151To Thomas Jefferson from Brailsford & Morris, 31 October 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Our friend Mr. E. Rutledge, having been so obliging as to indulge us with the perusal of your Letter addressed to him on the subject of our Produce, and at the same time enclosing the Proposals of Messrs. Berard & Co. declaring the terms on which they are enclined to encourage a preference of our Consignments: we cannot but feel ourselves sensibly indebted to your Excellency for your...
152To Thomas Jefferson from Salmour, [October 1787?] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris, Oct. 1787? ] Informs TJ that he has had his audience at Fontainebleau with the king and the royal family “en qualité de Ministre Plenipotentiaire de Son Altesse Serenissime Electorale de Saxe.” RC ( DLC ); 2 p.; in French; addressed; without date and not recorded in SJL . Salmour is listed for the first time in the Almanach Royal for 1788 as the minister from Saxony. He was,...
153[To Thomas Jefferson from André Thouin, 1 November 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris, 1 Nov. 1787 . Recorded in SJL as received 3 Nov. 1787. Not found.]
154To Thomas Jefferson from André Limozin, 2 November 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received the Letter your Excellency hath honored me with the 28th ulto. which confirmed me the agreable news we had received here the 29th by an Express Sent by Court that all difficulties with Great Brittain were Settled. I have given hint of your Excellency’s Letter to all the American Masters now in our Harbor. I have been at great troubles about the Six American Sailors on board the...
155To Thomas Jefferson from Moustier, 2 November 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Vous avez très bien jugé, Monsieur, l’effet du vent qui me retient ici. Je suis dedomagé du delai que j’eprouve par la nouvelle que j’ai reçue. On ne me l’a point donnée directement et je ne l’ai sue que par le Commandant de la Marine qui a reçu avant hier ses ordres par un Courier. Je regarde comme un bien de s’assurer de la paix pour le moment, pourvû que l’on n’y compte pas trop. La...
156To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 2 November 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
London, 2 Nov. 1787 . Sends letter by his friend [Daniel] Parker, whom he recommends to TJ; reports that the ship James left port the beginning of October; that he has executed his commission for TJ with Brown “respecting Mr. Payne’s picture”; that the bill brought by Cutting was honored immediately; that his reward for his troubles in connection with the shipment of the harpsichord will be...
157To Thomas Jefferson from Madame de Bréhan, 3 November 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I have read with great pleasure, Sir, the book that you have been so good as to lend to me. I take the first opportunity to send it back to you with many thanks, by the Vicount de Beaumont just return’d from North America. We are here without hope that the winds are disposed to change. I begin to lose all patience; it is a great contrariety to be so detain’d in this tedious town, when we...
158To Thomas Jefferson from John Jay, 3 November 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Since the Date of my last which was the 24th. Ult., Congress has been pleased to pass an Act of which the enclosed is a Copy. It contains Instructions to you relative to the Demands of the United States against the Court of Denmark. As they are express and particular, Remarks upon them would be unnecessary. I am persuaded that the Manner in which the Business will be conducted and concluded,...
159To Thomas Jefferson from La Blancherie, 3 November 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Sur l’avis que Votre Excellence a eu la bonté de me faire donner de la demande de M. Adams, je viens d’examiner ce qu’il doit à l’Etablissement de la Correspondance. En 1782, Son Excellence prit l’engagement d’associé de la premiere Classe dont la contribution est de 96₶ par an, et elle fit le payement d’une année qui expira en 1783. Quelques parties de l’Etablissement ayant été suspendues en...
160To Thomas Jefferson from John Lowell, 3 November 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Boston, 3 Nov. 1787 . Introduces Andrew Hall, of Medford, who “visits France with the joint View of establishing his Health and furnishing himself with usefull Knowledge.” Has given a state of the local political affairs and the “Situation of the Petition of Monsieur and Madame De.Gregoire” in his letter of 10 June, “since which a Compromise has taken Place between the Government and the...