2691Thomas Jefferson to Simeon Theus, 20 February 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday only your favor of Jan. 22 . and two days before had written a letter on the subject of the wine mentioned in your letter addressed to ‘The Collector for the district of Charleston .’ after so long a retirement from the knolege of what is passing, I did not know who might be now in office there. your letter was therefore the more acceptable as evidence that you were still...
2692Thomas Jefferson to Charles K. Mallory, 23 February 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 17 th came to hand yesterday. I had, two days before, addressed a letter , on the subject of these packages of wine to mr Starke of your office, with whom I had had occasion to exchange a letter in Oct. on another article. I learn from yours now before me , that you had been so kind as to anticipate my request to him, and to forward the cases to mess rs Gibson & Jefferson...
2693Thomas Jefferson to Philip I. Barziza, 24 February 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 14 th came to hand last night. letters from mr Thweatt and mr Baker of the House of Representatives , and mr Cabell of the Senate (whose attention I had asked to see justice done you) had informed me that the legislature had declined acting on your case, as one which belonged to the courts of justice. my hope had been that they would give to you any right which might have...
2694Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Law, 24 February 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
The enrolment of my name among those of the members of the Columbian Institute is an honor which I recieve with the acknolegements it so justly calls for. I place it to the account of their kindness, and not of any services I can now render them. age and it’s effects forbid me that expectation, and teach me that it is not among the ruins of memory that new materials for science are to be...
2695Thomas Jefferson to Hutchins G. Burton, 28 February 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 4 th was recieved yesterday evening only; and I hasten to return my thanks for the trouble you have in endeavoring to procure me some of the Scupernong wine. a quarter cask of it would be very desirable; and to be sent to the address of Mess rs Gibson and Jefferson my correspondents at Richmond , which is my only convenient deposit. from thence we have water carriage direct...
2696Thomas Jefferson to Madame de Corny, 2 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
It had been so long, my very dear and antient friend, since I had heard any thing of you thro’ any channel, that I had become uncertain whether you might still be among the living. I have been relieved from that incertitude by the request of mr and mrs Derby to give them a letter to you, informing me at the same time that they had one for you from mrs Cruger . I give it therefore readily in...
2697Thomas Jefferson to George Washington Jeffreys, 3 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Feb. 17. came to hand two days ago. I wish it were more in my power to fulfill the request of furnishing you with a full and compleat catalogue for an Agricultural library. for this first and and most useful of all human arts and sciences I have had from earliest life the strongest partiality. yet such have been the circumstances of the times in which I have happened to live that...
2698Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Catalogue of Books on Agriculture, [ca. 3 March 1817] (Jefferson Papers)
Geoponica Bassi. Niclasii. Lipsiae . 1781. Gr. Lat. 2. v. 8 vo Owen ’s translation of the Geoponics. Eng. 2. v. 8 vo Scriptores rei rusticae veteres. [ Cato, Varro , Columella , Palladius .] the edition published at Leipsic by Schneider
2699Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Early Career (the so-called “Autobiography”), 6 January–29 July 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
[ Ed. Note : During the first seven months of 1821, TJ composed a lengthy description of his early political life. He began writing on 6 January and returned to the work on at least sixteen subsequent days before finally laying down his pen in the summer. TJ did not provide the resulting ninety-three-page manuscript with a title. It was first published in 1829 as his “Memoir” ( TJR Thomas...