1To Thomas Jefferson from Lewis Littlepage, 26 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved with infinite satisfaction your letter of the 29th. July last, and thank you for the trouble you were kind enough to take to inform yourself of, and let me know, the fate of my letter to the President:—I should not have written to him at all, had I known at the time that you had accepted the American Ministry. The Definitive Treaty between Russia, and the Porte, must be by this...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Lewis Littlepage, 16 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
With many excuses for the liberty I took in importuning you with my private affairs, I have to entreat you to inclose to me the sealed paper which I left in your hands in December last . I hope shortly to see you on my way to the North, and in the mean time have the honor to be with the highest respect Sir, your most obedient humble Servant RC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “Thos....
3To Thomas Jefferson from Lewis Littlepage, 20 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I am this moment arrived, and wish to know at what hour tomorrow you will condescend to see me.— I have the honor to be with the highest respect, Sir, your most obedient humble Servant— RC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “Thomas Jefferson—President of the United States”; endorsed by TJ as received from Washington on 20 Nov. and so recorded in SJL . Rhodes Hotel : William Rhodes kept a hotel on F...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Lewis Littlepage, [21 November 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
Be pleased to accept my thanks for the invitation with which you have honored me, but as I find nothing can be done in my pecuniary affairs here, I must proceed to Philadelphia while I have the means of so doing, as my monied friends and Agents in England made a strange blunder with respect to our Stocks, and I cannot draw from this place on London.—I shall set out tomorrow morning and regret...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Lewis Littlepage, 3 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
In continuation of the letter which I took the liberty to write to you from Altona of, I think, the 17th. of January last, I have now to inform you that my will deposited in the hands of Messrs. Coutts & Co. remains unaltered, and should any accident happen to me between this and America, I entreat you, as my sole Executor in America, to demand from Mr. Bonnet, Notary Public in this City,...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Lewis Littlepage, 12 September 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Your silence upon the subject of the sum due from me to your Excellency upon the account of the State of Virginia, leaves too much room to apprehend some unforeseen embarrassment in the repayment of it to Mr. Henry. In consequence I have inclosed a bill of exchange to that amount to the Marquis de La Fayette, who will take up my bill in your Excellency’s hands. I must at the same time intreat...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Lewis Littlepage, 23 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Paris, 23 Mch. 1791. TJ will no doubt share his regret in recalling that “we were the principal means of engaging” John Paul Jones to accept Russian proposals in 1788. “Never were more brilliant prospects held forth to an individual, and never individual better calculated to attain them.” Campaign on the Liman in 1788 added luster to Russian arms and ought to have fixed forever the fame and...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Lewis Littlepage, 23 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The state of my health deprives me of the pleasure I had promised to myself in seeing you this evening. Tomorrow I shall set out for Virginia and entreat you to have the condescention to take charge of the enclosed paper, until you hear further from me.—Should any letters to me arrive under your address, either by the indescretion of persons with whom I am little acquainted, or by my...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Lewis Littlepage, 17 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The vicissitudes of fortune which I have experienced, and continual uncertainty of my place of residence, have prevented for several years past my writing to you, or any of my friends in America.—My reason for importuning you at present is this.—I am informed by a letter from Virginia , that upon the supposition of my Death, a scandalous litigious dispute has arisen between some persons...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Lewis Littlepage, 12 February 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to transmit to you the inclosed paquet from Admiral Jones, with a letter to the Marquis De la Fayette; both of which have been in my care since the time of my departure from the Russian army before Oczakow. The delay has by no means proceeded from inattention, but in great part from the uncertainty of my own situation, and the want of a safe opportunity. You are doubtless...