1. AA wrote to Jefferson on 21 and 26 Feb., enclosing reimbursement for fabric and other household goods that he had purchased for her in Paris. Anxiously awaiting JA’s formal letter of recall from Congress, AA anticipated “retiring to our own little Farm feeding my poultry & improveing my Garden,” rather than remaining “at the court of Saint Jame’s where I seldom meet with Characters So innofensive as my Hens & chickings, or minds so well improved as my Garden” (AFC description begins Adams Family Correspondence, ed. L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Richard Alan Ryerson, Margaret A. Hogan, Sara Martin, and others, Cambridge, 1963– . description ends , 8:236, 238). For Jefferson’s reaction to the Adamses’ departure, see Descriptive List of Illustrations, No. 5, above.

2. Jefferson departed Paris on 4 March and reached The Hague five days later, where he met with JA and the loan consortium to contract a fourth Dutch loan on [13 March], below. After settling his accounts and some of JA’s expenses in Amsterdam, Jefferson embarked on a scenic tour of Holland and the Rhine Valley. Visiting Utrecht, Cologne, Frankfurt, Strasbourg, and Épernay, Jefferson sampled wines, assessed agricultural methods, and composed a memorandum of “hints” to Americans traveling in Europe. He returned to Paris on 23 April (Jefferson’s Memorandum Books description begins Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, ed. James A. Bear Jr. and Lucia C. Stanton (The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series), Princeton, N.J., 1997; 2 vols. description ends , 1:696–699, 704; Jefferson, Papers description begins The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Julian P. Boyd, Charles T. Cullen, John Catanzariti, Barbara B. Oberg, James P. McClure, and others, Princeton, N.J., 1950– . description ends , 13:8–36, 264–276).