101Thomas Jefferson to Thomas W. White, 5 February 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
The state of my health permits me, but with pain, to write even the short acknolegement of a letter . I am moreover too much unacquainted with the general taste to know what would suit it , or to judge what book would be of ready sale; and I should be sorry to advise an unprofitable one. there is a valuable history of Englan d Baxter ’s, which I have long wished reprinted here. it was too...
102Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Fairfax, 16 October 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I this moment recieve, and at an occasional resdce very distant from Mont o your favor of Sep. 20. which with a like delay in the transmission of this answer must acc t for your late reciept of it . the buildings for the accomodn of the Professors and students of the Univ y will all be ready in the course of this winter. to effect this we borrowed by permission authority of the legisl.
103Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 10 April 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly recieved the resolution of the President & Directors of the Literary fund of Mar. 25. proposing to lend to the Visitors of the University of Virginia the sum of 40,000.D. on the pledge of their annuity of 15,000 D for the repayment of the principal in by five equal & annual instalments, beginning 3. years after the date of the loan; and of the regular payment of interest in the mean...
104Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Appleton, [20] August [1817] (Jefferson Papers)
On the 1 st inst. I dispatched the Original of which the preced g is a dupl. thro’ mr V. and soon after it the departure of the mail I rec d one from mr Carmigniani of Apr. 11. by this I found that he had not rec d mine of July 18. and on recurring to your diff t
105Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 16 September 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
In a letter of the 13 th ult. to the Secretary of the board of the Literary fund I stated to him that whenever it should be the wish of the board to close the contract for the loan of 20,000.D. to the Visitors of the University of Virginia I would execute the necessary bond on his sending me a copy of it. the Visitors are to meet on the 2 d of October , and if it would suit the convenience of
106Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Skidmore, 29 August 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
You must be so good, Sir, as to excuse me from entering into the optical investigation which your letter of the 18 th proposes. the hand of age presses heavily on me. I have long withdrawn my mind from speculations of that kind, my memory is on the wane and I am averse even to close thinking, and writing is become slow, laborious & painful. I will make then but a single suggestion on the...
107Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Munroe, 1 January 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I have every disposition to do any act of service to you within the limits of propriety. but withdrawn from the world & unauthorised by office or any other qualifn I do not feel myself entitled to address a lre to the Emperor of Russia , C t Nesselrode or any of the authorities of that country. however I am happy however in being satisfied believing that with the patronage of mr Adams & m r...
108From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 12 April 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to thank you for the copy of the laws of your College, from which I am sure we shall recieve good aid whenever we proceed to form those for our institn if ever that day is to come. our last legislre indeed has had better disposns than the preceding one. they agreed to lend us another 60.M.D. but on interest also. this will compleat our buildings. but then our annuity of 15. M . D will...
109Promissory Note from Thomas Jefferson Randolph and Thomas Jefferson to John Neilson, 6 June 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
$900 On or before the first day of August one thousand eight hundred & twenty one we promise to pay to John Nelson of the county of Albemarle the sum of nine hundred dollars f with legal interest thereon from the date hereof for the true payment of which we bind ourselves our heirs executors & administrators. Witness our hand and seal, this sixth day of June one thousand eight hundred & twenty...
110Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Appleton, 12 June 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
From a desire that our letters respecting the affairs of the University , as being to be placed on their files may be kept distinct from what respects myself personally, I place in this letter separately the information that I have put into Col o Peyton ’s hands the sum of 444.D. for M. and M de Pini , which he will include in the bill with the 861.D. for the University . I shall not lose...
111Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 21 July 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
The Visitors of the University of Virginia proposing to avail the institution of the authorisation of the act of the late General Assembly concerning the University , to borrow a further sum of 60. M .D. and preferring to obtain it from the President & Directors of the Literary fund , have directed me to make application to them accordingly. and understanding that there is at present a sum of...
112From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas G. Watkins, 9 November 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Oct. 16. has been duly recieved and I learn with pleasure that you had got on well so far on your road to Tennessee. I observe what you say on the subject of the appmt for which you propose to become a candidate with Congress. I have outlived all my acquaintance there and from that source can put but little into your scale, but on the weightier consideration of merit I can truly...
113From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 8 June 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I have for some time entertained the hope that your affairs being once wound up, your mind would cease to look back on them, and resume the calm so necessary to your own happiness and that of your family & friends, and especially that you would return again to their society. I hope there remains no reason now to delay this longer, and that you will rejoin our table and fireside as heretofore....
114Thomas Jefferson to Thomas B. Parker, 2 August 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I am truly thankful, Sir, for the discretion you hav e been so good as to exercise in consulting me before you gave publicity to my letter of May 15. nothing gives me more pain than to have letters, written in the car e lessness & confidence of private correspondence, exposed to the public. this comprehends men of all opinions, and of all dispositions; and the sentimen t must be very insipid...
115From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 5 June 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
It is not long since I was apprised that the state of your affairs had become doubtful, and only very recently, that they were beyond recovery, I learnt this with the more concern, from a consciousness that no resources within my power could be applied to their redemption; and indeed that the husbanding of these was become the more necessary for the support of the family. your situation is...
116Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 1 May 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of Apr. 10. on the subject of the loan of 40, thousand dollars to the Visitors of the University , I stated that they would prefer obtaining the remaining 20,000.D. which they were authorised to borrow, from the Literary fund also rather than from any other. I beg leave to recall the attention of the Directors of that fund to this proposition, and to ask their determination, as we...
117Thomas Jefferson to Davies, 7 May 1825, 7 May 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of mr Davies to dine at Monticello to day (Saturday) with Col o Monroe. Jagiellonian University Library, Krakow, Poland.
118Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Whittemore, 9 September 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Th:J. returns his thanks to mr Whittemore for the copy of his oration on the 4 th of July which he has been so kind as to send him . it is always matter of great gratifn to him to see the principles of the revoln avowed & cherished by those the genern those now charged with their preservn , & hopes they will be handed down from father to son from in all their purity from genern to genern
119Enclosure: List of Wine and Food Ordered from Stephen Cathalan by Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Jefferson Randolph, [ca. 5 … (Jefferson Papers)
64. gallons of Rivesalte 300. bottles of Nice wine. 5. gallons of the best olive oil of Aix 12. bottles of Anchovies 50. ℔ raisins of Smyrna , sans pepins . 100. ℔ of Maccaroni. the above are for myself to be marked T.I. the following are for Thomas Jefferson Randolph to be marked
120Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 11 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to you yesterday , since which it has occurred to me that you can render us a great service. among the duties required by the legislature from the Comm rs for the location of their University , one is to state to them the sciences proper for such an institution, and the number of Professors necessary. to determine this so as not to endanger overburthening any Professor, it is essential...
121From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 8 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly rec d your affectionate letter of the 3 d and percieve there are greater doubts than I had apprehended whether the legislre will indulge me in my request to them. it is a part of my mortifin to percieve that I had so far overvalued myself as to have counted on it with too much confidence. I see in the failure of this hope a deadly blast of all peace of mind during my remaining days. you...
122From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 8 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I have for some time entertained the hope that your affairs being once wound up, your mind would cease to look back on them, and resume the calm so necessary to your own happiness, and that of your family and friends; and especially that you would return again to their society. I hope there remains no reason now to delay this longer, and that you will rejoin our table and fireside as...
123From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 5 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The Report of the Rector and Visitors is always prepared and ready to be rendered the 2 d week in October, and might then be sent to the Governor but that the interval thence to the meeting of the legislature is so long, that things may arise rendering supplementary information necessary in the letter accompanyint it. I will take care to send it however a week or two before hand I am glad you...
124Thomas Jefferson to Thomas F. Andrews, 10 July 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of June 23. has been duly recieved, and I am sorry it is not in my power to say a word on the appointmen t of Professors to our University . I explained in my letter to D r Fernandes the circumstances on which the opening of the instituti on would depend. these make it uncertain whether it may be soon or many years hence. during this uncertainty the Visitors form no decisions as to...
125Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Appleton, 25 May 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
This is merely to convey to you a triplicate of Gwathmey ’s bill on James Hagarty of Liverpool for 369 £–10. s sterling, the 1 st & 2 d of which were sent to mr Williams , of which 444.D. are to be paid on my account to M . & M de Pini , and 1200.D. to be credited by you to the
126Thomas Jefferson to Thomas P. Jones, 13 March 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 5 th is recieved. the act of our legislature to which it alludes has by no means the effect of hastening the open g of our University . it authorises it only the running to run further in debt for the completion of the buildings by another loan, which as well as a former one is to be repd still out of the annuity formerly given to the
127Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 1 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of mr Ritchie to give three insertions to the above in his newspaper and to place in it to the account of Th:J. with his newspapers. he salutes him always with esteem & respect PoC ( DLC ); on verso of portion of reused address cover to TJ; subjoined to enclosure ; dateline at foot of text; endorsed by TJ.
128Thomas Jefferson to Thomas C. Flournoy, 24 January 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Altho’ age, and the state of rest so grateful to it have obliged me to retire from the business of letter-writing, I feel myself bound by the kind expressions in your letter of the 4 th inst. to acknolege it’s reciept, and to return you my thanks for this proof of your good will. the preference you express for a military vocation, over the labors of the law, may, by the circumstances of war,...
129Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Leiper, 19 April 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
M r George Lieper your son has informed you that in his passage thro’ the neighboring county of Orange he had the misfortune to lose his baggage. he called on me in distress and I was happy in the opportunity of being useful to him by giving him a draught negociable in Charlottesville for 75.D. the sum he asked and he gave me a counterdraught on you. on his return to Charlottesville he met...
130Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 11 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of mr Ritchie to give three insertions in the Enquirer to the inclosed advertisements at intervals of about a week & to place them to his account. he salutes him with friendship & respect. PoC ( MHi ); on verso of reused address cover of Gerard E. Stack to TJ, 12 Apr. 1819 ; dateline at foot of text; endorsed by TJ.
131From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas J. Rogers, 20 December 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to thank you Sir for the copy of your biographical Dictionar which you have been so kind as to send me. I think with you that compendious works of history might be advantageously put into the hands of children when at the reading school. nothing would interest them more than such works as Cornelius Repos, something of the same kind for modern history, ⅌ that of England and of our own...
132Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Magruder, 8 December 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
The buildings for the accommodn of the Professors and Students of the University will all be in readiness the ensuing summer. but when the instn it will be opened depends entirely on the pleasure of our legislature . the report lately made to them by the Visitors & which will be in the papers within a few days will possess you fully of the present state and prospects of that instn, and by...
133Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 9 August 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Wood has sent me the inclosed queries with a request to put them into the hands of some one for answers. I will not suppose him so unreasonable as to have meant them for myself, the collection of materials for others to write books with being out of the question at my age, when nothing but absolute necessity can urge me to write even a common letter. you know the characters of our county...
134Thomas Jefferson’s Promissory Note to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 21 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
$3000. Sixty five days after date I promise to pay to Thomas J. Randolph or order, negotiable and payable at the Office of discount and deposit of the United States bank in Richmond without offset Three thousand dollars for value received MS ( MHi ); written on a half sheet in Patrick Gibson ’s hand, signed by TJ. At the date of this document, TJ was still at Warm Springs , not monticello ....
135Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Abstract of Evidence in Wilson Cary Nicholas’s Administrators v. James Morrison and Thomas … (Jefferson Papers)
Abstracts from sundry Documents in the cases of the Exrs of W. C. Nicholas with Morrison and of the same with
136From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas J. O’Flaherty, 9 August 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Engaged in a task for our University which could not be deferred, I am late in answering your favor of July 20. turning to my former letter to you, I find that on the reciept of the specimens of Greek, Latin, French, and English, which you were then so kind as to send me, the opinion I expressed was that they furnished testimonials of your familiarity with the languages in which they were...
137From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas G. Watkins, 16 October 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved in due time your letter from Lexington—where it mentioned you had been for some weeks, and should still be for some time attending a lawsuit. the uncertainty when it might find you prevented an acknolegement at the time. that of Sep. 27. now lets us know you are at Jonesborough. that you should have met with enemies and backbiters is the lot of all men, and of talents especially....
138Thomas Jefferson to Thomas L. McKenney, 2 July 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to mr M c Kenny for the kind expressions of his note of June 26. but age, debility and for his attention in sending him a copy of his Prospectus . but age, debility and an aversion to politics have for some time withdrawn him from every thing of that character. he reads but one newspaper , and that of his own state , and for the sake of the advertisements...
139Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 19 November 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Oct. 25. was recieved here on the 4 th inst. my colle a gue of superintendance lives but 30. miles from me: but it is across the country, & by zig-zag cross posts which have retarded the reciept of his answer till yesterday. your letter was communicated to him and he concurs with me in accepting all it’s proposition which you may therefore consider as established, as we do your...
140From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Willis White, 7 January 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
The copy of Baxter’s history which is in the Library of Congress cannot possibly be borrowed. it is against the law establishing their library. but you might get it from London, within 4. months, thro’ any importing merchant or bookseller of Richmond. There is a new work in Law published in England, which will be of extensive sale in this country among the Lawyers. it is a Digest of Coke...
141Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 9 April 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Leschot of Charlottesville going on to Philadelphia , we charge him with a sum of money, sufficient as we suppose to pay for the 5 stoves. should we undercalculate the amount the dealer in these articles will surely trust us for what it may be deficient on my assurance that it shall be remitted as soon as k nown. he must put them, in proper condition, on board some vessel bound to Richmond...
142Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 9 March 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Feb. 14. came to hand on the 3 d inst. with the Address to the Medical board, which I read with the pleasure I recieve from every exhortation for the advancement of science. the other printed paper gave me deep concern. the first obstacle to science in this country is that the means of promoting it are at the sole disposal of those who do not know it’s value. but a second, a...
143Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Appleton, 3 September 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I write to you from an occasional, but very distant residence from Monticello , which place I left the 13 th of July . the two Raggis had arrived at the University about a week before that, which time I employed in getting them placed comfortably, and prepared to begin work. they have desired me to remit to you 300.D. to wit 150. each for his respective wife. I have accordingly directed the...
144Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 23 September 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday evening your’s of the 15 16 th inst. by which I percieve mine of the 1 st had not then reached you. but you would certainly recieve it very soon after that date, and the two have such bearings on one another, that it strengthens the hope you will find it expedient to come on here as I proposed to you. on a view of all circumstances you will be enabled here to make up your...
145From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 28 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor covering one from a Lottery office offering it’s services for the management of that lately permitted to me. I have for some years been obliged by age and ill health to resign the care of all my affairs to my grandson Th: J. R. who accdly acts for me with full powers in all cases. that of the lottery particularly has been entirely left to him so that I know...
146Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Thomas G. Watkins, [ca. 1 March 1820] (Jefferson Papers)
M r Jefferson To T G Watkins D r D s Cts 1819 Oct. 19 Visit early in morn attendance untill afternoon advice & c
147Enclosure: List of Wine and Food Ordered from Stephen Cathalan by Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Jefferson Randolph, [ca. 6 … (Jefferson Papers)
Vin de Perpignan de M. Durand . 100. gallons, en double futaille . Vin de Ledanon . 100. bottles. say, one hundred. Vin de Nice de Bellet. 200. bottles. say, two hundred. best Olive oil. 5. gallons in bottles. Maccaroni 100. ℔. Raisins. 50. ℔. those of Smyrna, sans pepins , would be preferred. Anchovies. 1. doz. bottles. the above are for
148Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Eston Randolph, 24 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I mentioned to you some days ago that I had a note in the bank of the US. for 1000.D. which I was notified at the time must be paid up at it’s term, and could not be renewed. as I sent it with a blank date to be filled on the day of actual discount, I do not know the precise day it is due, but I know it is between the 1 st & 7 th of July. for this I have no earthly resource but the balance due...
149Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Lehré, 20 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I am thankful to you for your favor of the 9 th inst. and particularly so to my friends who think me worth their recollections. entirely withdrawn from all attention to public affairs and seeking the rest, which age now renders indispensable, I still see with pleasure the republican principles of our constitution so generally prevalent, as to give me confidence in their permanency and that...
150From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Shore, 2 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, kind Sir, for your very friendly letter of Feb. 22. it supposes in me claims on the attentions of my country to which I have no pretentions. I happened to be born in times which required from all it’s citizens, every service they could render, and gave full value to even the smallest service which any could render. those within the reach of my faculties have been fully remunerated...