1To Thomas Jefferson from Lanchon Frères & Cie., 4 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
L’Orient, 4 July 1787 . Enclose a letter for TJ brought from Charlestown, S.C., by Capt. Jacobs of the Union . They and Richard Harrison of Alexandria were sorry to have missed TJ when he was in L’Orient; offer their services for themselves and their house at Le Havre, “Mangon La Forest & Compy‥‥ in receiving or Conveying packetts or any thing you may think proper from or to America.” RC ( MHi...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Lanchon Frères & Cie., 9 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 4th. instant came to hand yesterday together with the letter which it covered. Accept my thanks for your kind attention on this occasion and friendly offers in future. I learn with much regret that Mr. Harrison was in Lorient while I was there without my knowing it; and the more so as he would probably have furnished me occasion of procuring the honor of your acquaintance. My...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Lanchon Frères & Cie., 23 November 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
L’Orient, 23 Nov. 1787. Acknowledge TJ’s letter of 9 July ; are sorry they did not see him when he was in L’Orient; are always glad to supply information on commerce. This port handles most of the American trade with France; nearly forty American vessels have entered L’Orient this year, many of them “on their Ballast from Spain and Ireland, coming chiefly for Salt here for the New England...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Lanchon Frères & Cie., 28 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
L’Orient, 28 Dec. 1787 . TJ’s attention “to the interests of America” persuades them that much will be done for the tobacco trade; are eager to know what can be expected from the farmers-general during the next year; although they have information that the farmers’ agents “will have orders to receive in February next on the lowest terms they can purchase,” they are keeping up the prices on the...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Lanchon Frères & Cie., 14 March 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
L’Orient, 14 Mch. 1788 . Their enquiries to TJ in December were promptly answered by the government’s decree on trade with the U.S., except for information concerning the price the farmers-general are required to give for tobacco; without a set price the resolve is of little avail. “The promises Contained in Mr. Lambert’s Official letter of the 29th. Decr‥‥ has suggested the idea to some of...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Lanchon Frères & Cie., 29 September 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
L’Orient, 29 Sep. 1788 . Have turned up three sets of exchange from the United States on its Commissioner in Paris, dated 19 and 27 Dec. 1781 and 10 Jan. 1782, amounting to 84 dollars, which had been “laid by until lately”; presented them to Mr. Grand for payment; Grand allowed them to be protested “for want of advice”; this “leaves doubts whether said Bills will be paid in France or Should be...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Lanchon Frères & Cie., 24 November 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Circumstances which I could not controul have occasioned your letter of Sep. 29. to lie above a month by me, unanswered. I avail myself of the first moment it has been in my power to take up the letters of my correspondents. The sets of Exchange on the Commissioners of the U.S. at Paris, of which you speak to me, are 6. or 7. years old. Those commissioners remained in France till the year...