1To George Washington from Moustier, 1 May 1789 (Washington Papers)
It is truly mortifying to me to be under the disadvantage of using a foreign language in which I am so little versed. I conceive I must have committed errors, from the interpretation you have given, Sir, to my preceding letter, in regard to two points which were far from my intention. The first is relative to the application of the general principle on which I thought that a private audience...
2To George Washington from Moustier, 19 May 1789 (Washington Papers)
Peculiar circumstances require peculiar measures. It was on this principle that I conceived there was no impropriety in soliciting an audience which seem’d to me, not only convenient but necessary to pave the way to the future management of business between the two nations. As by the transformation of the Federal Government of the United states the establish’d forms have ceased, the first...
3To George Washington from Moustier, 1 June 1789 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Moustier, 1 June 1789. On 2 June GW wrote to Moustier : “The sentiments expressed in your letter of yesterday . . . .” See GW to Moustier, 2 June 1789, n.1 .