To Thomas Jefferson from Bellon, 21 April 1787
From Bellon
Dieppe, 21 Apr. 1787. Encloses a letter just received from Captain Thomson, an Englishman, commanding the Mercury “venant de Richmond en Virginie, avec une cargaison de tabac pour la ferme.”
RC (DLC); 2 p.; below signature: Interprète Royal, cy devant Employé dans Larmée de Rochambeau, où J’ai Eu L’Honneur de Connoitre Son Excellency à Baltimore in Maryland”; endorsed. Recorded in SJL as received 3 May 1787 at Aix-en-Provence. Enclosure not identified, but it was probably one of the Virginia letters received on 3 May—the missing letter from Banister of 25 Dec. 1786, one of Randolph’s two letters of 28 Jan. 1787, or one of the letters from Francis and Elizabeth Wayles Eppes or Mary Jefferson (see under 22 and 23 May 1786).