1To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 20 May 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your Favor of the eighth Instant and am looking out for an Opportunity to send on the Plate, concluding you will some how or other take the whole Set. You say you have Forks and Spoons enough. In that Case it will be better to sell them, which can always be done to Advantage, and take those belonging to the Set which if I remember right are made of a Pattern to suit the Rest....
2Enclosure: Gouverneur Morris to Thomas Jefferson, 1 August 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
My last was of the tenth of July. Mr: Livingston, who is on his way to America, presents an opportunity of writing, which must not be neglected, altho’ I am engaged at present in Examination of the account received from the Commissioners of the Treasury. I have already mentioned to you, Sir, that the whole of this account is open, and I must now observe that I do not find myself particularly...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 8 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In reading over my Letter of Yesterday I find that I omitted to mention the War with Spain . Truth is that it was a Matter so much of Course and of so little Importance that it escap’d my Recollection. Our Commissioners will doubtless turn it to Account. Last Evening I was inform’d that the french Army in Flanders has been defeated but as this is not an official Account I meerly mention it as...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 12 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
This will accompany Duplicates of No. 30 and 31. I have now the Honor to transmit a Copy of the Decision made by the Municipality of Dunkerque on the third Instant respecting the Ship Fame which I receivd last night in a Letter from that Place of the seventh which informs me that the Ship was then sail’d. I have just now written to Mr. Le brun (who by the bye is en État d’arrestation ) a...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 10 April 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Accept at this late Period my Congratulations upon your safe Arrival in America. I know not whether to add the farther Congratulation upon your Appointment to and Acceptance of the Office of Secretary of State because the latter is not yet ascertained on this Side of the Atlantic. You will find enclosed a Paper from your friend Sir John Sinclair to whom you was so kind as to introduce me. Pray...
6Enclosure: Gouverneur Morris to Thomas Jefferson, 16 August 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I shall send herewith a Packet containing my Correspondence with the Commissioners of the Treasury, relative to our Debt, and in the same packet you will find a Letter from Mr. Cathalan to you relative to a Riot at Marsielles &c. I have already had occasion to mention to you, Sir, that I did not find myself authorized to go into the Settlement of the account finally with the Commissioners of...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 21 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your favors of the twelfth of July and fifteenth of October. The last reach’d me yesterday by Express from Bordeaux. I am astonish’d to find that so late as the middle of October you had received but one of my Letters. I had taken every Precaution against Miscarriages but there is no answering for the Negligence of those one is obliged to employ in the Ports. I shall transmit...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 16 August 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
My last was of the first Instant No 5. Since that Period another Revolution has been affected in this City. It was bloody. Success which always makes Friends gives to the present Order an Air of greater Unanimity than really exists. A very considerable Party is deeply interested to overturn it but what may be their Conduct is uncertain. Whether they will confine themselves to idle Vows and...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 16 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Paris, 16 Mch. 1791 , Since his of the 26th “the Assembly have taken another Step in the same disagreable Road” described there, depriving all ships other than those built in France of the privilege of French bottoms. This, added to the other decrees already noticed, produces much sensation among the few Americans settled in French ports.—He encloses copy of the note he gave to Lafayette. “He...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, [23 April 1802] (Jefferson Papers)
Mr Morris presents respectful Compliments and is much oblig’d to Mr Jefferson for his kind Attention Mr M. will endeavor to have the Plan of a parquet executed if his Carpenters have not already gone too far in preparing Materials for one of their own Contrivance RC ( DLC ); undated; endorsed by TJ as received 23 Apr. and so recorded in SJL . Morris began building a new mansion at Morrisiana...
11To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 17 August 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
If I have not hitherto mentioned the Applications made to me by the foreign Officers who have Certificates whereof the interest is payable in this City, it has not been for Want of sufficient cause, but because I did daily hope to have receiv’d some orders on that Subject. Many have spoken to me, written to me, and call’d upon me. I have given to all the general Assurances that Justice would...
12To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 9 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The Intelligence communicated in mine of yesterday is fully confirm’d. The Accounts given to the Convention are so lame and blind that one is oblig’d to peice them out like a tatter’d writing where whole Sentences are wanting. It would seem then that the Enemy, tho at what Time is yet uncertain, made an Attack on the Army which had beseigd or rather bombarded Maestrecht and which was then at...
13To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 9 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the twenty ninth of April is just receivd. Previously thereto I had (unluckily) employd the Young Man you mention as my Cook. I did this on Mr. Short’s Recommendation of his Integrity and because he had been in your Service. He is very grateful to you for the Offer you make him which he says he will accept of if I turn him away but he hopes I will not and wishes rather to continue in...
14To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 13 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Enclos’d herein you will find Copies of my Letters of the 27 and 28 June 4. 21. and 24 July and 6 August to the Minister of foreign Affairs with Copies of his Letters to me of the 3. 19. 29 and 30 July. From these you will perceive that my Application for an Order to the Minister of France in America to pay out of the Funds to be furnished by the United States the Drafts made on his...
15To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 1 August 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Paris, 1 Aug. 1792 . The Duc de Penthièvre has recommended Monsieur de La Mariniere, who requests for his daughter-in-law, Madame de La Mariniere, an introduction to the best company in Baltimore, where she has taken refuge from the calamities of Saint-Domingue. Having no particular connections in that town, he recommends the matter to TJ’s kind attention. Dupl ( DLC ); 1 p.; at head of text:...
16To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 1 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
According to your orders I sit down to render this Day a State of my Account which will be but short because I shall charge at present no Contingencies. There are some such which will come in my next Account and which would be stated this Day, but as I have not yet got into the House which I hired immediately after my Arrival and which I have daily been in the Hope of entring, my Papers and...
17[To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 29 April 1789] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris, 29 Apr. 1789 . Recorded in SJL as received 30 Apr. 1789, but not found. This letter may have been concerned with the matters discussed in Henry Lee to TJ, 6 Mch. 1789, and George Washington to TJ, 13 Feb. 1789, both of which arrived on the 29th Apr. The next day TJ called on Morris, who made the following entry in his journal: “Mr. Jefferson comes in to communicate a Letter from Colo....
18To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 6 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Short, who is so kind as to take Charge of my Letters as far as Bourdeaux, will go he says this Day. I therefore take the latest Opportunity to write, and to inform you that the Appearances have not at all changed since mine of the first. Dumouriez has been some Days in Paris; He stays at Home under Pretence of Illness, but in Fact to receive and consider the Propositions of the different...
19To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 24 December 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I did not receive your Letter of the twelfth of August untill Yesterday Afternoon or I should have made an earlier Reply. I am very happy to find that you approve of the Ground on which the InterChange of Ministers with this Country was placed and the Judgment formed Respecting the Posts. I am led to fear that my Conduct in Regard to our impressed Seamen has not been equally fortunate, but I...
20To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 13 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I am to acknowlege yours of the seventh of last November which I cannot do without expressing my Concern at a Resolution which will deprive the United States of an able and faithful Servant. Since you declare your determination to be unalterable it would be idle to offer Reasons to dissuade you besides which it seems probable that e’er this can arrive you will have acted. But were it otherwise...
21To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 26 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The last Letter which I had the Honor to write was of the thirteenth Instant, of which I enclose a Copy, as well as of No. 21. 22. and 23 of the seventh eighth and ninth Instant. I also enclose a Copy of the Letter from Dumouriez to the Convention, of the twelfth Instant, which not having been publickly read he has caus’d to be printed in Flanders, and the enclos’d is from Brussels. This...
22To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 10 September 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
My last No. 9 was of the thirtieth Ultimo. The Object of this is merely to transmit a Letter forwarded to me by Mr. Cathalan who desires me to communicate the Scarcity to my Friends and at the same Time mentions that if I will encourage him thereto he will immediately set off to America to procure Wheat. My Answer of this Date is enclos’d. By the first convenient Opportunity I shall write to...
23To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 26 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I am to acknowledge your favours of the twenty sixth of November and seventeenth of December which reached me two days ago. The System of Finance did not indeed fully meet my Opinions but I know it is necessary to conform even to the Prejudices of Mankind. I fully believe with you that any Resources dependent on Consumption will greatly encrease. I believe this Encrease will not be meerly in...
24To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 4 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
My last No. 25 was of the twenty sixth of March. Enclos’d you have Copies of Mr. Lebrun’s Letter to me of the twenty sixth of March, Mine to him of the twenty eighth and his to me of the twenty ninth. I also enclose under this Cover the Journal of the Debates and Decrees No. 195. 196. 197 and 198. These will give you the present State of our News up to the last Evening. You will perceive that...
25To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 23 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I am asham’d at this late Day to reply to your Letter of the sixth of June. I waited at first for an opportunity to send round the Plate intending to let you have the whole on such Conditions as would have perfectly agreed with the State of the Funds which you was so kind as to communicate. I could meet with no Opportunity and lately the Chancellor being on his Way to France where a Service of...
26To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 1 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
My last No. 30 was of the twentieth of May. I had the Honor to transmit therein Copies of my last Correspondence with the Minister of foreign Affairs. Herein I have the Pleasure to send a Copy of his Letter to me of the twenty sixth, covering Copy of the Decree of the twenty third. I shall not say any Thing at present upon the State of public Affairs, but refer to what I have formerly said and...
27To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 25 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
This will I expect accompany my last No. 32 of the twelfth Instant no Opportunity having offered since it was written. I do myself the Honor to enclose herein the Copy of what I wrote on the nineteenth Instant to Monsieur Le Brun respecting an atrocious Violation of our Flag and respecting a very extraordinary Step taken by the Convention in the repeal on Motion of a Member, of the Decree by...
28To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 25 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
My last No. 12 was of the twenty seventh of Septr. Since that Period and within a few Days I have receivd yours of the 16th. of June. In sending the Gazettes it would be well I think to put them in an Envelope open at each End and direct them to the Consul at Havre who should be desird to forward them to me by the Stage. This will avoid the heavy Postage. The unexpected Events which have taken...
29To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 5 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I did myself the Honor of writing to you No. 26 Yesterday. Colo. Touzard who takes Charge of my Letters having been detaind a Day longer it furnishes the Opportunity of sending this Day’s Gazettes and such Intelligence as is now arriv’d. It appears that the Army of Dumouriez is attach’d to him and will go all the Lengths which he desires. What is worse is that the Militia also adhere so that...
30To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 30 August 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
My last (No. 8) was of the twenty second Instant. In No. 6 I mention’d to you that I had not been able to adjust with the Minister of foreign Affairs the Rate of Exchange which should govern the Payments made and making in America on Account of our Debt to France. And that I had not been able to see the Minister of Marine to adjust with him the Sums which the Assembly had determind to apply...
31To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 3 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I am favored with yours of the twenty sixth of July for which I pray you to accept my thanks. I mentioned to you from London that Mr. Walpole had been offered the Place of Envoy extraordinary to the United States which he had refused. I took Care to avoid any sort of Intercourse with the Government while I was there and of Course could not possess any minute Information worthy of your Notice....
32To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 13 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In mine No. 23 of the ninth Instant I mention’d to you that the Enemy was in Possession of Brussels and so it was then asserted by Authority but it seems that he confind himself to Tongres and Liege leaving the french Army in Possession of St. Tron. At the same Time it appears that he was employ’d in pushing forward a Column on his left to turn their right Flank and had that Movement been...
33To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 6 November 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the Liberty of writing this Letter to make you acquainted with the Bearer of it Monsieur de Cormeré Brother to the late Monsieur de Favras. Mr. de Cormeré has been in the finance of this Country and is well acquainted with that Subject. He has lately published a short Work on the Relations of Commerce proper for the french Islands of which I have sent you a Copy. He is now going to S....
34To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 7 November 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Enclosed you will find some Hints relative to Coins Currency Weights and Measures . The Consideration of those Things has occurred to me at different Intervals for the last twenty Years of my Life, and I have frequently determined to begin a pretty extensive Enquiry and as frequently abandoned the Idea. Indeed my other occupations will not afford the Time. You who have thought on the Subject...
35To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 10 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg Leave to enclose the procés verbal of the late assassination at Stockholm. The last Advices from thence give Hopes of the King’s Recovery but from the Nature of the Wound his state must for a long Time be precarious. Conjecture as is usual in such Cases wanders very far but it would seem to be the Consequence of a pretty general Combination among the Nobles of Sweden to restore their...
36Enclosure: Gouverneur Morris to Thomas Jefferson, 17 August 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
If I have not hitherto mentioned the Application made to me by the foreign Officers who have certificates whereof the interest is payable in this City, it has not been for want of sufficient cause, but because I did daily hope to have received some news on that subject. Many have spoken to me, written to me, and called upon me. I have given to all the general assurances that justice would be...
37To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 13 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your Favor of the first. Accept my Thanks for the Communications which it contains. Time will eventually give us whatever Great Britain may withhold in a commercial Treaty. It is probably fortunate for us that she had not the Good Sense to accede at an earlier Period to our reasonable Propositions. I am glad to find it is so clearly your Opinion that Spain will yield to proper...
38To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 1 August 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
My last was of the tenth of July. Mr. Livingston who is on his Way to America presents an Opportunity of writing which must not be neglected altho I am engaged at present in examination of the Account receivd from the Commissioners of the Treasury. I have already mention’d to you Sir that the whole of this Account is open and I must now observe that I do not find myself particularly authoriz’d...
39To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 25 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the Honor on the tenth Instant to mention to you the Assassination of the King of Sweden. He is since dead of his Wounds. You will find by the public Prints that France declares War against the young King of Hungary and we are of Course to expect an immediate Invasion of the Austrian Netherlands. I am told that this Court notwithstanding their Guarantee of that Country to the House of...
40To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 19 September 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
My last was of the tenth Instant. I shall confine myself on the present Occasion to the transmitting Copies of my Correspondence with the Ministry on the Subject of the Conference mentiond to you in mine (No. 9) of the thirtieth of last Month. I transmit however Copy of what I wrote on the twentieth of August because the Answer of the eighth of this month would not be otherwise intelligible. I...
41To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 10 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the Honor to write to you (No. 3) on the first Instant. On the seventeenth of the last Month I mention’d the Plans then in Contemplation and gave a short View of the existent State of things. I did not communicate those Events which have since taken Place, because you will find the most ample Details in the several Gazettes. On Saturday the seventh a Farce was acted in the Assembly in...
42To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 7 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Enclos’d herewith you will find my Account up to the first of the last month. I did not send it sooner because I wish’d to comprize therein those of the Consulates none of which are come forward. I shall therefore write to them on the Subject. You will observe that I charge therein 24₶ given to an American Sea Officer. He appear’d to be, and really was, in very great distress, so that I could...
43To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 21 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I receive this Instant your Favor of this Date. Were I at Home, I might perhaps find some Memorandum respecting the Transaction which it alludes to. Certainly I should find the Letters I have received, and Copies of those I may have written on the Subject. By the Copy Mr houdon has transmitted , of a Note from Mr Grand, it is evident that he at least must have misunderstood me. Hudon...
44To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 11 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
An Opportunity presents itself which I make Use of to transmit Copy of my Letter of the first to Monsieur Lebrun with that of his Answer of the eighth and of the Decrees which were therein enclos’d viz of the eighteenth of February and twenty sixth of March. I have not sufficient Confidence in the Conveyance to give you any Information beyond what you will derive from the News Papers of which...
45To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 13 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
My last No: 18 was of the 25th. of January. Since it was written I have had every Reason to beleive that the Execution of Louis XVI has produced on foreign Nations the Effect which I had imagin’d. The War with England exists and it is now proper perhaps to consider it’s Consequences to which Effect we must examine the Objects likely to be pursued by England for in this Country notwithstanding...
46To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 24 December 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Letter of the twelfth of August was highly pleasing to me, among other Reasons because it releived me from a painful Situation. I wished to have expressed to you my Congratulations on your safe Arrival, and on the domestic Event which shortly succeeded. I wished also to express to you as an American my Satisfaction with your official Appointment, and as a Man my Esteem Respect and...
47To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 25 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
My last No. 17 was of the seventeenth Instant. The late King of this Country has been publickly executed. He died in a Manner becoming his Dignity. Mounting the Scaffold he express’d anew his Forgiveness of those who persecuted him and a Prayer that his deluded People might be benefited by his Death. On the Scaffold he attempted to speak but the commanding Officer Santerre ordered the Drums to...
48To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 22 August 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
My last (No. 7) was of the seventeenth Instant. In No. 6 of the 16th. I mentiond the Revolution of the tenth. I suggested my Idea that the Force commanded by Monsieur de la fayette would not be brought to immediate Action, and that in such Case he and his friends had Nothing to hope for. He, as you will learn, encamped at Sedan and official Accounts of last Night inform us that he has taken...
49To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 8 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I never was so long in my Life going the same Distance as on my Return from the City to this Place nor were there ever much worse Roads. This will excuse me I hope for what might otherwise seem neglect—The Service of Plate which I mentioned to you weighed in Paris six hundred and twenty two Marks making about 408 Pounds Troy which at 1⅓ per Oz or $16 per Pound will amount to $6528. There may...
50To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 19 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Enclosed you have Copies of mine of the fourth fifth and eleventh Instant No. 26. 27. and 28. Also Copies of my Letters to Mr. Lebrun of the first and third with Copy of Captn. White’s Memorial. You have furthermore Copies of a Letter from the Minister of the Marine to the Minister of foreign Affairs of the seventh Instant and of two Letters of the eighth from the Latter to me, the one...