[174] Princeton, October 12, 1783. He started for that journey the following autumn.
[175] September 10, 1791.
[176] Mount Vernon, April 4, 1784.
[177] December 8, 1784. Bayard Tuckerman, Lafayette, 1889, I, 165.
[178] July 25, 1785.
[179] "Excellence, Vos vertus civiles et vos talents militaires ont donné à votre patrie la liberté et le bonheur; mais leur influence sur celui du globe entier est encore préférable à mes yeux. C'est à ce grand but que tend tout homme qui se sent digne d'arriver a l'immortalité," etc. May 28, 1789. Papers of the Continental Congress, LXXVIII, 759, Library of Congress.
[180] June 22, 1784. Jean Antoine Houdon, by C.H. Hart and Ed. Biddle, Philadelphia, 1911, p. 182.
[181] Ibid., p. 189. Peale's full-length portrait, with "a perspective view of York and Gloucester, and the surrender of the British army," price thirty guineas, reached Paris in April, 1785, and has since disappeared.
[182] July 10, 1785. Ibid., p. 191.
[183] Above, p. 12.