FC (DNA: PCC, No. 80); in clerk’s hand, signed by Jay. Entry in SJL of its receipt on 2 May 1785 reads: “received Mr. Jay’s of N.Y … . Mar. 22. inclosing commission and letter of credence.” Enclosures: Engrossed copy of commission (MHi), with paper seal attached and signed by Lee, Jay, and Thomson. Texts of commission and letter of credence are in DNA: PCC, No. 81, endorsed by Thomson: “Form of a commission to Mr. Jefferson and of a Letter of Credence Read and approved March 22. 1785. Referred to the Secy. Foreign Affairs to take order”; printed, with indication of two words deleted by Congress, in JCC description begins Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789, ed. W. C. Ford and others, Washington, 1904–1937 description ends , xxviii, 189–90.

TJ’s commission as minister to France ran “for the space of three years from this Day unless sooner revoked.”