1[To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 8 April 1788] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris, 8 Apr. 1788 . Recorded in SJL Index. Not found.]
2[To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 24 March 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Mount Vernon, 24 Mch. 1784 . Noted in SJL as received 26 Mch. 1784. Not found.]
3[To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 16 April 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Richmond, 16 Apr. 1784. Noted in SJL as received 23 Apr. 1784. Not found.]
4[To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 9 April 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Richmond, 9 Apr. 1784 . Noted in SJL as received Apr. 16 1784. Not found.]
5[To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 24 April 1788] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris, 24 Apr. 1788 . Recorded in SJL Index. Not found.]
6To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 14 March 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I am now in daily expectation of the pleasure of receiving a letter from you and hope it will bring us an account of your safe arrival at the Hague and of your having found there Mr. Adams.—You recollect without doubt the extract in the Mercure , from Mazzei’s book, where it was said, ‘ qu’ il y a vingt dieux, ou qu’il n’y en a qu’un &c. ’ In consequence of it Pankcoucke is decreté...
7To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 11 September 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
You will be surprized by my Letter written on Friday Evening which mentioned that yours had not arrived. I waited until as late in the Evening as I could on Account of the Departure of the Post before I wrote. Some Time after that Mr. Dumas called to let me know he had just received the Letter which he presented me. I was exceedingly happy to find that it allowed us to pursue the Measures...
8To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 22 May 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been so much occupied for some Time in getting ready for the Voyage that I have only Time to inclose you a Letter f[rom] Mr. Madison which will give you all the important Information of this Place. No Mail arrived here from the Northward last Thursday—So that I am still undetermined whether you will sail on the 25th. as at first supposed. I have seen from the Beginning it would be...
9[To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 23 April 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Richmond, 23 Apr. 1784. Noted in SJL as received 30 Apr. 1784. Letter not found, but its subject was no doubt the possibility that TJ would be appointed as minister. TJ was troubled to learn that that possibility was being rumored in Virginia, and, on the same day that he received Short’s letter, he replied expressing his embarrassment; TJ to Short, 30 Apr. 1784 . Short explained that a...
10To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 14 March 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter the day before yesterday I mentioned to you the progress I had made with the engraver. Yesterday his part of the work was entirely completed. I have employed him to have 250 copies taken for you, not knowing any better mode of having it done as you left no directions with me respecting it. He enquired of me yesterday if I was charged with the payment of these matters &c. I have...