3811To Thomas Jefferson from Madame de Tessé, 27 April [1788] (Jefferson Papers)
Vous arrivés, Monsieur, pour Repandre des bienfaits et le plus grand de tous est sans doute votre presence. Je suis bien empressée den jouir et si vous m’accordiés la grace de diner chés moi mercredi à Paris, le petit voyage que j’y vais faire loin dêtre considéré comme une privation ainsi que jai coutume denvisager tout le tems que j’enleve a la campagne me paroîtra infiniment heureux....
3812To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Vaughan, 28 April 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Presuming upon your kindness on a former occasion, I beg leave to have the honor of introducing to your acquaintance Mr. Baillie, nephew of the late Dr. William Hunter and who at present participates in the possession of his valuable cabinet. I take this liberty at the desire of a friend whom I esteem without having the pleasure of knowing Dr. Baillie, though not without being assured from his...
3813To Thomas Jefferson from Carra, 29 April 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai L’honneur de vous envoyer un exemplaire du mémoire du Sr Cazeau qui n’a point été publié ni communiqué encore à personne qu’à M. Le Mis. de la fayette, par la raison que nous sommes convenus d’attendre votre retour, pour conférer sur cette affaire. En conséquence je vous prie de vouloir bien nous donner cette semaine un rendez vous pour mercredi ou jeudi prochain, et j’aurai L’honneur...
3814To Thomas Jefferson from William Carmichael, 29 April 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor to address you after a long silence the 14 Inst. You will receive that Letter by the same Conveyance as this. On the 18th. Inst. I received advice from the Board of Treasury that a remittance of three thousand dollars had been made me to a house at Amsterdam. This credit enabled me to take the feild. I came here the 23d. On that day the Russian Minister, who had received a...
3815To Thomas Jefferson from Maria Cosway, 29 April 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
At last I receive a letter from you, am I to be angry or not? I think when we go to question and doubt it is a good syng, tho’ I dont know whether it is in favor of you or the Manner in which you appollogies. Many Contradictions will make me answer article by article your letter; My hand for writing made you Open my letter in preferance to all the others you received on your arrival, I am not...
3816To Thomas Jefferson from Framery, 29 April 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Copenhagen, 29 Apr. 1788 . Encloses a packet which came from M. Dechezaulx, French consul at Bergen, for John Paul Jones. Jones departed from Copenhagen on 15 Apr. for Elsinore and left that place on 18 Apr. by land for St. Petersburg. Before his departure Jones asked that the packet from Dechezaulx be sent to TJ. Framery has advanced for postage “6 Rixdalers, 4. marcs, 12 Schelings ( 30.₶...
3817To Thomas Jefferson from La Blancherie, 29 April 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Paris, 29 Apr. 1788 . Acknowledges TJ’s letter of 28 Apr., the work on Virginia, and the payment of 196.₶ for John Adams. Will send Dr. Franklin’s copies of his weekly publication to TJ to be forwarded. Would appreciate learning from TJ “ des details sur l’etablissement d’un jardin botanique accordé au Roi dans la nouvelle Jersey”; would also like to have any “gazettes Anglo-Américaines ”...
3818To Thomas Jefferson from Antoine Terrasson, 29 April 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honour to inclose to your Excellency some English and french papers relating the Enterprize of a canal in the state of South carolina and a writing from marquis De La fayette desiring a conversation on the matter at your leizure. As I am a stock holder and I have been elected one of the Directors in March of Last year, what you can verify by the news papers of that time, I have some...
3819To Thomas Jefferson from Ezra Stiles, 30 April 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Last Summer I received two Letters from you, one of Decr. 24. 1786 and another of Sept. 1786, One of them thro’ the Hands of Mr. Trumbull, which passed a long Circuit before it reached me. I immediately wrote an Acknowledgment of the Recipt of these obliging Letters and of the Books which accompanied them, as gave me very particular Pleasure. At the same Time I received a Letter from the...
3820To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Paine, May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Your saying last evening that Sir Isaac Newtons principle of Gravitation would not explain, or could not apply as a rule to find the quantity of the Attraction of cohesion, and my replying that I never could comprehend any meaning in the term “Attraction of cohesion,” the result must be, that either I have a dull comprehension, or that the term does not admit of comprehension. It appears to me...
3821To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Paine, [May? 1788] (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose you a Problem not about Bridgs but Trees, and to explain my meaning I begin with a fountain. The Idea seems far fetched, but fountains and Trees are in my walk to Challiot. Suppose Fig. 1st a fountain. It is evident 1st. That no more water can pass thro the branching Tubes than pass thro the trunk. 2d. That admitting all the water to pass with equal freedom, the sum of the squares of...
3822To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Coffyn, 2 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Dunquerque, 2 May 1788 . Acknowledges TJ’s letter of 28 Apr. 1788. No ships being available for Le Havre, has sent the four boxes of plants overland “by the way of St. omer to the care of my friends Messrs. Broucq freres of that place,” recommending that they forward them immediately. Hopes they arrive safe; expenses too trifling to notice. RC ( MHi ); endorsed; in SJL Index TJ incorrectly...
3823To Thomas Jefferson from John Rutledge, Jr., 6 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Paris, 6 May 1788 . Asks TJ, on receipt from Messrs. Bérard of “the money which Messrs. Brailsford & Morris have desired them to remit to you,” to deposit it with Messrs. Boyd & Ker, who are forwarding this letter. RC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ: “Rutledge John Junr.” Enclosed in Boyd, Ker & Co. to TJ, 9 May 1788 .
3824To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 7 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Give me leave to present to you Mr. Thos. Duché , Son of Mr. Duchof Phila . who is nigh you at Chaillot for his health :—you will find him a very amiable and well instructed young man:—He has ask’d my advice of the route he should take to return to England and I have recommended him to come by Strasbourg, Manheim, Dusseldorp, Flanders and Holland: as this tour will give him a Sight of a very...
3825To Thomas Jefferson from William Carmichael, 8 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Symond delivered me on the 3d instant your [ s ] of the 1st. of Feb . The cypher inclosed in that letter has enabled me to profit altho’ late of information: I shall in [ close ] the one left with [ me ] by Mr. Barclay and Mr. Franks , and trust [ mine
3826To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 8 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
We are honored with your Excellency’s respected Favors of 7 Ulto. from Frankfort and 18 ditto from Strasburgh , the latter advising your draft on us ƒ426. Holld. Cy. in favor of Mr. Jean de Turckheim , Which shall be discharged and placed to the Account of the United States. Similar Reception awaits Mr. Peuchen’s Bill for a Couple of Stoves which we will with greatest pleasure receive and...
3827To Thomas Jefferson from Willink & Van Staphorst, 8 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Amsterdam, 8 May 1788 . Have succeeded in arranging for sale of enough bonds of the United States to pay Carmichael the amount designated, to take care of TJ’s “disposals and other incidental calls,” and then, after paying the June interest, to leave a surplus of 40,000 guilders Holland currency in their hands available to TJ’s requisition; “We trust the Payment of this Interest and some good...
3828To Thomas Jefferson from Boyd, Ker & Co., 9 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Paris, 9 May 1788 . Enclose a letter from John Rutledge, Jr., asking TJ to pay them any money received for his account from Jean Jacques Bérard & Cie. of L’Orient. RC ( DLC ); address below signature: “Rue d’Amboise No. 4.” Enclosure: Rutledge to TJ, 6 May 1788 .
3829To Thomas Jefferson from Broucq, Frères & Soeurs, 10 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
St. Omer, 10 May 1788 . Forwarded yesterday from Coffyn of Dunkerque by “le voiturier nommé louis Lehieu d’angre Liévin en Artois 4 caisses T◆J plombées et cordées,” weighing about 247 ℔., containing young plants or foreign shrubs, to be delivered in ten days. Total costs for voiturier , Coffyn, and themselves, 23₶ 18s. RC ( DLC ).
3830To Thomas Jefferson from Johann Ludwig de Unger, 10 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Salzliebenhalle, 10 May 1788 . Thanks TJ for his letter of 16 Feb. 1788 and for granting the favor asked of him; says he is deeply affected by TJ’s remarks “sur le Bonheur et les Avantages propres à l’Amerique.” “Un tel Eloge de la Part de Votre Excellence est garant de la Prosperité de ces Contrees si interessantes a tant d’egard, et inspire en meme Tems des Voeux ardens pour la Durée de...
3831To Thomas Jefferson from La Lande, 11 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
College Royal, Paris, 11 May 1788 . Requests TJ to forward enclosed letter to an American astronomer and, when he writes to Benjamin Franklin, to present his respects; “Les ministres ont ordinairement la Complaisance de favoriser la Correspondance qui interesse les Sciences.” RC ( MHi ); endorsed. Enclosure not identified; if the letter was directed to a particular astronomer in America, it...
3832To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Digges, 12 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
A Cotton manufactory having been lately set up in Virginia, not only patronizd by the State but encouragd by some of the leading Gentlemen in it, some artists from England as well as this Country are wishing to get to it; And altho I have been a little hurt since my arrival in Ireland through my endeavours to get some useful mechanicks to my home near Alexandria, (two or three of whom are now...
3833To Thomas Jefferson from Jean Baptiste de Gouvion, 13 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I was told that you have some prospect that the interests due by the united states to the Foreign officers shall be pay’d at the end of July next; give me leave to represent to your Excellency that captain Castaign who is a native from Martinico is upon the point of returning there, he has been near four years solliciting in this country for employment without success. His means are exhausted....
3834To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Carrington, 14 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Barlow of Connecticut will have the Honor to call on you with this letter. I have not the pleasure of a personal acquaintance with him but his Literary Talents have considerably distinguished him as a poetical as well as prose writer, and he is introduced to me as a Gentleman deserving your countenance. Permit me to recommend him to your attention and civilities. He conducts to the Marquis...
3835To Thomas Jefferson from Grand & Cie., 14 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
We have the honour to send you 7 Bills, firsts and seconds, on Messrs. Willink & Staphorst in Amsterdam, making together Bo ƒ36000 at 10 days from the 16th Inst. Be pleased to send them back to us signed, with the letter of advice , and we will have the honour to advise you the proceeds after their negotiation. We are very respectfully Sir, your most obedient humble servants, RC ( DLC );...
3836To Thomas Jefferson from John Jay, 16 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Office for Foreign Affairs [ New York ], 16 May 1788 . Since his last of 24 Apr. 1788, has received no letters from TJ, and there has been no event of importance “except the Accession of Maryland to the Number of the States which have adopted the proposed Constitution. Until that business is concluded I apprehend that our national Affairs will continue much at a Stand.” Barlow brings this and...
3837To Thomas Jefferson from Dorcas Montgomery, 16 [May] 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg ten Thousand pardon’s for the Liberty I take, in recommending my Fatherless Son to your advice. The inclos’d writings I think very unjust, as my Son’s personal Fortune is not more than eight Thousand pound’s American money. If he complys with the inclosed agreement, He will be without any Cash. Mr. Pigott has acted by me a cruel, and ungenerous part, in Kidnaping my son into a marriage,...
3838To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Carrington, 17 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
My particular Friend Master George Washington Greene will have the Honor to deliver you this letter. Your acquaintance with his illustrious Father renders it unnecessary for me to solicit for him your attention and Countenance. He is sent to France at the age of about 12 years to be educated under the the direction of the Marquis De La Fayette. I have the Honor to be Dr. Sir Yr. Sincere Friend...
3839To Thomas Jefferson from William Carmichael, 18 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreable to what I had the honor to mention you in a late Letter I now inclose you the Cypher delivered me by Colonel Franks . Mr. Symons will put it into your Exys. hands. This young Gentleman has behaved with the greatest propriety during his short residence here and I shall always be happy to render such civilities and services to persons who like this Gentleman come to me under your...
3840To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Knox, 20 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor to receive your favor of the 6th. of February, and submitted a copy of it to His Excellency the President of Congress, but as a sufficient number of members have not been present, until within a few days past, nothing has yet been done on the business. But it is to be presumed that they will soon take into consideration the case of the unfortunate Pilot, and afford him such...