Colonel Humphreys to Thomas Jefferson.
London, January 30, 1786.
To
Thomas Jefferson, Esq.,
Paris.
Dear Sir: Gatteaux, the engraver, lives in the street St. Thomas du Louvre, opposite the Treasury of the Duke de Chartres.
Now that there is no obstacle to commencing the medal for General Washington, since Houdon's return, I could wish, should it not be giving you too much trouble, that you would send for Duvivier, who lives in the old Louvre, and propose to him undertaking it upon exactly the terms he had offered, which, I think, were 2,400 livres, besides the gold and expense of coinage. If he should not choose it, we must let it rest until Dupré shall have finished General Greene's. Gatteaux has a paper on which is the description of General Washington's medal.
I am, Sir, your most obedient and humble servant,
D. Humphreys.
Thomas Jefferson to Colonel Humphreys.
Paris, May 7, 1786.
To
Colonel Humphreys,
London.
Dear Sir: I have received the books and papers you mention, and will undertake to have finished what you left undone of the medals, or, at least, will proceed in it till the matter shall be put into better hands.