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sul, will be here some few days yet. He will be, as he has al ready been, of much service to you, if the information I ask both from yourself and your lawyer, can come before his departure. I repeat my assurances of doing whatever I can for you, and am, Sir, your very humble servant,

TH: JEFFERSON.

LETTER CV1I1. TO JOHN ADAMS.

Paris, September 19, 1785. DEAR SIR,

Lambe has arrived. He brings new full powers to us from Congress, to appoint persons to negotiate with the Barbary States ; but we are to sign the treaties. Lambe has not even a recom mendation from them to us, but it seems clear that he would be approved by them. I told him of Mr. Barclay s appointment to Morocco, and proposed Algiers to him. He agrees. A small alteration in the form of our despatches will be necessary, and, of course, another courier shall be despatched to you on the return of Colonel Franks, for your pleasure herein. I am, with great esteem,

your friend and servant,

TH: JEFFERSON.*

LETTER CIX. TO JAMES MADISON.

Paris, September 20, 1785.

DEAR SIR,

By Mr. Fitzhugh, you will receive my letter of the first instant. He is still here, and gives me an opportunity of again addressing you much sooner than I should have done, but for the discovery of a great piece of inattention. In that letter I send you a detail of the cost of your books, and desire you to keep the amount in your hands, as if I had forgot that a part of it was in fact your own, as being a balance of what I had remained in your debt. I

[* The original of the above was in cypher ; though, as in the case of most of the Author s letters in cypher, he prepared and preserved a literal copy of it.]