391To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Montgomery, 26 May 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Alicante, 26 May 1787 . Wrote by the last post and enclosed a letter from Lamb, “who is Yet in Quarantine.” A vessel arrived at Carthagena from Algiers last week brought news of the Dey’s death and the continuance of the plague. Has no other news except that he has been told that “the Cecession of hostillities with Napoles has not been Very Strictly attended to on the Side of the Pirates.” RC...
392To Thomas Jefferson from George Gilmer, 11 December 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
Monsr. Doradour presented me with your agreeable favor some time after his arrival at Charlottesville, although accident placed me in his way the day of his arrival at Colo. Lewis’s, where I was obliged to stand interpreter. Both being under uneasy anxiety from not being able to convey an Idea to each other, myself much distressed from my inaccurate french, and not so easily comprehending...
393To Thomas Jefferson from Madame d’Anterroches, 24 February 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Puy d’Arnac, near Tulle, Bas Limousin, 24 Feb. 1789 . Since there are no longer any packet boats, she asks TJ to help her get in touch with her son, at “élisabethtown près de newyorck,” the Chevalier d’Anterroches, who married an American and has lived in America for 14 years; Moustier and Otto both wrote of him “dans les termes des plus grands éloges et de la plus grande affection,” and he is...
394To Thomas Jefferson from John Jay, 24 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my Letter to you of 24th. April I have been honored with yours of 14th. and 23d. of February last, and with two from Mr. Short, to whom I had the Pleasure of writing on the 5th. Instant. Chevr. Jones cannot have his Affairs arranged in Season for him to go in this Packet. He will probably sail in the next, and I flatter myself with the Pleasure of being enabled by that Time, if not...
395To Thomas Jefferson from John Paul Jones, 28 February 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received the kind Note you wrote me this morning, on the occasion of receiving my Bust. I offered it to you as a mark of my esteem and respect, for your virtues and talents. It has been remarked by professed judges, that it does no discredit to the talents of Mr. Houdon; but it receives its value from your acceptance of it, with the assurance you give me of your particular esteem; which...
396To Thomas Jefferson from William Carmichael, 18 May 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
The Courier by whom I did myself the Honor to address your Excellency the 16th. inst. having been detained a Day longer than I expected, I avail myself of this Circumstance to advise you of Mr. Lamb’s Arrival at Madrid last night. This morning I received a Letter from him by one of my Servants whom he dispatched for that purpose. He therein requests me to send him “any Orders or Letters on...
397To Thomas Jefferson from Mademoiselle de Lausanne, 2 February 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Paris, 2 Feb. 1787. As a token of appreciation of services “your lordship has rendered us,” she sends TJ a letter from Eliza Livingston which she received in reply to the letter TJ forwarded for her; asks to have it returned. In executing a work she has undertaken at the suggestion of her friends, she needs a “collection of journals and strange gazettes”; has no way to procure those from...
398To Thomas Jefferson from John Bondfield, 12 December 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Having sent to take out the clearances at the Custom house for the arms that I proposed to ship to Day on board the Ship Marquis de lafayette bound to Norfolk, The Receiver with whom lays the duty to expedidite the proper papers refused to grant the clearance alledging that the signature of the Controleur General on the face of the Passport was indispensable to enjoy the privaledges granted. I...
399To Thomas Jefferson from Jarnac, 30 November 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
M. Jefferson’s Commands have been regularly executed, and the Bishop of Adran who is gone Last thursday with the young prince of Cochinchina will Send at Least one pound of Dry rice. Le Comte de Jarnac for more attention has given the Same Commission for to be register’d in the Navy’s office, he begs M. Jefferson to be So good as to be convinc’d that Le Comte de Jarnac will be allways ready...
400Abigail Adams to Thomas Jefferson with a Memorandum of Purchases, 11 February 1786 (Adams Papers)
Col. Humphries talks of leaving us on monday. It is with regret I assure you Sir that we part with him. His visit here has given us an opportunity of becomeing more acquainted with his real worth and merit, and our friendship for him has risen in proportion to our intimacy. The two American Secretaries of Legation would do honour to their Country placed in more distinguishd stations. Yet these...