[166] Jefferson to Monroe, May 10, 1786. Memorial Edition, V, 327.

[167] To Major General Greene, January 12, 1786. Ibid., V, 246.

[168] "Autobiography", Ibid., I, 97 and July 11, 1786, Ibid., V, 364.

[169] See my edition of the Jefferson Lafayette correspondence, chapter II. Paris, Baltimore, 1929.

[170] "Memoirs", II, 148.

[171] To John Jay, August 14, 1785. Memorial Edition, V, 63.

[172] To Baron Geismer, September 6, 1785. Memorial Edition, V, 128.

[173] To John Langdon, September 11, 1785. Ibid., V, 131.

[174] To Count Hogendorp, October 13, 1785. Ibid., V, 182.

[175] To John Page, May 4, 1786. Memorial Edition, V, 306.