6681To Thomas Jefferson from Uriah Forrest, 11 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
For some time passed it was my intention to pay my respects to your Excellency in Paris, that pleasure I can no longer promise myself, having fixed the 10th. of next month for my departure to America; and not having yet quite adjusted my arrangements for future business. I go direct to Patowmack and hope to be honor’d by your commands; any thing you may wish forwarded either South or North of...
6682To Thomas Jefferson from Abigail Adams, 12 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Mrs. Adams’s compliments to Mr. Jefferson and in addition to her former memorandum she requests half a dozen pr. of mens silk stockings. Mr. Trumble will deliver to Mr. Jefferson four Louis and one Guiney. Mr. parker will be so good as to take charge of them, if no opportunity offers before his return. RC ( DLC ). Not recorded in SJL , but certainly received on 19 Dec. when Trumbull arrived...
6683From Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 12 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
In the month of July I received from Fiseaux & co. of Amsterdam a letter notifying me that the principal of their loan to the United states would become due the first day of January. I answered them that I had neither powers nor information on the subject, but would transmit their letter to the Board of treasury. I did so by the packet which sailed from Havre Aug. 10. The earliest answer...
6684[To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Remsen, Jr., 12 December 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
[ 12 Dec. 1787 . Recorded in SJL Index. Not found.]
6685From Thomas Jefferson to La Boullaye, 13 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of troubling you again on the subject of Mr. Barrett’s claim of duties paid on whale oil, and which ought to be refunded according to the letter of M. de Calonne. I find that the Receveur de Romaine at Rouen has received satisfactory proof that the ship Fox, commanded by captain Hussey, and wherein these oils came, was an American vessel: but that he requires the certificate...
6686From Thomas Jefferson to Carra, 13 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Si le dimanche matin de 9. à 10. heures pourroit vous convenir je serois charmé de vous recevoir chez moi au sujet de la dette des etats unis à Monsieur Cazeau. Ce n’est pas que je suis aucunement autorisé de m’y meler. C’est une affaire qui appartient au departement de la tresorerie à la Nouvelle York, et qu’il faudra traiter à la Nouvelle York, à moins qu’il n’ait eté une convention...
6687From Thomas Jefferson to H. Fizeaux & Cie., 13 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Having forwarded your letter of July 16. to the Board of Treasury of the United states, I had presumed that the arrangements for the paiment of the loan negotiated by you, were going on between them and you. Your favor of the 6th. inst. is the first information to the contrary, and allows me little time to take measures to effect this paiment in time. It was necessary for me to write to Mr....
6688[To Thomas Jefferson from H. Fizeaux & Cie., 13 December 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Amsterdam, 13 Dec. 1787 . Recorded in SJL as received 19 Dec. 1787. Not found. Probably enclosed, with other letters from the same, in TJ to the Commissioners of the Treasury, 30 Dec. 1787 , q.v.]
6689From Thomas Jefferson to Nicholas van Staphorst, 13 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
In consequence of a letter from Messrs. Fizeaux & co. containing a demand of ƒ51,000 due from the United states the 1st. day of next month, I have proposed to Mr. Adams the answering that demand from the produce of the loan going on in your hands and those of Messrs. Willincks. Having had the honor of a conference with your brother on that subject, I have addressed the inclosed letter to the...
6690From Thomas Jefferson to Willink & Van Staphorst, 13 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just received from Messrs. H. Fizeaux & co. a notification that a loan of 51,000ƒ obtained for the United states by the mediation of their house will become due the first day of the next month. I immediately communicated the same to Mr. Adams, and proposed to him the authorizing you to pay that sum out of the monies obtained by you on the loan lately opened by him in Amsterdam, if you...
6691To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Hopkinson, 14 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I have only Time to scribble a Line or two. You have no Doubt received from some of your Friends the new System of Government for our Country. This has been the Subject of great Debate in our Convention for three weeks past and perhaps the true Principles of Government were never upon any Occasion more fully and ably develop’d. Mr. Wilson exerted himself to the astonishment of all Hearers. The...
6692From Thomas Jefferson to William Carmichael, 15 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I am later in acknoleging the receipt of your favors of Oct. 15. Nov. 5. and 15. because we have been long expecting a packet which I hoped would bring communications worth detailing to you, and she arrived only a few days ago, after a very long passage indeed. I am very sorry you have not been able to make out the cypher of my letter of Sep. 25. because it contained things which I wished you...
6693To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander Donald, 15 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my last respects to you, I have the Honor of receiving your favour of the 17th. Septr., forwarded from New York, by our Friend Mr. Maddison. I thank you for the Political information contained in your letter. As a Citizen of the West, I deprecate all Wars, But as a Citizen of America, I can have no objection to the Powers of Europe going to Logger Heads. The advantages we will reap from...
6694From Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 16 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you on the 12th instant, that is to say, by the last post. But as that channel of conveiance is sometimes unfaithful I now inclose you a copy of my letter of that date, and of the one of Fiseaux & co. inclosed in that. I have since received my letters by the packet, but, among them, nothing from the Board of Treasury. Still their orders may be among the dispatches with which Paul Jones...
6695To Thomas Jefferson from Eugène MacCarthy, 16 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
L’lle d’Oléron, 16 Dec. 1787. Sends a certificate from the Commissioner at L’Orient attesting that he served during the year 1779 under John Paul Jones; family affairs forced him to be absent when the prize money for those serving on the Bonhomme Richard was divided; learns with regret that he was omitted in the division; asks aid in recovering the share due him; would not trouble TJ with this...
6696From Thomas Jefferson to De Corny, 17 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
It is time to give you an account of your copying machine, which, after repeated trial, I find very inadequate to it’s offices. Instead of having two rollers only, thus placed, where the pressure of the upper roller is resisted in the same points by the lower one, and so forces the copy extremely, it is made with one roller above and two below, thus so that at the point where the upper roller...
6697From Thomas Jefferson to Parent, 17 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Votre lettre, Monsieur, du 20me. Juin m’apprit que M. Bachey avoit encore dans ce moment là quatre feuillettes de vin de Meursault goutte d’or, de la meme crue et qualité de celui que vous m’avez envoyé. Je l’ai trouvé si bon que j’en prendrai trois feuillettes, s’il lui en reste autant actuellement. S’il n’en a plus, faites moi la grace de me procurer une seule feuillette de la meme qualité...
6698To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 18 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Last night I received your Letter of the 12. Mr. Jarvis and Commodore Jones are arrived here from New york both charged with large Dispatches for you. Mr. Jarvis Sent his Packet on by Col. Trumbul who departed from hence for Paris last Thursday. Comr. Jones went off a day or two ago, but both will arrive to you before this Letter. The Papers they carry, with a Renovation of your Commission at...
6699To Thomas Jefferson from François Baudin, 18 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
St. Martin, Ile de Ré, 18 Dec. 1787. Thanks TJ for the information in his letter of 20 Sep., for transmitting his letter to Congress, and for giving him reason to hope that a consul will be appointed for the island. A consul there is essential because of the number of American ships which are forced to come into port by contrary winds. Thomas FitzSimons of Philadelphia, to whom he wrote about...
6700From Thomas Jefferson to Berenger de Beaufain, 18 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Je viens de recevoir l’honneur de votre lettre du 7me courant, et j’ai celui de vous informer que pour expulser la personne qui a usurpé vos possessions en Caroline ou dans la Georgie il faudra ou envoyer quelqu’un la bas, muni de pleins pouvoirs de votre part pour intenter les procès necessaires pour cet effet, ou d’en munir quelqu’un sur le lieu. Mais dans le dernier cas il faudra etre sur...
6701From Thomas Jefferson to John Bondfield, 18 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I have deferred acknoleging the receipt of your favor of Nov. 30. in daily hope of accompaying it with the ultimate decision on our commerce. But it seems to walk before us like our shadows, always appearing in reach, yet never overtaken. I am disappointed in the proportion of returns of country produce from your port to America. I had received a statement from l’Orient by which I found they...
6702From Thomas Jefferson to D’Yquem, 18 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
N’ayant pas l’honneur de vous etre connu, c’est à votre bonté qu’il me faut avoir recours pour excuser la liberté que je prenne de m’adresser à vous directement. J’aurai besoin des petits approvisionnements de vin blanc de Sauterne pour ma consommation annuelle pendant ma residence en France, et meme après ma retour en Amerique, quand cet evenement aura lieu. Je sçai que la votre est des...
6703To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, 18 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
The Hague, 18 Dec. 1787. Acknowledges TJ’s letter of 9 Dec. and respects his reasons for taking no further steps in the matter of the proposed treaty; hopes his previous letters for America have been sent by this month’s packet and that the enclosed will go by that conveyance also. Has no more belief in the continuance of peace than is generally held elsewhere; considers TJ’s remarks...
6704[To Thomas Jefferson from Uriah Forrest, 18 December 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
[ London, 18 Dec. 1787. Recorded in SJL as received 24 Dec. 1787. Not found.]
6705[To Thomas Jefferson from Harrison, 18 December 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
[ 18 Dec. 1787. Recorded in SJL Index without further identification. Not found.]
6706To Thomas Jefferson from André Limozin, 18 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Le Havre, 18 Dec. 1787. Not having a reply to his letters of 18 and 19 Nov., fears that the observations in his letter of 18 Nov. were not approved; if such is the case, he wishes to be informed. Observes, nevertheless, that if the duties on yellow beeswax imported from America into France were lessened, its importation would be greatly increased; the present duty is 5.₶ 10s. per 100 “neat.”...
6707To Thomas Jefferson from André Limozin, 18 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Le Havre, 18 Dec. 1787. Transmits “copies of vouchers belonging to Willie Thomas Master of the Scooner of Polly and Sally of Salem.” Capt. Thomas has appealed for help; his ship was chartered by the agent of the company which has the exclusive privilege of the Senegal trade with France to carry a cargo from thence to Le Havre. Under these circumstances he anticipated no difficulty and...
6708To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Cathalan, Sr., 19 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Marseilles, 19 Dec. 1787. Thanks TJ for the useful information in his letter of 2 Dec.; will report what settlement he makes for the whale oil which he expects in the near future. Has received letters from Philadelphia which inform him that the price of tobacco there is high because of scarcity; that his friends were able to procure only 132 hhds. of tobacco for his ship which sailed for...
6709To Thomas Jefferson from John Paul Jones, [ca. 19 December 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
I am just arrived here from England. I left New York the 11th. Novr. and have brought public dispatches and a number of private Letters for you. I would have waited on you immediately instead of writing, but I have several strong reasons for desiring that no person should know of my being here till I have seen you and been favored with your advice on the steps I ought to pursue. I have a...
6710[To Thomas Jefferson from Ferdinand Grand, 20 December 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris, 20 Dec. 1787. Recorded in SJL as received 20 Dec. 1787. Not found.]
6711[To Thomas Jefferson from John Langdon, 20 December 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
[ 20 Dec. 1787. Recorded in SJL Index. Not found; this letter is probably an answer to TJ to Langdon, 18 Sep. 1787 , q.v.]
6712From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 20 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
My last to you was of Oct. 8 by the Count de Moustier. Yours of July 18. Sep. 6. and Oct. 24. have been successively received, yesterday, the day before and three or four days before that. I have only had time to read the letters, the printed papers communicated with them, however interesting, being obliged to lie over till I finish my dispatches for the packet, which dispatches must go from...
6713To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 20 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
The packet has been detained here since the date of the letter which you will receive along with this, by some preparations suggested by an apprehension of war. The delay is very unfavorable to the trees on board for you. Mr. De la Forest the Consul here called on me a few days ago and told me he had information that the farmers general and Mr. Morris having found their contract mutually...
6714From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 21 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just received your two favors of Octob. 23. and that of Nov. 10. I am much obliged to you for your hints in the Danish business. They are the only information I have on that subject except the resolution of Congress, and warn me of a rock on which I should most certainly have split. The vote plainly points out an Agent, only leaving it to my discretion to substitute another. My judgment...
6715From Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 21 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
The last letters I had the honour of addressing you were of the 3d. and 7th. of November. Your several favors, to wit, two of July 27. two of Oct. 24. and one of Nov. 3. have all been delivered within the course of a week past: and I embrace the earliest occasion of returning to Congress my sincere thanks for the new proofs I receive therein of their confidence in me, and of assuring them of...
6716To Thomas Jefferson from La Boullaye, 22 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai reçu, avec la Lettre que vous m’aves fait l’honneur de m’écrire, copie de celle par laqu’elle le Capitaine Hussey déclare que les huiles de Baleine importées par le Vaisseau le Renard sont de produit de la pêche américaine: cette déclaration ne remplit pas entierement le voeu des réglemens en cette matière; il faudrait le temoignage du Consul de France: mais puisque vous voules bien le...
6717To Thomas Jefferson from La Platière, 22 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Une Des plus Nobles fonctions d’un historien est de pouvoir transmettre a La posterité Les noms des Grands hommes qui ont Bien merité De Leur patrie. J’aurai souvent occasion De parler Dans Mon ouvrage Des heros qui ont Coôperés a La révolution Des etats de L’amerique septentrionale, c’est a ce titre que j’ai l’honneur de Demander a votre Excellence, La permission De lui dédier un procès...
6718From Thomas Jefferson to André Limozin, 22 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor now to acknolege the receipt of your favors of the 18th. and 19th. of November and two of the 18th. of the present month. I did not write to you immediately on receipt of the two first, because the observations they contained were to be acted on here. I was much obliged to you for them, as I have been frequently before for others, and you will find that I have profited by them...
6719From Thomas Jefferson to Quesnay de Beaurepaire, 22 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
The hour of the departure of the post permitting me to continue to write to America till one oclock, and your departure for Versailles rendering it necessary you should receive by three oclock the Plan for an Academy, which you had been pleased to send me, it has been impracticable for me to give it but a cursory and partial reading, and now leaves me but a moment to return you my thanks for...
6720To Thomas Jefferson from George Gilmer, 23 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
It hurts me to intrude on you, with nothing new or interesting, but what you must receive from those who shed ink more importantly than I possibly can, but your earnest friendship must be my apology. Your kind opinion which coincided with several here I flattered myself would settle the point clearly as to Marrow-bone but behold these adepts in the law have abandoned their former opinion, and...
6721[To Thomas Jefferson from John Paul Jones, 24 December 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris, 24 Dec. 1787 . Recorded in SJL as received 24 Dec. 1787. Not found.]
6722To Thomas Jefferson from André Limozin, 24 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I am very glad to Learn by the Letters your Excellency hath favord me with the 22nd. Instant that an arrest in the behalf of the Commerce of the US is soon to take place; and that you have not slept away the informations I have taken the freedom to send to your Excellency. Give me leave to say that we are not of the Same opinion about Capt. Thomas’s Circumstance. Your Excellency is beseech’d...
6723To Thomas Jefferson from Parent, 24 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
En Reponse a l’honneur de la votre du 17 du Courant par laquelle vous me marque de vous achetté troit feuillette de vin blan de la goute d’or, je suis eté chez Mr. Bachey qui en a Encorre trois feuillette, mais il ne veut vendre que deux dans ce moment icy et il veut en avoir Cent livres de la feuillette et pas a moins; et je suis esté Chez Mr. Latour, il n’a plus de Montrachet de 84 mais il...
6724To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 24 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
We are honored with Your Excellency’s most esteemed favor of 13 Inst. to our N.V.S. who is highly flattered to have served you by his particular Exertions in securing the regular payment of your current demands for the Legation of the U.S. Exclusive of our personal Respect for Your Excellency, which will always urge us to do all in our power to oblige you, We are so firmly persuaded of our...
6725To Thomas Jefferson from Willink & Van Staphorst, 24 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
We are honored with Your Excellency’s very esteemed favor of 13 Inst. informing us Messrs. H. Fizeaux & Co. of this City had notified to you that a Loan of ƒ51,000. cr., negotiated by them for the United States, becomes reimbursable the First Proximo, And that as you judged the punctual discharge of it, to be highly interesting to the Honor and essential to the Credit of the United States, You...
6726To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 25 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
By the last Post I answered your Letter of the 12, and Yesterday received yours of the 16. Com. Jones has before now delivered you dispatches that will serve no doubt for your direction. Mr. Van staphorst, will have no Objection to an handsome Commission, for paying off, the Debt Mr. Fizeaux mentions: and Mr. Fizeau, will be glad to have it paid off, that the Money Lenders not knowing what to...
6727To Thomas Jefferson from Maria Cosway, 25 December [1787] (Jefferson Papers)
How do you do My dear friend? You came to the invitation of my breakfast the Morning of my departure! and what did you think of Me? I did it to avoid the last taking leave, I went too early for any body to see Me. I cannot express how Miserable I was in leaving Paris. How I regreted not having seen More of you, and I cannot have even the Satisfaction to unburden My displeasure of [it] by...
6728To Thomas Jefferson from Lafayette, [25? December 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
Inclosed, My dear friend, I send You the Proposed Constitution which I Have Received on My Way. What do You think of the powers of the president? I am affraid that our friends are gone a little too far on the other side. But suppose it is the Case, and General Washington is the president, I know him too well not to think He will find the danger, and lessen the authority Before He Goes over....
6729To Thomas Jefferson from John Rutledge, 25 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the pleasure of receiving your Letter, of the 6th. of August, and should have acknowledged the receipt of it, long ago, but, have been very much in the Country, and engaged, since my Return from Philadelphia. You will have the Goodness to excuse the delay. I am extremely obliged to you, for the great Politeness and Attention with which my son informs me you have honoured him, and...
6730From Thomas Jefferson to John Paul Jones, 26 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Jefferson’s compliments to Commodore Jones and returns him the book he was so good as to give him the perusal of. He incloses him a letter he has just received, and asks his information as to the justice of the claim. He will be obliged now to occupy himself some two or three days about commercial arrangements just now made at Versailles and which he must translate, have printed, and...