Eleven States
appointed delegates certainly; it was expected that Connecticut would
also appoint, the moment its Assembly met. Rhode Island had refused. I
expect they will propose several amendments; that that relative to our
commerce will probably be adopted immediately, but that the others must
wait to be adopted, one after another, in proportion as the minds of the
States ripen for them. Dr. Franklin enjoys good health. I shall always
be happy to hear from you, being, with sentiments of very sincere esteem
and respect, Dear Sir, your most obedient and most humble servant,

Th: Jefferson.

LETTER LXV.--TO B. VAUGHAN, July 2, 1787

TO B. VAUGHAN.

Paris, July 2, 1787.

Dear Sir,

Your favor of February the 16th came to my hands in the moment I was
setting out on a tour through the southern parts of France and northern
of Italy, from which I am but just now returned. I avail myself of the
earliest moment to acknowledge its receipt, and to thank you for the box
of magnets which I found here. Though I do not know certainly by or from
whom they come, I presume they came by Colonel Smith, who was here in my
absence, and from Messrs. Nairne and Blunt, through your good offices. I
think your letter of February the 16th flatters me with the expectation
of another, with observations on the hygrometers I had proposed. I value
what comes from you too much, not to remind you of it. Your favor by Mr.
Garnett also came during my absence. I presume he has left Paris, as
I can hear nothing of him. I have lost the opportunity, therefore,
of seeing his method of resisting friction, as well as of showing, by
attentions to him, respect for yourself and your recommendations. Mr.
Paine (Common Sense) is here on his way to England. He has brought the
model of an iron bridge, with which he supposes a single arch of four
hundred feet may be made. It has not yet arrived in Paris. Among other
projects, with which we begin to abound in America, is one for finding
the longitude by the variation of the magnetic needle. The author
supposes two points, one near each pole, through the northern of which
pass all the magnetic meridians of the northern hemisphere, and through
the southern those of the southern hemisphere. He determines their
present position and periodical revolution. It is said his publication
is plausible. I have not seen it.

What are you going to do with your naval armament on your side the
channel. Perhaps you will