BIB_ID
125436
Accession number
MA 835.7
Creator
Jones, John Paul, 1747-1792.
Display Date
1790 June 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Docketed in French in a note in the left margin.
Monsieur Genet served as the French Ambassador to Russia, 1789-1792, and the French Ambassador to the United States, 1793-1794.
Part of a collection of letters written by John Paul Jones to Captain Hector McNeill. Letters in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information.
Monsieur Genet served as the French Ambassador to Russia, 1789-1792, and the French Ambassador to the United States, 1793-1794.
Part of a collection of letters written by John Paul Jones to Captain Hector McNeill. Letters in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from J. Pearson & Company, 1912.
Summary
Referring to his "unjust and cruel treatment" in Russia; asking that an enclosed letter be sent to Mr. Chrapowitzky and for any reply to be sent "under cover à Mr. Short, Charge des Affaires des Etats-Unis à la Cour de France;" providing instructions for the delivery of monies owed him; saying that he received his Gold Medal and "the United States have ordered a Copy of it to be presented to the Empress."
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