1To Thomas Jefferson from John Brown Cutting, 18 September 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Owing to the tardiness of the penny post man I did not receive your letter of the tenth timely enough to answer it on tuesday evening. I mistook the papers you had the goodness to send me for copies, and supposing the originals were of record with you, did not forget, but omitted to return them to you in Paris. I now inclose them to you with many apologies for an omission that has cost you a...
2To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, 18 September 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
The Hague, 18 Sep. 1789 . He had just finished enclosed when TJ’s letter of 12th came, and he hastens to send it in hope TJ will receive it in Paris or that Short will forward it before he embarks. He thanks him for the agreeable news and embraces with confidence the hope that TJ will protect him “de ce côté et de l’autre de l’Océan. Ma famille et moi sommes très-reconnoissans du bon souvenir...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Paine, 18 September 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I this moment receive yours of the 13 Inst. which being Post night, affords me the welcome opportunity of acknowleging it. I wrote you on the 15th. by post, but I was so full of the thoughts of America and my American friends that I forgot France. The people of this Country speak very differently on the affairs of France. The Mass of them so far as I can collect says that France is a much...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Rayneval, 18 September 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
M. de Rayneval a l’honneur d’envoyer à Monsieur Jefferson le passeport qu’il a demandé. Les ordres seront donnés aux employés des fermes au havre par raport aux equipages. RC ( DLC ). Not recorded in SJL . Enclosure: Engraved passport signed by Louis XVI and Montmorin ( DLC ). See illustration in this volume; also TJ to Durival, 13 Apr. 1789 , and Montmorin to TJ, 19 Sep. 1789 .
5To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 18 September 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Box of Books from Lackington went in yesterday’s Diligence:—cost £2.9.0. Your Letter of the 14th. with the Bill for ten pounds Enclos’d arrivd today:—This remittance was by no means necessary: the articles I shall buy for you will exceed what you had given me by a mere trifle, and there will now be a ballance in my hands for you to command. I have bought One pr. Candlesticks. The C....