1To John Adams from John Jay, 4 July 1787 (Adams Papers)
I have been honored with your Letters of the 10 th. 19. & 30 April and 1 st: May last. Since the sitting of the Convention a sufficient number of States for the Dispatch of Business have not been represented in Congress, so that it has neither been in my Power officially to communicate your Letters to them, nor to write on several Subjects on which it is proper that Congress should make known...
2From John Jay to John Adams, 4 July 1787 (Jay Papers)
I have been honored with your Letters of the 10 th . 19. & 30 April and 1 st . May last. Since the sitting of the Convention a sufficient number of States for the Dispatch of Business have not been represented in Congress, so that it has neither been in my Power officially to communicate your Letters to them, nor to write on several Subjects on which it is proper that Congress should make...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Barclay, 4 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you a fortnight ago an account of what had passed on your subject that day. Yesterday I had a long conference with M. de [ Rayneval ]. It is impossible for a person to be more cordially disposed than M. de Montmorin but opposition from another quarter of the [ sea ] and the difficulty of the case [ trouble ] him. [ Rayneval ] observed to me that there was no country in Europe but...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Feger, Gramont & Cie., 4 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Monsieur Grand has just informed me that there is arrived at Bourdeaux to your address a box of seeds for me. I will beg the favor of you to forward them by land, either by the Fourgon, Messagerie or Diligence as you shall think best. If it be small it might come better by the Diligence. Any expences occurring herein you will be so good as to notify to Mr. Grand who will pay them. I have the...
5[To Thomas Jefferson from Clesle, 4 July 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
[ N.p., 4 July 1787 . Recorded in SJL as received 4 July 1787. Not found.]
6[To Thomas Jefferson from Parent, 4 July 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Beaune, 4 July 1787 . Recorded in SJL as received 7 July 1787. Not found.]
7To Thomas Jefferson from Lanchon Frères & Cie., 4 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
L’Orient, 4 July 1787 . Enclose a letter for TJ brought from Charlestown, S.C., by Capt. Jacobs of the Union . They and Richard Harrison of Alexandria were sorry to have missed TJ when he was in L’Orient; offer their services for themselves and their house at Le Havre, “Mangon La Forest & Compy‥‥ in receiving or Conveying packetts or any thing you may think proper from or to America.” RC ( MHi...
8From Thomas Jefferson to André Limozin, 4 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of the 31st. March, 5th and 22d of May coming while I was absent on a voiage of 3. or 4. months, have for that reason remained thus long unanswered. Your bill for the amount of your advances for me shall be duly answered: I will ask the favor of you at the same time to send me a state of the articles that I may transfer them to the account of the United states, or of the state of...
9To George Washington from Samuel Meredith, 4 July 1787 (Washington Papers)
In complyance with a promise made you, to give a short accot of the method I practised before the Warr of Sowing & plowing in Buck Wheat with a View of inriching the Land, & destroying in some degree a large Quantity of Garlic; I now take up my Pen, & will first mention that the land was a poor light sand, that had been under Cultivation for a great many Years & was exceedingly impoverished....
10I. Jefferson’s Suppressed Article in His Observations on Calonne’s Letter, [ca. 4 July 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
6. It is reckoned that this nation employs 30. ships in the African trade, and that these take, one with another, 50 hogsheads of tobacco in part of their loading. The regulations for the protection of the farms forbidding them to take this tobacco from the ports of France, they are obliged to put into Lisbon, and there furnish themselves with the tobaccos of Brazil. It would seem that...