11[To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 30 November 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
[ New York, 30 Nov. 1787 . A letter from Barclay of this date is recorded in SJL Index, which letter was enclosed in the Commissioners of the Treasury to TJ, 5 Dec.1787 , received 26 Jan. 1788, and enclosed in TJ to William F. Ast, 9 Feb. 1788 , q.v.; see also TJ to Ast, 19 June 1788 . Not found.]
12To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Cushing, 25 October 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Nathll. Barrett, A Gentleman of a very respectable Family and of good Character will deliver Your Excellency this Letter. He goes to France upon Bussiness, which the Merchants here, confiding in his wisdom and Integrity, have committed to his Care: His Excellency Governor Bowdoin having wrote you particularly upon this Subject renders it needless for me to Enlarge. Permit me, Sir, to...
13To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 30 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I do myself the honor to inclose to your Excellency a letter from Mr. Andrew Huntington of Norwich in Connecticut, covering a Memorial to the Marechal De Castries relative to a demand which he makes for supplies furnish’d some French Prisoners in America by order of Mr. Holker, and which Letter and Memorial I did not receive untill this day though it is dated in May 1786. I do not think that...
14To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 12 June 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you by this Post, and am Now to Inform you that Mess. French & Co. have Employ’d the Mare-chaussee at all the Passes out of the Jurisdiction of the Parliament of Bordeaux to stop me on the Road. A suspicion of such a proceeding made me Alter my Intention of setting out, and I have Now Certain Information that it is so. I see Nothing for Me to Do, but to Remain where I am, untill you...
15To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Appleton, 24 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor of receiving your Excellency’s letter of July 29th. The absence from Town of the Director of the Customs has prevented my replying till this time. The result of my inquiries is thus. That the Arret in which is Clas’d the SpermaCæti candles, after enumerating the duties upon a great variety of merchandize, there is then article which says that all foreign merchandize of whatever...
16To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Shore, 13 January 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
I return’d from Titchfield a few days ago where I left Capt. Thompson and family in good health. They regret not having seen you particularly Mrs. Thompson . I am much surprised to find 10 Guineas ⅌ ct. premium given at Lloyds on American Vessels to or from the Continent to Lisbon and 5 from hence: up the Meditern. I suppose Amn. Vessels could not be insured for less than 20 or 25 Guineas...
17To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Brand Hollis, 17 April 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I request the favor of your benevolent acceptance of the memoirs of the late excellent Thomas Hollis, who was a friend to the rights of America and of mankind in general. How would he have rejoiced to have seen these days “Tyranny defeated and the seeds of freedom planted in another world for which he could scarcely have hoped,” tho to which he was in no small degree instrumental by dispersing...
18To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, [14 July 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
Since writing the letter which accompanies this I found the Following Memorandums in a Book of mine. It will Enable you to fill up one of the Blanks in the little Account I sent you. Mr. Jefferson 2 Dozens Madiera wine 30 livs. ⅌ Doz. 60 1½ Doz. Frontignan 24 36 1½ of Muscat 18 27 2 Pounds of tea 16 139 Received Twenty four livres 24 livs. 115 Expence of China at Rouen
19To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Thompson, 12 August 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
Dover, Eng., 12 Aug. 1785. Thompson, a wine merchant, has for some time supplied Benjamin Franklin with two London newspapers, The Morning Chronicle and The London Chronicle; these he forwarded three times a week to Mouron, proprietor of the French packets at Calais, who then relayed them to Perregaux, a banker in Paris. TJ may send for those which are unclaimed. They come to Thompson free...
20To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Boylston, [1] March 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
The business of my Ship now draws to a narrow. I hope to have all the Cargo on board in two or three days more, and to be in readiness to embark, in the first packet that goes for England which I expect will be in five or six days. I should be glad to be favor’d with a line before I leave Havre, advising of the progress you have made in Adjusting the remission of the duties, and whether any...