51To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington, 15 March 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
The Baron de Steuben informs me that he is about to make a final Settlement with Congress; and to obtain from them that compensation which his Services shall appear to have merited; having entered into no stipulation at the time he engaged in the Service, either for Pay or emoluments; chusing rather to let his Services point to their own rewards (after they were performed) than to set a value...
52From William Whipple, with Answers to Queries concerning the Moose, 15 March 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
The only Apology I have to make for not sooner answering Your favor of the 12th Jany. is, that I have been expecting more satisfactory information on the subject of the Moose; but dispairing of speedily obtaining the satisfaction I wish; I now inclose you such answers to Your questions as I have been able to procure, also a small parcel of the hair of the Moose sent me by a Gentleman of whom I...
53From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 16 March 1784 (Madison Papers)
Your favour of the 20. Ult. came duly to hand a few days ago. I can not apprehend that any difficulties can ensue in Europe from the involuntary & immaterial delay of the ratification of the peace, or if there should that any imputations can be devised which will not be repelled by the collective force of the reasons in the intended protest; some of which singly taken are unanswerable. As you...
54To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 16 March 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour of the 20. Ult. came duly to hand a few days ago. I cannot apprehend that any difficulties can ensue in Europe from the involuntary and immaterial delay of the ratification of the peace, or if there should, that any imputations can be devised which will not be repelled by the collective force of the reasons in the intended protest; some of which singly taken are unanswerable. As...
55[To Thomas Jefferson from Edmund Pendleton, 19 March 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Caroline [?], 19 Mch. 1784 . Noted in SJL as received 2 Apr. 1784. Not found.]
56To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Harrison, 23 March 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
I am pleased to find Congress have accepted your Deed of Cession. Why any one member should hesitate to do it cannot be accounted for unless like our former tyrants they had rather take by force what they had no right to than accept the same thing as a free gift. I most heartily wish you would lay the lands out into States immediately and agree on terms of purchase with the indians. If it is...
57From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 24 March 1784 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 15th came to my hands the 2 2d—at the moment the Governor & some other company came in. I can do no more at present than to acknowledge the rect of it, but will take the first leisure moment to write fully to you on the points it contains. Capt. Barney informs me that he has two packages on board, from the Marqs de la Fayette; the enclosed to him contains a request to land...
58[To Thomas Jefferson from John Key, 24 March 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Monticello, 24 Mch. 1784 . Noted in SJL as received 10 Apr. 1784. Not found.]
59[To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 24 March 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Mount Vernon, 24 Mch. 1784 . Noted in SJL as received 26 Mch. 1784. Not found.]
60To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington, 24 March 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 15th. came to my hands the 22d. at the moment the Governor and some other company came in. I can do no more at present than to acknowledge the receipt of it, but will take the first leisure moment to write fully to you on the points it contains. Capt. Barney informs me that he has two packages on board, from the Marqs. de la Fayette; the enclosed to him contains a request to...
61From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 29 March 1784 (Washington Papers)
It was not in my power to answer your favor of the 15th by the last post for the reason then assigned. I wish I may be able to do it to your satisfaction now, as I again am obliged to pay attention to other Company (the Governor being gone). My opinion coincides perfectly with yours respecting the practicability of an easy, & short communication between the waters of the Ohio & Potomack, of...
62To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington, 29 March 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
It was not in my power to answer your favor of the 15th. by the last post for the reason then assigned. I wish I may be able to do it to your satisfaction now, as I again am obliged to pay attention to other Company (the Governor being gone). My opinion coincides perfectly with yours respecting the practicability of an easy and short communication between the waters of the Ohio and Potomack,...
63[To Thomas Jefferson from James Maury, 30–31 March 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Philadelphia, 30 and 31 Mch. 1784. Entry in SJL reads: “[Apr. 6.] Received Jas. Maury’s Phila. Mar. 30. 31. Turnbull, Marmie & co. 200 D.—paid F. Hopk. for Dudley£5–2–6—paid Boinod & Gaill.” From this it is not clear whether Maury wrote two letters or merely added on 31 Mch. a postscript to the letter of the preceding day. The latter is more probable. On 6 Apr. TJ also noted in his Account...
64[To Thomas Jefferson from Martha Jefferson, 30 March 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Philadelphia, 30 Mch. 1784. Noted in SJL as received 19 Apr. 1784. Not found.]
65To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Hopkinson, 31 March 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to you about a week ago requesting you to procure for me from the proper office in Annapolis certified Copies of certain Papers, which are wanted in a Law Suit. Am in daily Expectation of the Answer which hath not yet got to hand. A gentleman in Town is making an Air Balloon of 6 feet Diameter; it is now almost completed. What the Success will be Time must shew. Mr. Morris’s...
66Samuel Hardy and John F. Mercer to Jefferson and James Monroe, April 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
[ Annapolis, April? 1784 .] Requesting “the favor of their Company to dine with them @ 4 oClock.” RC ( DLC ); without date or place; addressed: “Honble M[ess]rs. Jefferson & Monroe.” The blank verso of this note was subsequently used by TJ in his draft of an additional instruction to the Committee of States and therefore must have been received before 26 Apr. 1784; see Vol. 6: 529, note.
67[To Thomas Jefferson from Elizabeth Wayles Eppes, 1 April 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Eppington, 1 Apr. 1784 . Noted in SJL as received 16 Apr. 1784, with letter of “Polly.” Mrs. Eppes’ letter has not been found, but see Mary Jefferson to TJ, this date. ]
68To Thomas Jefferson from Mary Jefferson, 1 April 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
I want to know what day you are going to come and see me, and if you will bring Sister Patsy, and my baby with you. I was mighty glad of my sash’s , and gave Cousin Booling one. I can almost read. Your affectionate daughter, RC ( MHi ); in the hand of Elizabeth Wayles Eppes; addressed: “Mr. Jefferson”; endorsed by TJ: “Jefferson Polly.” Noted in SJL as received 16 Apr. in a letter from Mrs....
69[To Thomas Jefferson from Walker Maury, 1 April 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Williamsburg, 1 Apr. 1784 . Noted in SJL as received 10 Apr. 1784. Letter not found, but see record entry for TJ’s reply of 10 Apr. ]
70[To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Eppes, 2 April 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Eppington, 2 Apr. 1784 . Noted in SJL as received 16 Apr. 1784. Not found.]
71[To Thomas Jefferson from John Sullivan, 3 April 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Durham, 3 Apr. 1784 . Noted in SJL as received 23 Apr. 1784. Not found.]
72To Thomas Jefferson from Philip Mazzei, 4 April 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
Giunsi tra i 2. Capi di Virginia ai 19. di Novembre, il quarto giorno susseguente mi riescì di sbarcare in Hampton; e tre giorni dopo di proseguire fino a Rosewell, ove andai a restaurare in seno dell’Amicizia il mio strappazzato corpo dagl’incomodi del viaggio, e a cercar sollievo all’animo, non poco afflitto da tutto ciò che intesi al mio arrivo, relativamente a ciò che riguarda...
73To Thomas Jefferson from G. K. van Hogendorp, [ca. 6 April 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
When I came to Annapolis, though I now recollect to have heard your praise at Boston, yet I was then ignorant of your character and your conduct during the Revolution . Let this not Surprize you; for here as in Europe, I have found it but too frequent, that reputation is not in proportion to merit. If since my arrival in America, I had been continually entertained of your great qualities,...
74From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 8 April 1784 (Washington Papers)
If with frankness, and the fullest latitude of a friend, you will give me your opinion of the Institution of the Society of Cincinnati, it would confer an acceptable favor upon me. If to this opinion, you would be so obliging as to add the Sentiments, or what you suppose to be the Sentiments of Congress respecting it, I would thank you. That you may have the best Materials on which to form a...
75To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Morris, 8 April 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received the Letter which you did me the Honor to write, on the thirtieth of last Month, for which I pray you to accept my Thanks. The Circular Letter, Copy of which you enclosed, has my entire Approbation; and I pray leave to assure the honorable Committee, that while I am favored with the firm support of Congress I shall not shrink from the Difficulties however great with which we are...
76To Thomas Jefferson from Eliza House Trist, 8 April 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the pleasing satisfaction to receive a letter of yours dated 22d of Dec. which was the day after I set out on my journey. Had I received it in time I do not think it wou’d have prevented my undertaking the journey tho no ones advise wou’d have had greater weight independant of the knowledge I knew you had of the back Woods but my mind was in that State of Wretchedness that I cou’d have...
77To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington, 8 April 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
If with frankness, and the fullest latitude of a friend, you will give me your opinion of the Institution of the Society of Cincinnati, it would confer an acceptable favor upon me. If to this opinion, you would be so obliging as to add the sentiments, or what you suppose to be the Sentiments of Congress respecting it, I would thank you. That you may have the best Materials on which to form a...
78[To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Harrison, 9 April 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Richmond, 9 Apr. 1784. Noted in SJL as received 16 Apr. 1784. Not found; not in Executive Letter Book, Vi.]
79[To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 9 April 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Richmond, 9 Apr. 1784 . Noted in SJL as received Apr. 16 1784. Not found.]
80[To Thomas Jefferson from Martha Jefferson, 10 April 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Philadelphia, 10 Apr. 1784 . Noted in SJL as received 19 Apr. 1784. Not found.]
81[To Thomas Jefferson from Martha Jefferson, 12 April 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Philadelphia, 12 Apr. 1784. Noted in SJL as received 19 Apr. 1784. Not found.]
82[To Thomas Jefferson from James McClurg, 12 April 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Place unknown, 12 Apr. 1784. Noted in SJL as received 23 Apr. 1784. Not found.]
83To Thomas Jefferson from James McClurg, 12 April 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
Having been absent from town about a fortnight, I did not immediately recieve your letter , nor have had an oportunity of acknowledging the pleasure it gave me, until this post. You have dispell’d my doubts concerning the ballons, the accounts of which I supposed to be monstrous exaggerations, tho founded probably on some small Experiment of the kind. It is some Years since Mr. Cavendish...
84To Thomas Jefferson from Richard Curson, 13 April 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Favor of the 3rd. Current was handed me by your friend, Col. Mercer, enclosing Thirty Two Dollars, Amount of Sundry Articles which had reached you, and all that cou’d be procured here. As you did not mention particular[ly] the packet by Major Gamble, enclosing letters from Philadelphia for you, Mr. Monroe and Mr. Mercer have made me a little uneasy, as yours contained Cash &c. &c. Young...
85[To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Hopkinson, 13 April 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Philadelphia, 13 Apr. 1784. Noted in SJL as received 16 Apr. 1784. Not found.]
86To Thomas Jefferson from Eliza House Trist, 13 April [1784] (Jefferson Papers)
If Mr. Jefferson cou’d see my heart and know its feelings there wou’d be no occasion for words to express my gratitude, and thanks for his very kind favor by Capt. Lynn which I received yesterday. I had wrote to some of my friends by a Gentlemen of the same Corp who has postponed his journey for a day or two longer which prolongs the time sufficient for me to write a few more letters. In a few...
87To Thomas Jefferson from John Banister, 15 April 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
It is impossible to express my Surprize and Astonishment at the Receipt of your letter which came to hand this day, mentioning an unparalelled Imposture in a stranger by the assumption of my Name pretending a Connection of the tenderest kind with me which never existed. The only Son I have grown to eighteen is under the Tuition of Mr. Wythe in Williamsburg and has never been out of America...
88[To Thomas Jefferson from Martha Jefferson Carr, 15 April 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Spring Forest, 15 Apr. 1784. Noted in SJL as received 24 May 1784. Not found.]
89To Thomas Jefferson from Martha Jefferson Carr, 15 April 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
I received yours of Jan. 18. but that of Dec. 19. has never come to hand. I am much concerned to hear of your Indisposition but as you ware recruiting when you wrote hope by this time your health is reestablished. I took Peter with me and paid a visit to Bear castle about Christmas whare I met with Mr. Overton from whome I had frindly assurances of his willingness to Instruct him. From thence...
90To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Harrison, 16 April 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
I am extremely obliged to you for your communications of the 9th. inst. They give me the most sanguine hopes that the confusions in the British House of commons will save us the trouble of a squabble with that Court which I feared would take place on the ratification of the treaty not getting to hand by the time stipulated for the exchange. As to every thing else I think it woud be for the...
91[To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Hopkinson, 16 April 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Philadelphia, 16 Apr. 1784. Noted in SJL as received 20 Apr. 1784, “inclosing spectacles.” Not found.]
92[To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 16 April 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Richmond, 16 Apr. 1784. Noted in SJL as received 23 Apr. 1784. Not found.]
93[To Thomas Jefferson from John Tyler, 18 April 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Greenway, Charles City co., 18 Apr. 1784. Noted in SJL as received on 30 Apr. 1784 from “Sp[eaker] H[ouse] D[elegates] Green Way.” Since the General Assembly was not in session, this must have been a private rather than a public letter. Not found.]
94[To Thomas Jefferson from James Maury, 19 April 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Place unknown, 19 Apr. 1784. Noted in SJL as received 23 Apr. 1784. Not found.]
95[To Thomas Jefferson from Edmund Pendleton, 19 April 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Place unknown, 19 Apr. 1784. Noted in SJL as received 23 Apr. 1784. Not found.]
96[From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Hopkinson, 20 April 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Annapolis, 20 Apr. 1784. Entry in SJL reads: “F. Hopkinson. Merlin stop—Congress meet in Trenton or Phila. in Nov.—Morris & Holker—compl[iments to?] Mr. Rittenh[ouse].” Not found.]
97To Thomas Jefferson from Walker Maury, [ca. 20 April 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the attention you pay to the institution I have the direction of here. ‘Tis at present but in its infancy, amounting only to 28, tho’ the prospects of its growing fast are flattering. The price is less than you imagine, it being only £35 Virga. currency pr ann:, for board, tuition and washing inclusive. To the dead languages are added the french, arithmetic and book-keeping,...
98To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Harrison, 23 April 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the pleasure of receiving your favor of the 16th instant by yesterdays post, and am happy to find our quota of continental expense reduced within the compass of our abilities. I think we can pay the sum now fixed and am certain we could not go beyond it; but suppose we should fully comply with the requisition, what will you do for that of N. Carolina, and some other States that do not...
99[To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Harrison, Jr., 23 April 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Richmond, 23 Apr. 1784. Noted in SJL as received 30 Apr. 1784, “inclosing his xcha. [exchange] on R. Morr[is] for 333 ⅓ D.” Neither letter nor enclosure found. Entry in Account Book for 30 Apr. reads: “received from Treasurer of Virginia Harrison’s bill on Morris 333 ⅓.” ]
100[To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 23 April 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Richmond, 23 Apr. 1784. Noted in SJL as received 30 Apr. 1784. Letter not found, but its subject was no doubt the possibility that TJ would be appointed as minister. TJ was troubled to learn that that possibility was being rumored in Virginia, and, on the same day that he received Short’s letter, he replied expressing his embarrassment; TJ to Short, 30 Apr. 1784 . Short explained that a...