I am, with sincere and great esteem, Dear Sir, your most obedient and
most humble servant,
Th: Jefferson.
LETTER LIV.--TO WILLIAM SHORT, March 15, 1791
TO WILLIAM SHORT.
Philadelphia, March 15, 1791.
Dear Sir,
In mine of January the 23rd, I acknowledged the receipt of your letters
from No. 29 to 48 inclusive, except 31, 44, 45, 46. Since that, I have
received Nos. 45 and 50, the former in three months and seven days, the
latter in two months and seventeen days, by the English packet, which
had an uncommonly long passage. Nos. 31, 44, 46,47, 48, 49, are still
missing. They have probably come through merchant vessels and merchants,
who will let them lie on their counters two or three months before they
will forward them. I wrote you on the 8th and 12th instant, by a private
hand, on particular subjects. I am not certain whether this will be in
time to go by the same conveyance. In yours of December the 23rd, you
suppose we receive regularly the journals of the National Assembly from
your secretary at Paris, but we have never received any thing from him.
Nothing has been addressed to him, his name being unknown to us.
It gives great satisfaction, that the _Arret du Conseil_ of December,
1787, stands a chance of being saved. It is in truth the sheet-anchor
of our connection with France, which will be much loosened when that
is lost.
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