15661From James Madison to Isaac Cox Barnet, 30 September 1803 (Madison Papers)
If the scope of your communication of the 19th. of June is correctly conceived you retain a predilection for the Commercial Agency at Antwerp; tho’ the uncertainty whether it remained vacant induced you to adhere to the appointment to Havre which you last received. Should this be the true state of your choice, you will be at liberty to retain Antwerp, and on your intimating that determination...
15662From Alexander Hamilton to John Barney, 29 October 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
I have duly received your letter of the 21. instant and beg you to accept my thanks for it. The intimations of Zealous and intelligent citizens will always be received by me with attention and acknowledgement. The ideas contained in your Letter appear to me solid and judicious. As far as my reflections have gone they coincide very much with the views you entertain of the matter. But at present...
15663From James Madison to Joshua Barney and Others, 1 May 1794 (Madison Papers)
I have been favored with your letter of Mar: 13. from Jamaica with its inclosure, in which the American Masters of Vessels detained in that Island have been pleased to express their sentiments on the Resolutions proposed by me in the House of Representatives on the 3d. of January last. Having long regarded the principles on which those Resolutions were founded, as the basis of a policy most...
15664From Benjamin Franklin to Joshua Barney, 5 December 1782 (Franklin Papers)
LS : United States Naval Academy Museum I receiv’d your Letter of the 23d. past duly by the Express. I was very glad to see the Minister’s Dispatches, as the Want of them had much delay’d our affairs. I have kept the Express hoping to have sent by him our final Letters. But the Answer of the Court being not yet obtained, & the time when we may expect it being from some present Circumstances...
15665From James Madison to Joshua Barney, 30 August 1804 (Madison Papers)
In answer to your letter intimating that a claim you had upon the French Government has been rejected by the Commissioners under the Convention respecting Louisiana, and desiring the interposition of the Executive, I have to inform you that as the Convention provides for its own exposition and execution there would be no room for such an interference. It may be further observed that your being...
15666From George Washington to Joshua Barney, 24 March 1784 (Washington Papers)
Your Letter of the 6th only came to hand the 22d —I thank you for your care of the Packages sent by the Marqs de la Fayette, for which I will send a Carriage in the course of two or three days —In the mean while, if you would be so obliging as to have them deposited at the lodgings of Mr Jefferson, a Delegate in Congress at Annapolis, from this State, it would oblige me—If you will be pleased...
15667From Thomas Jefferson to Joshua Barney, 20 September 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 3d. came duly to hand, with the system of regulations for a navy yard for which accept my thanks. the only way by which they can be rendered useful to the publick is through the Secretary of the navy, to whom therefore I propose to communicate them, altho’ not in your name in compliance with your request. but as I shall not do this until my return to Washington (10. days...
15668From Alexander Hamilton to James Barnum, 3 May 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of the 13th April has reached me, and your desire of entering the army as Major will be made known to the Secretary of War altho together with the favorable opinion expressed of you by Col Taylor, there is as yet no vacancy. with true consideration &c ( Df , in the handwriting of Philip Church, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress). Acknowledges receipt of Barnum’s letter of April...
15669From Thomas Jefferson to William Barnwell, 26 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Apr. 17. was not recieved till May 31. Congress had already, at the preceding session, annexed the office of Surveyor general for the territory of Orleans to that before established for the Missisipi territory, not deviating from the plan of a simple division into a Northern & Southern department only. they had authorized a survey of the seacoast West of the mouth of Misipi; but...
15670Thomas Jefferson to William Barraclough, 13 May 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved, Sir, the little book of poems you have been so kind as to send me , and thank you for it as a mark of respect: but at the age of 77. our passion for poetry is gone, and the imagination become too torpid to taste it’s beauties, or to criticise it’s merits. I have no doubt that younger readers will do justice to yours; and, with my wishes that your poems may find abundance of...
15671From Thomas Jefferson to Barradelle, 21 February 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Devant faire incessamment, Monsieur, une longue voiage, mes occupations ne m’ont pas permis de repondre plutot à la lettre que vous m’avez fait l’honneur de m’ecrire. C’est vrai que j’avois trouvé votre Microscope superieure à toutes celles que j’avois vue. Mais avant de la voir, j’en avois acheté une à Londres, moins parfaite vraiment, mais qui suffit aux petites experiences d’une personne...
15672From Thomas Jefferson to John James Barralet, 12 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved safely the portrait of mr Volney , which I find to be a perfect resemblance, & I pray you to accept my thanks for it. I am to ask the further favor of you to be so good as to take the trouble of calling on mr Richards, whose address will be noted below, and of recieving five guineas from him for the same. uninformed and unacquainted as I am of the proper compensation, if I make any...
15673From Thomas Jefferson to Simon Chaudron and John James Barralet, 1 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Messrs. Chaudron and Baralet and acknoleges the reciept of their letter of Mar. 6. and of the print of the Apotheosis of Genl. Washington which seems worthy of it’s subject. he is as sensible of the friendly offer made of this print as he could be were he at liberty to accept it gratuitously as proposed: but a rule of not permitting himself to recieve...
15674From George Washington to Paul-François-Jean-Nicolas, comte de Barras, 23 May 1781 (Washington Papers)
I am sorry that the unexpected appearance of the British Fleet off the Harbour of New port deprived me of the pleasure of meeting you at this place—I must refer you to His Excellency the Count de Rochambeau for the plan of operations which has been settled between us and have the honor to be with very great consideration Yr Excellency’s Most obt Servt. DLC : Papers of George Washington.
15675From George Washington to Paul-François-Jean-Nicolas, comte de Barras, 18 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have been honored with your Excellency’s favor of the 14th—Inclosed is the Copy of the latest intelligence I have recd from Genl Forman from which it appears that Admiral Graves was off the Hook on the 16th Inst. I have the honor to be Yr Excellency’s Most obt and hble servt. DLC : Papers of George Washington.
15676From George Washington to Paul-François-Jean-Nicolas, comte de Barras, 27 June 1781 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the honor to transmit your Excellency the Copy of a piece of intelligence which I have just recd from the Minister of France. Should I gain any further account of the number of ships of war which convoyed the transports, or of their destination I shall immediately communicate it. I have the honor to be &a DLC : Papers of George Washington.
15677From George Washington to Paul-François-Jean-Nicolas, comte de Barras, 13 June 1781 (Washington Papers)
I had yesterday the honor of receiving your Excellency’s letter of the 9th instant accompanied by the result of the second Council of War. I have so great a respect for the opinions of the Gentlemen who composed it, that I should have been satisfied, had they barely mentioned that they had, upon a reconsideration of the subject, thought it most conducive to the common interest to adhere to...
15678From George Washington to Paul-François-Jean-Nicolas, comte de Barras, 16 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have been honored with Your Excellency’s several late favors and the Count de Rochambeau has been kind enough to communicate to me the very interesting and important particulars to which they refer. He has also informed you of our joint opinion upon the measures which seemed to us most expedient at the present moment. I have directed several small Vessels with about 1500 Barrels of Salt...
15679From George Washington to Paul-François-Jean-Nicolas, comte de Barras, 14 May 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor of receiving your Excellency’s letter of the 11th. Give me leave to congratulate you upon your safe arrival and upon your appointment to the command of His Most Christian Majesty’s Fleet and sea forces upon these Coasts. It affords me no small degree of pleasure to find the command devolve upon an officer of your Excellency’s distinguished character. I have fixed upon Monday...
15680From George Washington to Paul-François-Jean-Nicolas, comte de Barras, 19 June 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have been honord with your Excellency’s Favr of the 14th instant. Inclosed you will find an Extract of a Letter I have just received from Genl Sullivan at Phila. The Information it contains is of such Nature that I have thot of Importance to communicate to your Excellency, and altho it is not official yet I have too much Reason, from concurrent Circumstances, to suppose it may be true. If...
15681From George Washington to Paul-François-Jean-Nicolas, comte de Barras, 4 June 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have had the honor of receiving your favor of the 31st of May. His Excellency The Count de Rochambeau transmitted to me the result of the Council of War held on Board the Duke de Burgoyne; and The Duke de Lauzun, who was kind enough to be the bearer of it having informed me that he was authorized by your Excellency and the Count de Rochambeau to enter into a free communication with me upon...
15682From George Washington to Paul-François-Jean-Nicolas, comte de Barras, 21 July 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have been honored with your Excellency’s favor of the 15th Inst. I have no doubt but the reasons which induce you to decline the removal of the Squadron under your command to Chesapeak at this time are founded in propriety; but I am certain that could the measure have taken place, it would have been attended with most valuable consequences, more especially as from reports and appearances the...
15683From George Washington to Paul-François-Jean-Nicolas, comte de Barras, 11 July 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have been honored with your Excellency’s letters of the 24th and 30th June and 2d Inst. I observe by a late New York paper that your missing transport has been taken and carried into Hallefax. The Reinforcement which arrived at Charlestown is not so considerable as was at first reported, it may perhaps amount to about 2000 Men. The ships of War which escorted this Convoy have arrived at New...
15684From George Washington to Paul-François-Jean-Nicolas, comte de Barras, 3 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have been honored with your Excellency’s favr of the 25th ulto. The Count de Rochambeau communicated to me the contents of your letter to him of the same date. It having been proposed through, and strongly urged by, the Minister of France, that the Count de Grasse should come immediately to sandy Hook, I should conceive, if your Excellency has received no official account to the contrary,...
15685From George Washington to Paul-François-Jean-Nicolas, comte de Barras, 10 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the honor to inform your Excellency that by letters from the Marquis de la Fayette dated in Virginia the 26th and 30th of last Month it appears that the enemy had embarked a number of Infantry on board thirty transports and a detachment of Cavalry on board eight Brigs. They were still lying in Hampton Road under Convoy of the Charon of 44 Guns and six smaller Frigates. They had...
15686From George Washington to Paul-François-Jean-Nicolas, comte de Barras, 15 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
The sentiments contained in the foregoing letter perfectly accords with my opinion, and I am more inclined to adopt them, as we have seen in the British Gazettes accounts of a Squadron under the command of Admiral Digby said to be intended to reinforce the British fleets in these Seas—Should this Squadron actually arrive—form a junction with Admiral Rodney & Graves—and find the French Naval...
15687From George Washington to Paul-François-Jean-Nicolas, comte de Barras, 24 June 1781 (Washington Papers)
The information, I had the honor of communicating to your Excellency in my last Letter, as an extract from Genl Sullivans Letter, respecting the arrival of a large Fleet of Transports to Chesapeak Bay, is I believe intirely without foundation. My intelligence of the Enemies operations in Virginia is so vage & uncertain that I am not able to give your Excellency any particular information of...
15688Thomas Jefferson to John T. Barraud, 25 December 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents mr Barraud his respectful salutations, and his thanks for the pamphlets from mr Warden which have come safely to hand. he has no reason to believe any letter accompanied them, as he had before recieved a letter on their subject from the Abbé Rochon author of them. with his acknolegements for mr Barraud’s kind care of them he prays him to recieve the assurance of his...
15689From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Barraud, 15 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Doctr. Barraud and sends him some vaccine virus recently taken here by Doctr. Gantt. PrC ( DLC ). Philip Barraud (1757–1830) was a physician, surgeon, and proprietor of a medicine shop in Norfolk. He first practiced in Williamsburg, where he served as physician to the public hospital for the insane during the late 1790s and was closely acquainted with...
15690From Thomas Jefferson to Barré, 13 January 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honour of receiving your favor of the 13th. of December, and having never been able to obtain an answer from the painter in America on the subject of Genl. Washington’s picture, I have determined to permit it to be copied. I have therefore made the first offer to M. de Thevenard by a letter to him which accompanies this. I have written it in English, because you will be so good as to...
15691From Thomas Jefferson to Barré, 3 June 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
I am this moment favored with your letter of the 28th. of May. I have two pictures of Genl. Washington: the one a whole length by Peale taken at the beginning of the war; the other a half length taken by Wright the last year. The first is better coloured, more softly painted, more flattering, but less like. The last is dryer, however, but more like. The painter has seised the gravest...
15692From Thomas Jefferson to Barré, 11 July 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this moment received your letter of the 28th. of June and will have the copy of Genl. Washington’s picture taken for Mr. Thevenot as soon as I receive an answer to my letter from America . I have reason to expect it by the first or second packet. I have no hesitation in pronouncing Wright’s drawing to be a better likeness of the General than Peale’s. I thank you for your friendly...
15693From Thomas Jefferson to Barré, 2 October 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
I am now to acknolege the receipt of your favour of Sep. 19. I think I informed you that when I proposed to Wright to draw the picture of Genl. Washington for me, he would not agree to do it until I promised him that no copy should be taken till he should have had time to send another, which he had just drawn, to his mother in London and she also time to have an engraving made from it and...
15694From George Washington to Joseph Barrell, 8 June 1788 (Washington Papers)
General Washington, having lately received with great satisfaction the medal which the Owners of the adventure to the Pacific Ocean have been pleased to transmit to him, begs leave to return his best acknowledgments to those Gentlemen for the very acceptable Compliment, and to assure them that his hearty wishes for success attend their enterprise, he hopes and even flatters himself that the...
15695From John Adams to Joseph Barrell, 23 August 1799 (Adams Papers)
Please to seal the inclosed, after you have read it, & send it to your nephew With much esteem MHi : Adams Family Papers, Letterbooks.
15696From George Washington to Joseph Barrell, 30 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 25th of Novr last, and the Sea Otter skin with which you were pleased to present me by the hands of Colo. Sergant, were not (as he probably has informed you) received at this place until a few days ago; or I should, most assuredly, have thanked you ’ere this for your kind and polite attention to me. I now pray you to accept my acknowledgment of the favor—and the assurance of...
15697From Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Barrett, 21 February 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I am much obliged by your kind offer of taking care of dispatches for France, the benefit of which I will reserve for some other occasion, as there is a vessel going out of this port for Havre the moment the river opens, which will certainly take place in a few days. I am with great esteem Dear Sir Your most obedt. humble servt, PrC ( MHi ). Barrett’s letter to TJ, 17 Feb. 1792, noted in SJL...
15698From Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Barrett, 26 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer Monsr. Chantrot brings your watch. I had bespoke it expressly at the price and of the quality of mine: that is to say as good as it could be made and at 576. livres. He has however so far misunderstood this as to make it cost 620 livres which is two Louis more than had been agreed on. He sais that it has been occasioned by making the gold case thicker. I have told him that I did not...
15699To Thomas Jefferson from Nathaniel Barrett, 10 October 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the pleasure to inform you of my safe arrival at Cowes, from whence some business has called me to this City, and has detained me longer than I expected. I sent my Trunk in which were your dispatches by a particular friend and fellow passenger from Cowes to paris to my Son, and have directed him immediately on receiving it to deliver the Letters himself to Mr. Short. The last Gazzette...
15700From Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Barrett, 24 May 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your favor of Mar. 6.—Were the appointment of a Consul at Rouen to depend on me, there is assuredly no one who would have so just a claim to it as yourself. But it will rest with the President. In my letter to Mr. Jay on the subject of the Consulships I have ventured to suggest some ideas on the subject, and tho’ I did not at the time know that you would settle at Rouen,...
15701From John Adams to Nathaniel Barrett, 24 December 1785 (Adams Papers)
I am happy to learn, by your favour of the 10 th. that your prospects are satisfactory to yourself and promising for the publick You may depend upon every Personal and official exertion of M r. Jefferson, and the marquis will take a pleasure and a Pride in assisting you, both by his Knowledge of the Language, the Usages and the Characters in the Nation, by his powerful and numerous...
15702From John Adams to Nathaniel Barrett, 2 December 1785 (Adams Papers)
Last Night I received your Letter of Nov. 29. inclosing another written at sea give me Leave to Congratulate you, on your fortunate Escape from the Dangers of Shipwreck. I am indeed no stranger to the Marquiss’s exertions in the affair of the Oil, and it may not be improper to mention to you, the Particulars of the Rise and Progress of them. One day at dinner I beleive at his House or mine, He...
15703From Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Barrett, 8 October 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter is put into my hand in the moment of my departure into the country . Mr. Short will translate the decision and send it with this. What are the conditions of the several dates referred to therein I cannot tell, having never meddled with the contract of Sangrain. I expect the sum of their requisition is that if you claim a total reimbursement under Sangrain’s contract you must comply...
15704From Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Barrett, 15 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to your favor of the 6th. inst. I take the liberty of mentioning to you that the consulates of Lisbon and Cadiz, have both of them been for some time otherwise destined, tho’ not yet named to; and consequently that Mr. Appleton cannot be appointed to either. I had not answered his letters on this subject, because were I to answer one, I must answer every application of this nature...
15705From Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Barrett, 27 July 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of the 18th. I thank you for the information you give me relative to the present state of our whale fishery, and shall be glad to recieve the further information of Mr. Jones. I do not apprehend any danger of our privileges as to whale oil in France being put on a worse footing than they now are, unless it be caused by some act of our own legislature, of which I...
15706Thomas Jefferson to Oliver Barrett, 20 February 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Being desirous of getting a Spinning machine simpler than any of those made on the Arkwright plan, so simple indeed as that we can use and keep it in order in our families in the country where we have nothing but very coarse workmen, I consulted D r Thornton of the Patent office on the subject. he recommends yours as coming more nearly within my views than any other and carrying about 20....
15707Thomas Jefferson to Oliver Barrett, 29 March 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 20 th of Feb. I wrote to you requesting you to forward for me to Mess rs Gibson & Jefferson of Richmond one of your Spinning machines carrying not more than 20. threads, but fewer if that number increased sensibly it’s complicate d ness, and assuring you that on knowing from you the price it should be immediately remitted to N. York to any address you would indicate. this will be by mess
15708From John Adams to Samuel Barrett, 11 June 1789 (Adams Papers)
I have received the letter you did me the honour to write me on the first of this month with its inclosures: The Letter to The President is conceived with propriety & expressed with decency. As the Investigation of the Characters, Services, Qualifications, and all other pretensions of every Candidate for public employment, is constitutionally, in the President in the first Instance; General...
15709Thomas Jefferson to William Barret, 12 February 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday evening your favor of the 5 th inst. I am one of those who during the flood of bank-currency which deluged us, unwarily contracted debts, which had the times continued the same, would have given me no trouble; but by the sudden reduction of that, and the fall of produce from tha t cause and the failure of market, I am left in the lurch, these debts being now fully trebled....
15710From Thomas Jefferson to William Barret, 4 August 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 7 th of July I rec d from mr Sam l Garland a letter dated Lynchbg July 3. stating that he had withdrawn my bond to Millar from yourself and that he insisted on payment of it’s balance during the current year. I had considered this as deciding that the must be paid within the course of the current year. myself and my grandson Th:J. R. (into whose hands I had committed all my affairs with...