4778. LIVINGSTON (Robert R.), French Mission.—
It has occurred to me that possibly
you might be willing to undertake the mission
as Minister Plenipotentiary to France. If so,
I shall most gladly avail the public of your
services in that office. Though I am sensible
of the advantages derived from your talent to
your particular State, yet I cannot suppress the
desire of adding them to the mass to be employed
on the broader scale of the nation at
large.—
To Robert R. Livingston. Washington ed. iv, 360.
Ford ed., vii, 499.
(W.
1801)
