401Thomas Jefferson to Thomas W. Maury, 3 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 24 th Ult. was a week on it’s way to me, and this is our first subsequent mail day. mr Cabell had written to me also on the want of the deeds in Cap t Miller’s case, and as the bill was in that house, I inclosed them immediately to him. I forgot however to desire that they might be returned when done with, and must therefore ask this friendly attention of you. You ask me for...
402Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 2 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of the 23 d & 24 th ult. were a week coming to us. I instantly inclosed to you the deeds of Cap t Miller ; but I understand that the Post-master, having locked his mail before they got to the office, would not unlock it to give them a passage. Having been prevented from retaining my collection of the acts & Journals of our legislature by the lumping manner in which the Committee of...
403Thomas Jefferson to Stephen Cathalan, 1 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of Nov. 29. from which I learn, with much mortification (of the palate at least) that my letter of the 3 d of July has never got to your hands. it was confided to the Secretary of state’s office. regrets are now useless, and the proper object to supply it’s place. it related generally to things friendly, to things political E t c but the material part was a...
404Thomas Jefferson to Henry Jackson, 1 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
After I had sealed my letter of yesterday , a mail arrived, bringing me one from mr Cathalan , which informs me that mine to him of July 3. had never got to his hands. as this went thro’ the same channel (the Sec y of state’s office) with mine to you of July 5. it shews that the doubt expressed in your favor of Nov. 9. was real, and that that letter had not then got to hand. it covered one to...
405Thomas Jefferson’s Statement of Taxable Property in Albemarle County, 1 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
A list of the taxable property of the subscriber in Albemarle Feb. 1. 1816. 5. white tythes . 74. slaves of 16. years old and upwards. 14. d o of 12. years & not 16. 33. horses, mules, mares & colts. 1. gig. 1. four wheeled carriage, a Landau. MS ( MHi ); written entirely in TJ’s hand on verso of a portion of a reused address cover to TJ; endorsed by TJ: “Sheriff Albem. taxable property 1816.” The
406Thomas Jefferson to David Bailie Warden, 1 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
It is long since I have written to you. the reason has been that from one of your letters I concluded you were returning to the US . by yours of Apr. 9. 15. I found you were still at Paris . I can assure you that I did every thing in your case which could be done, as far as decency or effect permitted: but I found that nothing would avail; & ceased under the hope that your presence here might...
407Thomas Jefferson’s Observations at Monticello Related to Calculation of Latitude, 11 October 1815–31 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
date Merid. Alt. by circle same halved merid. Alt. from horizon difference ⊕ error of instrum. 1815. ° ′ ″ ° ′ ″ ° ′ ″ ° ′
408Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Appleton, 31 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you a long letter on the 14 th inst. and as it went by Duplicates one thro’ mr Vaughan of Philada , the other thro’ the Sec y of States office , I do not doubt you will receive them. but a gentleman now setting out direct for Paris , you may recieve this before either of the others. I will repeat therefore from that letter only a single article. it informed you that ‘I had put into the...
409Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 31 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letters of the 23 d and 24 th come to hand just in the moment of the return of our mail. I have only therefore time to inclose the Conveyances for which Miller’s bill is hung up. I had no doubt but that he had deposited them with the other papers. friendly salutations. RC ( ViU: TJP ); dateline at foot of text; endorsed by Cabell. For the enclosed conveyances
410Thomas Jefferson to Henry Jackson, 31 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 16 th inst. I took the liberty, thro’ the office of the Secretary of State , of asking a second time your care of a letter to mr Ticknor . ten days after that I received your favor of Nov. 9. I am very thankful for the kind dispositions it expresses towards myself, and can assure you that the approbation of the wise and worthy is truly a pillow of down to an aged head. a direct...
411Thomas Jefferson to Marc Auguste Pictet, 31 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Dabney Terril , of the state of Kentucky , a relation of mine being desirous to go to Europe for his education, I have advised him to give to the College of Geneva the preference which I consider it as deserving over any other Seminary of Europe . he accordingly has decided to proceed thither, and will have the honor of delivering you this letter. he is about 17. years of age, perfectly...
412Thomas Jefferson to George Ticknor, 31 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you a long letter on the 14 th inst. and as it went by duplicates thro good channels, I am sure you will get it. but a gentleman going from hence to Paris direct, which he will probably reach before either of the other channels of conveyance I will repeat from that letter but a single article, the request to add to the catalogue I formerly troubled you with, the underwritten books....
413Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin W. Crowninshield, 30 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Thomas Mann Randolph , the son of a neighbor and relation of mine is desirous of entering the naval service, and I am requested by his father to sollicit a midshipman’s warrant for him. I have known the young gentleman from his birth and can assure you he is of perfectly correct morals and demeanor, and of an amiable disposition. he is about 18. years of age, and had made some proficiency...
414Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 30 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Dabney Terril , a relation of mine (the grandson of my sister) wishing to finish his education in Europe , I have advised him to go to Geneva preferably to any other place. his foundation is a moderate progress in Latin French and Mathematics. he is 17. years of age, perfectly correct in his morals and deportment, amiable in his dispositions, and thirsty after knolege. his circumstances...
415Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Eston Randolph, 30 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this morning written to the Secretary of the navy , to sollicit a midshipman’s warrant for Mann . the bearer of this letter carries that to the post office so that it may go by tomorrow’s mail. it was more direct and certain to address it at once to the Secretary of the navy , and I have requested him to inclose the warrant to Mann , at Baltimore to the care of George Stevenson . I...
416Thomas Jefferson to Noah Worcester, 29 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter bearing date Oct 18. 1815. came only to hand the day before yesterday, which is mentioned to explain the date of mine. I have to thank you for the pamphlets accompanying it, to wit, the Solemn review, the Friend of peace or Special interview, & the Friend of peace N o 2. the first of these I had received thro’ another channel some months ago. I have not read the two last steadily...
417Thomas Jefferson’s Essay on New England Religious Intolerance (Draft), [ca. 10 January 1816] (Jefferson Papers)
you judge truly that I am not afraid of the priests. they have tried upon me all their various batteries, of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying & slandering, without being able to give me one moment of pain. I have contemplated their order from the Magi of the East to the Saints of the West, and I have found no difference of character, but of more or less caution, in proportion to the...
418Thomas Jefferson’s Essay on New England Religious Intolerance (As Published), [27 January 1816] (Jefferson Papers)
To the Editor of the Enquirer . A pamphlet has lately been published to the North, of such a character, as ought not to be unknown, or unnoticed by the people of the United States. It is the boldest and most impudent stride New England has ever made in arrogating an ascendency over the rest of the Union. The first form of the pamphlet was an Address from the rev. Lyman Beecher, Chairman of the...
419Thomas Jefferson to Sarah Bowdoin Dearborn, 27 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mrs Dearborn and his thanks for the very acceptable seeds she has been so kind as to send him and which will occupy his care & attention in the season now beginning to invite the labors of the garden. he cannot omit this first occasion of expressing to mrs Dearborn the uneasiness which the unpleasant weather in which she left Monticello gave to the...
420Thomas Jefferson to Philip Doddridge, 27 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have no recollection when the bounty of lands was first given to the soldiers of the revolutionary war; yet I know it was so early that it cannot be a long research into the ordinances and acts to find it. I inclose you a copy of the journals and Ordinances of the Convention of 1776. and as you mention that the public offices are without a compleat copy, be so good as to deposit it in the...
421Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 27 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
My calls for money being here, and my grandson having to transfer the monies of his collection to Richmond it is a mutual convenience to give him my draughts on you in exchange for cash here, inasmuch as it saves to us both the hazards of the road. I have accordingly this day drawn on you in his favor for 446. D 25 c which (if my tob o should not be arrived) be so good as to cover by a sale of...
422Thomas Jefferson to Thomas W. Maury, 27 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I am favored with yours of the 17 th . mr Cabell had apprised me of the objections to the power of imprisonment given to the a functionary of our College; and having explained to him the reason of it I must refer you to him for a sight of my letter . the object seems to have been totally mistaken, and what was intended in tenderness to the pupil has been misconstrued into an act of severity,...
423Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 24 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 16 th experienced great delay on the road and to avoid that of another mail I must answer very briefly. My letter to Peter Carr contains all I ever wrote on the subject of the College, a plan for the institution being the only thing the trustees asked or expected from me. were it to go into execution, I should certainly interest myself further & strongly in procuring proper...
424Thomas Jefferson to Peter Derieux, 24 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Since the receipt of your favor of the 12 th ult. one has come to hand from mr Mazzei in answer to mine, in which I had sollicited from him some attention and aid to your wants. I must give you the answer in his own words . it is dated Pisa . Oct. 22. 1815 . ‘ Quanto a Derieux che à 10. o 12. figli, che l’à pregato di raccomendarmelo, la prego di dargli per carità 18. o 20. dollars, e di...
425Thomas Jefferson to John F. Oliveira Fernandes , 24 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I this moment receive your favor of the 15 th and have but another left to get this into the mail of the neighboring village before it’s departure, so as to be with you within the time of grace given me by your letter. I thank you for thinking of me on the receipt of your Teneriffe, which tho of a place whose wines are not generally of high estimation, yet I know there are some crops of it of...
426Thomas Jefferson to Philip I. Barziza, 23 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
It was from D r Bancroft’s letter I understood that your brother would come to this country in the Spring, and that suggested the idea that the little commission I mentioned might not be inconvenient to him. but as you are so kind as to undertake the having it executed, I will avail my self of it your goodness to procure for me the two or three works, which having been originally printed at...
427Thomas Jefferson to Peter S. Du Ponceau, 22 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been 4. of the last 5. months absent from home, which must apologise for this very tardy acknolegement of your favor of Nov. 14. I learn with much satisfaction the enlargement by the Philosophical society of the scope of their institution, by the establishment of a standing committee for History, the moral sciences and general literature. I have always thought that we were too much...
428Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Macon, 22 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 7 th after being a fortnight on the road, reached this the last night. on the subject of the statue of Gen l Washington which the legislature of N. Carolina has ordered to be procured, and set up in their capitol, I shall willingly give you my best information and opinions. 1. Your first enquiry is whether one worthy the character it is to represent, and the state which...
429Thomas Jefferson to Amos J. Cook, 21 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Dec. 18. was exactly a month on it’s way to this place; and I have to thank you for the elegant and philosophical lines communicated by the Nestor of our revolution . whether the style or sentiment be considered, they were well worthy the trouble of being copied and communicated by his pen. nor am I less thankful for the happy translation of them. it adds another to the rare...
430Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 21 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
In answering the letter of a Northern correspondent lately, I indulged in a tirade against a pamphlet recently published in his quarter. on revising my letter however, I thought it unsafe to commit my self so far to a stranger. I struck out the passage therefore, yet I think the pamphlet of such a character as ought not to be unknown, or unnoticed by the people of the United States . it is the...
431Thomas Jefferson to David Gelston, 20 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 8 th is just now recieved, informing me of the reciept of a box of garden & flower seeds from mr Baker of Tarra gona for me. I do not think I can better dispose of them than by asking from the Botanical garden of New York their a ccept ance of them. perhaps there may be among them something worthy their notice and I am happy in an occasion of shewing my willingness to be...
432Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 20 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
The ice of our river has at length broke up, which enables us to get off this day 3. or 4. loads of flour, which, the tide being good, will be with you nearly as soon as this letter. the boatmen will call on you for their pay @ 3/6 per barrel. mr Yancey some weeks ago informed me that such was the press of tob o going from Lynchburg , that flour could not then be got down under 15/ a barrel, &...
433Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 20 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I was much pleased to learn you had set up business in Richmond in the mercantile way, and I sincerely wish you success in it. it will be an easier life than that of a camp, and a happier one. my dealings are chiefly of course in this place, yet there have been often occasions in which I have wished for some mercantile connection in Richmond , for supplies of things not to be had here, or at...
434Thomas Jefferson to Peter Wilson, 20 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Of the last five months I have been absent four from home which must apologise for so very late an acknolegement of your favor of Nov. 22. and I wish the delay could be compensated by the matter of the answer. but an unfortunate accident puts that out of my power. during the course of my public life, and from a very early period of it, I omitted no opportunity of procuring vocabularies of the...
435Thomas Jefferson to Dabney Carr, 19 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
At the date of your letter of Dec. 1. I was in Bedford , & since my return so many letters, accumulated during my absence, have been pressing for answers, that this is the first moment I have been able to ae attend to the subject of yours. while mr Girardin was in this neighborhood writing his continuation of Burke ’s history, I had suggested to him a proper notice of the establishment of the...
436Thomas Jefferson to Henry Jackson, 16 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
In July last I took the liberty of availing my self of the protection of your cover for a letter to mr George Ticknor a young gentleman from Masschusets , with a request that you would retain it until he should arrive in Paris . I learned afterwards that this would not be till autumn: nor have I as yet heard of his actual arrival there. under this uncertainty I again take the benefit of your...
437Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 16 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
It being interesting to me that the inclosed letters should get safely to their destination, I pray you to give them a passage under the protection of your cover by your first dispatches to Paris & Leghorn . On my return from Bedford I had proposed a meeting of the arbitrators & surveyor to settle finally the question between you & mr Short . but successive snows which have kept the ground...
438Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 15 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Of the last 5 months, 4 have been past at Poplar Forest where I am engaged in improvements requiring much of my presence. while there no letters are forwarded to me, the cross post being very circuitous. they are accumulating here during my absence, and on my return are pressing for answers. as soon after my last return as my progress in this corvée afforded me the prospect of a day to spare,...
439Thomas Jefferson to Elisha Ticknor, 15 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I avail myself of your kind permission to obtain a safe conveyance of the inclosed letter to your son. I presume he keeps you informed where his letters will find him. in one to me from London dated in June, he informed me he should go first to Gottingen and thence to Paris in the autumn. but as I have not heard of his actual departure for Paris , and have no channel of conveyance to...
440Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 15 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
In a letter of Dec. 22. I asked whether a remittance of a small sum could be directly made from Philada to Leghorn ; and not doubting that it may I take the liberty of inclosing to you 70.D. bills of the US . and of asking the favor of you to remit 50. Dollars to Thomas Appleton Consul of the US . at that place. I have done it without waiting an answer to my enquiry, because the remittance is...
441Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Appleton, 14 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letters of Aug. 26. and Oct. 25. have been both recieved. the condition of my friend Mazzei , both of body and mind, is really afflicting. of the former he had given me some account himself, of the latter I was unapprised, altho’ his very advanced age, with such bodily infirmities, might have given room to expect it. it is unfortunate too that persons in that situation are themselves the...
442Thomas Jefferson to George Ticknor, 14 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter from London of June 18. was not recieved until the 3 d of Oct. in the mean time I had written you mine of July 4. & Aug. 16 the former conveyed my formidable catalogue of the books desired, and informed you that mr Girard would give an order on his correspondent at Paris to hold 350.D. subject to your call; & the latter inclosed a copy of his letter to mess rs Perrigaux, La fitte &...
443Thomas Jefferson to John Adlum, 13 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
While I lived in Washington you were so kind as to send me 2. bottles of wine made by yourself, the one from currans, the other from a native grape , called with you a fox-grape, discovered by mr Penn’s gardiner . the wine of this was as good as the best Burgundy and resembling it. in 1810. you added the great favor of sending me many cuttings. these were committed to the stage Mar. 13. on the...
444Thomas Jefferson to Jean David, 13 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Jan. 1. is recieved. you intimate in that a thought of going to the Patomac to examine the vines I mentioned to you. it was a Maj r Adlam near the mouth of that river who sent me the wine, made from his own vineyard. but this was 7. or 8. years ago, and whether he still pursues the culture or is even still living I do not know. I should be sorry you should take such a journey on...
445To John Adams from Thomas Jefferson, 11 January 1816 (Adams Papers)
Of the last five months I have past four at my other domicil, for such it is in a considerable degree. no letters are forwarded to me there, because the cross post to that place is circuitous and uncertain. during my absence therefore they are accumulating here, & awaiting acknolegements. this has been the fate of your favor of Nov. 13. I agree with you in all it’s eulogies on the 18th....
446Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 11 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Of the last five months I have past four at my other domicil , for such it is in a considerable degree. no letters are forwarded to me there, because the cross post to that place is circuitous and uncertain. during my absence therefore they are accumulating here, & awaiting acknolegements. this has been the fate of your favor of Nov. 13. I agree with you in all it’s eulogies on the 18 th...
447Thomas Jefferson to Horatio G. Spafford, 10 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Of the last 5 months, 4 have been passed at my distant possession, to which no letters are carried to me, because the cross post is too circuitous and unsafe to be trusted. on my return I find an immense accumulation of them calling for answers, & among these your favor of the 25 th ult. in this you request me to examine the MS. tract it covered, to suggest amendments or alterations, give my...
448Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Austin, 9 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Dec. 21. has been recieved, and I am first to thank you for the pamphlet it covered. the same description of persons which is the subject of that is so much multiplied here too as to be almost a grievance, and, by their numbers in the public councils, have wrested from the public hand the direction of the pruning knife. but with us, as a body, they are republican, and mostly...
449Thomas Jefferson to Charles Thomson, 9 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
An acquaintance of 52. years, for I think ours dates from 1764. calls for an interchange of notice now & then that we remain in existence, the monuments of another age, and examples of a friendship unaffected by the jarring elements, by which we have been surrounded, of revolutions, of government, of party & of opinion. I am reminded of this duty by the receipt, thro’ our friend D r Patterson...
450Thomas Jefferson to James Gibbon, 6 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
The stage calling at our door three days a go I sent by it a part of the South American loaf of sug ar to be deposited in your office . the merchants having often occasion to call there will have opportunities of seeing it, which I presume was the object in sending it to me. but neither price, place, nor person have been mentioned, it is but a blind indication. I salute you with esteem and...