183201From Thomas Jefferson to St. George Tucker, 10 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of June 14 came to hand some time ago, and nothing but a load of business has prevented my sooner acknoleging it. No person on earth heard with more sincere regret the tales which were the subject of it, no body lamented more the torture thro’ which their victim must have passed. For myself, when placed under the necessity of deciding in a case where on one hand is a young and...
183202From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Hare, 12 March 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
We have been some time preparing buildings for an University in this state, and we have now a prospect of being able to open it with the beginning of the next year. it’s Chemical school will need an Apparatus adapted to the course of experiments necessary in that school. it is necessary therefore for us to provide these in time, and it must probably be from Europe. but what they are I know...
183203Nathaniel F. Moore to Thomas Jefferson, 31 August 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Knowing, as I do, your attachment to the cause of letters in general, and the particular interest you feel in whatever is connected with their advancement here in our own country, I do not doubt you will receive with indulgence even the little pamphlet of which I take the liberty to enclose a copy—Its subject is one, which interests so few persons in this country, that if I would have readers...
183204To Thomas Jefferson from William Temple Franklin, 1 August 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I was not in Town when your Letter of the 25th. July arrived: but according to the Directions I had left, it was opened and shew’d to Mr. Leiper; who has, I find, in consequence thereof, and in order to accommodate you as much as possible, sent his Master Carpenter to New-York to receive your Directions relative to the Augmentation you wish to the house. This I have much approved of, as it...
183205To Benjamin Franklin from François-Louis Allamand, 20 December 1778 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Le caractère de franchise & de probité dont Vous faites profession, & que votre Nom méme semble promettre, me fait esperer que vous voudrés bien repondre nettement & precisement aux Questions suivantes 1° Un Peuple est il autorisé devant à secouer le joug de son Souverain pour un interet fort leger en comparaison de ce qu’il Lui en coute, & du peril où il...
183206[Diary entry: 5 November 1787] (Washington Papers)
Monday 5th. Thermometer at 48 in the Morning—58 at Noon and 56 at Night. But little Wind, clear & pleasant all day. Mr. & Mrs. Powell remaining here I continued at home all day.
183207List of Names From Whence to Take a Minister for France, [19 May 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
Georgia Nathaniel Pendleton (District Judge) Baldwin S Carolina J Rutlege E Rutlege CC Pinkney Pinkney (late Governor) North Carolina Virginia T. Jefferson J Madison Mc. Clurgh } Principles as to FR unknown J Marshall E Randolph Henry Lee Maryland
183208From Alexander Hamilton to Alexander Thompson, 18 September 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your lette r of the seventeenth of July, and shall be happy to give every facility in my power to the passage of Mrs. Thompson & her family to Niagara—I do not know that any opportunity of the kind you mention will speedily occur—but should it be the case I shall not fail to comply with your request—With respect to your meeting Mrs. Thompson at Albany or Schenectady I can not...
183209Virginia Delegates in Congress to Benjamin Harrison, 22 March 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
We inclose to your Excellency by the bearer Mr. McAlister an Exemplification of the deed of Cession executed according to the directions of the act of assembly transmitted us, and have the honor to be with very high respect Your Excellency’s Most obedt. & most humble servt. Text from facsimile in Amer. Art Assoc. Catalogue, Turner-Munn Sale, 21–22 Jan. 1926, Lot 271, where it is erroneously...
183210From Benjamin Franklin to Jonathan Shipley, 14 December 1771 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Yale University Library Hearing that your Lordship had called in Cravenstreet during my Absence, I went next Day to your House hoping to find the Family there, but was mortified with the Information of your being still at Twyford. I should have thank’d you before for your kind Letters in my favour to the Primate and Mr. Jackson. The Primate was at Armagh, and did not come to Dublin ’till...