1To Thomas Jefferson from Louis Guillaume Otto, 24 May 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the honor to wait upon your Excellency on Sunday last, but your indisposition did not permit me to see you. Col. Humphreys has probably acquainted you that I have received Orders to sail next month to America and that I should be extreemely happy to carry Your Excellency’s Dispatches to Congress or to execute any private Orders You will be pleased to honor me with. I shall be at...
2[From Thomas Jefferson to Louis Guillaume Otto, 26 May 1785] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris, 26 May 1785 . Entry in SJL reads: “Mr. Otto. Receipt of his of May 24. Congratulations on appointment. Consider him as collegue. What will be my line of conduct—recommend Doradour.” Not found.]
3To Thomas Jefferson from Louis Guillaume Otto, 28 May 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
I received only this moment the Notes on the State of Virginia together with the congratulation and invitation Your Excellency have honoured me with the 23d. of this month. This delay will I hope sufficiently apologise for my having not sooner acknowledged the favor you have done me. According to your desire I shall be very careful not to trust your work to any person, who might make an...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Louis Guillaume Otto, 1 June 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
I was honoured yesterday with Your Excellency’s Letter of the 26th. of last month and I am extreemely flattered by the Confidence you seem to place in my zeal for your Country. I can assure you that after my own Nation there is none in the World to whom I am more Sincerely attached than to the American, and the small influence my Correspondance may have upon the determination of Government...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Louis Guillaume Otto, 15 January 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Votre Excellence aura vû par mes lettres précédentes, combien j’ai lieu de me louer des recommandations dont elle a bien voulu m’honnorer. Je trouve que les sentimens des Americains à notre egard sont toujours les mêmes, et que nous devons beaucoup a cet égard a vos raports et à votre équité. Les Etats-unis n’ont fait aucun choix d’un Ministre Plenipotentiaire pour la hollande. Cette mission...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Louis Guillaume Otto, 7 May 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
My absence in England for some time past has prevented my acknoleging, so soon as I should have done, the receipt of your favor of January 15. In that you speak of having written me other letters, but no other has ever come to my hands. I thank you for the intelligence that contained, several articles of which never came to me thro’ any other channel. On this side the water every thing is...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Louis Guillaume Otto, 10 May 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Je suis peiné de voir que par le refus de l’Etat de New-York d’accorder au Congrès le droit de 5. pour cent de la maniere dont il l’avoit demandé, la Confédération se trouve encore une fois frustrée des avantages qu’elle auroit pu retirer de ce revenu. Je ne désespère pas cependant que le vœu général de tous les Etats ne fasse changer de Systéme à l’Assemblée prochaine, et je ne puis regarder...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Louis Guillaume Otto, 15 October 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Le Congrès ayant pris une resolution concernant notre convention Consulaire, il dependra desormais en grande partie de Votre Excellence que cette affaire soit terminée à la satisfaction des deux nations. J’ai lieu de croire que Vous recevrés par le paquebot qui Vous portera cette lettre des instructions qui y sont relatives et sans entrer dans aucun detail sur les vues du Congrès je me borne à...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Louis Guillaume Otto, 14 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been honoured with your letter of Oct. 15. and thank you for the intelligence it contained. I am able to make you but an unequal return for it, your friends here being so much more in condition to communicate to you interesting intelligence. With respect to the affairs of Holland they do not promise arrangement. The interest which the King of Prussia takes in the affairs of the...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Louis Guillaume Otto, 14 February 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Vous apprendrés probablement par un autre canal que la Virginie vient de mettre des droits extraordinaires sur les liqueurs Spiritueuses à l’exception des eaux de vie de France. M. Madison qui ne fait qu’arriver ici m’assure que la même faveur a été accordée à nos vins, mais je n’ai pas encore vû l’acte qui concerne cet article. Je ne puis ignorer que les raports de Votre Excellence...