1To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 1 May 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I am to beg your forgiveness for having so long omitted to write you—but a proof accompanies this that tho silent I have not been negligent:—Mr. Mason takes charge of your trunk, which I hope you will receive in a few days, and find made according to your Orders. I shall make up your account in a few days. In the mean time, for this and all my delays, I have one excuse to offer: extream...
2To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 26 May 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I cannot express how much I am flatterd by the proposal which you have had the goodness to make in your Letter of the 21st.—Such a testimony of the friendship and Confidence of a Man whom I have so many reasons to respect gives me the highest pleasure:—and you will give me leave to say that if it could be consistently with my great pursuits, no situation in life could be so agreeable to me as...
3To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 29 May 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
The Diligence which leaves this tomorrow morning will bring your books and pictures.—I was prevented sending them on thursday.—A Duplicate of your Account with the Bills &c. will come by Mr. Broome if I have a moment to prepare for him. Your A——Letters I shall have an opportunity to send to Boston in a few days—there is no other conveyance for some time, except the exceptionable one. I am Dr...
4To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 29 May 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote three lines by this day’s post to advertise you of your pictures and Books. Mr. Broome whose progress will be somewhat slower is to good to take charge of this, with which I enclose the Bills and Receipts relating to your last Account; of which you will also find a duplicate.—If you find any Error, you will point it out to me. When I was with you last, you remember I promis’d to send...
5To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 11 June 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have yours of the 1st. by the last Post, and am happy you find the Account right: since writing that you must have receiv’d by Mr. Broome, the Bills Receipts &c.—You will receive by the Diligence of tomorrow Sterne’s Journey, Shandy and Sermons, unbound:—these are all of his works which have been publishd by Wenman in his very small size, and cost 8/6. If my affairs were in other respects as...
6To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 26 June 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 18th with a packet was delivered me this morning by Mr. Edwards. The accompaniments shall be forwarded the first opportunity, which I expect in five days.—Your last leters to America are on board a Ship which left the River two weeks since but was detain’d by contrary winds, in the Downs untill the 20th.—The winds have not been favorable since.—This days post brought me your...
7To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 10 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
An Inflammation in my Eyes has occasiond me to make use of another hand in copying the above. I enclose a paper containing the Impost Bill , in form.—Your three last packets, by Mr. Edwds., the post and Genl. Dalrymple are on board the Neptune Capt. Talbot who saild for New York Saturday the 4th.—I am most sincerely yours, RC ( DLC ); endorsed. Recorded in SJL as received 15 July 1789....
8To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 14 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
London, 14 July 1789 . Sends an extract from “The Bill to regulate the Collection of Impost,” which declares that until the states of Rhode Island and North Carolina accede to the Constitution and become subject to the laws made thereunder, all “goods, wares and merchandize” not produced in the said states but imported into the United States from those states “shall be subjected to the same...
9To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 21 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
On the other side you have the only articles of interesting intelligence which I can find in Boston Papers so late as the 15th. June. There is a Gentleman in Town who left N York the same day: I have not seen him but am told he brings nothing of Consequence. The Congress continue with great unanimity in their Attention to the Revenue establishment in which their progress is as rapid as can be...
10To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 7 September 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
The Letter to Mr. Jay, enclos’d in your’s to me, of the 5th. August was immediately sent forward by my friend Mr. Clagett:—Those which you committed to my care, together with a large parcel (I suppose of news Papers and pamphlets) which came to my lodgings sometime since thro the secretary of State’s Office, I have this day put on board the Brothers, Captn. Pinkham who sails tomorrow morning...
11To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 11 September 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
London, 11 Sep. 1789 . “The Clermont Capt. N. Colley will sail so as to be at the Isle of Wight” by 1 Oct. From what he hears, TJ will succeed at Le Havre, making this information useless, but he would like “the earliest answer” whether he should direct him “to put into Cowes for you. He will give you his whole Cabbin &c. &c. and furnish your Stores for one hundred Guineas:—Beds you of course...
12To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 18 September 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Box of Books from Lackington went in yesterday’s Diligence:—cost £2.9.0. Your Letter of the 14th. with the Bill for ten pounds Enclos’d arrivd today:—This remittance was by no means necessary: the articles I shall buy for you will exceed what you had given me by a mere trifle, and there will now be a ballance in my hands for you to command. I have bought One pr. Candlesticks. The C....
13To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 22 September 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Immediately on receiving your’s of the 16th. I have seen Captn. Colley and his Merchants:—having first ascertain’d that there is no ship here preferable to him for your purpose.—His merchants (one of whom you may know something of, Effingham Lawrence of New York, who procurd Mr. Jay and I believe Doctr. Franklin his Passage out) positively decline permitting the Ship to touch at Havre, as...
14To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 3 October 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
A Letter from Mr. Cutting of Havre to his Brother here, informing that you arriv’d there the 29th. ulto. on your way to Cowes, Relieved me from much anxiety: least by any means you should fail of the most desireable passage to America by any want of arrangement on my part. I have order’d the Clermont Capt. Colley to put in to Cowes for you. He saild from this on Tuesday the 27th. but the wind...
15To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 10 October 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Since I received your last from Paris the 26th. 7bre. expressing your approbation of what I had done in regard to your Voyage, and one from Mr. Cutting of Havre announcing your arrival there on the 29th. I have been anxiously waiting to learn your arrival at Cowes, that I might have the pleasure of once more thanking you for your kindness, and wishing you personally a safe and happy...
16To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 26 November 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope I may congratulate you on your safe arrival long before this reaches you:—I landed on Monday the 23. and the winds which we had having been as favorable for you as ourselves (so far as we could judge:) we therefore conclude that you have been equally happy. I hope both you and the Ladies, to whom you will remember my best wishes, are in as perfect health as the fatigues of the Voyage...
17To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 24 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I had not forgotten my promise, tho’ it was made so long since. The first days of liesure which I enjoyed among my friends in Connecticut, were devotd to render this little picture more worthy of your acceptance than it was when you saw it.—I wish it were now a more valuable testimony than it is of the Gratitude and Esteem of D sir Your obliged friend & Servant, RC in Collection of Jonathan T....
18To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 20 November 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the pleasure to enclose to you a line from our friend Mrs. Cosway, who arrived here a few days ago from Italy. She was to have written a longer letter, but I fear I shall not recieve it in time to go, with this. Yesterday a Treaty was sign’d between Lord Grenville and Mr. Jay, whose Effect I hope will be not only to preserve peace but also to preserve a good understanding between G....