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To Thomas Jefferson from Condorcet, [12 September 1789]

From Condorcet

Ce Samedi

L’academie etant en vacance, je ne puis donner a Monsieur Churchman L’acte qu’il demande. Cela ne sera possible que pour Le mois de Novembre prochain. Je suis très faché du proche depart de Monsieur Jefferson. S’il etait libre Lundi et qu’il voulût bien venir passer la soirée à la monnoie, avec M. Short il me ferait le plus grand plaisir. J’espere que nous le reverrons dans peu de mois et qu’il nous retrouvera dignes d’etre les bons amis des Américains. Mais quoiqu’il en arrive, Monsieur Jefferson sera toujours celui des philosophes et des hommes libres de tous les pays.

RC (DLC); without date or signature; endorsed by TJ: “Condorcet Marq. de.” This letter, not recorded in SJL, must be assigned the date of Saturday, 12 Sep. 1789, because it was only on the day before that TJ received Churchman’s letter of 15 May 1789 and it was on the following Friday, 18 Sep. 1789 that he replied to it. That reply proves that TJ saw Condorcet during the week following this letter and suggests that he may have accepted Condorcet’s invitation for the 14th.

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