781[To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander McCaul, 30 March 1786] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Glasgow, 30 Mch. 1786. Recorded in SJL as received “while in London.” Letter not found but see TJ’s reply of 19 Apr. 1786.]
782To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 31 March 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I have not any thing of Consequence to trouble you with that is not contained in the inclosed Copy of what I wrote Mr. Adams the 27th. to which I beg leave to refer you. We have not yet heard from Mr. Lamb since he sailed, but I think a few days will bring Mr. Carmichael some Letters from him; His Business here was very public, and ours is no Secret. Don Gabriel spoke of it yesterday before...
783To Thomas Jefferson from David S. Franks, 31 March 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of inclosing a Letter to you which came under cover of one which you was so good as to forward to me from Paris addressed by a Person who I have not the pleasure of being very well known to and who Stiles me Secretary to the American Embassy in France; three years have now elapsed Since I saw the Gentleman who writes the Letter. He tells me that he wishes to use your interest...
784[To Thomas Jefferson from William Jones, 31 March 1786] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Bristol, 31 Mch. 1786. Entered in SJL as received “while in London.” Letter not found. See TJ to Francis Eppes, 22 Apr. 1786.]
785To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 2 April 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
My last Letter was by the Post eight Days ago. Since that a Letter has come to your Address from Monsr. de Vergennes ; and as I have not yet received any Thing like an Answer from Monsieur de Reyneval, I am induced to suppose this Letter may be partly on that Subject ; Its being somewhat thicker than a common Letter would lead to suppose it contained other Matters also. I am very impatient to...
786[To Thomas Jefferson from David Humphreys, 4 April 1786] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris, 4 Apr. 1786. Entered in SJL as received 31 Apr. [1 May?] 1786. Letter not found. See William Short to TJ, 2 Apr. 1786.]
787I. David Humphreys to Thomas Jefferson, [4 April 1786] (Jefferson Papers)
‘I have made no contracts for the other four , viz. for Genl. Washington’s on the evacuation of Boston, for Morgan, Washington and Howard on the affair of the Cowpens, because the designs for them have not been in readiness for execution until the present time. Nor can that for Genl. Morgan be commenced without farther information of the numbers killed, prisoners &c in the action to be...
788To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 5 April 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the pleasure of writing to you the 31st. of last Month by a gentleman going to Paris and of sending you a Copy of what I wrote Mr. Adams the 27th. I now, by the Spanish Courier, send you Copies of both those Letters. This day the Spanish dispatches arrived from Algiers by which Mr. Carmichael, who writes you by this Opportunity, received a Letter from Mr. Lamb , with another from Mr....
789To Thomas Jefferson from LeJeune, 5 April 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
M. Thevenard m’ayant Communiqué la lettre par Laquelle vous Reclamiez en faveur de M. Wibert, Colonel, Ce qui pouvoit Lui revenir pour ses Parts de prises dans le temps qu’il Commandoit Les volontaires a bord du Bonhomme Richard, Commandé par M. Paul Jones; La somme de 1944 12 2 qui revenoit a cet officier, et que Javois fait passer a nantes sur la Demande Du Commissaire de Ce Port, a été...
790To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Thomson, 6 April 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your letter of the 8th October as well as those of 21 June by Mr. Otto and the 14 July by Mr. Houdon. I read your notes with much pleasure and intended to have troubled you with some observations on them; but they have been so much out of my hands, though entrusted to such as you would approve, that I have not had an opportunity to revise them with that attention I wished and...
791[To Thomas Jefferson from Nathaniel Tracy, 7 April 1786] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Boston, 7 Apr. 1786 . Recorded in SJL as received 28 Nov. 1786, “by Derby.” Not found.]
792To Thomas Jefferson from St. Victour & Bettinger, 8 April 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
M. barclay, vis a vis duquel M. bettinger et moy avons fait notre soumission pour une fourniture de fusils a l’etat de virginie livrable a bordeaux, nous avoit promis de nous instruire a son passage dans cette derniere ville du correspondant dont il y auroit fait choix pour recevoir ces fusils, il l’a oubliée, et prets a faire une expedition assés considérable, nous sommes arrétés par cette...
793To Thomas Jefferson from Jean Nicolas Démeunier, 9 April 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Après avoir eu L’extrême complaisance de m’instruire de vive voix et par ecrit de ce qui a rapport aux nouvelles republiques d’Amerique, vous avés bien voulu me proposer de revoir en detail, Le Morceau, ou J’ai profité des instructions que vous avés eu La bonté de me donner. J’ai L’honneur de vous envoyer ce Morceau, Monsieur, et Je vous supplie d’y faire ou d’y indiquer Les Corrections que...
794To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, 11 April 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
J’espere que la présente trouvera Votre Excellence de retour en bonne santé. J’ai reçu les précieuses Notes sur la Virginie, et les relis avec tout l’intérêt que je prends à la matiere, et la reconnoissance due au généreux Auteur. Les Additions et la Carte annoncées pour la Traduction, nous font espérer impatiemment que Mr. Morelet se hâte de la faire paroître. Permettez, Monsieur, que je...
795[To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Eppes, 11 April 1786] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Eppington, 11 Apr. 1786 . Entered in SJL as received 29 June 1786. Not found.]
796To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Eppes, 11 April 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Their appears to be some strange fatality attending our correspondance. The last letter I have received from you was dated in may and even in that there is no mention made of several of my letters writen in the fall and winter before that date. In my two last I gave you my opinion very fully with respect to Polly’s trip to France and as there is great reason to suspect they never reach’d I...
797[To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Necks, 17 April 1786] (Jefferson Papers)
[ London, 17 Apr. 1786 . Entered in SJL as received “while in London.” Not found; see entry for TJ’s reply, 18 Apr. 1786.]
798To Thomas Jefferson from the Captains of American Ships at L’Orient, 19 April 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
We humbly beg Leave to inform your Excellency that in Pursuance to the Orders we have recieved from the several Owners of our Ships in America named hereafter; we proceeded with our Cargoes of Tobacco to this Port, in order to sell them to the Farmers General of France, being in Expectation we should enjoy the Price and Conditions which have been granted by the said Farmers to Mr. Robert...
799To Thomas Jefferson from American and French Merchants at L’Orient, 21 April 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
We the American and French Merchants established at L’Orient, interested in the Trade with the United States of America, take the Liberty to lay before your Excellency the unhappy Situation we find ourselves in, and to sollicit your Influence to make it less disadvantageous and more certain in future. We have received a Number of Cargoes of Tobacco since the Peace, which we have sold to the...
800To Thomas Jefferson from Lister Asquith, 21 April 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Expecting of your arrival from England, have taken the Liberty of writing to you, as we have not any likeness of our being at Liberty. Having wrote to you, the Letter of my submission, 20th. March, I wrote also to Mr. Short 10th. Ultm. but have not received any Answers; the Captain General came here the 4th. Inst., to demand, if we intended to pay him all the Expences, that they had been at...
801To Thomas Jefferson from Sir John Sinclair, [24 April 1786] (Jefferson Papers)
Sir John Sinclair presents his best Compliments to Mr. Jefferson. Sends the tract he mentioned, and as it is the first that ever was published asserting the propriety of a general colonial emancipation, he also sends 3 or 4 Copies, which Mr. Jefferson may transmit to his friend’s in America. Perhaps No. 10 of the inclosed catalogue, may be worthy Mr. Jefferson’s attention. In case he has not...
802To Thomas Jefferson from Theophile Mandar, 25 April 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Je Supplie Votre Excellence de vouloir bien me faire Savoir Quels sont les agens du Congrès des Etats unis, ou Banquiers qui Sont Spécialement chargés de Négocier En france les Billets du Loan office des Etats Unis. J’ai l’honneur d’Etre avec le plus profond Respect de Votre Excellence, Monsieur Votre très humble & très obèissant Serviteur, RC ( ViWC ). Noted in SJL as received 31 Apr. [1...
803To Thomas Jefferson from Ezra Stiles, with Enclosure, 8 May 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote a Letter last Winter acknowledging the Receipt of your Letter of last Sumer July 17, which I received latter End October, and afterwards the Packet of Books you was so obliging as to send me viz. Connoissance des Temps 5 Volumes and Bibliotheque Physico-Economique four Volumes, which at length came to my hand thro’ the hands of Dr. Johnson Member of Congress. They were a Feast to me,...
804To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, 27 April 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
La lecture que Votre Excellence fera de l’incluse, me dispense d’entrer ici dans des détails, auxquels je n’ai à ajouter que le desir d’apprendre votre retour à Paris en parfaite santé, et les assurances du vrai et grand respect avec lequel je suis De Votre Excellence Le très-humble & très-obéissant serviteur, P.S. J’ai, Monsieur, une Confidence à Vous faire de la dernière délicatesse et...
805[To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander McCaul, 28 April 1786] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Glasgow, 28 Apr. 1786 . Recorded in SJL as received 9 May 1786. Not found. See reference to “A letter received since from the first character among the American merchants in Scotland,” in TJ to James Monroe, 10 May 1786.]
806To Thomas Jefferson from William Stephens Smith, 28 April 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
John left yours of yesterday’s date with the order for 8 Guineas at my house this morning. I have not seen him and it shall be paid in the morning. I am apprehensive your calculations may yet fall short, should this wind continue in its station. Supposing it to have been impossible for you to have passed this morning, I dispatch this, to request you will draw on me for what you want, and I...
807To Thomas Jefferson from Pierre Dessin, 29 April 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Conformement à la promesse que je vous en ai faite, J’ai L’honneur de vous informer que vos quatre caisses sont parties ce matin pour Paris par le voiturier Algoult qui doit les rendre sous 10 jours moyennant 6₶-10s du Cent pesant; Elles pesent ensemble 889 ℔. Elles sont plombées et accompagnées d’un acquit à Caution en destination pour la Douane de Paris. Permettés, Monsieur, que Je vous...
808To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Boylston, May 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeable to your request , I here inclose you the premiums at present given on Vessells, sailing under American Colours, own’d by Subjects of the United States From America to England or Ireland 4 Guineas From ditto to Bilboa 5 Guineas From do. to Lisbon 6 Gs.
809To Thomas Jefferson from Lister Asquith, 1 May 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
St. Pol de Léon,1 May 1786 . Is writing again because he has had no letters from TJ, Short, or Desbordes, Frères. There is still no prospect of their being released and he now realizes that the farmers-general wanted his “submission” in order to “get the Vessel, and Cargo, into their hands; and afterwards to keep us confin’d” on other pretexts; believes the farmers are afraid to set the...
810To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Hopkinson, 1 May 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Within these few Days I received yours of the 26th Januy. last, together with Dr. Franklin’s and my Encyclopedié, a Set of Crayons &c. &c. for all which I remain your Thankful Debtor. I am glad you did not send more than one Set of the Crayons. They are neither so good nor so cheap as those I formerly had from the Shop I mentioned to you. I took the Address from a printed Direction pasted on...