1To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Leiper, 21 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly received your kind and I may add your affectionate letter of the 6 th of December—Some time after the receipt of your letter I was in quest of my son William to inform what a kind reception he would met from you but before I found him he was a very considerable distance to Monticello on his way home—Julia by her Month’s Residence at Richmond perfectly recovered her Health and to make it...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Leiper, 6 December 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Be assured, dear Sir, that the reasons which put it out of my power to interfere in behalf of mr Taylor, were such as yourself would pronounce insuperable had it been proper for me to have mentioned them.—we shall be happy to recieve your son and daughter here whenever they will favor us with their visit. Richmond was not well chosen as the place to shake off a fever and ague. in the months of...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Leiper, 25 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be delivered to you by my son William and perhaps my Daughter Julia whom I have ordered them to wait on you and present my best compliments as Julia is travelling for the benifit of her health I have no doubt a sight of you and the air of Monticello will contribute to it I am with utmost esteem and Respect DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
4To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Leiper, 23 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 27 th of last month I duly received and the contents agreeably to your instructions are retained with myself— I have no doubt your reasons for not Granting my request are perfectly correct as all your actions are— At the time I wrote you my mind was not made up of the propriety of the measure but my wife and others anxious for the interest of M rs Taylor in which her...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Leiper, 27 October 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my solicitation of July 22. at your request the ground on which I stand is entirely changed, and it is become impossible for me to ask any thing further from the govmt. I cannot explain this to you, and even request you not to mention the fact. I should not have sent it to you, but that I cannot offer you false excuses. my frdshp for you is the same , but this method of proving it is no...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Leiper, 22 October 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg to solicit your interest again in favor of my son in law Robert Taylor who has been unfortunate in business as many others But although he has lost his money he has sustained no loss of Character indeed he has added to its by paying of his old debts which he was able to do by being appointed a Vendue Master But the law respecting the office has been Repealed but before this took place...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Leiper, 9 September 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your very obliging and Affectionate letter of the 22 d of July I duly received and I am at a loss for Language to express my gratitude for the interest you have taken in behalf of my son in Law and how I shall go about returning you my best thanks— I should wrote you an answer before this time but I was indeavouring to find out the cause how it was possible that the Mother and may add the...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Leiper, 22 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 14 th was rec d yesterday Your son in law, the son of D r Patterson the elder and D r Patterson the son himself have a right to every service I can render them. I have not hesitated then to write to the President on the subject of your lre and to add my testimony to your’s in favor of your friend and connection. there was one point unknown to myself and on which your lre was...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Leiper, 14 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Doctor Robert Patterson is extremely ill and not expected to Live many days— This unhappy Occurrence will leave a vacancy in the Office of Director of the Mint—Several persons has been already named as the future officer and Among them his son Doctor Robert M Patterson who is also my son in Law—This Gentleman is now in every respect such as his Father was when he received the Office at your...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Leiper, 3 April 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I am really done, my friend, with Politics, notwthstg the doubts you express in your favor of Mar. 16. there is a time for every thing, for acting in this world, and for getting ready to leave it . the last is now come upon me. you, I hope, will hold out as long as you can, because what you do, I know will always be done for the good of our fellow-man. with respect to the European combinns...