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Updated: May 27, 2025
Many of Jones's flowery letters to distinguished women are preserved. I am sorry that it is now eighteen inches shorter than it was three months ago." The only case in which Jones's affections seem to have reached beyond good nature, common kindness, or gallantry, to the point of love, was that of Aimée de Thelison.
I am now ready to act whenever and wheresoever bidden by the voice of France." Jones's cough and the swelling in his legs continued; a few days later jaundice and dropsy set in, and it was clear to his friends that the end was near. Aimée de Thelison, Gouverneur Morris, and some of the distinguished revolutionists were about him during the last few days of his life.
After an extended tour, devoted mainly to business and society, during the course of which he met Kosciusko at Warsaw, visited, among other cities, Vienna, Munich, Strassburg, and London, Jones reached Paris, where Aimée de Thelison and his true home were, on May 30, 1790. He resigned from his position in the Russian navy, and remained most of the time until his death in the French capital.
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