51To Thomas Jefferson from Dussaut, 16 January 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Paris, 16 Jan. 1789 . Desnes frères have just written him to ask what “ Les papiers de La Carolina Du Sud ” of 1779 are worth and whether any are to be had. He transmits the inquiry to TJ as the one best able to answer it. RC ( DLC ); in French; 2 p.; endorsed. Recorded in SJL as received 16 Jan. 1789.
52To Thomas Jefferson from Pierre Bon, 30 June 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Quoique je n’aye pas l’avantage d’etre connu de vous, je viens vous supplier de vouloir bien vous interesser dans l’affaire le plus juste qui parut jamais: Divers membres de la Regence du Canton de Berne en Suisse ont exercé envers moi des violences inouïes, je n’ai pu en avoir justice depuis audelà de cinq ans que je la sollicite, et ce qu’il y a d’etrange, c’est que plus j’ai de droit, plus...
53To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Harrison, 2 January 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
I have nothing to communicate to you either interesting or entertaining, the bad weather having cut off all communication with the country. Your favor of the 24th. ultimo really alarms me. Your fears of great britains taking advantage of any slip or neglect of ours are just, and what is still more to be dreaded than their resentment is the falling off of our allies in Europe who will never...
54To Thomas Jefferson from William Playfair, 13 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Although I have not the honour to be known to your Exellency I hope that I may be permitted to take the liberty of presenting you with a copy of a translation just now Published of my Charts of Lineal Arithmetic. I hope that your Excellency will do me the Honour to accept of this feeble Hommage which I pay to your Abilities and Charracter. I have the honour to be Sir Your Excellencies most...
55To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 18 November 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Your two Letters of the 1st. and 9th. came to hand but were both too late for the articles you request in them to come by Mr. Paynes package, so I shall have them sent you in a separate parcel. I waited on Mr. Anderson immediately with Mr. Paradise’s letter (of which He had received a duplicate) and have for answer, that He had not, nor expected to have sooner than next April any property of...
56To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 25 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your Letters of December 20. and Jan. 11. by Coll. Franks. The whole of the Business shall be dispatched, and Coll. Franks sent to Congress as you propose, as soon as possible. I have prepared a Draught of a joint Letter to Mr. Barclay and signed it, concerning Mr. Lamb, and shall inclose it to you with this. As to the Treaty with Portugal, the Chevalier De Pinto’s Courier whom...
57To Thomas Jefferson from John Banister, Jr., 5 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
It was not untill yesterday that I had the pleasure to recieve your favor of the ninth ulto. inclosing one from my Father. Permit me to thank you for your friendly solicitude concerning my health and at the same time to assure you that I shall not fail, in future, to write more frequently. I am still a valetudinarian; considerably incommoded by obstructions which are extreemly troublesom, and...
58To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander McCaul, 14 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your agreable favour of the 12th Ulto only yesterday, and I am very sorry that your expectations from your Estate in Virginia should have so far dissappointed your good intentions of discharging your debt agreable to stipulation. Suffice it to say at present that what remittance you can make this year will be very acceptable and this you will be pleased to do in the manner most...
59To Thomas Jefferson from George Wythe, 10 January 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
My neighbour Madison, just now, sent to me a pacquet , which i perceived, by the superscription, to have come from you; a favour little deserved by one who had not writen to you since you crossed the atlantic. I will not say what was the cause of this silence; but can swear, that the cause was not forgetfullness of you, nor want of good will for you. Before i opened the pacquet observing it to...
60To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Hopkinson, with “A Literary Christmas Gambol”, 4 January 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
I heartily thank you for your favour of the 23d. Decr. last and for the Pains you have taken to abridge Monsr. Buffon’s System of Astronomy. However you may think your Time lost in reading his two whimsical volumes, the little Time you took to give me a summary of his Scheme was certainly not spent in vain. Your Letter found me very un-well and in a great deal of Pain; it drew my attention so,...
61To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 2 November 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
London, 2 Nov. 1787 . Sends letter by his friend [Daniel] Parker, whom he recommends to TJ; reports that the ship James left port the beginning of October; that he has executed his commission for TJ with Brown “respecting Mr. Payne’s picture”; that the bill brought by Cutting was honored immediately; that his reward for his troubles in connection with the shipment of the harpsichord will be...
62Abigail Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 24 November 1785 (Adams Papers)
I hope if the Marquiss de la Fayette is returned to Paris he may be able to give us some account of Colln. Smith for whom we are not a little anxious, having no intelligence from him since the begining of September when he wrote that he should tarry at Berlin till the reviews were over which would be by the 20th. of that month and then should make the utmost expedition to Paris where his stay...
63To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, with Enclosures, 23 October 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Je profite d’un Courier que M. l’Ambassadeur se propose d’expédier demain ou après-demain à sa Cour, pour faire parvenir à Votre Excellence et par Elle au Congrès les deux Pieces ci-jointes, que j’ai traduites pour Lui et pour Mr. l’Ambassadeur, qui les fait pareillement passer à sa Cour. Vous verrez, et s’il vous plait Mr. le Ms. De la Fayette aussi, par l’une de ces Pièces, que les Etats...
64To Thomas Jefferson from David Humphreys, 5 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
By means of a merchant vessel that sails from this place for L’Orient, I have the pleasure to inform you of my safe arrival after an agreeable passage of 32 day; altho’ I cannot give so high commendations on the accomodations of the French Packet, as I could have done on a former occasion. The fineness of the weather and the hilarity of the passengers, however, atoned for some circumstances...
65To Thomas Jefferson from Lanchon Frères & Cie., 28 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
L’Orient, 28 Dec. 1787 . TJ’s attention “to the interests of America” persuades them that much will be done for the tobacco trade; are eager to know what can be expected from the farmers-general during the next year; although they have information that the farmers’ agents “will have orders to receive in February next on the lowest terms they can purchase,” they are keeping up the prices on the...
66To Thomas Jefferson from B. Contée, 18 July 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
Bayonne, 18 July 1785. He had written on 28 June, stating that he was offered by Moracin (receiver of the Farmers-General at Bayonne) only 35 livres per quintal for 450 hogsheads of tobacco landed there, though he had previously been led to expect a higher price than that of 44 livres already refused. Since such a breach of faith is detrimental to sound commercial relations, he had urged that...
67To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Hopkinson, 20 April 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Favour of the 13. Jany. last did not get to hand before the 16. Instt. I am much obliged to you for the philosophical Intelligence you gave me which I have communicated to Mr. Rittenhouse. He is determined to watch carefully the appearances of the Star Eta of Antinous. I have written two or three Letters to you which I hope will get to hand. In one of them I enclosed a model of my further...
68To Thomas Jefferson from Lambert, with Enclosure, 29 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honour, Sir, to send you a copy of an Arret passed in Council, for encouraging the Commerce of the United States of America in France. I shall furnish you with a number of others as soon as they shall be printed. You will therein see that several considerable favors, not before promised to the American Commerce, have been added to those which the king announced to you, in the letter...
69To Thomas Jefferson from De Thulemeier, 19 July 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
Le Roi a parfaitement approuvé le Projet du Traité de Commerce et d’Amitié avec les Etats Unis de l’Amérique, tel qu’il a été le résultat de nos soins communs, et tel qu’il s’est trouvé consigné à la suite de la dernière lettre dont Vous m’avez honoré en date du 26 Mai de l’année courrante. Sa Majesté agrée de plus que d’après Votre proposition, Monsieur, et celle de Messieurs Vos Collégues la...
70To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, 22 February 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Dans le même temps que j’avois l’honneur d’écrireà Votre Excellence la mienne du 12e., Elle me favorisoit de la précieuse sienne de même date, que j’ai bien reçue en son temps. J’ai cru devoir en communiquer tout de suite le contenu vraiment important, consolant, encourageant, d’abord à mon digne ami Mr. van Staphorst à Amsterdam; et puis aussi à Mr. Luzac à Leide en le priant néanmoins de ne...
71To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Coffyn, 17 August 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to your Excellencys letter of 8 inst. I have the honnor to inform him that Allexander Cross [Gross] hostage for the ransom of the sloop Charlotte of Southampton McGriger master taken by the privateer Countess Davaux in february 1782, is still confined in the prison of this Town. Agreable to your Excellencys request I have made all possible inquiry respecting the cause of the hostages...
72To Thomas Jefferson from Ferdinand Grand, 23 September 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
Paris, 23 Sep. 1785 . Thanks TJ for communicating the contents of Adams’ letter on the payment of interest on the Dutch loan. Grand forwarded to Messrs. Willink & van Staphorst a letter from the Commissioners of the Treasury and asked them to notify him if it contained “an order to remit me against the Payment to be made in 9bre. to the Treasury … as I had been several times apply’d to, on...
73To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Russell-Greaves, 4 January 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Nîmes, 4 Jan. 1789. Has changed his intention of going to the North of France. “The severity of the winter here … induces me to search in the milder atmosphere of Italy … the reestablishment of my health; an happiness denied me in this Country.” Will leave in a few days for Marseilles; requests letters of introduction for Rome or Naples. RC ( DLC ); 2 p.; endorsed: “Graves Thos. Russell.”...
74II. Estimate for Printing Notes on Virginia by Polytype, [1786] (Jefferson Papers)
L’Ouvrage de Monsieur Jefferson, pourra revenir en Composition en anglois, in Octavo, Tirage de Quinze Cents Exemplaires, Planches polytypeés rendues en toute proprieté, Cinquante huit livres la feuille, s’il n’y a pas de Nottes et Soixante livres s’il y en a. Le Papier est un objet Separé et le prix sera relatif à sa beauté. MS ( MHi ); endorsed by TJ; “Printing Polytype printing.” The...
75To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Hawkins, 9 June 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
By the june Packet I have the happiness of complying in a great measure with my promise of the eighth of march. Finding that I had lost most of my plants through the inattention or ignorance of the Captain who had the care of them from North Carolina although I made repeated trials and the last with giving particular directions on the proper method of treating them. And fearing that similar...
76I. David Humphreys to Thomas Jefferson, [4 April 1786] (Jefferson Papers)
‘I have made no contracts for the other four , viz. for Genl. Washington’s on the evacuation of Boston, for Morgan, Washington and Howard on the affair of the Cowpens, because the designs for them have not been in readiness for execution until the present time. Nor can that for Genl. Morgan be commenced without farther information of the numbers killed, prisoners &c in the action to be...
77To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 30 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I do myself the honor to inclose to your Excellency a letter from Mr. Andrew Huntington of Norwich in Connecticut, covering a Memorial to the Marechal De Castries relative to a demand which he makes for supplies furnish’d some French Prisoners in America by order of Mr. Holker, and which Letter and Memorial I did not receive untill this day though it is dated in May 1786. I do not think that...
78To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 6 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
The Project of a new Constitution, has Objections against it, to which I find it difficult to reconcile my self, but I am so unfortunate as to differ somewhat from you in the Articles, according to your last kind Letter. You are afraid of the one—I, of the few. We agree perfectly that the many should have a full fair and perfect Representation.—You are Apprehensive of Monarchy; I, of...
79To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander Moore, 28 September 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty to enclose you a Letter that came by the Rosamond from Boston. I have this day shipped on the Garrick Capt. Turner bound to Virginia Two Cases of Porter and two baskets of Cheese, directed agreeable to your Note. It was not in my power to send you stilton Cheese as there was none to be got in London that woud have kept the Passage. I have therefore sent half dozen of very...
80[To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 19 August 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Philadelphia, 19 Aug. 1787 . Recorded in SJL as received 13 Dec. 1787, “(recommendation of Tenche Cox).” Not found.]
81To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 12 June 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you by this Post, and am Now to Inform you that Mess. French & Co. have Employ’d the Mare-chaussee at all the Passes out of the Jurisdiction of the Parliament of Bordeaux to stop me on the Road. A suspicion of such a proceeding made me Alter my Intention of setting out, and I have Now Certain Information that it is so. I see Nothing for Me to Do, but to Remain where I am, untill you...
82To Thomas Jefferson from Renaud, 6 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Paris, 6 Mch. 1789 . Presents, as requested by TJ, an account of what he has furnished to M. Paul Jones. RC ( ViWC ); in French; 2 p.; endorsed. Recorded in SJL as received 7 Mch. 1789. The enclosed statement is missing; it was forwarded to Jones by TJ on 23 Mch. 1789 . See Jones to TJ, 9 Sep. 1788 . TJ’s request, if in writing, has not been found and is not recorded in SJL , but is explained...
83To Thomas Jefferson from Mainville, [ca. July 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Orléans, ca. July 1787. ] Cabarrus, Peyrinnaut & Cie., merchants of Edenton, N.C., issued two notes in favor of Jacques de Mainville, Jr., of Orléans, totalling 12,741₶ and payable in two and three years respectively; both were dated 24 Feb. 1785 and both were payable at Orléans. The first, maturing last Feb., was protested for non-payment. To avoid similar difficulty when next falls due, he...
84To Thomas Jefferson from Louis Joseph de Beaulieu, 17 March 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ose prendre la liberté de demander a Votre Excellence, a L’effet de la supplier, de vouloir bien me faire passer un Certificat de Vie pour une pension de Cent Dollars que L’honnorable Congrés ma accordé en recompense de mes blessure, etant Echue le 15. novembre 1785, en ayant deja reçu un L’année derniere de Mr. frankelin. Je supplierai, Votre Excellence, de vouloir bien m’instruire, si...
85To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Crew, 5 October 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
London, 5 Oct. 1784 . Although personally unknown to him, wishes to inform TJ that he left Virginia soon after the peace and is in mercantile business in London; will be glad to serve TJ at any time. RC ( MHi ); 1 p. Noted in SJL as received 12 Jan. 1785.
86To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, 6 October 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai reçu avec bien de la reconnoissance l’estimable cadeau de l’ Essai sur les Etats unis , que Votre Excellence a eu la bonté de m’envoyer en date du 22 7br. Le témoignage qu’en rend Votre Excellence me le rend très-précieux. Je vois d’ailleurs de combien son Auteur est redevable à vos excellentes notes sur la Virginie. Je n’ai pu encore que le parcourir superficiellement moi-même, parce que...
87To Thomas Jefferson from John Bondfield, 27 May 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honor’d with your favor of the 17 Instant also with the Observations of Monsieur St. Victouer, to the Contents of both I shall pay every attention. If the Cases arrive the next month they will be in time to go by the Ship Comte d’Artois bound to portsmouth and will be a perfect good safe conveyance. I have to Acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the 24 January, buissness having soon...
88To Thomas Jefferson from David S. Franks, 11 February 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Before I had received your Excellency’s Letter of the 8th. I had made up the inclosed Packet and had given it to Mr. Limousin who had promised to send it by the first safe hand but as you desire the papers may be sent by Post I now forward them to you; I mean the Copy ratified of the Treaty with the letter to Taher Fennish. That intended for Mr. Barclay is not among my Papers. I have made the...
89From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 8 December 1788 (Madison Papers)
This will be handed to you by Mr. Governeur Morris who will embark in a few days for Havre, from whence he will proceed immediately to Paris. He is already well known to you by character; and as far as there may be a defect of personal acquaintance I beg leave to supply it by this introduction. My two last were of Ocr. 8. & 17th. They furnished a State of our affairs as they then stood. I...
90To Thomas Jefferson from Martha Jefferson, 3 May 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I was very sorry to see by your letter To Mr. Short that your return would be put off, however I hope of not much, as you must be here for the arival of my sister. I wish I was my self all that you tell me to make her, however I will try to be as near like it as I can. I have another landskape since I wrote to you last and began another peice of music. I have not been able to do more having...
91To Thomas Jefferson from John Polson, [ca. 20 July 1788] (Jefferson Papers)
When I had the honor of being Introduced to your Excellency at Paris in May 1785, you were so good as tell me that you would write to some Gentlemen in Virginia to know whether the Lands that were Granted to me as the Representative of my Brother William Polson Deceased (being 6000 Acres, he being a Lieutenant in the Virginia Troops before the Battle of the Meadows in the year 1754,) were...
92[To Thomas Jefferson from André Limozin, 24 November 1785] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Le Havre, 24 Nov. 1785 . Recorded in SJL as received 1 Dec. 1785. Not found.]
93To Thomas Jefferson from John Paul Jones, with Enclosure, 9 September 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Since I wrote you last from Copenhagen, the 8th of April, I have been very much hurried; but my greatest difficulty has not been want of time, but want of a private opportunity to write to you. Mr. Littlepage is now on the point of leaving the army of the Prince Maréchal de Potemkin, and talks of being at Paris in the month of October. I avail myself, therefore, of the opportunity he offers,...
94To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 11 September 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to your enquiry in your letter of the 4th. inst. I can only say that I knew Mr. Matzei at Paris and that he made long journeys. But in what stile he lived and at what expence he travelled I know not. He always made a genteel appearance without any unnecessary show, and kept good Company wherever he went. I observed this in Paris and heard of it in Holland. In Italy it could not be...
95To Thomas Jefferson from John Ledyard, 7 February 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
A gentleman in this town informs me that the Indians who have been asked their opinions about those large bones found in America, say, that tho they had never before seen such bones or an Animal large enough to have them, yet all the indians knew their fathers had seen such bones and the very animal itself but that it had always been found dead. They called it the mole because like the common...
96To Thomas Jefferson from William Gordon, 24 April 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
In a late letter to the Marquis de La Fayette I mentioned my design of writing soon to your Excellency. The reason of my having been so long silent was, that I might be able to acquaint you, that the second volume of the History was printed, which I can at length do. You was pleased generously to offer me your friendly assistance for the procuring a similar consideration for an early copy of...
97To Thomas Jefferson from Madame de Lafayette, 28 [August 1786] (Jefferson Papers)
Mde. De La Fayette, desire bien vivement de se dedomager du plaisir dont La timidite de Melle. Jeffersson La prive pour demain, et elle a bien de Lempressement de se rendre a Linvitation de Monsieur Jeffersson. Elle sera charmee d’avoir lhonneur de faire connoissance avec Mr. trumbull, et d’admirer des ouvrages, du merite desquels elle a deja entendu parler, et dont Les sujets, et Lauteur,...
98To Thomas Jefferson from John Paradise, [ca. June 1788] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris, ca. June 1788 .] In answer to TJ’s note , he states that the “true form of addressing a letter to his daughter is A Madame la Comtesse Barziza née Paradise a Bergame par Milan ”; Count Barziza and others “give her the title of excellency to which she has no right, until her name be enrolled in the golden book.” As to the marriage settlement, he refers TJ to Mrs. Paradise’s letter. RC...
99To Thomas Jefferson from Chenier de St. André, 26 November 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Chenier de St. André a l’honneur de présenter ses complimens à monsieur jefferson. Il le prie d’etre persuadé que ce n’est ni par négligence ni par oubli qu’il a passé si long-Tems sans aller le voir, et le remercier de ses politesses. Il a été un mois à la campagne; il n’en est pas revenu bien portant; et il loge dans le quartier de Paris le plus éloigné de Monsieur jefferson. Il compte...
100To Thomas Jefferson from Lanchon Frères & Cie., 14 March 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
L’Orient, 14 Mch. 1788 . Their enquiries to TJ in December were promptly answered by the government’s decree on trade with the U.S., except for information concerning the price the farmers-general are required to give for tobacco; without a set price the resolve is of little avail. “The promises Contained in Mr. Lambert’s Official letter of the 29th. Decr‥‥ has suggested the idea to some of...