1To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 2 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Cadiz, 2 Jan. 1793 . Contrary winds having detained the vessel by which he intends to proceed to Setúbal on his way to Lisbon, he may go by way of Ayamonte. He encloses “a letter of some Consequence” he has just received from Gibraltar and hopes to reach that place this month. RC ( DNA : RG 59, CD ); 1 p.; endorsed by TJ as received 25 Feb. 1793 and so recorded in SJL . FC (disassembled Lb in...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Keene, 23 November 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
By the direction of Mr. T: M. Randolph I now enclose you the Power of Attorney, which you should have had long since—but the necessity of one witness swearing to the signature, and all living up the Country has delayed the forwarding it untill now. Please acknowledge the receipt, & believe me to be, with great respect Dear Sir Yr Mt: Obedt. & Obliged Hble Sert: RC ( ViW : Tucker-Coleman...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Harwood, 27 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Annapolis, 27 Aug. 1791 . Acknowledging TJ’s of 22d, he is extremely sorry to say he is not at liberty to make any advance for the public buildings until 1 Jan. next, when he expects “the Funds will be productive.” He has so informed the commissioners. RC ( DLC : District of Columbia Papers); 2 p.; endorsed by TJ as received 30 Aug. 1791 and so recorded in SJL .
4To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 13 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Gibraltar, 13 Dec. 1791 . He was compelled to put in here on 4 Dec. by contrary winds and hopes to resume his journey to Tangier today. He does not know where he will meet the Emperor, who by last accounts had apparently set out from Larach to Mequinez. RC ( DNA : RG 59, CD ); 1 p.
5To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Auldjo, 27 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Cowes, 27 June 1792. He sends the latest newspapers by the Amelia bound direct for Philadelphia. Nothing is new and everything is tranquil in this country. About six or seven of the guard ships are outfitting, but only to exercise their peacetime complement of men in the Channel and to attend the King at Weymouth in July or August. RC ( DNA : RG 59, CD ); 1 p.; at foot of text: “Thomas...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 30 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Gibraltar 30 Jan. 1792 . The vessel by which he wrote on the 16th is still detained by unfavorable weather. The Emperor has reportedly crossed the Morbeya on his way to Morocco. So opposite are the opinions of those best acquainted with Barbary that some think when the Emperor arrives Ben Assar’s army will disperse and the people may flock to him, others that he will be defeated.—Spanish...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 5 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
From the best information I can obtain the emoluments of the Consulship of Lisbon does not amount to three hundred pounds sterling ⅌ Annum, and the place is a Very expensive one to live at. I therefore will not give you the trouble of mentioning me to the President on that subject.—If I Could be brought into his View for such appointment as he should think proper, under the Excise law that is...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Newton, Jr., 24 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Norfolk, 24 Aug. 1791 . The justices there desire to know how to “proceed when call’d on by the British Consul for Warrants to Apprehend Sea Men who quit their Ships, and whether they have power to Commit them to Gaol or send them on board their Ships.” Some think they have no power to do it, others that it should be done. This day a Capt. Stuport brought in a seaman who had not signed...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 25 May 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Since we wrote last Martha and myself have determined to settle immediately on our farm. We have concluded that the advantage of constant employment in interesting tho’ trivial affairs will more than ballance the many inconveniences we must put up with. On her account alone those inconveniences deserve regard, and she is so certain that they cannot affect her happiness as to be impatient to...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Pinckney, 19 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Finding Captn. Loxley still detained I avail myself of the opportunity thereby afforded, to inform you that I have received the paper concerning which I was sollicitous from Mr. Morris, to whom it had been sent by mistake, and that I shall observe the directions contained in your favor of the 1st. Jany. I am happy to find that circumstances have not occasioned the detention of this paper to be...
11To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 14 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Altho the letter carrier between Charlottesville and Richmond is continued in his employment, the conveyance is extremely irregular. He has no fixed day of departure from his own habitation which is about 15 miles from Charlotteslle. but sets out as it suits him on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, and keeps the letters in his hands frequently 3 days after his return. When the Weather is bad he...
12To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Pinckney, 2 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Having already written by this opportunity I have only to request the favor of you to forward the inclosed. The accounts you will see in the last news papers of the destruction of Marat, Robertspierre and other leaders of the Jacobine party in Paris and of french troops being landed in Jersey are without foundation. I have the honor to be with great respect Dear Sir Your faithful and obedient...
13To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Pinckney, 10 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
This will convey to you the assurance of my sincere regret on being informed by your favor of the 8th. of November that you purpose relinquishing your situation at the head of the department of State. I truly lament the loss the public will suffer from your retirement but I must confess myself selfish enough to feel most sensibly the apprehension of the removal of those kind attentions and...
14To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mifflin, 7 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In consequence of the request contained in a letter from the Secretary at War , I instituted an enquiry, respecting the equipment of the Little Sarah, as an armed vessel, in this Port; and as she will probably sail this day, I am anxious to receive a communication from the officers of the Federal Government on the Subject. I have dispatched a messenger to Genl. Knox, requesting an interview;...
15To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 9 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I trouble you with two other letters for the British packet which I beg the favor of you to have included in the first mail for England. We have no news from home to send you but of the Orchard in which the hares have lately done much damage.—While writing I am informed that Gilmer is much better and am pleased that I have it in my power to tell you of his illness and recovery at the same...
16To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Auldjo, 7 November 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honour to write to you 4th instant to which I beg leave to refer you. Since then I have received the paper inclosed from Mr. Aust which I beg to submit to your Consideration. I have not received any answer to my letter to the Duke of Leeds, therefore I conclude that they consider the note from Mr. Aust a reply to it. They say that if my appointment was for the Port of Poole and...
17To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Auldjo, 20 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Cowes, 20 Mch. 1793. He encloses an account of the imports and exports of American ships within his district from 1 July to 31 Dec. 1792, hoping it will suffice, even though it is not so correct as he could wish because his unpaid agents in the outlying ports lack incentive to be very exact, and ship captains sometimes refuse to show their papers and detail their cargoes. The ambassador will...
18To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Pinckney, 29 November 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
If the nomination and appointment mentioned to me in your favor of the 6th of this Month should take place I will endeavor to execute the duties of the mission to the best of my ability. In thus explicitly declaring my acquiescence in the honor conferred by this mark of confidence I fear I have rather complyed with my desire of being useful, than consulted the means of being so; and I trust I...
19To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Pinckney, 25 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In consequence of your favor of 15 March concerning M. La Fayette I renewed to the Prussian Minister here in an authorised stile the application I had before unofficially made to him in behalf of our unfortunate friend, declaring the interest taken by the United States in his welfare and suggesting the obligation his liberation would confer. I was hopeful that before this time I should have...
20To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 31 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
A report of your having resigned your office is in circulation here and receives great credit from us mostly perhaps because we wish to have it so but considerably too from our not having received letters as usual by the two last posts: we conclude that the hurry of preparing for your departure and the expectation of seeing us soon have prevented your writing. We are strongly impressed with...
21To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Paine, 28 September 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose you a few Observations on the establishment of a Mint. I have not seen your report on that subject and therefore cannot tell how nearly our opinions run together, but as it is by thinking upon and talking Subjects over that we approach towards truth there may probably be something in the enclosed that may be of use. As the establishment of a Mint combines a portion of Politics with a...
22To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Pinckney, 1 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The apprehension of appearing in an improper point of view to those whose esteem I earnestly desire to conciliate, occasions my giving you this trouble, in addition to the dispatches of a public nature forwarded by this opportunity.—A Paragraph has this morning appeared in a daily print of this City mentioning my intended mission. I have only to assure you that no trifling indiscretion of mine...
23To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 19 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I received yesterday yours of the 8. inst: containing Mr. Le Roys letter of the 26. Nov. for the procurement and communication of which I return you many thanks. It relieved me from an apprehension I had begun to entertain that the protested bill of Rosses might be in considerable part swallowed up by an open Accompt, in which case I might have suffered and an important credit, the price of...
24To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 14 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The anxiety we allways feel in your absence has become quite painfull from our having failed every post since your departure, to recieve tidings of you. We impute it to obstructions in the communication, and trust that we shall enjoy the pleasure of knowing that you are well, next tuesday. I have just received a melancholy summons to attend my Father, who, I am much afraid, from what I learn,...
25To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 10 May 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Gibraltar, 10 May 1792 . He has received TJ’s 9 [Dec. 1791] letter but not the enclosed newspapers. He has been here five months and guesses the disturbances in Morocco will subside in July “either by a decisive engagement, or an agreement to divide the Empire into the kingdoms of Fez and Morocco.” As soon as either of these occurs he will present himself to the new Emperor and seek to renew...
26To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 3 May 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sorry it is not in my power to begin immediately the course of observations you proposed in your last letter . I have not a thermometer even, at present, but shall provide myself directly with one, and as soon as possible with a Barometer. The addition of the Meteorological phaenomena, observations with respect to the migration of birds, and the changes in plants ought to render it a...
27To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 5 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Thompson the gentleman whom I mentioned last summer to you as a Candidate for a Consulship has applied to me again on the same subject by a letter which I inclose to you now. I will not repeat my desire that my representation may not have the least weight, as I know that it ought not, and of course am fully convinced that it will not. However as in this case perhaps the inquiry into the...
28To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 4 June 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I shall make no appology for the trouble I am going to give you, because I have the strongest sense of your disposition to serve me. I see by the papers that Commissioners for negociating the loans are going to be appointed for the different states in the Union, and, if it should be thought proper in all respects, I would be glad to discharge the duties of the office either in Massachusetts,...
29To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 16 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter containing the seeds of the Acacia came safe to Monticello. Patsy and Miss Jane, who have become quite enthusiastic in gardening and Botany, are much pleased with the charge and promise themselves the satisfaction of presenting you the Shrub reared by their hands, in Septr. The employment will be doubly agreeable to them and myself as there is a prospect of your enjoying its...
30To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Auldjo, 6 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Cowes, 6 Dec. 1792 . After a considerable absence from home he received TJ’s letter of 31 May with the laws passed in the last session of Congress. He will observe the Consular Act and accordingly nominates the merchant John Auldjo and, “if two are required,” James MacKenzie, both of London, to provide security for him. He asks TJ to advise Pinckney accordingly. Nothing interesting to America...
31To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Leiper, 2 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Philadelphia, 2 Aug. 1791 . He called on TJ about an hour ago and found him not at home. He wished to speak about the addition Carstairs is making to the library room; his labor, he says, will cost £20. “If he says Twenty, a few more Pound may be added.” His bill for the room itself will be £100, “and by the Same ru[le] Something more.” This, with the other bills, will make it “a very...
32To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 31 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Gibraltar, 31 Dec. 1791 . He encloses copies of his letters of 18 and 26 Dec.—His letters to the Basha of Tangier and Francis Chiappe were designed to inform them that he would not arrive in Morocco until it became safe to do so. The sons of L’Abbas have taken the field to avenge their father’s death. Muley Yezid’s prospects look gloomy. He is as attached to the English as Muley Slema is to...
33To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas MacDonogh, 8 November 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Boston, 8 Nov. 1790 . Enclosing his commission as consul for Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire, asking him to lay it before the President. “Being desirous to have the Honour of paying my personal Respects to the President, as well as to yourself, I set off immediately after my Arrival here in the latter End of August, for New York, but was not fortunate enough to get...
34To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 10 September 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Gibraltar, 10 Sep. 1792. He continues to write by the same conveyance. Chiappe was surprised by Barclay’s lack of authority to compensate him for services rendered to the United States since Congress approved his appointment about five years ago. In enumerating these services, Chiappe claimed that he had prevented Muley Yezid from preying on American shipping and noted that his brothers had...
35To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 16 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you most heartily for the information your last letter contained and beg you to favor me with communications concerning the French whenever you have leisure as we may expect the grossest misrepresentations in the papers and I feel myself warmly interested in their affairs. Their late misfortunes have excited a general sorrow in this part of the country: all persons with whom I have...
36To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Sim Lee, 3 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the Honour to enclose Copies of two Letters lately received from Citizen Moissonier Vice-Consul of the french Republic at Balt. and of my Answers thereto—which you will be pleased to make known to the President of the United States. For an explanation of the principal subject of those representations, I beg leave to refer to a letter and enclosures which I have this day forwarded to the...
37To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 24 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In consequence of your letter to Mr. Randolph Jefferson a Mr. James Kinsolving applied to Clarkson on the 16: inst: for Dinah and her children. Their value was fixed by Colo. Lewis and Colo. Bell, 139:17.6 for which sum he has given his bonds on the terms of your sale in Bedford. He is a very substantial planter himself: one John Burnley a man allso in very good circumstances is joined with...
38To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Paine, 18 September 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I this moment receive yours of the 13 Inst. which being Post night, affords me the welcome opportunity of acknowleging it. I wrote you on the 15th. by post, but I was so full of the thoughts of America and my American friends that I forgot France. The people of this Country speak very differently on the affairs of France. The Mass of them so far as I can collect says that France is a much...
39To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Pinckney, 19 September 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be accompanied by dispatches received from Mr. Morris since the last Vessel sailed for Philadelphia, together with a continuation of the Gazettes &c. These will convey all the intelligence relating to the present busy scenes in Europe. In this Country every body of consequence is still out of London. I shall wait impatiently for instructions concerning the tenor of my conduct in...
40To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Greenleaf, 5 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to apologize for not replying earlier to yours of the 19th. ultimo-the reason of this delay was, the uncertainty whether a file for ’89 and ’90 of the N. Y. Journal, &c. could be completed or not. The file is now complete with the exceptions of 4 papers , viz. Jany: 15-Augt. 20-Dec. 17 of 1789-and Oct. 5, 1790. They are now half binding agreably to your Order, and I have directed a...
41To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 16 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Gibraltar, 16 Mch. 1792 . Since his letter of 1 Mch. he has received further news from Tangier and Tetuan. Muley Yezid is dead, but Muley Ischem still lives. He doubts reports by supporters of Muley Slema that Muley Ischem is wounded and unwilling to contest the pretensions of Muley Slema because “it will be very strange if a Prince supported by three powerful Bashas, a Numerous Army, and well...
42To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 22 August 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Gibraltar, 22 Aug. 1792. He encloses a copy of his 31 July letter, but is no longer confident that by the end of September Suliman or Ischem will be sole sovereign of Morocco. For the last three weeks “our Eyes have been anxiously turned towards Barbary in expectation of the result of a Very Novel experiment which has been made in that Country.” According to accounts received yesterday, some...
43To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 22 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
My letter of the last week missed the usual conveyance by the untimely departure of the post rider. I sent it to Charlottesville as customary the day before the ordinary post-day, but it was too late for the mail. In it I had given you an account of your loss by the frost at Poplar-forest which Clarke rendered me by letter of 10. inst. He says that you will have less Tobacco for market by one...
44To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 24 February 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Gibraltar, 24 Feb. 1792 . He wrote to TJ yesterday. A vessel just arrived from Tangier brings nothing that might clarify the situation in Morocco.—If the expedition from Cadiz mentioned in one of the enclosed letters has actually sailed, it must be headed south because none of its vessels has appeared in the Bay of Algazires.—Spain has strictly forbidden all communication between this garrison...
45To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 23 February 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Gibraltar, 23 Feb. 1792. For the last three weeks news from Morocco has been various and contradictory. Reports of the dispersal of the army of Muley Ischem and the triumph of Muley Yezid have been succeeded by reports that Muley Ischem has trapped Muley Yezid’s army. The only certain news is that Muley Slema has passed safely from the sanctuary at Tetuan to the sanctuary at Mequinez, though...
46To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Pinckney, 14 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have waited ‘till the last moment of Colo. Smiths departure in order to have forwarded by him the address and debates thereon, but as the papers are not yet out I write this additional line to inform you that the address which is as usual an echo of the speech was carried by a Majority of about 250 to 90 and that the speeches delivered by the Ministers in both Houses spoke more fully on the...
47To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Pinckney, with Jefferson’s Note, 29 January 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknowledge your private favor of the 12th. of December covering a bill for 13 st. which is duly honor’d. I wish the threshing machine may answer the purpose, I have no doubt that on a proper stream of water the effect of it would be astonishingly great and the principle being accurately described in the model may be applied to smaller machines for farmers whose strength of Cattle...
48To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Pinckney, 6 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Willm. Weston who is engaged to conduct the inland navigation in the State of Pensylvania and purposes sailing in the Packet having called for my commands, I forward by him the Leyden Gazettes received since my last. The other papers being more bulky I purpose sending them by a merchant Vessel which is to sail in a few days from this port. This will at the same time serve as an...
49To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Walker, [19 January 1790] (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Nicholas transacted the business of the estate many years after I had quitted it. I know of no debts due from the estate except a little to myself, nor any to it. The two years you were at the college, I know of no charge which ought to be against you. The two years you studied under Mr. Wythe my opinion is that your expences ought not to have exceeded £125. per year. As well as I remember...
50To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 25 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
In your last letter you mention nothing of your trip to Virginia, which makes us fear that it will take place later than you expected some time ago. Be good enough to inform us in your next if we may still expect the pleasure of seeing you in July. By Freneau’s paper of the 14: we learn that the National Assembly has authorized hostilities against the King of Hungary: we will thank you to give...