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...
2501John Adams to Thomas Cushing, 27 August 1784 (Adams Papers)
I have rec d your Favour of the Second of June by M r Tracy. as I Stopped in London only a few Hours, I had not an Oppertunity to see him: but I flatter myself with the Hope of Seeing him and M r Jackson here, where at length I am happily established with my Family. M r Jefferson and M r Humphreys are arrived, and Shall Soon begin our Work. I am So near D r Franklin, that it is but a pleasant...
2502From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cushing, 8 February 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I was honoured with your letter of Octob. 25. by Mr. Barrett: and am to thank you for an introduction to his acquaintance. The matter of the whale oil was settled before he came. I need not trouble you with the details of this however as I have written them to his Excellency Governor Bowdoin. The indulgence obtained is made temporary. I suppose this was done to give them an opportunity of...
2503From George Washington to Thomas Cushing, 26 October 1785 (Washington Papers)
The last Post gave me the honor of your favor of the 7th inst: for which & your care of the Jack and his Keeper, I pray you to accept my grateful thanks. As the Jack is now safely landed, & as I am unwilling to hazard him again at Sea, I have sent a man in whom I can confide, to conduct him & the Spaniard to this place by Land. The person I send has not the smallest knowledge of the Spanish...
2504From George Washington to Thomas Cushing, 10 March 1788 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 12th Ulto inclosing the recommendatory Amendments to the proposed plan of Government by your Convention, did not come to hand till last Saturday, or it should have had an earlier acknowledgement. The adoption of the Constitution by the State of Massachusetts will undoubtedly have a very happy influence upon the decision of those States which have yet to determine upon the...
2505John Adams to Thomas Cushing, 25 October 1784 (Adams Papers)
Within a few days I have rec d your Favour of the 16 of August, with the Resolve of the General Court of the 6 and 7 of July. The Line between Massachusetts and Nova Scotia gave me much Uneasiness at the Time of the Negotiation of the Provisional Articles, and Still continues to distress me. I knew that the French in former Times, had a Practice of erecting an holy Cross of Wood upon every...
2506From George Washington to Thomas Cushing, 5 April 1786 (Washington Papers)
I have now the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your several favors of the 6th 9th & 16th of Novr & 22d of Feby. I purposely delayed my acknowledgments of the first three, ’till I should receive the one promised therein, that I might give you no more trouble with my concerns than was unavoidable. I feel myself under great obligation to you for your obliging & disinterested attention to my...
2507From George Washington to Thomas Cushing, 10 March 1787 (Washington Papers)
By your letter & Acct of the 22d of Feby 1786, there appears a balance in my favor of fifteen pounds thirteen shillings Lawful Money, which I take the liberty to draw a bill for in favor of Mr Thomas Porter of Alexandria, payable ten days after sight. I am happy to find by the last Accounts from the Northward that the disturbances in your State were almost totally suppressed, & I hope before...
2508From John Adams to William Cushing, 7 March 1789 (Adams Papers)
I am greatly obliged, by the Letter you did me the Honour to write me on the 18 th. of February; and regret very much the Want of Leisure to examine the Subject of it, with that Attention which its great Importance requires. That the Truth may be pleaded in Bar of a civil Action for Damages, for actionable Words, Spoken or written, I remembered very well: but it lay in my mind that Some just...
2509From Thomas Jefferson to John Brown Cutting, 28 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
When I had the honour of writing you on the 24th. inst. the transactions on the Black sea were but vaguely known. I am now able to give them to you on better foundation. The Captain Pacha was proceeding with succours to Oczakoff as is said by some (for this fact does not come on the same authority with the others), the authentic account placing the two fleets in the neighborhood of each other...
2510From Thomas Jefferson to John Brown Cutting, 2 October 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I am now to acknolege the receipt of your favors of the 16th. and 23d. Ult. and to thank you for the intelligence they conveyed. That respecting the case of the Interrogatories in Pennsylvania ought to make noise. So evident a heresy in the common law ought not to be tolerated on the authority of two or three civilians who happen unfortunately to make authority in the courts of England. I hold...
2511[William Coxe, Jr. to John Brown Cutting], June–August 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Our Ship Canton is just arriv’d from China with a cargo of 100000 dollars, 19/35 of her belong’d to us . Mr. D——and myself had the entire direction and management of the property. From these circumstances I have had the best opportunities of getting to the bottom of that business. I have made every use of them in my power. I will venture to pronounce that it contains an increasing and...
2512Benjamin Rush to John Brown Cutting, 18 May 1787 (Adams Papers)
D r Rush returns his thanks to M r: Cutting for the elegant & agreeable manner in which he conveyed M r Adams’s acceptable treatise on Goverment to him. The D r begs M r Cutting would inform M r: Adams that his work has been received & read with universal Satisfaction, & that a new edition of it is now in the press in Boston—new York & Philadelphia.— The principles & facts contained in this...
2513From Thomas Jefferson to John Brown Cutting, 3 November 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I have now the honor to acknowledge your favors of the 30th. Sep. 5th. 6th. 7th. and 17th. of Octob. which I should have done sooner but that there was no new occurrence well ascertained and worth communicating. I think it now pretty certain that an alliance is entered into between England, Prussia and Sweden, to which Holland is to accede so as to make it quadruple. The Prussian army is on...
2514From Thomas Jefferson to John Brown Cutting, 23 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your favors of the 3d. 8th. 14th. and 15th. inst. and have now the honor of inclosing you a letter of introduction to Doctr. Ramsay. Since my last Denmark has declared she will aid Russia, and has joined some ships to the Russian fleet. It is expected the K. of Prussia will take side immediately with Sweden, and Poland consequently with Russia. We presume here that in...
2515From Thomas Jefferson to John Brown Cutting, 9 September 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 6th. is just come to hand. To answer your quotations from the English papers by reversing every proposition, would be to give you the literal truth, but it would be tedious. To lump it, by saying every tittle is false, would be just, but unsatisfactory. I will take the middle course and give you a summary of political information as far as possessed here on tolerably sure...
2516From Thomas Jefferson to John Brown Cutting, 24 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I am indebted to your favor of the 11th. instant for many details which I have not received otherwise. Notwithstanding a most extensive and laborious correspondence which I keep up with my friends on the other side the water, my information is slow, precarious and imperfect. The New York papers, which I receive regularly, and one or two correspondents in Congress, are my best sources. As you...
2517From Thomas Jefferson to John Brown Cutting, 24 September 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson begs the favor of Mr. Cutting to contrive the inclosed packet to the Treasury board. It contains the keys of some trunks of papers which are gone by another conveiance. Many compliments and assurances of esteem. [ In postscript: ] Mr. C’s favor of the 16th. is received. PrC ( DLC ). Enclosure: TJ to the Commissioners of the Treasury, 24 Sep. 1788.
2518From Thomas Jefferson to John Brown Cutting, 8 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Your communications of the 26th. Ult. instead of needing apology from you, require thanks from me, which I most cordially give you. I shall make a due use of them here, and trust they will have some effect. You cannot do me a greater favor than by a continuance of your communications while you remain in London, of which I will endeavor to profit my country.—Mr. Barlow of Connecticut arrived...
2519From Thomas Jefferson to John Brown Cutting, 4 September 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Letters from New York of July 26. mention that the question on the new Constitution was not then decided. But a postscript to one of them from Monsieur de Crevecoeur the French consul there, sais that just as the ship was getting under way they received news that the Constitution was accepted by a majority of five, that in consequence thereof the bells were then ringing &c. This news arrived...
2520From Thomas Jefferson to John Brown Cutting, 6 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Truth, holy Truth, obliges me to correct still the intelligence I gave you in my last. Notwithstanding the authenticity with which it seemed to come, there was error respecting the commanders. The 1st. action between the Russians and Turks was of the gallies and flat vessels of both sides. The command of these on the part of the Russians is in the prince of Nassau. But P. Jones having been...