1XII. Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 30 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved some time ago your favor of July 29. and was happy to find that you saw in it’s true point of view the way in which I had been drawn into the scene which must have been so disagreeable to you. The importance which you still seem to allow to my note, and the effect you suppose it to have had tho unintentional in me, induce me to shew you that it really had no effect. Paine’s...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Condorcet, 30 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I am to acknolege the reciept of your favor on the subject of the element of measure adopted by France. Candor obliges me to confess that it is not what I would have approved. It is liable to the inexactitude of mensuration as to that part of the quadrant of the earth which is to be measured, that is to say as to one tenth of the quadrant, and as to the remaining nine tenths they are to be...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Delamotte, 30 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I am now to acknolege the reciept of your favors of Feb. 9. Mar. 25. and Apr. 24. as also of the several packages of wine, carriages, &c. which came safe to hand, and for your care of which be pleased to accept my thanks. I am sensible of the difficulties to which our Consuls are exposed by the applications of sailors calling themselves American. Tho the difference of dialect between the Irish...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Tobias Lear, with List of Patents, 30 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The fifteen enclosed Patents , having received the signature of the President of the United States, are, at the request of the Attorney General, transmitted to the Office of the Secretary of State by Dft ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); with subjoined note by Lear; endorsed in part: “the Secy of State.” FC ( Lb in same, SDC ); with subjoined list of recipients omitting patent descriptions. Enclosures:...
5To John Adams from Thomas Jefferson, 30 August 1791 (Adams Papers)
I received some time ago your favor of July 29. and was happy to find that you saw in it’s true point of view the way in which I had been drawn into the scene which must have been so disagreeable to you. the importance which you still seem to allow to my note, & the effect you suppose it to have had tho unintentional in me, induce me to shew you that it really had no effect. Paine’s pamphlet,...
6From Thomas Jefferson to C. W. F. Dumas, 30 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I am to acknolege the reciept of your favors of Jan. 23 Feb. 15. Apr. 8. and May 24. with the intelligence they contained, and the regular transmission of the Leyden gazette by the British packet. A course of tranquil prosperity leaves me nothing to detail to you. The crops of the earth are again promising, public credit remains high, and a general content prevailing thro the states. A first...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Fenwick, 30 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The object of the present is principally to acknolege the receipt of your favors of Feb. 10. Mar. 22. 29. and Apr. 26. and the cases of wine forwarded for the President and myself, for your care of which be pleased to accept my thanks. I hope you have drawn on Mr. Short for the balance of 143 ₶ –9s due to you. The difference of 6 ₶ –5s duty on tobo. carried in French and American bottoms makes...
8To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 30 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to you very fully six days ago by the way of Havre—this letter will be sent to London to be forwarded by the English packet which sails next week—it incloses one for the secretary of the treasury. The assembly have at length completed their charte constitutionelle . In abolishing the requisite formerly decreed for members of the legislature they have augmented somewhat that of electors...
9Tobias Lear to Thomas Jefferson, 30 August 1791 (Washington Papers)
[Philadelphia] 30 August 1791. At the request of Attorney General Edmund Randolph, encloses for the office of the secretary of state fifteen patents signed by the president. ALS , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DLC:GW . Thomas Jefferson docketed the receiver’s copy: “The Secy of State 30th Augt 1792” and listed on it that the enclosed patents were for Englebert Cruse, James Rumsey,...
10Enclosure: Christopher Leffingwell to John Chester, 30 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Since forwarding Statement of Manufactories have discoverd an Omission of the Manufactoring of Carding Machines and Jennys for Carding & Spinning on the large Scale. Those in Mr Lathrops works were wholly made here by an Inhabitant of this Town who is a Great Mechanical Genius. Machines for Cutting doubling & Crooking Card wire for making Common Cotton & Wool Cards are also made in this Town....
11From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Banneker, 30 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you sincerely for your letter of the 19th. instant and for the Almanac it contained. No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren, talents equal to those of the other colours of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence both in Africa and America. I can add...
12From Thomas Jefferson to James Currie, 30 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Being to set out for Monticello in two or three days, I have only to acknolege the receipt of your favor of July 25. and to inform you that a judgment will be very soon obtained in your case. In a conversation I had with Mr. Morris, to engage him to favor your interests as far as he could with justice, he assured me he had settled with Dr. Griffin, and that the balance due was about £4500. for...
13From Thomas Jefferson to James Duane, 30 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof, Mr. Osmont, is a young gentleman who was very particularly recommended to me from France, and who very particularly deserved it as he is a young man of extraordinary merit and talents. I take the liberty of asking your advice to him in the following case wherein I am not sufficiently informed to counsel him. A Frenchman of the name of Le tonnelier, who was connected with...
14To Alexander Hamilton from William Short, 30 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I make use of this conveyance by the English packet merely to announce to you that the bankers at Amsterdam have in consequence of my letters to them had a loan contracted for in behalf of the U.S. for six millions of guilders. The celerity with which it was taken up, as they inform me, shews the continuance of the high ground on which the credit of the U.S. stands at that place. The bankers...
15From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Fay, 30 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I am to acknolege the receipt of your favor of the 9th. inst. and to thank you for your attention to my request of the Maple seed. Every thing seems to tend towards drawing the value of that tree into public notice. The rise in the price of West India sugars, short crops, new embarrasments which may arise in the way of our getting them, will oblige us to try to do without them. The Bennington...
16From Thomas Jefferson to Gouverneur Morris, 30 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
My letter of July 26. covered my first of exchange for a thousand dollars; and tho that went by so sure an opportunity as to leave little doubt of it’s receipt, yet for greater security I inclose a second. The tranquillity of our country leaves us nothing to relate which may interest a mind surrounded by such bruyant scenes as yours. No matter; I will still tell you the charming tho’ homespun...
17From Thomas Jefferson to James Maury, 30 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I am to acknolege the reciept of your favor of the 23d. of June, and of the copy of the Corn law, which was the first information I had of it’s passage, and is now the only information of it’s form. You observe that some masters of vessels refuse to comply with your requisitions to furnish the particulars of your reports. To this we are obliged to submit until the legislature shall go thro...