91From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Harrison, 20 August 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
A few days after my arrival here Colo. Le Maire writer of the inclosed letter called on me and asked me to forward it to you with such explanations as I could give. As to his commission , having lost the original as he therein mentions, he asks an authenticated copy of it which he thinks will enforce some applications he is making to this government. As to the lands, I remember the gift of...
92From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Harrison, [ca. September 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof Colo. Le Maire who was in the service of the Comw. of Virga. during the late war informs me that he is about to apply to Your Excellency on some occasion on which he would wish you to be satisfied of his rank and services in that state, and that the capture of his person effects and papers by the enemy has put it out of his power to produce to you his commission which would...
93From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Harrison, 12 January 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
The letter of July 20. 1784 with which your Excellency was pleased to honour me and which inclosed the resolution of assembly for the statue of Genl. Washington came to my hands on the 29th. of Nov. by Mr. Short: and a few days afterwards I received a duplicate of it. As it was not practicable to get the business into any train before the sailing of the December packet, I omitted acknol– eging...
94From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Harrison, 16 April 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you by the last post that some objections had been started in debate on the justice of that part of the national debt which consists in loan office certificates . The doubt was new to me. I had always considered this to be as honest a debt as any we owed: perhaps a more tender one in most cases, as being due to daughters, to younger children, to widows &c. It proved in event to be the...
95Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Harrison, 26 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
The American Philosophical society (at Philadelphia ) are in possession of a MS. journal of Col o Byrd , father of the late Col o W m Byrd , while he was on the line of Virginia & Carolina . I suppose it went with the Westover
96Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Harrison, 17 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Dec. 14. came to hand last night only, and that of July 11. was the only previous one I had recieved so that if an intermediate one was written, your conjecture is just that it had never come to my hands. mr Gwathney delivered the folio MS. safe, accompanied by a written Mem o from mr C. B. Page addressed to him, & only noting that it was to be delivered to me. the pocket MS....