1[Diary entry: 27 January 1789] (Washington Papers)
Tuesday 27th. Thermometer at 42 in the Morning—42 at Noon and 44 at Night. Much rain fell in the course of last Night—heavy forenoon, with the Wind at No. Et.—At Night a good deal of Rain. At home all day.
2To George Washington from John Armstrong, 27 January 1789 (Washington Papers)
Your very Obligeing letter of the 25th of April last came only to hand, and yeilded much Satisfaction to several Gentlemen of the Federal cast occasionally at this place, to find your decided opinion that Virginia would adopt the Constitution; and I cannot suppress my Obligation to acknowledge the receit of that letter, otherwise ’tis matter of doubt whether any part of your time ought to be...
3From George Washington to John Fitzgerald and George Gilpin, 27 January 1789 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to John Fitzgerald and George Gilpin, Mount Vernon, 27 Jan. 1789. The dealer’s catalog quotes from this letter: “As the business of the Poto’k Company seems, in some measure, to have come to a crisis—I have thought (since you left this on Sunday) whether a F ull meeting of the Board is not M ore desirable than to write to Messrs. Johnson & Lee.—No communications can be so...
“ The offer of my services to the district, rests on the following grounds: That although I always conceived the constitution might be improved, yet I never could see in it, as it stands, the dangers which have alarmed many respectable citizens; that I held it my duty therefore, whilst the constitution remained unratified, and it was necessary to unite the various opinions, interests and...
5To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 27 January 1789 (Madison Papers)
I have been here about a Fortnight during which time we have not made a Congress. So. Carolina, Virga, Pennsa, N. Jersey, & Massachussets are represented. There is one Member from each of the States of Rhode Island, N. Carolina & Georgia, but none from New Hampshire, Connecticut N. York, Delaware or Maryland. I very much wish we may make a house in a week or ten days, as I think the...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Dominique Audibert, 27 January 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Depuis la lettre que j’ai eû l’honneur de vous ecrire le 14 du mois passé, j’ai fait faire ici sous mes yeux diverses experiences dont j’ai suivi les Procedés et le resultat sur la Potasse des Etats unis dont vous m’avez fait adresser un envoy de cinq Barils. La qualité en a eté reconnue bonne et tres propre à divers Emplois pour la Teinture, La fayance, La composition de La Poudre, à La...
7[To Thomas Jefferson from Fraissmet & Cie., 27 January 1789] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Marseilles, 27 Jan. 1789 . Recorded in SJL as “ Fraissmet & co. Marc & Js. Marseilles. Jan. 27, ” received 2 Feb. 1789. Not found.]
8From Thomas Jefferson to Mademoiselle Thomas de Langat, 27 January 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Je m’empresse, Mademoiselle, de faire reponse à la lettre que vous me faites l’honneur de m’ecrire au sujet de Monsieur Blaine, et de vous observer que la meilleure partie à prendre, à ce qui me paroit, c’est d’écrire à Monsieur Barclay qui se trouve actuellement à Philadelphie. C’est probable que Monsieur Blaine y est aussi, et assurèment Monsieur Barclay fera son mieux pour vous faire payer...