1From 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...
2From 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...
3From 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...
4From 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...
5From 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...
6From 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...
7From 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...
8From 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...
9From 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...
10From 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...