1From Thomas Jefferson to the Agents for the United States in France, 5 October 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
The government having at my request called on the farmers general for a state of their purchases of tobacco agreeable to the conditions of the order of Berni, and just now furnished me with a copy of it, I send you an extract of that part which concerns your port in hopes you will do me the favor to examine whether it be just and to certify any errors you may discover in it on unquestionable...
2[From Thomas Jefferson to the Agents for the United States in France, 31 December 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris, 31 Dec. 1787 . An entry in SJL under this date reads: “Agents circular.” No copy of such a letter has been found but it evidently was a brief letter enclosing the printed copies of Lambert to TJ, 29 Dec. 1787 , and the annexed arrêt, being no doubt similar to the circulars of 31 May and 29 Oct. 1786, qq.v. Although the letters may have actually been written on this day, they were...