1[From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Coffyn and Others, 22 June 1786] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris, 22 June 1786 . An entry in SJL reads: “Francis Coffyn &c. as above May 31. Eleven letters with Morris’s agreement.” Letters not found; see TJ to Coffyn and others, 31 May 1786 . For Morris’ agreement, which was printed but not received in time to send out with the letters of 31 May, see note to TJ to Jay, 27 May ; see also TJ to W. H. Sargeant, 8 July 1786 .]
2To Thomas Jefferson from Antonio Giannini, 21 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Avevo messo una Ginea in questa lettera ⅌ mandare a mio Padre in Italia ma non lo mandaro ⅌ che il Sig.e Nichol Lewis dice che teme che le lettere sieno aperte avanti che arivino nelle mani di V.S. Adunque prego lo a farmi un gran favore di mettere una ginea in questa carta che non è sigillata, questa e una mostra di pannine chè stata richiesta da me da un mercante Lucchese Nicolao Frediani,...
3From Thomas Jefferson to William Carmichael, 20 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
My last to you was of the 5th. of May by Baron Waltersdorff. Since that I have been honoured with yours of Apr. 13. May 16. and 18. The present covers letters to Mr. Lamb and Mr. Randall informing them that the demands of Algiers for the ransom of our prisoners and also for peace is so infinitely beyond our instructions that we must refer the matter back to Congress, and therefore praying them...
4From Thomas Jefferson to John Lamb, 20 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Having communicated to Mr. Adams the information received at different times from yourself, from Mr. Randall and Mr. Carmichael, we find that the sum likely to be demanded by Algiers for the ransom of our prisoners as well as for peace is so infinitely beyond our powers and the expectations of Congress, that it has become our duty to refer the whole matter back to them. Whether they will chuse...
5From Thomas Jefferson to P. R. Randall, 20 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Having communicated to Mr. Adams the information received at different times from yourself, from Mr. Carmichael and Mr. Lamb we find that the sum likely to be demanded by Algiers is so infinitely beyond our powers and the expectations of Congress, that it has become our duty to refer the whole matter back to them. Whether they will chuse to buy a peace, to force one, or to do nothing, will...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Ebenezer Gearey, Jr., and John Arnold, Jr., 19 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
We received your letter of the 13th. June which mentions Capt. Cutting an American Coming to this Place who you depended upon to make such inquiries respecting our (affairs or) Confinement as would be necessary for your government. If you will Please to Remember we mentiond in our letter 24th May that the Comadant sent some of his officers to the prison with an interpretor the next day after...
7To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 19 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my last which was of the 18th of May I have received your very agreeable favor of the 28th. of Octobr. I began to fear it had miscarried. Your reflections on the idle poor of Europe, form a valuable lesson to the Legislators of every Country, and particularly of a new one. I hope you will enable yourself before you return to America to compare with this description of people in France...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Daniel and Theodorick Fitzhugh, 18 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
From the frequent disapointments we met with whilst at Havre de Grace, we were apprehensive, when we wrote to you, that it would have been some time before we should have sail’d; but were agreeably surprised by a more speedy departure, than we had Reason, at that Time, to expect. However, the length of our stay there had encreased our Expences so much, as to compel us to call upon you for your...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Bridgen, 17 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope that your Excellency will have the goodness to pardon the liberty I take in requesting the favour of [your] Excellency to present, from the Author, this small book to the Queen of France; as it in a degree appertains to the Imperial family and more particularly to her Majesty’s Brother the Emperor? But if your Excellency should, after perusing it, see any impropriety in it, the Author...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Borgnis Desbordes, Frères, 17 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your favor of the 12th. instant, the last night, and immediately wrote to inform Mr. Grand that a bill for 2620₶2 in which you were interested, would be presented and desired him to pay it; which you may rest assured will be done. I am now to return you thanks for your attentions to these unfortunate men. I did not suspect they would have been necessary so long, when I took the...
11From Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 17 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
It seems that a writ of surseance is what Mr. Ridout desires. In what cases this is granted, by what power, and thro whom the applications go, I am ignorant, as I have always declined asking them for any body; my idea having been that where they could be obtained according to fixed rules, they would be granted of course on any application; and that where it was not agreeable to rule to grant...
12From Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 16 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you the copy of a letter received from Mr. Barclay dated Cadiz May 23. by which you will perceive he was still on this side the Mediterranean. Has Mr. Lamb written to you? I hear nothing from him nor of him, since Mr. Carmichael’s information of his arrival in Spain. Mr. Randall gave reason to expect that himself would come on. Yet neither himself nor any letters from him arrive....
13To Thomas Jefferson from William Carmichael, 16 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor to receive on the 29th. Ulto. the Letter of the 5th of that month which Your Excellency intrusted to the care of the Baron Waltersdorff, who sent it me the moment he arrived here. Your Excellencys journey to England occasioned varied conjectures and many questions have been put me here on that Subject. Some imagined that the Object of your voyage was to conclude a commercial...
14From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Diot & Cie., 16 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just received advice from Messrs. Borgnis Desbordes freres, that the unhappy American prisoners have at length been discharged from the prison of St. Pol de Leon, and that on settlement of the sums you have been so kind as to advance for them, amounting to 2620₶2 a bill is drawn on Mr. Grand by Lister Asquith for paiment. I have immediately instructed Mr. Grand to pay it. It remains now...
15To Thomas Jefferson from John Jay, 16 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my last to you of the 4th. Ult. I have been honored with yours of the 2d. January and 5th. and 12th. of March last. I have also received a joint Letter from You and Mr. Adams of 28th. March; all of them have been laid before Congress, who as yet have not given me any Orders respecting the Contents of either. The first of these Letters vizt. that of 2d. January strikes me as very...
16[To Thomas Jefferson from Mary Walker Lewis, 16 June 1786] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Albemarle, 16 June 1786 . Recorded in SJL as received 22 Sep. 1786, together with a (missing) letter from her husband of the same date. Not found, but see TJ to Nicholas Lewis, 19 Dec. 1786.]
17From Thomas Jefferson to André Limozin, 16 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
In expectation that the ship bound from your port to Norfolk in Virginia may not be gone, I take the liberty of sending under your address by the Diligence a packet for Mr. Madison in Williamsburg, which I will pray you to forward by that vessel. I have the honour to be with much respect Sir Your most obedient & most humble servt., PrC ( MHi ).
18To Thomas Jefferson from André Limozin, 16 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my Former of yesterday, I have received this day the Letter your Excellency hath honored me with the 13th instant covering me an inclosed for Messrs. Buchanan and Hays of Richmond which I shall carefully forward by the Ship Clementina with the Box your Excellency informs to have sent me; I shall transmitt you timely the bill of Lading for that Box. I have the honor to be with the highest...
19To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 16 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my last but little hath been done in Congress. We have had generally no more than 7. States present. The only time that 9. were their time was employd upon the subject of the Connecticut cession, which ultimately was accepted; whereby she cedes all the land lying westward of a line to be drawn westward of the Pena. line parallel with the same. Our State voted against it but were in...
20From Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 16 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Since the receipt of your favor of May 21. I have been in daily expectation of receiving from you a particular state of the cost of my press &c. Mr. Paradise wrote me that it was about five guineas, but I knew there would still be some additions. The moment you will be so good as to favor me with this information I will remit you a bill for that and the eight guineas I formerly took the...
21From Thomas Jefferson to John Banister, Jr., 15 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I had detained the inclosed letters in my hands some days, doubting whether I should send them to Avignon or Bourdeaux. Your favor dated at the last place June 5. came to hand last night and has removed my doubt. I received them under a cover only, unaccompanied by any letter, so that I conjecture them only to be from your father. I am much obliged to you for informing me of your state of...
22From Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 15 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Monsr. Famin called on me on the subject of making Honfleur a free port; and wished me to sollicit it. I told him that it was for our interest, as for that also of all the world, that every port of France and of every other country should be free; that therefore we must wish Honfleur to be made so; that if the matter was in agitation the Count de Vergennes would probably speak of it to me in...
23Passport to William Langborn, 15 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Paris, 15 June 1786 . Passport issued to “William Langbourne, Citoyen des Etats-Unis d’Amerique.” Printed form ( NjP ); blanks filled in in unidentified hand; signed by TJ. (For specimen of this form, see illustration in Vol. 8.) “Mr. Langbourne, of Virginia,” wrote John Adams in his diary on 16 July 1786, “… dined here yesterday. This gentleman, who is rich, has taken the whim of walking all...
24To Thomas Jefferson from André Limozin, 15 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
The Letter your Excellency hath honored me with the 31st. Ulto. brought me a Copy of a Regulation lately made by the Government on the Subject of Tobacco. I have drawn out good many Copies which I have deliverd and made them publick. Your Excellency will find here annexed a Note of my expences for three Boxes, which agreable to your desires I have Shippd for Norfolk onboard the Betsy, Storey...
25To Thomas Jefferson from De Riario, 15 June [1786] (Jefferson Papers)
Le Comr. de Riario a l’honneur de rendre ses hommages à Mr. Jefferson, et de le remercier de son attention. Comme il compte partir dans la nuit du Samedi au Dimanche, et qu’il seroit très faché de ne pas emporter avec lui son Ouvrage sur la Virginie, il prie Mr. Jefferson de le lui envoyer broché avant six heures du soir dudit Samedi. Ce sera la lecture favorite du Commandeur pendant son...
26To Thomas Jefferson from William H. Sargeant, 15 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
The Anxiety my freind Coll: Banister (whom I left a few weeks since) labourd under to hear of his sons where abouts Induces me to the Liberty of troubling you with the care of a Packet accompanying this, as well as to trespass so far on your time as to Honor me with a few lines respecting the young gentlemans health and situation as I shall leave this in one Month for James River in my Ship...
27To Thomas Jefferson from Ebenezer Gearey, Jr., 14 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Brest, 14 June 1786. Since his letter of 12 June, has learned that his trunk has been attached. The trunk contains nothing but clothes and a great many papers, including “Obligations on a Grate Number of different People in America Payable to my Order, Many of which Papers I am in the Gratest Want for to forward to My Agent, they are the Ground Work of all My Business and Property in America...
28To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Hawkins, 14 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
The queres you gave me I have put into the best possible train to be answered considering the class of people from whom that kind of information is to be obtained, and I expect returns will be made to me this summer. The Languages I was particularly attentive to during my residence at the Treaties and among some of the Tribes, and I shall send you a vocabulary of the Cherokee and Choctaw...
29From Thomas Jefferson to James Buchanan and William Hay, 13 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
The model of the Capitol being at length finished I have sent it down the Seine to Havre, it being necessary that it should go by water. I have not yet collected the accounts, but shall soon do it, and forward them to you. They will be less than I had expected. I shall pray you to account for their amount to the Governour and council, as I have with them an account into which it will be easier...
30Instructions for Unpacking the Model of the Virginia Capitol, with Invoice, [ca. 13 June 1786] (Jefferson Papers)
Observations essensielle pour deballer le modelle II faut observer que le modelle est emballer dans deux quesse [caisses] et que le dessus de la grande quesse Est marqué pour la Conservation du modelle dans son transport. C’est a dire qu il faudra faire attention pour deballer le modelle qu il ne ce trouve sous le sus dessous. Ce la fait étant pozé sur son cens ferez sauter le dessus avec...
31Memorandum of Customs Paid on Model for the Virginia Capitol, [13 June 1786] (Jefferson Papers)
A quit 4₶ 4s. Droist D’anbalage 11₶ 6 plom Et Fermeture 1 4 ports an douanne Et port St. nicolas 3 14 ports pour rouan 3 10 recüe marc 23₶ 18 straw for packing 2
32From Thomas Jefferson to Ebenezer Gearey, Jr., 13 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your several letters of May 24. and 30. and June 5. and should have answered them immediately by post had I not expected every day that Captn. Cutting, an American here, would have set out for Brest and furnished me a better conveyance. I was the rather induced to wait for him because he would make at Brest the enquiries necessary. You mention in your letter two supposed causes...
33From Thomas Jefferson to André Limozin, 13 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
On receipt of your letter of May 21. I gave the notice you desired to Mr. Walpole, who, I doubt not, has written you on the subject. I thank you for your care of the trunks and box of books, as well as for your information that the ship Clementine will sail shortly for Norfolk in Virginia. In consequence of this I have sent by the Diligence d’eau a box containing a model in plaister for the...
34To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 12 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you and Mr. Adams the 10th Informing you of my Intentions to set out for Morocco this day but it is not Convenient for the Governor of that place to go before Tomorrow or perhaps the Day following. I was Obliged this day to begin the Business by making a Number of presents here, from the Governor down to the wife of a Jew who lives at Morocco including in the whole Twelve or Fifteen...
35[To Thomas Jefferson from Borgnis Desbordes, Frères, 12 June 1786] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Brest, 12 June 1786 . Entered in SJL as received 15 June 1786. Letter not found. It is certain, however, from TJ’s letters to John Diot & Co., 16 June, to Borgnis Desbordes, Frères, 17 June, and to John Jay, 8 July 1786 that this letter transmitted the following: (1) Affidavit for the release of Lister Asquith and his crew from the prison at St. Pol de Léon, 3 June 1786 (DLC: TJ Papers, 21:...
36To Thomas Jefferson from Ebenezer Gearey, Jr., 12 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Brest Prison, 12 June 1786. Is sorry to trouble TJ so much but looks to him “as a Child to its Father”; was supposed to write “Mr. Jinks,” whom he mentioned in his letter of 29 [i.e. 30] May, at l’Orient but is deprived by the authorities of sending letters to that place, probably because the English gentlemen who visited him have prejudiced the officers against him; knows many Englishmen who...
37From Thomas Jefferson to Stael de Holstein, 12 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
In compliance with your Excellency’s desire I will throw on paper such considerations as occur to me on the question ‘How may the island of St. Bartholomew be rendered instrumental for promoting commerce between Sweden and the United States?’ They will be rapid, undigested and incomplete; but a desire of contributing to bind the two Countries together in interest, and a respect for your...
38To Thomas Jefferson from William Stephens Smith, 12 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received yours of the 4th. inst. and am glad you have found a horse that will suit you. I am pleased that the affairs of the Cardinal and Cagliostro are so well terminated. I suppose by this time the whole affair is sunk beneath the horizon of notice. May not something be soon expected to command the public attention in a more serious and important line? What is the News from Potsdam? I...
39To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 12 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
We are favored with your Excellency’s most esteemed of 2. March accompanying a Copy of your Notes on Virginia for which Mark of your Esteem We beg your Excellency will receive our warmest and most sincere Thanks, Relying its Publication in English shall never be hastened thro’ our Means. We are extremely happy to be able to inform your Excellency, The Interest due the First Instant on the Loan...
40To Thomas Jefferson from Lewis Alexander, 10 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honoured with Your esteemed favor dated 31th. May inclosed Copy of the regulation resolved on in Committé by his Majesty for the general advantage of our trade, and the particular of united States Speculators in Tobacco. I have according to your desire duly published this notice to our Merchants. They are rejoiced in hopes of the Considerable extension it tends for this Branch of...
41Thomas Barclay to the American Commissioners, 10 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived here after an agreeable Passage of Five days and was very well received by the Governor and by the People, who seemed pleased to see Persons from a Country at so great a distance come to compliment their Sovereign. As the Governor had no Orders concerning our going forward, I was obliged to send a Courier to Morocco to demand that Permission and at the same time wrote to Mr. Chiappi...
42To Thomas Jefferson from John Bondfield, 10 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your two favors of the 31 Ulto. I have given communication and shall continue to make publick the Resolution of the Committee held at Berni the 24 May. It will certainly have the desired end of promoting a more extensive Commerce betwixt the two States. I shall transmit by the post to morrow a Copy of the Resultat to Rochfort agreable to your Instructions....
43To Thomas Jefferson from Burrill Carnes, 10 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly received the Letter you did me the honor to write me the 31st. Ultimo covering copy of a regulation lately made by Government on the subject of Tobacco, which agreable to your request I made an immediate publication of in this City. It is very favorably received by all persons concern’d in the importation of that article and I really hope will have a tendency to revive Trade between...
44[To Thomas Jefferson from Delahaie, 10 June 1786] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris, 10 June 1786. Entered in SJL as received 10 June 1786. Delahaie is identified in TJ’s entry as “Commissaire priseur rue de Marmouset fr. Arm[…].” Letter not found.]
45To Thomas Jefferson from Antonio Giannini, 9 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Secondo che lei mi scrive che mi a inviata una lettera di mio Padre, io non l’ò mai avuta ne so dove sia. Lei ancora scrive che io gli avvisi come stanno tutti gli alberi ed altre cose della sua villa; Il livello e tutto coperto di erba, e tutto all’intorno del monte cioe sopra la strada. Le Pride of China, alcune sono morte, ma anno rischioppato bene. I meli dell’orchard covè sotto il...
46To Thomas Jefferson from Guiraud & Portas, 8 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
The honour of your letter dated the 31st. May last, directed to our Nicolas Guiraud along with the deliberation it Contained, we have with due acknowledgment received. This we are going to Publish, according to your desire. We Make no doubt it may in Time, induce Several marchants of this Place, to send out adventures, to Virginia, Maryland, and other parts of America, for returns in Tobaco,...
47To Thomas Jefferson from Richard O’Bryen and Others, 8 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the Liberty of addressing these letters to you hoping you will excuse the freedom of an American &c. and unfortunate captive at present. No doubt but Mr. Lamb has given you and Mr. Adams every particular information respecting the state of affairs in Algiers. I am much surprized when I look at the date of your letter to us being the 4th. of November and with orders to Mr. Lamb to redeem...
48From Thomas Jefferson to Breteuil, 7 June [1786] (Jefferson Papers)
Monsieur Jefferson, ministre plenipotentiaire des etats unis d’Amerique, a l’honneur de presenter ses respects à son excellence Monsieur le baron de Breteuil. Il est chargé d’une commission de la part de l’état de Virginie à la ville de Paris au sujet de Monsieur le Marquis de la fayette. Il le croit de son devoir de prendre ladessus les ordres de Monsieur le baron de Breteuil, et il prie son...
49To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 6 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Yesterday I received your Favour of 30. May with its Inclosures. You have Since that day no doubt received my answer to yours of the 11th., in which I agreed perfectly with you in the Propriety of Sending Mr. Lamb to Congress without Loss of time. I am content to send Mr. Randal with him but had rather he Should come to you first and then to me, and embark in London after we shall have had...
50To Thomas Jefferson from John Banister, Jr., 5 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
It was not untill yesterday that I had the pleasure to recieve your favor of the ninth ulto. inclosing one from my Father. Permit me to thank you for your friendly solicitude concerning my health and at the same time to assure you that I shall not fail, in future, to write more frequently. I am still a valetudinarian; considerably incommoded by obstructions which are extreemly troublesom, and...