1To Thomas Jefferson from Cambray, 16 July 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Château de Villers aux Erables, 16 July 1786 . Has just returned from a journey and received TJ’s letter enclosing the extract of a letter from the commissioners of the treasury; has never doubted the good faith of the United States in regard to their obligation to the foreign officers; attributed the delay in meeting them to an “impossibilité momentanée, telle qu’on en voit des exemples dans...