451To Thomas Jefferson from André Limozin, 8 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Le Havre, 8 Aug. 1788. Encloses account of expenses of 103₶ 17s.9d. for two shipments forwarded to TJ, and asks that the acquit à caution be returned in due form. “It was mentionned yesterday in Sundry Letters arrived from Hambro that the Sweedish army had attacked Wyburg in Finland.” RC ( MHi ); 2 p. Enclosure ( MHi ): Account of disbursements by Limozin for commissions, freight, duties,...
452To Thomas Jefferson from Mary Barclay, 7 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
My wishes to meet my friends in America has made me too hastily fix the time of my departure and I begin to fear it will be impossible to leave this next sunday and indeed am inclined to think, that even in case I can, it would be better perhaps to give up the thoughts of going by Bordeaux, which will be attended with much more difficulty and expence than I had any idea of, besides the...
453To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, 7 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
En réponse aux 3 honorées vôtres du 30 et 31 du passé, j’ai écrit à Mr. Luzac, pour qu’il expédie sans faute dès demain, selon les ordres de Votre Excellence, et à l’adresse indiquée, de Mr. le Comte Diodati, 2 Exemplaires de sa Gazette et Supplément, à commencer par les feuilles du 25 Juillet et suivantes, que je dois supposer vous manquer, et la suite chaque jour de Poste, jusqu’à la levée...
454To Thomas Jefferson from Antoine Terrasson, 7 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai eu bien des regrets de partir de Paris sans pouvoir prendre vos ordres pour La Hollande, par Le Desavantage que J’ai eu de passer deux fois à votre hotel sans vous y rencontrer. Quelques mots de votre part pour vos amis en cette ville eussent été d’un grand poids aux Demarches que Je fais pour L’Entreprise du Canal dans la Caroline du Sud à laquelle je ne renonce pas. Permettés moi...
455To Thomas Jefferson from Madame de Tessé, with Enclosure, 7 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Monsieur jefferson aiant eu la bonté de faire connoître à Me. de Tessé que ce moment cy etoit convenable pour demander des plans et des graines de virginie, elle prend la liberté de lui adresser une petite notte de ce quelle désire plus particulièrement et plus abondamment. Elle y ajoute quelque chose pour la caroline dans le cas ou Monsieur jefferson se trouveroit devoir écrire à...
456To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 7 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Amsterdam, 7 Aug. 1788. Van Damme handed them TJ’s favor of 25th July, and they paid to him TJ’s draft on them of f148.11. Holland currency, which they charged to his private account. The ship carrying TJ’s stoves has long since arrived at Le Havre. “Mr. David Morell has received a Letter from Bordeaux, advising the Convention for Virginia, had postponed deciding upon the New Federal...
457To Thomas Jefferson from De Vernon, 7 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
M. De Vernon, Directeur des fermes, hotel de longueville, ruë St. Thomas du louvre, a l’honneur de renouveller à Monsieur Jeffersonn, l’homage de tous ses devoirs et de sa reconnoissance, et de le prier de vouloir bien lui faire le plaisir de lui marquer s’il a quelques nouvelles de M. Bannister, son Correspondant, qui avoit bien voulu se charger de notre procuration pour poursuivre M. Mark...
458To Thomas Jefferson from André Limozin, 6 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Le Havre, 6 Aug. 1788. Acknowledges TJ’s of 25 and 30 July, and will apply for consular appointment at Le Havre. “The bust of Marquis Fayette is still here for want of ships opportunities for Virgina since it came to hand. The Irish beef is much beter cured than that which comes from Hambro, which will not keep long in warm Climates, for want of knowledge how to salt it and how to cure it....
459To Thomas Jefferson from John Brown Cutting, 3 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I have not yet had the honor to receive that letter of the 24th which you mention in a subsequent one of July 28th. inclosed to Col. Trumbull. I am to thank you for the only satisfactory account of the naval victory on the black sea that has reach’d this Island. It affords me satisfaction to learn that Jones commanded:—tis but a few weeks since the english papers were filled with the most...
460To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 2 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
As I find, I shall never be able to speak to Your Excellency I thought it best to write to you. Mr. Paradise is an honest Man, and a Man who has had a very good Education, but alas with all that, he never has, since I have been Married given himself the proper time to think upon his affairs as he ought and that is the true reason of my past, and present suffrings. He thinks only of the present...
461To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Vaughan, 2 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been honored with your letter of the 23rd. ulto. Mr. Rumsey has been informed of the result of the inquiries you have been pleased to make on his account, and will I presume, take the necessary measures speedily. By my advice, he has enlarged the description to attend one of his discoveries. I had no design that Col. Smith should settle for the magnet box; consequently did not mention...
462To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, 1 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
L’incluse fera voir à votre Excellence la raison qui me presse de faire suivre cette Dépeche à celle que j’eus l’honneur de Lui adresser hier. Il me tarde de recevoir du bon souvenir de V.E. les nouvelles du parfait bien-être de nos Etats et du Sien personnel. De Votre Excellence Le très-humble & très-obéissant serviteur Ce qui suit dans mon duplicat qui va par le Havre est si bien dans le...
463To Thomas Jefferson from John Rutledge, Jr., 1 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Strasbourg, 1 Aug. 1788 . Arrived yesterday after pleasant journey along route TJ had proposed, which he found even more delightful than he expected. “At Coblence I paid the Landlord for your Map. He had entirely forgot it, and says you are the best Man in the world for remembering it. As you recommended, I embarked at Coblence to avoid the mountainous Road; I found it slow ascending the...
464To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, 31 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Esperant que ma Lettre du 24e. Courant, avec une Dépeche pour le Congrès, est bien parvenue à V.E., J’ai l’honneur de lui acheminer ci-joint un Postcrit à la même Dépeche. Je n’ai rien à ajouter à ce que Votre Excellence y lira, sinon, que l’avis de l’accession de l’Etat de N. Hampshire, et de l’Election de Mr. Pendleton pour présider à la Convention de 140 Députés, qui a commencé ses séances...
465To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Lee Shippen, 31 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Every stage of my journey has reminded me of you, and the remembrance has always been accompanied with gratitude and regard. And it was but natural that it should be so, since every stage has given me the sense of a new obligation, and how could I regard but with thankfulness and affection the goodness which was the author of it? At Dusseldorff I examined the gallery of paintings which you so...
466To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 29 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I am afraid I have been guilty of an omission. In looking over some of your letters I find your request to have the address of the best classical bookseller, to which I beleive I never gave you any answer:—I enquir’d however in time, and am assur’d that Payne at the King’s Mews [Gate] is as good as any if not the best. I have your letters to Stockdale now in my [hands] having been very busy...
467To Thomas Jefferson from Gaudenzio Clerici, 28 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Châlon-sur-Saône, 28 July 1788 . For more than forty days he has promised himself the pleasure of paying his respects to TJ and announcing his determination to return to America; but the bad state of his health prevents him from realizing this pleasure. Had a pleasant passage from Genoa to Nice; on the way from Nice to Avignon he contracted a fever which he supposed ephemeral and not...
468To Thomas Jefferson from André Limozin, 27 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor of writing to your Excellency the 25th instant to which I beg leave to crave reference. I take the freedom to beseech of your Excellency the favor to give me an advice upon the following matter. One Mr. James Swan of Boston wrote to me the 12th of this month to inform me that he was to be appointed Consul at Marseille, but that he had apply’d to Congress that his appointment...
469To Thomas Jefferson from John Rutledge, 27 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Not knowing, particularly, where the inclosed may find my Son, (which I presume you do) I take the Liberty of requesting you to have it safely conveyed to him, as soon as may be. I am, with great Esteem & Regard, dr. Sir Yr. obliged hble servt., RC ( DLC ); endorsed. Enclosure not found, but it was probably one of the letters to John Rutledge, Jr. mentioned in TJ to Short, 21 Nov. 1788.
470To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Appleton, 26 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I receiv’d the letter which you did me the honor to write of the 20th. and have agreeably reship’d the candles. The Captain of the Vessel immediately upon his Arrival in Port enter’d his Cargo at the Custom House in which was included the Case. Altho’ I knew this circumstance Yet as it had it not been landed, I concluded no duties would be demanded indeed the officer coincided with me in...
471To Thomas Jefferson from John Bondfield, 25 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
By the Brig Missoury arrivd yesterday from Philadelphia I received Letters from our friend Mr. Barclay with instructions to facilitate all in my power Mrs. Barclays return to America. I write this Post to Mrs. Barclay advising her the arrival of the above ship and transmit her a remittance to discharge her engagements and defray her Expences to this Post where I shall retain the Vessel and...
472[To Thomas Jefferson from Grand & Cie., 25 July 1788] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris, 25 July 1788 . Recorded in SJL Index, but not found. It clearly was a covering letter for the return of the protested draft for £50 on Alexander Willock; see Grand & Cie. to TJ, 22 July, and TJ to Banister, 27 July 1788.]
473To Thomas Jefferson from André Limozin, 25 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor of writing to your Excellency the 20th instant. Captn. Koen is arrived from Amstl. with your China &c. That Master being chiefly loaded with East India Goods fitt for the Guinea trade which must be transboarded on Guinea Ships without being landed, being prohibited, the Custom house officers have kept a Steady Watch on that ship, therefore being no possibility to comply with...
474From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 24 July 1788 (Madison Papers)
Your two last unacknowledged favors were of Decr. 20. and Feby. 6. They were received in Virginia, and no opportunity till the present precarious one by the way of Holland, has enabled me to thank you for them. I returned here about ten days ago from Richmond which I left a day or two after the dissolution of the Convention. The final question on the new plan of Government was put on the 25th....
475To Thomas Jefferson from William Carmichael, 24 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I received this day from Mr. Young Your Excellency’s letter of the 3d Ultimo. The detention of that Gentleman on the road was much longer than he expected. I am happy to find that you have succeeded in making arrangements for our future support. As soon as I have examined the State of my accounts with Congress, I shall transmit to you the Amount of the ballance due me and draw in the manner...
476To Thomas Jefferson from Giuseppe Chiappe, 24 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Dans ma derniere du 24e. May que J’ay eû l’honneur d’êcrire à Votre Excellence, Je me proposois de l’informer ensuite de tout ce qui se passeroit à la Cour et dans le Paÿs à l’égard principalement des Anglois, et des Hollandois, et de la gite de S.M.I. au Nort a ses Provinces avec tant de Troupes qui faisoient soupsçonner une particuliere expedition. Je m’en aquitte avec bien du plaisir pour...
477To Thomas Jefferson from John Brown Cutting, [ca. 24 July 1788] (Jefferson Papers)
Since my last which Col. Trumbull had the goodness to inclose and superscribe I have been confined by severe indisposition; otherwise I shou’d have informed You by the last post that New Hampshire had adopted the new constitution by a large majority on the 24th of June. Altho I have not learned the particulars as to numbers &c. the fact may be relied upon. Beside the attestation of Capt....
478To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, 24 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai vu la Lettre que votre Excellence a écrite dernierement à Mr. Luzac , et Elle aura vu par son Supplément du 22, No. LIX, qu’il en fait fidele usage. Je lui avois déjà témoigné mon mécontentement sur l’insertion de la Lettre malintentionnée , prétendue de N. York du 26 Avril, tirée de certaine Gazette du 24 Juin, et copiée dans son Supplément No. LIII, et prié de se tenir en garde contre...
479To Thomas Jefferson from Amand Koenig, 24 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
En execution des ordres renfermés dans l’honneur de votre lettre du 29 Juin, je vous ai envoyé aujourd’hui par incluse de Mr. Prevost, Libraire, les livres et la notte ci contre, dont je vous souhaite bonne reception. Demetrius Phalereus et Aesopi fabulae gr. lat. Haupmanni me manquent. Je ne pus non plus trouver ce dernier chez un de mes confreres. Quant au montant du petit envoi présent,...
480To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 24 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Your two last unacknowledged favors were of Decr. 20. and Feby. 6. They were received in Virginia, and no opportunity till the present precarious one by the way of Holland, has enabled me to thank you for them. I returned here about ten days ago from Richmond which I left a day or two after the dissolution of the Convention. The final question on the new plan of Government was put on the 25th....
481To Thomas Jefferson from Grand & Cie., 22 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Paris, 22 July 1788 . Enclose Trumbull’s receipt for £80 paid him by Tessier, who charged them, with expenses, £2037.3s.; they have debited TJ’s account with this amount. Have had no advice yet on draft for £50 at 90 days deposited by TJ and forwarded by them for acceptance, but they will credit his account with proceeds. RC ( MHi ); endorsed by TJ: “Grand’s 1re. That the £80 were paid to...
482To Thomas Jefferson from the Commissioners of the Treasury, 22 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
We have the honor of transmitting to you enclosed, a certified Act of Congress of the 18th. Inst., relative to the papers belonging to the late Office of the Commissioner of Foreign Accounts. It is of great moment to the public that all these papers should be forwarded safely and without delay: we must therefore request your immediate attention to this Business. Amongst the papers belonging to...
483To Thomas Jefferson from Angelica Schuyler Church, 21 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I send my dear Sir the little urn so long promissed and so long delayed, and hope you will accept the gift for the sake of the giver; it will sometimes at Monticello remind you of your friend.—Madame de Corny tells me you are going to America next spring. I shall also make that desired voyage, and see what my family and friends are doing. If I should meet you their I should be so happy to see...
484To Thomas Jefferson from George Mason, 21 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote You on the 26th. of May last, by my son John, Via Bourdeaux; to which I beg Leave to refer. I intended to have given You the fullest Information in my Power upon the present gloomy State of American Politics, but the Ship, this Letter goes by, sails to-morrow; and I have had so severe an Attack of the Gout in my Stomach, for two or three Days past, that I have not been able to sit up,...
485To Thomas Jefferson from André Limozin, 20 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I am very thankfull for the Contents of the Letter your Excellency hath honored me with the 16th instant which did not reach me before yesterday. Before to make any application in my behalf for the Consularship, I should be very glad to Know if your Excellency would approve my Steps for that purpose: for I should be very sory to do the least thing which should not be agreable to your...
486To Thomas Jefferson from John Polson, [ca. 20 July 1788] (Jefferson Papers)
When I had the honor of being Introduced to your Excellency at Paris in May 1785, you were so good as tell me that you would write to some Gentlemen in Virginia to know whether the Lands that were Granted to me as the Representative of my Brother William Polson Deceased (being 6000 Acres, he being a Lieutenant in the Virginia Troops before the Battle of the Meadows in the year 1754,) were...
487Swan’s Proposals for Supplying American Beef, &c. to the French Government, 19 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Paris, 19 July 1788 . “ Jam’s. Swan de Boston En faveur d’une association dans les Etats-Unis de l’Amérique ,” submits proposals for furnishing to the government of France a quantity of salt beef and pork, livestock, and butter from America for the troops and vessels of the king, in the colonies in America as well as in Europe as follows: Ten to forty, or fifty, thousand barrels of beef of a...
488To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Appleton, 17 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Rouen, 17 July 1788 . Director of customs at Rouen has ruled that “refin’d Spermacœti could not be refus’d” under second article of Arrêt, but that “he Conceived it impossible Candles could ever be included” and that, “as having never been particulariz’d in any previous arret they must be” subject to the 5% ad valorem duty levied on all foreign merchandise not enumerated. On examining candles,...
489To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Hopkinson, 17 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
The last Letter I received from you is dated Augt. 1st. 1787 and my last to you April 6th. 1788. I have a pretty large Collection of News Papers for you, waiting a convenient opportunity. Mr. Tillier, who takes this, goes from hence to New York to embark for France. I could not ask him to take Charge of the Papers as they are too bulky: but I have made up a Package of Publications, which I...
490To Thomas Jefferson from Maria Cosway, 15 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Is it possible that I write another letter before I have My answer from My two last! What can be the reason? It is either obstinacy, or Constancy in Me: but what does your silence Mean My dear friend! It seems that opportunities absolutly force themselves on you to recal me to your remembrances, should I have otherwise so much Courage or should I be so bold as to insist in a corrispondance!...
491To Thomas Jefferson from Schweighauser & Dobrée, 15 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
We recieved in course your Excellency’s obliging letter of the 27h. of last month and are very thankful for its contents. We immediately communicated it to Mr. Minier one of the partners of the late house (en Comandite) of Puchelberg & Co. in L’Orient and he shares our gratitude for your kind endeavours of bringing the affair of the Alliance to a final settlement. After many interviews and...
492To Thomas Jefferson from Madame Brissot de Warville, 14 July [1788] (Jefferson Papers)
Arnouville près Gonesse, 14 July [ 1788 ]. Asks TJ to forward by a safe hand the enclosed letter to her husband. RC ( DLC ). Enclosure not found.
493To Thomas Jefferson from André Limozin, 13 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreable to the desires expressed in the Letter your Excellency hath honored me with on the 11th instant, I have sent directly one of my head Clarkes with a beseech to the Master of the Post office to examine thoroughly if no Letters from america directed to his Excellency Count Dugnany archibishop of Rhodes and Nuncio of the Pope at the Court of Versailles were left in his office. The Said...
494To Thomas Jefferson from Dugnani, 12 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I think you doubly, and to the book, what you have pleas’d to send me, and to the Eagerness, with which you have writ to Havre de Grace for find the letter, what I have speak you before. When the first volume will be reprint, be very glad if you procure me a Copy. I hope so as to packet to have got my aim by your goodness. I would will to know my duty for pay him immediately. I make bold to...
495To Thomas Jefferson from Lafayette, [12 July 1788] (Jefferson Papers)
I thank You, My dear sir, on the Good News You Give me from S. Carolina . I Hope Virginia will not fail. Every thing Goes on well But the Point Relative to the Presidency which You and I Have at Heart. I Confess this Makes me Uneasy. Will the General Agree with You. The Moment He Adopts our Opinion, My fear is Gone. Our Internal trouble did take a decided turn. The late Arrêt du Conseil Missed...
496To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 12 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Altho I am persuaded you will have received the proceedings of our convention upon the plan of government submitted from Phila. yet as it is possible this may reach you sooner than other communications I herewith enclose a copy to you. These terminated as you will find in a ratification which must be consider’d; so far as a reservation of certain rights go, as conditional, with the...
497To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Lee Shippen, 12 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Will you have the goodness my dear Sir to excuse the very great trouble I am giving you? In the middle of an inland journey I find a long letter filled to my father, and fear that if I let it go on, it will become too large for the Post to carry. In this emergency I know no way in which to ensure for my letter a safe and speedy conveyance but by sending it to you, and that is the only excuse I...
498To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Cathalan, Sr., 11 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
An Algerian Privateer having been distroy’d by a napolitan man of war, 2 Months ago, at the due distance from the land out of Toulon, the Crew Went on Shore, and all the Services in that occasion were rendered to them. Notwithstanding that, the recqsur Capn. being returned to Algiers, has declard that the man of war was a french one, and our Scadron of observation crusing out of algier, the...
499To Thomas Jefferson from John Brown Cutting, 11 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I am to congratulate you upon the adoption of the new national constitution of our country by the State of South Carolina. I cannot ascertain the precise numbers of the Convention, but the main question was carried by a majority of sixty six members, not without warm debate. I have mutilated a couple of newspapers which contain nothing beside the intelligence stamp’d on the columns cut out....
500To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 11 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I have your two Letters, of the 29th. June (enclosing Mr. Grand’s letter of Credit on Mr. Lewis Tessier for Eighty pounds Stg. which I have this day receiv’d and given duplicate Receipts for) and of 2d: July. The Carriage I had agreed for was sold before I got your answer: but I have good hope of meeting as good a bargain before Mr. Parker goes again to Paris.—Lackington had only Alfred’s...