11Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 12 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letter, my dear friend, is too long for me to copy, and yet I wish you to know it’s contents. when therefore you have read it, be so good as to stick a wafer in it & have it delivered. perhaps indeed it would not be amiss for you to call with it yourself, as mr Poletika might wish to make some enquiry of you. as the French quotation from Gen l Kosciuzko ’s last letter to me is an...
12Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 5 May 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
An absence in Bedford prevented my recieving your favor of Apr. 21. until the 3 d inst. in answer to your kind enquiries as to our fire, the loss was confined to the little pavilion which, as you may remember, constituted the Northern extremity or wing of my buildings. our snow house enabled us to so far to cover with snow the adjacent terras which connected it with the main building as to...
13Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 14 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Feb. 26. has been duly recieved. it was not till lately that I recieved mr Wirt ’s opinion that General Kosciuzko ’s will might be proved in the district court within whic h I live, and that the th treasury would consider the probat there as sufficiently authentic for them to act. that court is to be the 1 st
14Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 21 December 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, dear Sir, for your settlement with Gales and Seaton for me, and I now inclose you 7. Dollars reimbursement in Richmond bills, which I hope may be readily disposed of with you. I find myself quite restored in health and strength and feel much indebted to my friends for the their solicitudes and enquiries on the occasion. to yourself I tender assurances of my constant friendship &...
15Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 7 December 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Nov. 31 (for Dec. 1. I suppose) came to hand last night, and your communication of my letter to mr Adams is entirely approved, as our friendly sentiments are fully reciprocal. no one can sympathise with him on his late loss more sincerely than I do. I am withdrawing from newspapers, and therefore write the inclosed for the editors of the National Intelligencer, which I leave open...
16Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 11 November 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I take up my pen merely to answer the kind anxiety you are so good as to express in yours of the 17 th Oct. respecting my health. I am recovering steadily but have not yet got out of doors; but I think within a very few days I shall be able to get on my horse, to me the most sovereign of all Doctors. Affectionately Adieu. PoC ( MHi ); on verso of reused address cover of John H. Hall to TJ, 15...
17Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 21 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Believing you knew Martin Wanscher , to whom the inclosed letter is addressed, my letter to you was so short as to be unintelligible. he was a plaisterer living in Alexandria , and was the one I employed to come on and plaister my house, which he did about 10. years ago, and returned to Alexandria . he was a German, and I suppose from his acquaintance with me, instructed his friends in Germ a...
18Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 28 June 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I know not from whom or what quarter the inclosed letter to Wanscher comes, nor whether he is still living. I suppose it is from Germany , and invoke your charity to dispose of it according to circumstances. I do it with the more pleasure as it gives me new occasion to repeat to you the assurances of my constant friendship and respect. PoC ( MHi ); on verso of reused address cover of William...
19Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 5 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I will not trouble you with vain condolances, & expressions of regret on the death of our mutual friend Gen l Kosciuzko , which we see announced in the papers in too credible form & which we both lament. besides the power of Attorney left with me & under which we have acted, he left in my hands a Will , all written in his own hand, making a charitable disposition of his property here, of which...
20Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 14 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
A young negro man, named Thruston , brother to Edy , who while I was in Washington , was in the kitchen under the instruction of M r Julien , has escaped from my grandson to whom I had given him . he is supposed to have gone to Washington and to be there lurking under the connivance of some of his sister’s old friends. the bearer, mr Wheat , my grandson