Synopsis "The Life of Gouverneur Morris"
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1832 Excerpt: ... the shades of Mount Vernon. But this is more my wish, than expectation, for I do not believe it possible for you to be more happily placed, at least if I may judge from what I saw and what I felt. I am yours, 'Gouverneur Morris.' In compliance with this request, General Washington sent him several letters of introduction to persons in England, France, and Holland. He likewise entrusted him with a commission to purchase in Paris a gold watch for his own use, 'not a small, trifling, nor a finical, ornamental one, but a watch well executed in point of workmanship, large and flat, with a plain, handsome key.' In regard to the Presidency, upon which Mr Morris had touched, he adds; 'I have really very little leisure or inclination to enter on the discussion of a subject so unpleasant to me. You may be persuaded, in the first place, that I hope the choice will not fall upon me; and in the second, that, if it should, and I can with any degree of propriety decline, I shall certainly contrive to get rid of the acceptance. But if, after all, a kind of inevitable necessity should impel me to a different fate, it will be time enough to yield to its impulse, when it can be no longer resisted.' CHAPTER XVIII. SR MORRIS SAILS FOR EUROPE.--ARRIVES IN PARIS.--LAFAYETTE.--JEFFERSON.--MR MORRIS'S DIARY.--EXTRACTS CONCERNING EVENTS OF THE FREfTCH REVOLUTION.--MADAME DE CHASTELLUX.--DUTCHESS OF ORLEANS.--HARECHAL DE CASTRIES.--NECKER.--CEREMONY OF OPENING THE STATES GENERAL. SEGUR. THE BISHOP D'AUTUN. MONTMO KIN.--MADAME DE STAEL.--LETTER TO LAFAYETTE ON A NEW MINISTRY.--AFFAIR OF FAVRAS.--MR MORRIS'S NOTE TO TH« qUEEN. The ship Henrietta, on board of which Mr Morris was embarked for France, passed the Capes of Delaware and put to sea, on the eighteenth of December. It was ...
