15251From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Osgood, 5 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I am desired to forward to you the inclosed queries, and to ask the favor of you to give such an answer to them as may not give you too much trouble. Those which stand foremost on the paper can be addressed only to your complaisance; but the last may possibly be interesting to your department, and to the United states: I mean those which suggest the possibility of borrowing money in Europe,...
15252To Thomas Jefferson from José da Maia, 5 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
La nouvelle, que je viens d’avoir l’honeur de recevoir de Votre voyage dans cette partie de France, m’a fait un tres grand plaisir, et je m’en felicite; puisque je voyois, qu’il m’etoit tres essentiel d’avoir l’honeur de Vous parler, et l’etat de ma santé ne me permettoit pas de faire le voyage de Paris. Si je pouvois savoir le jour de Votre arrivée à Nismes, et votre logement, je ne...
15253To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 6 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclos’d letter to you and Mr. Adams of this date contains every thing that occurs relative to my business here, and the Day after tomorrow I shall leave it and remain at Madrid untill I can decide on the necessity of going to Coruña. The objects there are the Effects belonging to the United States left by Mr. Guillon and the proceeds of some prizes carried in by Capt. Cunyingham. It is...
15254Thomas Barclay to the American Commissioners, 6 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I Have Not had the pleasure of addressing You since My arrival at this place, being hitherto without any thing to say worth Your Attention. Mr. Lamb was Embarked for Minorca before I got here, but as he is in Correspondance with Mr. Montgomery, I was in hopes of learning through that Channel, the possibility of our Meeting before I shou’d return to France, a Matter that I am of opinion might...
15255To Thomas Jefferson from S. & J. H. Delap, 6 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
In the month of March 1785, Thomas Barclay Esquire appointed by the Honorable Congress of the United States of America to Audit the accounts of the different particulars who transacted business for that honorable body, called upon us for our accounts, which we furnished him to transmit them, and on which there is a balance due us of £79945. 4. Tournois; we have since been Deprived of any...
15256To Thomas Jefferson from Jean Nicolas Démeunier, 6 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Les abonnés au Sallon des Echecs ont reçu une Lettre pareille à Celle qu’a reçu Monsieur Jefferson. On est Le Maitre de ne pas renouveller Son abonnement, et M. Démeunier dira que Les affaires et L’eloignement de Monsieur Jefferson ne Lui permettent pas de renouveller Le Sien. On Sera Faché de perdre L’esperance de voir Monsieur Jefferson, Mais c’est une chose toute simple, dont il ne doit pas...
15257To Thomas Jefferson from Ferdinand Grand, 6 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai l’honneur de vous informer que Mrs. Hy. Fizeaux & Cie. se sont prévalus sur moi le 1er. de ce mois pour le 11 avril de £5679.1.6. qu’ils m’avisent être pour compte des Etats unis. Veuillez me faire savoir, Monsieur, si je dois acceuillir cette traitte et en débiter les états. J’ai l’honneur d’etre avec une parfaite considération Monsieur Votre très humble & très obéissant Serviteur, RC (...
15258[From Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, 7 January 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris, 7 Jan. 1787. Recorded in SJL under this date. Not found; but see Mrs. Adams’ reply, 29 Jan. 1787.]
15259From Thomas Jefferson to Calonne, 7 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honour on the 2d. of November last to acknowlege the receipt of your Excellency’s letter of October the 22d. wherein you were so good as to communicate to me the arrangements which the king had been pleased to make for the encouragement of the commerce of the United states of America with his subjects. I immediately made known the same to the Agents of the United States in the...
15260From Thomas Jefferson to Colonia, 7 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Monsieur Jefferson avoit l’honneur, il y a quelques jours de faire passer à Monsieur de Colonia un passeport pour l’expedition des armes à l’etat de Virginie, signé par sa majesté le roi, mais manquant la signature de son excellence Monsieur le Comtrolleur general: et il prenoit la liberté de supplier Monsieur de Colonia de lui procurer la signature de ce Ministre. Peut il oser de le prier,...
15261From Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Boulton, 8 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Jefferson’s compliments to Mr. Boulton and will beg the favor of him, when he shall be arrived in England, to have an estimate made of the cost of the underwritten articles, plated in the best manner, with a plain bead, and to send him the estimate to Paris. If Mr. Jefferson should on the estimate decide to buy them, he will take the liberty of addressing a letter to Mr. Boulton for them....
15262To Thomas Jefferson from Duler, 8 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Rouen, 8 Jan. 1787. TJ’s letter has emboldened him to state that he did not expect aid in securing a position in “any Bureau at Paris”; hopes he can secure a position in England or France “in some of the American affairs” or possibly “a place of Consul for the french nation in some of the American Ports”; sends testimonial as to character from D’Anmours of Baltimore, which, though in French,...
15263To Thomas Jefferson from R. & A. Garvey, 8 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
We are desired by Mr. Thoms. Boylston to apply to your Excellency, and to beg the favour of you, to take such Measures as may be necessary, to secure him the repayment of the duties which he paid last year on his oil, which is an object of £9252: its in Consequence of the letter M. de Callonne wrote your Excellency the 22d. of last october, which you forwarded me the 29th. same Month, that Mr....
15264To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, 9 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
En conséquence de ma derniere, qui doit être parvenue à V.E. par Mr. Brantsen , sous le couvert de qui je L’ai mise, je me propose d’aller là où j’ai dit, sonder le terrain discretement, dans 5 ou 6 jours d’ici. Dès que Votre Excellence saura quelque chose de positif sur l’accession finale et complete de l’Etat de N. York, aux mesures des autres, il sera bon et il importe qu’Elle Veuille bien...
15265To Thomas Jefferson from George Gilmer, 9 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Your kind attention to me in sending the Vegitable system gave me great pleasure; and could only have been increased by a line from you. This may be a reproof for my inattention that you may have thought me guilty of, in not writing to you. Believe I have often wrote, and should more frequent could my sheding ink furnish you one moments satisfaction, but too late have I discovered the...
15266From Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 9 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
My last of Dec. 31. acknowleged the receipt of yours of Oct. 12. as the present does those of Oct. 3d. 9th . and 27th. together with the resolution of Congress of Octob. 16. on the claim of Shweighauser. I will proceed in this business on the return of Mr. Barclay, who being fully acquainted with all the circumstances, will be enabled to give me that information the want of which might lead me...
15267[From Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Louis Lacretelle, 9 January 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris, 9 Jan. 1787. Recorded in SJL . Not found; it may possibly have related to Lacretelle’s Discours sur le préjugé des peines infamantes, couronnés à l’Académie de Metz, Paris, 1784, of which TJ possessed a copy (Sowerby, No. 2362).]
15268To Thomas Jefferson from Elizabeth Blair Thompson, 10 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Two years last summer I experienced a sever mortification; that of not seeing my old friend, and acquaintence Mr: Jefferson, when he did me the favor of calling: my stuped servant ought to have told you that I was confined up stairs with a little one, (I had just lost,) instead of saying I was not at home: that Captn. and Miss Thompson was not is true; but had I known you was in the house, I...
15269From Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 11 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Jay, in his last letter to me, observes that they hear nothing further of the treaty with Portugal. I have taken the liberty of telling him that I will write to you on the subject, and that he may expect to hear from you on it by the present conveyance. The Chevalier del Pinto being at London, I presume he has, or can inform you why it is delayed on their part. I will thank you also for...
15270From Thomas Jefferson to John Bondfield, 11 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
In the moment of receiving your letter inclosing the passport, which wanted the Comptroller’s signature, I inclosed it to his bureau to obtain that ceremony. It is but this instant returned to me, and in the same I take the liberty of inclosing it to you and of assuring you of the esteem & respect with which I have the honour to be Sir Your most obedient & most humble servt., PrC ( DLC ). See...
15271From Thomas Jefferson to David S. Franks, 11 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
My anxiety, my dear Sir, on the detention of the Marocco treaty, is inexpressible. However cogent and necessary the motives which detain you, I should be deemed inexcusable were I to let so safe an opportunity as that by Colo. Blackden pass without sending the papers on to London. Mr. Jay complained that a treaty signed in June was not ratified in October. What will they say when they shall...
15272To Thomas Jefferson from the Abbé Morellet, [11? January 1787?] (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. de Crevecoeur m’a dit hier que dans la lecture plus suivie que vous avez faite de notre traduction vous aves eté mécontent de quelques articles où je vous ai mal entendu et de l’insertion que j’ai faite dans votre texte des notes de Mr. Thomson et peut etre de quelques autres points. Je vous prie de m’envoyer les corrections que vous croires necessaires. Je ferai faire des cartons . Quant...
15273To Thomas Jefferson from R. & A. Garvey, 12 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
We have the honor to remitt you Inclosed the notes of our disbursments for your Excellency importing £59.5 which have taken the liberty to value on you at sight order of Messr. Perregaux & Co. which please to own. With the small Case of Books there was an Acquit à Caution de Librairie which beg you’ll send for to the Customhouse or the Chambre Sindicalle and return it us. We are on all your...
15274From Thomas Jefferson to Philippe-Denis Pierres, 12 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
M. Jefferson prie Monsieur Pierre de vouloir bien lui envoyer les feuilles qu’il a eu la bonté de faire imprimer pour lui. Il a l’honneur de lui demander s’il seroit possible de procurer pour la presse d’imprimerie que Monsieur Pierre a eu la complaisance de se charger de faire faire pour M. Jefferson, les characteres charmantes de Didot, de deux grandeurs, c’est à dire, de la plus petite, et...
15275To Thomas Jefferson from Mrs. Rider, 13 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Mrs. Rider is infinitely obliged to Mr. Jefferson for his very kind attention. She has not as yet met with apartmens that would suit Her. From the description Mr. J—n gives of those He has seen they appear to be just what She wants. She proposes going tomorrow morning to see them. RC ( MHi ). Not recorded in SJL .
15276From Thomas Jefferson to Ferdinand Grand, 14 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
A person called here to-day, while I was out, and left the inclosed note for me, on the subject of Colo. Wuibert’s money. He left word at the same time that he would call at your office tomorrow for an answer. I have written him the inclosed answer, but as he did not leave his name or address, I am unable to write an address on it. I will beg the favor of you to let it lye in your office till...
15277From Thomas Jefferson to an Agent of Antoine-Félix Wuibert, 14 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I received Colo. Wuibert’s letter and power of attorney on the 16th. of February 1786.I wrote immediately to Mr. Thevenard at l’Orient to obtain an order for his money. I was called to England in the month of March and returned here the last day of April. I found Mr. Thevenard’s answer here on my return. From that time till the 22d. of May was taken up in discussions with which you are...
15278From Thomas Jefferson to Harcourt, 14 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
In the conversation with which you were pleased to honor me a few days ago, on the enfranchisement of the port of Honfleur, I took the liberty of observing that I was not instructed by my constituents to make any proposition on that subject. That it would be agreeable to them however I must suppose, because it will offer the following advantages. These facts may perhaps throw some light on the...
15279From Thomas Jefferson to Louis Guillaume Otto, 14 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been honoured with your letter of Oct. 15. and thank you for the intelligence it contained. I am able to make you but an unequal return for it, your friends here being so much more in condition to communicate to you interesting intelligence. With respect to the affairs of Holland they do not promise arrangement. The interest which the King of Prussia takes in the affairs of the...
15280From Thomas Jefferson to St. John de Crèvecoeur, 15 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I see by the Journal of this morning that they are robbing us of another of our inventions to give it to the English. The writer indeed only admits them to have revived what he thinks was known to the Greeks, that is the making the circumference of a wheel of one single peice. The farmers in New Jersey were the first who practised it, and they practised it commonly. Dr. Franklin, in one of his...
15281To Thomas Jefferson from Philippe-Denis Pierres, 15 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai l’honneur de vous adresser les cartons dont vous avez desiré l’impression. Je souhaitte que vous en soyez satisfait. Quant aux Caracteres que vous demandez pour accompagner la petite Presse, je ne crois pas qu’il soit nécessaire de choisir ceux des Didot et des Foulis: J’en ai qui ont été gravés par Garamond, et dont la beauté ne cede en rien à ceux-là. Si cependant, Monsieur, vous tenez...
15282From Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams Smith, 15 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Jefferson has the honour to present his compliments to Mrs. Smith and to send her the two pair of Corsets she desired. He wishes they may be suitable, as Mrs. Smith omitted to send her measure. Times are altered since Mademoiselle de Sanson had the honour of knowing her. Should they be too small however, she will be so good as to lay them by a while. There are ebbs as well as flows in this...
15283From Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 15 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Colo. Franks’s delay here, occasioned by that of his baggage, gives me an opportunity of acknowleging the receipt of the map. I am now occupied in correcting it. I have got thro about two thirds of the map and have a list of 172 errors, so that we may expect in the whole about 250, and I reckon only those which are material. Small and immaterial changes of orthography I do not correct. Except...
15284[To Thomas Jefferson from John Bondfield, 16 January 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Bordeaux, 16 Jan. 1787. Recorded in SJL as received 21 Jan. 1787. Not found; but see St. Victour & Bettinger to TJ, 23 Jan. 1787 .]
15285To Thomas Jefferson from Carburi, 16 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Ms. de Carburi presente ses respects à Mr. Jefferson, il lui envoye les 4 demiboutteilles qu’il demande, et 4 autres demiboutteilles d’autres vins de la Grece à fin qu’il choisisse ceux qui lui plairont d’avantage. Tous ces vins reviennent à 6 francs la Boutteille de Pinte. RC ( MHi ); endorsed: “Carburi Comte de.” Not recorded in SJL .
15286From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 16 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Incertain whether you might be at New York at the moment of Colo. Franks’s arrival, I have inclosed my private letters for Virginia under cover to our delegation in general, which otherwise I would have taken the liberty to inclose particularly to you, as best acquainted with the situation of the persons to whom they are addressed. Should this find you at New York, I will still ask your...
15287To Thomas Jefferson from Champagni, [17? January 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
Paris, Wednesday [ 17? Jan. 1787 ]. He is a French citizen who wishes to buy some land in the United States; asks for information about procedure and for advice concerning the location of lands; realizes that the value of land varies according to its location and that land in the Philadelphia vicinity is the most expensive; however, that is the neighborhood he prefers but does not know whether...
15288From Thomas Jefferson to S. & J. H. Delap, 17 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honoured this day by the receipt of your letter of the 6th. instant. Having nothing to do with the matters of account of the United states in Europe, it is out of my power to say any thing to you as to the paiment of the balance due to you. Yet I think it would be proper for you to write to the ‘Commissioners of the treasury’ at New York on the subject. They are the persons who are to pay...
15289From Thomas Jefferson to Duler, 17 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honour of now returning to you the certificate of the Chevalier Danmours, in your favour. The testimony of that gentleman with whose worth I am well acquainted, would have satisfied me of yours, had any testimony been wanting. It adds another to the list of many worthy persons whom I am unable to assist; for I declare to you that I know no way on earth in which I can be useful to...
15290From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Durival, 17 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
You were pleased, in behalf of a friend, to ask information of me on the subject of the money of the United states of America, and I had the honour of informing you, by letter of Nov. 7. that no regulations of their coin had then been made by Congress, as far as I knew. They had however entered into resolutions on that subject which have since come to hand. A translation of these will be found...
15291To Thomas Jefferson from Miguel de Lardizábel y Uribe, 17 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai etè hier chez vous sans me rapeller que vous seriez à Versailles. Je partirai lundi, c’est pour quoi je vous prie d’avoir pret la boite des machines à pouvoir me l’envoyer samedi porchain. Demain au soir j’irai prendre vos ordres, et à même tems m’essayer dans votre grande machine à imprimer une page . Je suis avec tout le respect et avec tout l’attachemt. possible Mr. Votre très humb. et...
15292To Thomas Jefferson from Segond, 17 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Beausset-en-Provence, 17 Jan. 1787. A friend, charged with collecting for him the interest due on his account with the United States, informs him that Mr. Grand has received no funds for that purpose; the payment is now two years in arrears; asks how long this will continue. “Aprés avoir exposé nos jours à la [service] de vos etats, avoir coopéré à la grande œuvre de votre independence, n’est...
15293From Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 19 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Colo. Franks having occasion for fifty pounds sterling to enable him to pursue his journey to London and New York, Mr. Grand has furnished him with that sum, for the reimbursement whereof I have drawn on you in his favor, and have to pray you to honour that draught and to charge it against the fund appropriated to the negociations with Marocco, as expended in that business. I have the honour...
15294From Thomas Jefferson to Champagni, [19 January 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
Vous me faites l’honneur, Monsieur, de demander mes conseils sur le projet que vous avez conçu, de vendre vos biens ici, et d’aller vous etablir en Amerique. Je vous repeterai ce que j’ai eu l’honneur de conseiller à d’autres, qui en ont eté dans la suite tres contents. C’est de ne vendre ici, qu’après que vous vous auriez rendu en Amerique, que vous auriez bien parcouru les etats dont le...
15295To Thomas Jefferson from Chevallié Fils, 19 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Arrivé hier au Soir de Newyork, Je m’enpresse à remettre à Votre Excellence, deux lettres de Mr. James Madisson, et Saisir cette occasion de vous presenter mes très humbles remerciments des renseignements dont vous honnorates mon Pere Négociant á Rochefort en Janvier 1785 et qui ont descidé mon passage en amerique pour recouvrer les fonds qui luy etoient dûs par l’Etat de Virginie. L’assemblée...
15296From Thomas Jefferson to R. & A. Garvey, 19 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honoured with your letter of Jan. 8. on the subject of the duties paid by Mr. Boylston on his cargo of whale oil, but being about to take a journey which will absent me from Paris three months, it will be necessary for Mr. Boylston to desire his correspondent at this place to undertake the sollicitation of that reimbursement. Your bill for 59₶ 5s has been presented to-day and paid. I sent...
15297From Thomas Jefferson to François Soulés, 19 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honour of inclosing to you the sheets on the subject of Wyoming. I have had a long conversation with M. Crevecoeur on them. He knows well that canton. He was in the neighborhood of the place when it was destroyed, saw great numbers of the fugitives, aided them with his waggons, and had the story from all their mouths. He committed notes to writing in the moment, which are now in...
15298[From Thomas Jefferson to the Abbé Morellet, 19 January 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris, 19 Jan. 1787. Entry in SJL reads: “Morellet l’Abbé.” Not found; but see Morellet to TJ, 11? Jan. 1787 .]
15299From Thomas Jefferson to Elizabeth Blair Thompson, 19 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I am this day honoured with your favour of the 10th. instant and have the happiness to inform you that Mr. Bannister has been here near two months, and appears to enjoy as perfect health as any person can. I am in hopes he will have no more relapses.—I am much obliged by your kind expressions of concern at the accident which prevented me the honour of seeing you at Titchfeild. Certainly if I...
15300To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Burney, 20 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Few things have given me more concern than the not being able sooner to give you a satisfactory account of the Harpsichord and its Machinery, which I had the honour to bespeak for you, last Summer. I visited Kirkman from time to time whenever I came to town, and saw the Instrument in every stage of its construction. The wood was chosen with great care; the Lid is solid, as you desired, and no...