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From Charles Thomson, with Instructions and Commissions, 16 May 1784

From: Jefferson Papers | Main Series | Volume 7 | From Charles Thomson, with Instructions and Commissions, 16 May 1784

1To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Thomson, with Instructions and Commissions, 16 May 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
I expect you will receive by this Conveyance all the necessary papers with the twenty Commissions. You will find by these that my simple draught did not suit the taste of our sovereign body. With much ado the additions were confined to two, and so far did the Gerrian taste prevail that contrary to the practice of every other nation the prefix of Honble. was inserted. Should you or any of your...