Schweizer Jeanneret & Co. to Charles Claude Guillaume Lambert
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.10227 Author/Creator: Schweizer Jeanneret & Co. Place Written: Paris, France Type: Manuscript letter Date: 22 November 1790 Pagination: 12 p. ; 39.1 x 23.4 cm. Order a Copy
Detailed description of what the United States owes France, which amounts to about 40 million livres. Discusses the political situation in the United States regarding this debt, the actions of Congress regarding the debt, and dealings with US agents on paying the debt to France. States that "[w]e are informed that the agent of the United States ... has not been able to promise the payment of more than three millions on account of that part of the Debt to France which is now due. We apprehend that it would be an act of great Service to both the United States and to France, to procure the the ... full payment of the french debt." Noted as a copy in the header. Date of copy unknown. Sewn binding. Watermarked with a hunting horn.
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