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PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 3 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/802 Online Library of Liberty: The Works, vol. 5 (Correspondence 1786-1789) Table Of Contents Itinerary and Chronology of Thomas Jefferson 1786–1789 Correspondence 1786 Answers to Questions Propounded By M. De Meusnier 1 Additional Questions of M. De Meusnier, and Answers Observations On the Article États-unis Prepared For the EncyclopÉdie 1 To John Jay To Archibald Stuart 1 To C. W. F. Dumas 1 To James Madison To the Marquis De La Fayette To the Secretary For Foreign Affairs (john Jay) To Alexander Mccaul To Richard Henry Lee To Anna Scott Randolph Jefferson 1 To the Secretary For Foreign Affairs (john Jay) To John Page To James Ross To James Monroe To the Secretary For Foreign Affairs (john Jay) To the Secretary of Foreign Affairs (john Jay) To M. La Morleine To the Swedish Ambassador At Paris (baron Stahe) To William Carmichael To James Monroe To John Adams To Hector St. John CrevecŒur To the Marquis De La Fayette To the Marquis De St. Lambert. To Mrs. John (abigail) Adams To James Monroe 1 To George Wythe To Francis Hopkinson To the French Minister of Foreign Relations (charles Gravier, Comte De Vergennes) To Jean Pierre Brissot De Warville To HonorÉ Gabriel Requetti, Comte De Mirabeau To Charles Gysbert, Count Van Hogendorp To Mrs. Paradise To Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr. To John Adams To Ezra Stiles Answers to the Queries of M. SoulÉs 1 To Mrs. Maria Cosway To Mrs. Maria Cosway PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 4 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/802 Online Library of Liberty: The Works, vol. 5 (Correspondence 1786-1789) To William Stephens Smith To George Washington To Mrs. Elizabeth Trist 1 To James Madison To Charles Thomson 1 To Nicholas Lewis To William Carmichael 1787 - to Alexander Mccaul 1 To William Jones To Edward Carrington 1 To James Madison 1 To Mrs. John (abigail) Adams To Martha Jefferson 1 To Martha Jefferson 1 To the Secretary For Foreign Affairs (john Jay) To Martha Jefferson 1 To Martha Jefferson 1 To James Madison To John Adams Observations On the Letter of Monsieur De Calonnes to Monsieur Jefferson, Dated Fontainebleau, Octob. 22, 1786 To M. ClaviÈre To Thomas Mann Randolph To Edward Rutledge 1 To Mrs. John Bolling 1 To A. Donald To Nicholas Lewis To James Madison To Edward Carrington To Benjamin Hawkins To Peter Carr 1 To Dr. George Gilmer To Joseph Jones To the Editor of the Journal De Paris To George Wythe To Charles Thomson To William Carmichael 1 To John Adams To Comte De Buffon To the Governor of South Carolina (john Rutledge) To James Madison 1 To John Jay To William Stephens Smith To William Carmichael To James Madison 1 To Edward Carrington To Colonel Forrest Correspondence and Miscellaneous Writings 1788 PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 5 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/802 Online Library of Liberty: The Works, vol. 5 (Correspondence 1786-1789) To the Comte De Grasse To William Stephens Smith To William Rutledge To James Madison To Jean Pierre Brissot De Warville To George Washington To Mrs. William Bingham To the Comte De Moustier To James Madison 1 To John Brown To Edward Carrington To William Carmichael 1 To Mr. Thomas Digges To Nicholas Lewis To Dr. William Gordon To Edward Rutledge To James Madison 1 To William Short To James Madison To George Washington 1789 - to John Jay 1 To James Madison To Dr. Edward Bancroft To William Short To William Carmichael To Francis Hopkinson To Madame De Brehan 1 To James Madison To David Humphreys To the Marquis De La Fayette To George Washington To Comte De Moustier 1 To the Marquis De La Fayette To M. De St. Etienne Proposed Charter For France A Charter of Rights, Solemnly Established By the King and Nation To L’abbÉ Arnond To James Madison 1 To James Swan To James Madison 1 property of The Ball Teachers’ College Eastern Division, Indiana State Normal School MUNCIE, INDIANA Number......................... lf0054-05_figure_001 PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 6 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/802 Online Library of Liberty: The Works, vol. 5 (Correspondence 1786-1789) [Back to Table of Contents] PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 7 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/802 Online Library of Liberty: The Works, vol. 5 (Correspondence 1786-1789) ITINERARY AND CHRONOLOGY OF THOMAS JEFFERSON 1786–1789 PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 8 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/802 Online Library of Liberty: The Works, vol. 5 (Correspondence 1786-1789) 1786.—Jan. At Paris. 24. Prepares notes for Meusnier. Feb. Aids John Ledyard. Mch. 5. Leaves Paris. At Calais. 11. At London. 22. Presented to King, Windsor. Has interview with Tripolitan Ambassador. Negotiates treaty with Portugal. 26. Prepares with Adams projet of treaty with Great Britain. At Chiswick, Richmond, Twickenham, Woburn, Hampton Court, Paynes Hill, Cobham, Weybridge, Woburn, Cavorsham, Reading, Apl. 1–9. Wotton, Buckingham, Banbury, Stowe, Buckingham, Stratford, Hockley, Birmingham, Stourbridge, Bromsgrove, Worcester, Winchcomb, Moreton, Eynston, Woodstock, Oxford, High Wycombe. 10. At London. Signs treaty with Portugal. Portrait painted by Mather Brown. 26. Leaves London. At Dartford, Rochester, Canterbury, Dover. 29. At Calais, St. Omer, Royes, Bourgel. May 1. At Paris. 23. Suggests treaty against Barbary states. June 22. Corrects article of Meusnier. Sept. Rents hotel corner Champs Élysées and rue Neuve de Berry. 4. Fractures wrist. 13. Answers queries of Soulé’s. 1786.—Oct. Prepares map of Virginia. 22. Made an LL.D. (Yale). Dec. 16. Act for Religious Freedom passed by Virginia Assembly. Dec. 26. Notes on Virginia translated into French by Morellet. 1787.—Jan. Makes proposition to British creditors. 4. Feb. 27. Attends audience of Montmorin. Mch. 3. At Sens and Vermanton. At Lucy le Bois, Cussy les Forges, Rouvray, Maisonneuve, Vitteaux, La 4. Chalieure, Pont de Paris, and Dijon. 7–8. At La Boraque and Chagny. 9. At Chalons, Sennecy, Tournus, St. Albin, and Macon. At Maison blanche, St. George, Château de Laye-Epinaye, and Lyons. 15–18. At St. Fond and Mornas. PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 9 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/802 Online Library of Liberty: The Works, vol. 5 (Correspondence 1786-1789) At Pont St. Esprit, Bagnols, Connault, Valignières, Remoulins, St. 19–23. Gervasy, and Nismes. 24. At Nismes, Arles, Terrasson, and St. Remis. 25. At Orgon, Portroyal, and St. Cannat. 25–28. At Aix. 29. At Marseilles. At Marseilles, Aubagne, Cuges, Beausset, Toulon, Hieres, Cuers, Apl. 6. Pignans, and Luc. 9. At Vidauban, Muy, Frejus, Antibes, and Nice. 13. At Scarena and Sospello. 14. At Ciandola and Tende. 15. At Limone and Coni. 16. At Centale, Savigliano, Racconigi, Poerino, and Turin. 19. At Setimo, Chivasco, Ciliano, St. Germans, and Vercelli. 20. At Novara, Buffalora, Sedriano, and Milan. 23. At Casino, Rozzano, Binasco, and Pavia. 24. At Voghera, Tortona, and Nevi.