In Conformity with your Opinion that the Letter to Mr. Grand might have been dispensed with, I enclose another Copy of my Letter to the President, in which I have referr’d only to the Letter to Mr. Barclay, of which I also send a Copy unconnected with that to Grand; These I now send, you can present when a proper Opportunity offers, and return me the former.

I thank you much for your kind Advice as some Use might have been made of that Letter by my Enemies to my Disadvantage. It is indeed hardly probable that I should have left any considerable Sum in the Hands of Mr. Grand so long, merely to answer a possible Contingency, if I could have apply’d it to any more useful Purpose. But the State of the Case is this. When I return’d to America in 1775, I left a considerable Sum of Money in England, which on my Arrival in France I transferr’d thither, and by the Advice of Mr. Grand plac’d it in the Funds of that Country. He has ever since continu’d the Care of that Money for me, receiving the Interest, and applying it to the Answering of my Drafts, so that there is constantly an open running Account between us, which would have existed to this Day, tho’ the Account with the U.S. had been finally settled in 1785.

My best Wishes attend you, being ever, my dear Friend, Yours most affectionately