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...
2To 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.
3To 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...
4To 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of his old debts which he was able to do by being appointed a Vendue Master But the law respecting the office has been Repealed but before this took place...
5To 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...
6To 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...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Leiper, 16 March 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
In a former letter I wished you to give us another Declaration Republicans against the Holy Alliance but your answer you were done with Politics but at this Crisis I think it impossible—But President Monroe has done the Business for you for he has sent a Chalenge to the Holy Alliance if they come within Our Hemisphere they shall not do it with impunity— I observe in this days paper that the...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Leiper, 27 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I had wrote you several letters which I intend for you but believe me I had not the Courage to forward them from the circumstance of their having too much vinigar and pepper in them and as I was giving you my opinions freely of many parts I see I might mistaken and from that circumstance I retained them—But notwithstanding I am obliged to believe with Horace from my own person knowledge—”That...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Leiper, 13 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
A few days ago I wrote you and by the same mail I sent you Two small Bundles of Pamphlets and if you have not time to read them please put them into the hands men who are well disposed to Curtail our import and encrease our Exports—I was of the opinion that the Millit perhaps had not got into your part of the country because every thing in the farming line does not spread rapidly for altho’...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Leiper, 9 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have sent you by Mail this day Matthew Carey Apeal to Common Cause and Common Justice—Matthew Carey address to the Philadelphia society for Promotion of National Industry & M Carys New Olive Branch & Matthew Careys treatises on M r Cambriling’s work entitled an Examination of the New Tariff & Matthew Carey Desultory Facts and Observations & James Gray Sketch of the Present condition and...