1Thomas Jefferson to Louis H. Girardin, 3 December 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to mr Gerardin Girardin for the two plants of Cape Jessamine which are very acceptable, and will hold himself accountable for the price. he returns the copy of Tacitus having precisely the same edition in his petit-format library in Bedford , and if mr Girardin thinks it can go safely by post to mr Anderson , he will cover it by his frank. he has the identical...
2Thomas Jefferson to Louis H. Girardin, 13 December 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson must apologise to mr Girardin for not sending an answer to his note of the day before yesterday , which was occasioned by his servant’s departure while he was writing it. he now sends him Jones ’s MS. and Mellish ’s travells. the copy of the British spy which he possesses belongs to his petit format library in Bedford , where it now is. he will with pleas has made a few...
3Thomas Jefferson to Louis H. Girardin, 21 December 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the gazettes, review, & Coote s’s history , all of which I have read, except the last, which I have sufficiently examined to see that it is valuable as a repertory only, without any particular merit. on your mention of Mellish ’s opinion of the tenets which distinguish the two political parties of this country, I recollected I had written him a letter on the subject of that...
4Thomas Jefferson to Louis H. Girardin, 15 January 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I have no document respecting Clarke ’s expedition except the letters of which you are in possession, one of which I believe gives some account of it; nor do I possess Imlay ’s history of Kentucky . Of mr Wythe ’s early history I scarcely know any thing, except that he was self-taught; & perhaps this might not have been as to the Latin language. D r Small was his bosom friend, and to me as a...
5Thomas Jefferson to Louis H. Girardin, 20 January 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I return your cahier, without with about half a dozen unimportant alterations only. three or four of these are foreignisms (if I may coin a word where the language gives none) indeed I have wondered that you could have so perfectly have possessed yourself of the idiom and spirit of the English language, as not to write it correctly merely, but so often elegantly. permit me to suggest a single...
6Thomas Jefferson to Louis H. Girardin, 4 March 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I will with pleasure examine the Cahiers you have sent me. I send you Ramsay ’s revoln, La Motte , 1 st Toulongeon and the last Nat l Intelligencer , and am sorry that the use of these and all other resources for you
7Thomas Jefferson to Louis H. Girardin, 12 March 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I return the three Cahiers, which I have perused with the usual satisfaction. you will find a few pencilled notes, merely verbal. But in one place I have taken a greater liberty than I ever took before, or ever indeed had occasion to take. it is in the case of Josiah Philips , which I find strangely represented by judge Tucker and mr Edmund Randolph , and very negligently vindicated by mr...
8Thomas Jefferson to Louis H. Girardin, 18 March 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Your messenger finds me to the elbows in the dust of my book-shelves. I recieved my Catalalogue Catalogue , last night , and have begun the revisal of the shelves to-day. from this small specimen it seems as if it would take me three weeks very laborious work.— I send you 2 d Toulongeon , and return your Cahier, with approbation of every thing except as to the detention of the Convention...
9Thomas Jefferson to Louis H. Girardin, 27 March 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I return your 14 th Chapter with only 2. or 3. unimportant alterations as usual, and with a note suggested , of doubtful admissibility. I believe it would be acceptable to the reader of every nation except England , and I do not suppose that, even without it, your book will be a popular one there. however you will decide for yourself. As to what is to be said of myself, I of course am not the...
10Thomas Jefferson to Louis H. Girardin, 14 April 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Your servant finds us just setting down to table, so I on can only scribble you a line. I will have one for mrs Lewis ready for you when you call; this being on your road to her house , I will then shew you also an honorable acknolegement of G. Nicholas on the subject of the enquiries into the conduct of the executive the letter as to Arnold was addressed to Gen l
11Thomas Jefferson to Louis H. Girardin, 22 April 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you the 15 th 16 th and 17 th chapters which I have kept too long; but since mr Millegan ’s arrival I have scarcely had a moment at command. I have made a few verbal alterations only as usual, except in the 15 th where I suggest an alteration giving a more precise explanation of the transaction it relates to than your text had done. but I observe an omission of one of the most...
12Thomas Jefferson to Louis H. Girardin, 12 May 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
The unfortunate error into which I led you in conversation by a lapse of my memory, having interwoven itself into your narrative , I found it necessary to remodel that, in order to present a distinct view of the movements of the enemy, & my own, day by day as they occurred during Arnold ’s excursion to Richmond . this is accordingly done now with an accuracy which you may rely on. this...