MONROE, James (1758-1831). Autograph letter signed (''Jas Monroe'') to John N. Purviance, Paris, 28 September 1794.
MONROE, James (1758-1831). Autograph letter signed ("Jas Monroe") to John N. Purviance, Paris, 28 September 1794.
Three pages, 228 x 190mm, bifolium (partial separations along mailing folds). Housed in a custom clamshell case.
On his duties as the new American minister to France and his need for consular assistance: "Since my arrival here a great variety of duties in the commercial line and which it was equally impossible and improper for me to perform has made it necessary for me to appoint provisionally (subject to the approval of our government) a consul to take charge of them in this city." The appointment for a consul, if conclusive, would require Monroe to "provide some person to perform the office of Secy. in the interim." Monroe acknowledges heartily a recommendation from "Mr. Curson of Bal" that named the recipient for the potential secretary vacancy: "I need not repeat my former assurances of the pleasure with which I shall embrace any opportunity which may occur to testify to you the respect I have for the recommendation of my friends in Bal: who made you know to me, as well as the good opinion I entertain of your merit."
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MONROE, James (1758-1831). Autograph letter signed ("Jas Monroe") to John N. Purviance, Paris, 28 September 1794.
Three pages, 228 x 190mm, bifolium (partial separations along mailing folds). Housed in a custom clamshell case.
On his duties as the new American minister to France and his need for consular assistance: "Since my arrival here a great variety of duties in the commercial line and which it was equally impossible and improper for me to perform has made it necessary for me to appoint provisionally (subject to the approval of our government) a consul to take charge of them in this city." The appointment for a consul, if conclusive, would require Monroe to "provide some person to perform the office of Secy. in the interim." Monroe acknowledges heartily a recommendation from "Mr. Curson of Bal" that named the recipient for the potential secretary vacancy: "I need not repeat my former assurances of the pleasure with which I shall embrace any opportunity which may occur to testify to you the respect I have for the recommendation of my friends in Bal: who made you know to me, as well as the good opinion I entertain of your merit."
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