5041From Thomas Jefferson to Madame de Corny, 18 October 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I have now the honor, Madam, to send you the Memoire of M. de Calonne . Do not injure yourself by hurrying it’s perusal. Only, when you shall have read it at your ease, be so good as to send it back, that it may be returned to the Duke of Dorset. You will read it with pleasure. It has carried comfort to my heart, because it must do the same to the king and the nation. Tho’ it does not prove M....
5042To Thomas Jefferson from Madame de Tessé, 18 October 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Me. de Tessé a Reçu hier avec un nouveau témoignage des bontés de Monsieur Jefferson l’annonce des plus grandes Richesses. Elle a lu trois fois avant de se coucher l’état de ses biens, et l’a encore parcouru ce matin à son Réveïl. Elle y trouve avec une grande satisfaction des especes dont le nom ne lui est pas inconnu, mais dont les plans ne sont jamais arrivés en France et même en...
504317th. (Adams Papers)
This day a regiment of foot, and a troop of about 60 horse-men paraded, and were review’d by Genl. Titcomb. The weather was rather disagreeable, though not so windy as it was yesterday. One of the foot companies was drest in the rifle uniform. That of the horse was red faced with green: the horses in general were good, but the company has not been formed long, and are not yet perfect in their...
5044[Diary entry: 17 October 1787] (Washington Papers)
Wednesday 17. Thermometer at 40 in the Morning—50 at Noon and 46 at Night. Clear all day with the Wind at No. Wt. Rid to all the Plantations except the Ferry. In the Neck cut the Buck Wheat. a good deal of which shattered but perhaps (it is a grain I am not accustomed to) not more than common & therefore I cannot undertake to decide whether it stood too long or not. Finished getting in the...
5045[Diary entry: 17 October 1787] (Washington Papers)
Wednesday 17th. Rid to all the Plantations except the Ferry. Cut the Buck Wheat in the Neck. A good deal of it shattered but whether it ought to have been cut sooner I cannot (for want of more knowledge of it) determe. Finished getting in the Fodder in the Neck the last at all the Places. Sowed yesterday & today (wind preventing it sooner) the trefoil 50 lbs. on the Wheat & Sainfoin in the...
5046From George Washington to David Stuart, 17 October 1787 (Washington Papers)
As the enclosed Advertiser contains a speech of Mr Wilson’s (as able, candid, & honest a member as any in Convention) which will place the most of Colo. Mason’s objections in their true point of light, I send it to you. The re-publication (if you can get it done) will be of service at this juncture. His ipso facto objection does not, I believe, require an answer—every mind must recoil at the...
5047To George Washington from Noah Webster, 17 October 1787 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Noah Webster, 17 Oct. 1787. On 4 Nov. GW wrote: “I have received your letter of the 17th ulto.”
5048From Thomas Jefferson to André Limozin, 17 October 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Congress alone has the power of appointing Consuls for the United states of America. No convention being as yet finally settled with this government for regulating the Consular functions, Congress have made no appointment for France, except of Mr. Barclay to be their Consul general. He found it necessary to name agents in the several ports to protect the citizens of the United states till...
5049From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 17 October 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
‘Si trova [Amerigo Vespucci] parimente dipinto nella real Galleria, tra’ quadri del primo Corridore, e similmente nella Volta XXI. della medesima, tragli uomeni illustri in arme.’ Vita di Amerigo Vespucci. dal Bandini pa. lxviii . Nella ‘tavola de’ ritratti del Museo dell’ illustriss. e eccellentiss. Sig. Cosimo Duca di Firenza e Siena’ al fine del libro Delle vita da’ pittori di Giorgio...
5050From Thomas Jefferson to Madame de Tessé, 17 October 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
The last parcel of seeds which I had the honor of sending you, Madam, overburthened you in quantity, and stinted you in variety. I now enclose you a list which has exactly the contrary faults. The variety is great, the quantities small. In some instances there is not more than one, two, or three grains. Your goodness will pardon this, as you know the difficulties which attend the obtaining...