11From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 3 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof Dr. Edwards, a citizen of the US. proposing to visit London, I take the liberty of presenting him to you. Tho I have not the honor personally of a particular acquaintance with him, yet his reputation, and the recommendations I receive of him from several persons and particularly from Colo. Burr and Doctor Rush authorise me to ask your attentions and good offices to him with...
12From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 27 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. John Carey having had permission to copy and publish such parts as might be interesting to the public, of the correspondence of the Commander in chief, the officers commanding in separate departments &c. and proposing to print them in Europe, it has been thought safer to put the M.S.S. books under cover to you. There go with this letter about 12. or 13. packets of them. I have to ask the...
13From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 12 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Aug. 7. came to hand on the 6th. inst. and gave me the first certain information of your safe arrival. Mr. Otto being about to sail for London, furnishes me with an opportunity of sending the newspapers for yourself and Mr. Barclay and I avail myself of it chiefly for this purpose, as my late return from Virginia, and the vacation of Congress furnish little new and important for...
14From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 27 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
My last letters to you were of the 11th. and 14th. of Sep. since which I have received yours of July 5. 8. Aug. 1. 15. 27. 28. The fever which at that time had given alarm in Philadelphia, became afterwards far more destructive than had been apprehended, and continued much longer, from the uncommon drought and warmth of the autumn. On the 1st. day of this month the President and heads of the...
15From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 13 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The ship New Pigou still remaining in port, gives me an opportunity of acknoleging the receipt of your letter of Sep. 8. and of answering on the subject of Mr. Sayre, that after enquiring at the treasury, and of others likely to be informed, I cannot find any person who has the least knowlege of any demand of his against the U.S. I saw him in Paris some years ago, when he never mentioned any...
16From 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...
17From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 22 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
My last letters to you were of the 13. and 26th. of June, since which I have received yours of Apr. 27. May 2. 11. and 15. The object of the present being merely to cover a bill of five thousand dollars, say one thousand and seventy seven pounds, eleven shillings and nine pence sterling drawn by Mr. Wilcocks on Edward Mc.Culloch & Co. of London at 60. days sight, for the use of our diplomatic...
18From 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...
19From 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...
20From Thomas Jefferson to Gouverneur Morris, Thomas Pinckney, and William Short, 26 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The public papers giving us reason to believe that the war is becoming nearly general in Europe, and that it has already involved nations, with which we are in daily habits of commerce and friendship, the President has thought it proper to issue the Proclamation of which I enclose you a copy, in order to mark out to our citizens the line of conduct they are to pursue. That this intimation,...