1To John Adams from Rodolph Valltravers, 25 September 1782 (Adams Papers)
Just returned from a Tour through Hungaria, I have the Satisfaction of recieving your very Kind Favor of Augt. the 18th. inclosed in Mr. Bosset’s Letter, the Resident of two german Courts at the Hague, whose ill-grounded Scruples have been the Cause of the long Detention of mÿ preceding application to Your Excellency, of april 11th. from Münich. I am happy to hear from your own honored Self,...
2To John Adams from Rodolph Valltravers, 9 December 1791 (Adams Papers)
The very kind Reply, Your Honor has been pleased to make to my Letter of Septr. 21. 1782. from Münich, (under Cover to Mr. Bosset de la Rochette, Minister at the Hague for the Courts of Ansbach and Baden; inclosing a Letter to my worthy Patron, H. Laurence Esqe., then an unfortunate Captive in the Tower, the London-Bastille!) has emboldened me, when at Hamburg, in March 1786. to crave Yr. H’s....
3To John Adams from Rodolph Valltravers, 15 February 1792 (Adams Papers)
En attendant le Sort de la Lettre, que j’ai pris la Liberté d’addresser á Vôtre Excellence, le 8e. Decembre 1791. par le Cape. Rose, de la Marylande; parti d’ici pour Georgetown; renfermant une Copie de ma derniére Lettre á S. E. le Genl. Washington, Président du Congrés des Etats unis de l’Amérique: permettés, que j’aye l’Honneur de Vous faire Part du triste Etat actuel, de vôtre jadis...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Rodolph Vall-Travers, 8 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I humbly beg Leave to offer Your Honor, and to all the Worthies, who have bestowed on my poor Endeavours the glorious Title of Fellowship to their philosophical Labors, the Homage of my just Gratitude and Veneration. Were but my Abilities equal to my Zeal, and my nearly exhausted Fortune adequate to the many Means, within my Reach of effectually cooperating with your philanthropic Pursuits; I...
5To John Adams from Rodolph Valltravers, 28 February 1793 (Adams Papers)
Réferant Votre Excellce. á mes deux précedentes Lettres, écrites depuis ici, (le 10e. Decbre. 1791. par le Capite. Rose, de Georgetown; avec incluse au Génl. Washington; et le 15e. Fevrr. 1792. par la Chloé du Cape. Strang, sous le Couvert de Jn. Churchman, Geographe de Philadelphie;) et qui, j’espére, Vous seront parvenües en leur Tems: Je prends la Liberté de Vous addresser celleci par son...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Rodolph Vall-Travers, 29 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
“ Rotterdam, Haring’s Vliet, in Lodgs. at the Widows Hamilton & Habercrafft; Friday March 29th. 1793 .” He requests TJ to take care of “the various Contents of the inclosed Letters and Dispatches” addressed to the President. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); 1 p.; endorsed by TJ as received 1 July 1793 and so recorded in SJL . Enclosures: (1) Vall-Travers to George Washington, Rotterdam, 16 Mch. 1793,...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Rodolph Vall-Travers, 9 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Rotterdam, Haring’s Vliet, 9 Apr. 1793 . By Captain William Callahan, commander of the brig Jn. Pringle , bound for Charleston, he encloses a copy, which he officially received yesterday morning from van Sohn, Attorney General to their Highmightinesses, of the capitulation of the French garrisons in Breda and Gertruidenberg to the Dutch, English, Prussian, and Imperial armies. The humane...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Rodolph Vall-Travers, 18 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Amsterdam, 18 Apr. 1793 . By the Neptune of Baltimore, Captain William Montgomery, he sends the enclosed resolution of their High Mightinesses concerning the mutual security of the fisheries of Holland and France during the present war received last week from van Sohn at The Hague and hopes it will be of service to the United States whether they sign a new treaty or suffer a rupture with...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Rodolph Vall-Travers, 5 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Rotterdam, 5 May 1793 . In hopes that his exertions on behalf of the United States, described in his letters of last year and this to the President and TJ, have been well received, he calls a new emergency to the administration’s attention. The Netherlands, which has hitherto favored North America with loans and the fruits of its West Indian colonies and plantations, will now suspend though...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Rodolph Vall-Travers, 29 May 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
Having left mÿ Papers in Holland, when I was called over, to settle my deceased Spouse’s Succession; I cannot commemorate the several Letters, I had the Honor to address to your truely-venerable President, to your worthy self, and laudable philosophical Society, to Mr. Adams, your respectable Vice Presidt. and to my good Friend and Relation, Conrad Zollikofer, Merchant at Baltimore; at sundry...