To James Madison from Sylvanus Bourne, 31 July 1806 (Abstract)
From Sylvanus Bourne, 31 July 1806 (Abstract)
§ From Sylvanus Bourne. 31 July 1806, Amsterdam. “Will you have the goodness to make my respects to the President informing him that I have duly recd (via Bordeaux) the letters he sent to my care for Mesrs. Van Marum at Harlem—Luiscius at Delft & Jacobsen at Altona; & which have been forwarded to their respective addresses.1
“The latest accounts from Paris say that peace is made between France & Russia, which is generally regarded as a precurser to peace between France & England, especially as the Correspondence between these two Powers is Still actively going on: this event however desirable in Europe will find but too many in the U States unprepared to meet it.”
RC (DNA: RG 59, CD, Amsterdam, vol. 1). Docketed by Wagner.
1. The letters were evidently Jefferson to Martinus Van Marum, 3 May 1806 (NL-HaNHA: Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen), acknowledging receipt of Van Marum’s 31 July 1805 letter announcing Jefferson’s election to membership in the Batavian Society of Sciences; Jefferson to A. Van Stipriaan Lúisçiús, 3 May 1806 (ViW: Tucker-Coleman Collection, Jefferson Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library), thanking him for a description and model of a bathometer; and Jefferson to Friedrich Johann Jacobsen, 3 May 1806, in Thomas Jefferson Correspondence: Printed from the Originals in the Collections of William K Bixby, with notes by Worthington Chauncey Ford (Boston, 1916), 130–31, conveying thanks for a copy of Jacobsen’s essay on the tenets of British and French admiralty courts regarding neutral commerce.