1To Thomas Jefferson from François Soulés, 11 September 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I must return many thanks for the judicious remarks you were so obliging to send me. Due attention was paid to them. Conscious of your Excellency’s great abilities, conscious that you are perfectly acquainted with most of the transactions in the American revolution, I will always have a proper deference for your opinion, and should think myself very happy, would your Excellency favour me with...
2To Thomas Jefferson from François Soulés, 14 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have long wished for an opportunity of expressing to you my sentiments upon your nomination to the presidency of Congress, and now mr. Livingston offers me one. The United-states cou’d not certainly have made a better choice, and I hope that those little dissentions which have for sometimes agitated the sons of liberty, will soon, by your wisdom, be quieted. I always look with the greatest...
3To Thomas Jefferson from François Soulés, 21 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
In the parliamentary pocket-book I published, I find a note to that purport: a member of the Commons is a Knight, a citizen or burgess. He must be resident within the same county the day of the writ of summons and ought to have 40 shillings of free hold within the said county, beyond all charges &c . A person who has just published a book intitled, les Comices de Rome &c. maintains that to be...
4To John Adams from François Soulés, 8 February 1786 (Adams Papers)
I may now give your Excellency a description of this place before I give you the two next volumes of my history of America. I confess that tho’ accustomed to misfortunes, tho’ possessed of a fortitude which never forsook me in the most trying occasions, yet the Sight of Newgate struck me with horror. figure to yourself, Sir, about 145 wretches dressed in the most ragged habits with emaciated...