2741From Thomas Jefferson to Ferdinand Grand, 22 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honoured with your letter of yesterday on the subject of the accounts of the United states and of Virginia. My only object in allotting to each the articles which had been paid for them respectively was to enable you to send to the commissioners of the treasury an exact state of the advances which have been made for them: otherwise those advances will appear less than they really are....
2742From Thomas Jefferson to the Rhode Island Delegates in Congress, 22 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I was honoured, in the month of January last, with a letter from the honorable the delegates of Rhodeisland in Congress, inclosing a letter from the Corporation of Rhodeisland college to his most Christian majesty, and some other papers. I was then in the hurry of preparation for a journey into the South of France, and therefore unable at that moment to make the enquiries which the object of...
2743From Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 23 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Frouillé, the bookseller here who is engaged in having your book translated and printed, understanding that you were about publishing a sequel to it, has engaged me to be the channel of his prayers to you to favor his operation by transmitting hither the sheets of the sequel as they shall be printed; and he will have them translated by the same hand, which is a good one. It is necessary for me...
2744From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson Bolling, 23 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I received with great pleasure your letter of May 3. informing me of your health and of that of your family. Be assured that it is and ever has been among the most interesting things to me. Letters of business claiming their rights before those of affection, we often write seldomest to those whom we love most. The distance to which I am removed has given a new value to all I valued before in...
2745From Thomas Jefferson to H. Fizeaux & Cie., 23 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
The letter which you mention, of January 1, came duly to my hands, and I forwarded it by the first conveiance to the Commissioners of the Treasury of the U.S. at New York. I could do nothing else with it, being a matter entirely out of the functions of my office, and on which I was not authorized to give any answer. It is all I can now do with the letter of the 16th. inst. with which you have...
2746From Thomas Jefferson to Ladevese, 23 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Je viens de recevoir, Monsieur, la lettre que vous m’avez fait l’honneur de m’ecrire, et celle pour Monsieur et Mademoiselle Laurens. Je me charge tres volontier de la faire passer en Amerique ou est Monsieur Laurens actuellement, et de vous faire parvenir la reponse s’il me fera l’honneur de me la remettre. J’ai celui de vous assurer des sentiments tres respectueux avec lesquels je suis...
2747From Thomas Jefferson to Montmorin, 23 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor a few days ago of putting into the hands of Your Excellency some observations on the other articles of American produce brought into the ports of this country. That of our tobaccoes, from the particular form of their administration here and their importance to the king’s revenues, has been placed on a separate line, and considered separately. I will now ask permission to bring...
2748From Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams Smith, 23 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honored with your letter of the 11th. inst. covering a draught from General Sullivan, and a letter from him. I will take care to remit a bill for paiment before it becomes due, which I observe will be on the 10th. of the next month. I should be very happy to find occasion of forwarding this by Colo. Smith in person, because that circumstance would relieve the disagreeableness of this new...
2749From Thomas Jefferson to Moustier, 24 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I must beg your pardon for having forgotten one of the two articles I was to write to London for for you. One I know was the American Atlas; but what was the other? The bearer brings you a bottle of the Frontignan wine of which I spoke to you. It has the etiquette of Monsieur Lambert the person who makes it, with whom I made acquaintance and passed some hours in his house. He is a good and...
2750From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Carr, 25 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of May 5. 1786. came to my hands January 24. 1787. My memory tells me that I have answered the article in it relative to Mr. Bernard Moore’s purchase of books of Mr. Carr’s estate; yet as I find neither a copy nor note of my letter to you on that occasion, I will repeat what I therein assured you, that I am almost perfectly certain that Mr. Moore never accounted to me for the...