2201Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Bruff, 7 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your letter of May 30 . and am very happy to learn that your manufactory of solid shot is likely to get into operation; while their quality will command a preference in the private demand, there can be no doubt but the same circumstance will ensure you the public supply. having other occasion to write to the president I have with pleasure added a recommendation of yourself...
2202From Catherine Nuth Johnson to Andrew Buchanan, 17 March 1811 (Adams Papers)
I sincerely Congratulate you My Dear Sir on the Birth of your Son, and the Safety of our Dear Caroline. as soon as you inform me on a Certain Subject, I shall myself address her. it will give me great Pleasure, to have this answered immediately, as I am very desirous and anxious, to know if she, and the Babe Continue Well—Tom left Washington on Wednesday morning, for your City, since which I...
2203Thomas Jefferson to the Albemarle Buckmountain Baptist Church, 13 April 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, my friends & neighbors, for your kind congratulations on my return to my native home, & on the opportunities it will give me of enjoying, amidst your affections the comforts of retirement & rest. your approbation of my conduct is the more valued as you have best known me, & is an ample reward for any services I may have rendered. we have acted together from the origin to the end...
2204Thomas Jefferson to Colin Buckner, 26 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved your favor of the 12 th by our last post and avail myself of it’s first return to inclose you the letter desired . if I conjecture rightly the nature of the connection likely to take place between mr Clarke & yourself, I congratulate you on it, having heard very favorable report of the link which will constitute the connection, & knowing the extreme worth of mr Clarke himself. I...
2205Thomas Jefferson to the Bunker Hill Association, 4 August 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I have safely recieved the eloquent oration of mr Lincoln delivered before the Bunker’s hill association , which you have been so kind as to forward me; and, if I mistake not the author, I may congratulate an excellent and much esteemed friend, the father , on the satisfaction he must have recieved from a specimen of talent so interesting to him, and yourselves and our common country on the...
2206From James Madison to the Bunker Hill Association, 24 July 1810 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison presents his respects to Benjamin Homans, J. E. Smith, & William Blagrove, Esqrs. from whom he has received the copy of Mr. Lincoln’s Oration delivered on the 4th. of July; and returns his thanks for the polite attention, to which he is indebted for this opportunity of expressing the pleasure he has felt in perusing a performance equally distinguished for its polished eloquence, and...
2207Thomas Jefferson to Madame Bureaux de Pusy, 4 November 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to M de Bureaux de Pusy and his thanks for the volume from M. de Faujas which she was so kind as to forward him, & which has come safely to hand. no apology was necessary for it’s delay the delay for which she has apologised been pleased to apologise has been attended with no inconvenience, a work of M. Faujas commanding at all times a welcome acceptance....
2208Thomas Jefferson to Madame Bureaux de Pusy, 24 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been favored with your letter of May 23. and learn from it, with gratification, that you are arrived with your family in the United States , and, as I hope, in good health. the time which you will have passed in our country before the warm season, now approaching, will I trust have acclimated you so far as to secure you from the ill effects to which a change of climate is apt to subject...
2209Thomas Jefferson to John Burke, 22 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Oct. 19. is just now recieved, and at this place. I have always had a standing request with mr Gibson to pay for the gazettes and Reviews recieved at Richmond , annually, as the accounts should be presented. under this arrangement the Argus has been paid for ever since I was a subscriber , and if you will have the goodness to present your bill to mr Gibson he will be so kind as...
2210Thomas Jefferson to Samuel M. Burnside, 9 January 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of the 13 th inst of December, informing me of the institution of the American Antiquarian Society and expressing it’s disposition to honor me with an admission into it, and the request of my cooperation in the advancement of it’s objects. no one can be more sensible of the honor and the favor of these dispositions, and I pray you to have the goodness to testify...
2211Thomas Jefferson to Samuel M. Burnside, 8 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recently recieved your favor of July 12. informing me that the American Antiquarian society had done me the honor of electing me a member of their body. duly sensible of this honor, and thankful for such a mark of their favor, I pray you to be the channel of communicating to them these sentiments. from the circumstances of age and distance, I fear I shall be able to carry into their...
2212Thomas Jefferson to William Burns, 7 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
At the request of Col o Alexander Quarrier I inclose to you a certificate of my acquaintance with him, to be used in some case wherein you act for him. he wished me to forward to him a copy of the certificate, but as he did not indicate the post office to which it should be addressed, I must leave that trouble on your hands. Accept my best respects. PoC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “M r William...
2213Thomas Jefferson to Charles Burrall, 16 March 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 7 th was recieved by our last mail and I have, by it’s return written to the President , bearing testimony with pleasure to the merit of your conduct and character through every stage of my acquaintance with them. no one whose conduct has been so rational and dutiful as yours ever had, or has now any cause to fear. those only who use the influence of their office to thwart &...
2214Thomas Jefferson to Hutchins G. Burton, 28 February 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 4 th was recieved yesterday evening only; and I hasten to return my thanks for the trouble you have in endeavoring to procure me some of the Scupernong wine. a quarter cask of it would be very desirable; and to be sent to the address of Mess rs Gibson and Jefferson my correspondents at Richmond , which is my only convenient deposit. from thence we have water carriage direct...
2215Thomas Jefferson to Dudley Burwell, 11 October 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Burwell of Franklin , your relation, has requested me to send you a letter of introduction to Doct r Wistar whose lectures you are attending. I comply with pleasure with this request, and shall be happy if I can serve you in your useful pursuits, or gratify you by obtaining the more particular attentions of so estimable a character as Doct r Wistar . with this view I ask the favor of you...
2216Thomas Jefferson to William A. Burwell, 25 February 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 16 th has given me real uneasiness. I was certainly very unfortunate in the choice of my expression when I hit upon one which could excite any doubt of my unceasing affections for you. in observing that you might use the information as you should find proper, I meant merely that you might communicate it to the President , the Secretaries of state or war , or to young mr Lee , as...
2217Thomas Jefferson to William A. Burwell, 19 August 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I am here after a long absence, having been confined at home a month by rheumatism. I thought myself equal to the journey when I sat out, but I have suffered much coming, staying, & shall returning. if I am not better after a little rest at home, I shall set out for the warm springs . the object of this letter is to inform mrs Burwell that a ring which she left where she washed the morning of...
2218Thomas Jefferson to William A. Burwell, 7 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of Dec. 29. was recieved on the 3 d inst . I shall state what I know respecting the medals for the information of the government in the cases generally, & your own in the special one of Gen l Lee . when the old Congress prepared for having their votes of Medals & swords executed, they did it by directing their Financier, Robert Morris , to have it done. Col o Humphreys being appointed...
2219Thomas Jefferson to William A. Burwell, 5 September 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I am just about leaving this place after a visit of a fortnight. mr Bankhead came with me and staid a few days he is so much pleased with the place & neighborhood that his settlement here is decided on. he brings his people here this winter, and his family in the spring. perhaps we may convince him he had better wait till a crop is made & some stock raised before the family comes. we shall be...
2220Thomas Jefferson to William A. Burwell, 6 February 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Jan. 22. came to hand last night, with the papers of mr Graham inclosed. of all mechanical machines existing, the steam engine is that which I have the least studied. the principle we all understand; and the structure of the original one I understood when at College. but have never since paid the least attention to the multiplied improvements which have changed nearly every thing...
2221Duncan L. Clinch to Robert Butler, 2 August 1816 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ Duncan L. Clinch to Robert Butler. 2 August 1816, Camp Crawford. Sends a report on the plans made by Maj. Gen. Gaines to reduce the fort occupied by “negroes and Chactaw Indians.” On 17 July, Clinch descended the Apalachicola River with “one hundred and sixteen chosen men,” two gunboats, and “one hundred and fifty Indians” under the command of Major McIntosh, “an old Chief called Capt....
2222Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 16 October 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Either inaccurate expression in myself, or the misapp r ehension of a friend to whom I had communicated my former letters on our finances , having obliged me to write another in explanation, I inclose you a copy of it because you had taken the trouble to read the others. I should wish this to be seen by those to whom you had communicated the former, lest they also should have misapprehended...
2223Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 30 September 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of the 23 d an important fact escaped me which, lest it should not occur to you, I will mention. the monies arising from the sales of the glebe lands in the several counties, have generally I believe, and under the sanction of the legislature, been deposited in some of the banks. so also the funds of the literary society. these debts, altho’ parcelled among the counties, yet the...
2224Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 27 June 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a letter from Judge Cooper of Pensylvania , a political refugee with D r Priestley from the fires & mobs of Birmingham . he is one of the ablest men in America , & that in several branches of science. the law opinion which he mentions, I have recieved, and a more luminous one has not been seen. it will produce a revolution of opinion on the question treated. not in the present...
2225Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 13 July 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for Maine ’s recipe for preparing the haw, inclosed in your favor of the 4 th . I really thought it lost with him, and that the publication of it would be a public benefit. I do not know that his hedgethorn is to be found wild but in the neighborhood of Washington . he chose it, I think, for it’s beauty. I have extensive hedges of it, which I have too much neglected. the parts well...
2226Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 23 September 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 17 th is just recieved. I shall answer it, as usual, frankly, adding my suggestions to those you may recieve from others, or concieve yourself, that your own good judgment may examine all things and hold fast that which is good. having before imposed on you the Corvée of reading my general sentiments on the subject of our finances, I may be the shorter now. I then thought it...
2227Thomas 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
2228Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 7 November 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
As the meeting of our legislature approaches, and I shall be absent in Bedford from the 17 th inst. to about the 8 th of Dec. within which period you will possibly be passing, I have thought it best to inform you that the Rivanna co. & myself consent that the bill concerning us which was before the legislature at their last session, should pass verbatim as amended by the Senate
2229Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 3 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I am afraid I have kept your papers longer than you expected. mr Randolph ’s absence till within these two days has been the cause of it. they are valuable documents , and are now returned. with respect to the copy of my letter , I know it is safe in your hands, and I rely on your effectual care that it be kept out of the public papers. affectionately your’s RC ( ViU: TJP ); at foot of text: “...
2230Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 5 January 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Dec. 27. with the letter inclosed , has been recieved. knowing well that the bank-mania still possesses the great body of our countrymen, it was not expected that any radical cure of that could be at once effected. we must go further wrong, probably to a ne plus ultra before we shall be forced into what is right. something will be obtained however, if we can excite, in those who...
2231Thomas 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...
2232Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 17 January 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
In your last letter to me you expressed a desire to look into the question Whether, by the laws of nature, one generation of men can, by any act of theirs, bind those which are to follow them? I say, by the laws of nature, there being between generation and generation, as between nation and nation, no other obligatory law: and you requested to see what I had said on the subject to mr Eppes . I...
2233Thomas 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...
2234Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 1 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
A member of a family to which I have been much attached by long intimacies sollicits my asking the notice attention of some of my friends to his petition before the legislature . he is the Viscount Barziza , youngest of two sons of Count Barziza of Venice by the only daughter & heiress of the late mrs Paradise , who was the daughter of Col o
2235Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 14 July 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
You have sometimes thought my political ramblings worth the time and trouble of reading. I inclose you one a letter lately written on a subject now much agitated in our state . I will ask the favor of it’s early return by mail as I have no other copy. I salute you with friendship & respect. RC ( ViU: TJP ); dateline at foot of text; addressed: “ Joseph C. Cabell esq. Warminster ”; franked;...
2236Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 5 January 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I learn by the newspapers that a petition has been presented to the legislature by the Rivanna company praying an enlargement of their powers. as these are to be executed wholly within my lands, and almost solely over my property, and have not hitherto been exercised by with much forbearance as to the injury to which they expose me, it becomes necessary for me while they ask for power, for me...
2237Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 28 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
You enquire whether Say has ever been translated into English? I am certain he never has in America , nor do I believe he has in England . I have never seen his work named in their catalogues or advertisements nor do I believe it has been noticed by the Edinburgh reviewers. nor have they noticed the Review of Montesquieu , altho Duane sent them a copy. you will render this country a great...
2238Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 31 January 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 23 d is recieved. Say had come to hand safely. but I regretted having asked the return of him ; for I did not find in him one new idea on the subject I had been contemplating; nothing more than a succinct, judicious digest of the tedious pages of Smith . You ask my opinion on the question whether the states can add any qualifications to those which the Constitution has...
2239Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 23 December 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
A petition has been presented to our present legislature by a Cap t Joseph Miller , praying a confirmation of the will of his half brother Thomas Reed who died not long since at Norfolk possessed of lands and slaves which he devised to his half brothers and sisters then living in England . this one bought up the shares of the whole and came over to reside here as a citizen. he arrived after...
2240Memorandum to the Cabinet, 14 June 1809 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison requests a consultation with the heads of the Depts. today at 12 O’C. Printed copy (John Heise Autograph Catalogue No. 2457 [1928]).
2241From Thomas Boylston Adams to Thomas Cadwalader, 13 November 1816 (Adams Papers)
I am now two thirds of my journey homeward having left Philadelphia on the 8th: instant, and travelled with great expedition. Having written thus far, and finding the tremulous motion of the Steam-boat, in concert with my nervous system, too unstable for a friendly communication, I broke off and surrendered my tools into the hands of a friend, who was very impatient to write to his wife, he...
2242Thomas Jefferson to Clement Caines, 16 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Apr. 2. was not recieved till the 23 d of June last with the volume accompanying it, for which be pleased to accept my thanks. I have read it with great satisfaction, & recieved from it information, the more acceptable as coming from a source which could be relied on. the retort, on European Censors, of their own practices on the liberties of man, the inculcation on the master of...
2243Thomas Jefferson to Charles Caldwell, 12 June 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letters of Apr. 25. & 30. came to me by the same mail as I was leaving Monticello on a journey to a distant place, from which this acknolegement of them is now written. I had before known something of the Portfolio by character, but had never seen a N o of it till that you have been so kind as to send me. it is certainly a favorable specimen of the candor and abilities by which it is...
2244Thomas Jefferson to George Callaway, 21 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
My wheat made at Poplar forest the last year was delivered at your mill under a contract made by yourself with mr Griffin to give me a barrel of flour warranted superfine at the Richmond inspection for every five bushels. when your milldam was carried away, I pressed for an annulment a relinquishment of the bargain , and redelivery of the wheat, making reasonable allowance for diminution of...
2245Thomas Jefferson to George Callaway, 5 December 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you on the 21 st of Sep. stating my claim on you for 47 ⅖ barrels of Superfine flour, or 367. D. 55 c their value, at the rate netted me by the 232. barrels recieved from you. this letter was delivered you by mr Griffin , and I have no answer but verbally thro’ him that you decline acknoleging your liability. on my part it is insisted on, being myself perfectly satisfied of it’s...
2246Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin J. Campbell, 26 March 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved the last night your favor of the 16 th and hasten to acknolege it. I had before remarked in the newspapers an account of your new invented loom , which appeared to promise considerab le advantages. but manufacturing with me is on too small a scale to make it an object, making only coarse cloths for my family and people. two common looms with flying shuttles do this. I had at one...
2247Thomas Jefferson to David Campbell, 28 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Nov. 5. was two months on it’s passage to me. I am very thankful for all the kind expressions of friendship in it: & I consider it a great felicity, through a long and trying course of life, to have retained the esteem of my early friends unabated. I find in old age that the impressions of youth are the deepest & most indelible. some friends indeed have left me by the way,...
2248Thomas Jefferson to David Campbell, 1 October 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Sep. 11 has been duly recieved, but I am sorry it is in my power to give no information on the subject of your enquiries. 30. years of general absence from the state, an entire occupation in other scenes of business, to which must be added the effect of years, have erased from my mind nearly all particular knolege of the affairs of the state. no times time , nor circumstances...
2249Thomas Jefferson to George W. Campbell, 8 May 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Gen l Kosc i uszko whose revolutionary services and general devotion to the cause of liberty have rendered him dear to this country, made a deposit of all his funds in the monied institutions of this country, placing them under my general superintendance, which is exercised through mr Barnes who will have the honor of handing you this letter, and whom I take this occasion to make known to you...
2250Samuel Harrison Smith to George W. Campbell, 14 April 1814 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ Samuel Harrison Smith to George W. Campbell. 14 April 1814, Treasury Department, Revenue Office. “Isaac Judson, late Keeper of the Light House on Fayer-weather Island, having died, Daniel Willson Junr., appears from the enclosed letters, to be properly qualified as his successor.” RC ( DNA : RG 26, Light House Service Correspondence). Cover bears Campbell’s note: “Daniel Willson Junr. is...