Thomas Jefferson

Image above and transcript below from the original letter at the Library of Congress Dear Sir I enclose you a piece to serve as an introduction to two other pieces which you will receive by the same Conveyance. I observe the Consul Le Brun at the entertainment given to the American envoys gave for his […]

Images above and transcript below from the original letter at the Library of Congress Dear Sir I understand there is an Article in the Treaty to the following purport, that the duties payable upon Articles brought from America into france shall not go to the revenue, but shall be appropriated as a fund to pay

Front page above. All pages and transcript below from the original letter at the Library of Congress In the present Crisis of Politics a question naturally suggests itself, which is, Whether in a treaty of Peace with Austria, any measures should be taken, on the part of France, towards a Peace with England? The answer

First page above. All pages and transcript below from the original letter at the Library of Congress Dear Sir I wrote to you from Havre by the ship Dublin Packet in the year 1797. It was then my intention to return to America, but there were so many British frigates cruising in sight of the

Images above and transcript below from the original letter at the Library of Congress Dear Sir As the wind at one time and the tides at another prevented the Commissioners sailing at the time they intended it gives me the opportunity of sending you an addition to the other pieces. — We have nothing new

Images above and transcript below from the original letter at the Library of Congress Harve May 14th – 97 Dear Sir I wrote to you by the ship Dublin Packet – Capt. Clay, mentioning my intention to have returned to America by that Vessel, and to have suggested to some Member of the house of

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

DEAR SIR: I wrote you by Captain Dominick who was to sail from Havre about the 20th of this month. This will probably be brought you by Mr. [Joel] Barlow or Col. Oswald. Since my letter by Dominick I am every day more convinced and impressed with the propriety of Congress sending Commissioners to Europe

Images above and transcript below from the original letter at the Library of Congress PARIS, April 20th 2d year of the Republic My Dear Friend The gentleman (Dr. Romer) to whom I entrust this letter is an intimate acquaintance of Lavater, but I have not had the opportunity of seeing him, as he had set

Images above and transcript below from the original letter at the Library of Congress London Feby. 13 1792 Dear Sir Mr. Kenedy who brings this to N York, is on the point of setting out. I am therefore confined to time: I have enclosed six copies of my work for yourself in a parcel addressed

Images above from Library of Congress London Sepr. 28th 1790 Dear Sir I enclose you a few observations on the establishment of a Mint – I have not seen your report on that subject and therefore cannot see how nearly our opinions run together, but as it is by thinking upon and talking subjects over

Images above and transcript below from the original letter at the Library of Congress London Fryday, Sepr. 18, 1789. Dear Sir I this moment received yours of 7, 13 Inst. which being Past night, affords me the welcome opportunity of acknowledging it — I wrote you on the 13th by post — but I was