1[To Thomas Jefferson from the Commissioners of the Treasury, 6 December 1785] (Jefferson Papers)
[New York, 6 Dec. 1785. Recorded in SJL as received 18 Jan. 1786 from “S. Osgood & W. Livingston. Board of Treasury … by the [packet?] and post.” The date of the letter is illegible in SJL and is supplied from TJ’s reply of 26 Jan. 1786. Not found. Enclosure: A copy of the Commissioners to Ferdinand Grand, 5 Dec. 1785 (DLC), acknowledging his letter of 16 July 1785; the balance in his account...
2To Thomas Jefferson from the Commissioners of the Treasury, 9 May 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
We are honored with your Letter of the 26th. January last, and are extremely sorry that it is not in our power to transmit to you more agreeable Intelligence concerning the State of the Finances of this Country than you have probably been used to receive from your Correspondents in America. On the contrary, the Languor, which has long prevailed in the several States on this Object, has rather...