671To James Madison from John Leland, [ca. 15 February] 1789 (Madison Papers)
I congratulate you in your Appointment, as a Representative to Congress ; and if my Undertaking in the Cause conduced Nothing else towards it, it certainly gave Mr. Madison one Vote. I expect that Congress will be very busy for some years, in filling a continental Blank with a Code of general Laws; and I think it will be very Judicious to send those Laws very liberally into the States, that...
672From Thomas Jefferson to Madame de Bréhan, 15 February 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
It is an office of great pleasure to me, my dear Madam, to bring good people together. I therefore present to you Mrs. Church, who makes a short visit to her native country. I will not tell you her amiable qualities, but leave you the pleasure of seeing them yourself. You will see many au premier abord : and you would see more every day of your lives, were every day of your lives to bring you...
673From Thomas Jefferson to Burrill Carnes, 15 February 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I am now to acknolege the receipt of your favors of Jan. 23. Feb. 9. and 10. Your departure for America so soon, puzzles me as to the finishing the affair of Schweighauser and Dobrée in which I could have reposed myself on you. It remains that I ask you to recommend some person who may be perfectly relied on in that business. In fact it is probably the only one I shall have occasion to trouble...
674From Thomas Jefferson to Angelica Schuyler Church, 15 February 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you, my dear Madam, the letter to the lady you desired, and leave you at liberty to use it or not, as you find most agreeable when you shall be at New York. You are not a stranger to the distance which has been established between her and the societies of that place. The cause of this was communicated to me from thence for the first time. I was tolerably intimate with her here, saw...
675From Thomas Jefferson to Augustin Dupré, 15 February 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Monsieur Jefferson a l’honneur d’observer à Monsieur Dupré qu’il ne donne pas pour les medailles de 24 lignes ni à Monsieur Duvivier ni à Monsieur Gatteaux que 2400₶. que c’est la ce qu’il a payé á Monsieur Dupré aussi pour celle du General Greene, et que Monsieur Dupré n’a demandé que ça dernierement pour celle du General Morgan. Monsieur Jefferson ne peut pas consentir donc de donner plus. A...
676From Thomas Jefferson to J. F. Frin & Cie., 15 February 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
La lettre que vous me faites l’honneur de m’écrire est la premiere et la seule information que j’ai jamais reçu au sujet de la demande de 4000₶. de la part de Monsieur Dechesaut de Norvege. Sans doute que ce Monsieur est fondé d’en faire la demande quelque part: mais pour que ce soit à moi, il faudroit que je sache pour quelle service, et par quelle ordre. Je n’en ai jamais donné aucune, et je...
677From Thomas Jefferson to De Langeac, 15 February 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Bientot après avoir pris bail de votre maison on m’a fait sentir que je la payois moitié trop chere, et je m’en suis bien apperçu après. J’attendois donc toujours une occasion ou je pourrois m’en defaire sans inconvenient. La voiage que je vais faire en Amerique m’en a presenté une en vous annonçant la cessation du bail. J’eus l’honneur de vous dire pour raison que le loyer etoit beaucoup...
678From Thomas Jefferson to De Langeac, 15 February 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Je n’ai aucune difficulté, Monsieur le comte, à vous confier la copie de la sentence qui m’a eté remise parce que c’est une acte publique. Je doute seulement si je dois faire de la lettre du Commissaire une usage que peutetre il n’a pas attendu. Je vous la remets donc pour en prendre copie si vous voulez, en vous priant de n’en faire rien qui pourroit me compromettre avec Monsieur Coulon. Vous...
679To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 15 February 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 9th. of August last has been received. Before this I doubt not mine of a date subsequent to those you acknowledge has reach’d you. It gave you a detail of the proceedings of the convention of this state, since which the eleven that have adopted the government, under the act of Congress that was necessary to put them in motion, have taken the necessary measures for its...
680To Thomas Jefferson from William Stephens Smith, 15 February 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I am really ashamed of myself for the total silence I have observed since my arrival in America, and am at a loss to account for it, excepting that the affairs of our Country have been in such a situation as scarcely to admit of a Letter’s being sent across the Atlantic, which touched upon their present state or future prospects. But now we are advancing to greater regularity and the period...