391To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 8 September 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
We are honored with Your Excellency’s ever respected favor of 1 Inst, with the agreeable Intelligence of the Accession of the State of New York to the New Federal Constitution, For which We return You our most sincere and hearty Thanks. This is an Event We deem of great Consequence, as it will stamp such a Weight upon the Meeting of the new Congress, as will render equally contemptible as...
392To Thomas Jefferson from John Brown Cutting, 6 September 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I was sensibly mortified on perusal of your letter of the 23d of Aug. to find that I was not the medium through which the earliest information of the late important event in Virginia reached you from England. Especially as the prompt communication of fresh american intelligence has hitherto been the only return I cou’d make for a throng of obligations with which You have so surrounded me that...
393To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Osborn, 5 September 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
[ Charly ], 5 Sep. 1788 . Unknown to TJ and ashamed for her request, she is in want, lives in a remote, cheap place, and asks him to send “any relief let it be never so small” in care of “Monsieur Pinondel directeur de la poste aux Lettres a Charli, pour remettre à Madame Osborn.” [ In postscript :] “I am old and shall not be troubleso[me]. I confide you are too much a Gentleman not to keep my...
394To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 5 September 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
By the Diligence which left this yesterday morning I sent two Books for Mr. Short and Lackington’s Catalogue of September for you. They were made up in a parcel address’d to you, and the Directeur du Bureau here assur’d me should be delivered to you immediately upon arrival without the delay of the office.—I hope you will have receiv’d them and before the departure of Mr. Short: of whom I must...
395To Thomas Jefferson from John Rutledge, Jr., 4 September 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
In the month of September or October last, I do not exactly recollect which, I remember seeing at your house the skin of a very large animal which was sent to you from the northern part of America. You told me, I think, Monsr. de Buffon had seen this skin and that the beast was unknown to him and that you supposed it peculiar to America: Mr. de Saussure, who is engaged in perfecting his...
396To Thomas Jefferson from Willink & Van Staphorst, 4 September 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
We have now to acquaint Your Excellency that Willm. Carmichael Esqr. Chargé des Affaires of the United States to the Court of Madrid, has valued upon us ƒ 4614.3 Banco, in consequence of your Advice to him. He has however neglected following your Desire to send his first Bills to you, so that they now appear without our having any Instructions on the Subject. We have requested the Holders to...
397To Thomas Jefferson from Jonathan Nesbitt, 2 September 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Not having the honor of being Personally known to you, I must begin by beging your excuse for the trouble I am about to give you. It is by the advice of Mr. R. Morris that I now adress you, who this day assured me that I might do so in full Confidence that you would endeavor to obtain what I desire. I will therefore without further preamble proceed to acquaint you with my situation. During the...
398To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 2 September 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I have your letter of the 24th. August and having seen no secondhand Carriage to my mind, have given orders for the new one: which I trust will be both substantial and elegant:—There are three articles however in your description which being extraordinary will add to the price:—the Venetian blinds are not much us’d here, tho they are much better for a hot Climate than the common ones, and they...
399To Thomas Jefferson from Gaudenzio Clerici, [1 September 1788] (Jefferson Papers)
I have received—I am so confused in the generous act and generous expressions you make use of that know not how to thank You, or how to reproach myself. May you live happy Honble. Sir. RC ( DLC ); written on a scrap of paper, unsigned, undated, and unaddressed; ascribed to Clerici on the basis of handwriting; date supplied conjecturally on the basis of TJ’s letter to Clerici of 31 Aug. 1788.
400From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 31 August 1788 (Washington Papers)
I was very much gratified by the receipt of your letter, dated the 3d of May. You have my best thanks for the political information contained in it, as well as for the satisfactory account of the Canal of Languedoc. It gives me pleasure to be made acquainted with the particulars of that stupendous work, tho’ I do not expect to derive any but speculative advantages from it. When America will be...