7661To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, 14 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
The Hague, 14 Aug. 1788. Hoping that TJ receives Gazette de Leide as ordered, he only encloses a letter to Congress and transmits following from friends in Amsterdam, who have it from Daniel Parker, dated the 8th: “This moment I have received advice, that the State of Virginia adopted the new Constitution on the 25th June. This comes by a Ship arrived this Day, and may be depended on.”—“Ce...
7662To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Lincoln, 14 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Boston, 14 Aug. 1788. His “amiable young friend Mr. Hays leaves this town in a few days for France where he means to compleat his knowledge in the french language and acquaint himself with the mode of doing business in that nation.” He will pay his respects, and TJ’s “countenance will essentially serve a youth of real merit.” RC ( MHi ); endorsed. Recorded in SJL as delivered “(by Mr. Hays)”...
7663To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander McCaul, 14 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your agreable favour of the 12th Ulto only yesterday, and I am very sorry that your expectations from your Estate in Virginia should have so far dissappointed your good intentions of discharging your debt agreable to stipulation. Suffice it to say at present that what remittance you can make this year will be very acceptable and this you will be pleased to do in the manner most...
7664To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Lee Shippen, 14 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I did not expect to have had the honor of writing to you before I reached Geneva, and it is principally to implore your protection for a parcel of letters which I have finished for America that I have determined to take that liberty. It is a parcel for which I am very anxious to ensure a speedy passage and you will oblige me Sir infinitely by procuring it. If the British Packet should sail...
7665To Thomas Jefferson from John Brown Cutting, 15 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Jarvis has been so long detained beyond the time which he at first proposed as the period when he meant to proceed for Paris, that my letters have accumulated on his hands. This evening however he assures me is the last previous to his departure. I have therefore devoted two or three hours in hunting at the several Coffee houses for recent intelligence from America, and more particularly...
7666To Thomas Jefferson from William Gordon, 15 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
From William Gordon From the generous encouragement you gave me in your answer to my first letter , I informed your Excellency about April, that I should be greatly obliged to you, could you assist me in a similar way to that by which Dr. Ramsay was benefited. I left it with your judgment to settle the terms, and proposed sending over the printed volumes that the translation might be entered...
7667To Thomas Jefferson from John Ledyard, 15 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
As I go to Cairo in a few days from whence it will be difficult to write to you I must do it from here tho unprepared: I must also leave my Letter in the hands of the Capt. (who engages to deliver it to Mr. Cathalan at Marseilles) 4 or 5 weeks.—I am in good health and spirits, and the prospects before me respecting my enterprize flattering. This with wishes for your happiness and an eternal...
7668To Thomas Jefferson from Schweighauser & Dobrée, 15 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
We recieved in course Your Excellency’s kind letter of the 20th. Ulto. We knew nothing of the resolve of Congress of the 16th. October 1786. Whatever has been done in America respecting the Alliance since our first application has been witheld from us , and we have never had any answer to our repeated representations. We have shown the resolve and Your Excellency’s letter to Mr. Minyer and...
7669To Thomas Jefferson from John Stockdale, 15 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this Instant received your two Letters by the hands of my good friend Mr. Trumbold and the ballance of your Account up to the present time, as ⅌ Account annexed Viz £13.13.6. for which I return you my sincere thanks as well as for your kind remittance of the French Books. From Letters which I have received from different Gentlemen in America I am convinced that the whole of the...
7670To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 15 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Will you excuse my having so long omitted to write you—the mortification arising from efforts not so successfull as I wishd in my pursuits, have prevented me from attending to anything but the surmounting the difficulties I found. That is in a degree accomplishd and I devote my first moments to you.—Yours of the 17th. 24th. and 28th ulto. are in my hands. The letters enclos’d the 24th. for...