Naive avec finesse et vive avec decence par vous tout est charmant par vous tout s’embellit comme vous la pudeur rougit. comme vous sourit l’innocence un mot indifferent si par Vous il est dit nous paroit un trait d’eloquence et votre role est toujours plein d’esprit meme pendant votre silence...

Several days have elapsed since I arrived here from my expedition to the mountains, but I have been so much indisposed that I could not with ease proceed immediately to Richmond. I am extremely impatient to set out for New-York where my time would be much more profitably spent, & wish if it...

We have been some time past in daily expectation of hearing from you, which indeed has prevented me from writing as we were afraid you had not received our letters, for though we had the satisfaction of knowing you arrived safely in America, yet we should have been much more happy, to have heard...

I make you my Complts Dear Jefferson Vous avez emportes la pomme aussi Vous est elle bien due—I hard of yr parti fine the other Day at the Palais Royale with the Duke of Dorset & his two nieces—a Gentelman told me he had Seen you & that you remain’d there till it was quite duskish &...

I received your letter yesterday & tho’ I have very little time tonight I would not omit answering it for the world, least you should have a pretext for not sending me your address in Virginia, & thereby lay me under the necessity of putting a period to our correspondance; before I thank...

We are in such confusion ever since nine ’clock this morning, when the Duke decided to go to England tomorrow, which we should have been otherwise glad of, if we had not left you at Paris; the idea of parting with you hurts us more than we can describe, but as we have a great deal to do, we think...

We arrived here to day between two and three, and expect to sail at twelve ’clock at night, so we shall get to London tomorrow, where I intend writing you a long letter; I hope to hear from you by the next Courier, as that will give me some consolation now we cannot meet; we regret you if...

It is impossible for me to discribe, how happy I feel at hearing from you, and what ever pleasure I have felt at seeing my friends in England, it has not been equal to the pain of a seperation from you, which if not eternal, is so distant, as to afford me very little hope, but I will no longer...

I have this moment received your letter and take the first opportunity of thanking you for it, and am afraid you will still be set out before this reaches you, you cannot imagine how sincerely we all lament your departure to America, for my part it seems as a fresh seperation, for while you were...

Mercredi 4 Novembre 1789 enfin Ma Chere je vais aujourd’hui Commencer Mon journal, je n’ai pas eu Le Courage de L’entreprendre plutot, ainsi tu peux t’attendre que Cette Lettre sera 4 fois plus mal ecrite que Les autres puisque je ne pourrai pas me ressouvenir de tout en ordre pour Commencer par...

16 15 Novembre 1789 voici un billet d’enterrement du Clergé qui Court paris. M. vous êtes priés d’assister au Convoi et enterrement de très haut très puissant et très magnifique seigneur Clergé. décédé dans La salle de L’assemblée Nationale Le jour des morts 1789. son Corps sera porté par mrs...

15 Decembre 1789 Mon journal n’est pas bien exact Comme tu vois Mais en verité ma chere C’est que je suis fort embarassée, tantot je pense que je t’ennuye en te racontant des choses qui ne sont pas plus plaisantes et que Ces details ne t’interessent pas du tout, ensuite je me ressouviens de nos...