1From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 25 January 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of inclosing you a letter to be put into the mail of the British packet about to sail. I ought sooner to have thanked you for a paper you inclosed to me in Virginia, giving the first information I had of the calumny respecting Logan’s journey to Europe. a few days before his departure he informed me he was going to Hamburg & thence to Paris, & asked & recieved from me a...
2From 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, &...
3From 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,...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 25 March 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
As I have probably not long to stay here, I must sollicit your information of the state of my accounts for Greenleaf’s and Oram’s papers , that I may remit to you before my departure, not only any arrears, but also for the current year which I should wish always to pay in advance. We are here in great fear of a war being brought on from France. a little more of that patience of which we have...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 17 June 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
It is so long since I have made any paiment for the New York papers that I am entirely ignorant what my arrears are, and I have been so much engaged here hitherto that I have failed to make enquiry of you. Pray be so good as to let me know, and to do it immediately as I shall not be here after the 23d. inst. If you could take the trouble of enquiring of Mr. Freneau also what I owe him you will...
6From 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...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 31 December 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I see advertised by Campbell 124. Pearl street, Scatcherd’s pocket bible , bound in Marocco. it is an edition which I have long been wishing to get, to make part of a portable library which the course of my life has rendered convenient. will you be so good as to get a copy for me and forward by post, sending a note of the price which shall be immediately remitted with the annual subscription...
8From 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...
9From 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...
10From 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...