1From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Bancroft, 1 June 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have not before acknoleged the receipt of your favor of April 28. because I expected every post to receive Mr. Paradise’s deed. But a letter from Mrs. Paradise by yesterday’s post damps our expectations. I do not doubt but you have urged every spur to hasten Mr. Young. But Mr. Paradise insists on my writing to you on the subject. In fact he is on a gridiron till he can receive these papers...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Bancroft, 15 June 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Paradise calls on me in the moment of the departure of the post, decided to set out to London immediately. I have however prevailed on him to agree to stay to the 29th. instant, when, if his deed is not arrived, he is decided to go and see his creditors openly, and I am not to offer a persuasion to the contrary, even should I be here. Indeed I could offer him no good reason, because the...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Bancroft, 12 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Paradise will be arrived in London before this reaches you. He could not determine to await the deed any longer. But he proposed to and at your house in order to know in the first moment whether it was signed. He left in my hands a bill on you for £176. sterling which I have advanced for him and Mrs. Paradise at different times. It was part of a sum of money which I was to have paid in...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Bancroft, 5 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I am now to acknolege the receipt of your favor of July 21. The measure adopted for reimbursing us will doubtless be effectual. I mentioned to you that my advance had put it out of my power to pay a sum of money in London which I was highly bound to pay. It brought on me a letter from the creditor which permitted me no longer to delay sending him Mr. Paradise’s bill on you. This I did by the...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Bancroft, 25 September 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Expecting to receive by tomorrow’s post a letter from Mr. Trumbull announcing an occasion of getting to America, and that I must leave this place in the same instant I have only time to acknolege the receipt of yours of Aug. 21. in due time after it’s date, to recommend to you the saving my credit as to the bill I drew on you, whenever Mr. Paradise’s remittances shall put it in your power and...