1. The enclosure has not been identified.

2. Mandrillon had informed GW as early as June 1789 that Theophile Cazenove was carrying a letter and a book from him to the president. See Mandrillon to GW, 15 June 1789. Cazenove arrived in the United States in March 1790, and Franco Petrus Van Berckel, the Dutch minister to the United States, informed GW that Cazenove was carrying letters for him, “which he wished to deliver with his own hands and requesting to know when he might be presented for that purpose. It was thought, before this should be done, it might be proper to know whether they were of a public nature, and whether he was acting in a public character. If so, then to let them come to me through the Secretary of State—if not, then for him to send them, that the purport might be known before he was introduced, which might be at the next Levee when he might be received & treated agreeably to the consequence he might appear to derive from the testimonial of the letters. It being conceived that etiquette of this sort is essential with all foreigners to give respect to the Chief Majestrate and the dignity of the Government, which would be lessened if every person who could procure a letter of introduction should be presented otherwise than at Levee hours in a formal manner” (Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 6:49).

3. The original version of this letter reads: “J’ai l’honneur d’envoyer à Votre Excellence un Exemplaire de ma Lettre à l’Assemblée Nationale, elle fait partie de mes Voeux Patriotiques, aux quels je prie Votre Excellence de l’ajouter après l’Avant-Propos. Mr Cazenove qui a du faire voile de Londres pour l’Amérique S’est chargé d’offrir un Exemplaire [de] mes Voeux à Votre Excellence, et je la prie de les accueillir avec la même indulgence et la même bonté dont elle m’honore.”