1From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Fenwick, 6 September 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
According to your permission I trouble you with a commission to recieve and forward to me some wines for the President and myself. They are written for in the inclosed letters to the respective owners of the vineyards, and are as follows. M. la comte de Lur-Saluce 30. doz. Sauterne for the President 10. doz. do. for myself M. de Mirosmenil 20. doz. vin de Segur for the President Madame de...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Fenwick, 24 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of inclosing you a letter for a Monsieur le Roy, of Bordeaux, on the subject of which I must enter into some details. It is from a Monsieur De Rieux, a nephew of M. le Roy’s who is my nearest neighbor in Virginia. Being totally without fortune, and married to a young lady , whom he had become acquainted with in France, but who had lived some time in Virginia, he determined...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Fenwick, 30 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The object of the present is principally to acknolege the receipt of your favors of Feb. 10. Mar. 22. 29. and Apr. 26. and the cases of wine forwarded for the President and myself, for your care of which be pleased to accept my thanks. I hope you have drawn on Mr. Short for the balance of 143 ₶ –9s due to you. The difference of 6 ₶ –5s duty on tobo. carried in French and American bottoms makes...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Fenwick, 13 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
In consequence of your favor of Oct. 28. which did not come to hand till Jan. 14. I took measures to obtain satisfactory information in the case of Mrs. Olivier. As the opinions of lawyers are the only evidence of law we can furnish, I thought it best to take those of lawyers, who are at the same time members of Congress, because their office vouches at the same time their science and their...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Fenwick, 24 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have desired Mr. Short to pass through Bordeaux in his way to Spain in order to take up any letters which may be lodged there for him. I therefore now inclose to you a packet for him which I will beg the favor of you to keep till he calls on you for it himself, or till you receive his directions what to do with it. In the mean time if you will be so good as to drop a line to him notifying...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Fenwick, 29 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Mr. Fenwick and incloses him a letter, a power of attorney, an extrait baptistaire and certificat de vie of Mr. de Rieux his neighbor in Virginia, on the subject of a legacy on which he troubled him before. He cannot better put Mr. Fenwick au fait of Mr. de Rieux’ desires on the present occasion than by inclosing de Rieux’ letter of March 31. to Th: J....
7From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Fenwick, 10 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Having occasion for some of the best vin rouge [ordinaire] of Bordeaux, such as is drunk at the best tables there and costs about 400₶ (old money of 10d sterl. the livre) per tonneau, permit me to ask the favor of you to send me 500 bottles of that quality, ready bottled in strong bottles and safely packed. That it may arrive before the warm weather of the ensuing spring, be so good as to send...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Fenwick, 16 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letters to Mr. Morris and Mr. Short are of a public and very important nature. Be so good as to forward Mr. Morris’s by some conveyance you can perfectly confide in, and keep that to Mr. Short in your possession till he shall call for it in person or by letter, as was desired with respect to some dispatches in April last. I am with great esteem Dear Sir Your most obedt. humble...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Fenwick, 2 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The Agricultural society of Charleston in S. Carolina, of which Charles Cotesworth Pinckney esquire is chairman have established an annual fund for employing a nursery man at Marseilles constantly in raising and forwarding to them Olive plants and Olive berries. Mr. Cathalan is so kind as to have the business conducted at Marseilles, and to ship the plants from that port annually if a vessel...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Fenwick, 22 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just received your favor of May 16. and at the same time learnt the arrival of my wine at Baltimore, from which place I have ordered it to Virginia, whither I shall follow it finally at the close of the year. I thank you for your attention to the commission, and your bill on me shall be honored, it being more convenient to me to pay it here than remit. I had avoided writing to you...