First page above. All 7 pages and transcript below from the original letter at the Library of Congress Harve de Grace April 1 1797 Dear Friend I left Paris about ten days ago and came to this place intending to take passage in the Dublin Packet for New York, but the vessel being crowded I […]
PARIS, MY DEAR FRIEND: I just write you a line to tell you that I am in existence after a thousand dangers. I am always intending to return to America, and something is always happening to prevent me; the case I believe is that, as I have embarked in this Revolution, I do not like
PARIS, SIR: Your friend Mr. Caritat being on the point of his departure for America, I make it the opportunity of writing to you. I received two letters from you with some pamphlets a considerable time past, in which you inform me of your entering a copyright of the first part of the Age of
Versailles, 28 Thermidor 4 year DEAR SIR: I am spending some days at the house of a friend at this place with whom I shall make an arrangement to stay some weeks. But I am out of cash and I know no method of supplying myself, but by having recourse to your friendship, the money
VERSAILLES, CITIZEN MINISTER: The citizen Robert Smith, a very particular friend of mine, wishes to obtain a passport to go to Hamburg, and I will be obliged to you to do him that favor. Himself and family have lived several years in France, for he likes neither the government nor the climate of England. He
PARIS, SIR: I have seen advertised in the London papers the second Edition of the Age of Reason printed, the advertisement says, from the Author s Manuscript, and entered at Stationers Hall. I have never sent any manuscript to any person. It is therefore a forgery to say it is printed from the author’s manuscript;
PARIS, DEAR SIR: When you prudently chose, like a starved apothecary, to offer your eighteen penny antidote to those who had taken my two-and-six penny Bible-purge, you forgot that although my dose was rather of the roughest, it might not be the less wholesome for possessing that drastic quality; and if I am to judge
PARIS, SIR: I have borrowed two hundred and fifty French Crowns of Mr. Monroe at Paris and agreeably to my arrangement with him the money is to be repaid into your hands in America and I have given an order to Mr. Benj[ami]n Franklin Bache to pay that sum to you upon my account. It
To Benjamin Franklin Bache August 5, 1795 PARIS, SIR: I have lately published a small tract entitled Dissertations upon first Principles of Government. As the press was set in English as well as in French I have struck off an additional quantity. You will receive a package containing 5000 about three hundred of which are
From the original letter at the New York Public Library Paris March 6th 1795 My Dear Friend Mr. Mozard who is appointed Consul will present you this letter. He is spoken of here as a good sort of man and I can have no doubt that you will find him the same at Boston. When
DEAR SIR: I thank you for your kindness. I have desired Mr. Gilston to enquire if there is room at the Hotel where Mr. Barlow lodges. I will be obliged to you to remind him of it in case he has not yet done it. The plan I had of going to Hartley’s is deranged,
Rue theatre francais No. 4, CITIZEN MINISTER: I promised you some observations on the state of things between France and America. I divide the case into two parts. First, with respect to some method that shall effectually put an end to all interruptions of the American commerce. Secondly, with respect to settlement for the captures
