16141Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 17 May 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I present to you mr Rives , the bearer of this, an eleve of mine in law and politics. he is able, learned, honest, & orthodox in his principles. being just about to enter on the stage of public life he wishes first to see something more of our country at large. he will be one of the distinguished men of our state , & of the United States . in taking him by the hand while in Boston you will...
16142Thomas Jefferson to John Langdon, 17 May 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I present to you mr Rives , an eleve of mine in law and politics: honest, able, learned, & true in the holy republican gospel. bestow on him your native kindness, not only for the gratification of your own benevolent dispositions, but to shew him the degree of estimation in which you hold your RC ( DLC : William C. Rives Papers); addressed: “The honorable John Langdon Portsmouth by mr Rives.”...
16143Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 17 May 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed paper came to me for I know not what purpose; as it came, just as you see it, without a scrip of a pen: perhaps that I might join in the sollicitation. Augustus Chouteau , the first signer, I always considered as the most respectable man of the territory , and the more valuable as he is a native. of the other signers I know nothing; and I know how easy it is to get signers to such...
16144Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 17 May 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer mr Rives , the son of one of our wealthiest citizens and of the neighboring county of Amherst , is an eleve of mine in law & politics. before he commences practice he wishes to visit the country North of us. an honester, abler, or better informed man could not be presented to you. make him sensible of my high estimation of him by the kind offices which you as my friend may render...
16145Thomas Jefferson to John F. Watson, 17 May 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I have long been a subscriber to the edition of the Edinburgh review first published by mr Sargeant , and latterly by Eastburn Kirk and co. and already possess from N o 30. to 42. inclusive; except that N os 31. & 37 never came to hand. these two and N o 29. I should be glad to recieve, with all subsequently published thro the channel of mess rs Fitzwhylson & Potter of Richmond , with whom I...
16146To John Adams from Thomas Jefferson, 18 May 1814 (Adams Papers)
This will be handed you by mr Rives a young gentleman of this state and my neighborhood. he is an eleve of mine in law, of uncommon abilities, learning and worth. when you and I shall be at rest with our friends of 1776. he will be in the zenith of his fame and usefulness. before entering on his public career he wishes to visit our sister states and would not concieve he had seen any thing of...
16147Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 18 May 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be handed you by mr Rives a young gentleman of this state and my neighborhood. he is an eleve of mine in law, of uncommon abilities, learning and worth. when you and I shall be at rest with our friends of 1776. he will be in the zenith of his fame and usefulness. before entering on his public career he wishes to visit our sister states and would not concieve he had seen any thing of...
16148Thomas Jefferson to Daniel D. Tompkins, 18 May 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Altho’ I have not had the honor of a personal acquaintance with you, yet our respective public duties have heretofore produced an intercourse of letters which rendering us not entire strangers furnish the grounds of addressing this letter to you. it will be handed by mr Rives , a young gentleman of this state, an eleve of mine in the law, of great abilities, learning and worth, and one who...
16149Thomas Jefferson to Francis Corbin, 20 May 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Apr. 30. was re is just recieved and conveys the first information of the death of mrs Paradise . it finds me on the eve of a journey of length, on which I shall be a month absent, and the preparations for which permit me only to give you my first thoughts on the subject of your letter. I happen to possess an outline of the marriage settlement between mr and mrs Paradise ,...
16150Thomas Jefferson to Abraham Small, 20 May 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the copy of the American Speaker which you have been so kind as to send me . it is a judicious selection of what has been excellently spoken on both sides of the Atlantic ; and according to your request I willingly add some suggestions should another edition be called for. to the speeches of L d Chatham might be added his reply to Horace Walpole on the Seamen’s bill in the H....
16151Thomas Jefferson to Joseph H. Nicholson, 21 May 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for making me acquainted with mr M c Culloch . he staid with me but part of a day. but that was sufficient to let me see that he was capable, well informed and modest. he left us on the 18 th for the Natural bridge , from whence he intended to return, and to postpone for a while his Western expedition. I recieve the kind expressions of your letter with sensibility & gratification,...
16152Thomas Jefferson to George Creager, 28 May 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved your letter of May 10. just as I was setting out on a journey, from the end of which I write this. I am sorry you have been taken in as you mention by M c Kinney , and by a recommendation having my name undersigned. be assured that I never signed such a paper, nor ever saw it, we have been decieved in mr M c Kinney as you have been, and I have lost upwards of 1000. Dollars by him,...
16153Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 6 June 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I have for some time been sensible I should be detained here longer than I had expected, but could not till now judge how long. Chisolm will finish his work in about 10. days, and it is very essential that I should see the walls covered with their plates, that they may be in a state of preservation. this will keep me 3. or 4. days longer, so that I expect to be here still about a fortnight...
16154Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 9 June 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been here a fortnight, and am likely to continue a fortnight longer, and therefore not in a situation to hear any thing about the price or prospect for flour. but I see nothing which promises such a change for the better as makes it advisable to keep what we have on th h and, on the contrary a competition with the new crop will soon lessen our chance of selling the old. I would...
16155Thomas Jefferson to William Thornton, 9 June 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your kindness has emboldened me, whenever I want information of what relates to the arts, to apply to you, and especially when for an object deposited in your office. the inclosed description of Janes ’s improvement of the loom has excited my attention. that the force of the stroke of the batton should also move the shuttle and treadles is certainly practicable by proper machinery; but we who...
16156Thomas Jefferson to Elizabeth Trist, 10 June 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
My visits to this place, considered as a halfway-house, rekindle the desire of bringing myself to your recollection, and afford me at the same time more leisure to do so. I left all your friends at Monticello well, and the happier that mr Randolph had resigned his military commission. at Farmington not so much health: mrs Divers generally indisposed; and mr Divers has been all the winter, and...
16157Thomas 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...
16158Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Law, 13 June 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
The copy of your Second thoughts on Instinctive impulses with the letter accompanying it , was recieved just as I was setting out on a journey to this place, two or three days distant from Monticello . I brought it with me, and read it with great satisfaction; and with the more, as it contained exactly my own creed on the foundation of morality in man. it is really curious that, on a question...
16159Thomas Jefferson to Christopher Clark, 21 June 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
The road which now leads thro’ the middle of my land from Abner Callaway’s to Johnson’s , a distance of 3 miles–32 po., and the branch of it leading from the Double branches of Bear creek up into the other 162 po.–15 links in all 3 mi.–192 po. will occasion me upwards of 7. miles of fencing, when we shall have cleared up to it on both sides, as the quality of the land on both sides the whole...
16160Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Robertson, 21 June 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
My flour of the last year being still unsold, I have said nothing to you yet on the subject of a payment out of it. but I have desired mr Gibson not to keep it on hand after the last of this month, but to take whatever he can then get for it. what that will be I know not: tho’ probably but little, and the drought of the last summer reduced the quantity one half. the same cause having destroyed...
16161Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 22 June 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to you from hence on the 9 th instant , requesting that my flour might not be kept on hand after this month, as the competition of the new crop would influence the sale of it. the prospect either of a peace in which we shall be included, or at least a continental peace which will open all the continent of Europe to our produce in neutral vessels may I hope give a spur to prices, tho’...
16162Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Robertson, 22 June 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Having some plantation debts to discharge here amounting to about 240.D. I have this day written to mr Gibson to remit it that sum and believing it would come safer under your address than if inclosed to mr Goodman directly, I have taken the liberty of desiring mr Gibson to inclose it to you, & have to ask the favor of you to recieve, and pay it when recieved to the order of Jeremiah A....
16163Thomas Jefferson to Baring Brothers & Company, 28 June 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Gen l Kosciuzko of Paris having a deposit in the banks & funds of the US. and depending considerably for his ordinary expences on the regular remittance of the interest and dividends, has been subjected to great inconveniences by the difficulties proceeding from the circumstances of the general war, and especially for the last year or two. we have embraced the first moment of the peace of...
16164Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 28 June 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
After an absence of five weeks, I returned home the day before yesterday, and found here your favors of May 18. & 24. & June 16. and 22. I am much rejoiced that you have been able to compleat the sale of Gen l Kosciuzko’s Pensylva bank stock, and to transfer it to the new loan of the US. there I know it will be safer than in any deposit on earth and will place him beyond those risks which...
16165Thomas Jefferson to Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 28 June 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Jan. 24. has been recieved and has realised the fears we had for some time entertained that you would be suffering from the failure of the annual remittance from hence. mr Barnes had been constant in his endeavors to find some channel of remittance: but from the embargo & blockade and consequent cessation of nearly all intercourse with Europe , it had been absolutely...
16166Thomas Jefferson to Robert Mills, [28] June 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Mills and his acknolegements for the copy sent him of the annual exhibition of the Columbian society of artists . he congratulates him on the success which seems likely to attend the instituti on and is particularly thankful to mr Mills for these repeat ed proofs of his personal attentions. he salutes him with grea t esteem and respect. PoC ( DLC
16167Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Delaplaine, 29 June 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to M r Delaplaine & willingly becomes a subscriber to the publication stated in the Prospectus sent him. he presumes there will be some agent within this state who can recieve the subscription money, the difficulty of making remittances of small & fractional sums to a distance & in a paper recievable there being a principal obstruction to these...
16168Thomas Jefferson to James Mease, 29 June 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return home after an absence of five weeks, I find here your letter of May 24. of the history of the Hughes’s crab apple I can furnish nothing more than that I remember it well upwards of 60. years ago, & that it was then a common apple on James river . of the other apple after which you enquire I happen to know the origin. it is not a crab, but a seedling which grew alone in a l ar ge...
16169Thomas Jefferson to Robert Patterson, 29 June 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed paper came to my hand for communication to the Philosophical society as you will percieve by it’s contents. this I beg leave to do thro’ you, and to avail myself of this as of every occasion of assuring you of my friendship & respect. RC ( PPAmP : Thomas Jefferson Papers); addressed: “Doct r Robert Patterson Philadelphia”; franked; postmarked Milton , 30 June. PoC ( MHi ); with...
16170Thomas Jefferson to John Wilson, 29 June 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Wilson & his thanks for the copy of his Philological entertainments which he has been so kind as to send him. with wishes for the success of his efforts to reconcile the orthography & pronunciation of our language he salutes him with great respect. PoC ( MoSHi : TJC-BC ); dateline beneath body of letter; at foot of text: “M r John Wilson...