1I. Lafayette to Necker, [ca. October 1788] (Jefferson Papers)
Je Respecte trop les occupations de M. Necker pour me permettre de lui parler d’une affaire extérieure si elle ne paroissoit pas importante et pressée. Le nouvel arrêt du Conseil qui prohibe les huiles de baleine ne fait aucune excéption en faveur des Américains, quoique le traité avec l’Angleterre mette le Gouvernement fort à son aise sur ce point: il est probable que M. Chardon aura negligé...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Jacques Necker, [19 November 1788] (Jefferson Papers)
I have now the honor of submitting to your Excellency’s perusal the Observations on the whale fishery, which I had that of telling you I would commit to writing. The translation and printing them have occasioned more delay than I expected. Tho’ printed for the purpose of facilitating the reading, they are intended for the perusal of his majesty’s ministers only, the matter of them being...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Jacques Necker, 24 January 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received the letter of the 11th. instant with which your Excellency has been pleased to honor me, inclosing the Arret of Dec. 7. explanatory of that of Sep. 28. and excepting from it’s operation the oils of the United States: and I have availed myself of an opportunity which occurred for forwarding them to Congress. They will doubtless receive this new proof of the dispositions of...