3861To Thomas Jefferson from André Limozin, 31 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Le Havre, 31 Jan. 1787. Has no doubt but that TJ has been informed packets are established in that port and that the first will sail 10 Feb. for New York. Offers to perform any commissions for him. Is “really astonished that there is no Carolina rice sent from America to our Market. There is at present a very great demand here and in all our Neighbourhood for that article and not a Single...
3862To Thomas Jefferson from Partout, [January 1787?] (Jefferson Papers)
The Cook returned and told he would accept of my terms whatever they would be: I answerd he should consult nothing but his own convenience: I told him I thought M. Jefs. would be disposed to give him fifty guineas a year for teaching another the cookery. Aggreed. He observed a sufficient quantity of linnen and kitchen utensils should be furnished only for his use, and in greater quantity than...
3863To Thomas Jefferson from George Wythe, January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Would not the figures to which one must advert in studying geometry, formed of wood, metal, or ivory, be more instructive than those, which are delineated on paper? If you think so, and if such figures can be procured where you are, i wish to know the cost of them, that i may remit money to pay for them, when i will beg the favour of you to send them to me. RC ( DLC ); endorsed: “Wyth George.”...
3864To Thomas Jefferson from Louis Le Pelletier, 1 February 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai l’honneur de vous adresser une expédition des procès verbaux des deux séances des 15 et 28 7bre: dernier de la réception et de l’inauguration du buste de M. le Marquis de la fayette, à l’hôtel de ville de Paris, de l’enrégistrement fait de la lettre par laquelle Mr. le Baron de Breteüil a annoncé au Corps de Ville les intentions du Roi sur cet objet, de la lettre que vous avez écrite,...
3865To Thomas Jefferson from Puisaye, 1 February 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Il est des situations bien douloureuses dans la vie, il est aussi quelques consolations. Au milieu des maux qui m’accablent, j’en ai trouvé dans la lecture des Lettres d’un Cultivateur americain. Ecrasé sous le poids du malheur, j’ai cru que Vos heureuses Contrées pouroient devenir Pour moi un azile ou je finirois en paix le Reste d’une Carriere dont tous les instants Furent marqués par...
3866To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, 2 February 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
The Hague, 2 Feb. 1787. Is “toujours en peine de 3 choses”: the healing of TJ’s hand; the fate of a letter he sent some time ago through Du Muy for Lafayette ; and the fate of two letters, especially the second, that he wrote to TJ and entrusted to Ambassador Brantzen . He writes at the Hôtel de France, “un moment avant que Mr. l’Ambr. ferme son paquet et expédie Son Courier.” RC ( DLC ); 2...
3867To Thomas Jefferson from Mademoiselle de Lausanne, 2 February 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Paris, 2 Feb. 1787. As a token of appreciation of services “your lordship has rendered us,” she sends TJ a letter from Eliza Livingston which she received in reply to the letter TJ forwarded for her; asks to have it returned. In executing a work she has undertaken at the suggestion of her friends, she needs a “collection of journals and strange gazettes”; has no way to procure those from...
3868[To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander McCaul, 2 February 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Glasgow, 2 Feb. 1787. Recorded in SJL as received 14 Feb. 1787. Not found, but see TJ to McCaul, 4 Jan. and 19 Feb. 1787 .]
3869To Thomas Jefferson from André Limozin, 3 February 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Le Havre, 3 Feb. 1787. Has had no letter from TJ since his own of 31 Jan.; encloses a letter from “Mr. Oster of Richmond by my ship Le Bailly de Suffren Captn. Cleret,” which left Portmouth, Va., 4 Jan. 1787 with cargo of 315 hogsheads of tobacco “for Mr. Robert Morris’s account. She had a fine Passage‥‥ an exceeding good fine fast sailing Ship.” Has received a letter from Barclay at Alicant...
3870To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Champion, 5 February 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Loreilhe being now at Bordeaux, your Letter of the 30th. past came to my hand, respecting the Plants sent you from S. Carolina care of Mr. Otto. They must certainly be Ship’d on board the Courier de L’Europe Captain Seonville which was the last Packet arriv’d from New York, but as that Vessel arriv’d at the Island of Groix twelve miles from hence, the Captain had his orders to proceed with...