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James Madison] . . . told me with much concern that you had written a book of journals & had a few copies printed, which had not only given great offence, but had very much lessened the public opinion of your talents. I think I need not tell you how deeply I felt this. He repeated to me perhaps half a dozen passages from your Voiage de Newport á Philadelphie , and contained strictures on some of the ladies whom you had seen . . . The circumstances noted, the not intending they should be public, the conversations I had with you at Monticello . . . furnished me just ground enough
travelled widely in America from 1780 to 1783. After the war, he remained in friendly communication with many vital figures of the Revolution and the early United States, including Jefferson and George Washington. As Jefferson writes this letter to him, Chastellux is again living in Paris, at the Hotel Quai d’Orsay. The thrust of Jefferson’s letter is a tactful confrontation of the troublesome nature of certain passages in Chastellux’s privately printed Voyage de Newport à Philadelphie, Albany (1781). “When I was in Philadelphia in the winter of 1782–1783 a gentleman [probably
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