[1] [A copy of the preceding letter was sent, enclosed by the Secretary of State, to Mr. Genet.]

[2] See p. 31.

[3] [Probably to Mr. Madison.]

[4] [The first part of this letter is on private business, and is therefore omitted.]

[5] [Here, in the margin of the copy, is written, apparently at a later date, "General H. Lee."]

[6] [A few lines are here illegible.]

[7] [The places in this letter where the asterisks are inserted, are blanks in the original.]

[8] [Here, in the margin of the copy filed, is written by the author, in pencil, "Mr. Adams."]

[9] [Address lost.]

[10] [Shortly before, Mr. Jefferson had obtained passports for General Kosciusko, under an assumed name, from the foreign ministers in this country. The annexed is the note addressed to Mr. Liston, soliciting one from him.

"Thomas Jefferson presents his respects to Mr. Liston, and asks the favor of the passport for his friend Thomas Kanberg, of whom he spoke to him yesterday. He is a native of the north of Europe, (perhaps of Germany,) has been known to Thomas Jefferson these twenty years in America, is of a most excellent character, stands in no relation whatever to any of the belligerent powers, as to whom Thomas Jefferson is not afraid to be responsible for his political innocence, as he goes merely for his private affairs. He will sail from Baltimore, if he finds there a good opportunity for France; and if not, he will come on here. March 27, 1798."]

[11] [Here, and in almost every other case where the name is omitted, it is omitted in the original.]

[12] The Legislature of Virginia.

[13] [This vocabulary is missing.]

[14] [In the margin is written by the author, "Alien law."]

[15] [The manuscript here is illegible.]

[16] Venice and Genoa.

[17] To explain, I will exhibit the heads of Seneca's and Cicero's philosophical works, the most extensive of any we have received from the ancients. Of ten heads in Seneca, seven relate to ourselves, viz. de ira, consolatio, de tranquilitate, de constantia sapientis, de otio sapientis, de vita beata, de brevitate vitae; two relate to others, de elementia, de beneficiis; and one relates to the government of the world, de providentia. Of eleven tracts of Cicero, five respect ourselves, viz. de finibus, Tusculana, academica, paradoxa, de Senectute; one, de officiis, relates partly to ourselves, partly to others; one, de amicitia, relates to others; and four are on different subjects, to wit, de natura deorum, de divinatione, de fato, and somnium Scipionis.

[18] November 8. It is now said that it did not take place on the 3d, but will this day.

[19] These ordinates are arithmetical progressionals, each of which is double the root of its abscissa, plus unit. The equation, therefore, expressing the law of the curve is y = 2 N x + 1; that is, the velocity of the water of any depth will be double the root of that depth, plus unit. Were the line a e a wall, and b f e g d h e i troughs, along which water spouted from apertures at b c d e, their intersections with the curve at f g h i would mark the point in each trough to which the water would flow in a second of time, abating for friction.

[20] [In the margin is written by the author, "La Fayette."]