Transcriber's note:
Variations in spelling, punctuation and hyphenation have been retained except in obvious cases of typographical error.
The cover for the eBook version of this book was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
Omitted words, shown as blank spaces in the original, have been transcribed as dashes (——) in the following cases:
Page 59: As I am not positively instructed that this loan has succeeded, I do not venture to draw bills on you; but in case you shall be in cash for the United States, which I expect will happen, you will pay to Messrs —— & Co., for account of John Ross, the sum of two hundred thousand livres; to Messrs Le Couteulx & Co., for account of William Bingham, one hundred thousand livres, and to John Holker, for account of John Holker fils, the sum of one hundred thousand. From each of these persons you will take quadruplicate receipts, in the form following; "Received of ——, banker, by order of the Superintendent of the Finances of the United States of North America, on behalf of —— the sum of —— being so much paid by the said States to him, the said —— for which I have signed four receipts, all of this tenor and date. Done in Paris this —— day of —— 178—." You will be pleased, Sir, to forward to me three of the copies by different opportunities.
Page 62: in my letter of the —— last
Page 62: the invoice sent in my letter of the —— last
Page 63: the —— last, because I feel a conviction
Page 66: 1782 is —— dollars, payable
Page 258: by the time Mr —— reaches the Havana
Page 259: that Mr ——'s bills be protested
Page 397: from a tour —— have been making
"... the subject of paying all balances ..."