21From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 6 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed papers will inform you of some checks the French have lately received. They are confounded and multiplied in the papers. The truth is that a combined operation in three different parts took place the first days of March, under Clairfayt, Saxe-Cobourg and Brunswick, every one of which succeeded. The first killed and wounded 1400, and took 600. The second killed and wounded 4000....
22From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 21 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have intended this fortnight to make out a list of the packages of furniture I have sent to Richmond, with the contents of each, that if there was any thing which would be convenient to yourself or Martha, you might have it brought up immediately; but an eternal hurry of business prevents me from thinking of that or any thing else of a private nature but just in the moment of setting down to...
23From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 31 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to my daughter on the 24th. since which Maria has received yours of the 13th . Some cold nights lately make us fear for the fruit in Virginia. We have nothing remarkeable from abroad but what you will see in Freneau’s paper. Fenno’s will go to you through Mr. Madison. Private letters strengthen the idea of a civil war in England, and of a very general war through Europe. I am in hopes...
24From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 18 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the receipt of your two favors of Feb. 20. and 29. on the 9th. instant. I wrote to my daughter the last week (the 10th.) as usual. I thank you for your information respecting my affairs. I counted little on Ronald or his affairs for my debt. I took a mortgage of the land sold, and of a moiety of his Beverdam land. I previously had the Goochld. records examined in my own...
25From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 3 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my letter of the last week to my daughter yours of the 7th. to me and of the 14th. to Maria have come to hand and made us happy by announcing that all are well.—I informed you in my last of a scheme I had of leasing my lands on the Shadwell side of the river. Since that I have learned that, about the same time, two persons from the Head of Elk (the neighborhood where I was endeavoring to...
26From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 18 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved about a fortnight ago your favor of Jan. 24. and by this week’s post Maria received the one addressed to her. I am extremely pleased with the progress of the work at Monticello, and indebted to you for it, as also for communicating it, as well as the account of the sales in Bedford. I am in hopes of procuring tenants in Maryland for all my lands on the Shadwell side of the river at...
27From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 3 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter to my daughter, of the last week, I suggested to her that a possibility had arisen that I might not return home as early as I had determined. It happened unfortunately that the attack made on me in the newspapers came out soon after I began to speak freely and publicly of my purpose to retire this spring, and, from the modes of publication, the public were possessed of the former...
28From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 21 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I received the day before yesterday your’s of the 9th. From an expression in that, as well as the preceding one, I fear you may not have received my letters which have been regular and constant once a week, except once when the post day was perceived to be changed. I then accomodated the day of my writing to the day of the departure of the Western post from Richmond.—I have received...
29Enclosure: Instructions on Timber for Monticello, [ca. 21 January 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Scantling for the operations of 1793 10. Sleepers. 23. feet long: 10 Inches deep. 4. Inches thick. 30. do. 12. feet long. same depth and breadth. 17. do. 18. feet long. same depth and breadth. 10. do. 23. feet long } all these are to be triangular, and to be got in the manner pointed out on the next page. 30. do. 12. feet long 17. do. 18. feet long. 10. do.
30From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 7 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Our news from France continues to be good, and to promise a continuance. The event of the revolution there is now little doubted of, even by it’s enemies. The sensations it has produced here, and the indications of them in the public papers, have shewn that the form our own government was to take depended much more on the events of France than any body had before imagined. The tide which,...
31From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 31 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received yours of the 20th. mentioning the proposition of Mr. John Ashlin to rent Elkhill the ensuing year, paying one fourth of the crop and putting only the low grounds into Indian corn. I do not know what proportion the present tenant was to pay, but it is pretty well established as a rule that where the landlord stocks the land the tenant pays half the produce in rent: where...
32From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 21 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
We have as yet no direct confirmation from France of the retreat of the D. of Brunswick. However so many circumstances are stated in the English papers as to leave no doubt of the fact.—Wheat is fallen from 125 to 113 cents. This has been effected by the bank here, which refused to merchants purchasing wheat here the aids it has been in the habit of furnishing. Merchants no longer getting...
33From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 30 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 8th. has been duly recieved. I send you by the present post a pamphlet on agricultural subjects published by a society in N. York. Mr. Brown wrote me some time ago that my barrel of hams was at Richmond as also the box of books. Should they be still there, I would rather the former should be returned to Monticello for your use, because I have got thro the article of giving...
34From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 16 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Congress have not yet entered into any important business. An attempt has been made to give further extent to the influence of the Executive over the legislature, by permitting the heads of departments to attend the house and explain their measures vivâ voce. But it was negatived by a majority of 35. to 11. which gives us some hope of an increase to the republican vote. However no trying...
35From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 2 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I received yesterday your favor of Oct. 22. and am much relieved by the favorable account of dear Anne’s health. The journey you meditate will probably be of service to her. It is more doubtful as to the young hero, as at his age they stand travelling worse. However the short stages you propose may prevent injury. Colo. and Mrs. Monroe arrived yesterday as also Mr. Madison. The members of...
36From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 19 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I received yesterday your’s of the 7th. and am sincerely afflicted with the return of Anne’s indisposition. Having little confidence myself in medecine and especially in the case of infants, and a great deal in the efforts of nature, I direct my hopes towards them. Her mother was so much lower for 6 months, and was recovered almost instantaneously by a good breast of milk, that it learnt me to...
37From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 12 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 1st. inst. came to hand on the 9th. and brought me the welcome news that you were all well, about which I was anxious, having left Martha not quite as well as I wished. The short proceeds of my sale the last year obliged me to a small one this year, which would have been unnecessary had the other yeilded as was reasonably expected. I therefore, while at home, sent orders to...
38From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 5 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
We arrived here safely last night, and without any accident on the road. We are pursuing our journey this morning to the city where we shall dine, but as the post will be set out before our arrival and a letter from hence will reach Monticello a week sooner than if written after our arrival in Philadelphia, I have thought it better to drop a line from hence. My anxiety to hear frequently from...
39From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., [after 27 September 1792] (Jefferson Papers)
There being a possibility that the books or papers which Colo. Lewis gave in to me might be called for in some settlement, I meant to ask you to take the trouble of noting where they are, and of delivering them out either to Colo. Lewis or his son should they be wanting. The papers occupy three of the four pigeon holes at the right hand bottom corner of my press. The labels on the three...
40From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 11 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of June 25. came to hand on the 5th. inst. I wrote to my daughter on the 3d. informing her that I should set out on the 14th. and be at Mr. Madison’s on the 21st. and wishing that a pair of plough or waggon horses could come for me on that day to John Jones’s, 17 miles from Monticello and about 12. miles from Mr. Madison’s, and there wait till I arrive at Jones’s. The President sets...
41From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 29 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 18th . came to hand yesterday, and I observe mine of the 8th. was received at Monticello on the 18th. On recurring to the dates and reciept of those from Monticello, I find they have come to hand very regularly on the 10th. day.—I find that the President will leave this about the middle of July. Consequently I shall set out earlier than I had expected, as I foresee nothing...
42From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 15 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 4th. inst. and am happy to hear our prospects of wheat are so good. I the more wonder at it when I recollect we were very late in our sowing last fall. As to Indian corn I think there is yet time for it to come to. I concur with you in opinion that it is a very hurtful culture to such lands as ours. I have been hesitating between it’s total abolition, and...
43From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 1 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Having failed to write last week on the regular day, my letter carried you three of Freneau’s papers. Consequently the present covers but one. Fenno’s are sent through Mr. Madison to you.— Maria’s mistress is just now on her departure for England. She came home yesterday. Whether she will enter with Mrs. Brodeau immediately or not, I have not determined. My tobacco is all arrived here, but in...
44From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 17 May 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
My last letter to you, if I may believe my letter book, was Apr. 19. Yet I think I must have written to you the 26th. also, as I do not recollect the having missed writing to you or my daughter but one week, which was about the 3d. or 4th. instant. Yours of Apr. 9. 16. and May 7. [i.e. May 4] have been duly recd. Mr. Brown’s note on Clow, inclosed in the last is accepted for payment. I...
45From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 19 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of Mar. 27. and Martha’s of Mar. 28. came to hand on the 14th. with one of Apr. 2. to Maria. I am sorry to hear my sugar maples have failed. I shall be able however to get here any number I may desire, as two nurserymen have promised to make provision for me. It is too hopeful an object to be abandoned. Your account of Clarkson’s conduct gives me great pleasure. My first wish is that...
46From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 12 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 18. came duly to hand, and your request with respect to Dr. Barton was immediately complied with as you will see by the inclosed receipt.—A term of payment to Hanson now approaching, I have written to Colo N. Lewis to ask the favor of him to send the bonds taken at my sale to Mr. Eppes, who will deliver them to Hanson and take a proper receipt. Should you be going to...
47From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 30 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 5th. came to hand on the 16th. inst. The Southern post which should have arrived on Tuesday, is not arrived yet (Friday) so that letters by that cannot be yet acknoleged. I inclose you some seeds of the Acacia Farnesiana, the most delicious flowering shrub in the world. It will require to be in boxes, and to be kept in the house in the winter. I formerly made use of the South...
48From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 16 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your favor of the 22d. of Feb. and thank you for the information it conveyed respecting my sale. The winter having been so long and severe has I imagine committed sad havoc on our stocks, and the more so as it succeeded an unfavorable summer. Here the unmonied farmer , as he is termed, his cattle and crops are no more thought of than if they did not feed us. Scrip and...
49From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 4 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received with great pleasure your favor of Feb. 17. informing us you were all safely moored at Monticello. With still greater I learn that you are at length sure of Edgehill. It is a fine tract of land, and will make you happier by furnishing a pleasing occupation. It secures too, what is essential to my happiness, our living near together. It seems as if you had more snow Southwardly...
50From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 20 February 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I received last week your favour from Bizarre. The papers now forwarded will give you the general news. We have an odd story here from Baltimore of Genl. Scott’s having fallen on the Indians and killed 700. of them, tho it was not known that any expedition was meditated. You will perceive that the public effects have fallen. The people begin to see the fallacy and mischeif of the gambling...
51From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 13 February 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 1st. inst. came to hand on the 11th. which is quicker than has been usual. I see by an advertisement in the Virginia papers that the post to Charlottesville and Staunton is now established, so that on your return to Monticello I am in hopes you will find a more certain and quick conveyance than we have hitherto had for our letters. I will thank you for information of the days...
52From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 22 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to my daughter this day sennight. I think it certain the Post office bill will now pass, and that there will be a branch of the general post from Richmond by Columbia, Charlottesville and Staunton. The postage of newspapers stands at present at a cent and a half for any distance above 100. miles. There will still be an attempt to reduce it to one half. But even as it now stands it is...
53From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 8 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you on the 1st. inst. since which your favor of the 29th. Dec. is come to hand. I had before received a letter from Mr. Forster on the subject of leasing Elkhill for a term of years. But as, in order to pay off Mr. Wayles’s debt to Farrell & Jones, I must part with some property, and I can spare this more conveniently than any other, it would not be prudent for me to put it out of my...
54From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 1 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Nov. 28. came to hand on the 22d. inst. The length of time it was on the way shews that our post was not yet become exact. The post office bill now before the legislature will place us on the regular establishment, as it directs a cross post from Richmond to Columbia, Charlottesville, Staunton, and thence along that valley Southwestwardly to the South-Western government and so on...
55From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 18 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I am obliged to trouble you in the following affair. Doctor Walker, in his account against my father’s estate, omitted to credit a sum of £200. paid him Aug. 31. 1766. by Kippen & co. on account of the estate, and debited in their account against the estate. It appeared that he had credited the estate another sum of £200. from Kippen & co. as received 1761. March. and it was suggested that...
56From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 11 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
We are still without any letters from Monticello since our departure. I received one yesterday from Mr. De Rieux of Nov. 15. in which however he does not mention the family at Monticello. I suppose that some irregularity of the post occasions this. I have never failed to write once a week, and Maria has written several times . Stratton did not sail till yesterday, so that by the time you get...
57From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 27 November 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
By a letter recieved from Prince, I find that he has forwarded to the care of Mr. Brown in Richmond 4. bundles of trees for me, numbered as on the next leaf. I have written to Mr. Brown to forward them, and with this may get in time for you to understand the numbers before you plant them.—I have heard nothing of our post yet, tho’ I presume it began on the 15th. inst. as Mr. Davies notified...
58From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 20 November 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I now inclose you, and shall continue to do so, Fenno’s and Freneau’s papers. The latter in two papers a week will contain at least as much good matter as Bache’s six papers a week, and will be a relief to the post. Those I send you will enable our neighbors to judge whether Freneau is likely to answer their expectation. I have not given in Colo. Bell’s list of subscribers , because I do not...
59From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 25 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The first part of our journey was pleasant, except some hair-breadth escapes which our new horse occasioned us in going down hills the first day or two, after which he behaved better, and came through the journey preserving the fierceness of his spirit to the last. I believe he will make me a valuable horse. Mrs. Washington took possession of Maria at Vernon and only restored her to me here....
60From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 28 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just now recieved your two favors of the 22d. with the information, always welcome to me, of the health of our family. Mr. Derieux’s letters will go by a vessel which sails on Saturday next, consequently before his power of Attorney arrives, nor can I leave any directions to forward it, as the letter inclosing it cannot be described to the chief clerk of the office so as to authorize...
61From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 7 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of July 24. I acknowleged the reciept of yours of the 7th. which is the last letter I have had from Monticello. I presume you will have seen in the Virginia papers an advertisement of Aug. Davies’s on the subject of a post through Columbia and Charlottesville to Staunton. He writes me word he has no doubt of getting an undertaker to perform the ride once a week, so that I hope we...
62From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 24 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I had always intended to endeavor to engage with some miller of capital here to erect my mill on such plan as he should chuse and then rent it to him for a term of years. Your letter informing me that Mr. Divers and others were proposing to take Mr. Henderson’s mill, but that they had not been able to agree, induces me to suppose it possible they might be willing to take mine. I should propose...
63From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 17 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 7th. came to hand yesterday and brought me the news, always welcome, of your being all well. I have taken effectual means of repairing the loss of the sugar maple seed, by bespeaking a new supply of seed, and purchasing a considerable number of young trees from Prince in Long-island who will forward them to Richmond in the fall. The species of rice which has succeeded, is...
64V. Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 3 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to Maria this day sennight, and to Martha three days before, to wit June 23. In this letter I asked information to be obtained from Colo. Lewis relative to my tobo. of which I had heard nothing. But having received the day after a letter from him, giving me full information, I mentioned in mine to Maria, that no notice should be taken of my desire expressed in the letter to her sister....
65VI. Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 5 June 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Madison and myself are so far on the tour we had projected. We have visited in the course of it the principal scenes of Burgoyne’s misfortunes, to wit the grounds at Still water where the action of that name was fought and particularly the breastworks which cost so much blood to both parties, the encampments at Saratoga and ground where the British piled their arms, and the field of the...
66From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 15 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of April 30. came to hand on the 7th. inst. and I thank you for your information relative to the Opossum, which I hope the next season will enable you to complete. You may count it as fortunate that so interesting an investigation remains still to be made, and that, being made with care and science, it cannot fail to attract general notice.—In my letter of last week I mentioned my...
67From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 1 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknowlege the reciept of your favour of Apr. 7. which came to hand on the 20th. I hope my letters on the subject of my tobacco have got to hand in time to prevent any contract there interfering with the sale I made here. I learn that 4. hhds. more are coming on. Being entitled to the highest price given before payment, I believe I shall be sure of 5⅓ dollars which will neat me 29/3...
68From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 6 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 5. came to hand on the 24th. and that of Mar.14. on the 1st. inst. With respect to Mr. Thompson it has been understood that his circumstances are desperate and that he is fond of the bottle. At the time the first appointments of consuls were made, their circumstances were not attended to, and an appointment or two took place of persons under embarrasments of that kind. We...
69From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 17 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favours of Feb. 8. and 21. have both come to hand. The former not till 4. or 5. days ago. I am made happy by learning that my daughter is so well as also the little stranger . According to your desire expressed in the letter first mentioned, tho’ last recieved, I take the liberty of proposing for her the name of Anne , a name which must be very dear to you, and belongs also to Patsy’s...
70From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 24 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your favor of the 2d. on the 21st. inst. and am happy to be assured that my correspondence with Monticello will be regular hereafter. I wish the post when reestablished, had been put into the hands of some body in or near Charlottesville. Whenever that question shall come on again, I would give liberally to a Charlottesville competitor to enable him to underbid any one so distant as...