1From Thomas Jefferson to Brailsford & Morris, 17 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been less diligent in acknoleging the receipt of your favors of Oct. 31. Jan. 10. and Mar. 17. than in attending to their contents. They have been the subject of repeated conferences with Mr. Berard of this city, during which I have discovered a real desire in that house to dispose in the best manner possible of the rice you had been pleased to consign to them; and a mortification that...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Brailsford & Morris, 7 May 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 10. is come to hand. I am persuaded you will find greater advantage in sending rice to Havre than to l’Orient, because the latter not being a place of consumption it must be reexported 9. times out of 10. and for the most part to Paris where the consumption is immense and is growing. Heretofore this city has drawn all the Carolina rice it used from England. I shall be happy...
3Enclosure: Jacob Vernes to Brailsford & Morris, 4 November 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Notwithstanding I have not the honour of being known to you I have had the advantage of corresponding with you from the house of J. J. Berard & Co. (now J. J. Berard) of L’Orient, of which I was the Partner till the beginning of the present Year, when I resolv’d to form an Establishment under my own name and settle in a port of greater trade than L’Orient. I propos’d to have the honour of...