1Memorandum for Henry Remsen, Jr., [2 September 1791] (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Remsen will be so good as to get the bill of excha. for 40.£ sterl. on London from Mr. Franks in time to put into Mr. Short’sletter, and to endorse to Mr. Franks the check on the bank for 186⅔ Dollars which I leave with him. Put Mr. Short’s letters under cover to M. la Motte. To pay Herbst & Lex 115D. 80C as soon as he shall have received my quarter’s salary, and take in my order given...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, Jr., 1 October 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I received on the 26th. your favors of the 6th. and 9th. Ult. I had not been apprised of Mr. Mc.Donogh’s mission, and therefore could leave no directions about it. At present it seems to me impracticable that his recognition can take place till the President’s return to Philadelphia. This however need not detain him personally from going to Boston if he can leave his original commission in the...
3From John Jay to Henry Remsen Jr., 27 June 1788 (Jay Papers)
I have had the Pleasure of rec gv . your Favor of the 18 Inst. with the news Papers. Let S r . John have the enclosed Letter without Delay. I leave it open for your Information, and that you may make a Copy to enter in the Book of Letters. Our Affairs here go on slowly but with more Temper than I expected. The Issue however appears so uncertain as that no very probable Conjectures respecting...
4III. Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, Jr., 28 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved at New York and Albany the letters and papers you were so kind as to forward thither. I am so far on my journey, and am now able to calculate with some probability my future course and progress. I shall go Northwardly still three days and then tack about, go to Bennington to Connecticut river, then down that and thro Long island to N. Y. and Philadelphia. I expect to be at...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, Jr., 6 September 1790 [Document added in the digital edition] (Jefferson Papers)
I in close you a patent in the case of mr Sampson which needs the great seal, as also the endorsement of the time of delivery, which be pleased to make over my signature on the back, in the form used in Hopkins’s, case, and dating it the day you deliver the patent. I am Dear Sir Your most obedt. humble servt RC (Raab Collection, Ardmore, Pennsylvania, 2020); torn at seal; addressed: “Mr. Henry...
6Jefferson’s Instructions for Henry Remsen, Jr., 16 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Letters which come in time to reach Albany before the 25th. instant may be sent to Albany. No newspapers to be forwarded, except Fenno’s. If a letter comes from the President, which seems to cover the commission for Mr. Eveleigh’s successor, Mr. Remsen will be so good as to open it,.put the great seal to it, and send it to the person, with an assurance that I shall countersign it on my return....
7From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, Jr., 7 September 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I find some difficulty in getting an office, and therefore leave it in charge with my landlord, Mr. Lieper to procure me one, convenient. When the papers are brought on therefore, you will only have to apply to him, and he will have provided one. He lives in Water street between Arch and Market streets. There are at Berry & Rogers’s in New York some small pocket inkpots of silver, with a...
8Sylvanus Bourne to Henry Remsen, Jr., 14 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Cape François, 14 July 1791 . Having noticed in late American newspapers that TJ is on tour and “may not probably return very soon,” he asks that his last letters [29 Apr. and 30 June 1791] be communicated to the President. If the Commissaries, daily expected from France, refuse to recognize him, he will feel justified in returning to America without further notice. If recognized, he will need...