TO PETER CARR. Paris, August 19, 1785. Dear Peter, I received, by Mr. Mazzei, your letter of April the 20th. I am much mortified to hear that you have lost so much time; and that when you arrived in Williamsburg, you were not at all advanced from what you were when you left Monticello. Time…
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Jefferson to Carmichael Regarding Barbary Pirates and Northwest Territories
TO WILLIAM CARMICHAEL. Pads, August 18, 1785. Dear Sir, My last to you was of June the 22nd, with a postscript of July the 14th. Yours of June the 27th came to hand the 23rd of July, and that of July the 28th came to hand the 10th instant. The papers enclosed in the last…
Thomas Jefferson to John Adams Regarding the Barbary States
TO JOHN ADAMS. Paris, August 6, 1785. Dear Sir, I now enclose you a draught of a treaty for the Barbary States, together with the notes Dr. Franklin left me. I have retained a press copy of this draught, so that by referring to any article, line, and word, in it, you can propose amendments…
Jefferson to Stiles on Science, Technology, War, and Education
TO DR. STILES. Sir, Paris, July 17,1785. I have long deferred doing myself the honor of writing to you, wishing for an opportunity to accompany my letter with a copy of the Bibliothèque Physico-oeconomique, a book published here lately in four small volumes, and which gives an account of all the improvements in the arts…
Jefferson to President Richard Henry Lee
TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS. (Private.) Paris, July 12, 1785. Dear Sir, I was honored, two days ago, with yours of May the 16th, and thank you for the intelligence it contained, much of which was new to me. It was the only letter I received by this packet, except one from Mr. Hopkinson, on…