Duvivier and Dupre seem to be the best workmen;
perhaps the last is the best of the two.
The public papers, which accompany this, will give you fully the news of
this quarter.
I am with great and sincere esteem, Dear Sir, your most obedient and
most humble servant,
Th: Jefferson.
LETTER XXX.--TO MR. DUMAS, June 23, 1790
TO MR. DUMAS.
New York, June 23, 1790.
Dear Sir,
I arrived at this place the letter[sp.] end of March, and undertook
the office to which the President had been pleased to appoint me, of
Secretary of State, which comprehends that of Foreign Affairs. Before I
had got through the most pressing matters which had been accumulating, a
long illness came upon me, and put it out of my power for many weeks to
acknowledge the receipt of your letters.
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We are much pleased to learn the credit of our paper at Amsterdam. We
consider it as of the first importance, to possess the first credit
there, and to use it little. Our distance from the wars of Europe, and
our disposition to take no part in them, will, we hope, enable us to
keep clear of the debts which they occasion to other powers. It will be
well for yourself and our bankers, to keep in mind always, that a great
distinction is made here, between our foreign and domestic paper.
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