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.]