421To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Sr., 19 November 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your obliging, and esteemed Favour a few days since, and have communicated to Ammonett, what you mentioned. The poor Fellow makes his grateful acknowledgements to you, and I am now called on to follow him. Your proposed System of education for my Son Tom enlivens every spark of gratitude that my breast possesses. It will (I am sure) never be in my power to make you any returns for...
422To Thomas Jefferson from William Stephens Smith, 16 January 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received yours of the 31st. of Decr. ulto. and cannot express my astonishment sufficiently strong at the perusal of the first sentence relative to Mr. Littlepage’s not having delivered my Letter of the 3d. of Decr. I waited upon him with it, and when I gave it him, begged he would be particularly carefull of it as it contained our accounts. He promised, and put it into a small box of...
423To Thomas Jefferson from James Swan, 1 March 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the honour of receiving your Letter of the 9th. Ulto. and thank you for the politenesses expressed in it for Mrs. Swan and myself. It shall be our wish to endeavor always to merit them; and I hope to have the happiness of presenting her to you sometime in the approaching Summer. Before my departure and it has been so for two years, my friends General Knox, Mr. King and many others...
424To Thomas Jefferson from John Bondfield, 20 October 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to transmit you the State of Imports of Tobacco from the United States to this Port from 1 January 1786 to 24 Sept 1787, since which are arrived four or five Vessels principally for account of the Contractors. I have divided the State in two parts the one containing the Imports on private Account the other from Mr. Morris, on Account of his Contract. We have arrivals that left...
425To Thomas Jefferson from Lambert, 11 February 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Je vous serai obligé, Monsieur, de vouloir bien vous trouver chez moi, Mercredi prochain [13 Feb.], treize de ce mois, à sept heures du soir, pour conférer sur les observations qui ont été faites au sujet de l’arrêt du Conseil du 29 Décembre dernier. J’ai l’honneur d’être avec un très sincere et inviolable attachement, Monsieur, Votre très humble et très obeissant Serviteur, RC ( DLC ); in a...
426To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 18 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Last night I received your Letter of the 12. Mr. Jarvis and Commodore Jones are arrived here from New york both charged with large Dispatches for you. Mr. Jarvis Sent his Packet on by Col. Trumbul who departed from hence for Paris last Thursday. Comr. Jones went off a day or two ago, but both will arrive to you before this Letter. The Papers they carry, with a Renovation of your Commission at...
427To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 31 January 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
We were honored in due time with your Excellency’s respected favor of 3rd. Inst. and have postponed replying to it, in the hope We should be able to advise the Discharge of the Fifty One Thousand Guilders due by the United States the 1st. Instant at the House of Hry. Fizeaux & Co. which we should certainly have accomplished, had not our Colleagues’ different Opinion on the Subject been...
428To Thomas Jefferson from Geismar, 26 March 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
L’expression, Mon Cher Ami, est au dessus de ce que je sens du plaisir de Vous revoir. Je me réserve donc tout à notre entrevue, persuadé que la Main Serrée de l’Ami sincèr dis plus que toutes les plumes de l’univers peuvent exprimer. J’ai donné ordre à l’aubergiste de la Maison rouge qui Vous remettra celle-ci de m’avertir d’abord de Votre arrivée. Si donc Vous voullés me dire quelques Mots,...
429To Thomas Jefferson from Bourdon des Planches, 29 March 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris ] 29 Mch. 1788 . Transmits letters from the son of the late Comte de Grasse to George Washington and the President of Congress requesting that he be admitted to the Society of the Cincinnati; has no doubt this request will be granted if TJ will attach to these letters a word of recommendation; wishes to take the occasion, also, to recall to TJ’s memory a request of his own to Congress...
430To Thomas Jefferson from Lewis Littlepage, 9 November 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris ] 9 Nov. 1787 . Being obliged to set out for London on Monday [12 Nov.], cannot immediately leave with TJ the amount of money still due Carmichael; expects to return before even a reply can be received from Madrid; if he is delayed, asks that the account be held until his return, when it will be immediately discharged. RC ( DLC ); 2 p.; endorsed. Not recorded in SJL .