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24. Aug. 2023 · Abstract. This book traces the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and William Short that was developed in years shared in France and carried forward through the French Revolution and Short’s return to the United States, and on into Jefferson’s retirement. It describes Jefferson’s lifelong concern for Short’s moral well-being and his ...
29. Juni 2017 · He learned diplomacy at the feet of Franklin, Adams, and Jefferson. With some knowledge of French acquired at. William and Mary, Short had enjoyed associa-. tion with officers of the French garrison at Williamsburg in 1781-1782.8 During the winter of 1784-1785, the young Virginian perfected his.
secretary, William Short.1 Twenty-four years younger than the Minister, Short was a Virginian of twenty-six whose associ-ation with Jefferson was so close that Jefferson referred to him as his "adopted son," although this phrase had no legal basis. They were family connections, in the familiar, Virginian sense, inasmuch as Short was the nephew of
The Papers of William Short is a born-digital documentary edition focusing on Virginian William Short (1759-1849), Thomas Jefferson’s “adoptive son,” who was a diplomat and fiscal agent in Europe, a successful businessman and philanthropist in the United States, and an early advocate of the emancipation of enslaved people in his home state.
7. Juli 2016 · In America’s First Daughter, we posit a life-long romance between William Short and Thomas Jefferson’s daughter Patsy.But how much of it is true? According to Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph’s biographer, Cynthia Kierner, some manner of romance of unknown intensity and duration blossomed in Paris between Thomas Jefferson’s teenaged daughter and his secretary, William Short.
25. Jan. 2002 · Morris thereupon directed Short, who by then was in the Netherlands, to instruct the American bankers in Amsterdam to transfer this sum to another banking firm in that city representing the French government, and although Short was initially reluctant to deal with the new revolutionary regime in Paris because of doubts about its legitimacy, he finally completed all arrangements for the payment ...
William Short. During the early months of I784, when it seemed likely to Thomas Jefferson that he would be sent by Congress to join Benjamin Franklin and John Adams in Paris as one of the commissioners for negotiating commercial treaties with the European powers, he discussed with William Short the possibility of his accompanying him. Although ...
