23281From Thomas Jefferson to Margaret Bayard Smith, 10 July 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respectful compliments to mrs Smith, and being charged with those of a distant friend of hers, he cannot give better evidence of them than her own letter, which he incloses with his salutations. DLC : J. Henley Smith Papers.
23282To George Washington from Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, 13 August 1782 (Washington Papers)
According to the news which I have from York town the convoy of our heavy artillery must have sailed on the 10th or 11th and I expect it here with the first favorable wind. I had designed to set the army in motion, by regiments, on the 19th of this month to go and Join your Excellency, when I received from the Chevalier de La Luzerne a copy of the Letter that you have received from Sir Guy...
23283From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 20 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson, with his respects to the President incloses him the draught of a letter to Mr. Pinckney: also some Canada gazettes, with the letter from Colo. Fay accompanying them. He perceives from this letter that Colo. Fay had not awaited his approbation to make use of the name of Th:J. in the land-job. He thinks it possible the government of Canada may get hold of this, and perhaps make...
23284To James Madison from Sylvanus Bourne, 2 July 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
2 July 1803, Baltimore . Has deferred his return to Amsterdam because of the “late agitated & unsettled position of the affairs of Europe.” Reliable reports state that “War … was renewed on the 16h Ulto an event which must materially affect” U.S. commerce. Doubts that Spain and the Netherlands will be able to maintain their neutrality, “as the connection of those Countries with France must...
23285From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 20 July 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, July 20, 1795. On July 29, 1795, Washington wrote to Hamilton : “Your letters of the 20th and 21st Instt. found me at this place.” Letter of July 20 not found. ]
23286From Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Cutting, 30 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Your brother, with whom I have the honor of an acquaintance, has promised that he would ask your permission for me to address a line to you on a subject very interesting to me. I have just received permission to pay a six months visit to America. I wish to sail about the 1st. of October and from Havre preferably to every other port because my baggage, which is heavy, may go to that by water....
23287To Benjamin Franklin from Richard Peters, 31 May 1778 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I have several Times troubled on the Subject of my Father’s Situation in England who if living must be necessitous or dependant upon Persons to whom I am convinced it is not agreeable to him to be under Obligations. In the Winter 1777 I heard he was dead I wrote you on the Matter. I have since heard of his being alive but altho’ I have written a great many...
23288David Bailie Warden to Thomas Jefferson, 12 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the pleasure of sending you by Captain Corran bound to newyork , a small parcel containing some pamphlets, catalogues of Books, and a file of a french newspaper—the annales des Politiques —If you will send me a list of the Books which you wish to have, I think that I could procure them for you a great deal cheaper than if furnished by any Bookseller, especially if you can allow some...
23289From Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, 17 September 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Part of the contents of your letter of the 10 of July last (which has happened to escape a definitive attention) being connected with the subject of that the 7 of Sepr., I shall reply to them together. Previous to the receipt of the last I had drafted rules relating to extra expences which after careful revision I send for your determination. They contemplate, it will be seen, a discretion to...
23290To Thomas Jefferson from David Ross, 27 March 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
I find it will be some time yet before Colo. Davies will have the several Estimates ready and it will then take me a day to examine what articles can be furnished in the State, and where the rest can be best procured. From what I can discover a great proportion of the present supplies must come from the Northward. Our State money has no currency there. The present Invasion intimidates the...