151From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 28 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The rise in the price of copper, and difficulty of obtaining it from other quarters, has induced the Director of the Mint (as I had the honor of mentioning to you yesterday) to turn his attention to Sweden, as the country from which according to his information it may be obtained on the best terms. He wishes that some means could be adopted of importing some on the public account. There is so...
152To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 5 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President sends for his perusal some of the letters which had been accumulating at his office, & which he received yesterday. he will wait on the President to-day to translate the Spanish papers sent by mister Short, as also with some other letters in foreign languages. Th: J. sends to the President a supply he received yesterday of paper, of which the...
153To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 6 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose several letters for the perusal of the President. when he wrote to the Governor of Kentuckey, on a former intimation from the Spanish representatives, there was no probability that the intervention of military force would be requisite, and as far as illegal enterprizes could be prevented by the peaceable process of law, his writing was proper. it is...
154To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 18 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President and will take the liberty of waiting on him at half after one, as well that he may get through some long papers he has to communicate to him, as that he may be sure of being there when mister Genet comes. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB...
155From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 2 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to return to the President the letters of Seagrove from which he has had an extract taken. He incloses also the names of three gentlemen who have expressed their willingness to serve in the Mint. The President knows them personally and will judge of their fitness. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President of the United States”; endorsed by Lear; on separate...
156To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 11 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President. he had expected that the Secretaries of the Treasury & War would have given to the President immediately the statement of facts in the case of the Little Sarah, as drawn by the former & agreed to, as also their Reasons: but Colo. Hamilton having informed Th: J. that he has not been able to prepare copies, Th: J. sends the President the...
157From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 14 February 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received the letter of the 21st. of January with which you have honored me, and no longer hesitate to undertake the office to which you are pleased to call me. Your desire that I should come on as quickly as possible is a sufficient reason for me to postpone every matter of business, however pressing, which admits postponement. Still it will be the close of the ensuing week before...
158From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 19 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The decision of the case of the British debts which was expected to have taken place at Richmond, being now deferred, Th: Jefferson has the honor of submitting to the President the draught of a letter to Mr. Hammond, asking an answer on the subject of the treaty of peace. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President of the US.”; endorsed by Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr. PrC ( DLC ). Tr ( Lb...
159To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 1 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to send to the President the speech of De Coin, written at length from his notes, very exactly. he thinks he can assure the President that not a sentiment delivered by the French interpreter is omitted, nor a single one inserted which was not expressed. it differs often from what the English Interpreter delivered, because he varied much from the other who alone was...
160From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 18 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The Commissioners of the Territory of the United States on the Potomac having, according to law, had the said Territory surveyed and defined by proper metes and bounds, and transmitted their report with a plat of the boundary, I have now the honor to lay them before you. As this work has been executed under the Authority of the Legislature, I presume it would be proper to communicate the...
161From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 23 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
As the conditions of our commerce with the French and British Dominions, are important, and a moment seems to be approaching when it may be useful that both should be accurately understood, I have thrown a representation of them into the form of a table, shewing at one view, how the principal articles interesting to our agriculture and navigation stand in the European and American Dominions of...
162To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 13 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of State incloses to the President the letter to the King of France with the alteration he proposes for incorporating the vote of the house. if the President approves it, he will be so good as to return it in time to be written at large to-day, signed & sealed. Th: J. thinks the copy of the resolution delivered the President with the signature of the Speaker will be the proper...
163To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 8 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President a letter from our bankers, at Amsterdam stating a balance due them on the foreign intercourse fund Apr. 2. of 13,225 florins equal to about 5,300 Dollars. this being communicated for the information of the President, the following explanation is necessary. independent of the fund on which this balance appears, the bankers had in their...
164From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 15 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to return to the President the letter of Mr. Rumaine praying to be relieved from duties on the wrecks of fortune with which he escaped from St. Domingo. Th:J. has put the letter of the same person to himself, with those of Mr. Genet into the hands of Mr. Murray, to make them the foundation of a bill of relief . RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President of...
165From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 14 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President and returns him the letters from the Commissioners. He does not recollect whether he shewed him his letter to Ellicot the only one he has written to him since last Summer. Lest he should not have done it he now incloses it. He thinks it impossible that any thing in that could have produced ill humour in Ellicot towards the Commissioners and...
166From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 29 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President some letters brought by the Rider yesterday afternoon, and which he found on his return home in the night. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); endorsed by Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr. Tr ( Lb in same, SDC ). Not recorded in SJL . Enclosures: (1) Thomas Pinckney to TJ, 25 (two letters) and 27 Sep. 1793
167From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 19 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President the form of nomination for Mr. Joy. He has not entered into explanations of the reasons for making the appointment, as these explanations to the Senate have not been accustomary and nothing seems to call for it in the present case. He has retained and filed the letters of recommendation. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President...
168To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 7 August 1791 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honour to send for the President’s perusal, his letters to Govr Sinclair & Judge Symmes: as also letters received from the postmaster at Richmond on the subject of the two cross posts. he has gone further as to that towards the South Western territory, than Th: J.’s letter authorized, as he only submitted it to his enquiry & consideration whether a post along that rout...
169To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 22 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President has the honor of inclosing him some letters just received also the draught of a letter to the Judges. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State. The enclosed letters to Jefferson from diplomats William Carmichael and William Short of 18 April and 5 May 1793...
170To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 21 November 1791 (Washington Papers)
Philadelphia, 21 Nov. 1791. Encloses a copy of his report of this day to the House of Representatives on the petition of Jacob Isaacks, noting: “it is printed on the back of a Permit in order to shew that the proposition therein made is perfectly practicable.” ALS , NUtM ; ALS (letterpress copy), DLC : Thomas Jefferson Papers; LB , DLC:GW ; copy, DNA : RG 59, Domestic Letters.
171From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 26 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President, incloses a description of a new plan of a Capitol in which Mr. Hallet is engaged, who has expressed very earnest wishes that the ultimate decision may not be pronounced till he can bring it forward. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President of the US.”; endorsed by Washington. Tr ( Lb in same, SDC ). Not recorded in SJL . For the...
172From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 5 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President a letter delivered him this day by Mr. de Noailles. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The Presid[…]”; endorsed by Tobias Lear. Tr ( Lb in same, SDC ). Not recorded in SJL . Louis Marie, Vicomte de Noailles, a brother-in-law of the Marquis de Lafayette who had served with the French army in America during the Revolutionary War and...
173To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 23 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
Since my letter of the 18th we have had no confirmation of the capture of Tippoo Saib, nor of a fable current since that of the massacre of the king of France. this last was current in Philadelphia two or three days, and had the merit I believe of being raised here, as no source for it could ever be found. letters of Mar. 1. & 16. from mister Barclay at Gibraltar contradict the death of Muley...
174To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 7 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose the draught of a letter to mister Hammond. if the President approves it, he will send it to mister Hammond’s immediately, as tomorrow’s post is the last one which will be in time for the Packet. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State. Jefferson, in his letter of 7 Aug.,...
175To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 19 March 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor of enclosing your Excellency a copy of a letter from Genl Greene with some other intelligence received, not doubting your anxiety to know the movements in the South. I find we have deceived ourselves not a little by counting on the whole numbers of militia which have been in motion as if they had all remained with Genl Greene, when in fact they seem only to have visited &...
176From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 18 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President and will take the liberty of waiting on him at half after one, as well that he may get through some long papers he has to communicate to him, as that he may be sure of being there when Mr. Genet comes. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President of the US.”; endorsed by Tobias Lear. Tr ( Lb in same, SDC ). Not recorded in SJL . For the
177To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 31 March 1784 (Washington Papers)
Your servant delivered me your favor this morning; Capt. Barney is gone to Philadelphia and his vessel to Baltimore, having left with me one of your packages only. the persons who brought this could give me no certain account of the other package which you suppose to have been brought. this your servant now receives. Being obliged to seize a moment in Congress of writing you these few lines, I...
178From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 9 October 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of answering, by the return of post, your favor of Sep. 27. recieved this day, inclosing the letter and memorial of Messieurs King, Pratt and others, owners of the ship Andrew, and her cargo, desiring the interposition of the Executive on account of the cargo of rice taken by a decree of the general council of L’orient, and of the freight and detention of the vessel. The...
179To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 7 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
Mr Smith supposes the bill he incloses must be laid before Congress. on a former suggestion of the same kind Th: J. being able to find nothing which rendered it necessary, consulted the Attorney General, who was of opinion it was not necessary, but promised make more diligent enquiry. the result will now be asked of him by Th: J. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59,...
180From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 5 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President is sorry to inclose him an account of Mr. Barclay’s death in a letter to a Mr. Callahan of this place from his brother in Lisbon. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President of the US”; endorsed by Tobias Lear. Tr ( Lb in same, SDC ). Not recorded in SJL . Enclosure: “Extract of a Letter dated Lisbon 24th. January 1793,” describing the...
181From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 27 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President, (among other papers,) those relating to a commercial treaty with France, and to the reimbursement of the French debt, being translations of the communications of Mr. Genet on those subjects. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President of the US.”; endorsed by Tobias Lear. Not recorded in SJL . Enclosures: (1) Translations of...
182From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 1 October 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
On receipt of your letter of August 6th. during my absence the Council had the irons taken off the prisoners of war. When your advice was asked we meant it should decide with us; and upon my return to Williamsburg the matter was taken up and the enclosed advice given. A parole was formed of which the enclosed is a copy and tendered to the prisoners. They objected to that part of it which...
183To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 18 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson is sorry to present a long letter to the President to be read at so busy a moment: but the view which it presents of our commercial matters in France is too interesting to be unknown to the President. the circumstances presented to view in the 2d page of the letter induce Th: J. to think it may be well to commit to mister Short & the M. de la Fayette to press our settlement with...
184To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 18 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to send the President 2 Cents made on Voigt’s plan, by putting a silver plug worth ¾ of a cent into a copper worth ¼ of a cent. Mr Rittenhouse is about to make a few by mixing the same plug by fusion with the same quantity of copper. he will then make of copper alone of the same size, and lastly he will make the real cent, as ordered by Congress, four times as big....
185From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, August 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
At the request of General Hamilton I transmit you Letters from General Specht and himself, to Generals Philips and Reidesal, and a state of the deficiencies of provisions furnished to the barracks. I have no reason to doubt the truth of the state they send, so far as it may be understood of animal food, for of meal they have had always enough, but in justice to ourselves must assure you that...
186From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 8 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President a letter from the Commissioners of Washington. Also begs leave to add to the list of candidates for the light house of Cape Henry, the name of John Waller Johnson, who has hitherto served in the Customs under Colo. Heath. He is recommended as a person of worth by a Mr. Waller Lewis of Spotsylvania, who is himself a man of worth. He has...
187II. Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 12 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
According to the desire you expressed the other day when speaking of the application of France for 3. millions of livres, I have the honour to inclose a statement of the Questions which appear to me to enter into the consideration of that application. After putting them on paper, I saw that some developements and observations would be necessary to explain their propriety and connection. These...
188To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 1 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have duly considered the translation of the letter of Dec. 27. from M. de la Forest stating that the French Consuls here have a right to recieve their salaries at Paris, that under the present circumstances they cannot dispose of their bills, and desiring that our government will take them as a remittance in part of the monies we have to pay to France. no doubt he proposes to let us have...
189From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 2 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The letter of October 29th. from Messieurs Viar and Jaudenes, not expressing the principle on which their government interests itself between the United States and the Creeks, I thought it of importance to have it ascertained. I therefore, called on those Gentlemen, and entered into explanations with them. They assured me, in our conversation, that, supposing all question of boundary to be out...
190From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 22 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President the letter of the National assembly to him of Dec. 22. 92. It’s most distinct object seems to have been to thank the U.S. for their succours to St. Domingo. It glances blindly however at commercial arrangements, and on the 19th. of Feb. the same assembly passed the decree putting our commerce in their dominions on the footing of natives...
191To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 19 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
The decision of the case of the British debts which was expected to have taken place at Richmond, being now deferred, Th: Jefferson has the honor of submitting to the President the draught of a letter to mister Hammond, asking an answer on the subject of the treaty of peace. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; AL (letterpress copy), DLC : Jefferson Papers; LB , DNA : RG 59, George...
192To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 31 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to send the President draughts of letters on the subjects discussed in his presence the other day, meant merely as a ground-work for the gentlemen to propose amendments to. he shall be able to send another in the course of to-day, so that the whole would be ready for consideration tomorrow, if the President should think proper to have them considered before the...
193From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 7 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to return the Indian proceedings with the addition proposed, and to mention to the President that he did not send him in writing the proposition for enquiring into their boundaries, because having spoken to Genl. Knox on the subject it was found that their claims had been perfectly explained to Genl. Putnam. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President of the...
194From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 2 October 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
Just as the letter accompanying this was going off Colo. Mathews arrived on parole from New York by the way of headquarters bringing your Excellencys letter on [t]his subject with that of the British Commissary of prisoners . The subject is of great importance and I must therefore reserve myself to answer after further consideration. Were I to speak from present impressions I should say it was...
195From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, [16 November 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President has the honor to inclose for his information the following letters written in consequence of the two last consultations preceding his departure. There being quadruplicates of most of them, the trouble of looking over them will be proportionably diminished to the President. Nov. 8. four letters to the foreign ministers on the extent of our...
196To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 27 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inform the President that in a Madrid gazette of Sep. 14. is an article of Namur Aug. 23. which states circumstantially the capture of M. de la Fayette, and that he was carried from the place to Antwerp. it says that his intention had been to pass in the rear of the Austrian army, but ran foul of a picquet near Rochfort. there were 17 or 18. officers altogether....
197From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 27 August 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson, with his dutiful respects to the President of the United States, has the honor to inclose him under an open cover to Mr. Taylor two letters to M. de Ternant, the one containing an Exequatur for his signature (the commission whereon it is grounded being under the same open cover to Mr. Taylor) the other an answer to a formal notification of the declaration of war by France...
198To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 23 December 1791 (Washington Papers)
As the conditions of our commerce with the French and British Dominions, are important, and a moment seems to be approaching when it may be useful that both should be accurately understood, I have thrown a representation of them into the form of a table, shewing, at one view, how the principal articles interesting to our agriculture and navigation stand in the European and American Dominions...
199From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 8 September 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
We were detained on the road by the rains so that we did not arrive here till yesterday about two oclock. As soon as horses could be got ready, we set out and rode till dark, examining chiefly the grounds newly laid open, which we found much superior to what we had imagined. We have passed this day in consultation with the Commissioners, who having deliberated on every article contained in our...
200To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 24 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
Thomas Jefferson with his respects to the President incloses a draught of the clause for the letter to Mr Morris for his consideration. LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State. The enclosure was Jefferson’s undated draft of the second paragraph of his 23 Aug. letter to Gouverneur Morris, the U.S. minister to France. This draft is titled “clause...