21From Thomas Jefferson to J. P. P. Derieux, 12 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your favor of Feb. 14. long after it’s date, and hope that by the present regulation of your post you will get this answer quicker. The loss upon your legacy, on account of the depreciation of Assignats will be very great, and therefore I should think it unadviseable to draw at this moment for more than your necessities require. This place is so perfecly mercantile, and regular...
22To Thomas Jefferson from J. P. P. Derieux, 25 May 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Charlottesville, 25 May 1792 . He encloses a letter for Mde. Bellanger, responding to the one transmitted to him. She was flattered by compliments he sent her on TJ’s behalf, but she says that if TJ remembers her he need not write. She seems quite troubled by the Revolution’s aftermath, thinking “la Machine” is about to fall, and states that the efforts of the “assemblée forçenée” are...
23To Thomas Jefferson from J. P. P. Derieux, [18 September 1792?] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Charlottesville ], “ Ce Mardi après midi ” [ 18 Sep. 1792? ]. He encloses a letter from Mme. Bellanger and the one received from Mr. Homassel. He also sends a new letter for Mr. Homassel which seems more concise and analogous to the subject than the one he delivered to TJ this morning. RC ( MHi ); 1 p.; in French; partially dated; docketed by TJ. The letter from Plumard de Bellanger has not...
24To Thomas Jefferson from J. P. P. Derieux, 20 September 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Charlottesville, 20 Sep. 1792. He sends a little memorandum concerning his merchandise in Philadelphia. He will be much obliged to have TJ sell them in the manner he judges most advantageous, and to try to obtain for him now or from the 1st to the 15th of November a sum of £150 Virginia currency, whether it be by a loan on the person charged with the merchandise or by an extraordinary discount...
25From Thomas Jefferson to J. P. P. Derieux, 11 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
On my arrival here I called on Mr. Vaughan, and found that there were only 25. boxes of glass in Mr. Homassel’s hands, which he had begun to sell, and some articles newly arrived addressed to Mr. Morris. As Homassel had begun the sale of what was in his hands, he thought it best to let them remain. As to those in Mr. Morris’s possession I called on him, and he promised me he would immediately...
26To Thomas Jefferson from J. P. P. Derieux, 22 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Charlottesville, 22 Oct. 1792. He has received TJ’s letter of 11 Oct. and is grateful for the trouble TJ has taken on behalf of his merchandise as well as for the sum TJ persuaded Vaughan to let him draw in advance. TJ is to make this sum payable to the Richmond merchant Robert Gamble, whom Derieux will ask by letter today to receive it, and is to inform Gamble of the letter from Fenwick to...
27From Thomas Jefferson to J. P. P. Derieux, 2 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I received yesterday your favor of Oct. 22. and I have by the present post inclosed to Colo. Gamble Mr. Vaughan’s order on John Hopkins for 250. dollars payable to Colo. Gamble for your account. This is an advance of Mr. Vaughan’s, as the sales of your effects hitherto have been absorbed by the payment of duties, freight and other charges. I shall not fail to have the remittances made to you...
28To Thomas Jefferson from J. P. P. Derieux, 19 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Charlottesville, 19 Nov. 1792. He has received the letter from TJ notifying him of the 250 dollars TJ had kindly sent him. Gamble has advised him that this sum was received in Richmond and credited to his account, and has given him notice that the bills of exchange for 5,000 livres had been returned to him protested. Consequently, he encloses a letter for Fenwick, who holds the power of...
29From Thomas Jefferson to J. P. P. Derieux, 22 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have engaged Mr. Vaughan to make an advance of a second sum of 250. dollars, an order for which on Mr. Hopkins I inclose to Colo. Gamble by this post. This makes up the sum which your note to me expressed as necessary for your present accomodation. For the residue you will have to wait not only till these sums are replaced, but till the sales beyond that shall be effected. The assortment was...
30From Thomas Jefferson to J. P. P. Derieux, 14 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
By some accident your favor of Nov. 19. did not come to my hands till the 8th. inst. In the mean time I had on the 22d. of Nov. inclosed a second order from Mr. Vaughan to Colo. Gamble for another 250. D of which I wrote you advice on the same day and have Colo. Gamble’s acknolegement of the receipt dated the 4th. of Dec. Mr. Vaughan has promised me for to-day or tomorrow a note of the best...