RC (ViU: TJP-ER); at foot of text: “Thomas Jefferson Esqr Monticello”; endorsed by TJ as received 26 June 1814 and so recorded in SJL. Enclosure: Barnes to Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Georgetown, 22 June 1814, informing him that he had received Kosciuszko’s letter of 20 May 1813 acknowledging “the safe conveyance of 5,500 franc’s transmitted thro our mutual friend Mr Morton 16 May 1812”; explaining that the delay in sending the remittance had caused him great distress but was unavoidable due to the “extensive Blockade of the Enemy—whereby all intercourse was at an End”; inclosing through “Messrs Baring Brothers & Compy London—Messrs Bowie & Kurtz, sett of Ex: for £400 sterling a 7½ ⅌Ct under par, equal to 1644–44. dollars, passed to your Debit—in Accot Currt herewith also inclosed—for the Sale of your late Penna Bank stock—and transposing the same in the U States New Loan To which I subscribed by Order of Mr Jefferson $10,000—The particulars of which—when Compleated—I shall do my self the Honor of transmitting you particulars—&ca”; taking note of the “Astonishing and almost incomprehensible Epoch, of Human Affairs” that had recently transpired; and wishing Kosciuszko a “quiet retirement” (Tr in ViU: TJP-ER; entirely in Barnes’s hand; at head of text: “Copy”; at foot of text: “To Genl Thads Kosciuszko Paris”). Other enclosure printed below.