be twenty-four _lignes_).

All on the following conditions: That for the two engraved dies
of the said medal shall be paid me the sum of two thousand four
hundred _livres_, on delivery of the two dies after the
twenty-four medals which the Colonel desires have been struck.

Done in duplicate between us, in Paris, this nineteenth of
November, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five (1785).

D. HUMPHREYS.
DUPRE.

On November 25th of the same year, M. Dacier, the perpetual secretary
of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres, communicated another
letter from Colonel Humphreys, in which he requested the Academy to
compose designs for three more medals, which had been voted to
General Morgan and to Lieutenant-Colonels Washington and Howard. (p. xvii)
Commissioners were appointed and designs made for these also.[6]

[Footnote 6: See B, page xxxvi.]

Colonel Humphreys having returned to America before the medals were
finished, their superintendence was undertaken by Mr. Jefferson, as
will be seen from the following letter:

To the Honourable
John JAY, Paris, February 14, 1787.
Secretary for Foreign Affairs.

Sir: Mr. Morris, during his office, being authorized to have the
medals and swords executed, which had been ordered by Congress,
he authorized Colonel Humphreys to take measures here for the
execution. Colonel Humphreys did so, and the swords were finished
in time for him to carry them. The medals not being finished, he
desired me to attend to them. The workman who was to make that of
General Greene brought me yesterday the medal in gold,
twenty-three in copper, and the die. Mr. Short, during my
absence, will avail himself of the first occasion which shall
offer of forwarding the medals to you. I must beg leave, through
you, to ask the pleasure of Congress as to the number they would
choose to have struck. Perhaps they might be willing to deposit
one of each person in every college of the United States. Perhaps
they might choose to give a series of them to each of the crowned
heads of Europe, which would be an acceptable present to them.
They will be pleased to decide. In the meantime I have sealed up
the die, and shall retain it