101From Thomas Jefferson to Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 27 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been in daily expectation, ever since the month of March, of receiving permission to return to America for five or six months. I have not therefore acknoleged your favors of Mar. 11. Apr. 12. May 13. and June 26. because I constantly expected I could accompany the acknolegement with a letter of temporary adieu. The sum of 152₶ however which you had been so kind as to inform me you had...
102From Thomas Jefferson to Cavelier fils, 27 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
The troubles which have existed here for some time and interrupted all attention to business, prevented my acknoleging the receipt of your favor of June 20. I have now to add that of the 24th. instant. With respect to the shipments of flour and grain for your port, neither our republic nor it’s ministers meddle with any thing commercial. They leave their commerce free, to their citizens and...
103From Thomas Jefferson to Veuve David & fils, 27 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your favor of June 29. on the subject of the high duties demanded for salted beef and pork imported into this country. I have always understood that these duties were intended to have the effect of a prohibition and therefore have viewed them as prohibited articles. The policy of this is not worth combating at present. There is reason to expect that the transfer of the...
104From Thomas Jefferson to C. W. F. Dumas, 27 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been ever since the month of March in daily expectation of receiving permission to return to America. Your letters therefore of Mar. 24. Apr. 3. 29. and June 19. have remained unacknoleged, because I expected to acknolege them in my letter of Adieu. The same expectation has prevented my friends in America from writing to me. So that, uninformed myself of American transactions, I have...
105From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Limozin, 27 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honored with your favor of the 5th. inst. as well as with the circular letter of your house of July 2. I beg you to accept my sincere condoleance with your mother and yourself on the late loss you have sustained. Tho’ not personally acquainted with Mr. Limozin, a long correspondence with him had given me a great esteem for him, and the services he rendered as well to myself as to the...
106To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 29 July 1789 (Madison Papers)
I wrote you on the 22d. Since that I have received yours of the 23d. of May. The president’s title as proposed by the Senate was the most superlatively ridiculous thing I ever heard of. It is a proof the more of the justice of the character given by Doctr. Franklin of my friend [:] always an honest man often a great one but sometimes absolutely mad . I wish he could have been here during the...
107From Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 29 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have written you lately on the 24th. of June with a P.S. of the 25th.; on the 29th. of the same month; the 19th. of July with a P.S. of the 21st: and again on the 23d. Yesterday I received yours of the 9th. of March by the way of Holland. Mr. Necker has accepted his appointment and will arrive to-day from Switzerland where he had taken refuge. No other ministers have been named since my...
108From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 29 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you on the 22d. Since that I have received yours of the 23d. of May. The president’s title as proposed by the senate was the most superlatively ridiculous thing I ever heard of . It is a proof the more of the justice of the character given by Doctr. Franklin of my friend: ‘Always an honest man , often a great one, but sometimes absolutely mad.’ . I wish he could have been here during...
109From Thomas Jefferson to James I. Brossier, 30 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
The troubles of this city must apologize for my being so late in answering your favor of the 2d. instant wherein you express your desire of receiving the appointment of Consul and viceconsul for the United states to which the death of Mr. Limosin may give place. My letter of Feb. 11, informed you that the nomination would not rest with me. It will be proper for you to address yourself for this...
110From Thomas Jefferson to C. W. F. Dumas, 30 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
My letter of the 27th. will have informed you of the reasons of my long silence. The present is to acknolege the receipt of your favors of the 22d. and 24th. with the packet from America accompanying them. It’s date was of the month of March, so that it conveys me nothing new. Mr. Necker’s arrival here will contribute to the reestablishment of tranquillity. The National assembly proceeds with...
111From Thomas Jefferson to Ruellan & Cie., 30 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honored with your favor of the 26th. instant and to return you many thanks for your offers of service and particularly for the very kind one of a bed, when I shall came to Havre. My departure from hence cannot now take place sooner than about the last of September, and, should I be able to find a good vessel going from the port of Havre, I shall certainly prefer that port. But as I shall...
112From Thomas Jefferson to Diodati, 3 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Je viens de recevoir, mon chere Monsieur, l’honneur de votre lettre du 24. Juillet. La peine avec laquelle je m’exprime en Francois feroit que ma reponse seroit bien courte s’il ne m’etoit pas permis de repondre que dans cette langue. Mais je sçais qu’avec quelque connoissance de la langue Angloise vous meme, vous aurez une aide tres suffisante dans Madame la comtesse que j’ose prier d’ajouter...
113From Thomas Jefferson to Messrs. Robert & Hugh Ingram, 3 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Having occasion to remit the sum of £124. sterling to London for Alexander Mc.Caul esquire of Glasgow, and taken his order on the subject, he desired me to have it paid into your hands. I have therefore the honor to inclose you Messrs. Grand & co.’s bill on M. Louis Teissier of London for one hundred and twenty four pounds sterling at two days sight, which be pleased to receive on account of...
114From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander McCaul, 3 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
The troubles of this place, which have interrupted all business, have prevented my sooner acknoleging the receipt of your favor of June 25. That of Aug. 14. of the last year had come duly to hand. Tho’ I have not received one shilling of remittance of the crops of my estate of 1787. and 1788. one third of which was by agreement to be for your paiment, yet I am nonetheless desirous of finding...
115From Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull, 3 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Not knowing the address of Messieurs Ingram, and the inclosed letter covering a bill of exchange I take the liberty of asking you to have them found out, and the letter delivered.—No time to write news, but that all is quiet here. Your’s affectionately, PrC ( DLC ). Enclosure: TJ to Messrs. Robert & Hugh Ingram , this date.
116From Thomas Jefferson to Willink, Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 3 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I received with pleasure your favor of the 27th. July and immediately took measures for beginning the particular business confided to me by Congress, and for which the sum of 30,000 florins is destined. Within about three weeks I shall be possessed of such information as will enable me to decide on the disposal of the money. In the mean time you will be pleased to keep it in your hands.—With...
117From 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...
118From Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 5 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you on the 19th. of the last month with a postscript of the 21st. and again on the 23d. and 29th. Those letters went by private conveiances: this goes by the London post.—Since my last some small and momentary tumults have taken place in this city, in one of which a few of the rioters were killed by the city militia. No more popular executions have taken place. The capture of the Baron...
119From Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull, 5 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I scribbled you a line by last post merely to cover a letter, and without time to acknolege the receipt of yours of June 26. July 14. and 21. all of which had come to hand since I had written to you. I have to give you many thanks for the American intelligence they contained. My friends supposing me on my way to America have almost ceased to write to me. But I am not yet gone, nor have I...
120From Thomas Jefferson to William Carmichael, 9 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Since your last of Mar. 27. I have only written that of May 8. The cause of this long silence on both parts has been the expectation I communicated to you of embarking for America. In fact I have expected permission for this every hour since the month of March, and therefore always thought that by putting off writing to you a few days my letter, while it should communicate the occurrencies of...
121From Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 12 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you on the 19th. 23d. 29th. of the last and 5th. of the present month. The last occasions not having admitted the forwarding to you the public papers , I avail myself of the present by a gentleman going to London, to furnish you with them to the present date. It is the only use I can prudently make of the conveyance. I shall therefore only observe that the national assembly has been...
122From Thomas Jefferson to Cambray, 15 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the pleasure to inform you that money is now deposited in the hands of Messieurs Grand & co. for paying the arrears of interest to the beginning of the present year to the foreign officers who served in the American army. Neither Congress nor their servants have ceased one moment to feel the justice due to those gentlemen, but this is the first moment that their efforts to command such...
123From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste de Gouvion, 15 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the pleasure to inform you that money is now deposited in the hands of Messrs. Grand & co. for paying the arrears of interest due to the foreign officers who served in the American army. I will beg the favor of you to notify thereof as many of them as you may find convenient, and if you can furnish the addresses of any others to Messrs. Grand & co. they will undertake to give notice to...
124From Thomas Jefferson to La Lande, 15 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Monsieur Jefferson a l’honneur de faire part à Monsieur de la Lan[de que] Messieurs Grand & co. banquiers rue n[euve] des Capucins, sont munis d’argent [actu]ellement pour payer aux officiers etrangers qui ont servi dans l’armée des etats-unis d’Amerique, les arrera[ges] d’interets qui leur sont dues jusqu’au commencement de l’année ac[tuelle.] Si la personne pour laquelle Mons[ieur] de la...
125From Thomas Jefferson to Willink, Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 15 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
The present serves to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the 10th inst. inclosing bills to the amount of one hundred and sixty nine thousand seven hundred and eighteen livres sixteen sous, which I immediately endorsed to Messrs. Grand & co. for negotiation, and to be paid by them to the foreign officers. I expect within a few days to be able to decide what is to be done with the 30,000...
126From Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 17 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
The legislature of South Carolina, desirous of doing justice to their foreign creditors, have lately passed an act appropriating certain funds to the paiment of the interest and principal due to them. The benefit of the act extends to all who shall be willing to accede to the conditions of it; and the proof of that accession is to be their exchanging the bonds they possess for the certificate...
127From Thomas Jefferson to Messrs. Robert & Hugh Ingram, 18 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honored with your favor of the 10th. I am an utter stranger to every thing relative to the Brig Dart which you mention to me, but shall be willing to do whatever the case may admit of. At present, and probably for a considerable time to come, the government is too much otherwise occupied, perhaps too much constrained to take up anything of th[at kind]. I have the honor PrC ( DLC );...
128From Thomas Jefferson to Amand Koenig, 18 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai l’honneur de vous accuser la réception des livres que vous m’avez annoncé par votre lettre du 8me. Juillet, et que j’en ai payé le montant, c’est à dire la somme de 135.₶ 5s. aujourdhui dans les mains de Monsieur Prevost, comme vous me l’avez désiré. Quand le reste de l’Aeschylus Schutzii sera publié, je vous prie de me l’envoyer. J’ai l’honneur d’être Monsieur votre très humble et très...
129From Thomas Jefferson to Willink, Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 19 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I am to acknolege the receipt of your favor of Aug. 13. covering bills of exchange for one hundred and ten thousand two hundred and eighty one livres four sols, and making with those received in your letter of the 10th two hundred and eighty thousand livres. These I have immediately put into the hands of Messieurs Grand & co. for negociation, and to answer the demands to which they are...
130Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 27 August 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
I am honoured with your favor of June 19. informing me that permission is given me to make a short visit to my native country, for which indulgence I beg leave to return my thanks to the President, and to yourself, Sir, for the expedition with which you were so good as to forward it after it was obtained. Being advised that October is the best month of the autumn for a passage to America, I...
131From Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 27 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honoured with your favor of June 19. informing me that permission is given me to make a short visit to my native country, for which indulgence I beg leave to return my thanks to the President, and to yourself, Sir, for the expedition with which you were so good as to forward it after it was obtained. Being advised that October is the best month of the autumn for a passage to America, I...
132From Thomas Jefferson to Madame de Tessé, 27 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return from Versailles, Madam, the other evening I was struck with the appearance of a magnificent pedestal erected in our hall during my absence. I found on it my name indeed, but nothing else which belonged to me. I am never so conscious of my littleness as when praises are bestowed on me which I do not merit. I have then the feelings of a thief, running away with the property of...
133To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 28 August 1789 (Madison Papers)
My last to you was of July 29. Since that I have received yours of May 27. June 13. & 30. The tranquillity of the city has not been disturbed since my last. Dissensions between the French & Swiss guards occasioned some private combats in which five or six were killed. These dissensions are made up. The want of bread for some days past has greatly endangered the peace of the city. Some get a...
134From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 28 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
My last to you was of July 29. Since that I have received yours of May 27. June 13. and 30. The tranquillity of the city has not been disturbed since my last. Dissensions between the French and Swiss guards occasioned some private combats in which five or six were killed. These dissensions are made up. The want of bread for some days past has greatly endangered the peace of the city. Some get...
135From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Eppes, 29 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
The delay of receiving the leave of absence I had asked from our government, has prevented my visit to Virginia as early in the year as I had intended. I have just now received that and am making up my baggage. I expect to leave this place in about a fortnight and to sail about the last of September or first of October. Consequently I may arrive in Virginia in the course of the month of...
136[From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Pinckney, 29 August 1789] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris, 29 Aug. 1789. There is an entry in SJL for a letter of this date to “Pinckney Govr.” Not found.]
137From Thomas Jefferson to John Bondfield, 30 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Having now received the permission to revisit my own country which I have been so long expecting, I have determined to depart from this place so that I may sail about the 1st. of October. It is interesting for me to know therefore from this time to that the vessels which may be or may come into the ports of France and be returning to some port of the Chesapeak or Delaware, the former of...
138From Thomas Jefferson to Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 30 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you last on the 27th. of July, and since that have received your favor of the 2d. inst. It was by mistake that I said in my letter that I had made the paiment for you to Sartorius. It was to Abbema & co. as you will see by the inclosed copy of their receipt, the original of which is in my hands. I must still repeat my sollicitations to finish the commission for the olive plants and...
139From Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Cutting, 30 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Your brother, with whom I have the honor of an acquaintance, has promised that he would ask your permission for me to address a line to you on a subject very interesting to me. I have just received permission to pay a six months visit to America. I wish to sail about the 1st. of October and from Havre preferably to every other port because my baggage, which is heavy, may go to that by water....
140From Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 30 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
My letters being to go by the way of London, and the person not departing till tomorrow morning, I am enabled to inclose with the other papers Mr. Necker’s memoir proposing a loan of 80. millions, and to inform you that 10. or 12. millions are already subscribed, and that it is believed that the whole will be filled in good time.— I take the liberty also to inclose to you the application of a...
141[From Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 30 August 1789] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris, 30 Aug. 1789. Recorded in SJL under this date. Not found.]
142Passports Issued by Jefferson, 1785–1789, [September 1789] (Jefferson Papers)
Passports for 2 months— 1785. May 23. Alexr. Learmonth. July 29. William Short and servant Aug. 8 Prentis. Massachusets 10 Edwd. Bancroft and servant. Connecticut William Fell. Maryland. David S. Franks Sep. 12 Benjamin Contee } in the same
143List of Baggage Shipped by Jefferson from France, [ca. 1 September 1789] (Jefferson Papers)
Monticello { No. 1. Hamper 24. Meurs. — 12 Sauterne — 12 Rochegude — 12 Frontignan 2. do. 24. do. —12 do. — 12 do. — 12 do. 3. hamper 6 ℔. Maccaroni, 29. ℔. Parmesan, 10 ℔. raisins, 20 ℔. amandes douces, 10 ℔. brugnols, 5 ℔. dates, 24 bott. vinegar 21 do. oil, 6 amandes ameres. 4. box. saddle—models of machines, &c. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. boxes. plants. 10. box. books, 7¾ cub. feet. 11. box....
144From Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Cutting, 1 September 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Jefferson will be much obliged to Mr. Cutting to send the inclosed letter by the first vessel going to any part of America from New York to Norfolk. He begs him to accept his compliments. RC ( CtY ); addressed: “A Monsieur Monsieur Cutting chez M. Wheatcroft negociant au Havre.” Not recorded in SJL . In his reply of 3 Sep. 1789 Cutting identifies the enclosure as “a Letter for Alexander...
145From Thomas Jefferson to James Swan, 4 [September] 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Whenever foreigners, possessed of American funds, have come to consult me as to their solidity, I have made it a point to give them the best information in my power. But I have wished to avoid being consulted by those who desire to buy; because it is far from being among my duties to assist in converting the domestic debts of our country into foreign debts, and because too I have not been...
146To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 6 September 1789 (Madison Papers)
I sit down to write to you without knowing by what occasion I shall send my letter. I do it because a subject comes into my head which I would wish to develope a little more than is practicable in the hurry of the moment of making up general dispatches. The question Whether one generation of men has a right to bind another, seems never to have been started either on this or our side of the...
147II. Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 6 September 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I sit down to write to you without knowing by what occasion I shall send my letter. I do it because a subject comes into my head which I would wish to develope a little more than is practicable in the hurry of the moment of making up general dispatches. The question Whether one generation of men has a right to bind another, seems never to have been started either on this or our side of the...
148III. Thomas Jefferson to Richard Gem, [9 September 1789] (Jefferson Papers)
The hurry in which I wrote my letter to Mr. Madison, which is in your hands, occasioned an inattention to the difference between generations succeeding each other at fixed epochs, and generations renewed daily and hourly. It is true that in the former case the generation, when at 21. years of age, may contract a debt for 34. years, because a majority of them will live so long. But a generation...
149From Thomas Jefferson to Francisco Chiappe, 9 September 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Carmichael American chargé des affaires at Madrid has been so good as to send me a copy of your letter to Mr. Giuseppe Chiappe, informing him that his Imperial majesty had ordered the Schooner Proctor , American property, taken by one of his cruisers, to be released with the most flattering marks of his friendship. I beg leave through your channel, Sir, to bear witness to his imperial...
150From Thomas Jefferson to James Lackington, 9 September 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Be pleased to pack very securely in a light box the books noted below from your last catalogue, and deliver them to Mr. Trumbull No. 2 North street Rathbone place, who will pay you their amount. Do it if you please without delay, as I am about leaving Paris for some time. I am Sir Your very humble servt, s d 3265. Locke on education. 12mo. 1--6 3863. Stirling’s Terence. 3--0 8809. Seldeni...