1To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 12 June 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you by this Post, and am Now to Inform you that Mess. French & Co. have Employ’d the Mare-chaussee at all the Passes out of the Jurisdiction of the Parliament of Bordeaux to stop me on the Road. A suspicion of such a proceeding made me Alter my Intention of setting out, and I have Now Certain Information that it is so. I see Nothing for Me to Do, but to Remain where I am, untill you...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 12 June 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
After you left this place My Fever Encreased upon me and Confined me two Days to my Bed. I am Now pretty well and I think I shall proceed home tomorrow, But I have Not given Mrs. Barclay any hopes of seeing me soon lest I shou’d Disapoint her. I Never stood so much in Need of your advice as I Do at this Moment. The House of French & Nephew have Refused Every accommodation that I have had in My...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Motture, 12 June 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Paris, rue du Cherche midy, 12 June 1787 . Though unacquainted with TJ, he asks him to forward two sets of the memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Turin (in 2 vols., quarto), one to Benjamin Franklin, and the other to the American Philosophical Society. “I am sure that Science now a days meets everywhere with friends and protectors, and that my request will not fail of success.” RC (...