1To Thomas Jefferson from G. K. van Hogendorp, 20 January 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
Various circumstances made me receive your kind favour of the 20 Nov. 84. only the next month, and the Same are the cause of this late answer of mine, which if I had followed the impulsion of my heart would have been long ago in your hands. No my dear Sir, I am not in the Austrian Service, and a native of Holland I serve my own country and did so when I was happy enough to form an acquaintance...
2To Thomas Jefferson from G. K. van Hogendorp, [ca. 6 April 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
When I came to Annapolis, though I now recollect to have heard your praise at Boston, yet I was then ignorant of your character and your conduct during the Revolution . Let this not Surprize you; for here as in Europe, I have found it but too frequent, that reputation is not in proportion to merit. If since my arrival in America, I had been continually entertained of your great qualities,...
3To Thomas Jefferson from G. K. van Hogendorp, 22 May 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter with my papers, and some others You were so kind as to send me, I received the evening before I left Philadelphia and have not had since that moment any time to express You the Satisfaction I felt at the reading of Your Sentiments towards me. The esteem of a man of Your Character is a great reward of my endeavours to deserve it, but his affection makes me happy. A correspondance...
4To Thomas Jefferson from G. K. van Hogendorp, with Questions concerning America, 30 May 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
These are the questions, my dear Sir, which I have proposed to several Gentlemen of information, in order to get acquainted with the situation of affairs, and which will be answered to you much sooner than to a foreigner. At Boston I recommend you Mr. Russel, but generally I think it would be prudent to propose questions to several gentlemen at the same time. I pray you to communicate me the...
5To Thomas Jefferson from G. K. van Hogendorp, 8 September 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
It is but three days ago, that I received Your letter of the 29 July, which You committed to the care of Mr. William Short. Only by chance I met with Your friend at my mother’s house in the Hague, where I was come from her country seat for a single day. Mr. Short, who visited me a moment before my departure, promised however, that if he should pass through Breda on his returning to Paris, he...
6To Thomas Jefferson from G. K. van Hogendorp, 9 May 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
After a week’s stay at Philadelphia without receiving from You those papers, which at my departure I begged You to send to Mr. van Berkel, I grow a little concerned about the matter, and the more so because I intend leaving town to morrow, in order to take a ride through the Yerseys and up the North River, during which time I shall continue to feel a kind of anxiety very natural to me who...
7To Thomas Jefferson from G. K. van Hogendorp, 2 August 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
As I am informed of your returning from London to Paris I venture to send you this letter, whose content any one at the Post house might know, for I care not the whole world’s knowing how much I do esteem and belove you. Your Friend, Mr. William Short, has a right to expect from me a letter respecting our Constitution, which on my word is ready, and that up in my writing-box these six months...
8II. On Finance, 4 May 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
A Short Account of the Finances of the United States. A want of Specie has been felt in America since the first settlement of the Colonies. Several Governments, in order to get a medium, struck paper-money, and let it out on the mortgage of lands to half the amount of their value, at the interest of five p.c., and part of the capital to be paid and destroyed annually. This paper never...
9IV. On Slavery, 4 May 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Jefferson, ancien Gouverneur de la Virginie, en parlant des moeurs dans sa description de cet Etat, se borne à marquer les effets de l’Esclavage sur l’esprit humain. Dans une conversation, que j’eus avec le Gl. Washington, sur la différence entre la population des Etats de la Nouvelle Angleterre et des Etats du Sud, il indiqua l’esclavage et la culture du Tabac et du riz comme les causes...
10V. On Western Territory, 11 April 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
Le Congrès va vendre le territoire en déça du Mississippi, que des Sauvages occupent, et dont on va l’achêter. Pour cet effet, la Virginie vient de borner l’étenduë de ses possessions en faveur des Etats unis. On espère qu’elle va cêder plus de terrein encore, et qu’elle sera suivie par les deux Caroline et la Georgie. Je demande s’il est vraisemblable que jamais le congrès soit paié par les...