51To Thomas Jefferson from Willink, Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 2 April 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
We are honored with Your Excellency’s respected favor of 25. Ult. closing our Correspondence relative to the Monies for Medals, and another purpose; but bringing forward a Resolution of Congress of 20 August 1788, appropriating so much of the Loans in Holland as shall be necessary to discharge the Interest due, on Certificats issued to Foreign officers to the 31 Decbr. 1788, and at the same...
52To Thomas Jefferson from Madame Oster, 1 April 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Je profite de la permission que vous m’avez donné de vous adresser mes lettres pour l’amerique. Voulez vous bien avoir la bonté d’Envoyer celles-cy directement a Madame Banister sous votre couvert, car je suis tres inquiette de ce quaucune de mes lettres ne sont encore parvenues a mes amies. Quelquautres personnes, à ce que je soubsonne, pourroient bien se les Etre appropriées, connoissant mon...
53To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Rutledge, [ca. 1 April 1789] (Jefferson Papers)
It is a long while since I have done myself the Pleasure of writing you; but the variety of concerns of a public and private Nature, together with the constant attention which I am necessarily obliged to give to an affectionate wife, who is in constant ill-Health, have suffered one week to steal after another, and leave me in shameful silence. I cannot however permit Mr. Cutting to quit us,...
54To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 31 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Excellency by this Post will recvd. two Letters . This I was obliged to write by it’s self, as it is a Letter only for your Excellencies private reading. Your Letter of the 24th. of Mar. arrived this day and as it is Five days a going, I thought proper, contrary to my first intention to answer it immediatly. Dr. Bancroft and myself wait for your Answer to his Last Letters however in the...
55From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 29 March 1789 (Madison Papers)
My last was committed in December to Mr. Gouverneur Morris. I was then on my way to Virginia. The elections for the new government commenced shortly after my arrival. The first was of Electors, to Ballot for a President and Vice President. The successful candidates were General Wood, Mr. Zachy Johnson, Genl Edward Stephens, Doctor David Stuart, Mr. W. Fitzhugh of Chatham, Mr. Warner Lewis of...
56To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 29 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
My last was committed in December to Mr. Gouverneur Morris. I was then on my way to Virginia. The elections for the new government commenced shortly after my arrival. The first was of Electors, to Ballot for a President and Vice President. The successful candidates were General Wood, Mr. Zachy. Johnson, Genl. Edward Stephens, Doctor David Stuart, Mr. W. Fitzhugh of Chatham, Mr. Warner Lewis of...
57To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Bancroft, 27 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour of the 15th inst. came safe to my hands though the Mail which brought it was a little delayed: immediately I gave Mr. Young the necessary directions for proceeding with the Deed, as fast as possible, but I fear he is so much occupied or so dilatory that it will not be done so quickly as it ought.—I received great satisfaction at learning that it was your intention to take Mr....
58[To Thomas Jefferson from Descamets, 27 March 1789] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris, 27 Mch. 1789 . Recorded in SJL as received 28 Mch. 1789. Not found.]
59To Thomas Jefferson from Sir John Sinclair, 27 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have requested Mr. Hamilton, a Gentleman of information, and merit, who will deliver this to you, to take with him to Paris, the appendix to my history of the British Revenue, of which I beg your acceptance. I am much obliged to you for occasional literary communications. Mr. Hamilton will inform you, how all is going on here. It will always give me pleasure to hear of your welfare. Excuse...
60To Thomas Jefferson from Madame de Lafayette, 26 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Je dois a votre amitie pour mr. De la fayette, monsieur, de vous envoyer les nouvelles que jai recues de lui. J’ai ète desolee de navoir pas éte ches moy Lorsque vous y êtes venu, et de n’avoir pu trouver le moment de vous les porter moy même. J’attends un de ces jours-ci des nouvelles du sort de l’élection, et j’espere fort qu’il sera elu deputé de sa province. Tous les soins different qui me...
61To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 26 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have not written to you since I left Rome because I have been since that almost constantly in movement. I had the pleasure of recieving at Florence your letter directed to me there. The commission it contained for Genoa, I executed when at that place. My stay there was so short as not to allow me more than time enough to consult two workmen in marble, but as these two own most of the shops...
62To Thomas Jefferson from Thiery fils aîné, 26 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Paris, 26 Mch. 1789 . Had the honor of calling that morning to discuss privately a letter that is now enclosed. This letter holds forth the promise of “tres grand avantage par une etablisement telle quel a vu les Notre en flandre” if he should go to Boston and set up an enterprise in the same line, and the person proposing this also offers to procure in good season the funds necessary. But the...
63To Thomas Jefferson from Van Damme, 26 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
La Vente est finie. J’ai le Honneur de à Vostre Addresse Expedier une Caisse Marqué M.I. Libri., Contenant les Livres, selon le Note Incluse. En Tout ƒ 170-15-: Courant d’Hollande. Les Ouvrages, De Admiranda Narratio de Virginiae. xi . Tom: 3 Vol: Est un Chef de Oeuvre, Contenant tout les faits en Amerique, et ornée des plus belle Planches. Ouvrage de une derniere Raretée, Et Original. Je Vous...
64To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Vaughan, 26 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to send you by this conveyance three sorts of dry rice seed; 1. Padee Coccoo ballam; the finest sort; } 2. Padee Laye; the best for a crop; from Sumatra. 3. Padee Undallan; the ordinary sort Since writing you by the post in answer to your letter of the 11th. inst., I have received a letter from Mr. Anderson, superintendant of our botanical garden at St. Vincent, informing me,...
65To Thomas Jefferson from Béthune-Charost, 25 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Chateau de Beauménil, par Bernay, 25 Mch. 1789. Reminds TJ of their earlier correspondence about Martel’s bill of credit on the United States. As advised, Martel will entrust the matter to someone in America, but Béthune wonders what effect the organization of the new government will have, and asks TJ to protect Martel’s interests and to give him letters of recommendation. RC ( DLC ); in...
66To Thomas Jefferson from Giovanni Fabbroni, 25 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Florence, 25 Mch. 1789 . Thanks TJ for having introduced him to Rutledge who, accompanied by Short, brought him a letter from TJ; Shippen was not with them. Regrets not having done more for them, but their stay was brief and they went “en droiture” straight to Leghorn without stopping at Pisa where the court was in residence and where Fabbroni could have presented them to “nôtre adorable...
67To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, 24 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Des deux raisons qui m’avoient privé des Lettres de V.E. cet hiver, l’une, la maladie de votre chere famille, m’a autant affligéque l’autre, l’approbation implicite de mes insertions dans la Gazette de Leide, a dû me flatter. J’espere que tout se porte bien maintenant avec V.E. Mr. Luzac a encore quelques Lettres de moi à publier, mais le Public, qu’il doit contenter, veut les plaies et les...
68To Thomas Jefferson from Madame d’Anterroches, 23 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Rien n’est si flatteur que la lettre dont vous venés de m’honnorés. Mon fils qui en èst le sujet et que nous possédons depuis 4 jours était auprès de moi lorsque je 1 ai reçue. Il en a fait la lecture avec les mêmes sentimens de reconnaissance qu’elle m’a inspiré. Monsieur, nous ne l’attendions pas, ce fils. Il est venu pour ainsi dire par hazard et sans compter venir. Quelle agréable...
69To Thomas Jefferson from François Soulés, 21 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
In the parliamentary pocket-book I published, I find a note to that purport: a member of the Commons is a Knight, a citizen or burgess. He must be resident within the same county the day of the writ of summons and ought to have 40 shillings of free hold within the said county, beyond all charges &c . A person who has just published a book intitled, les Comices de Rome &c. maintains that to be...
70To Thomas Jefferson from Willink & Van Staphorst, 19 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
We have Your Excellency’s Letter to us of 11 Inst. Which causes us infinite pain, as You point out a Meaning to the Resolve of Congress We transmitted you, that it is impossible for us to admit, same being directly opposite to the plain and unequivocal Letter of Appropriations of the Funds You wish to dispose of, and the Employ is not only specific, but the Contingencies You have engaged for,...
71To Thomas Jefferson from Jean Baptiste de Gouvion, 18 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
The last time I had the honor to see your Excellency, you told me that in consequence of the prospect you had of obtaining some money from a loan in Holland, you were to expect that the four years interets due to the foreign officers by the United States should be pay’d in feby. last. Many of these officers have taken me for their correspondent, (although I would have wished for another choice...
72To Thomas Jefferson from R. Macarty, 18 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Paris, 18 Mch. 1789 . Thanks TJ for transmitting a letter from her husband; asks when she may write to him, as she has “ des chose de tres grande consséquence à lui faire passé, ” and requests that any other letters for her be addressed “ à l’hotel de toulouse, Rüe des vieux augustin. ” RC ( ViWC ); 1 p.; endorsed. Not recorded in SJL , but a second letter from Mrs. Macarthy (missing) is there...
73To Thomas Jefferson from Parent, 18 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Jay Recüe votre lettre du 11 mars Dernier, par laquelle vous me dittes de tiré sur vous aux plustot possible. Je vient de donner une traite à Messieurs paschal et fils aux vingt mars pour estre payé le trente du meme mois sur vous de Deux cent Soixante et Douze livres, pour Sold de Compte avec vous que je vous Seré bien oblige de la payé. Et Donc je Suis bien faché de quoy je nay pas pouvüe...
74To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander Cain, 17 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Being obliged to trouble you on the present occasion, you will please excuse the liberty I take. A bounty existing in this country on wheat imported from America, by producing a Clearance sign’d by the naval Officer of the Port; entitles the proprietor to said bounty, on producing said document to prove its being the produce of the United States. Having the command of the Ship Marquis de la...
75[To Thomas Jefferson from James Lackington, 17 March 1789] (Jefferson Papers)
[ London, 17 Mch. 1789 . Recorded in SJL as received 3 Apr. 1789. Not found.]
76To Thomas Jefferson from MacCarthy Brothers, [17 March 1789] (Jefferson Papers)
We Beg leave to Address your Excellency to request your protection In favour of the Ship Marquis de la Fayette of Philadelphia of about 300 Tuns Burden Commanded by Captain Alexander Cain Arrived in our port 13 Instant from Newtown Chester Eastern Shore Maryland with a Cargo of Wheat. This Vessel has been a Constant Trader between the United States and this port for three years, She is well...
77To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Vaughan, 17 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honored with your letter of the 11th. inst. and have in some degree anticipated the wish expressed in it. Sir Joseph Banks having consulted me respecting the degree in which seeds of the dry rice might be acceptable in our West India islands, in consequence of my representations in reply, favored me with three sorts of seed collected by Mr. Millar, son of the Mr. Millar who published the...
78To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Lee Shippen, 16 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this moment received your very interesting and welcome letter of the 11th. ult. and take this early opportunity of thanking you for it. I am extremely sorry to find that I have so little chance of going in the same vessel with you to America. It would have given me infinite pleasure upon every account, but as you seem not likely to sail until the Fall, I must give up the expectation of...
79To Thomas Jefferson from D’Estaing, 14 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Agrées je vous suplie mes remerciments de ce que vous me mettes dans le cas heureux d’éxecutter vos ordres, de rendre homage a mes sentiments pour Mr. Short et pour Mr. Rutledge, et de leur être d’une bien foible utilité. Ils n’avoient besoin que d’eux-mêmes certifiés par vous, pour avoir le droit de tout attendre de Mr. le Comte d’Albert de Rions commandant de la Marine a Toulon. Il remplace...
80To Thomas Jefferson from M. Amoureux, 13 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
L’Orient, 13 Mch. 1789 . As requested in TJ’s letter of 1 Mch., transmits a draft for 1900₶ payable to Admiral Paul Jones, “de Ve. Moullin et Kroux de Nantes, du 30. janvier dernier, à 3 usances, ordre J. Cormier,” forming, “à une bagatelle près, ce qui revient pour net produit des marchandises, compte du dit Sieur” ; Draft is drawn on a Nantes house because of lack of good paper on Paris. J....
81To Thomas Jefferson from William Playfair, 13 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Although I have not the honour to be known to your Exellency I hope that I may be permitted to take the liberty of presenting you with a copy of a translation just now Published of my Charts of Lineal Arithmetic. I hope that your Excellency will do me the Honour to accept of this feeble Hommage which I pay to your Abilities and Charracter. I have the honour to be Sir Your Excellencies most...
82To Thomas Jefferson from Ruellan & Cie., 13 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Il y a quelque tems que deux Jeunes americains, fils du Colonel Talbot, passoient de new yorck sur un Paquebot du Roi et debarquerent en notre port. Monsieur Le Comte de Mont Morin, informé de leur arrivée, donna des ordres à Monsieur Mistrat, intendant de la Marinne En notre port, de les faire passer à Brest, ce qui fut executé. Ils ont servi depuis sur Les vaisseaux de Sa Majesté. Ils sont...
83To Thomas Jefferson from William Carmichael, 12 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Dn. Ventura Caro lately appointed Captain General of the Island of Cuba Luisiana &c. and having occasion to go to Paris before embarking for his Government, I take the Liberty of presenting him to your Acquaintance. He is of long Standing, one of mine. As his Stay I presume will be short at Paris, I wish you to profit of it as much as possible, as well on his account as your own. Any Commands...
84To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Delaire, 12 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received the Letter of the 25th of January you honoured me with. I imparted directly to our Merchants the obliging attention of your Excellency to their relieving the Crew of the Ship the Clementina. The Arrest which you sent me exempting the American fish-oil from the exclusion, had been already published here. The Minister of the Navy had addressed it some time before, for that...
85To Thomas Jefferson from Malesherbes, 12 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Le hasard a fait, Monsieur, que hyer j’ai passé chez vous et je vous ai laissé un billet précisément dans le tems que vous m’écriviez votre Lettre. La réponse à la question que vous me faites, n’est pas bien aisée. 1°. Le ris sec de la Cochinchine qu’on a semé à Paris et aux environs n’y a jamais bien mûri, parceque notre soleil n’est pas assez chaud. C’est une raison de plus pour en...
86To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 12 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Amsterdam, 12 Mch. 1789 . In response to TJ’s “very respected favor” they are pleased to inform him that “Admiral Paul Jones paid our friends in St. Petersburg most chearfully and honorably, the whole of our advances for him, under your Excellency’s Permission to charge same to the United States, if he should not replace it. Thus this Affair is entirely at an End.” RC ( DLC ); 1. p.; endorsed....
87[To Thomas Jefferson from Dugald Stewart, 12 March 1789] (Jefferson Papers)
[ College of Edinburgh, 12 Mch. 1789 . Recorded in SJL as received 30 Mch. 1789. Not found.]
88To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 11 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
This Letter will be delivered to your Excellency, by Mr. Nemers the son of the gardener, who has furnished to me, the Small trees and plants you desired. He goes yearly to Paris, to furnish the gardens of the greatest part of the princes and Gentry of that Town. He will tell you, that this year, on account of the Severe winter, we have suffered, and we still suffer, It was impossible to...
89To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 11 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you by the last post, asking among other things the possibility of sending your clothes safely by the diligence.—Mr. Parker’s arrival, and departure tomorrow with Mr. Rumsey removes all difficulty by giving the opportunity I wish’d. Mr. P. takes charge of them. I cannot refrain, tho’ I know any recommendation of mine is needless, from soliciting your friendly assistance to your...
90To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Bancroft, 10 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour of the 1st. inst. respecting the Business of Mr. Paradise came duly to hand, together with that which it inclosed. I am sorry however to say that we are now all at a stand in our steps respecting Mr. Paradise, as the House of Ibbetson, Barlow & Co. after taking a long time to consider of our proposal have absolutely refused to comply with it. This I believe they have done from a...
91To Thomas Jefferson from Brailsford & Morris, 10 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 17th. July last has been sometime past received, and should have been replyed to before, had anything material occurred to have communicated. Our Speculations in Rice to the address of Messrs. Berards of L’Orient proved unprofitable, owing we conceive to some mismanagement on the part of the Agent of those Gentlemen at Havre de Grace, where the Rice was sent, as they did not...
92To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 10 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Your last Cloths from Cannon have been lying in my trunk waiting a Conveyance to you, a long time, but none offers:—I wish to know whether it be possible for you to receive them by the diligence:—I have supposed they were liable to siezure going in that way. If so they must still wait. Your several packets and letters for America I enclos’d under one Cover to Mr. Jay, presuming in the...
93To Thomas Jefferson from De Brahm, 9 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. John Rutledge Junr. of Charleston, whom I had the great Pleasure of seeing here a little While, about seven Months ago, directed me to send my Letters &c. for him to your Excellency, who would be pleased to forward them further; I therefor take the Liberty of addressing you this with the Request to forward it to him. It contains besides my Letter, ten Plans of Battles of the sevenyears...
94To Thomas Jefferson from John Jay, 9 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Since the thirteenth Day of September nine States have not been represented in Congress, and since the tenth Day of October last a sufficient Number for ordinary Business have not convened. No Progress therefore could be made in the Affairs of this Department, and that will continue to be the Case unless the Government shall be organized. Many Members of the new Congress are now here, but not...
95To Thomas Jefferson from Madame de Tessé, 9 March [1789] (Jefferson Papers)
Madame de Tessé est bien malheureuse de s’être persuadée que les arbres de Monsieur Jefferson ne devoient pour leur sureté voiager qu’en mars. Cette bétise la prive d’une satisfaction qui lui etoit chere, celle de contribuer par ces soins à l’accroissement du verger de Monticello. Les femmes sont plus ou moins superstitieuses, mais elles le sont toutes un peu. Me. de Tessé, pour satisfaire ce...
96To Thomas Jefferson from Quesnay de Beaurepaire, 8 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Le respect et la haute veneration que j’ai toujour eu pour vous sont des sentimens qui, loin de me porter à desaprouver la candeur avec laquelle vous me faites l’honneur de vous ouvrir à moi dans votre derniere lettre, exigent au contraire, que je prie votre Excellence d’en agréer mes très humbles remercimens. Qu’il me soit permis seulement de regretter, qu’à toutes les bontés que votre...
97To Thomas Jefferson from Nathaniel Barrett, 6 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
One Object of considerable Consequence in the new Constitution of Government, being the Appointment of Consuls for the different States of Europe, it is presumed that it will be acted upon very soon after the formation of the Congress. It has been proposed to me by many of my friends of that Body, to offer myself as a Candidate, either for the general Appointment or for the district of...
98To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Lee, 6 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
From my knowledge of your unceasing desire to promote the welfare of your country and fellow citizens, joined to the singularity of the situation and circumstances of part of my property, am I induced to ask your attention and assistance. Did the consequences of your aid affect me only without advantaging the adjoining community, no temptation of profit could allure me to request your...
99To Thomas Jefferson from Renaud, 6 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Paris, 6 Mch. 1789 . Presents, as requested by TJ, an account of what he has furnished to M. Paul Jones. RC ( ViWC ); in French; 2 p.; endorsed. Recorded in SJL as received 7 Mch. 1789. The enclosed statement is missing; it was forwarded to Jones by TJ on 23 Mch. 1789 . See Jones to TJ, 9 Sep. 1788 . TJ’s request, if in writing, has not been found and is not recorded in SJL , but is explained...
100To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Paradise Barziza, 3 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I take this opportunity of your polite offer, of your letter dated 24 Decbr. in continuing in correspondence with you; now that I find myself recovered from a long indisposition, before and following my Lying which has been of a Girl, who is in perfect health.—The critical situation in which My parents find themselves: Worse as you have told me in your letter, than what they have made me...