27361To Benjamin Franklin from Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, 18 February 1784 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society J’ai reçu Mon Illustre Docteur le pacquet Sur les ballons que vous avez eûe la bonté de m’envoyer je les examinerai et en ferai l’usage que vous désirez. Je vous envoye un pacquet que Je comptois vous porter depuis Long-tems mais que la rigueur de la Saison m’a empêché de vous aller remettre Mais bien malgré moi Je vous assurre. Je compte m’en dédommager au...
27362To James Madison from Pierre Samuel DuPont de Nemours, 5 July 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
5 July 1812. Expresses gratitude for the opportunity to send the enclosed letters to his children with the U.S. minister’s dispatches to JM, since only diplomatic correspondence is sure to reach its destination. Hopes for JM’s continued interest in his sons, who are good and useful men. Intends to join his sons in the U.S. as soon as possible. Tr ( DeGH ). 1 p. In French.
27363To George Washington from Giuseppe Ceracchi, 31 October 1791 (Washington Papers)
I take the liberty to enclose to you a Copy of a Memorial which I have the honor of presenting this day to Congress—Give me leave to submit it to the Friend and Patron of the fine Arts as well as to the President of the United States. I have the honor to be with the greatest respect Sir Your most obedient and most humble Servant LS , DLC:GW . The son of a Roman goldsmith, sculptor Giuseppe...
27364To Thomas Jefferson from James Wilkinson, 31 March 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
This package has been in the hands of the Banditti on the Road from Mexico DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
27365From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Hamilton, 25 June 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour of the 8th. inst. could only be recieved on my return here, and I have this morning been considering of it’s contents. I think with you that it will be interesting to recieve from different countries the details it enumerates. Some of these I am already in a regular course of recieving. Others when once well executed, will scarcely need to be repeated. As to these I already possess...
27366Robert Fulton to Thomas Jefferson, 29 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
As every advance in the arts which may You take a lively interest in every discovery which may be of use to america will give you pleasure, I I will communicate to you a discovery which one I have made, and on which I have just finished
27367From Benjamin Franklin to William Hodgson, 14 February 1780 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I have this Moment received your favour of Jany. 28. I had written to you the 20th. of the same Month, and enclosed a second passport for Morlaix. I hope to hear of its being come to hand, tho’ it was not when you wrote. I have written also lately to Mr. Hartly and Mr. Digges on the subject of our Prisoners.— I shall give Orders this Day for the sending away in the...
27368Editorial Note: The Consular Convention of 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
The Consular Convention of 1788 was the last of nine treaties to be signed by authority of the Continental Congress and the Confederation, and the first to be ratified under the new Constitution. None of the nation’s international agreements in the formative period was so long in preparation or had a history so filled with potentially disruptive sources of friction between the United States...
27369To Thomas Jefferson from Newton E. Westfall, 2 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Seeing that by the death of Thomas T. Davis Esquire first Judge of this Territory, it has become necessary for your Constitutional interposition to fill the Vacancy Occasioned in our Judiciary by this Gentlemans death and veiwing the great inconvenience which has heretofore arisen and the delays in our General Court on a number of instances, in consequence of the absence of Judge Davis from...
27370To Thomas Jefferson from Chandler Price, 25 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof Mr Alexander Stewart is well known to us—He is a Citizen of the United States. and has been Educated to the business of a Merchant in a reputable Counting House in Philadelphia—We feel confident of his merits and beg leave to recommend him as a Suitable person for the Consul for the United States for the City of Havanna in the Island of Cuba We are respectfully. and with the...