1Enclosure: Jacob Vernes to Brailsford & Morris, 4 November 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
...tobacco and the fisheries. Such a move, indeed, was a logical extension of the commercial and political strategy that lay at the heart of this aspect of TJ’s diplomacy: that of strengthening the trade links between the United States and France, of supporting a political ally, and of delivering a simultaneous blow at the trade—and particularly the maritime power—of England.
2To Thomas Jefferson from Vernes, 30 June 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
may have been an early draft of Bérard’s Observations on the tobacco trade between the United States and France, printed under 3 Sep. 1787, q.v. for a note on Bérard’s letter to the farmers-general of 14 July 1787 and other documents involved in the efforts being made by TJ, Lafayette, Bérard, and...