2871From Thomas Jefferson to Champagni, [19 January 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
Vous me faites l’honneur, Monsieur, de demander mes conseils sur le projet que vous avez conçu, de vendre vos biens ici, et d’aller vous etablir en Amerique. Je vous repeterai ce que j’ai eu l’honneur de conseiller à d’autres, qui en ont eté dans la suite tres contents. C’est de ne vendre ici, qu’après que vous vous auriez rendu en Amerique, que vous auriez bien parcouru les etats dont le...
2872From Thomas Jefferson to R. & A. Garvey, 19 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honoured with your letter of Jan. 8. on the subject of the duties paid by Mr. Boylston on his cargo of whale oil, but being about to take a journey which will absent me from Paris three months, it will be necessary for Mr. Boylston to desire his correspondent at this place to undertake the sollicitation of that reimbursement. Your bill for 59₶ 5s has been presented to-day and paid. I sent...
2873From Thomas Jefferson to François Soulés, 19 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honour of inclosing to you the sheets on the subject of Wyoming. I have had a long conversation with M. Crevecoeur on them. He knows well that canton. He was in the neighborhood of the place when it was destroyed, saw great numbers of the fugitives, aided them with his waggons, and had the story from all their mouths. He committed notes to writing in the moment, which are now in...
2874[From Thomas Jefferson to the Abbé Morellet, 19 January 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris, 19 Jan. 1787. Entry in SJL reads: “Morellet l’Abbé.” Not found; but see Morellet to TJ, 11? Jan. 1787 .]
2875From Thomas Jefferson to Elizabeth Blair Thompson, 19 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I am this day honoured with your favour of the 10th. instant and have the happiness to inform you that Mr. Bannister has been here near two months, and appears to enjoy as perfect health as any person can. I am in hopes he will have no more relapses.—I am much obliged by your kind expressions of concern at the accident which prevented me the honour of seeing you at Titchfeild. Certainly if I...
2876From Thomas Jefferson to Hilliard d’Auberteuil, 27 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly received the letter you did me the honour to write, and the verses therein inclosed on the subject of the M. de la Fayette. I have taken measures to present the public with this acceptable present ; but the newspapers here are slow in complying with the applications addressed to them. It is not for a stranger to decide on the merit of poetry in a language foreign to him. Were I to...
2877From Thomas Jefferson to Gelhais, 27 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Un quartier du loyer de la maison de M. le comte de Langeac etant echu ce mois ci, je lui ai prevenu des titres de la demande que vous avez eu la complaisance de m’adresser. Mais il m’a montré un arret de surseance par lequel les reclamations de ses creanciers contre lui sont suspendues. A cet arret, emandant de l’autorité supreme du païs, c’est de mon devoir de me conformer aussi. Je lui ai...
2878From Thomas Jefferson to Segond, 27 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received the letter with which you have been pleased to honour me, complaining of the nonpaiment of interest on the sum due to you from the United States. I feel with great sensibility the weight of these complaints; but it is neither in my province, nor in my power, to remedy them. I am no ways authorised to interfere with the money matters of the U.S. in Europe. These rest...
2879From Thomas Jefferson to John Stockdale, 28 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I will thank you to send me by the Diligence Sterne’s works complete, 5. vols. 12mo. published by Cadell 1780. I name this edition because it brings all his works into the smallest compass of any one I have seen. If you know of any edition still smaller I would prefer it, elegantly bound. A friend here has desired me to procure there two peices of Pope, viz, ‘Happy the man whose wish and care...
2880From Thomas Jefferson to Anthony Vieyra, [28 January 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Jefferson has the honour of presenting his compliments to Mr. Vieyra and is sorry to have been out of the way when he did him the honour to call on him yesterday. He returns him the copy of his book which he had been so kind as to leave with him, and which Mr. Jefferson has gone over with much satisfaction, and with a conviction of the great erudition of it’s author. PrC ( MoSHi ); not...