1To John Adams from Joseph and Isaac Saportas, 5 July 1785 (Adams Papers)
We are Sorry we happend to be from home when your Excellency entended us the honour of a visit, and hope we may flatter ourselves with that Satisfaction, on future Opportunities Which may Call your Excellency in our part of the Town, finding that your Excellency had Received previous information Concerning the detention of An American vessel at Mogadore, we think it needless to trouble your...
2[Diary entry: 5 July 1785] (Washington Papers)
Tuesday 5th. Mercury at 79 in the Morning—84 at Noon and 82 at Night. Very warm in the forepart of the day altho the wind was Northerly. About One Oclock a cloud arose in the So. W.; and an hour or two after, we had a fine Shower of rain for about 10 or 15 minutes, preceeded by a squall of wind from the same quarter, wch. cooled the Air & made the Afternoon pleasant. After dinner Mr. Govournr....
3To George Washington from Clement Biddle, 5 July 1785 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Clement Biddle, 5 July. On 27 July 1785 GW wrote Biddle : “Your letter of the 5th. came duly to hand.”
4From George Washington to William Hartshorne, 5 July 1785 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to William Hartshorne, 5 July. On this date Hartshorne wrote GW that he had received “your favor of this morning.”
5To George Washington from William Hartshorne, 5 July 1785 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of this morning I recd with a Bill of Excha. for £20 Stg enclosed which I am willing to take myself 40 ⅌ Ct that being the rate at which I bought lately and I believe is the Currt Exchange—at which rate it shall be Passed to Col. Washingtons Credit, unless you think more can be had, if so I shall do my endeavor to sell them for the most they will fetch—The Bills shall not be...
6To George Washington from Samuel Powel, 5 July 1785 (Washington Papers)
I wrote to you on the 24th of last Month, in Answer to the Enquiries you requested me to make, & enclosed the Paper which lead you to make them. I do not find any Reasons to induce me to change the Sentiments I then gave, tho’ I should most readily have done so, had subsequent Information convinced me that they were erroneous. Dr Moyes, who passed thro’ this City a few Days since, confirms me...
7To George Washington from Samuel Powel, 5 July 1785 (Washington Papers)
The Society for promoting Agriculture, lately established in this City, having done themselves the Honor of electing you a corresponding Member, have charged me with the Care of communicating the same to you. It is with particular Pleasure that I fulfill this Injunction, & doubt not that you, after having so eminently contributed to the Establishment of the Independence of our Country in the...
8To George Washington from Pieter Johan van Berckel, 5 July 1785 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Pieter J. Van Berckel, 5 July. On 22 Aug. GW wrote Pieter J. Van Berckel: “The letter which your Excellency did me the honor to write to me on the 5th of last month, came to this place.”
9From Thomas Jefferson to Katherine Sprowle Douglas, 5 July 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 21st. of June has come safely to hand. That which you had done me the honour of writing before has not yet been received. Having gone by Dr. Witherspoon to America, which I had left before his return to it, the delay is easily accounted for. I wish you may be rightly informed that the property of Mr. Sprowle is yet unsold. It was advertized for sale so long ago as to found a...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Giovanni Fabbroni, 5 July 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
Florence, 5 July 1785 . Fabbroni was no less pleased than surprised by the receipt of TJ’s most courteous letter from Paris [of 23 May] . “You are, then, in Europe, O Sir, and, in the midst of the weighty duties of your splendid office, you deign still to remember me. I am infinitely flattered by this circumstance. … Your new Republic could not have found a better person than you to handle its...