781[To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander McCaul, 30 March 1786] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Glasgow, 30 Mch. 1786. Recorded in SJL as received “while in London.” Letter not found but see TJ’s reply of 19 Apr. 1786.]
782To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 31 March 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I have not any thing of Consequence to trouble you with that is not contained in the inclosed Copy of what I wrote Mr. Adams the 27th. to which I beg leave to refer you. We have not yet heard from Mr. Lamb since he sailed, but I think a few days will bring Mr. Carmichael some Letters from him; His Business here was very public, and ours is no Secret. Don Gabriel spoke of it yesterday before...
783To Thomas Jefferson from David S. Franks, 31 March 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of inclosing a Letter to you which came under cover of one which you was so good as to forward to me from Paris addressed by a Person who I have not the pleasure of being very well known to and who Stiles me Secretary to the American Embassy in France; three years have now elapsed Since I saw the Gentleman who writes the Letter. He tells me that he wishes to use your interest...
784[To Thomas Jefferson from William Jones, 31 March 1786] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Bristol, 31 Mch. 1786. Entered in SJL as received “while in London.” Letter not found. See TJ to Francis Eppes, 22 Apr. 1786.]
785To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 2 April 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
My last Letter was by the Post eight Days ago. Since that a Letter has come to your Address from Monsr. de Vergennes ; and as I have not yet received any Thing like an Answer from Monsieur de Reyneval, I am induced to suppose this Letter may be partly on that Subject ; Its being somewhat thicker than a common Letter would lead to suppose it contained other Matters also. I am very impatient to...
786[To Thomas Jefferson from David Humphreys, 4 April 1786] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris, 4 Apr. 1786. Entered in SJL as received 31 Apr. [1 May?] 1786. Letter not found. See William Short to TJ, 2 Apr. 1786.]
787I. David Humphreys to Thomas Jefferson, [4 April 1786] (Jefferson Papers)
‘I have made no contracts for the other four , viz. for Genl. Washington’s on the evacuation of Boston, for Morgan, Washington and Howard on the affair of the Cowpens, because the designs for them have not been in readiness for execution until the present time. Nor can that for Genl. Morgan be commenced without farther information of the numbers killed, prisoners &c in the action to be...
788To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 5 April 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the pleasure of writing to you the 31st. of last Month by a gentleman going to Paris and of sending you a Copy of what I wrote Mr. Adams the 27th. I now, by the Spanish Courier, send you Copies of both those Letters. This day the Spanish dispatches arrived from Algiers by which Mr. Carmichael, who writes you by this Opportunity, received a Letter from Mr. Lamb , with another from Mr....
789To Thomas Jefferson from LeJeune, 5 April 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
M. Thevenard m’ayant Communiqué la lettre par Laquelle vous Reclamiez en faveur de M. Wibert, Colonel, Ce qui pouvoit Lui revenir pour ses Parts de prises dans le temps qu’il Commandoit Les volontaires a bord du Bonhomme Richard, Commandé par M. Paul Jones; La somme de 1944 12 2 qui revenoit a cet officier, et que Javois fait passer a nantes sur la Demande Du Commissaire de Ce Port, a été...
790To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Thomson, 6 April 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your letter of the 8th October as well as those of 21 June by Mr. Otto and the 14 July by Mr. Houdon. I read your notes with much pleasure and intended to have troubled you with some observations on them; but they have been so much out of my hands, though entrusted to such as you would approve, that I have not had an opportunity to revise them with that attention I wished and...