1Thomas Jefferson’s Statement of Account with Philip Mazzei’s Estate, 5 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Philip Mazzeileaves a principal sum due to the representatives of
2Thomas Jefferson to Peter Derieux, 27 July 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
came to hand on the 22mr Mazzei
3Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Appleton, 1 August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
to you was of of the present, with the seed of the Lupinella. this came to hand too late to be sown this season, and is therefore reserved for the ensuing spring. mr recieved what you sent him somewhat earlier, & sowed a little (not chusing to venture the whole.) I am recently returned from a visit to him and saw the plants just come up. from their appearance we judged them to be a species of
4[From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 10 January 1786] (Jefferson Papers)
To Philip Mazzei
5[From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 8 May 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
reads: “P. Mazzei. Valedict.” Not found.]
6I. Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 24 April 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
forwarded for you to V.S. … & H. of Amsterdam on W. Anderson for £39.17.10 1/2 and on George Barclay for £70.8.6. both of London have been immediately write to the drawers
7Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 29 December 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
that letter I answered two days after it’s reciept, to wit, since which I have not heard from you. such an interval excites anxieties to learn that you continue in health. my health remains good; a diminution of strength being the principal indication of advancing years....which excluded us from the ocean, but on license and tribute to her, and took from us near 1000. vessels in a time of...
8[From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 28 April 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
reads: “P. Mazzei. My proceedings in his affairs—adjournment Congr.—will bear testimony if he can fix particular point—correspond.—communicated de Rieux’s arrival at Chas. T. and letter to me.” Not found. Derieux’s letter is that of 22 Feb. 1784, q.v.]
9[From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 12 May 1785] (Jefferson Papers)
reads: “P. Mazzei. Receipt of his of Dec. 1. Peace. Likely to form rational connection with Tuscany, but barren unless Tuscans carry on in own bottoms. Barbary states. Query if ask peace with sword or money. Ill health. Begin now to go out. My appointment. Send for Polly next spring. Patsy well. Mr. Short also, and at St. Germ.’s. Mr. Ad. goes to Lond. His son to America. Doradour. Mably dead....
10[From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 1 July 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
reads: “P. Mazzei. That Bowdoin’s conversion of a sterlg. into currency debt was illegal—that Jefferson’s bond for £146–4–6 and Gillespy’s & Henderson’s for £100 having been so long kept by Bowdoin would be considered... as a money paiment—that the former was my brother’s affair—referred to N. Lewis and Key for papers and Garth for information.” Not found.]
11From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 7 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
My last to you was of the 2d. of August: since which’I have recieved yours of June 4. and Sep. 3. The letter to M. de Rieux, inclosed in the last, has been forwarded, and you may be assured of every aid of counsel I can give him. His own dispositions are good and prudent, and his industry exemplary.—I... , when last in Virginia, to a Mr. ...made very happy by being able to get £250. for it, when...
12Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 9 July 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
instead of extending itself downwards towards the lower navigation has built to meet the upper navigation.
the body of the town is now on
I will immediately write to Consul to , allows me but the single post of tomorrow to get this letter into their hands. it is the more
unfortunate as the few opportunities which occur are rarely known to me but by the...
13[From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 11 December 1783] (Jefferson Papers)
reads: “P. Mazzei. Account of my transactions for him—how my own time filled up in his absence.” Not found.]
14From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 31 January 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
the contents of which shall be attended to. Nor have I for a long time heard from Messrs. Van Staphorsts & Hubbard. My letters to you of May and Sep. last will have informed you that at the same dates I remitted to them the following bills recieved from Mr. Blair.May 27. 1795. Anderson’s bill on Wm. Anderson of London, dated 1794. June 11. payable to V.S. & H.
15Thomas Jefferson to Giovanni Carmignani, 18 July [1816] (Jefferson Papers)
Philip Mazzei. I learn this event with great affliction, altho’ his advanced age had given reason to apprehend it. an intimacy of 40. years had proved to me his great worth; and a
friendship, which had begun in personal acquaintance, was maintained after separation, without abatement, by a constant interchange of letters. his esteem too in this country was very general;
his
early...
16Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 6 March 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
, intends to visit devotion to this, your, as well as our country, and the pleasure with which you recieve all it’s citizens, I have requested to deliver you this letter himself. he will be able to communicate to you the events of our late war, and the present state of things here in all the details in which I know you are ever anxious to learn him. ...time I am anxious to hear from you....
17From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 29 April 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved from you was of Dec. 8. 1797. it is still longer since I have written to you. the prohibition by a law of the US. of all intercourse between us and France, the blockade of Amsterdam & Hamburgh, the entire possession of the ocean by the English, and ...publishing intercepted letters for political purposes, has prevented my writing a line to any body on the other side of the Atlantic....
18From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 16 February 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Will Mr. Mazzei be so good as to write to some friend in Italy to inform him whose translations into Italian of the above authors, are the best: and also to denote by the addition of the figures 1. 2. 3. &c. which are of the 1st. degree of merit, which are only 2d. rates, 3d. ra[tes] and which are the best of the...
19Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 9 August 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
came inclosed to me in , which did not get to my hands until the 15 how the present answer will get to you I do not yet know but I shall confide it to the , to be forwarded with his despatches either to stated to you the circumstances, both here and abroad, which rendered a remittance of the price of your lots ...revolutionary war, and the prospect of peace thought to be distant. under these...to
20From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 8 September 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
...date I received letters from Mr. Blair and Mr. Madison, extracts from which I now inclose you. By that from Mr. Madison you will percieve that Dohrman alledges some deductions from the sum claimed. If he accedes to Mr. Madison’s proposition of paying up what he acknoleges due, the money shall be immediately remitted to Messrs. Van Staphorsts: if he does not, it will afford a presumption that...
21From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 6 May 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
...your favor of the 17th. April, on my return thither the 3d. inst. I now inclose the order you desire. I think I cannot be at Paris before the 15th. of June but shall make a point to be there at that time on account of the approaching Packet. I have made a little tour from Nice across the Alps at the Col de Tende, to Turin, thence thro’ the rice country of the Vercellese, Novarese, Milanese,...
22From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 17 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Dec. 6. is just recieved, and a person leaving this place tomorrow morning for Paris, gives me a safe conveyance for this letter to that place. I shall depend on mr Short’s finding a conveyance from thence. yet as I know not what that conveyance may be, I shall hazard nothing but small & familiar matters. my health, which wore... ...the letter alluded to in your’s, became soon...
23From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 4 April 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
...considerable merchants here. I delivered him your letter and he has shewn me all the attentions which the state of his mind would permit. A few days before my arrival his only son had eloped with jewels and money to the value of 40,000 livres, and I believe is not yet heard of. He speaks of you with friendship, and will be happy to see you on your way Southwardly. He has promised to make me...
24Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 4 February 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Mazzei’s repeated urgencies to could not leave a moment’s doubt as to the expediency of accepting a reasonable offer for it. but the research for the powers he gave me has taken considerable time, & ended not satisfactorily. I remember certainly the recieving from him a blank power of Attorney... giving express power to sell his ..., recieved one as to personal property) I have some... ...to...to
25From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 30 May 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
It is long since I ought to have acknoleged your two last favors of and Nov. 18. 93. and could I have foreseen that waiting for little circumstances would have delayed my answer from week to week and month to month, I should have cut them short. The letters came very late to my hands, a little before I left my office, when every thing of course was hurry. After I returned home, in January of...to
26From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 17 October 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
By these passages it would seem that the pictures of Americus Vespucius, of Columbus, of Magellan and Cortez exist at Florence. I should wish extremely to obtain copies of the two first, and even of the two last also, if not too expensive. Painters of high reputation are either above copying, or ask extravagant prices. But there are always men of good talents,... ...I would be willing to give...
27Thomas Jefferson to Peter Derieux, 26 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I found here such a mass of letters and other business accumulated during my absence, that this is the first moment it has been in my power to turn to mr Mazzei’
28From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 31 May 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
. The intermediate ones 5. and 6. have not come to hand. An express now setting out to carry letters to the ship supposed to be on her departure leaves me leisure to say but little in answer to yours....are deeply felt by the people themselves, and the sentiment of making separate terms with England is so base that I verily beleive no man in America would venture to express such a one. It is...
29From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 12 May 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Nov. 27. 1779 from Nantes came safely to hand on the 6th. of April last. The Fier Rodrique being not yet sailed, enabled me to answer it. Three copies of your duplicates and instructions were sent by different conveyances since you left us; so that we have great hopes they have come safe to hand: the present however being a very safe conveyance, another set will accompany this...
30Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 20 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
mr Mazzei’s never pretended any claim on Mazzei, and I was too intimate with the affairs of both not to have known of such a
31From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, November 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
You desire me to give you an idea of the Origin and Object of our court of Chancery, the Limits of it’s jurisdiction, and it’s Tendency to render property and liberty more or less secure in a country where that security is infinitely valued. The purpose for which you require this obliges me to be concise, as indeed does my situation here, where, as you know, I am without books which might...
32From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 18 July 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
28. 1803. Apr. 15. May 20. Oct. 25 to Dec. 28. 1804. Jan. 27. Mar. 8. so constant is the pressure of business that there is never a moment scarcely that something of public importance is not waiting duty to withdraw almost
33Thomas Jefferson to Giovanni Carmignani, [20] August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
came to hand just as I had dispatched one to on the same subject, which he will probably recieve and communicate to you before this reaches you. my deceased friend Mazzei, and the attestations respecting it, had come to hand in due time; & on I wrote you an acknolegement of the reciept of these papers, with explanations as to the remittances of the effects of
34From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 4 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of Mar. 10. I informed you that I wrote that day for the certificate of Bellini’s death. I now inclose it. I also mentioned that on the journey I was then taking to Monticello I should get information from your attorney mr Carr & probably be able to recieve & make you the remittance for Colle. I inclose you his letter by which you will see we shall be delayed till the fall. I got...to
35From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 2 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Sep. 3. 1790. came to hand Dec. 15. and that of Apr. 12. is just recieved....Dohrman forwarded me by Mr. Madison from New York. He thinks that Dohrman’s expectations of making payment, within any short time, are not to be counted on, but that the land mortgaged is a solid security for the debt ultimately.—I inclose you a copy of Mr. Blair’s account. He paid me the balance of £8–...to
36From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 5 April 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
to the question whether I would accept any post in the domestic administration. I did not yet know that that answer had been so long on it’s way that the nomination had taken place. Still I thought I should... easily decline it. But in the correspondence which took place between the President and myself, I found that while he left me constantly at perfect liberty to return to France, he wished...
37Memorandum Books, 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
Pd. Ph. Mazzei for Jos. Neilson 25/.Gave my bond to P. Mazzei as security for Randolph Jefferson for paimt. of £146–4–6 on 4th. of Novemb. 1779. with intt. from 4th. Nov. 1778.
38Enclosure: Jefferson’s Diary of Philip Mazzei’s Affairs, 3 December 1789–22 March 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
...in Wmsburg. He was very sick. He promised me as soon as he was well he would send me an exact state of Mr. Mazzie’s affairs in his hands. Mr. Wythe paid the price of his seal to W. Nelson.[Dec.] 9. Called on E. Randolph in Richmond. He thought he could give me a state of his proceedings on returning to his lodgings but having returned there he wrote me the note, which see.
39Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 14 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
indisposition has probably prevented as yet his attendance at his court to acknolege and forward the deed for mr Mazzei’s
40Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Appleton, 18 July 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
are both recieved: the former only a week ago. they brought me the first information of the death of my antient friend Mazzei, which I learn with sincere regret. he had some peculiarities, & who of us has not? but he was of solid worth; honest, able, zealous in sound principles moral & political, constant
to publish his life in one 8 ...of his history is to get his materials, I know not...
41Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Appleton, 13 July 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
My letters to you, within the last 12. months have been of with the annual remittance to announcing a remittance of 400.D. for the same persons to pay their passage and expences to the have been recieved. I wonder much that the remittance of the 300.D. had not got to hand at the date of , I am not able to state the particulars of it’s transmission. I hope however it is long since at hand
42From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 10 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
My last letter to you was of the 14th. of March 07. no occasion arose for writing again in the course of that year, and at the close of it, in December 07. our embargo put an end to the departure of vessels, which has continued from that time to this, 14. months. since my last, I have recieved yours of 07. Jan. 24. June 22. Sep. 13. Oct. 20. Dec. 19. 08. Mar. 29. the present will go very safely...
43Memorandum Books, 1773 (Jefferson Papers)
John Stewart (Augusta) v. James Callison (Augusta). I was directed to enter this petn. some time ago, and did it, but it being still blank and so not chargeable I bring the memm. forward, to get rid of old books. So when necessary recur to rough memm. books 1770. Jan. 21. Carter Henry Harrison (Cumberld.) v. Benjamin Harrison (Chas. City). A suit in Canc. in Chas. City to be movd. to Gen. ct....
44From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 10 March 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Latrobe, superintendant of the public buildings having occasion for a stone carver, capable of carving the Capitel & frize of a Corinthian order. I have taken the liberty of addressing him to you to seek a proper character, he arranging with mr Appleton to recieve the person on your recommendation & to pay whatever monies may be necessary. we want a mere workman, but of real proficiency in...
45From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 4 April 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
being to sail within about three weeks, I think it a safe opportunity of writing to you, and of sending you according to your desire the two bundles of papers indorsed ‘fogli da estrarne principj di governo libero’ &c. and ‘pamphlets, newspapers, fogli stampati,’ which with this letter will be addressed to the care of Penet & co. of Nantz. I have heard nothing certain of you since your... ...to...
46Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Appleton, 4 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
enience to me, and shall not injure her. be so good as to present to her & to now remit to you
47Thomas Jefferson to Peter Derieux, 23 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I should undoubtedly be willing to represent the same to mr Mazzei
48From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 21 October 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
In August of the last year, Mr. Carr, the attorney employed to recover the price of Colle, paid me up
the balance in full. I have since been constantly intending to take up our accounts and to make a full statement of
them; but they went back to our residence in Paris, and it has not been till lately that I have had as much time...to
49Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Appleton, 14 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
the condition of my friend Mazzei, both of body and mind, is really afflicting. of the former he had given me some account himself, of the latter I was unapprised, altho’ his very advanced age, with such bodily infirmities, might have given... room to expect it. it is unfortunate too that persons in that situation are themselves the least & last sensible of it, and injure their affairs ...to...
50Memorandum Books, 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
comes to 105₶–14 which is 18₶–6 a month = 12s a day.Pd. Petit 369₶–10 in part of the two last articles of 440₶–6 and 279₶–4. so there remains due to him 350₶.