1To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Cathalan, Sr., 6 March 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Marseilles, 6 Mch. 1788 . Introduces his friend, John Turnbull, to whom he is indebted for the “acquaintance and Friendship of Robt. Morris,” as well as most of his American friends, and without whom his son “had never spocke English”; Turnbull, who, with his wife, will be in Paris a short time, will deliver “the Seven years meteorological observations made by Mr. Bernard , of our observatory.”...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Giuseppe Chiappe, 6 March 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ay eû l’honneur d’êcrire à Votre Excellence voye de Terre et de Mer le 26e: passé; et pour l’informer ensuite de ce qui se passe, et regarde plus particulièrement les affaires de la Bienheureuse Nation de l’Amerique, Je m’empresse d’expédier un Courrier à Tanger pour que la présente parvienne à Votre Excellence le plus tôt possible. Sa Majesté Impériale a fait publier dernièrement, Je ne...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Montmorim, 6 March 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai communiqué, Monsieur, à M. le Comte de la Luzerne le mémoire que vous m’avez fait l’honneur de m’adresser en faveur du nommé Gross, américain, détenu comme otage à Dunkerque depuis 1782. Je joins ici une copie de la réponse que j’ai reçue de ce Secrétaire d’Etat, ainsi que de toutes les pièces dont elle est accompagnée. Je ne doute pas que vous n’adoptiez l’avis de M. de la Luzerne sur...
4To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 6 March 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Rutledge is so good as to take charge of the Breeches which you order’d. I mention’d in my last, your taylor’s guess with respect to the Waistcoats. Brown is busy about the pictures. Mr. Adams’s is like. Your’s I do not think so well of. They, with the Polyplasiasmos, shall come by the diligence. Mrs. Church’s trunk is arriv’d safe. The Story will be to me a lasting eulogy of French...
5To George Washington from John Pendleton, 6 March 1788 (Washington Papers)
I enclosed lately the Warrants on your claim for a negroe executed to Mr Henderson of Dumfries requesting he would forward them by the first safe conveyance; I am sorry Sir, the delay in transmitting them occasioned yo. the trouble of an Application but begg you’ll be assured it did not proceed from inattention to the business. The Appropriation Law passed October Session ’84 (the first which...
6[Diary entry: 6 March 1788] (Washington Papers)
Thursday 6th. Thermometer at 32 in the Morning—43 at Noon and 38 at Night. Early in the Morning the Wind made some feeble efforts to blow from the So. Wt. but shifting to No. Wt. Before 8 Oclock it was fresh, but not very cold, all day. Rid to the Plantations in the Neck Muddy hole, Dogue run and Frenchs. At the first some of the Women were grubbing, & some fencing—the Men getting rails. At...
76th. (Adams Papers)
We met in the evening at Putnam’s chamber. I did not pass my time so agreeably as I usually do these evenings. Townsend and Amory were there, and instead of devoting our hours to free and unrestrained conversation, we lost them in playing on the violin, and flute. Between 9 and 10 we retired.
8To Thomas Jefferson from Francisco Chiappe, 6 March 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Mogador, 6 Mch. 1788 . Acknowledges TJ’s letter of 15 Sep. 1787 ; has delivered to the Emperor the letter from Congress and the ratification of the treaty; has not yet obtained a reply, but will use his connections at court to do so when he returns to Morocco; is not sending copies of the Emperor’s letters granting favors to Americans because his brother has done so; but will inform TJ of...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Maria Cosway, 6 March 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I have waited some time to trie if I could recover my usual peace with you, but I find it is impossible yet, therefore Must adress Myself to you still angry . Your long silence is impardonable, but what is the Name I Must give To ———Mr: Trumbull and Mrs: Church not bringing Me a letter from you? No, My war against you is of such a Nature that I cannot even find terms to express it. Yet I will...
10To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 6 [March] 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
The first post day for the Hague, since your departure, will be to morrow. This letter will then set out and carry agreeable news of the health of your daughter. She has continued mending uniformly since the favorable turn of her disorder of which you were a witness, and this morning when I was at the Convent I learned that nothing remained of the indisposition except a necessary weakness....
11Memorial to the States General, [6 March 1788] (Adams Papers)
The Subscriber, Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America, has the honour to communicate to your High Mightinesses, a Resolution an Act of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, by which he is recalled from his Mission to your High Mightinesses & permitted to revisit his native Country. The Wisdom and Magnanimity, with which your High Mightinesses manifested your...