1To John Adams from Joseph Mandrillon, 20 December 1780 (Adams Papers)
Monsieur Le Professeur Henners à Utrecht vient de m’ecrire que Le libraire Wild a fait emprisonner Mr. Cerisier Sous le pretexte qu’il veut qu’il acheve son ouvrage à Utrecht et non à Amsterdam, ce procedé Est indigne comme il est injuste, comme je ne peux sortir avant midi je me hâte de vous en informer J’ecris La même chose à Monsr. de Neufville obligez-moi, Monsieur, d’agir de concert avec...
2Joseph Mandrillon to John Adams: A Translation, 20 December 1780 (Adams Papers)
Professor Henners in Utrecht has written to inform me that the bookseller Wild has imprisoned Mr. Cerisier under the pretext that he can only do his work at Utrecht, not at Amsterdam. This proceeding is as undignified as it is unjust. As I cannot leave at mid-day, I have written hastily to inform Mr. de Neufville of the same thing. Oblige me, sir, by acting in concert with him and, through...
3To John Adams from Joseph Mandrillon, 12 December 1781 (Adams Papers)
En attendant que j’ai l’honneur de vous aller rendre mes devoirs ce Soir entre 5 et 6 heures, j’ai celui devour envoyer, Monsieur, La meilleure carte que l’on puisse mouver ici de l’Amérique septr. on attend d’Angleterre, celle des 13 états unis que j’ai demandé. Je joins aussi L’Atlas de L’hist. ph. et Pol. pour vous prier de me donner votre avis sur l’exactitude des cartes de votre...
4Joseph Mandrillon to John Adams: A Translation, 12 December 1781 (Adams Papers)
I will have the honor of delivering my work to you this evening between five and six o’clock but in the meantime, I am sending you the best map of North America that could be found here. The map of the thirteen states that I asked for is expected from England. I am also enclosing the Atlas de l’histoire philosophique et politique so that you may give me your opinion as to the accuracy of these...
5To George Washington from Joseph Mandrillon, 11 June 1784 (Washington Papers)
The happy and illustrious qualities with which Heaven has favoured you, merit without doubt, the confidence and the Love of all your Fellow Citizens—you have fully gratified their Hope, you have Sir, even surpassed it, by drawing on your Country All the prosperity which she enjoys—Before you, Sir, we had never yet seen a Great Man Universally admired, commended, respected and enjoy his...
6To George Washington from Joseph Mandrillon, 1 March 1785 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Joseph Mandrillon, 1 Mar. 1785. On 22 Aug. GW wrote Mandrillon : “I had the honor to receive your letter of the first of March.”
7To George Washington from Joseph Mandrillon, 24 October 1786 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency gave me reason to hope in your last letter, that if the Statutes of the Cincinnati permitted it, you would do me the pleasure, Sir, to propose me in the next Assembly of 1787. Permit me to repeat to your Excellency how much I shall feel myself flattered by being connected, by a new bond, to a Count[r]y & to Citizens who have had so much of my devotion & admiration. In...
8To George Washington from Mandrillon, 24 January 1787 (Washington Papers)
The 24th of last October I had the honor of sending to your Excellency a memorial containing my submission to the resolution of the approaching General Meeting of the Cincinnati. I am impressed with the most sanguine hopes, that, as it is under the Auspices of your Excellency that the proposition will be made, I shall be admitted. The Marquis de la Fayette wrote to me that I could not have a...
9To George Washington from Joseph Mandrillon, 25 October 1788 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor to send your Excellency some months ago a specimen of my last work under the title of Literary and Political Fragments during a journey to Berlin. It was to have been forwarded to you, my General, by——Boinod, bookseller in Philadelphia. I wish that the new homage which I have rendered with so much pleasure to your exalted merit, may interest you. Your Excellency will see that I...
10To George Washington from Joseph Mandrillon, June 1789 (Washington Papers)
La modestie qui fait sans cesse la base de vos vertus, vous dira peutêtre de me refuser la grace que je vous demande: mais si Votre Excellence réflechit sur le motif de ma priere, sa justice et sa bonté lui diront quelque chose en ma faveur. Je desire posseder votre portrait, je desire enfin pouvoir contempler dans les traits de Votre Excellence, ces caracteres moraux que j’ai eu tant de...
11To John Adams from Joseph Mandrillon, 15 June 1789 (Adams Papers)
Le tems peut sans doute avoir detruit le souvenir dont vous m’honoriez, lorsque les interêts del’Amérique vous appellerent dans differentes cours del’Europe, en quittant ces Provinces: mais quand la renomée ne m’auroit pas Sans cessé rappellé votre merite, et votre personne, il m’auroit suffit de penser à l’acceuil flateur dont vous m’avez honoré ici, et aux conversations intéressantes dont...
12To George Washington from Joseph Mandrillon, 15 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
The uncertainty which I am in whether my letters get safe to your hands or not, has determined me to embrace the opportunity which offers by Mr Theophilus Cazeneau a distinguished Citizen of this City, to confirm to you, my General, the transmission which I have had the honor to make to you of my Fragments of political literature in which I have presumed to place some of your virtues. I pray...
13To George Washington from Joseph Mandrillon, 4 December 1789 (Washington Papers)
The kind indulgence which you have deigned to give my productions, is a benefit which expands my soul with a joy which can only be equalled by the sentiment of acknowledgement & gratitude; and to express which, one must possess that elevation—that sublimity of idea which nature has but rarely given to man—and which has been so happily bestowed upon you for the benefit of your country, & for...
14To George Washington from Joseph Mandrillon, 9 January 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have the honour of sending to your Excellency a Copy of my letter to the National Assembly —it is a part of my patriotic wishes to which I pray your Excellency to add it after the preface—Mr Cazenove who has saild from London for America, is charged to offer a copy of my wishes to your Excellency, and I pray you to accept them with the same indulgence and the same goodness with which you...
15To George Washington from Joseph Mandrillon, 1 June 1790 (Washington Papers)
Rue des ⟨J⟩euners no. 26. My General, Paris June 1. 1790. The letter with which your Excellency has honored me of the 29. of august last, and which accompanied a copy of that excellent work, the history of the insurrection in Massachusetts, is a new favor, which I appreciate in all its extent. Happy, if with the aid of your indulgence, I may be able to justify the good opinion which you have...