Original paper slip text:Printed: Mercure de France, 3 June 1780, according to JA's note following a French text (LbC 1119). This account is from JA to Huntington, 20 May 1780, which in turn was taken from JA to Genet, 17 May 1780 (see Wharton, 3:685–688, 692–693).

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The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States, ed. Francis Wharton, Washington, D.C., 1889
6 vols.

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