1To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington, 1 January 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
I yesterday received with sincere regret your resignation of the office of Secretary of State. Since it has been impossible to prevail upon you, to forego any longer the indulgence of your desire for private life; the event, however anxious I am to avert it, must be submitted to. But I cannot suffer you to leave your Station, without assuring you, that the opinion, which I had formed, of your...
2From Thomas Jefferson to John Ross, 2 January 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his friendly respects to Mr. Ross: the sum which he finds his money-provisions fall short is about 450. Dollars; with which if Mr. Ross can have him furnished, he incloses him a substitution in due form to receive 390.62 at the bank of the US. on the 1st. day of April, and he will remit the balance at an earlier period. He considers himself as much indebted to Mr. Ross...
3Enclosure: Power of Attorney, 2 January 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
Know all men by these presents that I Thomas Jefferson named in a certain letter of Attorney from William Short of the state of Virginia Minister Resident of the US. at the Hague, to me bearing date the 2d. day of April 1793. and now lodged in the bank of the US. by virtue of the power and authority therein given me, do make substitute and appoint John Ross Esquire as well my own as the true...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Certain Diplomats of the United States, 3 January 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inform you that I have resigned the office of Secretary of state, and that Mr. Randolph late Attorney Genl. of the US. is appointed by the President and approved by the Senate as Secretary of state. He will be so good as to acknolege the receipt of your several letters not yet acknoleged by me, and will answer in detail such parts of them as may require special answer I beg...
5From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 3 January 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof, Mr. Louis Osmond , desires me to [convey?] to you the circumstances known to me relative to his emigration to America. Mr. Osmond, about three years ago, arrived in America from France, and brought me letters of recommendation from [several?] persons of rank and character there informing me that his fa[mily?] having from some circumstances lost their fortune there, [he had?]...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Willing and Willink, Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 3 January 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inform you that I have resigned the office of Secretary of state and that Mr. Randolph late attorney genl. of the US. is appointed by the President and approved by the Senate as Secretary of state. You will therefore be pleased to consider all authority heretofore held by me over any funds in the bank belonging to the department of state, as now transferred to him. I have...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Horatio Gates, 5 January 179[4] (Jefferson Papers)
The Hermit of Rose Hill sees it confirmed by Yesterdays post, that you have actually Resign’d your Office! but his prophetic Soul, Augurs no Benefit to the State by such a Sacrafice; If the best Seamen abandon the Ship in a Storm, she must Founder; and if all Human means are neglected, Providence will not Care for The Vessel; She must Perish! A Hermit, as He knows little of what passes in the...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Hauterive, 15 January 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai reçu, Monsieur, une lettre datée du 7. Septembre et Signée de vous; J’ai vu depuis, et après votre résignation du ministere, dans les papiers publics une déclaration qu’on vous attribüe sur les motifs qui vous ont Fait vous prêter aux différens actes de votre ministere qui étoient en opposition avec vos opinions. Des Considérations importantes et personelles me font vous demander,...
9Memorandum to Thomas Mann Randolph, [ca. 16–24 January 1794] (Jefferson Papers)
The price of wheat and whether it can be sold for the rise of the market? The price of molasses. Whether my things from Philadelphia addressed to Colo. Gamble are arrived? If they are, send them up by Henderson’s people of preference to the other things. Send by them the sugar &c for which I wrote to Colo. Gamble . After the things last expected from Philadelphia I would wish to receive the...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Harry Innes, 21 January 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreable to the promise contained in my last Letter I now inclose you the Remonstrance drawn and circulated by the Democratic society in this state. I shall only observe that it here meets with very general approbation. I think I hinted in my Letter that foreign aid had been offered to Kentucky; it has been told me to day that Majr. Genl. Logan of the state Militia has resigned his state...
11To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Leslie, 22 January 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
I have Just receved your favour of December 12th. and return you my sincear thank for your good wishes, and shall do my best, to desarve them in future. I am sorry it is not in my power to alter the watch agreeable to your directions, as the numbers in wheels are not calculated for that pinion to make exactly one revolution in a minut, but if a delay of about two months will not be trespassing...
12From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 26 January 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 22d. has been duly received, and, in consequence of it, my manager Mr. Biddle now sets out for the sheep, as the approach of the yeaning season leaves no time to spare as to them. I could have wished to have made one trip serve for them and the potatoes: but I am advised that the latter would be in danger of freezing on the road. I must therefore, as to them wait for milder...
13To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Pinckney, with Jefferson’s Note, 29 January 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknowledge your private favor of the 12th. of December covering a bill for 13 st. which is duly honor’d. I wish the threshing machine may answer the purpose, I have no doubt that on a proper stream of water the effect of it would be astonishingly great and the principle being accurately described in the model may be applied to smaller machines for farmers whose strength of Cattle...
14To Thomas Jefferson from Ferdinando Fairfax, 31 January 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
You have, no doubt, often received the congratulations of your countrymen upon your entrance into the several Public Offices and employments, to which your time and attention have been for so many years devoted. Permit me, now, to congratulate you upon your voluntary re-linquishment of these employments, for that peaceful retirement, the proper relish and enjoyment of which constitutes the...
15From Thomas Jefferson to Horatio Gates, 3 February 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
I left Philadelphia on the very day of the friendly letter you wrote me , and consequently it came to me at this place. The letter book with which you were so kind as to entrust me, came to my hands some little time before the infectious fever broke out at Philadelphia. I was just about putting it into confidential hands to extract the letters to or from myself, when that disorder obliged us...
16From Thomas Jefferson to James Innes, 3 February 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
Having occasion for information as to the practice [of the] Genl. court in a particular matter, wherein it may probably be very different from what it was when I was more familiar with it, I have no acquaintance at the bar to whom I would be more willingly indebted for it than yourself. In settling a sterling debt and the paiments made on it, do they convert them into currency? at the legal...
17From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Randolph, 3 February 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to thank you for the transmission of the letters from Genl. Gates, La Motte , and Hauterive. I perceive by the latter that the partisans of the one or the other principle (perhaps of both) have thought my name a convenient cover for declarations of their own sentiments. What those are to which Hauterive alludes, I know not, having never seen a newspaper since I left Philadelphia (except...
18To Thomas Jefferson from O. A. Bertrand, 8 February 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai L’honneur de vous envoïer les pieces ci incluses; je crois, quelles vous feront plaisir, parcequ’il m’a paru, Lorsque j’ai eu L’honneur de vous voir chez le Sieur thouin en 1785, que vous preniez de l’intérêt à la digression, que je faisois Sur la fécondation végétale et artificielle; je vous prie Monseigneur de porter à la connoissance des Etats Unis, et que S’ils croyoient, qu’il Seroit...
19Enclosure I: List of Notes, 8 February 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
L’avocat Bertrand a L’honneur d’offrir Au Seigneur Jefferson Secretaire d’Etats des Etats Unis d’Amerique des notes instructives sur les points suivans. 1 notes instructives sur les meilleurs moÿens de perfectioner L’agriculture et l’économie rurale. 2 notes instructives sur les meilleurs moÿens de perfectioner les arts et Sciences. 3 notes instructives sur les meilleurs moÿens de soulager les...
20Enclosure II: Agricultural Prospectus, 8 February 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
Description de quelques demonstrations expérimentales, que L’avocat Bertrand désireroit de faire par un de ses fils dans les environs de la ville de Washington, que les Etats Unis d’Amerique font batir. 1 Demonstrations expérimentales sur les meilleurs procédés à Suivre pour constater la nature des sols et des terreins et pour les ameliorer. 2 Demonstrations expérimentales sur les meilleurs...
21To Thomas Jefferson from Tobias Lear, 12 February 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed papers were put into my hands yesterday by M. Bertrand, whom I have met several times since I have been in this City. This gentleman is spoken of as a great Agriculturalist, and is much esteemed, as I am informed, by the Society of Agriculture in this Kingdom. His propositions, however, are not such as are likely to meet with encouragement in the United States and so I told him;...
22From Thomas Jefferson to Hartman Elliot, 15 February 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
I received three days ago your favor of January 18. and am sorry to find by it that your driver has defrauded you of ten dollars. I was to pay you for your stage 5. dollars a day for seven days, and ferriages. I paid the ferriages and toll to Fredericksburg myself, exactly 2. dollars, and at Fredericksburg I paid your driver thirty five dollars for the stage, two dollars for his ferriages and...
23From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 15 February 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
We are here in a state of great quiet, having no public news to agitate us. I have never seen a Philadelphia paper since I left that place, nor learnt any thing of later date except some successes of the French the account of which seemed to have come by our vessel from Havre. It was said yesterday at our court that Genet was to be recalled: however nobody could tell how the information came....
24To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 22 February 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope, Sir, that this letter will find [you] settled in your retreat at Monticello. It is the first which I have had the honor to address to you since your departure. I congratulate you on the temperate conduct of the French Convention towards the U.S. in regard to the late Altercations of Mr. Genet with our Government and his conduct in general. I understood yesterday from the P. that Mr....
25To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 27 February 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed accounts of the recapture of Toulon will give you satisfaction in a high degree. They are believed here by all parties. It is added that the Earl of Moira has returned without landing his Army in Britanny. This is the most important Advice we have received since the war, as I have the honor to mention to you confidentially, that Mr. P. writes from L. that Ld. Granville has finally...
26To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 2 March 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 15th. Ult: came to hand two days ago. It was not my intention that my first to you should have been procrastinated to the present date; but several causes have concurred in producing the effect. Among others I was in hopes every week to be able to furnish you with the proceedings on the subject grounded on your Commercial Report ; and particularly with such of them as related...
27To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 3 March 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
The avidity with which I knew you sought retirement and peace, undisturbed by political occurrences, with the further consideration that no event of any importance had taken place since you left us, prevented my trespassing on you sooner. I am perfectly satisfied you will find in that retirement a contentment and tranquility not to be hoped for in publick life. And yours will be the greater,...
28To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 9 March 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you the continuation promised in my last , which I believe makes up the whole. If there should be any chasm let me know, and I will supply it. I have some little doubt the paper of Tuesday March 4. may have been omitted, and would now add it, but can not get it conveniently in time. The commercial propositions were postponed for one week longer, on the arrival of the appointed day....
29To Thomas Jefferson from Giuseppe Ceracchi, 11 March 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
With graet satisfaction I have recieved the honour of your first letter dated from Philodelphia the 14 of last Nov. in which I find explaned the case that retards the resolution on the intended Monument, which at any time that it will be resolved, I shall consider it as the most honorable commission coming to me throughof your inflonce with the United States, and the patronage you are plesed...
30From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 11 March 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
The small pox at Richmond has cut off the communication by post to or through that place. I should have thought it Davies’s duty to have removed his office a little way out of town, that the communication might not have been interrupted. Instead of that it is said the inhabitants of the country are to be prosecuted because they thought it better to refuse a passage to his post riders than take...