2451John Quincy Adams to William Cranch, 6 November 1785 (Adams Papers)
I received on Saturday evening your kind favour of the day preceding, and although I was then far, very far from being in a pleasant State of mind: yet I could not help smiling at your geometrical proof that if you shared my sorrows with me, they would not be so great. I had been much affected the day before, when Mr. Thaxter returning from Salem inform’d us of our aunt’s Death. I had read the...
2452Abigail Adams to William Cranch, 23 August 1788 (Adams Papers)
Will you be so kind as to wait upon the Govenour early on monday morning with the inclosed cards and take an answer from him; which Brisler will call for on Monday at mr Fosters. if he has any objection to thursday, let it be fryday only I would wish for a decisive answer. if he agrees to the day proposed, then I would request the favour of you to go with the card to mr Brecks, but if the...
2453From George Washington to James Crane, 20 August 1784 (Washington Papers)
The enclosed letter which is left open for your perusal, will give you my sentiments respecting the sale of the Widow Bartletts Lease. Please to seal, before you send or deliver it. I shall have no objection to a transfer of the purchaser, if likely to fulfill the objects I had in view—& the conditions of the Lease are complied with. I am Sir &c. LB , DLC:GW . James Crane of Berkeley County,...
2454From George Washington to Thomas Cresap, 8 May 1786 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 8th of last month came to my hands just as I was leaving home for Richmond, which is the reason you have not received an earlier acknowledgment of it. I am not a member of, nor am I in any manner interested in the affairs of the Ohio Company—nor indeed do I know at this time, of whom it consists, further than of those claiming under, & mentioned by you—of Colo. Mason & of...
2455From Benjamin Franklin to Creuzé, 14 February 1784 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft): American Philosophical Society I received the three several Letters you did me the honour of writing to me on the Subject of the Aerostatic Machines, and the means of directing their Motion. The Academy of Sciences having appointed a Committee to consider that Subject, I thought I could not better dispose of your Papers than by communicating them to that learned Body, especially as...
2456From James Madison to Crèvecoeur, 30 November 1788 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. the answer from General Washington on the subject of your memorandum to me, which I cannot so well communicate as in his own words—“With respect to the Sulla —before I attempt to give an account of the cultivation of it, and of the result, I must request the favor of you to apologize for me to Mr. St. John for not having acknowledged the receipt of it. The truth is, that until I...
2457From James Madison to Crèvecoeur, [ca. 20 December 1787] (Madison Papers)
Mr Madison presents his compliments to Mr. St John, and troubles him with another letter for Mr. Jefferson. Mr. M. has received answers to his letters on the subjects of the Crab trees—the Potowmac and—James River. It is doubted whether any Scyons are to be obtained in the neighbourhood of Richmond. If they can, (and there was a chance at one particular place) they are to be forwarded...
2458From George Washington to Crèvecoeur, 9 July 1787 (Washington Papers)
The letter which you did me the honor of writing to me by Commodore Paul Jones, came safe; as did the 3 Volumes of the Farmers letters. For both, particularly the compliment of the latter, I pray you to accept my best thanks. Let me express my gratitude to you at the sametime, Sir, for the obliging offer of transmitting any communications I may have occasion to make to my good and much...
2459From George Washington to Hector St. John Crèvecoeur, 5 May 1788 (Washington Papers)
The letter with which you were pleased to honor me, dated the 17th ult., & the enclosure, came safe. For your attention & care of the latter I pray you to accept of my best thanks, at the sametime that I entreat you to pardon the liberty I now take in requesting the favor of you to forward the letters herewith sent by the Packet, or any other safe Conveyance. With sentiments of great esteem I...
2460From George Washington to Hector St. John Crèvecoeur, 18 August 1788 (Washington Papers)
Will you permit me to take the liberty of addressing the enclosed Letters to your care, to be forwarded when a conveyance shall offer for France? I will make no apology for the freedom, because you have encouraged me to use it. With sentiments of esteem & consideration I have the honor to be Sir Yr Most Obedt and Most Hble Servt ALS , DLC : Crèvecoeur Papers; LB , DLC:GW . GW also wrote to...
2461From George Washington to Hector St. John Crèvecoeur, 6 August 1788 (Washington Papers)
The enclosed packet came under cover to me, yesterday; The Box which ought to have accompanied it is yet on Ship-board, in the lower part of this River. I have requested that it may be forwarded to me without delay. When it arrives I will send it to the Stage Office and desire that particular attention may be paid to it. Conceiving it to be best not to detain the letters for the arrival of the...
2462From George Washington to Crèvecoeur, 10 April 1789 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor to receive, by the last post, your very polite letter; and must beg you to accept of my warmest acknowledgments for the felicitations and good wishes which were contained in it. A combination of circumstances, and events, seems to have rendered my embarking again on the ocean of publick affairs, inevitable. How opposite this is to my own desires and inclinations, I need not...
2463From George Washington to Michel-Guillaume St. Jean de Crèvecoeur, 4 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
I recd with the greatest satisfaction the Message you had the goodness to bring me from my friend the Marquis de la Fayette—Nothing could give me more pleasure than a sight of that amiable, disinterested, & patriotic Young Nobleman. While the polite mode of your communication merits my acknowledgments, I take a pleasure in congratulating you on your appointment to be the Consul of His Most...
2464From 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...
2465From Thomas Jefferson to St. John de Crèvecoeur, 26 August 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received the honour of your letter of the 20th . inst. Mr. Barclay has been long gone to Marocco, with which power he was by his last letter about signing a treaty of peace. This must apologize for your not having heard from him. If you will inform me to whom (in Paris) the 55₶ –16s can be paid I will order it to be paid.—I have letters and papers from America to July 16. They...
2466From Thomas Jefferson to St. John de Crèvecoeur, [ca. February 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
I return you your papers with many thinks. Monsr. de Chalut who has shewn me many civilities, being desirous of sending some packages of pictures to Charles town I advised him to send them by the packet from Havre to New York, and to have them reimbarked thence to Charles town. He asks me for a correspondent at New York to whom he may address them. Knowing that men of the same language and...
2467From Thomas Jefferson to St. John de Crèvecoeur, 6 November 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Congress have as yet come to no resolution as to the general redemption of paper money. That it is to be redeemed is a principle of which there is no doubt in the mind of any member of Congress, nor of any citizen of the United States. A Resolution of Congress taken in a particular case, which stood on the same ground on which the general one will stand, founds a presumption amounting nearly...
2468[From Thomas Jefferson to St. John de Crèvecoeur, 22 April 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Annapolis, 22 Apr. 1784. Entry in SJL reads: “St. John. Consul of Fr. at N.Y. distillation of the potatoe—maps. Henry’s—Hutchins—F. & Jeff.” Not found.]
2469From Thomas Jefferson to St. John de Crèvecoeur, 8 December 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Having this moment finished reading the New York papers, I send them to you. As soon as you are done with them I shall be glad to receive them again, as Mr. Short has not read them. Mr. and Mrs. Marmontel come to take a dinner with me the day after tomorrow. (Sunday.) I wish the good Countess D’Houdetot may be disengaged for that day and would be so friendly as to come also. We dine at three...
2470[From Thomas Jefferson to St. John de Crèvecoeur, 14 January 1785] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris, 14 Jan. 1785 . Entry in SJL reads: “H. St. John. Gl. W.’s statue—my ill health has prevented visits—I have ordered seeds to him—if come in one parcel he must divide them, or instruct me how to distribute. Should he have forwarded them I will keep half for his orders—Blanch. and Jefferies—his book takes—apology for corrections.” Not found.]
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...
2481[From Thomas Jefferson to James Currie, 11 May 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Annapolis, 11 May 1784 . Entry in SJL reads: “Currie. Offer a welcome to my quarters in Paris—health.” Not found.]
2482[From Thomas Jefferson to James Currie, 5 December 1783] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Annapolis, 5 Dec. 1783 . Entry in SJL reads: “Dr. Currie. Study of law.—Settlement in Alb[emarle].—Health.” Not found.]
2483[From Thomas Jefferson to James Currie, 28 December 1783] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Annapolis, 28 Dec. 1783 . Entry in SJL reads: “Dr. Currie. Crawford’s theory—his ivory book not read—cypher.” Not found.]
2484[From Thomas Jefferson to James Currie, 28 April 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Annapolis, 28 Apr. 1784. Entry in SJL reads: “Dr. Currie. Ballons—adjournment Congr.—settle near Monticello.” Not found.]
2485From Thomas Jefferson to James Currie, 28 January 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Oct. 17. with a P.S. of Oct. 20. came to hand a few days ago, and I am now to thank you for the intelligence it contains. It is more difficult here to get small than great news, because most of our correspondents in writing letters to cross the Atlantic, think they must always tread in buskins, so that half one’s friends might be dead without it’s being ever spoken of here. Your...
2486[From Thomas Jefferson to James Currie, 11 November 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris, 11 Nov. 1784 . Entry in SJL reads: “Currie. Send him report on Animal magnetism. Roberts, and 2 doz. Phosphoretic matches—war in Eur. My health. I ordered hares, rabbits, pheasants, partridges, quails from Engld. to Colo. Cary and will more if opportunity. Address.” Not found.]
2487From Thomas Jefferson to James Currie, 20 December 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
‘Procrastination is the thief of time.’ So sais Young, and so I find it. It is the only apology, and it is the true one for my having been so long without writing to you. In the mean time I shall overtake the present epistle, if it be as long getting to you as my letters are sometimes coming to me from America. I have asked of Congress a leave of 5. or 6. months absence the next year to carry...
2488[From Thomas Jefferson to James Currie, 22 March 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Annapolis, 22 Mch. 1784 . Entry in SJL reads: “Dr. Currie. Enclosing silver book—health better—present of book.” Not found, but see Currie’s acknowledgement of 20 Nov. 1784 .]
2489From Thomas Jefferson to James Currie, 27 September 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Aug. 5. came to hand on the 18th. inst. and I mark well what you say, ‘that my letters shall be punctually answered.’ This is encouraging, and the more so, as it proves to you that in sending your letters in time to arrive at New York the middle of the month when the French packet sails they get to hand very speedily. The last was but six weeks from you to me. I thank you again...
2490From Thomas Jefferson to James Currie, 4 August 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I am favored with your letter of May 2. and most cordially sympathize in your late immense losses. It is a situation in which a man needs the aid of all his wisdom and philosophy. But as it is better to turn from the contemplation of our misfortunes to the resources we possess for extricating ourselves, you will of course have found solace in your vigour of mind, health of body, talents,...
2491[From Thomas Jefferson to James Currie, 5 February 1785] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris, 5 Feb. 1785 . Entry in SJL reads: “Dr. Currie. Acknolege receipt his of Nov. 20.—drop the scheme as to ground in Richmd. for a while—war and peace doubtful—animal magnetism dead, ridiculed—if he should come here, invitation to bed and board—write by Fr. packet ut supra” [entry follows that for TJ to Eppes , this date]. Not found. TJ’s decision to drop the Richmond scheme was evidently...
2492[From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Curson, 25 April 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Annapolis, 25 Apr. 1784. Entry in SJL reads: “Curson. Bannister’s imposture—expect remittance—inclosed Mazzei’s letter to Lynch to find conveiance.” Neither letter nor enclosure found, but see John Banister to TJ, 15 Apr. 1784 and references there.]
2493[From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Curson, 1 February 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Annapolis, 1 Feb. 1784 . Entry in SJL reads: “Rd. Curson. Returned magazines &c.” Not found.]
2494[From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Curson, 11 May 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Annapolis, 11 May 1784 . Entry in SJL reads: “May 11. Mr. Curson inclosing two bills for £47–10–7 & 33 Doll—baggage.” Letter not found. TJ made the following entry in his Account Book under 11 May 1784: “inclosed the bill of £47–10–7. to Mr. Curson to pay balance I owe him for the pretended James Bannister. Inclosed him also the bill for 33 Doll. to pay postage of my things to Philadelphia &...
2495[From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Curson, 9 March 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Annapolis, 9 Mch. 1784 . Entry in SJL reads: “Mr Curson. Sundries for houshold from Baltimore.” Not found.]
2496[From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Curson, 17 April 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Annapolis, 17 Apr. 1784. Entry in SJL reads: “Mr. Curson. Will send balance as soon as receive from Virga.—1 ½ doz. Madeira ½ doz. Frontignac.” Not found.]
2497[From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Curson, 3 April 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Annapolis, 3 Apr. 1784 . Entry in SJL reads: “Mr. Curson. With Bannister—furnish him clothes, money for journey.” Not found. “With Bannister” means that “Bannister” carried TJ’s letter to Curson requesting the latter to supply the young man with a letter of credit. “Bannister” turned out to be an impostor (see Curson to TJ, 13 Apr . and Banister to TJ, 15 Apr. 1784 ).]
2498From George Washington to Richard Curson, 7 April 1789 (Washington Papers)
I have just received a letter from Mr Shotwell of New York, surviving partner of the House of Embree and Shotwell—informing me that he had shipped a quantity of Clover and Timothy seed to Baltimore for me (no vessel offering for Alexandria) and had directed it to you —As soon as it may arrive I will thank you to have it sent round here in any manner that will be most expeditious, for it is...
2499From John Jay to Peter T. Curtenius, 10 December 1788 (Jay Papers)
Instead of presenting a particular account against the State for my Services as one of their agents to manage their Controversy with Massachusetts, and as one of their Delegates in Congress, I shall only state Facts, and submit it to the Legislature to make such order on the Subject, as may be most consistant with their Sense and Construction of the Laws respecting it. In order to be at...
2500From John Adams to Thomas Cushing, 15 August 1785 (Adams Papers)
Last evening Mons r: de le Tombe called upon me with your letter of 3 d. July, inclosing the Massachusetts’ Act of Navigation. As you do me the honor to ask my Sentiments of this law, you shall have them without disguise. If the legislature passed it from a sanguine expectation that it will soon force or intimidate the British Ministry into such a treaty of Commerce as we desire, or can agree...