31To Thomas Jefferson from Fulwar Skipwith, 10 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Owing to the long and obstinate continuance of the unhappy disputes of Martinique, and finding myself on that account no less than for want of instructions from you, unable to render much service in my official capacity, I have within the last fortnight been induced to make this my place of residence, meaning to await the reestablishment of order in that distracted island and likewise the...
32To Thomas Jefferson from Florida Blanca, 12 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Carmichael will have informed you of the favorable reception he met with from the King when he was presented by me to His Majesty as Chargé des Affaires of the United States appointed by their President, being made known as such by the Letter which you sent to me through his hands, dated the 11th. of April last. The change which has taken place in the destination of Don Diego de Gardoqui...
33To Thomas Jefferson from David Humphreys, 12 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The postponement of the sailing of the Vessel by which I wrote on the 6th instant affords me an opportunity of continuing my Correspondence to this day. Since I had the honor of addressing you last, a Packet has arrived from England in five days passage, and yesterday the ordinary Post came in with the Mails from different parts of the Continent. The summary of Intelligence received through...
34To Thomas Jefferson from Mary Jefferson, 13 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I am very sorry that my not having wrote to you before made you doubt of my affection towards you and hope that after having read my last letter you were not so displeased as at first. In my last I said that my sister was very well but she was not. She had been very sick all day without my knowing any thing of it as I stayed upstairs the whole day. However she is very well now and the little...
35To Thomas Jefferson from John Barry, 14 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I am informed it is in contemplation to have a few Ships of War built. Permit me Sir to give you my opinion what kind would be the most proper for this Country at present and for Years to come. I would have them almost in every respect like Frigates with this difference only that their should be a deck fore and aft insted of gang ways with wide gratings and the middle of a few of the Beams to...
36To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, [15 February 1791] (Jefferson Papers)
Les Gazettes ci-jointes diront à V.E. tout ce que l’on sait ici parmi les mieux instruits des affaires générales de l’Europe. Je m’apperçois, depuis quelques jours, que le parti Pr[ussie]n ici commence à s’allarmer sur la tournure que les affaires prennent en Allemagne. Par contre, les autres, incomparablement plus nombreux, s’en réjouïssent, en conçoivent l’espoir de voir humilier enfin leurs...
37To Thomas Jefferson from William Blount, [17 February 1791] (Jefferson Papers)
[“Territory of the United States of America South of the River Ohio. At William Cobbs.” 17 Feb. 1791 .] In December he appointed and commissioned civil and military officers for Davidson, Sumner, and Tennessee counties, which form the district of Mero. “The people of that district also appear much pleased with the change of the government.—The superior Court for the District of Washington is...
38To Thomas Jefferson from Ebenezer Hazard, [17 February 1791] (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Hazard presents his respectful Compliments to Mr. Jefferson. It has occurred to him that if Mr. Jefferson would favor him with a Line or two recommendatory of his Undertaking, which he might be permitted to publish, it would expedite the printing of his Collection of State Papers, and render the public Appearance of that work less problematical than it will otherwise be, as the Sanction of...
39To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 17 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be presented you by Mr. Yard at present residing in this city, but lately from St. Croix, whither also he proposes shortly to return. Presuming the establishment of consuls will be extended to that Island, and being willing to accept of such appointment, he has requested me to make his pretensions known to you. His connection with Mrs. Monroe’s family has given me the pleasure of his...
40To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Hawkins, 18 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I am very desirous of obtaining your opinion on the Constitutionality of the Treaties formed with the Indians at Hopewell on the Keowée. If I recollect right, you informed me you had yours in writing some time last summer.—If the request be not an improper one, and you have reserved a copy, you will oblidge me by a gratification of my desire. I do not mean to ask the liberty of using your name...
41To Thomas Jefferson from William Hay, 18 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Determination respecting the Encyclopédie in which Mr. Madison concurs with you, is perfectly satisfactory to me, and the more so, as you so obligingly offer your Services to dispose of it in Philadelphia. As I now consider myself bound to pay Doctr. Currie the Value of the original Subscription in standard English Books, perhaps you will be able to swap the Encylopédie with some of the...
42To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 18 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I learn that a change of wind which lasted a few hours only at length allowed three of the vessels which had my letters, to get out of the Texel some days ago. Others were less fortunate and still remain there. My several letters by the way of England will previously have explained the cause of this uncommon delay. I mentioned to you in my last that the committee of commerce had wished to...
43To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 18 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to you on the 17th. of Jan. private. Whenever I begin a letter of that kind I find an almost irresistible impulsion to apologize for the repeated ennui that you must have recieved from my several letters written posterior to June last. I am prevented from it only by the consideration that it is now too late to prevent it and from a desire to avoid importunity.—Since my last the...
44To Thomas Jefferson from Daniel L. Hylton, 20 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Your esteem’d favour of 9th instant came to hand late yesterday evening, in consequence thereof, I immediately went to the Warehouse to see what tobacco of yours was down to embrace the first opportunity offers to execute your little commission in shiping the different qualities of tobacco pointed out in your letter; which shall be duly attended too. The day following has been heavy rains and...
45To Thomas Jefferson from Robert R. Livingston, 20 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Knowing the value of your time I should not thus early after the receipt of yours have intruded upon it could I have consented that you should one moment longer misapprehend my sentiments with respect to your invaluable report on weights and measures. I am so far from suggesting any other ideas than those you propose that tho I have examined them with minute attention I find nothing to alter...
46To Thomas Jefferson from Fulwar Skipwith, 20 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg leave again to remind your Excellency that in none of the french colonies have they received from the Court of France (officially) the Convention with the United States respecting Consuls &c.—therefore no one of their Governors or Commandants can grant me the necessary exequateur or receive me in any form. With Respect I have the honour to be Your Excellys Mo Obt. RC ( DNA : RG 59, CD );...
47To Thomas Jefferson from Maxcey Ewell, 21 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your Letter dated October 16th 1790 wherein you directed me to call on Mr. Hopkins for my Certivicates and forward them by post to Mr. Maddison at Philadelphia where he would put them in the necessary train. I since have made application to Mr. Hopkins for them. He informs me that by dire[c]tions of the late Board of treasury [they] were forwarded to the Treasury of the united...
48To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 21 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Patsy, the little girl Polly and myself have been in good health since you heard last from us. Your silence for the two last weeks, makes us fear that you are not so fortunate. Patsy had just begun to visit the public room, but a very deep snow which fell yesterday and today obliges her to return to her Chamber. During the whole of her confinement, she has scarcely felt the smallest...
49To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 22 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The last post from Paris which arrived in the evening after my No. 56 was sent off by the way of England brought me intelligence that the national assembly had at length decided the great and embarassing question of the cultivation of tobacco in France. It is evident that the troubles in Alsace accelerated this decision and influenced it.—They had some days before determined that they would...
50To Thomas Jefferson from John Jay, 24 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I this Day received the enclosed from the Post Office. It is the only Letter that I have received from Mr. Chiappe since I left the Office for foreign Affairs; and as it belongs to that Department I take the earliest Opportunity of transmitting it to you.—I have the Honor to be with great Respect & Esteem Dear Sir your most obt. & hble. servt. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); endorsed by TJ as...
51To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander Watt, 24 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg you will pardon me for the freedom I take in troubling you with this at a time when no doubt Matters of great consequence require your Attention. The Legislature of this State in the beginning of the year 1789, appointed or continued a Health officer for this Port, to go on board of every Vessel, from any foreign Port, and ordered a fee of three Dollars to be paid the said officer by the...
52To Thomas Jefferson from Joshua Johnson, 25 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 19 Instant, Charles Calvil, Carpenter, of the Dolphin, Captn. Richard O’brian, belonging to Messrs. Allens of Philadelphia, who was Captured on her Passage from St. Ubes to America on the 30 July 1785, and carried into Algiers on the 16 August in the same Year, call’d on me; He tells me that he was liberated by Subscription obtained by the British Consul in July last, that when he left...
53To Thomas Jefferson from Madame de Lur-Saluces, 25 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Ayant eu le Malheur de Perdre Mr. le Comte de Lur Saluces Monsieur et étant Consequament rentrée en Possession de Mes vins Blancs d’yquem, haut Sauterne, Monsieur fenwick a bien voulu M’envoyer La Lettre que vous avies adressée à feu Mr. Le Cte de Lur-Saluces. J’espere Monsieur que vous serai content de Lenvoi que je vous fais expedier, qui Consiste en 10 Caisses de 50 bouteilles chacune...
54To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 25 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I received a few hours after the departure of my last letter an account of the additional articles decreed by the national assembly relative to tobacco. I mentioned to you that the cultivation in France was allowed, that its importation in the manufactured state was prohibited and permitted in leaves subject to a duty of twenty-five livres the quintal, except when in French vessels coming...
55To Thomas Jefferson from John Garland Jefferson, 26 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have waited for some time with anxious hopes, in expectation of a letter from you; but having not as yet had that satisfaction, induced by the fairness of the occasion, I have resumed my pen to comply with one of his requests whose injunctions shall ever be held sacred by me; for believe me Sir, of the many incidents in life, there are few circumstances which cou’d give me more real, and...
56To Thomas Jefferson from Joshua Johnson, 26 February 179[1] (Jefferson Papers)
My last was on the 1st December by the British Packet; since then, I have deferred writing you for several reasons; the first, I was anxious to have the power to say, whether this Court really meant to send out Mr. Elliott or not; but I am still in the same state of suspense, the Minister, not denying, or confirming the report. The second reason, was my wish to make trial of the conduct of the...
57To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 26 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I am to acknowledge your favours of the twenty sixth of November and seventeenth of December which reached me two days ago. The System of Finance did not indeed fully meet my Opinions but I know it is necessary to conform even to the Prejudices of Mankind. I fully believe with you that any Resources dependent on Consumption will greatly encrease. I believe this Encrease will not be meerly in...
58To Thomas Jefferson from Aaron Vail, 28 [February] 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
With an apology for intruding on your valuable time I beg leave to address you once more on a subject on which I have troubled you already several times. I have sir, some time past determined on residing some years in France where I have found some commercial, and other connections that, to me are very flattering. The owner of the packets a very respectable merchant at St. Malo, and myself...
59To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 1 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope you will pardon My troubling your Excellency with these few lines to make an enquiry after your health, and that of your amiable families: And to know at the same time if you have received a Letter I did Myself the honour to send you by Bishop Maddison . You will greatly oblige Mr. Paradise and Myself if you would let Us know by the return of the Spring Ships whether your Agent has...
60To Thomas Jefferson from Daniel Smith, 1 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Southwest Territory, 1 Mch. 1791 . Enclosing proceedings of Gov. Blount. He has not thought it his duty to notice his proceedings as Superintendent of Indian Affairs.—Must requirement of Act of 13 July 1787 be met by submitting executive proceedings precisely at end of each six months or not exceed that time?—Judge Peery not yet arrived. Distance and danger of going from one district court...