5851From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 27 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honour to inclose to the President his letter to G. Morris, to which he will add any thing the President pleases by way of Postscript or by incorporating it into the letter.—A ship sailing from hence for Havre on Monday Th: J. proposes to send his letters for France by that rather than by the French packet. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President of the U. S.”...
5852From Thomas Jefferson to John Macpherson, 28 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your letter of this day with the papers it contained, and gave the hasty perusal which my occupations would permit to so much of them as served to shew me it was the case of a variance between father and son, which I sincerely lament, but wish to be left ignorant of the facts or faults which may have produced it. If my recommendation of mutual forgiveness and union, or at...
5853From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 28 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I this moment recieve yours of the 26th. The sugar of which you inclose a sample would by no means answer my purpose, which was to send it to Monticello, in order, by a proof of it’s quality, to recommend attention to the tree to my neighbors.—In my letter of yesterday I forgot to tell you there is a brig here to sail for Halifx in 10. days. She is under repair, and therefore may possibly...
5854From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 28 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my last I have received Letters from you as follows. No. 59 March 4. received June 21. No. 63 April 8 received July 8. 60 ” 11 ” ” 21. 64 ” 25 ” ” 23. 61 ” 12 ”
5855From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 28 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
My last private letter to you was of Mar. 16. Yours to me recieved since that date have been of Nov. 7. Dec. 29. Jan. 17. Feb. 18. Mar. 30. Apr. 26. May 2. Young Osmont arrived here safely, and is living with Colo. Biddle in a mercantile line. He appears to me a young man of extraordinary prudence. I am endeavoring to help him in the case of his purchase of le Tonnelier, if the latter had any...
5856From Thomas Jefferson to Lewis Littlepage, 29 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I am to acknowledge the reciept of your favor of March 5. and to thank you for the view of European politics it conveyed. With respect to the letter of Feb. 25. 1790. which you mention to have written to the President, he authorises me to assure you he never recieved that or any other from you. It is most probable it was intercepted either in it’s passage from you to M. de la Fayette, or from...
5857From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 30 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honour to inclose for your perusal a letter which I have prepared for Mr. Short. The ill humour into which the French colonies are getting, and the little dependance on the troops sent thither, may produce a hesitation in the National assembly as to the conditions they will impose in their constitution. In a moment of hesitation small matters may influence their decision. They may...
5858From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Carter, 31 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
On the reciept of your favour of the 17th. I applied to Mr. Willing, President of the bank, to answer your enquiry as to loans of money on a deposit of lands. He assured me it was inadmissible by the laws of their institution.—From subsequent enquiries and information here I am the more confirmed in my opinion of the superior advantages of Edinburgh for the study of physic, and also in point...
5859From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson, 31 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The last letter I have from you, my dear Maria, was of the 29th. of May. which is 9 weeks ago. Those which you ought to have written the 19th. of June and 10th. of July would have reached me before this if they had been written.—I mentioned in my letter of the last week to your sister that I had sent off some stores to Richmond which I should be glad to have carried to Monticello in the course...
5860From Thomas Jefferson to William Linn, 31 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I am to return you my thanks for the copy of the sermon you were so good as to send me, which I have perused with very great pleasure. It breathes that spirit of pure fraternity which exists in nature among all religions, and would make the ornament of all: and with the blessings we derive from religious liberty, makes us also sensible how highly we ought to value those of a temporal nature...
5861[From Thomas Jefferson to James McHenry, 31 July 1791] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Philadelphia, 31 July 1791 . “Will Dr. McHenry do Thomas Jefferson the favour to make one of a small committee of friends to dine tomorrow at half after three? Sunday July 31, 1791.” MS sold at City Book Auction Sale No. 420, 18 Sep. 1948, lot 84. Not found and not recorded in SJL.]
5862From Thomas Jefferson to Fulwar Skipwith, 31 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 20th. has come duly to hand, and with my congratulations on your safe arrival in your own country, am sorry to mix expressions of concern that your position in the West Indies has turned out the contrary of your expectations. The events indeed which have happened in France and it’s dependances are such as could not have been calculated on. But whilst I participate sincerely...
5863From Thomas Jefferson to James Sullivan, 31 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Mr. Sullivan and thanks him for the perusal of the pamphlet he was so kind as to send him. He sees with great pleasure every testimony to the principles of pure republicanism; and every effort to preserve untouched that partition of the sovereignty which our excellent constitution has made, between the general and particular governments. He is firmly...
5864From Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Burwell, 1 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Being to write shortly to Mr. Paradise I should be very happy to be able to hand him any information with respect to the prospect of raising money to pay his debts. You know there was some hope from the cutting and selling of timber. Is this likely to be realised? I recollect he had a considerable sum of public paper. As I am on the spot where the science in that line is mathematically exact,...
5865From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 2 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Sep. 3. 1790. came to hand Dec. 15. and that of Apr. 12. is just recieved. I inclose you a letter from Dohrman forwarded me by Mr. Madison from New York. He thinks that Dohrman’s expectations of making payment, within any short time, are not to be counted on, but that the land mortgaged is a solid security for the debt ultimately.—I inclose you a copy of Mr. Blair’s account. He...
5866From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 3 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favours of July 31. and Aug. 1. are recieved, but not that of the 30th. which was trusted to a private hand. Having discovered on Friday evening only that I had not inclosed Coxe’s pamphlet, I sent it off immediately to the post office. However I suppose it did not leave this place till the post of Monday nor get to your hands till Tuesday evening. Colo. Lee is here still, and gives me...
5867From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, [3 August 1791] (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President a note of such articles as he supposes will be interesting to Mr. Young, so far as he is enabled to do it with some degree of certainty. RC ( DLC : Washington Papers); undated, but date is established from that on enclosure and from entry in SJL reading: “[Aug.] 3. Washington Presidt. for Young.”
5868Enclosure: Notes on Virginia Lands, 3 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The writer hereof is best acquainted with that tract of land which crosses Virginia from North East to South-West by the names of the Bull-run mountains, South-West mountains and Green mountains, and is generally 6 or 8 miles wide, one half of which is the mountain itself and therefore steep; the residue lies at the foot on each side, in large waving hills, perfectly accessible to the plough....
5869III. Appointment of Philip Freneau as Clerk, 16 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Department of state of the United States. Philip Freneau is hereby appointed Clerk for foreign languages in the office of Secretary of State with a salary of two hundred and fifty dollars a year, to commence from the time he shall take the requisite oaths of qualification. Given under my hand this 16th day of August. 1791. MS ( DLC ); entirely in TJ’s hand, containing on verso certificate of...
5870V. Thomas Jefferson to Gabriel Henno, 4 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Tho Your observations on manufactures came to my hands long ago, and were considered as entirely worthy of communication to the public, yet it is not till lately that I have been able to have them so communicated. I inclose you the gazettes containing them, wherein you will see that the printer has taken the liberty of omitting some passages which he considered as matter of embellishment...
5871VII. Thomas Jefferson to Philip Freneau, 13 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Thomas Jefferson sends to Mr. Frenau a list of persons in Charlottesville who have desired to receive his paper. This mail should go by the Friday morning’s post always, which will meet the Charlottesville post at Richmond on the Thursday evening following, and on Saturday the mail will be at Charlottesville. Thos. J. will pay Mr. Frenau the necessary advances as soon as he will be so good as...
5872VIII. Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Bell, 16 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Having learned by Mr. Randolph’s last letter th[at the] post to Charlottesville is now regularly established, I ha[ve given] in to Freneau the list of subscribers you sent me to wit— John Nicholas William Woods Thomas Bell Divers & Lindsay Nicholas Lewis junr. Isaac Miller
5873From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur St. Clair, 6 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of May 25th. to the Secretary of the Treasury with the copies it enclosed of one of May 23d. to Judge Symmes and of his answer to you of the same day, having been referred to me, I have now the honor to enclose you a letter to Judge Symmes on the subject of the settlements made on the Lands of the United States between his upper line and the little Miami, by persons claiming titles...
5874From Thomas Jefferson to John Cleves Symmes, 6 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Copies of Governor St. Clair’s Letter to you of May 23d. 1791, and of your answer of the same day to him, having been communicated to Government, it is perceived that sundry persons claiming titles under you have taken possession of Lands of the United States between the upper line of your Contract and the little Miami. As it is the duty and determination of the Executive to see that no...
5875From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Eppes, 7 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
A letter from Mazzei on the subject of Capt. Hylton’s debt to him obliges me to ask from you what I am to say to him on that subject. You told me formerly you hoped to get some money into your hands, and that you would secure it. I wrote this to him, and he sollicits your patronage. Is there an insolvency in Captn. Hylton’s affairs? If there is not, in whose hands is his property, and why...
5876From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 7 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of July 24. I acknowleged the reciept of yours of the 7th. which is the last letter I have had from Monticello. I presume you will have seen in the Virginia papers an advertisement of Aug. Davies’s on the subject of a post through Columbia and Charlottesville to Staunton. He writes me word he has no doubt of getting an undertaker to perform the ride once a week, so that I hope we...
5877From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 7 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honour to send for the President’s perusal, his letters to Govr. Sinclair and Judge Symmes: as also letters received from the postmaster at Richmond on the subject of the two cross posts. He has gone further as to that towards the South Western territory, than Th: J’s letter authorized, as he only submitted it to his enquiry and consideration whether a post along that...
5878From Thomas Jefferson to Christopher Gore, 8 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Having understood that the legislature of Massachusets some time ago ratified some of the amendments proposed by Congress to the Constitution, I am now to beg the favour of you to procure me an authentic copy of their proceedings therein, certified under the great seal of the state, letting me know at the same time the office charges for the copy, seal &c. which shall be remitted you. The...
5879From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Knox, 10 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have now the honor to return you the Petition of Mr. Moultrie on behalf of the South Carolina Yazoo Company. Without noticing that some of the highest functions of sovereignty are assumed in the very papers which he annexes as his justification, I am of opinion that Government should firmly maintain this ground, that the Indians have a right to the occupation of their Lands independent of...
5880From Thomas Jefferson to William Blount, 12 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of July 17. to General Knox, having been referred to me by the president, as relating to a subject merely civil, I have the pleasure to inform you of his consent to the absence you therein ask from the 15th. of September to the 20th. of November. As it imports highly to the people within your government to conform to the articles of the treaty against hunting or settling on the...