2351Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 8 March 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
About 18. months ago (Sep. 1814) I proposed to you a work on political economy by mr Tracy of Paris , for translation & publication, the original MS. being in my hands unpublished. you could not undertake it till the then ensuing spring, and I thought I ought not to wait so long. after trusting to Duane , and being continually put off, he at length informed me he had got it translated, but had...
2352“A” (Thomas Jefferson) to the Washington Daily National Intelligencer, 13 March 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
A writer in the National Intelligencer of Feb. 24 ., who signs himself B , is endeavoring to shelter under the cloak of Gen l Washington , the present enterprise of the Senate to wrest from the H. of Representatives the power, given them by the constitution, of participating with the Senate in the establishment & continuance of laws on specified subjects. their aim is, by associating an Indian...
2353Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 14 March 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Having occasion to make a remittance to my grandaughter Ellen W. Randolph now at the President’s I take the liberty of putting it under cover to you, because I think it will go safer in that way. I therefore inclose a bill of 100.D. of the bank of Virginia which I understand will be worth more than par in the bills of the District. be so good as to pay it out to the order of my grandaughter,...
2354Thomas Jefferson to Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge), 14 March 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been, my dear Ellen, without subject for a letter to you until one has been furnished by my the sale of my tobacco. in this you also will feel somewhat of interest, inasmuch as it enables me to replenish your moyens de jouissance , by remitting to mr Barnes 100.D. for you. I do this by the present mail , and have chosen his cover because I thought it would go safer in that way; and...
2355Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 15 March 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 4 th was recieved the day before yesterday consequently the very day the Collector of the US. taxes was to call on you. as the law allows 20. days from that date for payment, this will reach you in time. you did not say what is the amount of the tax; but my grandson Th: J. Randolph has happened to be at Lynchburg where he was told by mr Robertson it was about 170.D. I therefore...
2356Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 18 March 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of Feb. 14. and Mar. 13 . were duly recieved. the last came to hand so as to allow time merely to reinclose my renewed note by return of the mail. The inexactitude of my mill-tenants has sometimes led me into erroneous information to you as to flour sent down on my account. I have lately obtained from mr T. E. Randolph a statement of all sent from Oct. 12 17 . 1814. to Feb. 21....
2357Enclosure: John Barnes’s Account (as Agent of Thomas Jefferson) with Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 21 March 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
D r Gen l Thad s Kosciusko In ℀ with John Barnes , Agent to T. Jefferson Esq r for a/ Sales in US. Treasury Notes & purchase in Colum
2358Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 24 March 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 18 th is recieved, and informs me how much the quality of my tob o falls short of what I had been given to expect. this afflicts me not merely as to the first loss, but also as it injures the reputation of that tob o which has heretofore commanded high prices. the present loss too is very inopportune sensibly felt. short as my crops both of flour & tob o turned out the last...
2359Thomas Jefferson to William Annesley, 26 March 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I am duly sensible of the mark of consideration you ha ve been so kind as to shew me in consulting me on the subject of your new system in ship and boat building; but neither my occupations nor habits permit me any longer to indulge myself in speculations of that kind: and at no time of my life should I have been a competent judge of this. born and educated among the mountains, I am quite a...
2360Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin J. Campbell, 26 March 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved the last night your favor of the 16 th and hasten to acknolege it. I had before remarked in the newspapers an account of your new invented loom , which appeared to promise considerab le advantages. but manufacturing with me is on too small a scale to make it an object, making only coarse cloths for my family and people. two common looms with flying shuttles do this. I had at one...
2361Thomas Jefferson to John F. Oliveira Fernandes, 26 March 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been in the daily expectation that you would be so good as to forward to me a note of the amount of the cask of Teneriffe, that I might forward you a draught for it. the Port you were so kind as to send me is indeed excellent. I certainly would not wish to be indulged a second time from your private stock, but if you have, among that which is for sale, any of as good quality, I should...
2362Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Robertson, 28 March 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I now inclose you an order which you ought to have recieved at the beginning of the month, but my tob o was later getting down than had been counted on, and I was unwilling to draw till I knew of it’s actual sale. the draught is for 167. D 10 C to wit an advance for leather £20–16–1 69–35 my assumpsit for Goodman 78–35 balance of order for 170.D. for taxes 19–40 167–10 my tob o which was all I...
2363Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 30 [March] 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Francis returns as much improved, I am in hopes, as you will have expected. he reads French with so much ease as to read it for amusement, has not much occasion for his dictionary, pronounces generally well, the few defects remaining being such as will be easily corrected hereafter. being kept almost entirely at French, he could afford only the time before breakfast for keeping up his Latin....
2364Thomas Jefferson’s List of Slave Vaccinations, April–May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
1816. Vaccinations . April } Edy ’s James May Maria Patsy { Betsy Peter Fanny ’s Ellen. Jenny Sally ’s
2365Thomas Jefferson to John Wood, 1 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of the 16 th Ult. expressing your wish to be employed in the survey of the exterior boundaries of the state, under the 7 th section of the act providing for a general map of the state, and I shall very conscientiously espouse your wish with the Executive from a conviction of your superior qualifications for that service. I have the fitter occasion of doing it,...
2366Thomas Jefferson to Wilson Cary Nicholas, 2 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 22. has been recieved. it finds me more laboriously, and imperiously engaged than almost on any occasion of my life. it is not therefore in my power to take into immediate consideration all the subjects it proposes. they cover a broad surface, & will require some developement. they respect I. Defence. II. Education. III. the Map of the state. this last will comprise 1. an...
2367Thomas Jefferson’s Title and Prospectus for Destutt de Tracy’s Treatise on Political Economy, [ca. 6 April 1816] (Jefferson Papers)
Title. ‘A Treatise on Political Economy by the Count Destutt-Tracy , member of the Senate and Institute of France , and of the American Philosophical society , to which is prefixed a Supplement to a preceding work on the Understanding, or Elements of Ideology, by the same author, with an Analytical table, and an Introduction on the faculty of the will, translated from the unpublished French...
2368Thomas Jefferson’s Note for Destutt de Tracy’s Treatise on Political Economy, [ca. 6 April 1816] (Jefferson Papers)
A Note communicated to the Editor. Our author’s classification of taxes being taken from those practised in France , will scarcely be intelligible to an American reader, to whom the nature as well as names of some of them must be unknown. the taxes with which we are familiar class themselves readily according to the bases on which they rest. 1. Capital. 2. Income. 3. Consumption. these may be...
2369Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 6 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 6. did not come to hand until the 15 th . I then expected I should finish revising the translation of Tracy ’s book within a week, and could send the whole together. I got thro’ it, but on further consideration thought I ought to read it over again, lest any errors should have been left in it. it was fortunate I did so, for I found several little errors. the whole is now...
2370Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 6 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have really placed myself in a very mortifying situation before you with respect to Tracy ’s book. I shall state the case. when I recieved information from mr Duane that he could not print it, mr Millegan of Georgetown happened to be here. I proposed to him to undertake it, and promised, if he would, that I would revise the translation. he agreed to it, and the more readily as he said Duane...
2371Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas G. Dufief, 7 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have too long neglected to remit you the amount of your account , which I believe is 24. D 68 c the reason has been that I wished to have made up a little catalogue of wants in the same way which has not yet been done; and being about setting out on a journey of a month’s absence, I must defer my catalogue, but in the mean time inclose you an order on mr Vaughan for the above sum. Accept the...
2372Thomas Jefferson to LeRoy, Bayard & McEvers, 7 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved, by our last mail only, your favor of Mar. 19. reminding me of a very ancient and very just debt to Mess rs Van Staphorsts , and which I ought certainly long ago to have replaced to them, unasked. but, engaged constantly in offices of more expence than compensation, our means are ever absorbed as soon as recieved by the needy who press, while the indulgent lie over for a moment of...
2373Thomas Jefferson to John Tayloe Lomax, 7 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 11. is just now re cieved. on the death of mr Wayles , I sorted and arranged the whole of his papers, but the revolutionary troubles commencing immediately after, I was called off, and the whole papers were kept by mr Eppes , and the entire settlement of the affairs of the estate left to him. I think it very certain, from recollection, that there was not a single lottery...
2374Thomas Jefferson to Josiah Meigs, 7 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have referred asking the favor of you to return my thanks to D r Drake for the copy of his account of the state of Ohio which he has been so kind as to send me until I could ha ve time to peruse it. I have done this with great pleasure and may now express my gratification on this able additio n to the knolege we possess of our different states; and I may say with truth that were all of them...
2375Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 7 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege your favor of Mar. 14. and will answer it’s several enquiries. le mot de l’enigme as to the boundary of the land is that Monroe ’s land lies North of yours. you must recollect on being reminded that your land adjoined Blenheim , Monroe ’s joined Colle and my lands. mr Carter not being considered as a party direct, and having formerly shewn no disposition to attend...
2376Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 7 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 13. has been duly recieved. I forwarded to mr Appleton a duplicate of the letter I inclosed to you by a gentleman going direct to Paris , from whence he would forward it to Leghorn. owing to mr Dufief a balance of 24. D 68 c I have taken the liberty of inclosing him a draught on you for that sum. you will perhaps have seen that our late legislature has taken up the subject...
2377To John Adams from Thomas Jefferson, 8 April 1816 (Adams Papers)
I have to acknolege your two favors of Feb. 16. & Mar. 2. and to join sincerely in the sentiment of mrs Adams, and regret that distance separates us so widely. an hour of conversation would be worth a volume of letters. but we must take things as they come. You ask if I would agree to live my 70. or rather 73. years over again? to which I say Yea. I think with you that it is a good world on...
2378Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 8 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege your two favors of Feb. 16. & Mar. 2. and to join sincerely in the sentiment of mrs Adams , and regret that distance separates us so widely. an hour of conversation would be worth a volume of letters. but we must take things as they come. You ask if I would agree to live my 70. or rather 73. years over again? to which I say Yea. I think with you that it is a good world on...
2379Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 9 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
It had escaped my recollection till this moment that you had desired me to send you the copy of La Harpe’s journal. you will find bound up with it some Extracts from it which I had made because bearing immediately on the question of right, and a duplicate copy of the letters of Cevallos Salcedo & Herrera . if your office possesses the original, as I am sure it does, I will be glad to have this...
2380Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 9 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Th:J. to W. Short. The inclosed was omitted by accident to be forwarded to you in my last. it is a necessary document for you in your settlement with mr Carter . I salute you ever and affectionately. P. S. I send also mr Carter ’s letter shewing he had agreed to pay what he recieved & interest. RC ( ViW: TJP ); dateline adjacent to postscript; endorsed by Short as received 15 Apr. Enclosure:...
2381Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 11 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your last favor is recieved just as I am setting out for a possession 90. miles Southwardly, from whence I shall not return until the first week of the ensuing month. I hasten therefore to drop you a line of Adieu. I sincerely rejoice that you are going to France . I do not think with you that nothing can be done there. Louis XVIII is a fool, & a bigot, but bating a little duplicity he is...
2382Promissory Note from Thomas Jefferson to John Neilson, 11 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
On a settlement with John Nelson on the 16 th of April 1809. there was then due to him from me four hundred and thirty five Dollars 75 cents with interest from that date till paid, the certificate of which then given him being said to be lost, I now give him this duplicate under my hand this 11 th of April 1816 . PoC ( MHi ). Not recorded in SJL . In 1820 TJ brought the
2383Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Eston Randolph, 11 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
From the account you were so good as to furnish me I make out the inclosed statement for the last & present year. as to the first year is of flour specifically, both the crop and rent being consisting of flour only. the balance 67. Barrels. the 2 d year’s account being for flour as to the crop, and money as to the rent, I carry on the balance of 67. Barrels to the flour acc t of the 2 d year...
2384Thomas Jefferson to Isaac Briggs, 17 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 30. was recieved just as I was setting out for this place, 90. miles S.W from Monticello . I inclose an answer to the acceptable letter of your daughter. the sensibility expressed in hers for services so moderate shews a heart of great sensibility susceptibility, and which under your careful instruction promises to make happy parents and friends. I am glad you have explained...
2385Thomas Jefferson to Mary B. Briggs, 17 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, my excellent young friend, for your kind letter of Mar. 7. the heart must be of uncommon sensibility which feels so strongly slight degrees of merit in others. if I have ever been useful to your father , it was by doing what was much more useful to the public for whom I acted, by availing them of the services of a faithful and able citizen. it is not then to me, you are indebted,...
2386Thomas Jefferson to Susan Maria Bruff, 17 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I sincerely condole with you, Madam, on the loss of your worthy father , of which your letter gives me the first information. to the public he bade fair to be very useful by his inexhaustible ingenuity; and to his family he must have been inestimable. these afflictions are our common lot; and they come from a hand to which we must bow with resignation. the example of virtue and industry he...
2387Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 17 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letter is for a daughter of the late D r Bruff , who wrote me a pathetic letter on the death of her father. altho I considered him as an ingenious and virtuous man, and always shewed him that I wished his success, yet there never was any particular acquaintance between us beyond the drawing of a tooth or two. I do not therefore exactly see the scope of the letter. but whatever it...
2388Thomas Jefferson to Wilson Cary Nicholas, 19 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of the 2 d inst. I stated, according to your request what occurred to me on the subjects of Defence and Education; and I will now proceed to do the same on the remaining subject of your’s of Mar. 22. the construction of a general map of the state. for this the legislature directs that there shall be I. a topographical survey of each county. II. a General survey of the Outlines of...
2389Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 24 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved, my dear friend, your letter covering the Constitution of for your Equinoctial republics , just as I was setting out for this place. I brought it with me, and have read it with great satisfaction. I suppose it well formed for those for whom it is intended, and the excellence of every government is it’s adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it. for us, it would not do....
2390Thomas Jefferson to Charles Clay, 25 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I return the 10. first volumes and will be glad of the next 10. I found several sheets of the 7 th missing, but several some of them were stuck into other volumes which I restored to their proper place in the 7 th but I have not examined it since to see if it is now perfect. Asparagus acceptable as usual. shall I not see you again? I shall be returning about the middle of the ensuing week....
2391Thomas Jefferson to Francis Adrian Van der Kemp, 25 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 24. was handed to me just as I was setting out on a journey of time and distance, which will explain the date of this both as to time and place. the Syllabus, which is the subject of your letter, was addressed to a friend to whom I had promised a more detailed view. but finding I should never have time for that, I sent him what I thought should be the Outlines of such a...
2392Thomas Jefferson to José Corrêa da Serra, 26 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 29. was recieved just as I was setting out for this place. I brought it with me to be answered hence. since you are so kind as to interest yourself for Cap t Lewis ’s papers , I will give you a full statement of them. 1. ten or twelve such pocket volumes, Marocco bound, as that you describe, in which, in his own hand writing, he had journalised all occurrences, day by day,...
2393Thomas Jefferson to Elizabeth Trist, 28 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I am here, my dear Madam alive and well, and notwithstanding the murderous histories of the winter, I have not had an hour’s sickness for a twelvemonth past. I feel myself indebted to the fable however for the friendly concern expressed in your letter , which I recieved in good health, by my fireside at Monticello . these stories will come true one of these days, and poor printer Davies need...
2394Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 30 April with 7 May 1816 postscript (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 8 th was recieved here on the 19 th inst. the information you have had as to the schools at Staunton and Lexington is correct. the latter has been at all times under the direction of an infuriated Presbyterian bigot and tory, better fitted to fanaticise than to instruct youth in useful knolege. when I was last here, I heard of their expelling two or three youths for the heinous...
2395Draft Agreement for Sale of Henderson Lands by John T. Wood, May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Articles of covenant and agreement entered into and concluded between John Wood of the state of Kentucky on the one part and Thomas Jefferson of the county of Albemarle in the commonwealth of Virginia on the other part on the day of May one thousand eight hundred and sixteen. The said John Wood on his part covenanteth with the sd Thomas that in the lands which were the property of Bennet...
2396Thomas Jefferson to William Wingate, 4 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday yours of Apr. 8. accompanied by a Manuscript volume of your interpretation of the Revelations, & their application to Napoleon Bonaparte . you request me to read it, to take minutes from it, to converse on it with Joseph Bonaparte , and to write to you the result. I am 400. miles from that gentleman , never was, and probably never shall be nearer to him. and my occupations...
2397Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 5 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return, the day before yesterday, I found here your favor of Apr. 23. and answer without delay the remaining question on your affair with with mr Carter . the last payment I made him for you was by a draught of Aug. 2 3. 1795 . for 524.83 D the exact balance for the lands after the ascertainment of their contents by actual survey. consequently, in this was included the overpayment now to...
2398Thomas Jefferson to Peter Cottom, 7 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved some time ago a letter from mess rs Brooks and Ashley assignees of Bradford & Inskeep an application for the cost of the Portfolio for the year 1814. and lately one from Thomas de Silur as proprietor for the year 1815. percieving however that you are agent in Richmond for that publication, and there being difficulty in remitting small sums to other states, I prefer making the...
2399Thomas Jefferson to John F. Dumoulin, 7 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Apr. 12. is just recieved, and with it the two copies of your treatise on Naturalization and Allegiance: the one of which has been delivered, as you requested, to Col o Randolph ; and for the other be pleased to accept my thanks. from a cursory view, I promise myself great pleasure in reading it, as well from it’s logic as it’s learni ng . on these subjects we cannot but think...
2400Thomas Jefferson to Levin Gale, 7 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 30. came during an absence from home of considerable length, and the box of vine cuttings arrived soon after, in excellent order, and were immediately planted. I hope they will do well, as, from judging from a sample of wine made from this grape and sent to me formerly by Maj r Adlam , I expect to be gratified with the great desideratum of making at home a good wine. his was...