31From Thomas Jefferson to C. W. F. Dumas, 8 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of Dec. 11. Jan. 23. and Mar. 3. have been duly received. Your despatches for Mr. Jay always go by the first safe conveyance after they come. I have been long acknowleging the receipt of your former letters because during the winter a very sick family prevented my attending to any but the most indispensable business, and because I saw by your zealous and judicious publications in...
32From Thomas Jefferson to C. W. F. Dumas, 27 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been ever since the month of March in daily expectation of receiving permission to return to America. Your letters therefore of Mar. 24. Apr. 3. 29. and June 19. have remained unacknoleged, because I expected to acknolege them in my letter of Adieu. The same expectation has prevented my friends in America from writing to me. So that, uninformed myself of American transactions, I have...
33From Thomas Jefferson to C. W. F. Dumas, 30 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
My letter of the 27th. will have informed you of the reasons of my long silence. The present is to acknolege the receipt of your favors of the 22d. and 24th. with the packet from America accompanying them. It’s date was of the month of March, so that it conveys me nothing new. Mr. Necker’s arrival here will contribute to the reestablishment of tranquillity. The National assembly proceeds with...
34From Thomas Jefferson to C. W. F. Dumas, 12 September 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Having at length received my leave of absence, I have sent off my baggage, and shall follow it myself within a week or ten days. I am as yet incertain whether I shall sail from Havre or Lorient. My last information from America is of the 25th. of July. Our new government was then going on with great harmony, and all opposition to it expired, except in the state of Rhode island. I do not know...
35From Thomas Jefferson to C. W. F. Dumas, 23 June 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived at this Place the latter end of March, and undertook the Office, to which the President had been pleased to appoint me, of Secretary of State, which comprehends that of the foreign Affairs. Before I had got through the most pressing Matters which had been accumulating, a long Illness came upon me, and put it out of my Power for many Weeks to acknowledge the Receipt of your Letters. I...
36From Thomas Jefferson to C. W. F. Dumas, 13 July 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you last on the 23d. of June, since which I have received yours of March 24th. to 31st. Your Letters are long on their Passage, as you will observe by the following Statement. Date of letters. When received. Time of Passage. December 2d. to January 26th. May 3d. 97 Days February 28th. June 10th. 102 “ March 24th. to 31st. July 2d. 93 “ Could we receive them quicker, their Contents...
37From Thomas Jefferson to C. W. F. Dumas, 30 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I am to acknolege the reciept of your favors of Jan. 23 Feb. 15. Apr. 8. and May 24. with the intelligence they contained, and the regular transmission of the Leyden gazette by the British packet. A course of tranquil prosperity leaves me nothing to detail to you. The crops of the earth are again promising, public credit remains high, and a general content prevailing thro the states. A first...
38From Thomas Jefferson to C. W. F. Dumas, 3 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
My last to you was of Aug. 30. Since that I have received your Nos. 84. 85. 86. 87. and one of Sep. 17. without a No. Congress having closed their session on the 8th. Ult. I now forward you a copy of the laws passed thereat.—Mr. Pinkney is now here on his way to London as our Min. Plenipotentiary there. You will therefore, in cases of need, correspond with him of course. I will ask the favor...
39From Thomas Jefferson to C. W. F. Dumas, 2 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Taking for granted that before the arrival of the vessel by which this goes, Mr. Short will have left the Hague on a temporary mission to Madrid, I have taken the liberty of addressing to you a packet of plans of the city of Washington on the Potomak, with a desire that they may be exhibited (not for sale) but in such shops, houses, or other places, where they may be most seen by those...
40From Thomas Jefferson to C. W. F. Dumas, 24 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the receipt of your favors of Sep. 20. Nov. 13. and Jan. 9. I shall hope your continuance to send us the Leyden gazette as usual, but all the other gazettes which you have hitherto usually sent, may be discontinued. The scene in Europe is becoming very interesting. Amidst the confusions of a general war which seem to be threatening that quarter of the globe, we hope to be...