1From Thomas Jefferson to Louis Philippe Gallot de Lormerie, 14 April 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to M. de L’ormerie & hopes he will do him the justice to ascribe to the indispensable calls of the public affairs the impossibility of answering letters of private correspondence not relating to business. he knows of no institution in these states where the objects described in M. de Lormerie’s letter might be sought after, unless in a private one...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Louis-Philippe Gallot de Lormerie, 27 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved two days ago your favor of the 15th. and now return you the paper it inclosed. I learn with real satisfaction the invitation you have recieved to return to France, and the expectations of advantage it has authorised, and I should with great pleasure have confided to your care the bones of the Mammoth which I destined for the Museum of Paris, but that they were sent by an Aviso which...
3Thomas Jefferson to Louis Philippe Gallot de Lormerie, 22 July 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letters of Apr. 14. June 6. & July 11. have been all duly recieved & you have done me but justice in ascribing the want of answers to my occupations. these have not been less, nor less imperious since my retirement from public life. an abstraction from my private affairs, almost entire, for 25. years, calls for great efforts for putting them again into train; they employ me without doors...
4Thomas Jefferson to Louis Philippe Gallot de Lormerie, 8 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of July 21. was duly recieved. at the time of it’s reciept the Secretary of state was daily expected at his seat in my neighborhood . he lately arrived there and I yesterday made your request the subject of a conversation with him, in which way it was much easier than by letter, to go into full explanations with him. he says there will be no difficulty in permitting you to take...
5Thomas Jefferson to Louis Philippe Gallot de Lormerie, 27 October 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Th Jefferson presents his compliments to M. De Lormerie, whose letter , having been long on the road, finds him in the moment of setting out on a journey from which he will not return till December. he will immediately inclose this the letter to the Secretary of State , the only step it is in his power to take on his behalf. as it is probable that, should the government be sending a vessel to...
6Thomas Jefferson to Louis Philippe Gallot de Lormerie, 3 April 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 26 th has been recieved, as had been that of the 5 th . the preceding ones had been complied with by applications verbal and written to the members of the government, to which I could expect no specific answers, their whole time being due to the public, & employed on their concerns. had it been my good fortune to preserve at the age of seventy all the activity of body & mind...