7671To Thomas Jefferson from La Rouerie, 19 September 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Business of importance prevented me to answer sooner your letter of the 16th. and indeed it gives me pain to answer it at all, But I am forced to it By its contents part of which seem to me to be dropt reither inadvertently from your pen than from your heart or politicks, to which I am long ago accustomed to pay all the Justice and prise they do deserve. You say, Sir, that you have nothing to...
7672[From Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Louis Lacretelle, 20 September 1788] (Jefferson Papers)
[[ Paris, 20 Sep. 1788 . Recorded in SJL Index. Not found.]]
7673From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 20 September 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
The evening of your departure came a letter by the way of London and N. York, addressed to you, and probably from Virginia. I think you wished your American letters to remain here; I shall therefore keep it. The passport now inclosed came the day after your departure; so also did a mass of American letters for me, as low down as August 10. I shall give you their substance.—The Convention of...
7674From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 21 September 1788 (Madison Papers)
Being informed of a circuitous opportunity of France I make use of it to forward the inclosures. By one of them you will find that Congress have been at length brought into the true policy which is demanded by the situation of the Western Country. An additional resolution on the secret journal puts an end to all negotiation with Spain referring the subject of a treaty after this assertion of...
7675From Thomas Jefferson to Angelica Schuyler Church, 21 September 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Short’s departure for Italy gives me the pleasure of executing your commission for the duplicate volume of the Antiquités d’Herculaneum. The exchange is made and the right volume will be given to a Mr. Romilly of London who sets out for Paris within two or three days, and will send it to your house on his arrival. Should any thing put this out of his head, I am unable to give you his...
7676To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 21 September 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Being informed of a circuitous opportunity to France I make use of it to forward the inclosures. By one of them you will find that Congress have been at length brought into the true policy which is demanded by the situation of the Western Country . An additional resolution on the secret journal puts an end to all negotiation with Spain , referring the subject of a treaty after this assertion...
7677To Thomas Jefferson from Colborn Barrell, 22 September 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
London, 22 Sep. 1788 . Enclosure has lain on his hands many months because Joseph Barrell, Jr., to whom it was addressed, was unexpectedly detained at Lisbon; his brother, Joseph Barrell of Boston, has lately told him to “break his Sons Enclosure and forward two small tokens of his respect to the Marquiss de la Fayette and your self.” RC ( MHi ); 2 p.; endorsed. Recorded in SJL as received 2...
7678[To Thomas Jefferson from Richard O’Bryen, 22 September 1788] (Jefferson Papers)
[[ 22 Sep. 1788 . Recorded in SJL Index. Not found.]]
7679To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Lee Shippen, 22 September 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
A combination of unexpected circumstances but principally the delay of Mr. Short, has detained us here until this day. Altho’ my dissappointment in not setting off for Italy on the 15th. has given me some uneasiness as it will occasion my stay in that Country to be so much the shorter yet there are many counterbalancing circumstances which reconcile me to the event. Among them I place the...
7680To Thomas Jefferson from John Brown Cutting, 23 September 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I am but this moment returned from an excursion into the Country which has occupied me almost ever since I wrote You on tuesday last. I hope You did not think the parcel too large which I then forwarded. The New York packet brought nothing so interesting or so recent. I now inclose You two Philadelphia Newspapers which I have just received from a gentleman who was a respectable member of the...