1To Thomas Jefferson from Pierre Guide, 28 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Baltimore, 28 Apr. 1791 . His first concern on arriving there was to inform TJ and to forward dispatches given to him at Marseilles by Mr. Cathalan at the end of Jan. They would have come sooner, but he was blown off course by a northwest wind on 8 Mch. from the latitude of the Bermudas to Cap Français. The damage was so great that he was obliged to abandon his ship, under the Savoy flag, and...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Guide, 1 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I received last night your favor of Apr. 28. as well as those of your brother and Mr. Cathalan, and experience at the same time regret from the accident to your vessel, and the pleasure of seeing a commencement of commerce between the dominions of his Sardinian majesty and the United states. How far the assortment you have brought may answer here, I am not merchant enough to say; but the...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Pierre Guide, 5 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Baltimore, 5 May 1791 . Acknowledging with deep gratitude TJ’s flattering letter of 1 May. He is no less grateful for TJ’s wishes for the success of his venture in extending trade with Sardinia. What he says about equality of admission of all foreigners is not very consoling since high duties fall heavily on some of their articles, but it is necessary to be patient as it is the law of the...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Guide, 16 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Being in the moment of setting out on my journey, I have just time to acknolege the receipt of your favor of the 5th. inst. and to note your information that you had sent off by the stage of that day a case of wine and some raisins for me. On repeated enquiries at the different stage-offices, I find it has never arrived here which I thought necessary to mention to you in order to excite your...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Guide, 21 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
You will probably have recieved a letter from Mr. Girard on the subject of the first box of wine and the parcell of raisins you were so kind as to send me. By searching in another stage office, which I did not know of at that time, I have found them and have now recieved the whole. I thought it my duty to mention this in order to save you the trouble of further enquiry, and take at the same...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Guide, 21 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
[ Ed. Note : This letter, originally printed in Vol. 24: 246–7 under its inscribed date of 21 July 1792, was in fact written from Philadelphia on 21 July 1791 and recorded in SJL under that date; see To Pierre Guide, 21 July 1791 [redated] . Guide’s letter of 28 July 1791 , summarized in Vol. 20: 685, is clearly a reply to this epistle.]
7To Thomas Jefferson from Pierre Guide, 28 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Baltimore, 28 July 1791 . Acknowledging TJ’s of the 21st stating that he had found the first case of wine and the raisins. He is very sorry that this gave TJ trouble and delay, but in consigning them he gave emphatic directions. He has received TJ’s note on the Baltimore collector of customs for “Douze gourdes.”—He has sent two shipments of tobacco to his brother at Nice under the American...