91William Short to Thomas Jefferson, 23 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
At On the 6 th inst: I wrote to you at M al Grouchy s request, to state his intention of being at Monticello about the 20 th — Since then I have seen M r Harris who informed me your intention was to go to
92Enclosure: William Short to Wilhem and Jan Willink, Nicholaas and Jacob Van Staphorst, and Nicholas Hubbard, 30 … (Hamilton Papers)
I have barely time to acknowledge by the extraordinary of tomorrow the receipt of yours of the 22d. inst. in which you propose that the sec. of the Treasury should settle the rate of commission on the last loan. It would seem that the rate at which any business is to be transacted should be looked for in the powers authorizing the transaction of that business—still if you think this matter...
93To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 6 August 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this instant recieved from a gentleman here an article of intelligence with respect to Poland that arrived this evening and which I lose no time in communicating to you—namely that the views of Russia have been crowned with complete success. The Empress having refused the armistice proposed by the King of Poland and exacted of him in the most imperious terms his adhesion to the...
94To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 14 December 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Jefferson—mention that of Minor —& to let me know if he hears from Lilly —desire to convert my land into money or ground rent at Alexia .—Barton—Bartram FC ( DLC : Short Papers); partially dated; entirely in Short’s hand, consisting of an entry in his epistolary record. Recorded in SJL as received from Philadelphia on 17 Dec. Earlier in the year, TJ had engaged John minor of Fredericksburg as...
95To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 21 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The memda. shall be attended to with care & with pleasure— The fine weather will carry me first to Congress hall & then to Rep’s— I find medicinal waters useful to me in this climate & those of Ballston peculiarly so—But if I should be able to give them up it will give me a great deal of pleasure to visit Monticello—I wish however it were in my power to impart to you a conviction, which I have...
96To Thomas Jefferson from William Carmichael and William Short, 5 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Since our last of the 18th. ulto. we have had the honor of recieving the duplicate of yours of the 3d. of Novr. (the original has not yet come to our hands). The papers severally alluded to therein were recieved inclosed. Mr. Morris had forwarded them to us from Paris on the 4th. of March. The person he had charged with them having determined not to proceed further than Bayonne, these papers...
97To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 2 November 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
It was not my intention to have written to you again from this place except by a person who is setting out for Philadelphia by the way of Havre; but the arrival of the long expected courier from Madrid induces me to send a few lines by the English post, merely to inform you that the negotiations at Madrid have ended in the conservation of peace.—This comes by the English messenger who in...
98To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 6 [March] 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
The first post day for the Hague, since your departure, will be to morrow. This letter will then set out and carry agreeable news of the health of your daughter. She has continued mending uniformly since the favorable turn of her disorder of which you were a witness, and this morning when I was at the Convent I learned that nothing remained of the indisposition except a necessary weakness....
99To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 17 December 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Very soon after the departure of my last letter, I learned through the newspapers, the accident which had befallen you. I felt much anxiety on account of it notwithstanding these papers gave a favorable account of the turn which the disorder had taken. I wished much for more detail & for a more recent account, & was prevented from troubling you with a letter to that end, only from my...
100William Short to the Governor of Virginia, 21 March 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
By direction of Mr. Jefferson who is absent, I have the honor of forwarding to your Excellency, the proceedings of the city of Paris on the reception of the Marquis de la fayette’s bust presented to them by the State of Virginia. The French Packet which sails in a few days furnishes the first opportunity which has been offered, of conveying these proceedings and I make use of it with very...
101Enclosure: William Short to Gouverneur Morris, 14 September 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The Hague, September 14, 1792. “… I hasten merely to observe on that part of your letter in wch: you say that the observation cannot in any wise influence your conduct &c. Surely you do not mean after having carried the matter thus far & put it out of my reach to withdraw yourself from consummating the measure you adopted—under the idea now of being unauthorized—the measure itself never...
102To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 23 December 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you the three letters inclosed merely because they are the complement of those I sent in my letter of the 18 th inst. They are much too prolix to insist on your reading them—Burn them therefore by way of despatching if it should best suit you. The idea of sending them to you occurred to me merely because they offered some views on what has now become a mere historical subject; which...
103From William Short to Jacob Wagner, 20 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I received yesterday morning your favor of the — covering the copy of Mr M’s note to you—Agreeably to your suggestion I wrote (by the same days mail) to avoid delay, to Mr G:——I have no preference as to place as I there informed him—I pointed out two places which wd. probably be most convenient.—It is only necessary that the fund to draw on shd. be on the other side of the atlantic on account...
104To Alexander Hamilton from William Short, 29 February 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Since my last of the 25th. (of which a duplicate is inclosed) I have had the honor of recieving from Amsterdam yours of the 31st. of Dec. acknowleging the reciept of mine up to the 9th. of Oct. inclusive. I have nothing at present to add to the contents of my last letter having as yet recieved no further advice from the commissioners at Amsterdam. No answer from them to my letter of the 4th of...
105To John Adams from William Short, 11 September 1785 (Adams Papers)
My last informed you that I had not recieved a Letter from M r Jefferson. Since that it has arrived.— A little before I had written to you the Secretary of the Prussian Embassy was with me & told me as from the Baron de Thulemeier that the King of Prussia did not admit of the Exchange of the Treaty in the two Languages. My last to you mentioned this Circumstance as well as my Apprehensions...
106To Thomas Jefferson from William Carmichael and William Short, 6 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
We have had the honor of writing to you jointly on the 19th. of feby.—18th. of April—and 5th of May. These letters were sent by duplicates, and went into very minute details of whatever had occurred here with respect to the business of our joint commission. Such conveyances as could with propriety be made use of have not presented themselves so as to admit of our writing more often—and the...
107To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 5 September 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I informed you in my letter of yesterday that the acte constitutionel had been presented to the King the evening before, by a deputation of the assembly, and that he had answered that he would examine it and make known his determination as soon as so important a subject admitted of.—The organ of the deputation, M. Thouret, in informing the assembly yesterday morning of this circumstance added...
108To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 6 May 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
It has given me infinite pleasure to hear from you by the letter which you were so good as to send by M r Randolph, dated March 24. He gave it to me a few days ago only, on his return from Boston; having passed through this City without stopping on his way thither. I was indeed very anxious to hear of you & of your health, though unwilling to trouble you with a letter & impose on you the tax...
109Enclosure: William Short to Gouverneur Morris, 18 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The Hague, June 18, 1792. “… I suppose you will before this have seen the commissaries of the Treasury, I will thank you to let me know whether you have settled with them the manner of counting the payments made from Antwerp. There will be a considerable sum at Amsterdam probably soon at the disposition of the U.S. for being applied to the French debt. I shd. suppose no time ought to be lost,...
110To James Madison from William Short, 29 March 1809 (Madison Papers)
Madn. P.—March 29. [1809, Paris]—make use of occasion announced by Gel. A though precarious—catarrh—& pain of writing—do not address Sec. of S—he not known yet—state of information here—zero—his nomination only known. Anxious to write so as to explain the cause of my delay here—my letters by Union sent by A —Wait on Ct. R. —postpone details for another occasion—the advantage of first seeing...
111To James Madison from William Short, 19 June 1810 (Madison Papers)
I have already acknowleged & thanked you for your favor of recieved in France. I came to this country with the intention of embarking in the April packet from Falmouth. I was dissuaded from this, & have since been disappointed in the vessel I expected from hence whither I came to embark. I am now waiting for the return of a Ship which is recommended to me as a peculiarly good one. In the mean...
112Enclosure: William Short to Wilhem and Jan Willink, Nicholaas and Jacob Van Staphorst, and Nicholas Hubbard, 24 June … (Hamilton Papers)
Since my last I have not seen M. Dufresne & of course have nothing new to say to you concerning the disagreeable affair of the rate of exchange for the million of florins paid by you. I fear he will not consent to any other mode of settling it than that of the current rate ascertained by sworn brokers agreeably to the data of Messrs. Hogguers & Co’s draught furnished you. I hope you will...
113Enclosure: William Short to Gouverneur Morris, 28 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The Hague, June 28, 1792. “… On the 18th. inst. I write you also from this place & wait with much impatience to hear from you respecting what has been settled with the Commissaries of the treasury, as I mentioned to you in that letter there would be a considerable payment to be made them as soon as you shall have fixed the rate of the late payments & the mode in wch. the next shd. be made. I...
114To Alexander Hamilton from William Short, 22 March. 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
My late letters of the 4th. 25th. & 29th. of febry will have informed you of the state of the American affairs at Amsterdam as far as they were then known to me. I have been for some time in expectation of an answer from the commissioners that I might know what they had done or were like to do in consequence of my authorisation to open a loan for two millions of florins & in case of absolute...
115To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 15 February 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Jeffn.—As to papers he sent me— Price is to give him directions as to Durret &c— Anthony —If he shall not receive the back rents to give Price a list—he to acot. with Mr. G. Jef.—The affair of the etiquette—the gaz. of U.S.—the no advertisements explained—inclose the paper from J V Stap—Gerry’s letter to me left at N. York—My first object was to enquire after Harvie as have no ansr. from him...
116To Alexander Hamilton from William Short, 30 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I make use of this conveyance by the English packet merely to announce to you that the bankers at Amsterdam have in consequence of my letters to them had a loan contracted for in behalf of the U.S. for six millions of guilders. The celerity with which it was taken up, as they inform me, shews the continuance of the high ground on which the credit of the U.S. stands at that place. The bankers...
117To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 30 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I ask your permission to present to you a particular friend of mine, Mr Geo: Harrison of this City. He purposes making an excursion to Washington & will be accompanied by his Lady. Mr Harrison’s own respectability & situation would have insured him the opportunity of paying his respects to you in person—But it is peculiarly my desire to be the chanel of introducing to you a most estimable &...
118To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 18 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor of writing to you on the 8th. inst. and I then expected to have left this place much sooner on my way to Madrid. I have been detained by the necessity of recieving an answer from Paris relative to the assurance of passing through France and by business that it was necessary to settle at Amsterdam previously to my departure. I proposed first taking that place in my way in which...
119To James Madison from William Short, 9 November 1802 (Madison Papers)
W Short sends his compts. to Mr Madison & incloses the queries wch. the auditor makes as to dates—W.S. took from him the memorandum with a promise to procure the answers as soon as possible, as being necessary to the settlement of the accounts. The dates are there stated but it is proper that they should be received also from the Dept. of State. W.S. has thought he should save trouble to the...
120Enclosure: William Short to Wilhem and Jan Willink, Nicholaas and Jacob Van Staphorst, and Nicholas Hubbard, 22 March … (Hamilton Papers)
I recd. on the 19th. your letter of the 14th. of febry. inclosing 23. bills of exchange on acct. of the debt to this country wch. were immediately indorsed & given to the Minister of finance. By yesterday’s French post I acknowleged & answered you letter. To day I recd. your letter of the 19th. of febry. covering the secod. of the said bills. The length of time your two letters have been in...