81From Thomas Jefferson to Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 13 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been long without acknoleging the receipt of your favors of June the 2d. and 30th. I expected every post would bring the deed which was to enable Mr. Paradise to go to London. Before you receive this he will be arrived there: and he will be surprized to be told that the evening before he left Paris, Mr. Necker was dismissed from office and went off to Geneva. Monsieur de Montmorin...
82From Thomas Jefferson to John Bondfield, 16 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honoured with yours of the 11th. instant and lament much that I cannot avail myself of so excellent an opportunity of going to America as the Washington offers. But not having yet received my permission I am not at liberty to go. The tumults in Paris which took place on the change of the ministry, the slaughter of the people in the assault of the Bastille the beheading the Governor and...
83From Thomas Jefferson to John Brown Cutting, 16 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for your attention to the cir[cumstance] of my passage, and lament extremely that I cannot avail myself of so favorable a conveiance as the Washington offers, which I would certainly have done had I received my permission. But that is not yet arrived.—The Vanstaphorsts have written to me to receive their bond[s]. This awaits your return.—The Impost act has pass[ed] the house of...
84From Thomas Jefferson to John Mason, 16 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honored with your favor of the 11th. and sincerely thank you for the offer of your ship, which I would certainly have embraced, had I been at liberty to go. But I have not yet received permission, and must await that. I beg you to remember me in the most friendly terms to your father. I have put off answering his letter because I expected constantly to make my voyage to America and to see...
85From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Paine, 17 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you by post on the 13th. That day all the rest of the ministry was dismissed except Villedeuil and Barentin. The new ministers were Breteuil, Broglio, Vauguyon, de la Porte, de la Galaisiere, and Foulon. The people of Paris forced the prisons of St. Lazare, where they got some arms. On the 14th. they took the Invalids, and Bastille, and beheaded the Governor and Lt. Governor of the...
86From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Price, 17 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
When I wrote my letter of the 12th. I thought Mr. Morgan was returning to England. As I was mistaken in this, it has been obliged to wait another conveiance. This offers by Ld. Daer. I mentioned in that that temporary checks to the proceedings of the States general would probably happen. In fact, a pretty bold one was then beginning to be executed. Mr. Necker was that very evening dismissed....
87From Thomas Jefferson to the Abbé Arnoux, 19 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Dear Sir Paris July 19. 1789. The above is a catalogue of all the books I recollect on the subject of juries. With respect to the value of this institution I must make a general observation. We think in America that it is necessary to introduce the people into every department of government as far as they are capable of exercising it; and that this is the only way to ensure a long-continued...
88From Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 19 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I am become very uneasy lest you should have adopted some channel for the conveiance of your letters to me which is unfaithful. I have none from you of later date than Nov. 25. 1788. and of consequence no acknowledgement of the receipt of any of mine since that of Aug. 11. 1788. Since that period I have written to you of the following dates. 1788. Aug. 20. Sep. 3. 5. 24. Nov. 14. 19. 29. 1789....
89To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 22 July 1789 (Madison Papers)
My last to you was of the 18th. of June. Within a day or two after, yours of May 9. came to hand. In the rest of Europe nothing remarkeable has happened; but in France such events as will be for ever memorable in history. To begin where my last left them, the king took on himself to decide the great question of voting by persons or by orders, by a declaration made at a Seance royale on the...
90From Thomas Jefferson to the Archbishop of Bordeaux, 22 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Je sens toute ma malheur, Monseigneur, de recevoir les ordres du Comité nommé pour la redaction de la Constitution au moment que des depeches pour l’Amerique m’occupent tout entier, et que le bâtiment qui doit les porter est pret à mettre à la voile. Je vous supplie de leur en être l’organe de mes regrets. A moi la perte est des plus affligeantes de manquer à des discussions les plus...
91From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 22 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
My last to you was of the 18th. of June. Within a day or two after yours of May 9. came to hand. In the rest of Europe nothing remarkeable has happened; but in France such events as will be for ever memorable in history. To begin where my last left them, the king took on himself to decide the great question of voting by persons or by orders, by a declaration made at a Seance royale on the 23d....
92From Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 23 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer of my letters (a servant of Mr. Morris) not going off till to-day I am enabled to add to their contents. The spirit of tumult seemed to have subsided, when yesterday it was excited again by a particular incident. Monsieur Foullon, one of the obnoxious ministry, who, as well as his brethren, had absconded, was taken in the country, and as is said by his own tenants, and brought to...
93From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Paine, 23 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you on the 11th. 13th. and 17th. instant. Last night yours of the 13th. came to hand. It has been long on the way. I am sorry that I am not able myself to accomodate you with the exchange of money in Europe for money in America: because on the contrary I need remittances from America. I will speak to Mr. Morris and if he can answer your purpose, I will write you by post, or he will...
94From Thomas Jefferson to Maria Cosway, 25 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
My letter of May 21. my dear Madam, was the last I expected to have written you on this side the Atlantic for the present year. Reasons, which I cannot devine, have prevented my yet receiving my Congé. In the mean time we have been here in the midst of tumult and violence. The cutting off heads is become so much á la mode, that one is apt to feel of a morning whether their own is on their...
95From Thomas Jefferson to Sir John Sinclair, 25 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
The civilities you were so kind as to shew me while in England are a proof that you will extend them to one who deserves them more, and encourages me to introduce to your notice the bearer hereof Mr. Morris, an American gentleman of great distinction. He has had an important part in our councils from the beginning, is very intimately informed of them, and is therefore well qualified to satisfy...
96From Thomas Jefferson to Lord Wycombe, 25 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
The acquaintance with which Your Lordship honored me when in Paris , and your friendly dispositions, encourage me to introduce to you the bearer hereof Mr. Morris, an American gentleman of great talents and information, and who has been peculiarly distinguished in our councils, and intimate with the transactions of our republic. The desire you have shewn of adding a knoledge of our affairs to...
97From Thomas Jefferson to William Carmichael, 26 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof Mr. Benjamin Huger, a young gentleman of South Carolina, proposing to see Madrid in the course of a tour he is about to make, I take the liberty of recommending him to you. He is of one of the most distinguished families of South Carolina, and has been some years in Europe to compleat an education which he had begun in Virginia in my neighborhood. This gave me occasion to...
98From Thomas Jefferson to Giovanni Fabbroni, 26 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of presenting to your notice the Bearer hereof Mr. Benjamin Huger, a young gentleman of South Carolina, and of one of the most distinguished families there. Travelling for his improvement, he will take your city in the course of his tour, and will certainly find that it merits to occupy him some days. I will ask for him those attentions and informations so useful to a...
99From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Huger, 26 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
The troubles of this city will be a sufficient apology for the length of time which intervened between my receipt of your favor of June 16. and the date of this letter. I am much obliged by your putting it in my power to render you the little service of introductory letters for your journey. Your connection with the families of Mr. Walker and Mr. Kinloch who hold the first places in my...
100[From Thomas Jefferson to Souche, 27 July 1789] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris, 27 July 1789 . A letter to “Blondin” is recorded in SJL under this date, but has not been found. It was evidently in response to the letters from “Souche, dit Blondin” of 11 May and 16 June 1789.]
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...