331[From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Hopkinson, 11 November 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris, 11 Nov. 1784 . Entry in SJL reads: “Hopkinson. Send him report Animal magnetism. Roberts—pianoforte organised—have tried his quilling with amateurs—will advertize it—project to remove packets to Havre—send me battle of kegs—address.” Not found. Hopkinson’s The Battle of the Kegs , first printed in 1779, had probably been reissued lately in broadside form; see Hastings, Hopkinson , p....
332[From Thomas Jefferson to Nicholas Lewis, 11 November 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris, 11 Nov. 1784 . Entry in SJL reads: “N. Lewis. Country along Seine—abjection of people—war in Europe—pears, goose berries, apricots better; cherries and grapes equal: peaches, nectarines, apples, strawberries, raspberries inferior to ours—Anthony to graft Balyal’s peaches, white, red, and yellow plumb and the fine soft and supply vacancies now and future. To take up such peach trees as...
333From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 11 November 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letters of Aug. 20. Sep. 7. and 15. I received by the last packet. That by Mr. Short is not yet arrived. His delay is unaccountable. I was pleased to find by the public papers (for as yet I have no other information of it) that the assembly had restrained their foreign trade to four places. I should have been more pleased had it been to one. However I trust that York and Hobbs’ hole will...
334[From Thomas Jefferson to the Rev. James Madison, 11 November 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris, 11 Nov. 1784 . Entry in SJL reads: “Madison of College. Send him report on Animal magnetism. Roberts, Conn. des tems 85. and 2 doz. Phosph. matches. New windmill—Hydraulic rope—Abbé Rochon’s lenses of double focus. War in Eur. Address.” Not found.]
335From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 11 November 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
Your journey to the Westward having prevented my writing to you till now that a letter may probably find you at Congress, I shall resume the correspondence discontinued since I left Boston. My passage was remarkeably short, being only 19 days from land to land, and I suffered little by sickness. Having very thick weather when we approached the coast of Europe, we fell in with no vessel which...
336From Thomas Jefferson to John Page, 11 November 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be delivered you by Colo. Le Maire. You knew him when in our service, and that he was one of the few who merited what was done for him. He returns to Virginia to obtain the land given him for his special services and what is due to him as an officer. He is reduced to extreme poverty and I am afraid will meet with difficulty to subsist till he can obtain his grants unless he can find...
337From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Read, 11 November 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
The packet of the last month would have carried letters from me to my friends, but that I had scarcely then had time to form a precise judgment on any thing, and the affairs of Europe were in so critical a situation that we expected every day and hour would decide the direction they would take. This is now decided, I think, definitively. The circumstances which have taken place between the...
338From Thomas Jefferson to David Rittenhouse, 11 November 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
The news of war inevitable in Europe will interest your philanthropy, otherwise it would scarcely amuse you for me to enter into the details of it as they are likely to arise. I will therefore only tell you in three words that the Emperor and Dutch will take the feild in the spring, and that the former will probably be aided by the Russias, and the latter by France, Prussia and the Porte....
339From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Thomson, 11 November 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
I am to acknowlege the receipt of your favour of June 18. You will learn by the letters &c. which go in this packet that this world is all going to war. Thank god our’s is out of their vortex. Holland and the emperor are the only powers which appear as yet: but I have no doubt that the spring will lead France, Prussia and the Porte into the feild on one side and Russia on the other. England...
340[From Thomas Jefferson to C. W. F. Dumas, 20 November 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris, 20 Nov. 1784 . Entry in SJL reads: “Dumas. Inclosed letters to Senf, Hogendorp and publication for Leyd. gaz.” Letter not found; the enclosed letters are to Senf, 5 Nov. 1784 and to Hogendorp, 20 Nov. 1784; for the enclosed “publication for Leyd. gaz.,” see TJ’s statement of the misrepresentation of affairs in America, following, and explanatory note for what may be a paragraph from...