your arrival in New York. That of the latest
date was April 30th. I communicated to Mr. de Montmorin[66] also
the copy of the letter to Mr. de la Luzerne, which he desired I
should allow him to retain.

I shall employ Dupre to execute the medal you mention, after
having consulted with the Abbe Barthelemi, respecting those parts
which are left undecided, and no time shall be lost in forwarding
the business.
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Wm. SHORT.

[Footnote 66: Minister of Foreign Affairs of Louis
XVI.]

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_Thomas Jefferson to William Short._

To
William SHORT, Esquire, New York, July 26th, 1790.
Charge d'Affaires of the United States of America,
Paris.

Dear Sir:
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As I presume the die will be finished by the time you receive
this, I am to desire you will have a medal of gold struck for the
Marquis de la Luzerne, and have put to it a chain of 365 links,
each link containing gold of the value of two dollars and a half,
or 13 livres 10 sous, the links to be of plain wire, so that
their workmanship may cost as it were nothing. The whole will
make a present of a little more than a thousand dollars,
including the medal and chain. As soon as done, be pleased
to forward them by a safe hand to the Marquis de la Luzerne, (p. 120)
in the name of the President of the United States, informing him
that it is the one spoken of in my letter to him of April 30th,
1790. Say nothing to anybody of the value of the present, because
that will not always be the same in all cases. Be so good as to
have a second medal of gold struck in the same die, and to send
this second, together with the dies, to Philadelphia by the first
safe person who shall be passing. No chain to be sent with it.

I am with great and sincere esteem,
Th: JEFFERSON.

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_Thomas Jefferson to the Count de Moustier._

To
THE COUNT DE MOUSTIER. Philadelphia, March 2d, 1791.

Sir: I have received your favour of November 6th, wherein you
inform me that the King has thought proper, by a new mission to
the Court