1From Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull, 20 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Much hurried while you were here, I was the less exact in sending you the inclosed, because I knew I could send it to Charleston before you would have occasion for it. There I hope it will meet you in good health, and resolved to return by the way of the Natural bridge . Remember you will never be so near it again, and take to yourself and your country the honor of presenting to the world this...
2From Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull, 25 November 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
According to promise I sit down to inform you of our safe arrival, having been 29. days from weighing anchor at Yarmouth to our coming to anchor in Lynhaven bay and 26. days from and to land. The weather remarkeably fine after the first 5. or 6. days during which we were all sick. Our vessel was remarkeably swift, strong, stiff as a church, our captain a bold but judicious seaman, very...
3From Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull, 24 September 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your favor of the 18th. instant, and hope to hear from you still the day after tomorrow. If Capt. Colley accepts my proposition it will be joyful news to me, for I almost despair of a passage from this country. There has not been an arrival here for some time past from America. The fear that Capt. Colley may not agree to come to Havre makes me wish now I had determined at...
4From Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull, 16 September 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of the 7th. and 11th. are duly received, and your attention to the article of my passage acknoleged with thankfulness. In fact, London seems my only resource, as there is nothing in any port of France which could answer my purpose. The vessel from Virginia to Havre, which you mention was certainly not arrived there on the 12th.—With respect to the Clermont Capt. Colley, the...
5From Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull, 14 September 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I received last night your favor of the 7th and go this morning to Mr. Grand’s for a bill of exchange of ten pounds sterling to cover your purchases for me. If his business be open I will inclose the bill in the present letter. Otherwise it can not come till the next post.—I have yet no vessel certain. There is a possibility only at Havre. There was a vessel at Lorient on which I counted with...
6From Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull, 9 September 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I this day write to Mr. Lackington to make up some books for me and deliver them to you to be sent by the Diligence. If he has all of them they will amount to about two guineas and a half. If no other means should occur of remitting to you whatever balance I may owe you, could it not be done thro’ the channel of Mr. Parker? I will pay it to any body he pleases here for his use, if he will be...
7From Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull, 5 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I scribbled you a line by last post merely to cover a letter, and without time to acknolege the receipt of yours of June 26. July 14. and 21. all of which had come to hand since I had written to you. I have to give you many thanks for the American intelligence they contained. My friends supposing me on my way to America have almost ceased to write to me. But I am not yet gone, nor have I...
8From Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull, 3 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Not knowing the address of Messieurs Ingram, and the inclosed letter covering a bill of exchange I take the liberty of asking you to have them found out, and the letter delivered.—No time to write news, but that all is quiet here. Your’s affectionately, PrC ( DLC ). Enclosure: TJ to Messrs. Robert & Hugh Ingram , this date.
9From Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull, 29 June 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I took the liberty on the 26th. inst. of troubling you with a packet for Mr. Jay giving him an account of the crisis into which the seance royale of the 23d. had thrown this country. I now trouble you with the inclosed, which will inform him that all is settled by a reunion of the three orders in one chamber in consequence of a letter from the king: so that all danger of civil commotion here...
10From Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull, 21 June 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
My letter of the 18th. promised that I would inclose you a bill of exchange, which I now do for the sum of £12. sterling to discharge my balance to you and pay a subscription for a copy of your print of Gibraltar. I have not yet received my Congé, but live in daily hopes of it. I am Dear Sir Your friend & servt., PrC ( DLC ).
11From Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull, 18 June 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the receipt of your favors of May 29. (two of that date) and June 11. I shall hope to meet you in America and talk over the subject of the last wherein I think you undervalue too much your art, which is a most noble one when possesed so eminently as it is by you. I fear much that our country is not yet rich enough to encourage you as you deserve. But of this when we meet....
12From Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull, 1 June 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of May 26. came to hand yesterday. The balance shall be immediately remitted. Perhaps it may be disagreeable to Mr. Grand to give a bill of exchange for so small a sum, in which case I will send the cash itself by Mr. Paradise adding to it the price of Sterne’s sentimental journey, printed in London by Wenman No. 144. Fleet street in 16s. or in 24s, which I will beg the favor of you...
13From Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull, 21 May 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have not yet received my leave of absence, but I expect it hourly, and shall go off within a week after I receive it. Mr. Short will stay till I come back, and then I think he has it in contemplation to return to America; of this however I am not sure, having avoided asking him lest he should mistake mere curiosity for inclination. If he does not go, all which I am going to say may be...