1[From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 5 December 1783] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Annapolis, 5 Dec. 1783 . Entry in SJL reads: “Arch. Stewart.—Convention—secretary to delegation—state of Congr.” Not found. See TJ to Madison, 7 May 1783 .]
2From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 25 January 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your favor of the 17th. of October, which though you mention as the third you have written me, is the first which has come to hand. I sincerely thank you for the communications it contains. Nothing is so grateful to me at this distance as details both great and small of what is passing in my own country. Of the latter we receive little here, because they either escape my...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 23 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I received duly your favor of Octob. 22. and should have answered it by the gentleman who delivered it, but that he left town before I knew of it. That it is really important to provide a constitution for our state cannot be doubted: as little can it be doubted that the ordinance called by that name has important defects. But before we attempt it, we should endeavor to be as certain as is...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 9 September 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you a long letter from Philadelphia early in the summer , which would not now have been worth recurring to, but that I therein asked the favor of you to sound Mr. Henry on the subject you had written to me on, to wit, the amendment of our constitution, and to find whether he would not approve of the specific amendments therein mentioned, in which case the business would be easy. If you...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 31 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof Mr. John Nancarrow comes to Staunton on some view respecting a mine, in which line of business he has been brought up. He has been engaged in Philadelphia in that of making steel. He is a sensible, scientific and worthy man, and such as is rarely found in the walk of the arts, or even of the sciences. I take the liberty of recommending him to your notice and especially to...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 31 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have written you a line this day by Mr. John Nancarrow to recommend him to you as a man of worth and science. What I say therein of him is religiously true, and I recommended him sincerely as a man I esteem. But lest you should be off your guard I mention in this, which goes by post, that I have understood his circumstances here to be bad, so that you must not be led into any money matters...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 24 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
When I had the pleasure of seeing you at Monticello you mentioned to me that sheep could be procured at or about Staunton, good and cheap, and were kind enough to offer your aid in procuring them. Reflecting on this subject, I find it will be much better to buy and drive them now, before they have young ones, and before the snows set in, than to wait till the spring. I therefore take the...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 26 January 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 22d. has been duly received, and, in consequence of it, my manager Mr. Biddle now sets out for the sheep, as the approach of the yeaning season leaves no time to spare as to them. I could have wished to have made one trip serve for them and the potatoes: but I am advised that the latter would be in danger of freezing on the road. I must therefore, as to them wait for milder...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 30 October 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved some time ago your favor on the subject of Mr. Dowthwaite, and soon after that he called on me himself. I should have been glad to have served him for the double motive of wishing well to his enterprize, and for the interest you take in his success. But it seemed that he wished me to address the assembly either directly or indirectly on his behalf. This I could not do. A total...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 2 December 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
I now place in the hands of Colo. Bell in Charlottesville fifty dollars to be forwarded to you, and have to ask the favor of you to purchase me sheep to that amount. The moment you notify me that they are ready, I will send off for them, so as to receive them from the seller, and not give you so much trouble with them as you had with the last purchase. Perhaps I may at the same time send a...