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 .
431To Thomas Jefferson from John Bondfield, 21 September 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Bordeaux, 21 Sep. 1787 . Acknowledges TJ’s letter of 9 Sep. ; is returning a letter sent under his cover for Thomas Blanchard, who was first employed, at Bondfield’s request, by a French firm “and that with a view of drawing the Americans from the British line in which throu the influence of the English ship Broker who they all apply too as speaking their Language confounds and makes appear as...
432To Thomas Jefferson from Ralph Izard, 10 November 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Letter of 1st. August came to my hands several weeks before Mr. Drayton received his on the subjects of Rice, Olives &c. to which I was referred. We are much obliged to you for the trouble you have taken, and for the information you have given. When I was in Italy, the Rice of that Country appeared inferiour to ours. I had been several years absent from America, and the difference did not...
433To 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...
434To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Coffyn, 9 October 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Dunkerque, 9 Oct. 1787 . In accordance with TJ’s letter of 5 Oct. , has ascertained that, in addition to the 12 hhds. listed in the enclosed statement as sold by Mr. A. Tresca in Sep. 1786, 1,000 hhds. of Virginia tobacco were sold by Debacque Frères, in the same month, the latter being sent by French coasting vessels to Dieppe and should be checked with the Dieppe returns to see if the amount...
435To Thomas Jefferson from William Shippen, 5 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Philadelphia, 5 Dec. 1787 . Introduces his son and asks TJ’s “protection and friendship,” knowing that TJ “will receive him affectionately” and that “no person in France can be of so much use to him”; has “directed him to continue in France four months,” and to take TJ’s “advice on the mode of his spending his time there to the greatest advantage and with the most Œconomy. Improvement more...
436To Thomas Jefferson from Aaron Stephenson, 20 November 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Cambrai, 20 Nov. 1787. His former letter was written from the hospital at “Durlong” [Doullens] in Picardy; on the 8th. of the next month he “Departted from thence for the Redgment where I Arived in three Days”; has been informed by the major of the regiment that Col. Serrant received a letter from “Derek Levall” demanding Stephenson’s discharge, but the colonel left without mentioning the...
437To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Walker, 16 [January?] 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Paris, 16 [Jan.?] 1788 . Asks TJ to give him permission to draw on Grand for £30 sterling “in discount for Mr. W. draft on Messrs. Donald & Burton of London.” RC ( DLC ); 2 p.; endorsed by TJ: “Walker. (of Petersbg. Virga.).” This note, dated “Hotel de Chaulnes. Wednesday 16th 1788.” is not recorded in SJL Index; since Wednesday fell on the 16th of the month in January, April, and July of...
438To Thomas Jefferson from Dubosq, 22 November 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Paris, 22 Nov. 1787 . Has been told TJ needs an accurate copyist; offers his services. RC ( DLC ); 2 p.; endorsed; at foot of text: “Chés Duhamel, Epicier au Coin De la Rüe des Bourdonnais au 4e.” Recorded in SJL as received 23 Nov. 1787.
439To Thomas Jefferson from Maupin, 18 January 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
On peut faire réellement, quoique Scientifiquement, les plus grandes conquêtes au profit des Nations, et en general de toutes les Sociétés, et non Seulement n’en recevoir aucun prix ni aucune marque de reconnoissance, mais encore en être pour ses frais. J’en Suis un exemple. Cependant, Monsieur, je voudrois, entre autres choses, perfectionner la vigne dans les lieux où elle est établie; et...
440To Thomas Jefferson from Lafayette, with Enclosure, 18 September 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Thus far I Have Come down from My Mountains, and Hope I will not Be sent Back without some decision or other Respecting American affairs. Inclosed is the Copy of a letter to M. Lambert which I Have writen as soon as I Knew His Appointement. I also inform M. de la Boulaïe that I will Be Ready to Meet Him Every day in the Next week, But that I am obliged to set out Again on the fifth of October...
441To Thomas Jefferson from Jean François Lesparat, 11 September 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris ] 11 Sep. 1787. Sends a copy of his Réflexions; hopes the United States will avoid the abyss into which the principal powers of Europe have fallen because of their accumulation of a permanent debt; if the advice in his pamphlet will be of use to the citizens of the United States, as he hopes it will, now or later, be of use in France, his labors will not have been in vain. RC ( ViWC );...
442To Thomas Jefferson from Le Mesurier & Cie., 14 September 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
We have the honor to acquaint you that the Brig Jenny Captn. David Peoples arrived here with a Cargo of Two Hundred and Thirty five Hogsheads of Tobacco belonging to Messrs. Willing Morris & Swanwick of Philadelphia, which those gentlemen trusted would be sold to the Farmers General at the price which they had fixed for Tobaccos of the same quality; but after getting the quality ascertained by...
443To Thomas Jefferson from Ralph Izard, 20 October 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I am favoured with your Letter of 1st. August, enclosing Messrs. Berard’s Proposals on the subject of Rice, which I have shewn to several Merchants, and am happy to find a general disposition among them to enter into Commercial Connexions with France. You know how they have been hitherto hampered by their engagements with the British Merchants, and their Trammels are not yet broken. Messieurs...