1To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Attwood Digges, 23 February 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
My negro messenger to Cob point (wch is a little below Hooes ferry) has but just returnd, altho He might have been back on tuesday last.—He has brought me two Swans, killd on fryday night—an old one which weighs in his Feathers &ca 19 ½ lb and a young one, much leaner which weighs 15 lb.—The old fellow will likely be a tough morsel, & I am sorry the young one is not fat which none of them are...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Attwood Digges, 29 July 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
In compliance with your request I hastend all in my power to obtain an accurate survey & plot made of that part of my Warburton Farm where its extreme point (a high promontary) at the narrowest part of Potomack hereabouts, and where the channel makes an angular bending close in with the shore, forms a seemingly favourable position for a Fort on its heights as well as a battery near the shore....
3To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Attwood Digges, 23 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
My friend and old acquaintance Dr. Hamilton, of very respectable connections at Waterford Ireland, and of late a neighbouring Phisician to me but about to fix in Baltimore, having intimated a desire to wait upon You, I most cheerfully give Him this Introductory line with a solicitation for Your usual kind attentions and civility. I knew Dr. Hamilton a practitioner in London, for some years...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Attwood Digges, 20 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
My nephew Jno Fitzgerald about to depart for his military station at Norfolk, & meaning to pay his farewell respects to You, gives me an appertunity of handing You this. I never left Washington with more regret, worse health and depressd spirits (after a confinement of sickness for three days in a dirty Tavern) than on sunday last, or I would have made my departing congee to You. I got so...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Attwood Digges, 20 February 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
A long confinement to my chamber (with a Rhumatic and Pluracy complaint) will I hope plead my excuse for troubling You to read a letter in lieu of giving an ansr. by personal enquiry. I have a very favourable opportunity & mean shortly to send a relative of mine (a Lad of abot 15 yrs. old) to Spain .—there to fix him for 6 or 8 yrs. in order to attain the Language and merchantile advantages of...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Attwood Digges, 30 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I am much obligd in many instances by Your kind attentions, and particularly so for the present of Quarantine Corn, which I have carefully sown in good soil & put in according to Your instructions. The grain appears to me exactly that round, red- & yellow kind which the Spaniards & Portuguese with success (tho’ in but small quantities comparatively to their wants) cultivated while I resided...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Attwood Digges, 20 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg Your forgiveness for intruding on You the enclosed Letter to Mr Brodie, which I suppose of some consequence to Mr Brodie as comeing from His Family by the last British Packet. Should He not be at monticello be pleasd to return it back to me. The Fort progress’s towards its completion of its heavy wall work and begins to shew a handsome River front.—I have my dayly vexations about it as...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Attwood Digges, 14 February 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Supposing my business will oblige me from hence in the afternoon (while I can catch a spert of fair weather) And that I may thereby not have the pleasure of seeing You this trip, I make free to inclose You Mr Brodies intimation, ( the only one I have yet been able to obtain .) about the late military visit to Warburton—which unluckily happend while I was replacing a boundary stone & busy with...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Attwood Digges, 11 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
My old acquaintance & neighbour Doctor Rhd. H. Courts who is now with me, & who has a plaint to make to You, (which from my confinement I cannot personally attend Him in,) will wait upon you with this. The Doctor served faithfully & for several years in our Revolutionary War, has been ever a firm & uniform Republican (even in the worst of times), a constant supporter of the present...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Attwood Digges, 26 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I want very much to write to Dr. Wister of Philaa on the theme of placeing my two nephews Attwood Fitzgerald & Geo Carroll at Philaa. as well for this & the next winters Lectures as also for the whole summer through; But I have no acquaintance with the Doctor but the short meeting we had on our return from Mr Spriggs. They go by tomorrows Coach, and I should esteem it a great favour, if You...