1. Samuel Smith’s 29 Aug. letter to Jefferson, enclosing that of Joshua Barney to Smith of 11 July (DLC: Jefferson Papers), stated that Barney’s letter would help to explain why the exchange of ratifications had not succeeded and “will shew that Federalists Can not be trusted with the Objects of Government.” Barney had written Smith from Paris that he hoped Smith would be coming to France as negotiator, adding: “had the president charged Mr Dawson with whatever negociation might be found necessary I know that the treaty would have been ratified ten days after his arrival, but at present it is very uncertain. Mr. Murray does not like what has been done in the U S every man who knows him, knows also his attachment to the British, & his dislike to france, it is with pain he sees that there is likely to be a reconciliation between france and the U S.” Barney explained that the first thing Murray had done was to appoint Mountflorence secretary of the embassy, “when he knew that there was not a publick Officer in france from the first Consul, down, that did not dispise & suspect his principles.” Barney charged that Mountflorence had required several Americans seeking claims to pay him 5 percent of the value of their cargoes before he would deliver their papers.

2. Jefferson’s 9 Sept. 1801 letter to Hammuda Bey was in reply to that of 15 Apr. 1801 addressed to John Adams, complaining that not all the promised regalia had arrived and adding a request for forty twenty-four-pound cannon. Jefferson assured the bey that by the time the letter reached him all the stipulated articles should have been received and that the American squadron in the Mediterranean meant him no harm (ASP description begins American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States … (38 vols.; Washington, 1832–61). description ends , Foreign Relations, 2:358).

In his 9 Sept. letter to Livingston, Jefferson explained that Livingston’s instructions would not mention the issue of “free ships make free goods” because the U.S. had not intended to take any side during the war. Jefferson offered as his personal opinion that if circumstances changed in Europe, he could support the idea as a “convenient rule” (Jefferson to Livingston, 9 Sept. 1801, Ford, Writings of Jefferson description begins Paul Leicester Ford, ed., The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (10 vols.; New York, 1892–99). description ends , 8:88–89).

3. Gallatin wrote to Jefferson on 12 Sept. that the change in weather seemed to restore his and his son’s health (Gallatin to Jefferson, 12 Sept. 1801, reproduced in Papers of Gallatin [microfilm ed.], reel 5).