23171To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Paine, May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Your saying last evening that Sir Isaac Newtons principle of Gravitation would not explain, or could not apply as a rule to find the quantity of the Attraction of cohesion, and my replying that I never could comprehend any meaning in the term “Attraction of cohesion,” the result must be, that either I have a dull comprehension, or that the term does not admit of comprehension. It appears to me...
23172To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Paine, [May? 1788] (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose you a Problem not about Bridgs but Trees, and to explain my meaning I begin with a fountain. The Idea seems far fetched, but fountains and Trees are in my walk to Challiot. Suppose Fig. 1st a fountain. It is evident 1st. That no more water can pass thro the branching Tubes than pass thro the trunk. 2d. That admitting all the water to pass with equal freedom, the sum of the squares of...
23173To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, 30 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
The Hague, 30 May 1788 . Contents of TJ’s letter of 15 May and TJ’s personal recollection of Dumas are equally precious to him; has communicated what appeared proper to friends of America at The Hague, Amsterdam, and particularly Leiden, where he hopes the Gazette will show what good use he tried to make of it. Stadtholder and family set off yesterday for Cleves, where the king of Prussia will...
23174To Thomas Jefferson from Homberg & Homberg Frères, 30 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Le Havre, 30 May 1788 . Should the duties of 28s. 10d. and 10s. per livre imposed on spermaceti oil from America be levied on the gross weight, subjecting the barrels to the same duties as those on the oil? They and the customs are divided on this question.—Enclose customs receipts for 457 casks of oil totalling 180,947 Њs. gross weight (net weight 150,790 Њs.), cleared by them last January...
23175To Thomas Jefferson from Claudius de Bert, 29 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Le Havre, 29 May 1788 . The ship Sally , Captain Gilhison, belonging to Messrs. Henderson, Ferguson, & Gibson of Dumfries, Virginia, arrived a fortnight ago loaded with tobacco, is now taking in ballast, and “will saill hence in Seven or Eight days at farthest directly to Potomack.” If TJ has any dispatches for America and will direct them to him at Le Havre, he will be pleased to deliver them...
23176To Thomas Jefferson from William Carmichael, 29 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I forwarded last week by Mr. Symons the paper mentioned in my last. I have received no letters from America since, but have seen a Philadelphia paper of the 7th of April, in which there is published an extract of a letter from General Washington expressive of his opinion that the Constitution would be adopted by the State of Virginia. Here the attention of our politicians have of late been...
23177To Thomas Jefferson from Pierre Castaing, 29 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Paris, 29 May 1788 . Encloses a response from Grand to his appeal for an advance of arrearages due by United States. Has tried in vain every means to avoid importuning TJ, but has no other recourse. “Vous etes trop bon patriote pour ne pas Faire un Effort en Faveur de quelqu’un qui s’est Sacriffié pour votre patrie.” He is one of those who served longest: “J’ay pris les armes le premier jour...
23178To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Lee Shippen, 29 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
It is not more from a sense of duty than inclination that I devote the first moments after my arrival at this place to a complyance with the request which you were so good as to make upon my taking leave of you at Paris. For I gratify the one at the same time that I perform the other. Nothing flatters me so much as to acquire in any degree the esteem of those whom all the world esteem, and as...
23179To Thomas Jefferson from Sarsfield, 28 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Voicy, Monsieur, ce qu’il vous faut pour M. Izard. Je vous l’envoie double pour que Vous puissiez En faire passer un à M. Izard. Je ne puis que vous répéter que cette Pension cy étoit preferée à L’autre Il y a peu d’années. Je ne crois pas qu’elle ait changé. Vous connoîssez, Monsieur, mon Sincere Et Inviolable Attachement RC ( DLC ); unsigned but in Sarsfield’s hand. Sarsfield enclosed two...
23180To Thomas Jefferson from Nathaniel Appleton, 27 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Boston, 27 May 1788 . At request of his son Thomas, has shipped on TJ’s account “Eight boxes of Spermaceti Candles, enclosed in one Case, on board the Sloop Phoenix Capt. Loring master bound to Havre de Grace and Rouen”; hopes TJ will find these of good quality; has sent several sizes, not knowing which would be most agreeable; has directed Captain Loring to lodge the case with Messrs. Le...