51To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Vernes, 29 May 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai été retardé par des empêchements venus de jour en jour. Je pars enfin très sûrement demain, et je compte être à Paris le lendemain ou le surlendemain de la présente. Je vous aurois beaucoup d’obligation si vous vouliez bien m’écrire un mot chez MM. Boyd Ker & Ce., rüe de Grammont ,à côté de L’hotel de la Compagnie des Indes , pour que je sache au moment de mon arrivée si vous êtes parti,...
52To Thomas Jefferson from D. Lamy, 30 May 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Paris, 30 May, 1789 . Has a bill of exchange drawn by one Charek at Dunkerque, now residing in Savannah, Georgia, on a Paris merchant who refuses payment. A friend in Charleston with relations in Savannah will demand payment of Charek for him: the danger of loss at sea and need to keep bill in his hands cause him to ask TJ to give him the name of his notary so that proofs, including Charek’s...
53To Thomas Jefferson from John Brown Cutting, [30 May 1789] (Jefferson Papers)
I hoped on this day to have set off for Paris and rather wishing to speak with than write to you, you received no line from me by the last posts. Finding now that I may be detained perhaps another week in London before I am prepared to visit you, I pen a word or two according to my former habit, rather to prevent any imputation of negligence on your part than to offer much information on mine....
54To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 2 June 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
This Letter I beg Mr. P. may Not see. I am extremely sorry to tell your Excellency that Mr. Young the Attorney has not finished the Deed; Indeed, I feel greatly at his being so long about it, well knowing what trouble you must have with Mr. P. It convinces your Excellency No person is to blame, but himself. I hope that your Excellency will have the goodness, (If you do Not go to America this...
55To Thomas Jefferson from Lafayette, [before 3 June 1789] (Jefferson Papers)
I Most Heartily thank You, My dear friend, for Your Excellent ideas. What will Become of the States Generals God knows. Our House Has this Morning protested Against the Appellation of Commons , and the Commons Have said there Must Be No intermediaire Between them and the King. It is true they Meant the Ministers But we took it for us. In the Mean While the King and Queen are on the...
56To Thomas Jefferson from D. Alexandre, 5 June 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ay Bien recue la Lettre que vous m’aves fait l’honneur de m’ecrire avec l’aret du Conseil qui Concerne les huilles des Etats unis, dont j’ai fait Part à Notre Commerce, qui Languit un Peu avec les 13 Provinces, et [à] qui vous devriez, Monsieur, donner vos ordres et vos avis de frequenter plus souvant Notre Port de Bayonne, à Cause que le Commerce, et les autres Ports de France ce plaignent...
57To Thomas Jefferson from James Rumsey, 6 June 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have letters from america as late as the 24th of april, and as the Ship Came from philadelphia, I thought it posable that you might have had none of so late a date; I therefore Concluded that the little news that they broght me might be (under such circumstances) acceptable to you. The amount of it is; “That his Excellency General Washington arived at philadelphia on the 20th of april,...
58To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Gerrit Diriks, 7 June 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Last year when I had the honor to pay my respects to You, Your Excellency did give me great hopes that Congress would take Such Measures, as to pay these foreign officers who have Served the American Cause, and that You had wrote on that Subject to the President of Congress. As I am now informed that Your Excellency had received an answer, Whereby You should be autorised to discharge the...
59[To Thomas Jefferson from Pierre Simon Duvivier, 7 June 1789] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris, 7 June 1789 . Recorded in SJL as received 7 June 1789. Not found.]
60To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Haskell, 8 June 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Paris 8 June, 1789 . “A plan of business” brought him to Europe. Needs to fix upon a banker in Paris to handle “considerable money”; he must inspire confidence in those concerned. Called on TJ this morning to ask a letter to Mr. Grand. “I can have no claim on you to ask this indulgence, and my only apology for doing it, is my having the honor to belong to the Country whose sovereignty you...