6691To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Hopkinson, 14 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I have only Time to scribble a Line or two. You have no Doubt received from some of your Friends the new System of Government for our Country. This has been the Subject of great Debate in our Convention for three weeks past and perhaps the true Principles of Government were never upon any Occasion more fully and ably develop’d. Mr. Wilson exerted himself to the astonishment of all Hearers. The...
6692From Thomas Jefferson to William Carmichael, 15 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I am later in acknoleging the receipt of your favors of Oct. 15. Nov. 5. and 15. because we have been long expecting a packet which I hoped would bring communications worth detailing to you, and she arrived only a few days ago, after a very long passage indeed. I am very sorry you have not been able to make out the cypher of my letter of Sep. 25. because it contained things which I wished you...
6693To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander Donald, 15 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my last respects to you, I have the Honor of receiving your favour of the 17th. Septr., forwarded from New York, by our Friend Mr. Maddison. I thank you for the Political information contained in your letter. As a Citizen of the West, I deprecate all Wars, But as a Citizen of America, I can have no objection to the Powers of Europe going to Logger Heads. The advantages we will reap from...
6694From Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 16 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you on the 12th instant, that is to say, by the last post. But as that channel of conveiance is sometimes unfaithful I now inclose you a copy of my letter of that date, and of the one of Fiseaux & co. inclosed in that. I have since received my letters by the packet, but, among them, nothing from the Board of Treasury. Still their orders may be among the dispatches with which Paul Jones...
6695To Thomas Jefferson from Eugène MacCarthy, 16 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
L’lle d’Oléron, 16 Dec. 1787. Sends a certificate from the Commissioner at L’Orient attesting that he served during the year 1779 under John Paul Jones; family affairs forced him to be absent when the prize money for those serving on the Bonhomme Richard was divided; learns with regret that he was omitted in the division; asks aid in recovering the share due him; would not trouble TJ with this...
6696From Thomas Jefferson to De Corny, 17 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
It is time to give you an account of your copying machine, which, after repeated trial, I find very inadequate to it’s offices. Instead of having two rollers only, thus placed, where the pressure of the upper roller is resisted in the same points by the lower one, and so forces the copy extremely, it is made with one roller above and two below, thus so that at the point where the upper roller...
6697From Thomas Jefferson to Parent, 17 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Votre lettre, Monsieur, du 20me. Juin m’apprit que M. Bachey avoit encore dans ce moment là quatre feuillettes de vin de Meursault goutte d’or, de la meme crue et qualité de celui que vous m’avez envoyé. Je l’ai trouvé si bon que j’en prendrai trois feuillettes, s’il lui en reste autant actuellement. S’il n’en a plus, faites moi la grace de me procurer une seule feuillette de la meme qualité...
6698To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 18 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Last night I received your Letter of the 12. Mr. Jarvis and Commodore Jones are arrived here from New york both charged with large Dispatches for you. Mr. Jarvis Sent his Packet on by Col. Trumbul who departed from hence for Paris last Thursday. Comr. Jones went off a day or two ago, but both will arrive to you before this Letter. The Papers they carry, with a Renovation of your Commission at...
6699To Thomas Jefferson from François Baudin, 18 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
St. Martin, Ile de Ré, 18 Dec. 1787. Thanks TJ for the information in his letter of 20 Sep., for transmitting his letter to Congress, and for giving him reason to hope that a consul will be appointed for the island. A consul there is essential because of the number of American ships which are forced to come into port by contrary winds. Thomas FitzSimons of Philadelphia, to whom he wrote about...
6700From Thomas Jefferson to Berenger de Beaufain, 18 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Je viens de recevoir l’honneur de votre lettre du 7me courant, et j’ai celui de vous informer que pour expulser la personne qui a usurpé vos possessions en Caroline ou dans la Georgie il faudra ou envoyer quelqu’un la bas, muni de pleins pouvoirs de votre part pour intenter les procès necessaires pour cet effet, ou d’en munir quelqu’un sur le lieu. Mais dans le dernier cas il faudra etre sur...
6701From Thomas Jefferson to John Bondfield, 18 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I have deferred acknoleging the receipt of your favor of Nov. 30. in daily hope of accompaying it with the ultimate decision on our commerce. But it seems to walk before us like our shadows, always appearing in reach, yet never overtaken. I am disappointed in the proportion of returns of country produce from your port to America. I had received a statement from l’Orient by which I found they...
6702From Thomas Jefferson to D’Yquem, 18 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
N’ayant pas l’honneur de vous etre connu, c’est à votre bonté qu’il me faut avoir recours pour excuser la liberté que je prenne de m’adresser à vous directement. J’aurai besoin des petits approvisionnements de vin blanc de Sauterne pour ma consommation annuelle pendant ma residence en France, et meme après ma retour en Amerique, quand cet evenement aura lieu. Je sçai que la votre est des...
6703To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, 18 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
The Hague, 18 Dec. 1787. Acknowledges TJ’s letter of 9 Dec. and respects his reasons for taking no further steps in the matter of the proposed treaty; hopes his previous letters for America have been sent by this month’s packet and that the enclosed will go by that conveyance also. Has no more belief in the continuance of peace than is generally held elsewhere; considers TJ’s remarks...
6704[To Thomas Jefferson from Uriah Forrest, 18 December 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
[ London, 18 Dec. 1787. Recorded in SJL as received 24 Dec. 1787. Not found.]
6705[To Thomas Jefferson from Harrison, 18 December 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
[ 18 Dec. 1787. Recorded in SJL Index without further identification. Not found.]
6706To Thomas Jefferson from André Limozin, 18 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Le Havre, 18 Dec. 1787. Not having a reply to his letters of 18 and 19 Nov., fears that the observations in his letter of 18 Nov. were not approved; if such is the case, he wishes to be informed. Observes, nevertheless, that if the duties on yellow beeswax imported from America into France were lessened, its importation would be greatly increased; the present duty is 5.₶ 10s. per 100 “neat.”...
6707To Thomas Jefferson from André Limozin, 18 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Le Havre, 18 Dec. 1787. Transmits “copies of vouchers belonging to Willie Thomas Master of the Scooner of Polly and Sally of Salem.” Capt. Thomas has appealed for help; his ship was chartered by the agent of the company which has the exclusive privilege of the Senegal trade with France to carry a cargo from thence to Le Havre. Under these circumstances he anticipated no difficulty and...
6708To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Cathalan, Sr., 19 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Marseilles, 19 Dec. 1787. Thanks TJ for the useful information in his letter of 2 Dec.; will report what settlement he makes for the whale oil which he expects in the near future. Has received letters from Philadelphia which inform him that the price of tobacco there is high because of scarcity; that his friends were able to procure only 132 hhds. of tobacco for his ship which sailed for...
6709To Thomas Jefferson from John Paul Jones, [ca. 19 December 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
I am just arrived here from England. I left New York the 11th. Novr. and have brought public dispatches and a number of private Letters for you. I would have waited on you immediately instead of writing, but I have several strong reasons for desiring that no person should know of my being here till I have seen you and been favored with your advice on the steps I ought to pursue. I have a...
6710[To Thomas Jefferson from Ferdinand Grand, 20 December 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris, 20 Dec. 1787. Recorded in SJL as received 20 Dec. 1787. Not found.]
6711[To Thomas Jefferson from John Langdon, 20 December 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
[ 20 Dec. 1787. Recorded in SJL Index. Not found; this letter is probably an answer to TJ to Langdon, 18 Sep. 1787 , q.v.]
6712From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 20 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
My last to you was of Oct. 8 by the Count de Moustier. Yours of July 18. Sep. 6. and Oct. 24. have been successively received, yesterday, the day before and three or four days before that. I have only had time to read the letters, the printed papers communicated with them, however interesting, being obliged to lie over till I finish my dispatches for the packet, which dispatches must go from...
6713To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 20 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
The packet has been detained here since the date of the letter which you will receive along with this, by some preparations suggested by an apprehension of war. The delay is very unfavorable to the trees on board for you. Mr. De la Forest the Consul here called on me a few days ago and told me he had information that the farmers general and Mr. Morris having found their contract mutually...
6714From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 21 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just received your two favors of Octob. 23. and that of Nov. 10. I am much obliged to you for your hints in the Danish business. They are the only information I have on that subject except the resolution of Congress, and warn me of a rock on which I should most certainly have split. The vote plainly points out an Agent, only leaving it to my discretion to substitute another. My judgment...
6715From Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 21 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
The last letters I had the honour of addressing you were of the 3d. and 7th. of November. Your several favors, to wit, two of July 27. two of Oct. 24. and one of Nov. 3. have all been delivered within the course of a week past: and I embrace the earliest occasion of returning to Congress my sincere thanks for the new proofs I receive therein of their confidence in me, and of assuring them of...
6716To Thomas Jefferson from La Boullaye, 22 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai reçu, avec la Lettre que vous m’aves fait l’honneur de m’écrire, copie de celle par laqu’elle le Capitaine Hussey déclare que les huiles de Baleine importées par le Vaisseau le Renard sont de produit de la pêche américaine: cette déclaration ne remplit pas entierement le voeu des réglemens en cette matière; il faudrait le temoignage du Consul de France: mais puisque vous voules bien le...
6717To Thomas Jefferson from La Platière, 22 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Une Des plus Nobles fonctions d’un historien est de pouvoir transmettre a La posterité Les noms des Grands hommes qui ont Bien merité De Leur patrie. J’aurai souvent occasion De parler Dans Mon ouvrage Des heros qui ont Coôperés a La révolution Des etats de L’amerique septentrionale, c’est a ce titre que j’ai l’honneur de Demander a votre Excellence, La permission De lui dédier un procès...
6718From Thomas Jefferson to André Limozin, 22 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor now to acknolege the receipt of your favors of the 18th. and 19th. of November and two of the 18th. of the present month. I did not write to you immediately on receipt of the two first, because the observations they contained were to be acted on here. I was much obliged to you for them, as I have been frequently before for others, and you will find that I have profited by them...
6719From Thomas Jefferson to Quesnay de Beaurepaire, 22 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
The hour of the departure of the post permitting me to continue to write to America till one oclock, and your departure for Versailles rendering it necessary you should receive by three oclock the Plan for an Academy, which you had been pleased to send me, it has been impracticable for me to give it but a cursory and partial reading, and now leaves me but a moment to return you my thanks for...
6720To Thomas Jefferson from George Gilmer, 23 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
It hurts me to intrude on you, with nothing new or interesting, but what you must receive from those who shed ink more importantly than I possibly can, but your earnest friendship must be my apology. Your kind opinion which coincided with several here I flattered myself would settle the point clearly as to Marrow-bone but behold these adepts in the law have abandoned their former opinion, and...