711To Thomas Jefferson from John Brown Cutting, 14 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 24th had so tardy a passage to me that I supposed it must have been interscepted, especially as a subsequent one of the 28th came punctually and with speed. To the latter I have already replied. For the political statements and weighty intelligence of the former I am greatly indebted. It is impracticable to learn aught here untinctur’d with english prejudices which are...
712To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, 14 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
The Hague, 14 Aug. 1788. Hoping that TJ receives Gazette de Leide as ordered, he only encloses a letter to Congress and transmits following from friends in Amsterdam, who have it from Daniel Parker, dated the 8th: “This moment I have received advice, that the State of Virginia adopted the new Constitution on the 25th June. This comes by a Ship arrived this Day, and may be depended on.”—“Ce...
713To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Lincoln, 14 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Boston, 14 Aug. 1788. His “amiable young friend Mr. Hays leaves this town in a few days for France where he means to compleat his knowledge in the french language and acquaint himself with the mode of doing business in that nation.” He will pay his respects, and TJ’s “countenance will essentially serve a youth of real merit.” RC ( MHi ); endorsed. Recorded in SJL as delivered “(by Mr. Hays)”...
714To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander McCaul, 14 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your agreable favour of the 12th Ulto only yesterday, and I am very sorry that your expectations from your Estate in Virginia should have so far dissappointed your good intentions of discharging your debt agreable to stipulation. Suffice it to say at present that what remittance you can make this year will be very acceptable and this you will be pleased to do in the manner most...
715To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Lee Shippen, 14 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I did not expect to have had the honor of writing to you before I reached Geneva, and it is principally to implore your protection for a parcel of letters which I have finished for America that I have determined to take that liberty. It is a parcel for which I am very anxious to ensure a speedy passage and you will oblige me Sir infinitely by procuring it. If the British Packet should sail...
716From Thomas Jefferson to Stephen Cathalan, Sr., 13 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the receipt of your two favors of June and July 11. and to thank you for the political intelligence they contained which is always interesting to me. I will ask a continuance of this, and especially that you inform me from time to time of the movements in the ports of Marseilles and Toulon which may seem to indicate peace or war. These are the most certain presages...
717From Thomas Jefferson to Giuseppe Chiappe, 13 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai l’honneur, Monsieur, de vous accuser la reception de plusieurs de vos lettres, c’est à dire, du 27me. Decembre, 26me. Fevrier, 6me. Mars, et 24me Mai, et de vous remercier des details que vous avez eu la bonté de m’y donner. L’amitié dont sa majesté l’Empereur (que dieu conserve) daigne d’honorer les etats unis d’Amerique leur est infiniment chere et flatteuse, et j’espere que la commerce...
718From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Bernard, 12 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Je vous rends mille graces, Monsieur, pour les observations meteorologiques que vous avez eu la bonté de me faire copier et de m’envoyer, et j’accepte avec empressement l’honneur que vous me proposez de me donner une place dans la liste des souscripteurs pour votre ouvrage sur l’histoire naturelle de votre païs. Il me paroit que vous m’avez fait l’honneur de me dire, quand j’avois celui de...
719From Thomas Jefferson to William Carmichael, 12 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my last to you, I have been honoured with your’s of the 18th. and 29th. of May and 5th. of June. My latest American intelligence is of the 24th. of June when 9. certainly and probably 10. states had accepted the new constitution, and there was no doubt of the 11th. (North Carolina) because there was no opposition there. In New-York ⅔ of the state was against it, and certainly if they had...
720To Thomas Jefferson from Moustier, 12 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
La lettre que vous m’avez fait l’honneur de m’ecrire le 17. de Mai est la premiere et la seule que j’aie reçu en reponse aux miennes depuis mon arrivée ici. La depredation qui se commettoit dans l’administration des paquebots meritoit sans doute d’etre reprimée, mais il etoit facile de les assujettir à un meilleur regime aulieu de prendre le parti de les suprimer. J’espere qu’on sera revenu de...