1Thomas Jefferson to Elijah Griffiths, 5 January 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Dec. 11. has been recieved, and certainly no one would more gladly be useful to you than myself. but from the time of my retiring from office, so multitudinous were the applications to me to sollicit appointments from government that I should have had to submit to a total prostration of all self respect, or to refuse decline interfering generally. I have done so rigor o usly, but...
2Thomas Jefferson to Elijah Griffiths, 15 May 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved in due time your favor of April 7. & it revived pleasing recollections of our former acquaintance, and of my sense of your worth, which the lapse of 20. years has not obliterated. For some time after my retirement from public affairs I yielded to the requests of others to sollicit for them appointments under the general government. these however became so numerous & burthensome as...
3Thomas Jefferson to Elijah Griffiths, 22 May 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return from a journey, after an absence of three weeks, I found here your favor of Apr. 19. but in the mean time had seen by the public papers that the office of Treasurer of the mint , had been given to the son of the late occupant , which of course precluded the application requested on your behalf. Retirement from the busy walks of life has added much to my happiness, by relieving me...
4Thomas Jefferson to Elijah Griffiths, 28 May 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Nov. 14 . came to me in due time, but much oppressed with business then & to the end of my political term, I put it by as I did the civilities of my other friends till the leisure I expected here should permit me to acknolege them without the neglect of any public duty. I am very sensible of the kindness of the sentiments expressed in your letter, & of the general indulgence with...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Elijah Griffiths, 22 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of July last was delivered to me at Monticello, from which place I had nothing new, or worthy the subject of an answer. that of Feb. 22. is now to be acknoleged. I have considerable hopes that our government will go on with less opposition than preceding occasions have called for. I rather expect that several circumstances latterly have brought over & consolidated with us a large...