691From Thomas Jefferson to Sharp Delany, 15 January 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been in daily expectation of recieving the invoice wherein the prices of the paper will be stated, as Mr. Short assured me it should come in his next letter. But I have not yet recieved it. If it be necessary however for the regularity of your accounts, I think we can come at it nearly. The invoice of the articles which came with them, states 150. rouleaux of paper. Turning to a paper I...
692To John Adams from Thomas Jefferson, 17 January 1791 (Adams Papers)
I have the honour to enclose you a Postscript to the Report on Measures, Weights & coins now before your house. this has been rendered necessary by a small arithmetical error detected in the estimate of the cubic foot proposed in that report. the head of Superficial measures is also therein somewhat more developed. Nothing is known, since the last session of Congress of any further proceedings...
693VIII. Thomas Jefferson to the President of the Senate, 17 January 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to enclose you a Postscript to the Report on Measures, Weights and coins now before your house. This has been rendered necessary by a small arithmetical error detected in the estimate of the cubic foot proposed in that report. The head of Superficial measures is also therein somewhat more developed. Nothing is known, since the last session of Congress of any further...
694To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 18 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of State having received from the Chargé des affaires of France a note on the Tonnage payable by french vessels in the ports of the United States has had the same under his consideration, and thereupon makes the following Report to the President of the United States. The Chargé des Affaires of France, by a note of the 13th of December represents, by order of his Court, that they...
695From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 18 January 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been constantly afflicted at my inability to acknowledge the reciept of Dr. Mortimer’s letters and of those of my friends Mr. Fitzhugh and Mr. Page: but I have for some weeks past been forced by other business to suspend answering any letters whatever, unless indeed of indispensable magnitude, and even now I must beg you to make the answer for me. When I came into office, I found the...
696IX. Report of the Secretary of State to the President, 18 January 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary of State having received from the Chargé des Affaires of France a note on the Tonnage payable by French vessels in the ports of the United States has had the same under his consideration, and thereupon makes the following Report to the President of the United States. The Chargé des Affaires of France, by a Note of the 13th. of December represents, by order of his Court, that they...
697XI. Secretary of State to Louis Guillaume Otto, 19 January 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
It was not in my Power to proceed on the Subject of your Representation of December 13th. till your Favor of January 6th. ascertained a Fact, which I thought material to be known. I have laid the whole before the President of the United States, who, this Day, submits it to the Consideration of the Legislature. Their Forms, their Deliberations, will occasion necessary Delay; and this may,...
698From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Hiltzheimer, 19 January 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Convenience obliged me to detain the within till the beginning of this month, but the subsequent delay has entirely proceeded from the circumstance of your account’s having escaped my eye, and my mind being totally occupied by other objects which have for some time forbidden me to think of any thing private. Accept this apology for the delay and assurances of the esteem with which I am Sir...
699To John Adams from Thomas Jefferson, 20 January 1791 (Adams Papers)
I have the honor to inclose you a letter from one of our captive citizens of Algiers, if I may judge from the superscription and from the letters from the same quarter which I have received myself. as these relate to a matter before your house, and contain some information we have not before had, I take the liberty of inclosing you copies of them. I have the honour to be with sentiments of the...
700VI. Secretary of State to the President of the Senate, 20 January 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inclose you a letter from one of our captive citizens of Algiers, if I may judge from the superscription, and from the letters from the same quarter which I have received myself. As these relate to a matter before your house, and contain some information we have not before had, I take the liberty of inclosing you copies of them.—I have the honour to be with sentiments of...