1To Thomas Jefferson from Gaetano Drago di Domenico, 13 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Genoa, 13 July 1793 . All intercourse between France and Great Britain having ended late in February, he encloses via a friend in London a copy of the 25 Mch. letter he sent by way of France and entreats TJ’s support for the object of it. Since writing that letter the price of wheat here has risen to 86 shillings British sterling per quarter because of heavy French demand. Several convoys of...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Gaetano Drago di Domenico, 11 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Genoa, 11 Mch. 1793 . He has been informed by Joseph Ravara, the Genoese consul to the United States, that TJ submitted to Congress his petition to be appointed American consul at Genoa, which was transmitted by his friend James Maury, the American consul at Liverpool. He is grateful and hopes TJ will support his candidacy. The courts of Austria, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark have often borrowed...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Gaetano Drago, 22 June 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Genoa, 22 June 1789 . He wrote TJ the 5th [i.e. 4th] ult. covering duplicate of his petition to Congress, humbly requesting TJ’s interposition to forward it. He would not trouble TJ again if, since writing, he had not recalled conversing with him “during your short stay here when you Came from Turin recommended to Messrs. Bertrand Ricard & Brainerd in whose Comptinghouse I was; the remembrance...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Gaetano Drago, 4 May 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Genes, 4 May 1789 . It is due to repeated urging of Richard Codman, merchant of Boston, during his stay here that he has decided to submit to “L’Illustre Congrès des treize Provinces unies” the humble petition of which he encloses a copy. A glance will reveal his object. He has tried to accompany it with recommendations that will be useful. Yet, even though unknown to TJ, he dares to appeal to...