1To Thomas Jefferson from Collow Frères, Carmichael & Co., 5 February 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
We have the honor of informing your Excellency that the Ship Bowman, Captn. D. Butler, arrived here this morning from Virginia and brought a Packet, apparently of News Papers with a letter from our friend A. Donald Esqr. of Richmond addressed to you. The former we have forwarded apart by this days Post, and the latter you will be pleased to receive enclosed. We are informed by Mr. Donald that...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Collow Frères, Carmichael & Co., 15 February 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honoured with your letter of the 5th. instant covering one from my friend Mr. Donald. The packet of newspapers came also safely to hand. Mr. Donald’s order for wine not leaving me time to have it brought from Bordeaux, I send him two hampers from my own stock, containing 124. bottles, for which I shall charge him only what I paid in Bordeaux. This indeed is dear, being three livres a...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Collow Frères, Carmichael & Co., 12 March 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Le Havre, 12 Mch. 1788 . Acknowledging TJ’s letter of 15 Feb. and expressing the hope that the new regulations for trade “may be the means of establishing the most permanent and friendly Intercourse between the two Countries.” The wine for Donald has arrived and will be shipped to him by the first opportunity; hope to send the bust of Lafayette at the same time. RC ( MHi ); 2 p.
4To Thomas Jefferson from Collow Frères, Carmichael & Co., 19 March 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Le Havre, 19 Mch. 1788 . The ship Portsmouth , Capt. Oldner, arrived with tobacco from Virginia the previous night and will proceed to Dunkirk immediately to unload, “Tide Wind and Weather permitting”; the wine for Mr. Donald will be sent by the vessel since she will return to Virginia immediately. Have written to Limozin about the bust of Lafayette but it has not yet arrived. There are some...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Collow Frères, Carmichael & Co., 20 March 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Le Havre, 20 Mch. 1788 . Patrick Parker, a passenger on the Portsmouth , has just delivered the two enclosed letters. Mr. Limozin had been informed by several messages of the necessity of taking the trees for TJ from the Portsmouth during the day because the ship would sail in the evening; they would have landed the trees themselves if they had not thought Limozin would consider their...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Collow Frères, Carmichael & Co., 25 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
A journey into Holland and Germany, and close occupation since my return, have prevented my having the honour of sooner answering your favors of the 19th. and 20th. of March which came here during my absence. I am sorry that the trees which came for me, on board the Portsmouth, should have been the occasion of any thing disagreeable between yourselves and Mr. Limozin. The difference of their...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Collow Frères, Carmichael & Co., 1 September 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Le Havre, 1 Sep. 1789 . Their W. Collow and J. Carmichael, lately in Paris, join in thanking TJ “for the polite reception with which you honored them.”—Have kept in mind his request concerning vessels bound for America: there are two consigned to themselves, one sailing in two weeks, the other in three, one going to Isle of May, other to Isle of Rhe, “both for Salt, neither of which would suit...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Collow, Frères, Carmichael & Co., 10 September 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I avail myself of the first moment after a recovery from a severe indisposition under which your letter of the 1st. found me, to acknolege the receipt of it, and to thank you for the information it contained as to the vessels in your port bound for America. I begin to be very anxious on that subject as the season for my departure approaches, and I learn there is no vessel at Bordeaux; so that...