351From 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...
352From 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...
353From 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...
354From 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...
355From 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...
356From 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...
357From 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...
358From 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...
359From 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...
360From 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...