Letters

To Anonymous March 4, 1797 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

To Colonel John Fellows January 20, 1797 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

To James Monroe August 15, 1796 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

To Daniel Isaacs Eaton December 4, 1795 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

To Gilbert Wakefield, A.B. November 19, 1795 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-sixpenny 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;

To James Madison September 24, 1795 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

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

To James Monroe [1795] 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 M. Tallyrand [September 1797] 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