91To Thomas Jefferson from Burrill Carnes, [ca. 9 October 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Nantes, ca. 9 Oct. 1787 .] In answer to TJ’s inquiry of the 5th, he has called upon the twelve individuals and firms in the appended list, and gives a state of their sales of tobacco to the farmers-general: eight of them sold lots ranging in size from 2 to 203 hogsheads, at prices ranging from 28₶ for a lot of 3 hogsheads to 34₶ for a lot of 203 hogsheads, all paid 15 per cent tare, three...
92To Thomas Jefferson from Burrill Carnes, [before 31 December 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Nantes, before 31 Dec. 1787 .] Has a vessel bound for Alexandria in a few days; offers to execute any commissions entrusted to him. RC ( MHi ); 1 p.; endorsed; undated but evidently one of two undated letters recorded in SJL Index as received in 1787.
93To Thomas Jefferson from Burrill Carnes, 28 September 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Nantes, 28 Sep. 1787 . Acknowledges TJ’s letter of 22 Sep. ; had hoped to send by Ast, who brings this, the account of the United States with Schweighauser & Dobrée, but illness of Dobrée has prevented, and will for some time, completion of examination of that account. Wishes to present the “difficulty American vessels labour under here, on their return home for want of Salt provisions”; the...
94To Thomas Jefferson from Carra, 8 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Paris, 8 Dec. 1787 . Has been charged with a memorial concerning Cazeau, a Canadian, in relation to a debt which Congress acknowledged by resolutions of 6 Feb. 1783 and 18 Mch. 1784; asks for an appointment to present them to TJ. RC ( DLC ); 1 p.; in French; signed: “Carra de la Bibliotheque du Roi, rue de la michodiere, à coté de la rue projettée.” Recorded in SJL as received 9 Dec. 1787. For...
95To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Carrington, 23 October 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
New York, 23 Oct. 1787. Introduces Mr. Jarvis, a “Gentleman of New England” who brings this letter and a copy of the proposed plan of government; refers TJ to Jarvis for news on that subject. Is sending a full account of the convention in another letter of this day which is being carried by “the Chevalier Jones” who intended sailing on the packet but changed his passage to another ship because...
96To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Carrington, 23 October 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been honoured with your favor of the 4th. of August. Inclosed you will receive a Copy of the report of our late federal Convention, which presents, not amendments to the old Confederation, but an entire new Constitution. This work is short of the ideas I had the honor to communicate to you in June, in no other instance than an absolute negative upon the State laws. When the report was...
97To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Carrington, 10 November 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Madison and myself have done ourselves the honor to write you very fully as late as the 23d. Ult., but as the Chevalier Jones is but now about to sail in a Merchant Man for Holland, from whence he means to go directly to Paris, I just use this additional opportunity to inclose you the papers from the period of our former letters to this date. They contain sundry peices upon the subject of...
98[To Thomas Jefferson from Martha Jefferson Carr, 3 December 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
[ 3 Dec. 1787. Recorded in SJL Index. Not found.]
99To Thomas Jefferson from Peter Carr, 18 March 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Paradise being about to sail to Europe in a few days, furnishes me with an opportunity of informing you of my progress and situation. In my letter of the 10 December I acquainted you, that from the want of money I had been obliged to stay in Goochland, some time; soon after the date of that, I was fortunate enough to receive some, and return’d to this place immediately. Mr. Wythe advised...
100To Thomas Jefferson from Peter Carr, 10 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
When I last had the pleasure of writeing to you, I was at Wm. & Mary attending the different masters of that university; I remained there untill the first of August; since which time I have been here, waiting for money to enable me to return; but have never yet been able to procure it. So soon as I do I shall go down. I mentioned to you in my last, that the want of a Spanish dictionary had...