of vegetables at sea which produces the scurvy. I have thus hastily
mentioned reasons and objections, to save you the time and trouble of
recollecting them. To you, Sir, it suffices barely to mention them. Mr.
Short, _chargé des affaires_ of the United States, will have the honor
of delivering you this, and of giving you any further details which you
may be pleased to require.

I shall hope, on my return in the spring, to find your health
reestablished, and your mind relieved by a perfect settlement of the
affairs of the nation; and with my felicitations on those accounts, to
express to you those sentiments of profound respect and attachment, with
which I have the honor to be, your Excellency's most obedient and most
humble servant,

Th: Jefferson.




LETTER XVII.--TO JOHN JAY, September 30, 1789


TO JOHN JAY.

Havre, September 30, 1789.

Dear Sir,

No convenient ship having offered from any port of France, I have
engaged one from London to take me up at Cowes, and am so far on my way