5881Thomas Jefferson to the Citizens of Richmond, 22 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The expressions of esteem & approbation with which I am a ddressed, by the meeting of the citizens of Richmond , through yourself as their org an, and the testimonies of respect with which they have been pleased to welcome my visit to the metropolis of my native state, are highly flat tering to me, and I pray you to convey to them, & to accept for yourself, the assurances of my great...
5882Thomas Jefferson to John Austin, 20 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
After congratulating you, which I do sincerely, on your continuance in life & good health, I have to add that I am at this place, engaged in the settlement of the accounts between mr Wayles & Bathurst Skelton ’s estates. a considerable article of debet in the accounts of mr Wayles is for the rebuilding the Tob o house & quarters on the island after the great fresh. I think there is nobody now...
5883Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 11 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I do not know whether the request of M. Moussier , explained in the inclosed letter , is grantable or not. but my partialities in favor of whatever may promote either the useful or liberal arts, induce me to place it under your consideration, to do in it whatever is right, neither more nor less. I would then ask you to favor me with three lines in such form as I may forward him by way of...
5884Thomas Jefferson to William Thornton, 11 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you a thousand thanks for the fine pair of sheep you have sent me. they arrived in perfect health & so continue and will I trust enable me to get into that breed entirely. I am also well pleased to learn both the manner & success with which you have commenced the removing the tail, for I really believe it must be practised, however heterodox to the sex it may appear to consider that...
5885Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 10 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
According to my letter of the 8 th I had yesterday given to mr Woods our sheriff an order on you for the amount of my taxes 69. D 67 C something less than I had expected. last night I recieved my quarterly account & found that in the estimate I had made of my funds in your hands I had lost sight of the 240.D. interest on my note. not immediately prepared to make a new provision for my taxes I...
5886Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 10 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Aug. 28. came duly to hand, and I congratulate you on the succesful completion of your great arch of the Senate chamber as well as that of the Hall of Justice. I have no doubt you will finish those rooms so as to be worthy counterparts of that of the Representatives. it would give me pleasure to learn that Congress will consent to proceed on the Middle building. I think that the...
5887Thomas Jefferson to John Milledge, 10 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved from M. Thouin , Director of the National garden of France a collection of many different species of rice. whether any of them possess any properties which might render them preferable to those we possess, either generally, or on under particular circumstances of soil or climate I know not. but the scripture precept of ‘prove all things & hold fast that which is good’ is...
5888To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 9 October 1809 (Madison Papers)
I recieved last night yours of the 6th. & now return mr. Dupont’s letter. At a time when I had a hope that Virginia would establish an University I asked of mr. Dupont & Dr. Priestly to give me their ideas on the best division of the useful sciences into Professorships. The latter did it concisely; but Dupont wrote an elaborate treatise on education which I still possess. After I saw that...
5889Thomas Jefferson to William Fontaine, 9 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night only your favor of Sep. 16. by that I percieve you are uneasy at something which you suppose to have passed from yourself here and which you now review with dissatisfaction. to what you allude I have no conception. certainly I did not remark a word or an act but of the strictest propriety. the same easy conduct & pleasant frank conversation which has ever made a part of...
5890Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 9 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night yours of the 6 th & now return mr Dupont’s letter. at a time when I had a hope that Virginia would establish an University I asked of mr Dupont & D r Priestly to give me their ideas on the best division of the useful sciences into Professorships: the latter did it concisely; but Dupont wrote an elaborate treatise on education which I still possess. after I saw that...
5891Thomas Jefferson to Joel Barlow, 8 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
It is long since I ought to have acknoleged the reciept of your most excellent oration on the 4 th of July. I was doubting what you could say, equal to your own reputation, on so hackneyed a subject. but you have really risen out of it with lustre, and pointed to others a field of great expansion. a day or two after I recieved your letter to Bishop Gregoire a copy of his diatribe to you came...
5892Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 8 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Tomorrow being the last day fixed by our sheriff’s for the reciept of the taxes of the year, I shall draw on you in their favor for the amount of mine, being somewhere about 70.D. this will be in one or two draughts at their convenience & paiable at sight. I know there cannot remain as much of my last remittance as will meet this sum, but I am in daily expectation of recieving a sum which will...
5893Thomas Jefferson to George Sullivan, 8 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the reciept of your favor of Sep. 15. the most interesting enquiries for us respecting the French spinning machine are 1. whether, when adjusted for spinning wool, cotton, & flax, it is as simple as the former spinning machines? 2. whether it requires, as they do any & what preparatory machines, such as for carding, roving E t c 3. whether they can be made on a small scale...
5894Thomas Jefferson to John Adlum, 7 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
While I lived in Washington , a member of Congress from your state (I do not recollect which) presented me with two bottles of wine made by you, one of which, of Madeira colour, he said was entirely factitious, the other, a dark red wine was made from a wild or native grape, called in Maryland the Fox grape, but very different from what is called by that name in Virginia . this was a very fine...
5895Thomas Jefferson to Isaac Riley, 7 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of Sep. 29. proposing to publish a new edition of the Notes on Virginia , and asking for such additions as I might wish to make. I have long intended to prepare an enlarged edition of that work; with such additions & corrections as information & experience might enable me to make: and I have been laying by materials from time to time, as they occurred, for that...
5896Thomas Jefferson to William Eustis, 6 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Sollicited by a poor man in an adjoining county who states his case in the inclosed letter, & truly, as far as I can learn, I take the liberty of putting it under cover to you, in the hope you will be so good as to put it into the hands of the proper clerk, that whatever is right may be done, &, if nothing can be done, that the clerk may certify the grounds, so as to inform the applicant & put...
5897Thomas Jefferson to John Minor, 6 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have executed a deed to Richard Tompkins as you desired, and acknoleged it at our last court, of which I inclose you a certificate. the substance of the deed was a conveyance to him of all the right & title vested in me and which I might convey lawfully & without injury to the rights of others. it is without warranty even against my own acts done heretofore, for I had totally forgotten that...
5898Thomas Jefferson to John Smith (1750-1836), 6 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I am desirous of sowing largely the next spring a kind of grass called Tall meadow oat, or Oat-grass, and sometimes, erroneously Peruvian grass, which I am told is much cultivated about Winchester , but cannot be had here. I have flattered myself I could so far make free with your friendship as to ask you to procure for me about a couple of bushels to be put into a tight barrel & forwarded to...
5899Thomas Jefferson to Samuel R. Demaree, 4 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Aug. 22. was not recieved till the 20 th of Sep. and I undertake with chearfulness to send you a catalogue of the best books I am acquainted with on the subjects stated in your letter. having lately made out one for some gentlemen who have associated themselves to join contributions & to purchase a library for their common use, I cannot do better than send you a copy of what was...
5900Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Supplemental List of Recommended Books, [ca. 4 October 1809] (Jefferson Papers)
Pike’s arithmetic. 8 vo Simpson’s Algebra. 8 vo Emerson’s fluxions 8 vo Simpson’s Euclid 4 to Gibson’s surveying. 8
5901Thomas Jefferson to Valentín de Foronda, 4 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Aug. 26. came to hand in the succeeding month and I have now to thank you for the pamphlet it contained. I have read it with pleasure, and find the constitution proposed would probably be as free as is consistent with hereditary institutions. it has one feature which I like much; that which provides that when the three co-ordinate branches differ in their construction of the...
5902Thomas Jefferson to Robert Quarles, 4 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sorry it is not in my power to give you any information how far the making a dam across the Rivanna might interfere with the rights of the James river company . having been absent from the state almost continually for 25. years, I am become quite uninformed of it’s laws, not having even a copy of them. my dam affords no precedent, it’s rights being prior to those of the company. my mill &...
5903Thomas Jefferson to John Wyche, 4 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Sep. 7. came to hand about a fortnight ago, & I have taken the first sufficient portion of time I have had at my command to make a catalogue of such select books as you desired on the subjects of history, natural philosophy & agriculture, which I now inclose you. I have added a general estimate of their amount. this goes beyond the sum mentioned as the amount of your funds; but...
5904Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s List of Recommended Books, [ca. 4 October 1809] (Jefferson Papers)
History Diodorus Siculus . Justin Herodotus by Littlebury 2. v. 8 vo Thucydides by Smith . 2. v. 4 to [perhaps there may be an 8 vo edition] Xenophon ’s Hellenics.
5905Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn and Elbridge Gerry, 2 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer of this is mr Thomas M. Randolph half brother of my son in law of that name whom you know. he is proceeding to Harvard college to enter there as a student. having lived at a distance from me, I can say little of him from my personal knolege, but I am authorised by those in whom I have confidence to say that he is a youth of good dispositions & correct conduct. his father was my most...
5906Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph (1792–1848), 2 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Sep. 15. came to hand only yesterday. I hasten therefore to inclose you letters to my two most particular friends Gen l Dearborne & mr Gerry . the latter lives at Cambridge . Gen l Dearborne lives, I believe, three miles from Boston , but comes to his office in town probably every day or two. wishing you a pleasant journey & profitable residence there, I salute you with esteem &...
5907Thomas Jefferson to John W. Campbell, 1 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of Sep. 19. and being about commencing a journey which will keep me from home some time, I answer it immediately. I think you have done well to restrict your intentions to the Summary view, Reports as Secretary of state & Messages to Congress . as I do not know that a copy of the Summary view can now be found any where else, I send you a volume of the pamphlets...
5908Thomas Jefferson to William W. Hening, 1 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to the request expressed in your’s of Sep. 4. (which came to hand only this morning) that I would transcribe a line or two of the first act in my copy of the laws of 1660. I have to observe that the only copy of those laws I possessed was one made by myself from that in the office of the general assembly, and that it was among those I sent you & described under N o 4. in the list I...
5909Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Macomb, 1 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Maj r Macomb and returns his thanks for the copy of his treatise on Martial law which he was so kind as to send him, & which he was pleased to see made public in so well digested a form. he has too long delayed this acknolegement from a desire to learn to what place it should be directed; but has at length thought it best to send it through the medium...
5910Thomas Jefferson to Robert Patterson, 1 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Lambert does not, in the inclosed letter , say precisely that he meant it as a communication to the Philosophical society , yet from a particular expression in it, I think it was his idea. I send it to you therefore to be made such use of as the you think proper, and of which you are the best judge. I salute you with constant esteem & respect. RC ( PPAmP : APS Archives, Manuscript...