1To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 27 January 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
This is to advise you, that I have valued this day on you, payable unto Captain Robert N. Avery on order, thirty days after sight in my 1st. 2d. 3d. & 4th. of Exchange per $421. 21/100 say four hundred and twenty one Dollars and twenty one cents, for the Balance of my account with you, which I beg you to honor— I have the honor to be with great respects Sir Your most Obt & Hbl. Servant MHi :...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 28 February 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of putting under cover to you the inclosed letter to Mr. Russell-Graves, hoping that if he should be gone from Marseilles you may know how to address it so as that he may receive it. With compliments to your father and the ladies I have the honor to be with great esteem & attachment Dr. Sir your most obedt. & most humble servt., PrC ( MHi ). Enclosure: TJ to Thomas...
3[To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 22 November 1786] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Marseilles, 22 Nov. 1786. Recorded in SJL as received 30 Nov. 1786. Not found.]
4From Thomas Jefferson to Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 22 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Having lately written you a public letter, this is merely to acknolege the receipt of your private one of Mar. 11. 1792. as also of the box of confectionary by the Louisa Capt. Brickland, the Brugnols by Captn. Moore and the olive and caper plants, in good condition; for all which attentions be pleased to accept my thanks, and with my best respects to all the members of your family, be assured...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 10 February 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I am this moment informed that Mr. Hall, an American of my acquaintance now at Marseilles will sail from that port for Baltimore more about the 20th. of this month. If you have no direct conveiance to Charleston it would be best to put the olive plants into the care of Mr. Hall who would be so good as to attend to them during their passage to Baltimore and to find a speedy and safe conveiance...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 5 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Marseilles, 5 July 1791 . He wrote on 10th of June by a vessel for New York. This goes by one direct for Philadelphia and is only to convey a letter from Captain Richard O’Bryen which will inform TJ of the situation of the captives in Algiers better than he could. He awaits TJ’s orders on that business and will not go further until he answers his letter of [22] Jan. He hopes that the olive...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 25 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Marseilles, 25 May 1793 . European political affairs, embroiled by the revolutions in France, will require TJ’s continuance in office because he is perhaps better able than anybody in France to judge the current situation, having left during the first year of the Revolution and subsequently kept in contact through public or private correspondence. By land strong armies surround all of France’s...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 18 January 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
You have done very well not to venture the olive plants thro’ the canal of Languedoc during the late cold season, as you mention to me in your favor of the 1st. inst. I should wish a good parcel to be sent by the Baltimore vessel, only charging your correspondent in Baltimore to ship them immediately to Charleston to the address of Messrs. Brailsford & Morris merchants of Charleston, or Mr....
9From Thomas Jefferson to Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 20 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
In consequence of the invitation expressed in the letter of the Mayor and Municipality of Marseilles to the President of the United States, inclosed in your letter to me of Aug. 24. desiring that supplies of wheat and flour might be sent from the U.S. to Marseilles, a load of wheat and flour is now shipped on board the British ship the Grand Duke, Capt. John Pollock of 300. tons, and destined...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 20 July 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you on the 11th. instant with a P.S. of this day coverg. the 1st of a set of exchange of which the 2d. is now inclosed, drawn by Victor Dupont on the house of Dupont de Nemours pere et fils et co. at Paris for 1312½ francs to pay you the balance of 885. francs due you, and for the further purpose stated in that letter; which as it went by Genl. Armstrong our Min. Plenipo. to Paris,...
11To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 8 April 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my Respects of the 8th. December Last, I had the misfortune of Supporting Two Irreparable Losses in my Family; Mrs. Cathalan my Beloved wife, on the 28th. January Last, & my old Respectable Father, on the 17th. Last february, Left this world! Soriously Regretted by me, my old mother, & my Daughter! A Great Comfort for my Remaining Family, was the Concern that their & our acquaintances, &...
12From Thomas Jefferson to Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 28 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Since mine of May 5. your bill for 231D.09c has been duly paid to Capt. Hazard, whose acknolegement I have. since that too my loss of the wines & other articles shipped by the New Orleans has been confirmed, the vessel & cargo having been carried into Halifax, where the vessel was cleared, but the cargo condemned, on the supposition, I believe, of it’s being French property. I must therefore...
13From Thomas Jefferson to Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 22 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
You remember how anxious I was, when with you at Marseilles, to get the admirable olive of your canton transferred to my own country, and how much trouble you were so kind as to take to effect it. it did not happen that any one of those among whom the plants were distributed took up the plan with the enthusiasm necessary to give it success, and it has failed. Mr. John Couper of St. Simon’s...
14From Thomas Jefferson to Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 25 January 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly recieved your father’s favor of Sep. 25. and am happy that the Vice-consular commission which you must have recieved soon after was made to his liking. He desires me to say whether I still wish to have the commission executed as to the olives. I wish it, Sir, extremely. My honour is somewhat compromitted in that matter with the state of South Carolina, as it was on my earnest...
15To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 15 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
15 Apr. 1792. Having written last month by the Louisa and sent copies via New York, he now encloses a letter to him from Capt. Richard O’Bryen with petitions to both houses of Congress from the American captives in Algiers praying for their deliverance from slavery. He also encloses a narrative by O’Bryen for the U.S. government describing M. Lamb’s proceedings and current events in Algiers,...
16To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 11 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
This Letter will be delivered to your Excellency, by Mr. Nemers the son of the gardener, who has furnished to me, the Small trees and plants you desired. He goes yearly to Paris, to furnish the gardens of the greatest part of the princes and Gentry of that Town. He will tell you, that this year, on account of the Severe winter, we have suffered, and we still suffer, It was impossible to...
17To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 10 September 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Bordeaux, 10 Sep. 1792. He arrived here on the 5th. Since his departure from Marseilles, wheat prices there have risen to £60₶. Wheat can still be freely purchased and exported to foreign ports. But if free trade in this article should end, a horrid famine soon would ensue, for an abundance of wheat depends on high prices. The National Assembly has reduced the duty on tobacco imported on...
18To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Cathalan, Jr., [5 October 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Cathalan’s respects to his Excy. Th. Jefferson Esqr. The State of the Purchase appears to me Just, for the quantity of hogshds. bought at Marseilles; for the prices they appear right, excepting the parcels at 39—of which I was not informed, but I dear Say they were paid so. They say that those prices alltogether are more than the Treaty, but they don’t mention that 15 p.ct. Tare makes a...
19From Thomas Jefferson to Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 6 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the receipt of your favors of Mar. 11. Apr. 15. May 1. July 20. Aug. 1. and Aug. 24. The letter of the Mayor and municipality of Marseilles to the President is received and the inclosed is a letter to them from myself in answer, the subject falling within my department. I fear the apprehensions of the Barbary cruisers will lessen much the supplies you might otherwise have...
20To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 25 January 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Marseilles, 25 Jan. 1788. Acknowledges letters of 28 and 31 Dec.; has sent “Second Couffe Egyptian Rice on Captn’s. Shewell Vessel” to “William Drayton Esq. Chairman of the Society of Agriculture of Charlestown Sh. Carolina”; encloses bill of lading; hopes TJ has received the articles he desired; the barrel of oil was sent from Aix some days ago; encloses bill, amounting to 272.₶ 5, for...
21To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 12 May 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
I Take the Liberty by this Letter Whereof the Bearer is Mr. Julius Oliver , who will have the honour to be Presented to you, by Messrs. Jos. Anthony & Sons—my Worthy Friends & Correspondents & who have been So Good as to take Care of him, Since he is in Philadelphia, for the Benefit of his education; to Introduce you this young man— When he arived there he was then a young Boy, & it was not...
22From Thomas Jefferson to Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 20 November 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
My friend Mr. Butler, a Senator of the US. from South Carolina having a desire to get some White Hermitage wine, I take the liberty of addressing him to you and of mentioning at the same time that I recieved from your friend at Cette what you were so kind as to order for me. there were two qualities, the one of the crop of de Loche which made up nearly the whole of what was sent, which is not...
23To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 11 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Marseilles, 11 Mch. 1792 . He encloses a receipt for a box of “Brugnols Prunes,” shipped on the Kitty , Capt. Stephen Moore, and notes that he has sent to Robert Gilmor & Co. by the Louisa , Capt. Birkhead, a box of confectionary for TJ or TJ’s daughter.—Also enclosed is a bill of lading for four barrels containing 100 young olive trees and one barrel containing 8 caper plants. These have been...
24To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 10 June 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Marseilles, 10 June 1791. Encloses another letter from O’Bryen and Stephens. Parret thinks that to obtain an advantageous treaty with Algiers the first step is to redeem the prisoners. Spain lost millions by not doing so. Parret thinks, and he agrees, that about £40,000 sterling in money, vessels, or presents would be adequate, after which peace could be obtained. Will give Parret and de...
25From Thomas Jefferson to Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 8 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof Doctor Waters, a physician of this place, and citizen of the U.S. proposing to go into the South of France for his health, I take the liberty of recommending him to your attentions and services. He is the son in law of Mr. Rittenhouse who is the director of the mint of the U.S. and well known in the republic of letters. He is a man of science, worth, and discretion, and will...
26From Thomas Jefferson to Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 7 September 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Before this reaches you, you will have recieved two public letters from me, the one covering your commission as Vice-consul of the U.S. at Marseilles, the other containing some general instructions and explanations, and among other things that, the title of Vice-consul, does not render the office at all subordinate to the Consuls of other districts. The object of the present is merely to...
27To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 13 May 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I received Just now the Inclosed Letter for your Excellency from England. It has been unsealed I don’t know where. I inclose you the Cover , which was also unsealed, Just as I received it. I have only taken out the paper unnecessary . This Letter has been unsealed Just as all those comming from Levant or Turkey are by the Mails via of austria. I hope you will have received in time my last...
28From Thomas Jefferson to Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 5 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Dec. 8. has been duly recieved, with the bill it covered in favor of Capt. Hazard for 231 D. 09c altho he has not presented to me that of which he is the holder, yet I shall immediately place it’s amount in the bank of New York subject to his order; that place being the most convenient for his residence in Connecticut. We have been very unfortunate in this last shipment by the...
29To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 10 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the Liberty of handing you a Copy of my Respects of the 8th. Inst. I will only add now, that I have, and am Still acknowledged by the Governt. of France, as Consul of the united States, that tho’ I have deffended with Constancy & energy, the American Vessels Captured Since the arreté of the 12th. Ventose , and obtained in the most Critical Periods the restitution of Some of them, I have...
30To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 22 April 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I Beg Leave to allow me to address you my warmest & most Sincere Congratulations on your Réelection to the Eminent Charge of President of the United States of America; it was indeed a Reward dûe to your Long, Continued past Services, in the Sundry Stations, Which So honorably you had filled during so many years, with no other Ambition, than the Prosperity and wellfare of the United States, &...