31Thomas Jefferson to John Graham, 11 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 28 th was recieved on the 2 d instant , and the busy season of the harvest in which we are still engaged, leaving me only this day (Sunday) to answer it, must apologise for the delay. I have had too many proofs of your kind attention to my foreign letters to doubt it in the case of Mad e de Staehl . the channel which you suggest, of sending it under cover to mr Speyer thro’...
32From Thomas Jefferson to John Graham, 1 December 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I had this morning desired a person to ask the favor of you to call on me; but learnt soon after that you had left this place for Dumfries. the office of Secretary of the territory of Orleans is vacant. it requires indispensably that the person holding it should speak the French as well as English languages: the Spanish would be an useful tho’ not indispensable addition. presuming you speak...
33Thomas Jefferson to John Graham, 19 July 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty in which you have so often & so kindly indulged me of requesting you to send the inclosed to mr Appleton by the first safe conveyance by which you may send official dispatches to him, and with my assurance of a due sense of this favor accept those of my great esteem & respect. PoC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “M r John Graham ”; endorsed by TJ. Enclosures: TJ to Thomas Appleton...
34Thomas Jefferson to John Graham, 25 April 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
A gentleman of Dumfries of your name, & I think he was your brother , was so kind as to promise me a pair of wild geese, & to say he would take some occasion of sending them to Washington by water. I would now prefer their remaining where they are, as being so much nearer than Washington , & I will send for them as soon as the roads are good. not knowing the Christian name of mr Graham nor...
35Thomas Jefferson to John Graham, 6 January 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I trouble you with a package addressed to mr Warden containing many letters to my friends & correspondents in Europe which I must ask of your usual goodness to give a passage to under cover with your the dispatches of your office some of them being very confidential I would prefer their awaiting the safest passage, their certain conveyance being more important than their early one. accept my...
36Thomas Jefferson to John Graham, 12 May 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson salutes mr Graham with friendship & respect and prays him to give the benefit of the cover of his office to the inclosed letters to S t Petersburg , by the first conveyance he shall deem safe. not knowing where mr Warden is at present he has taken the liberty of inclosing a letter for him & of praying mr Graham to superscribe the proper post-office, & commit it to that line, for...
37Thomas Jefferson to John Graham, 25 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of mr Graham to give to the inclosed the safest passage which shall occur, and if possible, through a public vessel, & under cover to our Chargé at London , while we still have one there. the letter is to an old classmate ( mr Maury ) and ought not to go through an English post office if it can be avoided, being entirely confidential. he salutes mr Graham with...
38From Thomas Jefferson to John Graham, 2 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his compliments to mr Graham asks the favor of him to issue a commission to Eugene Sullivan as Surveyor at West point in Virginia vice Stephen Bingham decd. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.