I think it has the character of simplicity and dignity which is to be aimed at in a memorial of this kind, which is designed to transmit the remembrance of a great event to posterity. You really do not know how much your name is venerated on this side of the Atlantic. I have the honour to be, my dear General, your sincere friend and humble servant, D. HUMPHREYS. _____ _Colonel Humphreys to Thomas Jefferson._ To Thomas JEFFERSON, Esq., London, January 30, 1786. Paris. Dear Sir: Gatteaux, the engraver, lives in the street St. Thomas du Louvre, opposite the Treasury of the Duke de Chartres. Now that there is no obstacle to commencing the medal for (p. 007) General Washington, since Houdon's return, I could wish, should it not be giving you too much trouble, that you would send for Duvivier, who lives in the old Louvre, and propose to him undertaking it upon exactly the terms he had offered, which, I think, were 2,400 livres, besides the gold and expense of coinage. If he should not choose it, we must let it rest until Dupré shall have finished General Greene's. Gatteaux has a paper on which is the description of General Washington's medal. I am, Sir, your most obedient and humble servant, D. HUMPHREYS. _____ _Thomas Jefferson to Colonel Humphreys._ To Colonel HUMPHREYS, Paris, May 7, 1786. London. Dear Sir: I have received the books and papers you mention, and will undertake to have finished what you left undone of the medals, or, at least, will proceed in it till the matter shall be put into better hands. I am, dear Sir, your friend and servant, Th: JEFFERSON. No. 2. (p. 008) PLATE II. _October 17, 1777._ Horatio Gates duci strenuo Comitia Americana. [Rx]. Salus regionum septentrional. MAJOR-GENERAL HORATIO GATES. [_Surrender of the British Army at Saratoga._] HORATIO GATES DUCI STRENUO COMITIA AMERICANA. (_The American Congress to Horatio Gates, a valiant general._) Bust of General Gates, in uniform, facing the left. N. GATTEAUX.