142051To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 2 November 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
London, 2 Nov. 1787 . Sends letter by his friend [Daniel] Parker, whom he recommends to TJ; reports that the ship James left port the beginning of October; that he has executed his commission for TJ with Brown “respecting Mr. Payne’s picture”; that the bill brought by Cutting was honored immediately; that his reward for his troubles in connection with the shipment of the harpsichord will be...
142052To George Washington from John Trumbull, 18 September 1798 (Washington Papers)
By the Ship Nancy, Captain Davidson bound to Alexandria, I have sent a small Box, addressed to you, and containing the Four Pair of Prints for which you did me the honour to subscribe so long since, and two Volumes which I was requested by my friend Mr West to forward to you with his best Respects: the prints are the finest impressions and, for security are rolled, and enclosed in a Tin Case....
142053To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 21 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
On the other side you have the only articles of interesting intelligence which I can find in Boston Papers so late as the 15th. June. There is a Gentleman in Town who left N York the same day: I have not seen him but am told he brings nothing of Consequence. The Congress continue with great unanimity in their Attention to the Revenue establishment in which their progress is as rapid as can be...
142054To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 26 November 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope I may congratulate you on your safe arrival long before this reaches you:—I landed on Monday the 23. and the winds which we had having been as favorable for you as ourselves (so far as we could judge:) we therefore conclude that you have been equally happy. I hope both you and the Ladies, to whom you will remember my best wishes, are in as perfect health as the fatigues of the Voyage...
142055To John Jay from John Trumbull, 21 July 1796 (Jay Papers)
Your Favor of the 12 th . December, is the last I have had the Honour to receive from you, this I received and answered on the 6 th . March;— I have since received a number of Letters from America, through M r Pinckney, which convince me that I have not been so entirely forgotten by my friends as I supposed. I embark this Afternoon for the North, having terminated the Business which has kept...
142056To John Adams from John Trumbull, 6 February 1790 (Adams Papers)
Your letter found me on my return from the session of our Superior Court at Haddam—since which, I have attended a three weeks session of our County Court here. So that I have had little leisure to prepare for my defence in a capital Trial. To your charge of reading myself to death , I now propose to plead double by leave of the Court. My first Plea is that I am yet alive. Lord Hale advises...
142057To George Washington from John Trumbull, 3 October 1795 (Washington Papers)
By the Ship Factor bound to Philadelphia I send a Box addressed to your Excellency, containing Two Prints, which I beg you will do me the Honour to Accept. The Plate of the Death of Montgomery is at length compleat, and the impression which I now send is, (excepting the inferiority of the Paper,) such as will be delivered to my friends in America; that of the Death of Warren is promised to be...
142058To John Adams from John Trumbull, 16 September 1805 (Adams Papers)
Returning to Hartford in the course of our Circuit, I found your letter, of July 27th. & August 5th: which had lain a month in the Post Office. From some appearances, I am led to believe that a correspondence so free as ours has been, cannot with perfect safety be carried on at present—I will however answer some of your enquiries. The letter You remark on, relative to the capture of...
142059To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 20 June 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter from Amsterdam reach’d me safe three days ago sent by Van Staphorst to Parker. I have received the £30 inclos’d. Our account stands thus Recd. of Mr. Jefferson By Mrs. Adams £ 8. 0. 0. By Herries & Co. 30. 0. 0. £ 38. 0. 0. Paid for do. Polyplasiasmos picture £ 1.11. 6. for Mr. Short at Woodmasons 0. 8. 0. do. for gloves 0.10. 0 Books at Lackington’s...
142060To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 1 October 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have omitted to reply to your most welcome & kind Letter of the 15 th of July, until I could announce the Completion of my print of the Declaration of Independence. I have now the pleasure to say that not only the Engraving has been finished with great beauty, but that the printing has also been executed with uncommon success. The sloop Virginia which sails tomorrow for Richmond, will convey...
142061To John Adams from John Trumbull, July 1800 (Adams Papers)
Your Friends in Hartford were exceedingly disappointed, that they had not the Pleasure of Seeing writing or seeing You on your Return from Philadelphia, but supposed, that an Inclination to seeing visit a Part of the State of Connecticut in which you had not travelled, & visit the State of Rhode Island, induced you to vary your accustomed Route. A Report has since been triumphantly circulated,...
142062To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 11 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I have your two Letters, of the 29th. June (enclosing Mr. Grand’s letter of Credit on Mr. Lewis Tessier for Eighty pounds Stg. which I have this day receiv’d and given duplicate Receipts for) and of 2d: July. The Carriage I had agreed for was sold before I got your answer: but I have good hope of meeting as good a bargain before Mr. Parker goes again to Paris.—Lackington had only Alfred’s...
142063From John Trumbull to John Adams, 20 November 1794 (Adams Papers)
The Result of M r Jay’s Negotiation goes with this letter:— A Treaty which was sign’d yesterday, and which, being founded on the mutual desire first to do Justice, and then to grant accommodations, will I trust meet with the approbation of the Honest and well disposed Men of all Nations; & prove the Basis of future good understanding & good Offices between the two Countries who are Parties to...
142064To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 26 June 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 18th with a packet was delivered me this morning by Mr. Edwards. The accompaniments shall be forwarded the first opportunity, which I expect in five days.—Your last leters to America are on board a Ship which left the River two weeks since but was detain’d by contrary winds, in the Downs untill the 20th.—The winds have not been favorable since.—This days post brought me your...
142065To Benjamin Franklin from John Trumbull, 8 December 1781 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society; AL (draft): Yale University Library I had the honor to receive your Excellency’s letter of the 26th: of last month, yesterday, and have in consequence drawn upon Mr. Grand this day for the amount you mention. I beg leave to congratulate your Excellency upon the capture of Lord Cornwallis, & the very flattering situation of our Affairs in America. Majr....
142066To James Madison from John Trumbull, 4 December 1827 (Madison Papers)
May I beg your acceptance of the enclosed “Description[”] of the Four paintings which I executed under your Auspices, & which are now finished, & permanently placed. I thought well to accompany each subject with a Sketch of the History of the Event: & hope that what I have said, may meet your approbation. There is also, in the introduction, an allusion to the favorable impression made by my...
142067To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 22 February 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you from Boulogne to say that with all our accidents Mrs. Church was safe. We cross’d the channel in beautiful weather and in four or five hours, but our unpropitious Genius would not let us escape even on such a day without mishap. In going out of the harbor we ran foul of a post which marks the channel, damag’d the vessell and frighten’d us. After landing safe however at Dover we set...
142068To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 10 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Communications are preparing by the Board of Commissioners acting under the 7th. article of the Treaty between the U.S. of America & Great Britain, to Mr King the American Minister here;—and by the American Comrs. to Mr Madison the Secry. of State, explaining the doings of the Board, in respect to the appointment of Mr. G. W. Erving to the double Office of Agent for American Claims, & Assessor...
142069To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 23 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I am this morning favor’d with yours of 18th May:—I am sorry to find from this, that one of your letters has miscarried, and the more mortified as it happens to be that which you mention to have written from Amsterdam containing a draft:—The only letter I have from you since one of three lines the 3d. March: mentioning your intention of leaving Paris on that tour is the present received this...
142070To George Washington from John Trumbull, 5 October 1799 (Washington Papers)
I had the Honour to receive your favour of the 25th of June last, some weeks ago; I am very much obliged to you for what you have done respecting the Prints but sorry that you should have had so much trouble with them. The wonderful Events of this Campaign in Europe have entirely contradicted my speculations of last Spring, and have at least removed to a greater distance the Danger which I...
142071To John Adams from John Trumbull, 21 November 1776 (Adams Papers)
Since I had the pleasure of seeing You last, I have conversed with my Father on the plan you proposed to me of going into the Service; and tho’ we were both very sensible of the kindness of your Offer, and should have preferred the Office You engaged to procure me to any other Post, I could have expected to obtain, yet he seemed averse to my joining the Army on any Conditions at present. He...
142072From John Trumbull to John Adams, 16 January 1794 (Adams Papers)
I returned to this place on the same day You left it, & was extremely disappointed to find You had passed thro’ on your journey to Philadelphia—as I had supposed it probable You would not set out so early from home. I intended to visit my Friends at Boston & Braintree last summer—but about the time I had calculated for the journey, the Smallpox broke out in my neighbourhood, my family had been...
142073To John Jay from John Trumbull, 7 September 1796 (Jay Papers)
I returned to this Country a few days since, from an Excursion which was protracted to a much greater length than I at first intended or foresaw:— It will I am sure, give you pleasure to know that there is every probability of my being tolerably rewarded for the trouble I have had. On my Arrival here, I had the pleasure to find, among many Letters from my friends, your several favors of the 10...
142074To George Washington from John Trumbull, 29 November 1789 (Washington Papers)
Had not the subject been accidentally introduc’d in the conversation with which you was pleas’d to honor me this Evening, I should never have thought of mentioning that any application from me bore a part in procurring to Mr Jefferson the civilities wch He receiv’d from the Custom House in England. But since it has been mention’d you will pardon my enclosing copies of the Letters which I wrote...
142075To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 6 June 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I received yours of the 28th May and have enquir’d at Herries’s for your Letter of March from Amsterdam and find that after having search’d for me ineffectually, as well they might, my little obscure corner not being expressly particularis’d in the address, they sent it back to Van Staphorsts in Amsterdam the 16th. of last month. Very probably therefore you will receive it before you do this....
142076To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 29 November 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the pleasure of committing to Colo. Smith’s care for you, a letter of Mrs. Cosway, and a book of songs of her composition . She has written twice to you before, since receiving your first and only one thru my hands; and having no answer, is anxious least they should have missd their way tho I addressed them in the manner you directed. I am sorry to learn from Colo. S. that his last...
142077To John Adams from John Trumbull, 19 October 1805 (Adams Papers)
‘Till I received your last of the 4th: instant I had no idea that you doubted the truth of Washington’s letter relative to the capture of Cornwallis and supposed you only questioned the propriety of his allowing a letter to be published, in which he appears to boast of his success in stratagems. You express a wish that "the veracity of the letter might be established beyond all cavil." I can...
142078To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 29 January 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I receiv’d several Days since yours of the 18th. The Clothes you order from Cannon, will be ready to go by any other opportunity, as your order was too late for Mr. Parker.—The picture of Hampden does exist:—of the others my information is not satisfactory: when it is I will write further. I have since received your Packet by Mr. Frazer:—The Customhouse Officers had made free to break the...
142079To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 1 May 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I am to beg your forgiveness for having so long omitted to write you—but a proof accompanies this that tho silent I have not been negligent:—Mr. Mason takes charge of your trunk, which I hope you will receive in a few days, and find made according to your Orders. I shall make up your account in a few days. In the mean time, for this and all my delays, I have one excuse to offer: extream...
142080To George Washington from John Trumbull, 10 March 1780 (Washington Papers)
Having determin’d to Visit Europe, in a few Months —where Military Reputation is highly Esteem’d—and where, to have Serv’d in the American Army is a general Letter of Credit—I Beg leave to request from your Excellency a single Line expressive of my Services, and the Rank with which I was once honor’d. I should not have troubled your Excellency with this Application, had not the manner in which...