91James Madison to Henry Lee, 14 August 1833 (Madison Papers)
private I have recd. your letter of June 5th. under cover of one from Mr P A. Jay of New York. I find that you have been misled on the subject of Mr Jefferson’s letter to me of Decr. 28. 1794., by an unlucky misprint of Jay for Joy (G. Joy in London) the writer of the letter to which Mr. Jefferson refers. This letter has no reference to Mr. Jay nor to any thing that could be within the scope...
92James Madison to Henry Lee, 26 November 1833 (Madison Papers)
I received Sir, on the 9th instant your letter of Sepr. 15th. and enclose copies of such of your father’s letters to me, as are embraced by your request. They are entire with the exception of one from which the conclusion was cut off for an autographic collection. Finding that my files do not contain copies of my letters to your father, as is the case with his files and his letters to me, I...
93James Madison to Henry Lee, 3 March 1834 (Madison Papers)
private Your letter of Novr. 14. came safely tho’ tardily to hand. I must confess that I perceive no ground, on which a doubt could be applied to the Statement of Mr. Jefferson which you cite. Nor can it I think, be difficult to account for my declining an Executive appointment under Washington and accepting it under Jefferson, without making it a test of my comparative attachment to them;...
94From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee, 14 August 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
I this day received your favor of the 20th ult. It woud give us great pleasure to concur in any measure for consolidating into bodies the several fractions of corps which we have in continental service, and we shoud be particularly pleased to have your corps made of our Line if it coud be done either by a transfer of individuals from other corps to that or by any other operation. The new...
95From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee, 9 December 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
Baron Steuben has just favored me with a State of what is essential for your Corps. I am sincerely sorry it is in our power to comply with so little of it. I inclose you a warrant for £6000. which I fear however cannot be furnished till Thursday or Friday next, when any recruiting money due may be also paid. I shall be much obliged to you if you will be so good as to favor me with a return of...
96From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee, 11 September 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of March 6 . came duly to hand with the papers it inclosed, as also duplicates of the same by a later occasion . I entered on the business you were pleased to confide to me with all the zeal which a desire to be useful to you could inspire. My hopes however neither were nor are equal to my wishes for success. I had before had occasion to try the dispositions of this country towards...
97From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee, 26 April 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honored with your favor of the 3d. instant, and would have been happy to be useful to Mr. Lee had there been any opening, as I should be hereafter were any to occur. There are no offices in my gift but of meer scribes in the office room at 800. and 500. Dollars a year. These I found all filled and of long possession in the hands of those who held them, and I thought it would not be just...
98From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee, 14 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The President having referred to me your letter of Feb. 16. covering information from Dr. Taylor as president of the Commrs. of the Marine hospital at Norfolk, informing you that a wing of that hospital is in readiness to be delivered to Congress I am obliged to ask your further information on the subject. Is it a new proposition ? If it is, we can find no provision made by any law for such a...
99From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee, 13 August 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
It was not till yesterday that I was honored with the receipt of yours of July 23. or it should have been sooner answered.—I am of opinion that all communications between nations should pass through the channels of their Executives. However in the instance of condolance on the death of Doctr. Franklin , the letter from our General government was addressed to the President of the National...
100From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee, 11 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
On receipt of the letter with which you were pleased to honor me on the subject of the unsettled boundary between Virginia and the SouthWestern territory, I laid it before the President, who communicated it to Congress. A committee was thereupon appointed by the house of representatives who reported a proposition for authorising the President with the concurrence of the states of Virginia and...
101From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee, 21 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been duly honored with your favor of May 8. covering the letter of Mr. Newton, and that of May 13. with the letter of the British consul at Norfolk and the information of Henry Tucker, all of which have been laid before the President. The putting the several harbours of the US. into a state of defence having never yet been the subject of deliberation and decision with the legislature,...
102From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee, 28 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I should much sooner have answered your favor of the 15th . of May on the subject of a Mace, by sending you the inclosed design of Dr. Thornton, whose taste and imagination are both good: but that I have not myself been satisfied with the introduction of the rattlesnake into the design. There is in Man as well as brutes, an antipathy to the snake, which renders it a disgusting object wherever...
103From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee, 17 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I was honored in due time with your favor of June 16. on the subject of an infectious disease supposed to be prevailing in the Windward islands, and the precautions necessary to be taken on our part. The absence of the President prevented it’s being immediately laid before him. That has been now done, and it is thought that no provision on the subject has been made by the laws of the general...
104From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee, 16 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to mr Lee for the copy of the Campaign of 1781. in the Carolinas, and the list of errata of impression which he has been so kind as to send him. the subject is interesting and will be read with pleasure. with his thanks he prays him to accept the assurance of his great respect and esteem. ViHi .
105From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee, 10 August 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your favor of the 14 th and with it the prospectus of a newspaper which it covered. if the style and spirit of that should be maintained in the paper itself it will be truly worthy of the public patronage. as to myself it is many years since I have ceased to read but a single paper. I am no longer therefore a general subscriber for any other. yet to encourage the hopeful...
106From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee, 6 September 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
In your letter of Aug. 26. you suggest a disposition, among other lines to write that of my self, with an assurance that any materials I could furnish would be used with care and candour: of this I am satisfied and that the subject would be treated with more talent and partiality than it would merit. but in truth, Sir, I possess no such materials. I have gone on thro’ life acting as well as I...
107From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee, 8 May 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Apr. 29 has been duly recieved, and the offer of mineralogical specimens from mr Myer has been communicated to D r Emmet our Professor of Natural history. the last donation of the legislature to the University was appropriated specifically to a library and apparatus of every kind. but we apply it first to the more important articles of a library, of an astronomical, physical, &...
108From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee, 28 June 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 23 d is recieved. the inclosed paper will inform you in detail of the matters necessary to be known to those who propose to enter any of the schools of the University. the number of students as returned to me on the 23 d inst. was 92. since which 5. others have arrived, and they come in almost daily. with respect to the degree in which the sciences will be taught here, I...
109From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee, 15 May 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
The sentiments of justice which have dictated your letters of the 3 d and 9 th inst. are worthy of all praise, and merit and meet my thankful acknolegements. were your father now living and proposing, as you are to publish a second edition of his Memoirs, I am satisfied he would give a very different aspect to the pages of that work which respect Arnold’s invasion and surprise of Richmond in...
110From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee, 27 May 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Since the date of my last letter to you I am enabled to add a little informn to that then given. the rev d mr Jared Sparks formerly pastor of the Unitarian church in Baltimore & lately editor of the N. A. Rev. passing to the South for his health informed me in a lre from Northfolk that he contemplated a publicn on the American revoln, and should avail himself of the journey he was on to obtain...
111From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee, 30 May 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 25 th came to hand yesterday, and I shall be happy to recieve you at the time you mention, or at any other, if any other shall be more convenient to you. Not being now possessed of a copy of Gen l Lee’s memoirs, as I before observed to you, I may have misremembered the passage respecting Simpcoe’s expedition, and very willingly stand corrected. the only facts relative to it...
112From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee, 29 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your second letter of Feb. 24. relates to an incident which certainly I had not expected to see connected with my name. I do indeed recollect that some years ago, in a conversation at mr Strode’s, and with his family alone, it was mentioned by one of them, and in a very innocent way, that mr Washington had been lately there, and had asked mr Strode to shew him his farm. that in the course of...
113From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee, 24 April 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
After delivering my letters to Dr. Jones, I recieved one from mr Thomas Strode, to whom I presume the father had mentioned what had passed between him and myself here. my enquiry of him here had arisen merely from the accident of his coming here while my letter to you was still in my own hands, and to refresh my own memory as to what had been stated to me. I did not suppose he would have given...
114From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee, 29 September 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
On being informed by you that mr James P. Cocke was the person who had repeated from me the circumstance of the transaction between mr Washington, mr Strode & yourself which has given you uneasiness, I applied to mr Cocke to state what he had understood me to have said, perfectly satisfied of his correctness. I have this moment recieved from him the letter which I now inclose. you will see by...
115From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee, 1 February 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Jan. 17. came to hand last night. if I ever saw or heard of a mr Norris of Baltimore, I do not remember either his name or person. I never saw or heard of any list of names of the adherents of Burr; still less of one containing your name. I never have seen, or heard your name coupled with Burr’s but in a newspaper paragraph mentioning that you were gone from Stanton to join him,...