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• Itinerary and Chronology of Thomas Jefferson 1786–1789
• Correspondence 1786
• Answers to Questions Propounded By M. De Meusnier 1
• Additional Questions of M. De Meusnier, and Answers
• Observations On the Article États-unis Prepared For the EncyclopÉdie 1
• To John Jay
• To Archibald Stuart 1
• To C. W. F. Dumas 1
• To James Madison
• To the Marquis De La Fayette
• To the Secretary For Foreign Affairs (john Jay)
• To Alexander Mccaul
• To Richard Henry Lee
• To Anna Scott Randolph Jefferson 1
• To the Secretary For Foreign Affairs (john Jay)
• To John Page
• To James Ross
• To James Monroe
• To the Secretary For Foreign Affairs (john Jay)
• To the Secretary of Foreign Affairs (john Jay)
• To M. La Morleine
• To the Swedish Ambassador At Paris (baron Stahe)
• To William Carmichael
• To James Monroe
• To John Adams
• To Hector St. John CrevecŒur
• To the Marquis De La Fayette
• To the Marquis De St. Lambert.
• To Mrs. John (abigail) Adams
• To James Monroe 1
• To George Wythe
• To Francis Hopkinson
• To the French Minister of Foreign Relations (charles Gravier, Comte De Vergennes)
• To Jean Pierre Brissot De Warville
• To HonorÉ Gabriel Requetti, Comte De Mirabeau
• To Charles Gysbert, Count Van Hogendorp
• To Mrs. Paradise
• To Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr.
• To John Adams
• To Ezra Stiles
• Answers to the Queries of M. SoulÉs 1
• To Mrs. Maria Cosway
• To Mrs. Maria Cosway
• To William Stephens Smith
• To George Washington
• To Mrs. Elizabeth Trist 1
• To James Madison
• To Charles Thomson 1
• To Nicholas Lewis
• To William Carmichael
• 1787 - to Alexander Mccaul 1
• To William Jones
• To Edward Carrington 1
• To James Madison 1
• To Mrs. John (abigail) Adams
• To Martha Jefferson 1
• To Martha Jefferson 1
• To the Secretary For Foreign Affairs (john Jay)
• To Martha Jefferson 1
• To Martha Jefferson 1
• To James Madison
• To John Adams
• Observations On the Letter of Monsieur De Calonnes to Monsieur Jefferson, Dated Fontainebleau, Octob. 22, 1786
• To M. ClaviÈre
• To Thomas Mann Randolph
• To Edward Rutledge 1
• To Mrs. John Bolling 1
• To A. Donald
• To Nicholas Lewis
• To James Madison
• To Edward Carrington
• To Benjamin Hawkins
• To Peter Carr 1
• To Dr. George Gilmer
• To Joseph Jones
• To the Editor of the Journal De Paris
• To George Wythe
• To Charles Thomson
• To William Carmichael 1
• To John Adams
• To Comte De Buffon
• To the Governor of South Carolina (john Rutledge)
• To James Madison 1
• To John Jay
• To William Stephens Smith
• To William Carmichael
• To James Madison 1
• To Edward Carrington
• To Colonel Forrest
• Correspondence and Miscellaneous Writings 1788
• To the Comte De Grasse
• To William Stephens Smith
• To William Rutledge
• To James Madison
• To Jean Pierre Brissot De Warville
• To George Washington
• To Mrs. William Bingham
• To the Comte De Moustier
• To James Madison 1
• To John Brown
• To Edward Carrington
• To William Carmichael 1
• To Mr. Thomas Digges
• To Nicholas Lewis
• To Dr. William Gordon
• To Edward Rutledge
• To James Madison 1
• To William Short
• To James Madison
• To George Washington
• 1789 - to John Jay 1
• To James Madison
• To Dr. Edward Bancroft
• To William Short
• To William Carmichael
• To Francis Hopkinson
• To Madame De Brehan 1
• To James Madison
• To David Humphreys
• To the Marquis De La Fayette
• To George Washington
• To Comte De Moustier 1
• To the Marquis De La Fayette
• To M. De St. Etienne
• Proposed Charter For France
• A Charter of Rights, Solemnly Established By the King and Nation
• To L’abbÉ Arnond
• To James Madison 1
• To James Swan
• To James Madison 1

TO THE MARQUIS DE LA FAYETTE

j. mss.

Paris June 3. 1789.

Dear Sir,

—Revolving further in my mind the idea started yesterday evening of the King’s coming forward in a seance royale and offering a charter containing all the good in which all parties agree I like it more and more. I have ventured to sketch such a charter merely to convey my idea, which I now inclose to you, as I do also to M. de St. Etienne. I write him a letter of apology for my meddling in a business where I know so little & you & he so much. I have thought it better to possess him immediately of the paper, because he may at the conference of to-day sound the minds of the conferees. Adieu. Your’s affectionately.