3001From Thomas Jefferson to Feger, Gramont & Cie., 19 June 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honoured with your letter of the 2d. instant together with the state of the wine therein inclosed, for which Mr. Grand will take care to reimburse you. It would have given me great pleasure to have been able to remain longer at Bourdeaux, which among other gratifications would have presented me that of cultivating longer your acquaintance; but I was not master of my own time. I take the...
3002To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 20 June 1787 (Madison Papers)
I wrote you last on the 30th. of Jan. with a postscript of Feb. 5. Having set out the last day of that month to try the waters of Aix, and been journeying since till the 10th. inst. I have been unable to continue my correspondence with you. In the mean time I have received your several favors of Feb. 15. Mar. 18. 19. & Apr. 23. The last arrived here about the 25th. of May, while those of Mar....
3003From Thomas Jefferson to William Macarty, 20 June 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Jefferson will be obliged to Mr. McCarty to send him the above articles from Lorient, by land. His bill for the amount shall be paid on sight by his very humble servant, PrC ( DLC ). In DLC : TJ Papers, 37:6314 there is a memorandum in Petit’s hand which lists the number of pieces to be ordered, with several changes in TJ’s hand and endorsed by him: “McCarty Wm. note for china June 20. 1787.”
3004From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 20 June 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you last on the 30th. of Jan. with a postscript of Feb. 5. Having set out the last day of that month to try the waters of Aix, and been journeying since till the 10th. inst. I have been unable to continue my correspondence with you. In the mean time I have received your several favors of Feb. 15. Mar. 18. 19. and Apr. 23. The last arrived here about the 25th. of May, while those of...
3005From Thomas Jefferson to George Rogers Clark, 21 June 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearers hereof Doctor Saugrain and Monsieur Picque purposing to go to Kentucky to establish themselves, I take the liberty of recommending them to your notice and civilities. The former is recommended to me by a very good friend of mine, as a gentleman of skill in his profession, of general science and merit. The latter is associated with him in the design of procuring a considerable...
3006From Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 21 June 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honour of addressing you in a letter of May 4. from Marseilles which was to have gone by the last packet; but it arrived a few hours too late for that conveiance, and has been committed to a private one passing thro’ England, with a promise that it should go thro’ no post office. I was desirous, while at the seaports, to obtain a list of the American vessels which have come to them...
3007From Thomas Jefferson to Barrois, 22 June 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Au moment, Monsieur, où vous avez reçu la planche, vous avez eté averti qu’elle ne pouvoit pas rester chez vous que le tems necessaire pour tirer le nombre de cartes que vous croyiez vous etre necessaire. Ce pourroit être l’affaire d’une semaine ou de deux semaines. Vous l’avez gardé plus de deux mois, je vous ai fait avertir moimeme le 11me. du courant que je me croyois obligé de l’envoyer à...
3008From Thomas Jefferson to R. & A. Garvey, 24 June 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I have taken the liberty of desiring Messieurs Féger and Gramont of Bourdeaux to send me a parcel of wine addressed to your care. I will ask the favor of you to forward it by land, as the conveiance by water is very slow and incertain. I expect that a harpsichord will be sent me from England, addressed also to your care. This I will pray you to order up by water, as it would be ruined coming...
3009From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson, 28 June 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Madame de Traubenheim wrote me word yesterday you were unwell. I shall come to Panthemont to-day to pay her a visit, and to bring you to dine, if well enough. Let me know by the bearer if you are well enough to come out. Make it a rule hereafter to come dressed otherwise than in your uniform. Our dear Polly was to sail certainly the 1st. of May. She must therefore be arrived in England now....
3010From Thomas Jefferson to Madame de Corny, 30 June 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return to Paris, it was among my first attentions to go to the rue Chaussée d’Antin No. 17. and enquire after my friends whom I had left there. I was told they were in England. And how do you like England, madam? I know your taste for the works of art gives you a little disposition to Anglomany. Their mechanics certainly excel all others in some lines. But be just to your own nation....
3011Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, 1 July 1787 (Adams Papers)
A thousand thanks to you, my dear Madam, for your kind attention to my little daughter. her distresses I am sure must have been troublesome to you: but I know your goodness will forgive her, & forgive me too for having brought them on you. Petit now comes for her. by this time she will have learned again to love the hand that feeds & comforts her, and have formed an attachment to you. she will...
3012To John Adams from Thomas Jefferson, 1 July 1787 (Adams Papers)
I returned about three weeks ago from a very useless voiage, useless, I mean, as to the object which first suggested it, that of trying the effect of the mineral waters of Aix en Provence on my hand. I tried these because recommended among six or eight others as equally beneficial, & because they would place me at the beginning of a tour to the seaports of Marseilles, Bourdeaux, Nantes &...
3013From Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, 1 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
A thousand thanks to you, my dear Madam, for your kind attention to my little daughter. Her distresses I am sure must have been troublesome to you: but I know your goodness will forgive her, and forgive me too for having brought them on you. Petit now comes for her. By this time she will have learned again to love the hand that feeds and comforts her, and have formed an attachment to you. She...
3014From Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I returned about three weeks ago from a very useless voiage. Useless, I mean, as to the object which first suggested it, that of trying the effect of the mineral waters of Aix en Provence on my hand. I tried these because recommended among six or eight others as equally beneficial, and because they would place me at the beginning of a tour to the seaports of Marseilles, Bourdeaux, Nantes and...
3015From Thomas Jefferson to Matthew Boulton, 1 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honour of putting into your hands, when at Pa[ris a list] of some plated ware, of which I wished to know the cost before I should d[ecide] on the purchase. You were so good as to charge yourself with giving me that information on your arrival in London. Supposing that either you may have mislaid my note, or that your answer may have miscarried I take the liberty of troubling you...
3016From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Claiborne, 1 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Just returned from a journey of 3. or 4. months I have been immersed in such a mass of writing that it has been impossible for me sooner to acknolege your favors of June 9. 13. and 21. With respect to the quality of lands in general in the counties of Monongalia and Harrison, it is impossible for me to give any opinion, because I never was in that part of the country at all, nor nearer it than...
3017From Thomas Jefferson to Maria Cosway, 1 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
You conclude, Madam, from my long silence that I am gone to the other world. Nothing else would have prevented my writing to you so long. I have not thought of you the less. But I took a peep only into Elysium. I entered it at one door, and came out at another, having seen, as I past, only Turin, Milan, and Genoa. I calculated the hours it would have taken to carry me on to Rome. But they were...
3018From Thomas Jefferson to Anne Cleland Kinloch, 1 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Having no acquaintance from South Carolina in London since the departure of Mr. Blake, which I suppose to have taken place, I take the liberty of sending to your care a small parcel of Piedmont rice, addressed to Mr. Drayton chairman of the committee of the South Carolina society for promoting and improving agriculture. It is of a different quality from that of South Carolina: better for some...
3019From Thomas Jefferson to John Stockdale, with Orders for Books, 1 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Finding on my return to this place that the bookseller to whom I had committed the plate of my map, instead of keeping it only a fortnight, had not yet delivered it to be forwarded to you, I demanded an instantaneous delivery of it. A thousand evasions have led me through three weeks, so that it was not till yesterday that I could obtain it, threatening on the return of my messenger without...
3020From Thomas Jefferson to John Bondfield, 2 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Revising the letters and notes in my possession on the subject of our commerce, I observe you say in your letter of Dec. 12. that we pay Alien duties in the ports of France, supposed the double of what we ought to pay. If by this you mean that we are not on as favourable a footing as Spain, it would be vain to remonstrate on that subject. The family compact expressly excluded all other nations...
3021From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Eppes, 2 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
The present is merely to inform you of the safe arrival of Polly in London, in good health. I have this moment dispatched a servant for her. Mr. Ammonit did not come, but she was in the best hands possible, those of Captain Ramsay. Mrs. Adams writes me she was so much attached to him that her separation from him was a terrible operation. She has now to go through the same with Mrs. Adams. I...
3022From Thomas Jefferson to William Gordon, 2 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Being just returned from a tour through the Southern parts of France and Northern of Italy, I could not till this moment acknolege the receipt of your obliging letter with the papers accompanying it. It happened unluckily also that those addressed to the Marquis de la Fayette were under my cover. I put them into his hands the moment of my return. From the opportunities you have had of coming...
3023From Thomas Jefferson to David Hartley, 2 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I received lately your favor of April 23, on my return from a journey of 3. or 4. months, and am always happy in an occasion of recalling myself to your memory. The most interesting intelligence from America is that respecting the late insurrection in Massachusets. The cause of this has not been developed to me to my perfect satisfaction. The most probable is that those individuals were of the...
3024From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Brand Hollis, 2 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return from a tour through the Southern parts of France and Northern of Italy, I found here the present of books you had been so kind as to send me. I should value them highly for their intrinsic merit, but much more as coming from you. You will have seen that at length one of our republics has experienced those commotions which the newspapers have been always ascribing to all of them. I...
3025From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Paul Jodrell, 2 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Jefferson’s compliments to Mr. Joddrell and thanks him for the copy of the Persian Heroine which he was so good as to send him, and which he finds here on his return from a journey of 3. or 4. months. Not having yet had a moment to look into a book of any kind he has still to come the pleasure of reading this, which he is persuaded from it’s reputation, and that of it’s author, will be...
3026From Thomas Jefferson to James Maury, 2 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
The reason why the receipt of your favor of May 21. has been thus long unacknoleged was my absence on a tour round the seaport towns from which I am just returned. In the mean time the occasion of your enquiry relative to Mr. Morris’s bills has passed. Nor could I now explain the reason of their protest. I understand however that they are since honoured. The effect therefore will only be to...
3027From Thomas Jefferson to the Abbé Morellet, 2 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sorry, my dear Sir, that your interest should be affected by the ill behavior of Barrois. But when you consider the facts you will be sensible that I could not have indulged his indolence further without increasing the injury to a more punctual workman. Stockdale of London had asked leave to print my Notes. I agreed to it, and promised he should have the plate of the map as soon as it...
3028Jefferson’s Instructions to Adrien Petit, [ca. 2 July 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
Le moment de votre arrivée à Londres, allez chez M. Adams et donnez lui les lettres à son adresse. Allez aussi chez Monsr. Stockdale libraire, donnez lui la lettre à son adresse et la planche et la carte, et avertissez-le du moment de votre depart de Londres. Il vous chargera des livres pour moi. Allez aussi chez M. Beckett pour commander le bois de lit. Il tient magazin de malles, bois de lit...
3029From Thomas Jefferson to Sir John Sinclair, 2 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I avail myself of the earliest moment possible after my return to thank you for the sketch of your last year’s journey which has come duly to hand. I send you through the medium of Count Sarsfeild a late publication on the connections between France and the United states which is said to be well written. I have not yet read it, and indeed I wonder how any body finds time to read any thing in...
3030From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Vaughan, 2 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Feb. 16. came to my hands in the moment I was setting out on a tour through the Southern parts of France and Northern of Italy, from which I am but just now returned. I avail myself of the earliest moment to acknolege it’s receipt and to thank you for the box of magnets which I find here. Tho I do not know certainly by or from whom they come, I presume they came by Colo. Smith...
3031From Thomas Jefferson to Wilt, Delmestre & Cie., 2 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of June 15. is come duly to hand, as well as the coffee therein announced, the quantity of which suffices for some time. Your draught on me for the amount shall be duly honoured with thanks for the trouble you have taken. May I ask the favor of you to send the inclosed letter by the first vessel going from your port to Virginia. I have the honour to be with great esteem & respect...
3032From Thomas Jefferson to Andrew Ramsay, 2 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just recieved, in a letter from Mrs. Adams, the pleasing information of the safe arrival of my daughter in London; and by the same letter and others accompanying it, that it is to you I am indebted for the care of her. Her distress at parting with you is a proof how good you have been to her. I pray you to accept my sincere thanks for your attentions to her, and assurances that I should...
3033Jefferson’s Observations on Calonne’s Letter Concerning American Trade, [ca. 3 July 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
A committee was appointed, in the course of the last year, to take a view of the subjects of commerce which might be brought from the United states of America, in exchange for those of France, and to consider what advantages and facilities might be offered to encourage that Commerce. The letter of Monsieur de Calonnes was founded on their report. It was conclusive as to the articles on which...
3034From Thomas Jefferson to André Pepin, 3 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Je suis extremement faché, Monsieur, de l’embarras où vous vous trouvez pour votre passage en Amerique: et d’autant plus que je n’y peux pas remedier. De payer votre passage moimeme me seroit là chose impossible: et de demander au ministre qu’on vous dispense du reglement qui en demande le paiment d’avance, par un ordre superieur, seroit une indiscretion pour laquelle je nepourrois pas...
3035From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Barclay, 4 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you a fortnight ago an account of what had passed on your subject that day. Yesterday I had a long conference with M. de [ Rayneval ]. It is impossible for a person to be more cordially disposed than M. de Montmorin but opposition from another quarter of the [ sea ] and the difficulty of the case [ trouble ] him. [ Rayneval ] observed to me that there was no country in Europe but...
3036From Thomas Jefferson to Feger, Gramont & Cie., 4 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Monsieur Grand has just informed me that there is arrived at Bourdeaux to your address a box of seeds for me. I will beg the favor of you to forward them by land, either by the Fourgon, Messagerie or Diligence as you shall think best. If it be small it might come better by the Diligence. Any expences occurring herein you will be so good as to notify to Mr. Grand who will pay them. I have the...
3037From Thomas Jefferson to André Limozin, 4 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of the 31st. March, 5th and 22d of May coming while I was absent on a voiage of 3. or 4. months, have for that reason remained thus long unanswered. Your bill for the amount of your advances for me shall be duly answered: I will ask the favor of you at the same time to send me a state of the articles that I may transfer them to the account of the United states, or of the state of...
3038I. Jefferson’s Suppressed Article in His Observations on Calonne’s Letter, [ca. 4 July 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
6. It is reckoned that this nation employs 30. ships in the African trade, and that these take, one with another, 50 hogsheads of tobacco in part of their loading. The regulations for the protection of the farms forbidding them to take this tobacco from the ports of France, they are obliged to put into Lisbon, and there furnish themselves with the tobaccos of Brazil. It would seem that...
3039From Thomas Jefferson to Hérault, 5 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
A person who would wish to have a good general idea of the laws of England, should read the following books. £ s d Blackstone’s Analysis 8vo. 0 4 6 Dalrymple on feudal property 8vo. 3 0 Blackstone’s commentaries. 4 v. 8vo. 1 10 0 Gilbert’s law of Evidence 8vo.[every thing he wrote is excellent] 5 0 Cuningham’s law of bills. 8vo. [1778] 7
3040From Thomas Jefferson to Villedeuil, 5 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
In the moment that I recieved Your Excellency’s letter of the 2d. inst. I was doing myself the honor of enclosing to you a copy of some observations on the letter of M. de Calonne which I had put into the hands of His Excellency Count de Montmorin on Tuesday last. Their object being to throw further light on the several subjects of that letter, some of which were left incomplete for want of...
3041From Thomas Jefferson to Dr. Lambert, 6 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai reçu, Monsieur la lettre que vous m’avez fait l’honneur de m’adresser le 11me. Juin, et aussi les 283. bouteilles de vin que vous m’avez expedié par la messagerie royale. Je leur trouve toutes les bonnes qualités pour lesquelles vos vins sont si renommés et j’en suis parfaitement content. Je me ferai un devoir et un plaisir d’en payer le montant 374.₶14s à telle personne que vous aurez la...
3042From Thomas Jefferson to Miguel de Lardizábel y Uribe, with Enclosure, 6 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received the letter you did me the honor to write me from Madrid the 30th. of May. But that which you mention to have written before has never come to my hands. I had known of your safe arrival in Madrid by a letter from Mr. Carmichael informing me he had received the copying press. I hope yours also has answered your expectations. I have had a journey of between three and four...
3043From Thomas Jefferson to Lormerie, 6 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
The load of business which has accumulated during my absence has put it out of my power to answer sooner the letter and observations with which you were pleased to honour me. I have perused those observations with attention, and think them judicious, and well calculated to remedy the evil of public robbers and unsafe highroads. But it is a happy truth for us, Sir, that these evils do not...
3044From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Montgomery, 6 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly received your favor of the 22d. May, with the letter from Mr. Lamb, and that from Mr. Jay which I now return you. I am happy that you have so good a place in the dispositions of a person, through whom the Consular appointments will probably pass. Congress have yet done nothing on that subject. Whenever they shall take it up I have no doubt they [will] do justice to the considerations...
3045From Thomas Jefferson to G. Pin, 6 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Je me profite, Monsieur, du premier moment de mon arrivée pour vous accuser la reception de la lettre que vous avez eu la bonté de m’adresser de Toulouse le 26me. Mai, avec les renseignements sur le canal de Languedoc. Ces renseignements sont exacts, bien detaillés, et precieux, comme on devoit en attendre d’une personne de vos connoissances. Ils remplissent parfaitement l’objet que je m’avois...
3046From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 6 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of April 14. came here during my absence on a journey through the Southern parts of France and Northern of Italy, from which I am but lately returned: this cause alone has prevented your receiving a more early answer to it. I am glad to find that among the various branches of science presenting themselves to your mind you have fixed on that of Politics as your principal pursuit....
3047From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson, 6 July [1787] (Jefferson Papers)
I shall with the greatest pleasure, my dear Patsy, participate with you of the honour of Miss Annesley’s company in our ride this afternoon. Assure her of my thankfulness for it as well as your own. The day being warm, I shall not be with you till between five and six o’clock. Adieu my Dear Your’s affectionately, RC (John R. Burke, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, 1956); addressed: “A Mademoiselle...
3048From Thomas Jefferson to G. A. Auckler, 7 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Je voyageois en Italie au moment où vous m’avez fait l’honneur de m’adresser votre lettre de l’11me. Mai. Je profite du premier moment libre depuis mon retour pour y faire reponse. Les etats de l’Amerique ne sont touts egalement favorables à l’etranger qui s’y domicile. Il y en a qui ne leur permettent pas d’exercer les premieres charges des corps Executifs ou Judiciaires, ni d’etre du corps...
3049[From Thomas Jefferson to Guillaume Delahaye, 7 July 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris, 7 July 1787 . Recorded in SJL under this date. Not found.]
3050From Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Poinsot des Essarts, 7 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
J’etois absent, Monsieur, sur une voiage de trois à quatre mois quand vous m’avez fait l’honneur de m’adresser votre lettre du 5me. Avril. Je profite du premier moment libre depuis mon retour pour vous informer que je ne me souviens pas du tout des armes du General Washington, et qu’etant dans l’habitude de detruire les enveloppes des lettres qui me sont adressées , je n’ai plus cette...