21Memoranda for John Trumbull, [ca. 15 February 1788] (Jefferson Papers)
Polyplasiasmos } to be sent by the Diligence. Mine is paid for Mr. Adams’s picture by Brown mine by do. Tea vase. Enquire if a triangular odometer is to be bought in London, and at what price. It is placed between the spokes of the wheel. Might I not expect from Mr. Walker the machinery of the Celestini? I have wrote to Mr. Stockdale, bookseller Piccadilly 3. letters, viz. Oct. 10. Jan. 1. and...
22From Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull, 13 November 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Both your favors of Oct. 30. and Nov. 2. came safely to hand, and I have the pleasure to know that my harpsichord is safely arrived at Rouen and is now on the road to Paris. I thank you also for your attention to the commission to Mr. Brown, and shall be contented to receive the pictures when you come yourself. If you could do me the favor also to bring me one of the copies taken without the...
23From Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull, 13 October 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Not knowing Mrs. Cosway’s address , I take the liberty of putting the inclosed under your cover, and of begging you to deliver it personally. Your reward will be the visit it will occasion you. She promised to write to me. Be so good as to take charge of her letters, and to find private conveiances for them, or to put them under cover to Mr. Grand banker rue neuve des Capucins à Paris. Or she...
24From Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull, 4 October 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
So many infidelities in the post offices are complained of since the rumors of war have arisen that I have waited a safer opportunity of inclosing you a bill of exchange to reimburse you what you had paid on account of my harpsichord. Mr. Cutting now furnishes that conveiance, and you have inclosed a bill drawn by Mr. Grand on Mr. Teissier of London for £14–7 sterling. One trouble more will...
25From Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull, 24 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letters containing matter which I could not permit to go through the post office of this country, I have waited for a private conveience which now offers. I put them under cover to you begging you will commit to the post office those to McCaul, Jones, and Digges, that you will give to Mr. Cutting the one directed to him, and also those for the two Rutledges, Izard, Drayton, and...
26From Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull, 17 December 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you a letter above a month ago, which should have been delivered by Colo. Blackden, who was to have left Paris for London the next day. But he is still at Paris, and that letter, with this, will be delivered by another hand. It covers one to Mrs. Cosway. I am now to trouble you for the widow and the orphan, and I appeal to your charity for pardon. As a further plea for it, I will...
27From Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull, 15 February 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your favor of the 5th. inst. with respect to the busts and pictures. I will put off till my return from America all of them except Bacon, Locke and Newton, whose pictures I will trouble you to have copied for me: and as I consider them as the three greatest men that have ever lived, without any exception, and as having laid the foundation of those superstructures which...
28From Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull, 17 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
In a letter of yesterday I threatened you with a commission on the subject of a harpsichord. This has been made for me by Kirkman and paid for by Colo. Smith. It was then carried to the shop of Mr. Walker to have the Celestini stop put to it, which is done and the instrument there now ready to be delivered. I wish it therefore to be well packed and forwarded by water to Rouen to the care of...
29From Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull, 28 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this day received your favour of May 23. and in consequence have copied and inclose mine of Mar. 27. from Amsterdam. The bill it inclosed was drawn by Nicholas and Jacob Van Staphorst on Herreis of London either for £30. sterling or for 348 florins 10 sous; for I do not remember whether it was expressed in English or Dutch money. I indorsed it, and I believe made it expressly paiable to...
30From Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull, 20 November 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I begin to write a little with my right hand but with much pain. I can therefore only acknolege the receipt of your letter from London, and pray you to deliver the inclosed. My hand mends so slowly that I am advised by the faculty to go to the waters of Aix in Provence. If I do you will hear from me. I am with sincere esteem Dr. Sir Your friend & servant, PrC ( DLC ); endorsed. Enclosure: TJ...