31To Thomas Jefferson from Béthune-Charost, 22 December 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
La marque de Confiance, Monsieur, qui vient de vous être accordée, est la juste récompense de vos travaux et de vos vertus. Personne ici n’en est Surpris, et je ne Serai point étonné d’apprendre un jour qu’Elle n’a Surpris que Vous. Il S’élève à ce moment un nouvel Etat en Europe, dont les rapports Commerciaux peuvent devenir fort importans pour les Etats Unis. Me permettriez-vous, Monsieur,...
32To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Sarly, 22 December 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
As the Commander of an American Ship I feel it a Duty incumbant on me to Inform you of any Circumstances which may affect the Dignity or Honour of my Country in this Quarter of the Glo[be]. And as it has been my study during my Abscence to Support the character of an American; I feel the Insult offered to our Colours with double force by Foreigners wearing them without the smallest title to...
33William Short to John Jay, 22 December 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
In my last I mentioned the retreat of the Imperial troops from Brussels. The last accounts of General D’Alton who commands them are that he had arrived at Namur and after a short stay, left it in hopes of remaking Luxemburg. In this retreat through a part of the country known for its zeal in the opposition, the troops confined their hostilities to personal defences. Much the greater part...
34To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 25 December 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
This letter will go by the English packet and of course through the English post. I shall therefore confine the subject of it to such things as I am not unwilling should be read there. I did the same in a letter which I wrote three days ago to Mr. Jay, and shall continue it in that which will inclose this to you.—The plan of finance for relieving present exigencies is adopted. The foundation...
35William Short to John Jay, 26 December 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I received yesterday from the Baron de Rieger Minister of Wirtemberg a paper which he enclosed to each of the corps diplomatique entitled ‘Observations pour la Serenissme Maison de Wirtemberg.’ It is a reclamation against the arretés of the national assembly of the 4th of August. Although I do not think it worth while to send you the observations by post, I have thought it my duty to mention...
36From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Skipwith, 26 December 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Our voyage from Hoors du monde was pretty easy. I determined at Mrs. Carr’s to divide the remaining part equally into two days by coming to the Byrd ordinary. A wretched place indeed we found it: but we could not have got up by any other division without the danger of lying in the woods. From there we came with your horses 15. miles to the stone quarry where my waggon horses met us, and...
37To Thomas Jefferson from Augustine Davis, 28 December 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have enclosed you two letters by the post who rides to Albemarle, which he has promised to deliver safe. The postage amounts to 3/10. Be pleased to inform me in what manner you would wish to have your letters forwarded in future and I will be careful in sending them. The letter which you put into the hands of Mr. Johnson for the President of the United States, was forwarded to New York last...
38To Thomas Jefferson from Jean Baptiste Petry, 30 December 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received but in August last the letter you honoured me with on the 21. August 1788. with the power of attorney of Count de Cambray therein inclosed. Your expected return in this Continent has made me postpone this answer to congratulate you upon your safe arrival and in the same time to assure you of the high regard and respect with which I have the honor to be Sir your Excellency’s The...
39IV. Jefferson’s Notes on the History of the Medals, [ca. 8 July 1792] (Jefferson Papers)
Congress voted medals to several officers and directed Rob. Morris their minister of finance to have them made. He authorized Colo. Humphreys to have this done in Europe. Colo. Humphreys had contracted for some of them, had made some paiments, and left the whole business to be finished by me. I made contracts for the rest, and the whole of those named in Mr. Morris’s list , were compleated and...
40William Short to John Jay, 2 January 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of inclosing and forwarding to you by a private conveyance the gazettes of France and Leyden together with the journals of the national assembly. I beg leave to refer you to them for the political news of Europe. They will be accompanied by the plan of finance lately adopted here and the instructions given by the assembly explanatory of the manner of forming the municipalities...
41From Thomas Jefferson to James Brown, 3 January 17[90] (Jefferson Papers)
I received duly your favor of Dec. 21. and with it the several articles noted to be sent therewith, except No. 1. a box of wine. I had observed in my memorandum that there were two No. 1s. and had desired both to be sent; and both are so marked in your letter: but the waggoners concurring in their declarations that one only was delivered, I am in hopes it was omitted by error, and that it may...
42From Thomas Jefferson to Nicholas B. Seabrook, 3 January 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to your favor on the subject of the tobacco I owed to the late Mr. Marsden, I am to inform you that on my leaving the state I left my affairs in the hands of Colo. Nicholas Lewis, with a list of my debts among which this was then noted, as transferred to Mr. Coleman by an assignment of my note; and that on speaking now to Colo. Lewis he produces to me a voucher of the paiment of £90....
43From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Blair, 6 January 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Having never heard the name of the person who presented to me when last in Richmond an account for things brought from Williamsburg, for which I referred him to you to know if it was on public account, I can now only inform you that looking into the papers of account between Wyley and myself, I find his charge of £390. and £120. in two articles for ‘cash paid to Mr. Ramsbotham for bringing up...
44To Thomas Jefferson from Phineas Bond, 6 January 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Philadelphia, 6 Jan. 1790 . Forwards a letter that came in his dispatches from England “by the last Mail.” RC ( DLC ); endorsed as received 2 Feb. 1790, and so recorded in SJL along with several other letters, none of which could have been the enclosure. It is curious that a letter from England should have come to TJ through the British consul: none originating there in preceding months seems...
45From Thomas Jefferson to Anderson Bryan, 6 January 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my return home I learn that the survey under my order of council adjoining Edgehill has been curtailed by a younger entry and survey of Mr. James Marks now assigned to Colo. Harvie. You remember my notifying my order of council to you on your first coming into office, my pressing you perpetually to survey it, our frequent searches for the old lines by which it was to be bounded, and...
46From Thomas Jefferson to John Paradise, 6 January 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
On my arrival in Williamsburgh I had a meeting with Colo. Burwell and Mr. Wilkinson on your affairs. The state of them here, as given us by Mr. Wilkinson is as follows. Crop of tobacco of the growth of 1788. This being 28. hogsheads has been sent you by the Planter. You have none here of an earlier growth as you had supposed. Crop of the growth of 1789. There will be 18. hogsheads of tobacco...
47William Short to John Jay, 6 January 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I have at length received the ratification of the consular convention and signed the article of exchange, both of which I have the honor of forwarding to you by the way of Havre. The ratification was made out last year at the time of the convention being signed and remained in one of the bureaux unknown to the minister, where it only waited his signature. I mention the circumstance that it may...
48To Thomas Jefferson from John Jefferson, 7 January 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I Congratulate you on your safe return to your Native Country, and shou’d be Exceeding glad to see you, but not having the Opportunity, I am desirous of informing you of the distress’d Circumstances I am reduc’d to, by Colo. Richard James , of whom I Farm’d the Sherffs place, and after Acting something over a Year, he was desirous that a Nephew of his shou’d Act under me, but his being...
49From Thomas Jefferson to the Rev. Matthew Maury, 8 January 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return to Virginia I found that my sister Carr had seen it necessary to take her son Dabney from the Prince Edward college. Having heard that you had opened school, she could not doubt what would be most advantageous to him and agreeable to me. She had accordingly decided to send him to you, and being to take his bed &c. from Prince Edward she concluded it more convenient to bring it to...
50To Thomas Jefferson from Fulwar Skipwith, 8 January 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Hors-du-Monde, 8 Jan. 1790 . From his conversation with TJ here and “from what passed between you and our common friend Colo. Tom, on the subject of my pretensions” to a consulate, Skipwith cherishes “a pleasing expectation of your intercession…with the President and Senate.” Hopes TJ will help him obtain such a post or “some employment, that may place me out of the reach of idleness, or...
51To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander Donald, 9 January 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter to Mr. Brown of the 3d. Curt. has come to hand.—I am extremely concerned to find that one of your boxes No. 1 has not been delivered. The waggoners may say what they please, but I am perfectly certain they were both delivered. I was in the Office all the time the waggons were loading. I mentioned particularly to take notice that by your Memorandum there were two No. one. It was...
52From Thomas Jefferson to William Hay, 9 January 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
When I had the pleasure of seeing you in Richmond you were so kind as to undertake to sound whether Mr. Mayo would be willing to exchange, according to value, some of his ground which I pointed out to you for a lot of mine near his ferry. I now send you a description of my lot that the proposition may be made more specifically. A weekly post between Richmond and Charlottesville affords...
53From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 9 January 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote the inclosed letter to you a little before I left Paris, and having no occasion to send it, I brought it with me. I mentioned it to you when I had the happiness of possessing you at Monticello, but still forgot to give it to you. After so long lying by me, and further turning the subject in my mind, I find no occasion to alter my mind. I hazard it therefore to your consideration. I...
54To Thomas Jefferson from Anderson Bryan, 10 January 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been in a bad state of health for some time past, and still continue so, otherwise should have waited on you before this. Mr. Marks assured me that Mr. Randoph was to have the land, and he made no doubt but that Gentleman would give up all title to it, on your making it appear that your claim was prior. It is out of my power to inform you whether there has issued a Patent or not. I hope...
55From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Randolph Lewis, 10 January 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I am much obliged to you for your kind offer of the bed; and would avail myself of it as freely if I had occasion, but the goodness of my neighbors with some little provision of our own has placed us at our ease as to that article. I accept with due sensibility your friendly congratulations on my return, and it would be the wish of my heart that it were to remain here, where all my affections...
56To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Lewis, 10 January 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Byrd, 10 Jan. 1790 . Is informed TJ intends to sell his tract of land “in Cumberland opposite to Elk Island.” It lies convenient to him and he would like to have the refusal. Asks price and terms. RC ( MHi ); addressed: “Mr. Thomas Jefferson Albemarle Favr. Colo. Lewis” endorsed as received 14 Jan. 1790 and so recorded in SJL . At foot of text TJ listed 1,073 acres in four adjoining tracts on...
57To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Vernes, 10 January 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honour to transmit to your Excy. copy of the letter I took the liberty to write you from Nantes by the Carolina Planter Captn. Trusdale for Chas.town, under cover to Messrs. Brailsford and Morris and I have since heard with a great deal of pleasure that my letter would meet you much about the time of your arrival in America, being informed by Mr. Short that you left Cowes the 22d....
58From Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, Jr., 11 January 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
In the year 1773. I obtained an order of council in these words. ‘At a council held March 11. 1773. On the petition of Thomas Jefferson, leave is given him to survey and sue out a patent for 1000. as. of land on the Southwest mountains in Albemarle between the lines of Thomas Mann Randolph, James Hickman, the said Petitioner, Martin Key, and William Watson. Copy. John Blair Cl. Conc.’...
59To Thomas Jefferson from Moustier, 11 January 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
C’est avec le plus vif regret que j’ai quitté l’Amerique avant d’avoir la satisfaction de vous y voir arriver, mais la saison par laquelle je suis parti, etoit si avancée que je n’ai pas pû me permettre de reculer mon depart.—A present qui sait quand et où je pourrai jouir du plaisir de vous voir? Si vous persistiez dans la resolution, qu’on dit que vous aviez à votre depart, de revenir...
60To Thomas Jefferson from Nathaniel Barrett, 12 January 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
New York, 12 Jan. 1790 . Has received TJ’s letter from Paris [of 24 May 1789] and waited four weeks hoping for personal interview. Is obliged to leave for Boston and has asked Mr. Dalton to deliver this and discuss “my application … for an Appointment in the Consulate of France.—I am happy to find that my proposition for the Department of Normandy met with your Approbation, but as my residence...