With Americans of Past and Present Days

by J. J. Jusserand

[108] To his brother, Philadelphia, November 17, 1806. Revue des Deux Mondes, November 15, 1908, p. 421.

[109] Original (several times printed in part) in the Library of Congress, Miscellaneous—Personal. The rest of the letter treats of the necessity of fortifying the coasts.

[110] To David Stuart, November 20, 1791.

[111] W.B. Bryan's History of the National Capital, 1914, p. 127.

[112] Records of the Columbia Historical Society, II, 151.

[113] April 8, 1791. Hamilton Papers, vol. XI, Library of Congress.

[114] September 30, October 24, 1791. Correspondence of the French Ministers, ed. F.J. Turner, 1904, p. 62. "Salente," the ideal city, in Fénelon's Télémaque. During the War of Independence Chevalier Jean de Ternant had served as a volunteer officer in the American army. He was at Valley Forge, at Charleston, took part under Greene in the Southern campaign and was promoted a colonel by a vote of Congress.

[115] To Jefferson, March 11, 1791.

[116] To Hamilton, April 8, 1791.

[117] Same letter to Hamilton.