Here at last is the state of the Swedish military. I took it from a book that Mr. Asp lent me and have instructed a bookseller to order two copies from Germany, where it is printed. Sir James Jay will have given you, sir, a small Dutch booklet on the same subject regarding this republic, and I'm sending a second copy on your behalf in a packet to Mr. Livingston.1

I shall write to Berlin to obtain a similar account if possible.2

Here is a letter for Mr. De Lynden, sir, which you should please seal and deliver.3

Mme. Dumas, who begs your excellency to accept her greetings and those of her daughter, finds the English even more inclined to drag their feet than the Dutch. “If she were Mr. Adams, she would ask them for a categorical response, which she would go and wait for at The Hague.”4

Your letter of 1 January has given me a fierce appetite for the Topics you promise to explain in greater detail.

I am with very great respect, sir, your excellency's very humble and very obedient servant