1901From Thomas Jefferson to Foulloy, [3 July 1788?] (Jefferson Papers)
Monsieur Foulloy having delivered to me two books of Silas Deane, to wit his letter book of 1777. and his Daybook of accounts from 1776 to 1780. which he has as a pledge from Silas Deane for the sum of a hundred and twenty guineas. I promise to return to him those books, or to be answerable to him for the sum for which he holds them as a pledge; the books to be redelivered on his demand...
1902From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Hopkinson, 6 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
A printer here has begun to print the most remarkeable of the English authors, as that can be done here much cheaper than in England or even Ireland. He supposes America could take off a considerable number of copies, and has therefore applied to me to find a sure correspondent for him. Being unacquainted with the printers of Philadelphia and the booksellers, yet satisfied that that would be...
1903Jefferson’s Affidavit Concerning John and Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 6 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
We, Thomas Jefferson, Minister plenipotentiary for the United States of America at the court of Versailles certify to all whom it may concern: That we are personally and well acquainted with the family of Mrs. Lucy Paradise, wife of John Paradise esquire, with their connections and condition: That the said Lucy was born in the state of Virginia, in the lawful wedlock of her parents, of a...
1904From Thomas Jefferson to Barziza, 8 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
The letter of March 15. which Your Excellency did me the honour to write me arrived during my absence on a journey through Holland and Germany, and since my return my attention has been necessarily engaged by objects of business which had accumulated during my absence. The friendly reception of Mr. and Mrs. Paradise in Virginia, which you kindly ascribe in some measure to my letters, was in...
1905From Thomas Jefferson to Lucy Paradise Barziza, 8 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
The letter of March 15. which you did me the honor to address me, came during my absence on a journey through Holland and Germany, and my first attentions after my return were necessarily called to some objects of business of too pressing a nature to be postponed. This has prevented my acknoleging, so soon as I could have wished, the honour of receiving your letter. The welcome reception which...
1906From Thomas Jefferson to John Brown Cutting, 8 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Your communications of the 26th. Ult. instead of needing apology from you, require thanks from me, which I most cordially give you. I shall make a due use of them here, and trust they will have some effect. You cannot do me a greater favor than by a continuance of your communications while you remain in London, of which I will endeavor to profit my country.—Mr. Barlow of Connecticut arrived...
1907From Thomas Jefferson to Foulloy, 9 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honour of observing to you in our first conference that I had no authority to purchase the books you offered for the United states; but still that there was a possibility they might be so interesting to them as to induce me to risk myself by making the purchase , tho out of my line of duty. On examination of them however I found them by no means sufficiently interesting to be...
1908From Thomas Jefferson to William Jones, 9 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of January 5. of the last year, I informed you that I had received information from the gentlemen to whose management I had left my estate, that the proceeds of a sale they had made, with the profits of the estate to the end of the year 1786. would clear it of other demands so that I might begin the discharge of a debt to Kippen & co. and my part of Mr. Wayles’s debt to you: that...
1909From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Eppes, 10 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Dec. 29. 1787. came to hand May 24. and that of April 4. on the 30th. of June. I will chearfully take the settlement with Jones off your hands, and do it as well as it can be done here. I wrote to him yesterday that I would proceed to settlement when he pleases. I should desire to take as our basis the last account current received by Mr. Wayles during his lifetime: because to...
1910From Thomas Jefferson to Dugnani, 11 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of sending your Excellency the second volume of the American Philosophical transactions which came to my hands yesterday. My correspondent writes me that the first volume cannot be bought at this moment, the depot in which they were kept having been destroyed during the war. But he adds that they propose to reprint the first volume and that he will take care to send me a copy...
1911From Thomas Jefferson to Nicholas Lewis, 11 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Aug. 20. 1787. came to hand some time ago; that of Apr. 15. 1788 I received last night. I had just written to Mr. Eppes on the subject of my affairs, and intended writing to you to-day. The opportune arrival of the last letter enables me to answer both at the same time. I am much pleased that you approve of my plan of hiring my estate. Besides that the profit will be greater, it...
1912From Thomas Jefferson to André Limozin, 11 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
His excellency Count Dugnani archbishop of Rhodes and Nuncio of the Pope at this court supposes that there may be in the post office of Havre a packet addressed to him from America. I have promised him I would ask the favor of you to have the post office examined and to forward the packet if it be there; which I have the honour now to request of you. Since the date of my last no new...
1913From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Price, 11 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
It is rendering mutual service to men of virtue and understanding to make them acquainted with one another. I need no other apology for presenting to your notice the bearer hereof Mr. Barlow. I know you were among the first who read the Visions of Columbus, while yet in Manuscript: and think the sentiments I heard you express of that poem, will induce you to be pleased with the acquaintance of...
1914From Thomas Jefferson to Elizabeth Wayles Eppes, 12 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Your kind favor of January 6. has come duly to hand. These marks of your remembrance are always dear to me, and recall to my mind the happiest portion of my life. It is among my greatest pleasures to receive news of your welfare and that of your family. You improve in your trade I see, and I heartily congratulate you on the double blessings of which heaven has just begun to open her stores to...
1915From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander McCaul, 12 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
An impatience to commence the paiment of my debt to you, induced me to convey to you, in the moment I received it, the joyful information from the managers of my affairs that by the end of the year 1786. they would be cleared of all other embarrasments, and I proposed to you at the same time arrangements for paiment. I have been not a little mortified by subsequent information from them that...
1916From Thomas Jefferson to Anna Jefferson Marks, 12 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
My last letters from Virginia inform me of your marriage with Mr. Hastings Marks. I sincerely wish you joy and happiness in the new state into which you have entered. Tho Mr. Marks was long my neighbor, eternal occupations in business prevented my having a particular acquaintance with him as it prevented me from knowing more of my other neighbors as I would have wished to have done. I saw...
1917From Thomas Jefferson to Hastings Marks, 12 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
My letters from Virginia informing me of your intermarriage with my sister, I take the earliest opportunity of presenting you my sincere congratulations on that occasion. Tho the occupations in which I was ever engaged prevented my forming with you that particular acquaintance which our neighborhood might have permitted, it did not prevent my entertaining a due sense of your merit. I am...
1918From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson, [12 July 1788] (Jefferson Papers)
I am now writing to your aunt Eppes, and wish to inclose her something of your drawing. Bring with you tomorrow the best lesson you have done and the smallest. Or could you to-day and Monday begin, and finish something on purpose to be sent? Desire your sister to write to your aunt to-day, and to bring the letter tomorrow. Kiss her for me and kiss Kitty too. Be always good, practise your...
1919From Thomas Jefferson to Francis dal Verme and Others, 13 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
The readiness with which you were so kind as to shew me what was most worth seeing in Milan and it’s neighborhood when I had the honour of seeing you there, encourages me to address to you two of my young countrymen who will pass thro’ Milan in a tour they are taking. The one is Mr. Rutledge, son of Governor Rutledge of South Carolina, the other Mr. Shippen of Philadelphia nephew of Mr. Lee...
1920From Thomas Jefferson to Geismar, 13 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return to this place I found such a mass of business awaiting me that I have never been able to write a letter of which friendship was the only motive. I take the first moment to inform you that my journey was prosperous: that the vines which I took from Hocheim and Rudesheim are now growing luxuriously in my garden here, and will cross the Atlantic next winter, and that probably, if you...
1921From Thomas Jefferson to John Rutledge, Jr., 13 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 8th. instant is just received, and I have now the honour to forward you the letters I promised. I have written them jointly for yourself and Mr. Shippen, on the supposition you will continue together, but lest your plans should vary, I send duplicates also. As you seem to think of the route by Constantinople I have been examining Capper’s account of the stages from Vienna to...
1922From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Lee Shippen, 13 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
In a former letter to Mr. Rutledge I suggested to him the idea of extending his tour to Constantinople, and in one of to-day I mention it again. I do not know how far that extension may accord with your plan, nor indeed how far it may be safe for either of you. For, tho’ it has been thought there has been a relaxation in the warlike dispositions of the belligerent powers, yet we have no...
1923From Thomas Jefferson to William Gordon, 16 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
In your favor of the 8th. instant you mention that you had written to me in February last . This letter never came to hand. That of Apr. 24. came here during my absence on a journey thro’ Holland and Germany, and having been obliged to devote the first moments after my return to some very pressing matters, this must be my apology for not having been able to write to you till now. As soon as I...
1924From Thomas Jefferson to André Limozin, 16 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I received last night your favor of the 13th. and am obliged to you for the search made in the post office for the Nuncio’s packet. With respect to the subject of your private note, I think I had the honor, in some former letter, of informing you that no Consular convention was as yet settled with this country, and that till there should be one it was not probable any appointment of Consuls...
1925From Thomas Jefferson to John Paradise, 16 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Will any of your occasions for money, my dear Sir, admit of being put off a few days? Mr. Grand will indeed furnish the 50 Louis you desire, on my order; but it will be on the condition, always understood between him and me, that I repay it punctually the 1st. day of the next month. The 100 Louis he has before furnished you, I repaid him the 1st. day of this month. Since that I have been...
1926From Thomas Jefferson to John Stockdale, 16 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
In my former letters I mentioned to you that not knowing exactly the balance I owed you when I set out from this place for Amsterdam, I had remitted from Amsterdam a bill of exchange to Mr. Trumbull praying him to pay you 15£ out of it. As I did not recollect his address, the letter was inclosed to Sr. Robt. Herreis, who not being able to find him returned it to my bankers in Amsterdam, with...
1927From Thomas Jefferson to Brailsford & Morris, 17 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been less diligent in acknoleging the receipt of your favors of Oct. 31. Jan. 10. and Mar. 17. than in attending to their contents. They have been the subject of repeated conferences with Mr. Berard of this city, during which I have discovered a real desire in that house to dispose in the best manner possible of the rice you had been pleased to consign to them; and a mortification that...
1928From Thomas Jefferson to William Drayton, 17 July 178[8] (Jefferson Papers)
My letters of Jan. 13. and Feb. 6. informed you that I had sent to your address 1. a couffe of Egyptian rough rice by Capt. Shewell bound from Marseilles to Charleston. 2. another do. by the Juno capt. Jenkins bound from Havre to N. York. 3. a box with cork acorns and Sulla seed by the Packet from Havre to N. York. A letter from the delegates of S. Carolina dated New York Apr. 25. announced to...
1929From Thomas Jefferson to Ralph Izard, 17 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your favor of Nov. 10. but it did not get to my hands till Apr. 24. With respect to the subject of rice, I should myself give the preference to that of S. Carolina. It is fairest to the eye, and, to my taste, equal in flavor to that of Piedmont. But so far as this market is concerned, we must attend to it’s taste also. That decides 10. sous the French pound for Piedmont...
1930From Thomas Jefferson to John Paradise, 17 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
When your letter was delivered me this morning, my servant had just set out with one to you. I am uneasy till I hear from you and know what your wants may be which you wish to have furnished immediately, and which shall accordingly be furnished. Have you heard that the royal thunder has fallen on the Marquis de la fayette? Your’s affectionately, PrC ( DLC ). Paradise’s letter has not been...