3811To Thomas Jefferson from Madame de Tessé, 27 April [1788] (Jefferson Papers)
Vous arrivés, Monsieur, pour Repandre des bienfaits et le plus grand de tous est sans doute votre presence. Je suis bien empressée den jouir et si vous m’accordiés la grace de diner chés moi mercredi à Paris, le petit voyage que j’y vais faire loin dêtre considéré comme une privation ainsi que jai coutume denvisager tout le tems que j’enleve a la campagne me paroîtra infiniment heureux....
3812To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Vaughan, 28 April 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Presuming upon your kindness on a former occasion, I beg leave to have the honor of introducing to your acquaintance Mr. Baillie, nephew of the late Dr. William Hunter and who at present participates in the possession of his valuable cabinet. I take this liberty at the desire of a friend whom I esteem without having the pleasure of knowing Dr. Baillie, though not without being assured from his...
3813To Thomas Jefferson from Carra, 29 April 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai L’honneur de vous envoyer un exemplaire du mémoire du Sr Cazeau qui n’a point été publié ni communiqué encore à personne qu’à M. Le Mis. de la fayette, par la raison que nous sommes convenus d’attendre votre retour, pour conférer sur cette affaire. En conséquence je vous prie de vouloir bien nous donner cette semaine un rendez vous pour mercredi ou jeudi prochain, et j’aurai L’honneur...
3814To Thomas Jefferson from William Carmichael, 29 April 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor to address you after a long silence the 14 Inst. You will receive that Letter by the same Conveyance as this. On the 18th. Inst. I received advice from the Board of Treasury that a remittance of three thousand dollars had been made me to a house at Amsterdam. This credit enabled me to take the feild. I came here the 23d. On that day the Russian Minister, who had received a...
3815To Thomas Jefferson from Maria Cosway, 29 April 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
At last I receive a letter from you, am I to be angry or not? I think when we go to question and doubt it is a good syng, tho’ I dont know whether it is in favor of you or the Manner in which you appollogies. Many Contradictions will make me answer article by article your letter; My hand for writing made you Open my letter in preferance to all the others you received on your arrival, I am not...
3816To Thomas Jefferson from Framery, 29 April 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Copenhagen, 29 Apr. 1788 . Encloses a packet which came from M. Dechezaulx, French consul at Bergen, for John Paul Jones. Jones departed from Copenhagen on 15 Apr. for Elsinore and left that place on 18 Apr. by land for St. Petersburg. Before his departure Jones asked that the packet from Dechezaulx be sent to TJ. Framery has advanced for postage “6 Rixdalers, 4. marcs, 12 Schelings ( 30.₶...
3817To Thomas Jefferson from La Blancherie, 29 April 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Paris, 29 Apr. 1788 . Acknowledges TJ’s letter of 28 Apr., the work on Virginia, and the payment of 196.₶ for John Adams. Will send Dr. Franklin’s copies of his weekly publication to TJ to be forwarded. Would appreciate learning from TJ “ des details sur l’etablissement d’un jardin botanique accordé au Roi dans la nouvelle Jersey”; would also like to have any “gazettes Anglo-Américaines ”...
3818To Thomas Jefferson from Antoine Terrasson, 29 April 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honour to inclose to your Excellency some English and french papers relating the Enterprize of a canal in the state of South carolina and a writing from marquis De La fayette desiring a conversation on the matter at your leizure. As I am a stock holder and I have been elected one of the Directors in March of Last year, what you can verify by the news papers of that time, I have some...
3819To Thomas Jefferson from Ezra Stiles, 30 April 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Last Summer I received two Letters from you, one of Decr. 24. 1786 and another of Sept. 1786, One of them thro’ the Hands of Mr. Trumbull, which passed a long Circuit before it reached me. I immediately wrote an Acknowledgment of the Recipt of these obliging Letters and of the Books which accompanied them, as gave me very particular Pleasure. At the same Time I received a Letter from the...
3820To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Paine, May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Your saying last evening that Sir Isaac Newtons principle of Gravitation would not explain, or could not apply as a rule to find the quantity of the Attraction of cohesion, and my replying that I never could comprehend any meaning in the term “Attraction of cohesion,” the result must be, that either I have a dull comprehension, or that the term does not admit of comprehension. It appears to me...