11To Thomas Jefferson from J. P. P. Derieux, 5 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai reçu il y a quelques jours une Lettre de Mde. Bellanger du 25. juillet. Elle me dit combien elle a eté fachée d’apprendre par celle que vous lui avés fait L’amitié de lui Ecrire que vous ne retourniés pas; cette mauvaise nouvelle a affligé, me dit-elle, tous vos amis en France, tandis que Ceux d’ici s’en rejouissent. Elle m’ajoute aussi que vous avés eu La bonté de lui ecrire en ma...
12From Thomas Jefferson to J. P. P. Derieux, 24 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Intensity of employment will I hope be with you a sufficient, as it is a very real, excuse for my tardiness in acknowleging the reciept of your favors of Nov. 15. and Feb. 5. The letter to M. Le Roy I put under cover to Mr. Fenwick, our Consul at Bordeaux, to whom I wrote very full details of all those circumstances which I thought might tend to interest your uncle, and I desired Mr. Fenwick...
13To Thomas Jefferson from J. P. P. Derieux, 25 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Charlottesville, 25 Apr. 1791 . Has just received TJ’s of 24 Mch. and is most grateful for what TJ has written to Fenwick. If his hopes are realized he will owe this to TJ alone. If not, he will have the certainty that nothing in the world henceforth could move this unrelenting kinsman from the proceedings of an unjust mother. Hence, whatever the outcome of TJ’s kind effort in his behalf, he...
14From Thomas Jefferson to J. P. P. Derieux, 8 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Apr. 25. came to hand three days ago. The letter to Madame Bellanger will go by the French packet which sails from N. York this week. By advices from France of the last of February matters were going on perfectly well; here and there (particularly in Alsace, and at Strasburg) some commotion, but quiet very generally established elsewhere; the revenues beginning to become...
15To Thomas Jefferson from J. P. P. Derieux, 12 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Charlottesville, 12 Aug. 1791 . Knowing that TJ will be interested, he informs him of the good news in the last letter from Mde. Bellanger enclosed in his to Mr. Randolph, which informs him that M. Le Roy of Bordeaux had died and left him a legacy of 15,000₶. This makes him happy once more and he hopes the measures he will take will provide a solid establishment. In her letter of 14 Apr. Mde....
16From Thomas Jefferson to J. P. P. Derieux, 25 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the pleasure to inclose you a letter which I found on my arrival here. I find one also of July 8. from Mr. Fenwick our Consul at Bordeaux in which is the following passage. ‘Mr. Le Roy has been absent all this summer from Bordeaux. He is now in Paris and expected to return in course of a month or two. Immediately on his arrival I will wait on him in person with the letter you covered...
17To Thomas Jefferson from J. P. P. Derieux, 15 November 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Charlottesville, 15 Nov. 1791 . He has received TJ’s of 25 Oct. and the letter from Mde. Bellanger enclosed in it. He has read with appreciation Mr. Fenwick’s efforts to interest M. LeRoy to his advantage, and he supposes that it was at Paris, and not at Bordeaux, that M. LeRoy died. Mde. Bellanger informed him of LeRoy’s death as early as April and she now gives the names of the three...
18From Thomas Jefferson to J. P. P. Derieux, 6 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Nov. 15. was a month in getting to me. Since my reciept of it, I have taken such opportunities as my business and acquaintance here would allow me, to try whether I could obtain money for you, on the ground explained in your letter, either from the bank, or any other persons. The bank gives money in exchange only for merchants’ notes: and on application to merchants I find that...
19To Thomas Jefferson from J. P. P. Derieux, 8 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Charlottesville, 8 Jan. 1792 . Last November he sent TJ a packet of letters for Mme. Bellanger and acknowledged receipt of a letter from her which TJ enclosed in his letter to him of 25 Oct.—Since that time he has been hoping for a response to his request for help in obtaining a loan of 4,000 livres while awaiting the 15,000 of the bequest he is expecting.—The news since TJ’s letter of 25 Oct....
20To Thomas Jefferson from J. P. P. Derieux, 14 February 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Charlottesville 14 Feb. 1792 . He has received TJ’s letter of 6 Jan. along with that enclosed from Mazzei. He thanks TJ for his efforts in obtaining money on the security from Mde Bellanger, although it was an impossible task. After reading the copy of the letter of the executors that TJ sent him, it is clear that they will not give up the bequest, even with his presentation of a baptismal...