1From Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Barrett, 21 February 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I am much obliged by your kind offer of taking care of dispatches for France, the benefit of which I will reserve for some other occasion, as there is a vessel going out of this port for Havre the moment the river opens, which will certainly take place in a few days. I am with great esteem Dear Sir Your most obedt. humble servt, PrC ( MHi ). Barrett’s letter to TJ, 17 Feb. 1792, noted in SJL...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Nathaniel Barrett, 10 October 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the pleasure to inform you of my safe arrival at Cowes, from whence some business has called me to this City, and has detained me longer than I expected. I sent my Trunk in which were your dispatches by a particular friend and fellow passenger from Cowes to paris to my Son, and have directed him immediately on receiving it to deliver the Letters himself to Mr. Short. The last Gazzette...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Barrett, 24 May 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your favor of Mar. 6.—Were the appointment of a Consul at Rouen to depend on me, there is assuredly no one who would have so just a claim to it as yourself. But it will rest with the President. In my letter to Mr. Jay on the subject of the Consulships I have ventured to suggest some ideas on the subject, and tho’ I did not at the time know that you would settle at Rouen,...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Barrett, 15 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to your favor of the 6th. inst. I take the liberty of mentioning to you that the consulates of Lisbon and Cadiz, have both of them been for some time otherwise destined, tho’ not yet named to; and consequently that Mr. Appleton cannot be appointed to either. I had not answered his letters on this subject, because were I to answer one, I must answer every application of this nature...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Barrett, 27 July 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of the 18th. I thank you for the information you give me relative to the present state of our whale fishery, and shall be glad to recieve the further information of Mr. Jones. I do not apprehend any danger of our privileges as to whale oil in France being put on a worse footing than they now are, unless it be caused by some act of our own legislature, of which I...