1From Thomas Jefferson to Jonathan Nesbitt, 7 February 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
On further enquiry, I find it will be agreeable to custom for you to state your case to Monsieur de Villedeuil in a Memoire and if you will be so good as to send me this memoire I will inclose it to M. de Villedeuil in a letter on the same subject. I have already sketched my letter in substance as follows; ‘that Mr. Jay having occasion for a messenger to send special dispatches to me, a Mr....
2From Thomas Jefferson to Jonathan Nesbitt, 11 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I did not expect you so soon to-day, or I should have come in in time to have the pleasure of seeing you. The safe-conduct which I asked and obtained of Monsieur de Villedeuil was for you as a Courier, bringing dispatches to me from our Secretary for foreign affairs. The answers to these dispatches being now ready I cannot ask a continuance of that safe conduct. But so far as my consent to...