1From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 4 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
We are well here, tho’ still without news from Mr. Randolph or yourself, tho’ we have been eight weeks from Monticello. Maria was to have written to you to-day, but she has been so closely engaged in pasting paper together in the form of a pocket book that she has not been able. She has been constantly getting colds since she came here. I have put on board Capt Stratton a box with the...
2V. Thomas Jefferson to Gabriel Henno, 4 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Tho Your observations on manufactures came to my hands long ago, and were considered as entirely worthy of communication to the public, yet it is not till lately that I have been able to have them so communicated. I inclose you the gazettes containing them, wherein you will see that the printer has taken the liberty of omitting some passages which he considered as matter of embellishment...
3From Thomas Jefferson to John Dobson, 4 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The credit which I was obliged to give on the sale of my tobo. of the year 1790. having put it out of my power to make any payment from that resource till now, I have reserved till now also the taking a review of our affairs. The assignment to yourself of my bond to Farrell & Jones for £500. sterl. principal and int. payable July 19. 1791. has added that demand to the former one you had...
4From Thomas Jefferson to John Cleves Symmes, 4 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Sep. 17. has been duly recieved and laid before the President. He does not concieve that the constitution has given him any controul over the proceedings of the Judges, and therefore that his permission or refusal of absence from your district would be merely nugatory.—In the report which I made to the President on the subject of the public lands, and which he laid before the...