23511To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 11 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Marseilles, 11 Mch. 1792 . He encloses a receipt for a box of “Brugnols Prunes,” shipped on the Kitty , Capt. Stephen Moore, and notes that he has sent to Robert Gilmor & Co. by the Louisa , Capt. Birkhead, a box of confectionary for TJ or TJ’s daughter.—Also enclosed is a bill of lading for four barrels containing 100 young olive trees and one barrel containing 8 caper plants. These have been...
23512From Thomas Jefferson to the Commissioners of the Federal District, 11 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you two letters, the one from a Mr. Leslie of this place, offering to make a clock for some one of the public buildings at Washington, the other from Mr. R. B. Lee proposing that Mr. Ciracchi a statuary now at this place should be employed to erect at Washington a monument he has proposed. With respect to Leslie, he is certainly one of the most ingenious artists in America; and as to...
23513From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Eppes, 11 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Feb. 29. came to hand yesterday. That of Feb. 24. a week ago. I inclose you a statement of my demand against Mr. Bannister, the vouchers for which I believe I left in your hands, and sufficiently establish the account. However I have sworn to the statement to get rid of all objections. I received yesterday the account of my sale, miserable enough, the negroes having averaged only...
23514Enclosure: Account with John Banister, Jr., 14 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
When Mr. John Bannister junr. was about to leave Paris in Jan. or Feb. 1787. he found that he had not money to pay his expences there, and his journey to Havre, by a considerable sum. He applied to me to lend him what might be deficient. The distress to which he was exposed, his honest worth, and my friendship for him and his family were motives sufficient to induce me to do that and more for...
23515From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 11 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I do not know that any circumstance could have given me more pain than that which has produced a failure in my payment to you after I had thought it so sure as to give you reason to count on it. When I left Europe, I did not leave a shilling there unpaid: but expecting to return, I left my house, horses, servants &c. at my expence. This with the sending over my furniture brought on me demands...
23516Memorandum of Conference with the President on Treaty with Algiers, 11 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Consulted verbally by the President on whom a committee of the Senate (Izard, Morris and King) are to wait tomorrow morning to know Whether he will think it proper to redeem our Algerine captives and make a treaty with the Algerines on the single vote of the Senate without taking that of the Represent. My opinions run on the following heads. We must go to Algiers with the cash in our hands....
23517Memoranda of Consultations with the President, [11 March–9 April 1792] (Jefferson Papers)
1791. Towards the latter end of Nov. H[amilton] had drawn Ternant into a conversation on the subject of the treaty of commerce recommdd. by the Natl. assembly of France to be negociated with us, and as he had not recd. instructions on the subject he led him into a proposal that Ternant should take the thing up as a volunteer with me, that we should arrange conditions, and let them go for...
23518To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 11 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The three last days have been marked by events as unexpected as they are important.—I will relate them in the order in which they have become known here. An express dispatched by the English Ambassador at Madrid passed through this place the 8th. and left letters for Lord Gower, and also for M. De Lessart informing that on the 27th. of the last month a guard was sent in the night to arrest the...
23519From Thomas Jefferson to Jerman Baker, 12 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Jan. 15. with Mr. Robinson’s letter came to hand Jan. 30. I immediately put them into the hands of a Professor of the college here, in whose recommendations I should have confided. He at first had a hope of engaging one of two good persons who presented themselves to his mind. Both however concluded that the object was not sufficiently enticing, and I have now inclosed the letter...
23520From Thomas Jefferson to J. P. P. Derieux, 12 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your favor of Feb. 14. long after it’s date, and hope that by the present regulation of your post you will get this answer quicker. The loss upon your legacy, on account of the depreciation of Assignats will be very great, and therefore I should think it unadviseable to draw at this moment for more than your necessities require. This place is so perfecly mercantile, and regular...