1To John Adams from Thomas Jefferson, 11 July 1785 (Adams Papers)
Doct r. Franklin sets out this morning for Havre from whence he is to cross over to Cowes there to be taken on board Cap t Truxen’s ship bound from London to Philadelphia. the Doctor’s baggage will be contained in 150. or 200 boxes &c. we doubt that the laws of England will not permit these things to be removed from one vessel into another; and it would be attended with great difficulty, delay...
2From Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 11 July 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
Doctr. Franklin sets out this morning for Havre from whence he is to cross over to Cowes there to be taken on board Capt. Truxen’s ship bound from London to Philadelphia. The Doctor’s baggage will be contained in 150. or 200 boxes &c. We doubt that the laws of England will not permit these things to be removed from one vessel into another; and it must be attended with great difficulty, delay...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Barré, 11 July 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this moment received your letter of the 28th. of June and will have the copy of Genl. Washington’s picture taken for Mr. Thevenot as soon as I receive an answer to my letter from America . I have reason to expect it by the first or second packet. I have no hesitation in pronouncing Wright’s drawing to be a better likeness of the General than Peale’s. I thank you for your friendly...
4From Thomas Jefferson to the Governor of Virginia, 11 July [1785] (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Houdon’s long and desperate illness has retarded till now his departure for Virginia. We had hoped from our first conversations with him that it would be easy to make our terms, and that the cost of the statue and expence of sending him would be but about a thousand guineas. But when we came to settle this precisely, he thought himself obliged to ask vastly more. Insomuch that at one...