1From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 6 November 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The mission of a Minister Plenipotentiary to the court of London being now to take place, the President of the United States is desirous of availing the public of your services in that office. I have it in charge therefore from him to ask whether it will be agreeable that he should nominate you for that purpose to the Senate. We know that higher motives will alone influence your mind in the...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 17 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of Nov. 29. 30. 30. and Dec. 1. came duly to hand and gave sincere pleasure by announcing your disposition to accept the appointment to London. The nominations to Paris and the Hague having been detained till yours could be made, they were all immediately sent in to the Senate, to wit, yourself for London, Mr. G. Morris for Paris; Mr. Short for the Hague. Some members of the Senate...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 16 May 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
May 16. 1792. Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Mr. Pinkney and informs him that Colo. Biddle, Walnut street No. 38. broker, will pay him 500. dollars whenever he will be so good as to call on him, and give him his bill of exchange for the value on Messrs. Wilhem & Jan Willink, Nichs. & Jacob Van Staphorst & Hubbard, bankers, Amsterdam. These gentlemen have been before instructed to...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 8 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson takes the liberty of presenting Mr. Pinkney the bearer hereof Alexander Donald esq. one of his youthful friends and found a constant one, even unto the end. He long resided in Virginia, is now established in London, and Th: Jefferson will be responsible to Mr. Pinkney that any esteem he may honor him with, will be worthily placed. PrC ( MHi ). Tr ( DLC ); 19th-century copy....
5From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 11 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The letter I have addressed to Admiral Jones, of which you have had the perusal, has informed you of the mission with which the President has thought proper to charge him at Algiers, and how far your agency is desired for conveying to him the several papers, for receiving and paying his draughts to the amount therein permitted, by redrawing yourself on our bankers in Amsterdam who are...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 11 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have already had the honor of delivering to you your commission as Minister Plenipotentiary of the U.S. at the court of London, and have now that of inclosing your letter of credence to the king, sealed, and a copy of it open for your own information. Mr. Adams, your predecessor, seemed to understand, on his being presented to that court, that a letter was expected for the queen also. You...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 14 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The U.S. being now about to establish a Mint, it becomes necessary to ask your assistance in procuring persons to carry on some parts of it, and to enable you to give it, you must be apprised of some facts. Congress, some time ago, authorised the President to take measures for procuring some artists from any place where they were to be had. It was known that a Mr. Drost, a Swiss, had made an...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 24 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson begs leave to trouble Mr. Pinckney with the following commissions. Faden, map maker in London is engraving a map of S. America from one which Th:J. furnished him. He is to return the original and half a dozen copies. Colo. Smith employed him. Will Mr. Pinckney be so good as to jog him from time to time? Will he also be so good as to procure a model of those parts of the threshing...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 3 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Inclosed is a letter to our bankers in Amsterdam covering a bill of exchange drawn on them by the treasurer for one hundred and twenty three thousand seven hundred and fifty current guilders which I have endorsed thus ‘Philadelphia July 3. 1792. Enter this to the credits of the Secretary of state for the United states of America. Th: Jefferson.’ to prevent the danger of interception. My letter...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 12 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The President set out yesterday for Virginia, and I shall follow him tomorrow, and shall not return here till the last of September, consequently shall not again write to you before that date. Nothing interesting has occurred since your departure, except some attempts on the part of the state of Vermont to extend their jurisdiction a little closer to the British forts than has hitherto been...
11From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 12 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Aug. 7. came to hand on the 6th. inst. and gave me the first certain information of your safe arrival. Mr. Otto being about to sail for London, furnishes me with an opportunity of sending the newspapers for yourself and Mr. Barclay and I avail myself of it chiefly for this purpose, as my late return from Virginia, and the vacation of Congress furnish little new and important for...
12From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 22 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof, Mr. Saml. G. Dorr, of Albany, an ingenious citizen of these states, who has invented a machine for shearing cloth, proposing to go to England, I take the liberty of making him known to you, and of asking your countenance and protection to him should he on any occasion be in need of them. I have the honour to be with great respect & esteem, Sir Your most obedt. & most humble...
13From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 6 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you last on the 12th. of Octob. since which I have received yours of Aug. 29. with the papers and pamphlets accompanying it. I inclose you now the copy of a letter from Mr. Pintard our Consul at Madeira, exhibiting another attempt at the practice on which I wrote to you in my last, made by Capt. Hargood of the British frigate Hyaena to take Seamen from on board an American vessel bound...
14From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 8 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Having, at the moment I was induced to undertake my present office, determined to retire from it as soon as decency would permit, and very early after, fixing on the termination of our first federal period of 4. years as the proper epoch for retirement, I now contemplate the approach of that moment with the fondness of a sailor who has land in view. The object of this private letter is to...
15From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 13 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The ship New Pigou still remaining in port, gives me an opportunity of acknoleging the receipt of your letter of Sep. 8. and of answering on the subject of Mr. Sayre, that after enquiring at the treasury, and of others likely to be informed, I cannot find any person who has the least knowlege of any demand of his against the U.S. I saw him in Paris some years ago, when he never mentioned any...
16From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 20 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this moment received from the Governor of this state the inclosed letter addressed to him, and have only time remaining to recommend the matter to your attention; only observing that in all these cases of patronising individual rights, the business of sollicitation is to be left to the private agent, and the aid of the minister to be given only by a general countenance and patronage and...
17From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 27 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof Mr. Marshal, a gentleman of Virginia, proposing to visit England on his affairs I take the liberty of recommending him to your attention. His connections in the state from which he comes are of the most respectable and his worth and talents will justify any good offices you can render him which will also be acknoleged as obligations on Dr. Sir Your most obedt & most humble...
18From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 3 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of troubling you to forward the inclosed letters to Mr. Cathalan and Fenwick; and as you may very possibly be applied to in the course of the business, I send them open that you may be acquainted with the train into which it is put. When you shall have read them, be so good as to seal and forward them. Knowing the interest you take in the success of this essay, it would be...
19From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 12 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The present will be delivered you by Mr. Greene, whose demand on the justice of the British government was the subject of frequent conversations between us, and of a particular letter, when you were here. The magnitude of his losses will call for all the attentions and patronage we can give him consistently with those considerations of ultimate friendship and peace between the two nations...
20From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 30 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
My last letters to you have been of the 13th. and 20th. of Nov. since which I have recieved yours of Sep. 19. We are anxious to hear that the person substituted in the place of the one deceased is gone on that business.—You do not mention your prospect of finding for the mint the officers we were desirous of procuring. On this subject I will add to what was before mentioned to you, that if you...
21From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 1 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have it in charge from the President of the United States, to desire you to be very attentive to the embarkation of troops from the British dominions in Europe, to those in America, and particularly to Quebec—and to give us the earliest advice of their numbers, destination, object and other material circumstances. I have the honor to be with great and sincere esteem, Dear Sir Your most...
22From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 6 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof Mr. Kennedy is a citizen of the commonwealth of Virginia, and lays claim to the estate and title of the Earl of Cassilis of Scotland, lately mentioned in the public papers to be dead. He goes to Great Britain to claim the inheritance. As this will be a private litigation before the ordinary tribunals of the country, he will of course pursue it in that line, and we have no...
23From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 16 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you on the 30th. of December, and again a short Letter on the 1st. of January, since which I have received yours of October 2d. and 5th. Nov. 6th. and 9th. and Dec. 13th. 14th. 15th. I now inclose you the Treasurer’s second of exchange for 24,750 Guilders to be employed in the purchase of copper for the mint from Sweden or wherever else it can be got on the best terms, the first of...
24From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 20 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The death of Mr. Barclay having rendered it necessary to appoint some other person to proceed to Algiers on the business of peace and ransom, the President has thought proper to appoint Colo. Humphreys, and to send on Capt. Nathaniel Cutting to him in the character of Secretary, and to be the bearer of the papers to him. I am to ask the favor of you to communicate to Colo. Humphreys whatever...
25From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 12 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my letters of the 15th. 16th. and 20th. of Mar. which go by Capt. Cutting I have received yours of Jan. 31. Feb. 10. and 11. You will recieve with this a new Cypher, as it would be improper to use the old one again should it come back to you. The cyphered paragraph of Jan. 1. was to desire you to be very watchful over the embarcation of troops to Canada, and to give us immediate and...
26From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 12 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your private letter of Feb. 10. and am very sensible of the friendly sentiments you are so good as to express on the event of my retiring. I have, for particular reasons, deferred it for some time, but not for a long one. However I am sure you will be secure of a friendly correspondence with my successor, whoever he may be. I think it very certain that a decided majority...
27From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 20 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In a Postscript to my letter of the 12th. I acknoleged the receipt of yours of Jan. 3. since which those of Jan. 30. and Feb. 5. have been received by the William Penn. With respect to our negociation with Mr. Hammond, it is exactly in the state in which it was when you left America, not one single word having been received in reply to my general answer (of which you had a copy). He says he...
28From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 24 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof Mr. Robert Leslie, a watchmaker of this city, goes to establish himself in London. His great eminence will unquestionably ensure his success, if he can but be known. I have considered him and the deceased Mr. Rumsey (both born in the same neighborhood) as the two greatest mechanics I have ever met with in any country. Not to mention many other useful inventions, we are...
29From Thomas Jefferson to Gouverneur Morris, Thomas Pinckney, and William Short, 26 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The public papers giving us reason to believe that the war is becoming nearly general in Europe, and that it has already involved nations, with which we are in daily habits of commerce and friendship, the President has thought it proper to issue the Proclamation of which I enclose you a copy, in order to mark out to our citizens the line of conduct they are to pursue. That this intimation,...
30From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 27 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. John Carey having had permission to copy and publish such parts as might be interesting to the public, of the correspondence of the Commander in chief, the officers commanding in separate departments &c. and proposing to print them in Europe, it has been thought safer to put the M.S.S. books under cover to you. There go with this letter about 12. or 13. packets of them. I have to ask the...