511To 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...
512[To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Coffyn, 5 June 1786] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Dunkirk, 5 June 1786. Entered in SJL as received 10 June 1786, “By Louis de Bauque.” Not found.]
513To Thomas Jefferson from Jean Baptiste de Gouvion, 5 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
About eighteen months ago Mr. Grand recieved an order from the treasury board of the united States to pay the interests due for the year 1784 upon certificates delivered to the foreign officers who have served in the continental army. He comply’d with the said order for all those who at that time made application to him. Captain Castaign being absent from Paris, and not appraized of the order...
514To Thomas Jefferson from Ebenezer Gearey, Jr., 5 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Brest Prison, 5 June 1786 . Hoped to have a reply to his letter of 24 May by the post which arrived from Paris the previous evening. Although he has petitioned a number of times, has not been able to obtain his trunk; the weather being cold when he took passage, he wore heavy clothes; now that it is warm, he is exceedingly uncomfortable; has not “Shifted a pair of Stockings these thirty days.”...
515To Thomas Jefferson from David Humphreys, 5 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
By means of a merchant vessel that sails from this place for L’Orient, I have the pleasure to inform you of my safe arrival after an agreeable passage of 32 day; altho’ I cannot give so high commendations on the accomodations of the French Packet, as I could have done on a former occasion. The fineness of the weather and the hilarity of the passengers, however, atoned for some circumstances...
516To Thomas Jefferson from John Lamb, 5 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Randall left Madrid for Paris the 3d. of this month. By him I wrote fulley . His Detention no Doubt he will give an account of. He left Algiers the 29th of March. At that time I wrote a short letter to your Excellency which letter I sent by Mr. Randall and I hope it is come to hand. Tomorrow I set out for Alicante and there shall wate further orders. I took Mr. Randall’s Receit for five...
517To 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...
518From 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...
519To 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,...
520To 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...
521To Thomas Jefferson from Ebenezer Gearey, Jr., 9 May 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Suffer Me to Inform you that Mr. Chipindall, one of the English Creaditors to me which I Mentioned in my Letter of the 24th May, Returned to Brest from Paris and came to The Prison to See me and Made a Proposition of my Returning with him to England, Which I Refused, But Proposed if I Could have my Liberty Amediately at that time I would very [che]erfully Return to dunkirk and thier I would...
522To 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...
523To 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...
524Thomas 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...
525To 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....
526To 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...
527[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.]
528To 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...
529[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:...
530To 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...
531From 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...
532To 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...
533To 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...
534From 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...
535Instructions 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...
536Memorandum 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
537From 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...
538From 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...
539To 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...
540To 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...