3951To 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...
3952To 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.
3953To 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...
3954To 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...
3955To 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...
3956To 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...
3957To 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...
3958To 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...
3959To 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...
3960To 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...
3961To 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...
3962To 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....
3963To 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...
3964To 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...
3965To 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...
3966To 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...
3967To 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...
3968To 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...
3969To Thomas Jefferson from Cambray, 8 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Mon Notaire, Monsieur, doit vous adresser un acte double de serment et procuration destiné pour l’Amerique. J’ay l’honneur de Vous prier de vouloir bien y ajouter votre Legalisation. Il a été fait pardevant Notaire. Il a été légalisé par le Lieutenant Général du Bailliage dans lequel je fais ma demeure. Je l’avois envoyé au Prevost des Marchands pour le légaliser, qui a repondu qu’il ne...
3970To Thomas Jefferson from Gaudenzio Clerici, 8 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received the honor of your letter, with the letter of credit on Messrs. Vve. Rameau & fils therein inclosed. The eight Louis have been paid to me this day by Monsr. Desarbre banker here. All the thankfull expressions my mind could suggest me to show You, Honorable Sir, my gratitude for the high favor received, none, I belief, would give your feeling and generous Heart more satisfaction,...
3971To Thomas Jefferson from John Brown Cutting, 8 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I have heretofore had the honor to announce to you the accession of South Carolina, Maryland and New Hampshire to the new national System of government for the United States. But neither of those annunciations, not even the assent of the last (which made the ninth ) State legitimating a fresh union afforded me that degree of satisfaction which I feel in now communicating to you the...
3972To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, 8 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Je viens de recevoir avis de Mr. L——, que la Commission se fera aujourd’hui conformément à ma Lettre d’hier. Ainsi Votre Excellence doit recevoir de Mr. le Cte. Diodati, en même temps que la présente, ou faire demander chez Lui, les Gazettes et Suppléments du 25, 29 Juillet, 1, 5 et 8 Août, qu’on lui envoye par la Poste de ce jour, et les suites successivement, jusqu’à la Levée de l’Interdit....
3973To 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,...
3974To Thomas Jefferson from John Bondfield, 9 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Bordeaux, 9 Aug. 1788. Mrs. Barclay wrote by this day’s post that she would set out by 10th or 15th at furthest, and intended to stop at Blaye . “The Diligence dont pass near that post of some miles,” and he urges TJ to convey his recommendation that she “stop at a Village or small bourg calld St. André de Cubsac near to which we have a Country Seat, and will give instructions for Carriages to...
3975To Thomas Jefferson from Jan Ingenhousz, 9 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I was at Mr. Pelletier’s house, where they told me, that if such a legalisation could be made, it could not be but au greffe de la ville, at the town house. I thought it advisable to ask advise to Mrs. Tourton & Ravel how to proceed on that business. They told me such legalisation not being customary and by no means necessary it would be difficult to get it perform’d, and it would be even...
3976To Thomas Jefferson from Montmorin, 9 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai reçu, Monsieur, la lettre que vous m’avez fait l’honneur de m’écrire le 30 du mois dernier, et par laquelle vous avez bien voulu m’informer que la nouvelle Constitution proposée pour les Etats-Unis, a été établie par neuf Etats. Je me suis fait un devoir de rendre compte de cet événement au Roi. Sa Majesté l’a apris avec d’autant plus de satisfaction qu’elle ne doute pas qu’il ne...
3977[To Thomas Jefferson from John Rutledge, 9 August 1788] (Jefferson Papers)
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3978From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 10 August 1788 (Madison Papers)
Mr Warville has just arrived here, and I seize an opportunity suddenly brought to my knowledge to thank you for your several favors, and particularly for the pedomiter. Answers to the letters must be put off for the next opportunity. My last went off just as a vote was taken in the Convention of this State which foretold the ratification of the new Government. The latter act soon followed and...
3979To Thomas Jefferson from Migneron de Brocqueville, 10 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
La protection Distinguée que vous accordés aux Arts, m’encourage à prier votre Excellence D’accepter un mémoire que j’ai l’honneur de lui envoier cy inclus, qui contient La description d’un Pont et d’un petit hopital que j’ai construit ici en Bois amelioré et ceintré suivant mon nouveau Sistême. Ces deux premiers essais annoncent de quelle utilité peuvent être mes découvertes pour la...
3980To Thomas Jefferson from John Brown, 10 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 28th May came to hand a few days ago for which accept my warmest Acknowledgements. I am well convinced of the Justness of your remarks respecting the importance of strengthening and maintaining the connection between the District of Kentucky and the Maritime States: During my residence in that Country it was my constant care to cultivate that Idea But I am sorry to inform you...
3981To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Carrington, 10 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Having but a few Minutes notice of this opportunity by Mr. Tillier I can make but little more use of it, than to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the 27th. of May, and to send you the second Vol. of the Federalist. The first, I hope, you have received before this.—Virginia and New York have both adopted the Constitution, as you will be more particularly informed by Mr. Madison and Mr....
3982To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 10 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Warville has just arrived here, and I sieze an opportunity suddenly brought to my knowledge to thank you for your several favors, and particularly for the pedometer. Answers to the letters must be put off for the next opportunity. My last went off just as a vote was taken in the Convention of this State which foretold the ratification of the new Government. The later act soon followed and...
3983To Thomas Jefferson from Moustier, 12 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
La lettre que vous m’avez fait l’honneur de m’ecrire le 17. de Mai est la premiere et la seule que j’aie reçu en reponse aux miennes depuis mon arrivée ici. La depredation qui se commettoit dans l’administration des paquebots meritoit sans doute d’etre reprimée, mais il etoit facile de les assujettir à un meilleur regime aulieu de prendre le parti de les suprimer. J’espere qu’on sera revenu de...
3984To Thomas Jefferson from William Carmichael, 14 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Madrid, 14 Aug. 1788. After examining his accounts with Congress, he has taken liberty of drawing on Willink & Van Staphorst at Amsterdam for 4614ƒ. 3s. 6d. in accordance with TJ’s advice of 3 June. “I transmit you the first setts of Exchange in favor of Messrs. Etienne Drouilhet & Cy. who have constantly supplied me with Money for my necessary expences while they have refused credit to others...
3985To Thomas Jefferson from John Brown Cutting, 14 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 24th had so tardy a passage to me that I supposed it must have been interscepted, especially as a subsequent one of the 28th came punctually and with speed. To the latter I have already replied. For the political statements and weighty intelligence of the former I am greatly indebted. It is impracticable to learn aught here untinctur’d with english prejudices which are...
3986To 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...
3987To 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)”...
3988To 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...
3989To 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...
3990To 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...
3991To 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...
3992To 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...
3993To 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...
3994To 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...
3995To 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...
3996To Thomas Jefferson from Aleaume, 16 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Paris, 16 Aug. 1788. Encloses two letters of procuration that the Count de Cambray hopes TJ will attest “et faire passer en Amerique, ainsy qu’il doit avoir eu l’honneur de vous en prier.” These were sent to him to be attested by the Prévôt des Marchands et Echevins of Paris, but this can be done only for documents executed in the city. They are already attested by the royal judge of...
3997To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 17 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope you will pardon my troubling you with my Letters so often, but, Indeed, I do not know the reason, but when, I have the honour, and happiness of conversing with you, I cannot Speak often, what, I would wish to say, therefore it is that I am obliged to have recourse to this method to converse with Your Excellency. I have been turning in my mind what you mentioned to me, for one person to...
3998To Thomas Jefferson from Nathaniel Barrett, 18 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
An Opportunity offering for france I cannot let it pass with paying my respects to you, and acknowledgeing my Obligations for your polite Attentions. You will find by the inclos’d Letter to the Marqs. that No. Carolina have rejected the Constitution. The only difficulty apprehended from this is that it may create some uneasiness by the Effect it may have on the Inhabitants of the back parts of...
3999To Thomas Jefferson from André Limozin, 18 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor of writing to your Excellency the 8th instant. I hope your articles come from Amsterdam will have reached you without the least Troubles. I must acquaint your Excellency that our last Harvest of wheat so well in high and low Normandy as well in Brittany a Guyenne have been very short and in general of a bad quality, therefore I believe this Circumstance offers a very fine...
4000To Thomas Jefferson from Maria Cosway, 19 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Many thanks My dear friend for your two letters, had I not reason to scold you? was such a long Silence friendly? and can you wish me not to take notice of it? No, that would be a Mark of too great an indiferance; Next to the pleasure of seing ones friends, is that of hearing from them; I never think so much of the distance we are from them, as the lenght of time we dont hear from them. I am...