61[From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 10 January 1786] (Jefferson Papers)
[Paris, 10 Jan. 1786. Noted in SJL as written this date, “inclosing letters and mge [mortgage?].” Not found.]
62From Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 12 January 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
You were here the last year when the interest due to the French officers was paid to them, and were sensible of the good effect it had on the credit and honor of the U.S. A second year’s interest is become due. They have presented their demands. There is not money here to pay them, the pittance remaining in Mr. Grand’s hands being only sufficient to pay current expences three months longer....
63From Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 12 January 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I had just closed the preceding letter when M. de Blumendorf the Imperial Secretary of legation called on me with the answer to Doctr. Franklin. It was that of Sep. 28. 1784 which you remember as well as myself, wherein Count Merci informed us the Emperor was disposed to enter into commercial arrangements with us and that he would give orders to the Government of the Austrian Netherlands to...
64From Thomas Jefferson to Nathanael Greene, 12 January 178[6] (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour of June 1. did not come to hand till the 3d of September. I immediately made enquiries on the subject of the frigate you had authorised your relation to sell to this government, and I found that he had long before that sold her to government, and sold her very well as I understood. I noted the price on the back of your letter, which I have since unfortunately mislaid so that I...
65From Thomas Jefferson to La Rouerie, 12 January 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been honoured with your letter of the 26th. of Dec. on the subject of the interest due to the foreign officers. An express instruction of Congress having subjected their monies in Europe to the order of their board of treasury only leaves me without the power of giving the order you desire. However, wishing to do whatever was possible for those officers, I went to Mr. Grand’s to consult...
66From Thomas Jefferson to Lister Asquith, 13 January 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your letter of the 2d. instant. The delays which have attended your enlargement have been much beyond my expectation. The reason I have not written to you for some time has been the constant expectation of receiving an order for your discharge. I have not yet received it however. I went to Versailles three days ago and made fresh applications on the subject. I received...
67From Thomas Jefferson to Barré, 13 January 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honour of receiving your favor of the 13th. of December, and having never been able to obtain an answer from the painter in America on the subject of Genl. Washington’s picture, I have determined to permit it to be copied. I have therefore made the first offer to M. de Thevenard by a letter to him which accompanies this. I have written it in English, because you will be so good as to...
68From Thomas Jefferson to Cambray, 13 January 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I received this day your favor of the 10th. instant. Dr. Franklin did not leave with me any Certificates old or new either for yourself or any other person, neither is it in my power to give you any information on that subject. I think it would be adviseable for you to write to M. Otto, Chargé des affaires of France at New York, who can make the necessary enquiries for you, of Dr. Franklin,...
69From Thomas Jefferson to William Carmichael, 13 January 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honour of receiving on the 1st. inst. your favor of Dec. 17. I had before that, in a letter of Dec. 8. explained to you the cause of the bill not being paid which appeared here in your name, so far as I had been obliged to meddle in it. My letter to Mr. Grand which I inclosed to you, will have shewn you that I advised him to follow what had been his practice as to your bills. I do...
70[From Thomas Jefferson to Frichet, 13 January 1786] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris, 13 Jan. 1786 . Entry in SJL reads: “le Curé de Gelannes. Acknoleging receipt of his of Xbre. 31.” Not found.]
71From Thomas Jefferson to Thevenard, 13 January 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I received a letter from Mr. Barré some time last winter expressing your desire to have a copy of the picture of General Washington. I informed him that I had two pictures of him by different hands; the one by Peale, better painted; but the other by Wright, more resembling the general; that you should be perfectly welcome to have a copy of either; that if you preferred Peale’s, it might be...
72From Thomas Jefferson to John McQueen, 16 January 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Jefferson’s compliments to Mr. Mc.Queen and was very sorry he was gone out when Mr. Mc.Queen did him the honour to call on him. He begs the favour of his company to dinner on Thursday next, and shall be happy to see him whenever he can make it convenient. Mr. Jefferson seldom goes out before noon, so that at any earlier hour Mr. Mc.Queen will find him at home. RC ( NjP ); addressed in...
73From Thomas Jefferson to Cambray, 20 January 178[6] (Jefferson Papers)
I had the pleasure two days ago of receiving from the Register of the Treasury of the United States, a certificate for 3227 83/90 Dollars equal to: 17,430₶-15–7 due to you and bearing an interest of 6. percent from the 1st. day of Jan. 1784. to be paid annually at the house of Mr. Grand banker in Paris. The interest of certificates similar to this was paid the last year by Mr. Grand; but he...
74From Thomas Jefferson to Vergennes, 20 January 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received the honor of your Excellency’s letter of the 18th. instant, and will avail myself of the first occasion of transmitting it to Congress. The pleasure of meeting your desire, will, I am persuaded, induce them to do for Mr. Dumas whatever the establishment which they think themselves bound to keep up at the Hague, together with the rules to which they have submitted all their...
75From Thomas Jefferson to John McQueen, 22 January 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Jefferson takes the liberty of reminding Mr. McQueen that he was so good as to promise to do him the honour of dining with him on Wednesday the 25th inst. RC (Miss Caroline Huger, Bluffton, S.C., 1946); addressed: “A Monsieur Monsieur McQueen hotel de l’empereur rue Tournon.” Not recorded in SJL .
76From Thomas Jefferson to John Bondfield, 24 January 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
On the departure of Mr. Barclay I was so hurried that in a letter I was writing to him, I could only ask him to be the bearer to you of a wish that you would be so good as to send me 6. dozen bottles of red Bourdeaux and 6 dozen of white, of fine quality. I now repeat this prayer to yourself, only desiring a gross of each instead of half a gross, mentioned to Mr. Barclay. You are the best...
77From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Eppes, 24 January 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my letters by the Mr. Fitzhughs, I wrote you the 11th. of December and 7th. of January. Both went by the way of London. About a week ago your favor and Mrs. Eppes’s of Sep. 14 and my dear Polly’s came to hand. The latest of your letters before this, which have reached me, were of 15 months ago, that is, of Octob. 1784. That which you mention to have written in May last by a confidential...
78From Thomas Jefferson to the Governor of Virginia, 24 January 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been honoured with your Excellency’s two letters of Sep. 10th. and that of Octob. 14. 1785 . The former were brought me by Mr. Houdon, who is returned with the necessary moulds and measures for General Washington’s statue. I fear the expences of his journey have been considerably increased by the unlucky accident of his tools, materials, clothes, &c., not arriving at Havre in time to go...
79From Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 25 January 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I received on the 18th. instant your private favor of Dec. 9. and thank you for the confidence you are so good as to repose in me, of which that communication is a proof. As such it is a gratification to me, because it meets the esteem I have ever borne you. But nothing was needed to keep my mind right on that subject, and I believe I may say the public mind here. The sentiments entertained of...
80From Thomas Jefferson to David Rittenhouse, 25 January 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Sep. 28. came to hand a few days ago. I thank you for the details on the Southern and Western lines. There remains thereon one article however which I will still beg you to inform me of, viz. how far is the Western boundary beyond the Meridian of Pittsburgh? This is necessary to enable me to trace that boundary in my map. I shall be much gratified also with a communication of...
81From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 25 January 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your favor of the 17th. of October, which though you mention as the third you have written me, is the first which has come to hand. I sincerely thank you for the communications it contains. Nothing is so grateful to me at this distance as details both great and small of what is passing in my own country. Of the latter we receive little here, because they either escape my...
82From Thomas Jefferson to John Banister, 26 January 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letters will so fully explain their object that I need not say a word on that subject. You will perceive that Messrs. Dangirard and De Vernon have great cause to complain of the invincible silence of Messrs. Marck, nephew, & co. A person who has done me many friendly offices has asked my endeavors to procure information what can be the cause of this silence. I take the liberty of...
83From Thomas Jefferson to James Buchanan and William Hay, 26 January 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honour of writing to you on the receipt of your orders to procure draughts for the public buildings, and again on the 13th. of August. In the execution of those orders two methods of proceeding presented themselves to my mind. The one was to leave to some architect to draw an external according to his fancy, in which way experience shews that about once in a thousand times a pleasing...
84[From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Dilly, 26 January 1786] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris, 26 Jan. 1786 . Entry in SJL under this date: “Chas. Dilly. Book seller of Lond. To send Dr. R’s books by Col. Humphreys.” Letter not found, but see David Ramsay to TJ, 10 Dec. 1785, and TJ’s reply, 26 Jan. 1786.]
85From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Hopkinson, 26 January 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
My last to you was of the 3d. inst. and acknoledged the receipt of yours of Oct. 25. covering your new invented harpsichord tongue. The present is to acknolege the receipt of your favor of Sept. 28. with newspapers but in which there was not a model of the tongue as you mentioned. The bearer of this letter is a careful man of Connecticut, who has been hitherto servant to the M. de la fayette....
86From Thomas Jefferson to La Rouerie, 26 January 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor of informing you on the 12th. inst. of the measures I had taken to obtain as early paiment as possible of the interest due to the French officers. I have as yet no answer from Mr. Adams, and I informed you that in truth that application afforded little hopes. The effect of my letter sent to America must probably be awaited. In the mean time I receive a letter from the treasury...
87From Thomas Jefferson to the Commissioners of the Treasury, 26 January 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been duly honoured by the receipt of your letter of Dec. 6. and am to thank you for the communications it contained on the state of our funds and expectations here. Your idea that these communications from time to time may be useful to the U.S. is certainly just; as I am frequently obliged to explain our prospects of paying interest &c. which I should better do with fuller information....
88From Thomas Jefferson to David Ramsay, 26 January 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
The letter I did myself the honour of writing you on the 12th of Oct. will have informed you what I had ultimately done on the subject of your book. Your’s of Dec. 10. is just received. I am very sorry to find that your printer is so much deceived as to the parts of the work which have come to my hands. They are exactly as follows. Vol. 1. pa. 1. - 328. 329 - to the end. Vol. 2. pa. v. - xx....
89From Thomas Jefferson to John Bartram, with Enclosure, 27 January 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
By Mr. Bingham who left Paris about a fortnight ago I took the liberty of asking your acceptance of a copy of Linnaeus’s Systema Vegetabilium translated into English and enlarged with many new plants furnished by Linnaeus the son and which have never before been published. Inclosed is a list of plants and seeds which I should be very glad to obtain from America for a friend here whom I wish...
90From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Franklin, 27 January 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honour of writing to you on the 5th. of Oct. and since that have received yours of the 1st. of the same month. We were highly pleased here with the health you enjoyed on your voiage, and with the reception you met with at home. This was no more than I expected. Had I had a vote for the Presidentship, however, I doubt whether I should not have witheld it from you that you might have...