15061Thomas Jefferson to William Clark, 8 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
The travelling journal of Gov r Lewis and yourself having been published some time ago, I had hoped to hear that something was doing with the astronomical observations, the Geographical chart, the Indian vocabularies, and other papers not comprehended in the journal published. with a view to have these given to the public according to the original intention, I got a friend to apply for them to...
15062Henry Clay to Thomas Jefferson, 8 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Alvan Stewart , who will deliver to you this letter, being desirous of the honor of your acquaintance, and of visiting Monticello , has asked of me a letter of introduction. Altho’ I am sure, with his objects, it is altogether unnecessary, I have no hesitation in Soliciting your favorable reception of him. I comply the more readily with his request as it affords me an opportunity of...
15063Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 8 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
The jealousy of the European governments rendering it unsafe to pass letters thro’ their post-offices, I am obliged to borrow the protection of your cover to procure a safe passage for the inclosed letter to M de de Staël , and to ask the favor of you to have it delivered at the hotel of M. De Lessert without passing thro’ the post office. In your answer of June 7. to mine of May 18 . you...
15064Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 8 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
You must excuse me, dear Sir, if I trouble you with my inexpressible anxieties about the delay of publication of mr Tracy ’s book, as I hear nothing of it’s commencement altho’ you assured me it should be begun the 4 th of July. mr Tracy ’s complaints of me give me a right to complain highly of mr Duane , and now turn to you. pray let me hear from you, and say only what I may depend will be...
15065Francis Adrian Van der Kemp to Thomas Jefferson, 8 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to your favour of July the 30 —I must once more return to the papers , which I Send to England for publication; and am Satisfied with the precautions, I deemed requisite, to conceal the author . Since I received last week information from London of the Sudden desease of mr joÿce —whom I had intrusted with the business I then directly adressed mr. Belsham , Solliciting him to inquire...
15066Elizabeth Ticknor to Thomas Jefferson, 10 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour Sir, of the 15–16 th of August was received yesterday.— My husband being an overseer of the University , in which he was educated, is now absent on business for that institution, but, in all probability will return before the arival of the books.—If he does not, I have a friend, who will address them according to your order, and take every possible care, that they are safely sent...
15067William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 10 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the remarks with which you have been so good as to accompany the return of the sheets. The story of Livy I had from Judge Nelson who gave it as a declaration to him from M r Henry himself. I think with you that the statement must be inaccurate: his indolence forbad it and Livy I find is not among the books left by him, of which I have a catalogue—I have moderated the passage...
15068Samuel Butler (for Hezekiah Niles) to Thomas Jefferson, 11 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
On the rec t of your very polite and friendly favor of 7 h Sep t I had a serch made into my last years books and old letters—and have the mortification to state, that you made a remittance, as you mention, in march last of Ten dollars which through hurry of business had been neglectted to be passed to your credit, and which with the Five in your last letter pays your subscription up to...
15069Mathew Carey to Thomas Jefferson, 12 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour of the 1 st inst. which I Rec d a few days since, is before me. Of the whole list of Books you wish, there are only three remain, of which I annex the Invoice . They shall be sent by the first opportunity in a Box to Fitzwhylsonn & Potter , my correspondents at Richmond , with directions to deliver them to Mes rs Gibson & Jefferson . RC
15070Enclosure: Mathew Carey’s Invoice for Books Bought for Thomas Jefferson, 12 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Tho s Jefferson Esq r Bo t of Mathew Carey To Vandale Super Arest $2 Bonnycastle ’s Algebra .50 Potter s Mathematics 1 .25
15071Stephen Kingston to Thomas Jefferson, 12 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
In the pursuit of Justice no excuse is necessary for addresing it’s general advocate I therefore take the liberty of inclosing the papers herewith. As the principle at issue has been under your consideration, permit me to entreat you will have the goodness to peruse those documents & favor me with your opinion whether this case is not within the spirit of the treaty of 1783? I need not add the...
15072Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 13 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Since sending you my letter of the 10th to the post office a call of 200 D. is made upon me which had been agreed to be delayed until my produce should have been sold in the next spring but the party assigned it to another who now required it without regard to that arrangement. I am obliged to draw for it on you in favor of Branham & Jones of Charlottesville . I do this with reluctance because...
15073Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 13 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of Aug. 29. came to hand on the 4 th inst. I had packed and was to have set off for Pop. For. with mrs Randolph and some of the family on Monday the 2 d inst. but on the Sunday recieved a visit which detained us till these rains begun. they still continue & were they now to stop it will be still some days before we can cross James river : I therefore find it necessary to write, as some...
15074John Payne Todd to Thomas Jefferson, 14 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of intr o ducing to you, M r Valaperta , an artist of considerable merit and reputation. His object in visiting Monticello , should he be so fortunate as to find you at home, is to ask your permission to take your bust in clay, or your profile in Wax with a view to work it afterwards in ivory, to perform either, he says will be attended with little trouble to you, and the...
15075Thomas Jefferson to William W. Hening, 15 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
The Committee of Congress , on the purchase of my library having chosen to take it as stated in the Catalogue, I was not at liberty to retain a single volume. consequently those of your collection of the laws, which you had been so kind as to send me, all went. I have therefore to ask the favor of you to send me a compleat collection of all the volumes you have published, and to have the bill...
15076Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas G. Dufief, 16 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 6 th with the MS. accompanying it comes to hand just as I am preparing to set out on a journey of considerable time and distance. I am therefore able to give it but a hasty perusal. this added to my want of familiarity with the technical methods of conveying instruction makes me an inadequate judge of that you propose. I have not indeed heretofore made myself acquainted, but...
15077John Graham to Thomas Jefferson, 16 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
J Graham presents his most Respectful Compliments to m r Jefferson , and in transmitting to him the enclosed Packet which has just been received at this Dep t has the pleasure to inform him, that his Letter to m r Gallatin was forwarded under Cover with Despatches for that Gentleman, the day after it was received. RC ( DLC ); dateline at foot of text; endorsed by TJ as received 19 Sept. 1816...
15078Lafayette to Thomas Jefferson, 16 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I Cannot Let g al Bernard Embark with His Amiable Lady and family for America without a line to You. that Eminent officer Has Been Honour’d with the only Exception to the determination of Government Not to Employ foreigners in the Army of the U.S. I think He deserves the Confered distinction, Not only on Account of His Great talents, and deep knowledge in His Line, But also Because I Never Saw...
15079Joseph E. McIlhenney to Thomas Jefferson, 17 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Peale of Philad a called upon my brother, and told him, he had reacieved a letter from you , requesting him to procure a young man, who would be willing to settle in Charlottsville . He, as a particular friend of my brothers, advised him to communicate the circumstance to me; which he did in a letter of the 5 th Instant. I immeadiately answer’d his letter, and requested him to inform M r...
15080Thomas Jefferson to David Gelston, 18 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Aug. 31. did not come to hand but by yesterday’s mail, delayed I presume by the late extraordinary floods . it brings me the first notice of the arrival of my books which I have been 3. or 4. months expecting . them but I have not yet recieved either invoice or letter. as we ought to suppose they came by the same ship, tomorrow’s mail may perhaps bring them, in which case you...
15081Thomas Jefferson to Alexander H. Everett, 19 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns to mr Everett his thanks for the care he has been so good as to take of the Programme of the Harlaem society of sciences , recieved from mr Van Marum , and now come safe to hand: and he avails himself with pleasure of this occasion of assuring him of his great esteem and respect. RC ( MHi : Everett-Peabody Family Papers); dateline at foot of text; addressed: “ M r Everett...
15082Thomas Jefferson to James Fishback, 19 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Presuming that a copy of your oration delivered in Lexington on the 4 th of July last, which came inclosed to me yesterday, may have come from yourself, I take the liberty of addressing to you my thanks for this mark of attention. I have read it with satisfaction, a single paragraph only excepted in the following words excepted. ‘ mr Jefferson , it is said, declared that when he was in Paris ,...
15083Thomas Jefferson to David Gelston, 19 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote yesterday morning in answer to yours of Aug. 31. and in the evening recieved the Invoice you requested, which I now inclose with mr Warden ’s letters & other papers. I will thank you for the return of these when they shall have answered your purpose. as I presume the usual apprehensions from Equinoctial gales are not of many days, I will request you to forward the books to Richmond as...
15084Thomas Jefferson’s Agreement with Thomas Eston Randolph & Company, 19 September 1816, with Thomas Jefferson’s Note, 18 … (Jefferson Papers)
Shadwell Mill 19 th Sept r 1816 —We agree to deliver to the order of Tho s Jefferson Esq r Six hundred bushels of Shipstuff at eighteen-pence ⅌er bushel to be deducted from the first quarters Rent—and to be deliver’d viz t 200 bushels in the second week of October next,—200—on the 1 st Nov
15085John Payne Todd to Thomas Jefferson, 19 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of mentioning that M r Labarshette , who will have the honor of paying his respects; brought a letter from Gen l Lafayette to the President, and carries with him, a certificate from the same, of services rendered by his father and himself during our Revolution; which are titles certainly to civility. RC ( MHi ); endorsed by TJ as received 20 Sept. 1816 and so recorded in SJL...
15086Montlezun’s Account of a Visit to Monticello, 20 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Vendredi 20 septembre 1816. Voyage de Montpellier à Monticello ( Albemarle ). A sept heures du matin, je suis parti de Bentivoglio , Couper’s-Tavern ; et de nouveau, traversant les bois, j’ai passé à trois milles de là, devant la maison du juge Gordon , d’où je suis allé franchir à gué le
15087William W. Hening to Thomas Jefferson, 23 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 15 th was delivered to me, after the arrival of the last mail only ; and I have not lost a moment in complying with its contents.— I send you by the Charlottesville stage-driver, the three first volumes of the Statutes at large.— Unfortunately the sheets of the 4 th Vol. which had been sent to Petersburg , to be bound, were all destroyed by the dreadful conflagration at that...
15088Dabney Carr to Thomas Jefferson, 24 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have hesitated for some time, whether I should write to you, on the subject of this letter. I am sure you will do me the justice to believe that what I shall say is dictated by an anxiety for your repose. I have seen in pretty free circulation here, a letter written by you to a M r Kercheval , on the subject of calling a convention, & discussing the topicks which would probably come before...
15089Thomas Jefferson to Stephen Kingston, 25 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 12 th inst. was recieved in the moment of my setting out on a long journey, and is therefore answered from a very distant place. the case to which it relates appears to be now in the courts of Pensylvania , and before it’s legislature. it cannot be doubted that both of these authorities will, in their respective functions do what is right and just: for a private individual...
15090James H. McCulloch to Thomas Jefferson, 25 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I yesterday received a bill of lading of two cases Tuscan wine for your order, in a letter from M r Thomas Appleton of Leghorn . The vessel has just entered that bears the consignment & it may be some days before they are landed. It will enable me to forward them to you in the most convenient manner, if you can give me some directions as to the route in which they will be least exposed by a...