1From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, [6 May 1799] (Jefferson Papers)
Your readiness to execute the little commissions I have had in New York has put me so much into the habit of troubling you with them that apologies would be tiresome to you. at this moment I have a great interest at stake, and I need for my government some information from your market. the act of Congress which cuts off our intercourse with France (where is the greatest consumption of our...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 8 June 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of May 23 . did not get to hand till yesterday. the price of 11. cents per ℔. for tobo. is so much better than the Richmond price that we have no hesitation to order 10. hogsheads round immediately to your address. mr Jefferson of Richmond will do this, paying freight before it’s departure. for the expences of landing, storage & c be pleased to draw on John Barnes of Philadelphia on...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 14 October 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
In consequence of your friendly letter of May 23. I wrote you on the 8th. of June that I should immediately order 10. hhds of tobo. from Richmond to New York, consigned to you. mr Jefferson informed me he had accordingly forwarded them. as I have no certainty of their safe arrival, the object of the present is merely to enquire whether they got safe to hand and are sold or likely to be so, &...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 14 January 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I am not certain whether I ever acknoleged the reciept of your favor of Oct. 21 . which came to hand in due time. the rapid fall of the price of tobacco in all the markets has kept the holders of that commodity constantly doubtful what to do. the part of mine which I detained, I afterwards brought here, & after refusing several better offers have at length taken 7. Doll. a hundred. probably...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 4 March 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
On the receipt of your favor of Jan. 25. I thought it would be best to suffer the tobos. with which I had troubled you to lie, in confidence the nonintercourse law would have been suffered to expire, & that the price would then have sprung up. but the continuance of that law for another year, and the news that our envoys are landed at Lisbon, place the opening of the French market at such a...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 9 March 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I observe in Greenleaf’s paper of the 5th. inst. page 3d. a collection of newspapers advertised for sale at that office, and among these are some of such periods as are very desirable to me to fill up a chasm in my collection. the New York packet from 1776—to 1788. this is so exactly within the dates that without making questions about price I must ask the favor of you to secure it for me,...