11Thomas Jefferson to Peter Minor, 20 November 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose an answer to your favor of the 10 th . should the Directors still dissent from my propositions, I should wish a personal conference with them, for there is no end to writing. the ground on which we stand now is simply this. 1. they ask the use of my dam, and perhaps to raise it. I answer, take it & use it: but if you endanger it by raising it, you must maintain it. 2. they ask the...
12Thomas Jefferson to Peter Minor, 18 November 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 10 th came to my hands the last night only, and I hasten to reply to it, being anxious to change my position from that of an obstacle, to a promoter of the object of the Directors . if I know myself, I wish nothing unjust, and I am more certain that the Directors do not, because they have no personal interest to blind them. if we have not the same opinions, it is because we...
13Thomas Jefferson to Peter Minor, 31 October 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I proceeded according to agreement to make notes of what I understood to be the intention of all parties on the day of our conference, but soon found it would be quite as easy to put them at once into their ultimate form, which I accordingly did & now inclose you , subject to the correction of the recollections of the other gentlemen. according to the best of mine there is but one article in...
14Thomas Jefferson to Peter Minor, 30 September 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
An accidental misplacing of the papers from the Directors of the Rivanna company , which I recieved thro’ you, & the never having been able to find them till yesterday, nor otherwise to know their contents (for I had not read the principal one) must be my apology for not having taken them into consideration till this moment. on reading their resolution of the 12 th instant it is a subject of...