1II. Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 11 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Objects which may merit the attention of the President at George T. The Commissioners to be called into action. Deeds of cession to be taken from the landholders. Site of the Capitol and President’s house to be determined on. Proclamation completing the location of the territory and fixing the site of the Capitol. Town to be laid off. Squares of reserve to be decided on for the Capitol,...
2VII. Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Charles L’Enfant, 17 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 11. inst. has been duly recieved. Between the date of that and your reciept of the present, it is probable that the most important parts of the ground towards the Eastern branch will have been delineated. However, whether they are or not, as the President will go on within two or three days, and would wish to have under his eye, when at Georgetown, a drawing also of the...
3XII. Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Charles L’Enfant, 10 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I am favored with your letter of the 4th. inst. and in compliance with your request I have examined my papers and found the plans of Frankfort on the Mayne, Carlsruhe, Amsterdam Strasburg, Paris, Orleans, Bordeaux, Lyons, Montpelier, Marseilles, Turin and Milan, which I send in a roll by this post. They are on large and accurate scales, having been procured by me while in those respective...
4XIII. Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 10 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor of addressing you on the 2d. inst. which I presume would overtake you at Richmond. The present I imagine will not overtake you till you get to Wilmington. Since my last I have been honoured with your two letters of March 31. and two others of Apr. 4. one of which was circular. A copy of this I sent to the Vice president, and as Colo. Hamilton has asked a consultation on a...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Harison, 1 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The recess of Congress now permitting me to resume the subject of my letter of Aug. 12. which was circular, I have the honor of acknoleging the receipt of yours of Sep. 3. and Dec. 4. together with the papers which accompanied the latter. These, with the observations you have been so good as to make on the subject of British debts and property will enable us to give answers as to the...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Hawkins, 1 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
At Mrs. Trist’s desire I forward to you about a dozen beans of three different kinds, having first taken toll of them as she had done before. They are of the scarlet flowering kinds. This is all I know of them. The most beautiful bean in the world is the Caracalla bean, which though in England a green house plant, will grow in the open air in Virginia and Carolina. I never could get one of...
7From Thomas Jefferson to George Read, Jr., 1 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Having now leisure to resume the subject of my letter of Aug. 12. which was circular, I have the honor to acknolege the receipt of yours of Nov. 4. with the acts therewith forwarded. The making a complete collection, to be deposited at the seat of the general government, of all the laws in force in every state, or which have been in force, is so important, that I must ask a continuation of...
8From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 1 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof, Mr. Daniel Ludlow, a merchant and citizen of New York, being about to go to Europe and probably to France, for the purpose of establishing mercantile connections, I take the liberty of introducing him to you. The assurances I recieve of his worth and respectability are such as to merit any services or kindnesses you can render him, and shall be considered as personal...
9From Thomas Jefferson to John Sitgreaves, 1 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Having now leisure, since the adjournment of Congress, to resume the subject of my circular letter of Aug. 12. I have the honour to acknowledge the reciept of your favor of Dec. 6. and to thank you for the papers forwarded with it on the subject of British debts and property. The other object of my letter, that of procuring a complete copy of all the laws in force or which have ever been in...
10From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 2 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor of addressing you on the 27th. Ult. since which letters are received of Jan. 24. from Mr. Carmichael, and of Jan. 3. and 15. Madrid, and Feb. 6. and 12. Lisbon, from Colo. Humphreys. As these are interesting and may tend to settle suspense of mind to a certain degree I shall trouble you with quotations from some parts and the substance of others. Colo. H . says ‘I learn from...
11From Thomas Jefferson to William Brown, 4 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 21. came to hand on the 24th. and as it proposed a different statement from mine of the 17th. and I was too much engaged to open the papers on that subject, I have not been able to take it up till now. The interval of the war has been usually settled at 8. years. You state it at 3. months less. This trifle is not worth notice, and besides is lessened by an error of a month...
12From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Carroll, 4 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Brown having agreed to settle our balance at £21. 16s. 9d. sterling principal and interest, I have acceded in order to be done with it. Since you have been so good as to be privy to this whole matter, I take the liberty of sending my last letter on the subject, open, through your hands, that you may see that I have been grounded in my belief that I owed nothing, a belief that is still...
13From Thomas Jefferson to Nicholas Lewis, 4 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
A little intermission of public business on the separation of Congress and departure of the President permits me now to turn my attention for a moment to my own affairs. Finding that good tobacco sold tolerably well here, and being assured that the tobacco of the red lands in Albemarle and Bedford were perfectly known here, and commanded always the highest price, I wrote to Mr. Hylton at...
14III. The Secretary of State to the President, 17 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor of addressing you on the 2d. which I supposed would find you at Richmond, and again on the 10th. which I thought would overtake you at Wilmington. The present will probably find you at Charleston. According to what I mentioned in my letter of the 10th. the Vicepresident, Secretaries of the Treasury and war and myself met on the 11th. Colo. Hamilton presented a letter from Mr....
15From Thomas Jefferson to Robert and Peter Bruce, 5 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I now inclose you a bank post-note for sixty six dollars and a half, which makes up the rent of the whole year for the house I rented of you in New York, according to the statement below, for which I will ask the favor of a reciept in full. I am Gentlemen Your most obedt. humble servt., £ s d 1790. Aug. 4. To cash. (New York currency) 27 7 3 Dec. 2. To do. 28 0 0 To assumpsit of new...
16From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Hanson, 5 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of Nov. 7. I informed you that on settling the affairs of the year there were expected to be 69,000 ℔. of tobacco to be appropriated to the making my annual payment of £500. sterl. to you and £200. sterl. to Kippen & co. Finding that tobacco of that quality would sell better here than in Virginia and probably better than in England I ordered so much as was at the warehouse to be...
17From Thomas Jefferson to Daniel L. Hylton, 5 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 12. came to hand a fortnight ago and having given me reason to expect that the bill of lading for the vis-a-vis would come within a post or two, I have delayed answering in order to make one job of it. But not recieving the bill of lading, I trouble you again to send it forward. In the mean time I had enquiry made at New York whether any such captain as Towles had arrived...
18From Thomas Jefferson to William Lewis, 5 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
It is with some degree of shame that I accept the kind offer in your letter of the 1st. inst. However one may sometimes do for the public what they would not do for themselves. I therefore send you our whole collection of loose laws, to be filled up as you propose. I would beg that the copying of your index or any other writing in the business may be sent to be done at my office so as to take...
19From Thomas Jefferson to Matthew McAllister, 5 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your two favors of Oct. 24. and Dec. 24. as also the laws and proceedings you have been so kind as to collect. Those relative to British property and subjects will enable us, I presume to decide on any objections which may be derived on their part from proceedings of the state of Georgia.—With respect to the collection of the laws of Georgia, however desireable that a complete...
20From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Potts, 5 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 9. came to hand on the 23d. I was prevented by other pressing business from attending to it’s contents, till two or three days ago, and then perceiving that you had sent the laws to me, and that they were not come to hand, I sent to Mr. Warder, who immediately delivered them. I now inclose you a bank post note for twenty five dollars and a quarter, the amount of the account...
21From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 6 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 5. came to hand on the 24th. and that of Mar.14. on the 1st. inst. With respect to Mr. Thompson it has been understood that his circumstances are desperate and that he is fond of the bottle. At the time the first appointments of consuls were made, their circumstances were not attended to, and an appointment or two took place of persons under embarrasments of that kind. We...
22From Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, Jr., 7 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The recess of Congress, and a relaxation in the business which immediately ensues their separation, permits me now to turn my attention a little to my own affairs. I resume therefore the subject of my letters to you of Jan. 11. and Nov. 2. 1790. and yours to me of Jan. 25. 1791. respecting my right to the 490. acres of land included in my order of council of Mar. 11. 1773. for 1000. acres, and...
23II. Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Hamilton, 10 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to send to the Secretary of the Treasury a note just received from Mr. Otto with copies of a correspondence between certain bankers desirous of lending 40. millions of livres to the U. S. the French ministers and Mr. Short. He will ask the Secretary of the Treasury’s consideration of these papers, and that he will be so good as to return them to him with the...
24V. Thomas Jefferson to Louis Guillaume Otto, 7 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have now the honour to return you the propositions of Messrs. Schweizer, Jeanneret & co. which have been submitted to the Secretary of the Treasury. He does not think they can be acceded to on the part of the United States. The greater premium demanded than what we now pay, the change of the place of payment, the change of the bankers whom we have always employed for others unknown to us,...
25From Thomas Jefferson to William Carmichael, 11 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you on the 12th. of March, and again on the 17th. of the same month, since which I have received your favor of January 24th. wherein you refer to copies of two letters, also to a paper No. 1. supposed to be enclosed in that letter: but there was nothing enclosed. You speak particularly of several other letters formerly forwarded, but not a single one was ever received of later date...
26From Thomas Jefferson to David Humphreys, 11 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you Mar. 15. with postscripts of the 18th. and 19th. Since that yours of Jan. 3. No. 10. Jan. 15. No. 11. from Madrid, and Feb. 6. No. 12. and Feb. 12. No. 13. from Lisbon are received. They covered a letter from Mr. Carmichael, the only one we have from him of a later date than May 1789. You know that my letter to him, of which you were the bearer, took notice of the intermission of...
27From Thomas Jefferson to David Humphreys, 11 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
There has been published at Madrid, by some bishop who had been to Mexico, and found there an original collection of the letters of Cortez, a book containing those letters. I do not know how it happened that I did not ask the favor of you to procure this book for me. I now supply the omission, and add a request to procure also la historia del Amirante D. Christoval Colomb by Fernando Colomb,...
28From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Carroll, 15 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of the 10th. with Mr. Brown’s reciept, and thank you for the trouble you have been so kind as to take in this business. Our news from the Westward is disagreeable. Constant murders committing by the Indians, and their combination threatens to be more and more extensive. I hope we shall give them a thorough drubbing this summer, and then change our tomahawk into...
29From Thomas Jefferson to Adam Lindsay, 15 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favour of the 7th. instant inclosing the note for 54. ℔. myrtle wax candles. I thank you for your kind attention to this little commission, and now inclose you a bank post note for eleven dollars sixty cents the amount of the candles and box. This post note will be paid by any collector of the customs. The parcel you now send me will serve as a trial, as I never used...
30III. Thomas Jefferson to Tench Coxe, 17 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Th : Jefferson presents his compliments to Mr. Coxe and being to write to the President this morning, he has no hesitation to inclose to him Mr. Coxe’s letter, and to assure Mr. Coxe of his wishes for success to the application. He has not waited to consult with Mr. M. because he should have lost a post in the conveyance of the letter, and that as to himself he had no doubts to consult about....