1From Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull, 21 June 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
My letter of the 18th. promised that I would inclose you a bill of exchange, which I now do for the sum of £12. sterling to discharge my balance to you and pay a subscription for a copy of your print of Gibraltar. I have not yet received my Congé, but live in daily hopes of it. I am Dear Sir Your friend & servt., PrC ( DLC ).
2From Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull, 16 September 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of the 7th. and 11th. are duly received, and your attention to the article of my passage acknoleged with thankfulness. In fact, London seems my only resource, as there is nothing in any port of France which could answer my purpose. The vessel from Virginia to Havre, which you mention was certainly not arrived there on the 12th.—With respect to the Clermont Capt. Colley, the...
3From John Adams to John Trumbull, 25 April 1790 (Adams Papers)
Your favour of March 30. and Ap. 17. came to hand last night. By the “attack in Metre” you mean I suppose, that written by Ned. Church, a Cockfighting Cousin and Companion of Charles Jarvis a devoted Instrument of M r H.— Jarvis’s Mother was a Church.— This Fellow, this Ned Church, I know nothing of— I scarcely ever spoke to him in my Life.— His Traitorous Brother, I knew very well: and the...
4Memorandum to John Trumbull, 5 February 1795 (Jay Papers)
M r . Sibbald of upper Harley Street, is sollicitous to obtain Information of relative to M r . Hesilriggs late of Boulogne in France, sent to arras by order of the Convention with other English Gentlemen— Endeavour to learn whether he be dead or alive Deliver M r . Collets Letter to M r Dubignon Endeavour to learn whether the wife and Family of M r the Swedish Consul at Marseilles are well— M...
5From Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull, 29 June 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I took the liberty on the 26th. inst. of troubling you with a packet for Mr. Jay giving him an account of the crisis into which the seance royale of the 23d. had thrown this country. I now trouble you with the inclosed, which will inform him that all is settled by a reunion of the three orders in one chamber in consequence of a letter from the king: so that all danger of civil commotion here...
6From John Adams to John Trumbull, 31 December 1793 (Adams Papers)
As I had promised myself much Pleasure, in a few hours Conversation with you in my Way to Philadelphia, I was greatly disappointed when I found you were absent, and Still more pained with I found heard you had been out of Health. Your Journey has I hope been of service to you. I lived in constant hope that We should have the Pleasure to See you in the Course of the last Summer at Braintree:...
7From George Washington to John Trumbull, 13 January 1797 (Washington Papers)
Enclosed you will receive Mrs Washington’s thanks for the many marks of politeness she has received from you; permit me to say, that she has expressed my sentiments fully; and to add, that you will do me a favour in causing the letter, herewith, to be sent to its address. It will always give me pleasure to hear of your welfare, for I am truly, and sincerely, Dear Sir, Your Affecte Servant ALS...
8From John Adams to John Trumbull, 9 March 1790 (Adams Papers)
Coll Humphreys; at the Levee, this morning, delivered me Your kind Letter of Feb. 6, for the favour of which you cannot imagine how much I am obliged to you.— not less delighted with Your frank communications respecting your own affairs, than Satisfyed with your friendly cautions to me, I shall make a kind of Commentary, or at least some marginal Notes upon both. I rejoice in your health, and...
9From George Washington to John Trumbull, 31 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
A few days ago I recd your letter of the 3d of Octr, and yesterday (in very good order) the Prints you were so obliging as to send me; which are indeed very handsome, and much admired by those who have had the opportunity of passing a judgment on them. For this mark of your polite attention to me, I pray you to accept my sincere, & cordial thanks. When the whole are compleated they will form...
10From John Adams to John Trumbull, 10 March 1793 (Adams Papers)
Mr Adams’s regards to Mr Trumbull and asks the favour of his Company to Spend the Evening at Mr David Bulls. As Mr A. must go out in the Morning with the stage he cannot have any other opportunity of seeing Mr Trumbull and he should long regret the necessity of passing through Hartford without it. NjP : DeCoppet Collection.
11From Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull, 1 June 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of May 26. came to hand yesterday. The balance shall be immediately remitted. Perhaps it may be disagreeable to Mr. Grand to give a bill of exchange for so small a sum, in which case I will send the cash itself by Mr. Paradise adding to it the price of Sterne’s sentimental journey, printed in London by Wenman No. 144. Fleet street in 16s. or in 24s, which I will beg the favor of you...
12From Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull, 25 November 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
According to promise I sit down to inform you of our safe arrival, having been 29. days from weighing anchor at Yarmouth to our coming to anchor in Lynhaven bay and 26. days from and to land. The weather remarkeably fine after the first 5. or 6. days during which we were all sick. Our vessel was remarkeably swift, strong, stiff as a church, our captain a bold but judicious seaman, very...
13From John Adams to John Trumbull, 31 March 1791 (Adams Papers)
The Secy. of the Treasury is so able and has done so well that I have Scarcely permitted myself to think very closely whether he could or could not have done better. I may venture however to Say to you, that I have always been of your Opinion, that a System a little bolder would have been more Safe: and that it would have been better to have begun at once with a small direct Tax, a pretty...
14From John Adams to John Trumbull, 24 January 1795 (Adams Papers)
In one of your Letters you once expressed a Wish to know Some Circumstances of the Negotiation of Peace, which might serve to shew whether Mr Jay brought me over to his opinion that We ought not to treat with Mr Oswald, without a Commission to treat with The United States, or whether I brought him over to mine. The inclosed Copies of Letters to Congress, to Vergennes and to Mr Jay himself will...
15From Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull, 24 September 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your favor of the 18th. instant, and hope to hear from you still the day after tomorrow. If Capt. Colley accepts my proposition it will be joyful news to me, for I almost despair of a passage from this country. There has not been an arrival here for some time past from America. The fear that Capt. Colley may not agree to come to Havre makes me wish now I had determined at...
16From Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull, 9 September 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I this day write to Mr. Lackington to make up some books for me and deliver them to you to be sent by the Diligence. If he has all of them they will amount to about two guineas and a half. If no other means should occur of remitting to you whatever balance I may owe you, could it not be done thro’ the channel of Mr. Parker? I will pay it to any body he pleases here for his use, if he will be...
17From Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull, 21 May 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have not yet received my leave of absence, but I expect it hourly, and shall go off within a week after I receive it. Mr. Short will stay till I come back, and then I think he has it in contemplation to return to America; of this however I am not sure, having avoided asking him lest he should mistake mere curiosity for inclination. If he does not go, all which I am going to say may be...
18From Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull, 3 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Not knowing the address of Messieurs Ingram, and the inclosed letter covering a bill of exchange I take the liberty of asking you to have them found out, and the letter delivered.—No time to write news, but that all is quiet here. Your’s affectionately, PrC ( DLC ). Enclosure: TJ to Messrs. Robert & Hugh Ingram , this date.
19From Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull, 20 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Much hurried while you were here, I was the less exact in sending you the inclosed, because I knew I could send it to Charleston before you would have occasion for it. There I hope it will meet you in good health, and resolved to return by the way of the Natural bridge . Remember you will never be so near it again, and take to yourself and your country the honor of presenting to the world this...
20From Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull, 5 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I scribbled you a line by last post merely to cover a letter, and without time to acknolege the receipt of yours of June 26. July 14. and 21. all of which had come to hand since I had written to you. I have to give you many thanks for the American intelligence they contained. My friends supposing me on my way to America have almost ceased to write to me. But I am not yet gone, nor have I...
21From John Adams to John Trumbull, 12 March 1790 (Adams Papers)
Your Letter of Feb. 6. has made So deep an Impression that it may not be amiss to make a few more Observations on it as it respects both of Us. Your Friends have been very indiscreat and certainly have not done You Justice.— Fluency and Animation are Talents of a public Speaker which alone will go a great Way. I have known Several rise to Fame and extensive Practice, at the Bar, and afterwards...
22From John Adams to John Trumbull, 19 January 1797 (Adams Papers)
Col. Wadsworth, upon my inquiring after your health gave me the most agreable and favourable account of it, I have heard for a long time. It rejoiced me very much: and the Information he gave me of your present occupation, in preparing for the Press a new Edition of your Writings, gave me more pleasure than any thing I could have heard of you next to the perfect restoration of your health and...
23From John Adams to John Trumbull, 13 January 1790 (Adams Papers)
I am at length determined to omit no longer to write to you.— You read yourself to death. this let me tell you, is a Sin and a crime. Whether it is not of a deeper die, than, intemperate Indulgences of the Bottle or the Girl, is a Case of Casuistry. You know best whether You are guilty of it, or not. if you are I enjoin upon You, Pennance, either of a Walk of five miles a day, all at one time...
24From John Adams to John Trumbull, 11 March 1793 (Adams Papers)
I am indebted to Mr. Frederick Bull for keeping a pair of Horses last fall and for storing a Chaise, Harness, Saddle and Bridle for me, through the winter. Inclosed are twenty Dollars, in a Bank Bill which I must beg the favour of you to apply to the payment of his demand. And will you be so good as to Subscribe The Vice President for the Hartford Paper, and get the Printer to address it to...
25From Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull, 18 June 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the receipt of your favors of May 29. (two of that date) and June 11. I shall hope to meet you in America and talk over the subject of the last wherein I think you undervalue too much your art, which is a most noble one when possesed so eminently as it is by you. I fear much that our country is not yet rich enough to encourage you as you deserve. But of this when we meet....
26From John Adams to John Trumbull, 23 January 1791 (Adams Papers)
I have been So much of an Antiœconomist as to leave your Letter of June the fifth unanswered to this day. The Defence of the American Constitutions, is not I apprehend a “Misnomer.” Had the Patriots of Amsterdam repulsed the Duke of Brunswick from the Haerlem Gate, an History of the Action, might have properly been called an Account of the Defence of Amsterdam: although the City, on the Side...
27From Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull, 14 September 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I received last night your favor of the 7th and go this morning to Mr. Grand’s for a bill of exchange of ten pounds sterling to cover your purchases for me. If his business be open I will inclose the bill in the present letter. Otherwise it can not come till the next post.—I have yet no vessel certain. There is a possibility only at Havre. There was a vessel at Lorient on which I counted with...
28From John Adams to John Trumbull, 18 March 1793 (Adams Papers)
On Saturday night, Mr. John Quincy Adams my Son, and no doubt your friend, brought me from Boston your letter of the 25th. of Feb. returned by the Pact. from Philadelphia. I thank you Sir for your friendly congratulations, which with Some others contribute, not a little to animate me, under the dull Aspect of jolting journeys and tedious sessions which in my old Age would otherwise be rather...
29From John Adams to John Trumbull, 25 November 1796 (Adams Papers)
Mr John Adams asks the favour of Mr Trumbulls Company for an hour this Evening at Mr David Bulls. Mr A. would not ask Such a favour on such a Snowy night, but would wait on Mr Trumbull at his house, if he was not much chilled with the cold and much fatigud with a Journey all day NjP : DeCoppet Collection.
30From John Adams to John Trumbull, 31 January 1793 (Adams Papers)
Are you acquainted with the natural History of Mother Careys Chickens ? I know not the Latin Name of these chattering Birds, having never consulted the Dictionaire D’Histoire naturelle, nor Buffon nor Tournefort for information concerning this important Subject: but as a Mariner I have had frequent Occasion to curse the rascally Species of Mischief makers. In the calmest Moments at Sea, they...