1From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 9 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I am returned to this place about a week ago, the President having concluded to fix the Executive here till the meeting of Congress or till we shall see whether Philadelphia becomes safe. It is believed to be so now, insomuch that the refugee inhabitants are flocking into it. It is said there are no new subjects in the hands of the Physicians since the great rains. Some of those before...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 11 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of July 29. and Aug. 1. are now before me, and the inkpot was duly received, for which I return you a thousand thanks, for it is to me a great convenience. You did not mention the price, but I suppose it to be about 3. dollars (judging from the former one) and will not fail to replace it by the first person I can find passing. Schneider’s price is high. I must do the less in his...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 14 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly recieved your favor of the 11th. with the pamphlet it inclosed, for which be pleased to accept my thanks. In accepting the office I am in, I knew I was to set myself up as a butt of reproach, not only for my own errors, but for the errors of those who would undertake to judge me. It was the objection which the longest delayed my acquiescence in the President’s appointment. I have...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 17 December 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Nov. 23 . came to hand yesterday. Three days after the date of mine of Oct. 16 . yours of Sep. 11 . came to hand, and very soon after I learnt the arrival of the nail machine at Richmond. I expect now every day to recieve it here, for such is the lax and careless mode of business in this state that both the time and insurance for getting any thing brought from Richmond here (70...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 18 June 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the receipt of your favor of April 30th . By that I observed you expected Mr. Burral to be shortly in New York and to give you further information on the subject of the machine for cutting nails. Without waiting for the further information, (as I am much pressed for nails) I am disposed to accept his offer of making a machine for 40. Dollars. The difference of a few dollars...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 7 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
You may remember that I troubled you with my letters of Mar. 18. to Messrs. Carmichael and Short, their instructions &c which you had written me word you could send to Amsterdam by a ship of Messrs. brothers Coster & co. which was to sail about the 21st. of March. By a letter from Mr. Short dated Amsterdam July 20. he had not yet recieved them, and being anxious on the subject had enquired of...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, [10?] August 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th:J. will be obliged to Mr. Remsen to purchase two copies of Hutchins’s historical narrative of Louisiana and West-Florida immediately. They are for Mr. Short and Mr. Carmichael, to be paid for out of his contingent money. He will thank him for a 3d. copy which he will pay for himself. It is said they are to be had at Berry & Rogers’s. RC ( DLC photostat); dateline partly illegible. Not...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, [5 April 1790] (Jefferson Papers)
Th:J. sends to Mr. Remsent the letters of Mr. Short to be filed, first copying and sending him the paragraph mentioned to him before. He will thank him for the printed cypher he established with the O. of Foreign Aff. as he may use it safely with Mr. Short, who will have access to his copy at Paris. RC ( CtY ); undated, but endorsed by Remsen: “Mr. Jefferson April 5. 1790” addressed: “Mr....
9From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 18 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved yours of the 16th. inst. and sincerely condole with you on the great loss you have sustained. Experience, however, in the same bitter school has taught me that it is not condoleance, but time and silence alone which can heal those wounds. I beg you not to hasten your return to this place earlier than your own feelings and the affairs of your family may dictate, as we can...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 2 April 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to you two or three posts ago, since which, the applications of my customers for 4d. nails have convinced me that I must make them, and experience of doing it on the anvil shews some other method must be tried. I have also recollected that at either Troy or some other little town up the Hudson I saw a man cutting the 4d. nails and that the implements were of very small cost, and not...