The American Commissioners to Favi: Résumé, 9 December 1784
The American Commissioners to Favi6
Copy:7 National Archives
⟨Passy, December 9, 1784: We received your letter of November 16, informing us that His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Tuscany would receive with pleasure our propositions for a treaty. We now enclose a plan of such a treaty of amity and commerce, and are ready to sign it if it should meet with approbation. It is founded on principles of equal right and is calculated to promote the interests of humanity in general. We shall consider any amendments that may be proposed.8⟩
6. Published in Jefferson Papers, VII, 561–2; Adams Papers, XVI, 448.
7. In Humphreys’ letterbook.
8. The plan was identical, mutatis mutandis, to the draft treaty submitted to Thulemeier; it is described under the date [before Nov. 10]. Favi replied to the American commissioners on Feb. 10, 1785, that he had forwarded the proposal to his court and that its principles conformed to those of the Tuscan government. He assured the commissioners that the United States would enjoy most-favored-nation status in Tuscan ports. For the text of his letter see Jefferson Papers, VII, 649.