1David Humphreys to John Adams, 20 November 1784 (Adams Papers)
By the papers which I have the honor to enclose to your Excellency herewith you will be informed that I have received official Instructions to procure the several honorary presents which have been voted by Congress to different officers in their service during the late war, together with a Draft on M. Grand Banker at Paris for the amount of the expence —but I must beg leave further to inform...
2To Benjamin Franklin from Benjamin West, 20 November 1784 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Your Grandson being on the point to return to France, I cannot deprive myself the pleasure of sending by him this mark of that friendship and esteem I have ever had for you; and at the same time to express the satisfaction Mrs. West and I have had in seeing in England one we ever had much love and reguard for, (Mr. Temple Franklin) his good sence and...
3To George Washington from Fontenille, 20 November 1784 (Washington Papers)
I am to Sensibly affected at the gratefull hommage you so Justly receive from the state of Virginia to resist the desire of Expressing you My Joye upon this occasion; the good fortune I have had of being able to Say you mine Will engage you, I hope My General, to Excuse the Liberty I take to Congratulate upon this Opportunity, and of assuring you, that the Gratitude and Admiration I am...
4To George Washington from Richard Henry Lee, 20 November 1784 (Washington Papers)
I should sooner have done myself the honor of writing to you, if it had been in my power to have communicated any thing agreeable—But I could only have informed you that we had not, have not, nor can we say when, Members enough will be assembled to make a Congress. As yet we have but four States convened. This lassitude in our public councils must afflict our friends, and encourage the hopes...
5To James Madison from Richard Henry Lee, 20 November 1784 (Madison Papers)
I wish it were in my power to give you the satisfaction that I know it would afford you to be informed that Congress was assembled and proceeding well with the public business. Unfortunately, we have not yet a Congress, & altho twenty days are elapsed since the time appointed for its meeting, but 4 States have been convened. No doubt Colo. Monroe has informed his Correspondents of the...
6From James Madison to James Monroe, [ca. 20 November] 1784 (Madison Papers)
Your favor without date was brought by thursday’s post. It inclosed a Cypher for which I thank you & which I shall make use as occasion may require, though from the nature of our respective situations, its chief value will be derived from your use of it. Gel. Washington arrived here on Sunday last, and the Marquis on thursday. The latter came from Boston in a French frigate. They have both...
7To Thomas Jefferson from James Currie, 20 November 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
I take this Opportunity of doing myself the honor to drop you a few lines by favor of the Marquis de la Fayette, [and] have forwarded by means of Mrrs. Mazzei and Alexander, 2 letters of different dates from Our friend Mr. Eppes and intended to have Wrote myself, but the Annual rotine of drudgery my situation has subjected me to here has brought me lower this Fall than ever. I had almost...
8[From Thomas Jefferson to C. W. F. Dumas, 20 November 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris, 20 Nov. 1784 . Entry in SJL reads: “Dumas. Inclosed letters to Senf, Hogendorp and publication for Leyd. gaz.” Letter not found; the enclosed letters are to Senf, 5 Nov. 1784 and to Hogendorp, 20 Nov. 1784; for the enclosed “publication for Leyd. gaz.,” see TJ’s statement of the misrepresentation of affairs in America, following, and explanatory note for what may be a paragraph from...
9Jefferson’s Reply to the Representations of Affairs in America by British Newspapers, [before 20 November 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
I am an officer lately returned from service and residence in the U.S. of America. I have fought and bled for that country because I thought it’s cause just. From the moment of peace to that in which I left it, I have seen it enjoying all the happiness which easy government, order and industry are capable of giving to a people. On my return to my native country what has been my astonishment to...
10From Thomas Jefferson to G. K. van Hogendorp, 20 November 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
I expect you will have thought me inattentive to my promise of sending you the information you wished as to the state of New Hampshire; but the delay has not proceeded from that source. The first part of my time after my arrival here was necessarily occupied by the public business on which I came, and before this was got into a train I relapsed into that state of ill health in which you saw me...