321To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 25 March 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
My last to you was of the 4th. inst. and I then intended not not writing again before I should have learned something from you respecting your return. The object of that letter was of the most disagreeable kind possible, since it was to desire you would sollicit for me what I thought a kind of justice, nay strict justice between a sovereign and a person in service. Lest that letter may have...
322To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Vaughan, with an account of the mutiny on the Bounty, 27 March 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received a letter from Mr. Hinton Este, a very curious botanist of Jamaica, informing me that he had sent some Dry Rice seed pursuant to my desire, as you had directed. Mr. Este is a gentleman of large fortune and a Member of the Ja: Assembly, and one who will be very ready to communicate with you on these subjects or indeed on any other, being a very respectable man, and in general...
323To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Thompson, 30 March [1790] (Jefferson Papers)
[ New York ,] 30 Mch . [ 1790 ]. Having met TJ “at Breakfast at Woodbridge in Jersey last friday week,” he wished then to make himself known in hope that “Mrs. Trist of Philadelphia who is my wife’s Cousin” might have informed him of his desire to be employed “in a consular capacity or to fill any vacancy that might offer” in office of secretary of state. He has now come to the city and hopes...
324To Thomas Jefferson from John Paradise, 2 April 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
With pleasure I embrace the opportunity that my friend Count Andriani offers me of congratulating your excellency on your safe return to your native country. The unparalleled favours you have, ever since I have had the happiness of knowing you, so kindly conferred upon me and my family will to the very last moment of my life, be remembered by me with the deepest sense of gratitude; and you may...
325To Thomas Jefferson from John Francis Vacher, 5 April 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
New York, 5 Apr. 1790 . Having learned that an “interpreter and Secretary in the foreign Languages” would be needed in the Department of State, he offers himself as a candidate: “Being a Native of France and having a Knowledge of the Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese Languages, I have flatter’d my-self that it would not be deemed presumptive in me, after fourteen years Residence in this Country...
326To Thomas Jefferson from Maria Cosway, 6 April 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I fear My Dear freind has forgot me; Not One line ever Since your Departure from this part of the world! I have heard of you, tho’ not from you. Dont let my reproches be too Severe for I am willing to think you have been prevented by important reasons. However Silence from a person who feels the privation of your letters, would be impossible. The greatest effort I can Make is a short letter,...
327To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Franklin, 8 April 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your Letter of the 31st past, relating to Encroachments made on the Eastern Limits of the United-States, by Settlers under the British Government, pretending that it is the Western and not the Eastern River of the Bay of Passamaquoddy, which was designated by the Name of St. Croix in the Treaty of Peace with that Nation; and requesting of me to communicate any Facts, which my Memory...
328To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 10 April 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Accept at this late Period my Congratulations upon your safe Arrival in America. I know not whether to add the farther Congratulation upon your Appointment to and Acceptance of the Office of Secretary of State because the latter is not yet ascertained on this Side of the Atlantic. You will find enclosed a Paper from your friend Sir John Sinclair to whom you was so kind as to introduce me. Pray...
329To Thomas Jefferson from David Ramsay, 12 April 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Give me leave to congratulate you on your return to the United States. This should not have been withheld till this late hour had I not been informed that you had not set out for New-York till lately. I have some time since received a letter from you enquiring concerning two French men supposed to be in this country. After many fruitless inquiries I at last got some information from Mr. Petry...
330To Thomas Jefferson from Mary Walker Lewis, 14 April 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
It is with pleasure I inform you that Mr. Lewis is much recoverd; he has been over your Plantations the other side the River but not withstanding he finds him self not able to write you; and desires me to send you a line, and to assure you that he will write very fully as soon as he can and as often as you would wish. We send you with this a hhd. of Hams containing 64 of Bacon and 6 Venison...