1From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 6 November 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The mission of a Minister Plenipotentiary to the court of London being now to take place, the President of the United States is desirous of availing the public of your services in that office. I have it in charge therefore from him to ask whether it will be agreeable that he should nominate you for that purpose to the Senate. We know that higher motives will alone influence your mind in the...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 17 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of Nov. 29. 30. 30. and Dec. 1. came duly to hand and gave sincere pleasure by announcing your disposition to accept the appointment to London. The nominations to Paris and the Hague having been detained till yours could be made, they were all immediately sent in to the Senate, to wit, yourself for London, Mr. G. Morris for Paris; Mr. Short for the Hague. Some members of the Senate...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 16 May 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
May 16. 1792. Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Mr. Pinkney and informs him that Colo. Biddle, Walnut street No. 38. broker, will pay him 500. dollars whenever he will be so good as to call on him, and give him his bill of exchange for the value on Messrs. Wilhem & Jan Willink, Nichs. & Jacob Van Staphorst & Hubbard, bankers, Amsterdam. These gentlemen have been before instructed to...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 8 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson takes the liberty of presenting Mr. Pinkney the bearer hereof Alexander Donald esq. one of his youthful friends and found a constant one, even unto the end. He long resided in Virginia, is now established in London, and Th: Jefferson will be responsible to Mr. Pinkney that any esteem he may honor him with, will be worthily placed. PrC ( MHi ). Tr ( DLC ); 19th-century copy....
5From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 11 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The letter I have addressed to Admiral Jones, of which you have had the perusal, has informed you of the mission with which the President has thought proper to charge him at Algiers, and how far your agency is desired for conveying to him the several papers, for receiving and paying his draughts to the amount therein permitted, by redrawing yourself on our bankers in Amsterdam who are...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 11 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have already had the honor of delivering to you your commission as Minister Plenipotentiary of the U.S. at the court of London, and have now that of inclosing your letter of credence to the king, sealed, and a copy of it open for your own information. Mr. Adams, your predecessor, seemed to understand, on his being presented to that court, that a letter was expected for the queen also. You...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 14 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The U.S. being now about to establish a Mint, it becomes necessary to ask your assistance in procuring persons to carry on some parts of it, and to enable you to give it, you must be apprised of some facts. Congress, some time ago, authorised the President to take measures for procuring some artists from any place where they were to be had. It was known that a Mr. Drost, a Swiss, had made an...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 24 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson begs leave to trouble Mr. Pinckney with the following commissions. Faden, map maker in London is engraving a map of S. America from one which Th:J. furnished him. He is to return the original and half a dozen copies. Colo. Smith employed him. Will Mr. Pinckney be so good as to jog him from time to time? Will he also be so good as to procure a model of those parts of the threshing...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 3 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Inclosed is a letter to our bankers in Amsterdam covering a bill of exchange drawn on them by the treasurer for one hundred and twenty three thousand seven hundred and fifty current guilders which I have endorsed thus ‘Philadelphia July 3. 1792. Enter this to the credits of the Secretary of state for the United states of America. Th: Jefferson.’ to prevent the danger of interception. My letter...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 12 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The President set out yesterday for Virginia, and I shall follow him tomorrow, and shall not return here till the last of September, consequently shall not again write to you before that date. Nothing interesting has occurred since your departure, except some attempts on the part of the state of Vermont to extend their jurisdiction a little closer to the British forts than has hitherto been...