, which I
have the honor to send you. I must beg leave to avail myself of your
friendship and of your position to have a communication of these facts
made to the honorable Assembly of the Nation, of which you are a member,
and to repeat to you those sentiments of respect and attachment, with
which I have the honor to be, my dear Sir, your most obedient and most
humble servant,
Th: Jefferson.
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