2471[From Thomas Jefferson to St. John de Crèvecoeur, 1 July 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Boston, 1 July 1784 . Entry in SJL reads: “Hector St. John. Thanks &c.” Not found.]
2472From Thomas Jefferson to St. John de Crèvecoeur, 11 July 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been honored with a letter from M. Delisle Lt. Gl. au bailliage de Caën, to which is annexed a postscript from yourself. Being unable to write in French so as to be sure of conveying my true meaning, or perhaps any meaning at all, I will beg of you to interpret what I have now the honour to write. It is true that the United states, generally, and most of the separate states in...
2473From Thomas Jefferson to St. John de Crèvecoeur, 22 August 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your favor of the 15th. instant as I had before done that of May 18. but had not answered it, supposing you would be on your passage. Mr. Mazzei delivered safely the packet you mention. I should have been happy to have seen you here, but we are not to expect that pleasure it seems till the fall. The derangement of the packet boats will need your aid: and there are...
2474From Thomas Jefferson to St. John de Crèvecoeur, 9 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
While our second revolution is just brought to a happy end with you, yours here is but cleverly under way. For some days I was really melancholy with the apprehensions that arms would be appealed to, and the opposition crushed in it’s first efforts. But things seem now to wear a better aspect. While the opposition keeps at it’s highest wholsome point, government, unwilling to draw the sword,...
2475From Thomas Jefferson to St. John de Crèvecoeur, 6 August 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I was not a little disappointed to find on my return that you had gone punctually in the packet as you had proposed. Great is the change in the dispositions of this country in the short time since you left it. A continuation of inconsiderate expence seems to have raised the nation to the highest pitch of discontent. The parliament refused to register the new taxes. After much and warm...
2476[From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Crew, 15 January 1785] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris, 15 Jan. 1785 . Entry in SJL reads: “Robt. Crew. Answer to his ante Jan. 12.” Not found. Crew’s letter of 5 Oct. 1784 was received on 12 Jan. 1785.]
2477From Benjamin Franklin to Crocco, 15 December 1783 (Franklin Papers)
Press copy of LS : National Archives I have just received the Letter you did me the honour of writing to me the 25th. past. I did indeed receive your former Letter of July, but being totally a Stranger to the mentioned Proceedings of Mr. Montgomery and having no Orders from Congress on the Subject, I knew not how to give you any satisfactory answer, till I should receive farther Information;...
2478[From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Crockett, 1 February 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Annapolis, 1 Feb. 1784 . Entry in SJL reads: “Colo Crockett. Enclosed his papers and Carleton’s letter.” Letter and enclosures not found.]
2479From Thomas Jefferson to Cunningham and Haddaway, 1 February 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sorry to be obliged to inform you that I am not able to procure an order for your being permitted to work your passage back to America, nor able otherwise to comply with your desires, being neither invested with the power, nor furnished with the means of doing it. I imagine you have come under particular contracts with your captains, which doubtless they will either perform, or make...
2480From Thomas Jefferson to James Currie, [14 January 1785] (Jefferson Papers)
Various conversations with Mr. Short on the situation of things in Richmd. seem to render it very evident that the improvement of ground in that place is of certain and great profit. I have been induced to reflect on the subject as it furnishes a resource for subsistence independent of the usual one which spreads our couch with thorns. A particular building lately erected here which has...