wrote a letter to the Royal
Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres, of which a copy is
inclosed. Being informed at the same time that the description of
medals for General Morgan, etc., was not in the style and manner
such medals were usually executed, I took the liberty of
suspending the execution of them, until I could learn whether it
is the pleasure of Congress to have them performed _exactly_ in
the manner prescribed--which shall be done accordingly, in case I
should not be honoured with further instructions on the subject
before their approaching recess.

The medals voted for the capture of Stony Point have been, or I
believe may be, all struck from the die originally engraved to
furnish one of them for Colonel de Fleury.

As to the swords in question, it is proposed to have them all
constructed in precisely the same fashion, the hilt to be of
silver, round which a foliage of laurel to be enameled in (p. xiii)
gold in such a manner as to leave a medallion in the centre
sufficient to receive the arms of the United States on one side,
and on the reverse an inscription in English, "The United States
to Colonel Meigs, July 25, 1777," and the same for the others.
The whole ten, executed in this manner, may probably cost about
three hundred louis d'or, which is (as I have been informed) but
little more than was paid for the sword which some time since was
presented on the part of the United States to the Marquis de la
Fayette.

I have the honour to be, with the most perfect respect,
D. HUMPHREYS.

P.S. I forgot to mention that, in order to have the medals for
General Morgan, etc., executed in the manner originally proposed,
it will be necessary for me to have more particular information
of the numbers on both sides, of the killed, wounded, prisoners,
trophies, etc., which the enemy lost in the action of the
Cowpens.

[Footnote 1: I have not been able to find this
letter.]

The following is the letter to the Royal Academy of Inscriptions and
Belles-Lettres, referred to by Colonel Humphreys in the above:

Paris, March 14, 1785.
Mr. DACIER,
Perpetual Secretary of the Academy of Inscriptions
and Belle