301From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 23 May 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my letter of the 18th. we have had no confirmation of the capture of Tippoo Saib, nor of a fable current since that of the massacre of the king of France. This last was current in Philadelphia two or three days, and had the merit I believe of being raised here, as no source for it could ever be found. Letters of Mar. 1. and 16. from Mr. Barclay at Gibraltar contradict the death of Muley...
302From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 17 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor with his respects to the President to communicate the answers he has received from the Representatives of France and Spain with his replies. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President of the US.”; endorsed by Tobias Lear. Tr ( Lb in same, SDC ). Not recorded in SJL . Enclosures: (1) Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes to TJ, 15 Feb. 1793 . (2) Jean...
303To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 28 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President incloses him the draught of a letter to the Attorney General on the case of Wilson & others of Alexandria, which will explain his views of the best way proceeding in that case. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State. On 27 Aug. 1793, GW sent Jefferson a letter...
304To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 10 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
I inclose your Excellency a copy of an intercepted Letter from major General Leslie to Lord Cornwallis. it was taken on a person endeavouring to pass thro the country from Portsmouth towards Carolina. when he was apprehended and a proposal made to search him he readily consented to be searched but at the same time was observed to put his hand into his pocket and carry something towards his...
305To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 8 March 1781 (Washington Papers)
I had the pleasure of receiving a Letter from General Greene dated High Rockford february 29 (probably march 1) who informs me that on the night of the 24th Colo. McCall surprized a subaltern’s guard at Hart’s mill, killed 8 and wounded and took 9 prisoners, and that on the 25th Genl Pickens and Lieutenant Colo. Lee routed a body of near 300 Tories on the Haw river, who were in arms to join...
306To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 23 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
Before your departure, it becomes necessary for me to sollicit your orders on the Treasury for the third year’s allowance under the act concerning intercourse with foreign nations. this act commenced July 1. 1790. two years allowance have been furnished and a sum of 500. Dollars over. nine months of the 3d year are now nearly elapsed, and according to an estimate I had the honor of giving in to...
307From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 4 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President a letter from Mr. Pinckney covering proposals from a Mr. Holloway to come over as engraver to our mint. It does not appear that Mr. Holloway was very eminent, as far as we can judge from the expressions in Mr. Pinckney’s letter: his idea of making it a kind of appointment for life seems inadmissible; and the delay to which his appointment...
308From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, [ca. 2–4 September 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President his letter of Aug. 7. to Mr. Hammond, which was confined to the special cases of three vessels therein named. The object of Mr. Hammond’s letter of Aug. 30. is to obtain from the government a declaration that the principle of those special cases shall be extended to all captures made within our waters or by the proscribed vessels, whether...
309From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 1 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The Report brought by a captain of a ship from Lisbon just in the moment of your departure that France had declared war against several nations, involved in that declaration almost every power of Europe. I therefore suspect that it has arisen from Kersaint’s proposition to declare war against every nation, which a pilot may not have distinguished from a declaration. Still I have thought it...
310From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 1 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to present to the view of the President the subjects relative to Algiers, under their different aspects. On further consideration, and paying special attention to the circumstances of the present moment, which render expence an obstacle perhaps to what would be the best plan, he suggests others which would not be eligible under other circumstances, or for any length...
311To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 19 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President translations of papers received from Mr Jaudenes. he submits whether it will not be proper to communicate them to Congress, as being nearly similar to those which closed the great communication on Spanish affairs. if the President thinks they should be sent in, Th: J. will have copies prepared. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; AL...
312From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 19 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President translations of papers received from Mr. Jaudenes. He submits whether it will not be proper to communicate them to Congress, as being nearly similar to those which closed the great communication on Spanish affairs. If the President thinks they should be sent in, Th:J. will have copies prepared. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The...
313To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 22 January 1792 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of State, to whom was referred by the President of the United States, the letter of the Governor of Virginia of January 7th 1792, with the Report of a Committee of the House of Delegates of that Commonwealth of December 12th 1791, and Resolution of the General Assembly thereon of December 17th on the case of Charles Russell, late an Officer in the service of the said...
314From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 18 September 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Your express is this moment arrived with the Proclamation on the proceedings against the laws for raising a revenue on distilled spirits, and I return it herein inclosed with my signature. I think if instead of the words ‘to render laws dictated by weighty reasons of public exigency and policy as acceptable as possible’ it stood ‘to render the laws as acceptable as possible’ it would be...
315From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 23 July 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Letter of the 9th ulto. has been taken under Consideration, and I have now the pleasure to inform Your Excellency, that the report of the Board of Field Officers contain’d therein, meets with the intire approbation of the Executive of this State; I have therefore inclosed four blank Commissions , which it is requested You will be pleased to order to be filled up properly for the...
316From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, [3 May 1790] (Jefferson Papers)
A letter is received from Mr. Dumas, begun Dec. 4 and ending Jan. 26. The only interesting passage is the following: ‘I have the satisfaction to be able to testify that the American funds are in great favor with the monied men of this country. I have seen them sell from one to another the obligations of the Congress of the first loan at 100. ¾ per cent; those of the last of 1788. at 99 to 100....
317From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 13 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Thomas Jefferson presents his compliments to the President. The report of the Commissioners of public accounts was delivered to Mr. Taylor to be filed away . He was called to new York on Saturday by the illness of his child, and Mr. Blackwell has been searching some time for it without being able to find it. He will continue to search, and when found it shall be sent to the President. Tr ( Lb...
318I. Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 3 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President has the honor of inclosing him the draught of a reference to the Secretary of the Treasury, with the papers to be referred, on the subject of the French debt. The latter clause of the letter is inserted merely for the consideration of the President. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President of the US.”; endorsed by Tobias Lear. Tr ( Lb...
319To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 17 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor with his respects to the President to communicate the answers he has received from the Representatives of France & Spain with his replies. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW . The enclosed letters from the French and Spanish ministers were a response to...
320From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 4 July 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
The assembly have directed me to send a quantity of tobacco to the Virginia officers in captivity at New York and Long island, or if the enemy will not admit that, that it be sold for hard money and sent to them. I own I do not expect they will admit it. As you are a better judge of this, should you be of opinion they will suffer the officers to receive and dispose of the tobacco, I must...
321To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 28 March 1781 (Washington Papers)
I forward to your Excellency, under cover with this, copies of letters received from Major General Greene and Baron Steuben which will give you the latest state of the situation of things with us and in North Carolina. We had hoped to have received by the French Squadron under Mons: Tilly eleven hundred stand of arms which we had at Rhode-Island, but were disappointed. the necessity of...
322To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 14 November 1791 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of state, to whom has been referred by the President of the United States the Report of the proceedings in the Executive department of the North Western territory, for the month of July 1791, made by the Secretary of the said territory, thereupon Reports That the letter of July 12. 1791. therein entered, having been already communicated to the legislature of the United states,...
323From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 7 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President the draught of a letter to Mr. Genet, in pursuance of the opinion of Saturday last approved by the President. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President of the US.”; endorsed by Tobias Lear. Tr ( Lb in same, SDC ). Not recorded in SJL . Enclosure: TJ to Edmond Charles Genet, 7 Aug. 1793
324From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 31 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to send the President draughts of letters on the subjects discussed in his presence the other day, meant merely as a ground-work for the gentlemen to propose amendments to. He shall be able to send another in the course of to-day, so that the whole would be ready for consideration tomorrow, if the President should think proper to have them considered before the...
325From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 25 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President a second complaint of Peter Le Maigre a merchant of this city, for a second vessel taken from him by the British. In the former case , which happened during the absence of the President, it was unanimously agreed by the heads of the departments that it would be proper to communicate the case to Mr. Hammond, and desire his interference. RC...
326To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 10 February 1780 (Washington Papers)
It is possible you may have heard that in the course of the last summer an expedition was mediated by our Colonel Clarke against Detroit; that he had proceeded so far as to rendezvous a very large body of Indians (I beleive four or five thousand) at Saint-Vincennes; but being disappointed in the number of whites he expected, and not chusing to rely principally on the Indians, was obliged to...
327To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 1 November 1792 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to return the inclosed to the President. the following are the only alterations he supposes might be proper. pa. 4. line 2. & 3. he thinks it better to omit the passage marked with a pencil. same page. three bottom lines. he sees no objection to the passage marked. page 6. & 7. the six lines marked he thinks would be better omitted. page. 11. line 16. perhaps the...
328From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 12 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President Judge Turner’s answer .—His office has been thoroughly searched, and no copy exists there of the act of Virginia giving money for the federal buildings: that of Maryland only is there. He is in hopes it may be among the President’s papers. Dr. Barton , a learned and very ingenious gentleman of this city, mentioning to Th:J. that he had...
329From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 9 August 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeable to the resolutions of Congress of January 13. 1780, we have turned over to the Continental Commissary of Prisoners at Winchester forty prisoners of war, a roll of whom I now take the liberty of inclosing to your Excellency. I have the Honor to be with all possible respect & esteem Your Excellency’s most obedient and most humble servt., RC ( DLC : Washington Papers); in a clerk’s...
330To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 18 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
Since I wrote you the day before yesterday, I have recieved a letter of Mar. 25. from Colo. Humphreys informing me that the Queen of Portugal was considerably better: as also mentioning the death of the emperor of Germany. what effect this last event will have on the affairs of Europe, cannot be foreseen, the character of the successor being absolutely unknown. he is 24. years of age. one...
331From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 8 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President a letter from our bankers at Amsterdam stating a balance due them on the foreign intercourse fund Apr. 2. of 13,255 florins equal to about 5,300 Dollars.—This being communicated for the information of the President, the following explanation is necessary. Independant of the fund on which this balance appears, the bankers had in their...
332From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 2 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose for the President’s notice a small pamphlet sent to Th:J. by the author, containing some ideas which may merit attention, in due time, at the Federal city. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President of the U.S.”; endorsed erroneously by Tobias Lear as a letter of 2 Mch. 1793, but corrected in another hand. Tr ( Lb in same, SDC ). Not recorded in...
333From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 1 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President and sends him a draught of letters to Majr. L’Enfant and the Commissioners, prepared on a conference with Mr. Madison. Perhaps the former may be too severe. It was observed however, that tho’ the president’s sentiments conveyed to him thro’ Mr.Lear, were serious and ought to have produced an effect on him, he gave them the go-by in his...
334From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 9 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President and sends him a letter put into his hands by Govr. St. Clair. He also sends him Govr. Clinton’s answer, this moment received. He does not say how it happened that Th:J’s letter of Feb. 17. did not get to him till Feb. 28. It was certainly put into the Post office here on the morning of Feb. 18. It must be presumed the Govr. has been absent...
335From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 31 March 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
Your servant delivered me your favor this morning; Capt. Barney is gone to Philadelphia and his vessel to Baltimore, having left with me one of your packages only. The persons who brought this could give me no certain account of the other package which you suppose to have been brought. This your servant now receives. Being obliged to seize a moment in Congress of writing you these few lines, I...
336From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 19 August 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I was yesterday honored with your’s of the 13th. inst. covering the Governor of Vermont’s of July 16. I presume it cannot now be long before I shall receive his answer to the two letters I wrote him from Philadelphia on the same subject. I now inclose letters received by yesterday’s post from Mr. Hammond, Mr. William Knox, and Mr. Paleske, with answers to the two latter. Should these meet your...
337From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 5 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President sends for his perusal some of the letters which had been accumulating at his office, and which he received yesterday. He will wait on the President to-day to translate the Spanish papers sent by Mr. Short, as also with some other letters in foreign languages. Th:J. sends to the President a supply he received yesterday of paper, of which the...
338To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 11 April 1792 (Washington Papers)
[Philadelphia] Thursday Apr. 11. [1792] Th: Jefferson has the honor to send for the perusel of the President some letters from mister Barclay received yesterday. he has received no letter from mister Short, nor any other person in France. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW .
339From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 4 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President the draught of a letter to Mr. Pinckney. Also the paper sent to him for the signatures now put to it. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President of the US.”; endorsed by Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr. Tr ( Lb in same, SDC ). Not recorded in SJL . Enclosures: (1) TJ to Thomas Pinckney, 4 June 1793 . (2) Cabinet Opinion on the Creek...
340To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 22 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to return to the President Govr Clinton’s letter. also to send him a statement of mister Genet’s conversation with him in which he mentioned Gouvernr Morris. this paper Th: J. prepared several days ago, but it got mislaid which prevented it’s being sent to the President. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence...
341From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 9 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President and sends him two forms of approbation of the proposals of the Director of the mint. That which would be to be signed by the President himself would probably be most satisfactory to the Director, but might be liable to the objection of drawing the President into the details of business with a greater number of officers of government. This on...
342From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 5 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson having had the honor at different times heretofore of giving to the President conjectural estimates of the expences of our foreign establishment, has that of now laying before him in page. 1. of the inclosed paper, a statement of the whole amount of the foreign fund from the commencement to the expiration of the act which will be on the 3d. of March next, with the actual expences...
343To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 3 October 1793 (Washington Papers)
I received from mister Gore by yesterday’s post the evidence on the aggression committed by mister Duplaine Vice Consul of France at Boston, and it appears fully to establish the fact against him. I have therefore prepared & countersigned a Revocation of his Exequatur, with letters on the subject to him, to mister Genet, & mister Morris; as also instructions to mister Bankson in what way to...
344To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 9 August 1780 (Washington Papers)
Agreeable to the resolutions of Congress of January 13. 1780, we have turned over to the Continental Commissary of Prisoners at Winchester forty prisoners of war, a roll of whom I now take the liberty of enclosing to your Excellency. I have the Honor to be with all possible respect & esteem Your Excellency’s most obedient and most humble servt LS , DLC:GW ; LB , UkLoBM : Add. MSS 38650; copy,...
345From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 14 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inform the President that the Spanish papers are now all ready. He sends him a set for his examination and will send two others Monday morning. He also sends the draught of the message he would propose, with the blank filled up which had been left in it. Whenever the President is satisfied about it, either with or without amendments, Th:J. will have copies made...
346From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 15 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President, sends him the draught of a letter to Madame de la Fayette, as also the draught of a letter to Mr. Morris. If this be approved, he proposes to write a like one to Mr. Pinckney. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President of the US.”; endorsed by Tobias Lear. PrC ( DLC ). Tr ( Lb in DNA : RG
347To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 11 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President sends him a letter to received by which he will perceive that mister Blodget has deposited with the two Boston banks 10,000 Doll. subject to the draught of the Commissioners. also two proof sheets of the city: recd from Boston. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of...
348To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 2 April 1792 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson—has the honor to return to the President the letters of Seagrove from which he has had an extract taken. He incloses also the names of three gentlemen who have expressed their willingness to serve in the Mint. the President knows them personally & will judge of their fitness. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His...
349To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 17 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respectful compliments to the President returns him Colo. Humphrey’s letter & those from George town. the last are indeed disagreeable: yet there does not seem any room for the President’s interposition. should Dr Stewart and mister Johnson persist in their idea of retiring, it seems really desireable that they should do it separately, leaving such an interval between...
350From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 1 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to return the inclosed to the President. The following are the only alterations which he supposes might be proper. pa. 4. line 2. and 3. He thinks it better to omit the passage marked with a pencil. same page. three bottom lines. He sees no objection to the passage marked. pages 6. and 7. The six lines marked he thinks would be better omitted. page 11. line 16....