1Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 18 January 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
You will percieve by mr Garret’s note that your signature is required to the inclosed copy of Kosciuzko’s will which accordingly I request; and it may be necessary to express a doubt whether a scroll instead of a real seal will be recieved out of this state. it will be safest to add a seal of wax or wafer. The literary board has decided that the monies allowed to the different counties for the...
2Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 18 December 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
It is my misfortune to be mistaken for a sturdy Mathematician. I was never but an Amateur, and long desuetude has lessened even the familiarity I once had with these subjects, and rendered it difficult for me to recall what I may have once known. be this as it may, this false reputation has made me a kind of Vortex into which the projects of our country are very much emptied. the views of...
3Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 9 April 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Cosby was so well recommended, & by friends I so much esteem, that I was anxious he should be engaged in some of the work for the University . but his terms compared with those of the very best workmen, rendered it impossible. he asked 2. D 50 C the thousand for place-brick work & 5.D. the thousand for oil stock, more than we have been enabled to get the whole work engaged for by others....
4Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 15 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 9 th was delivered by mr Cosby . you will have seen, by the advertisement I took the liberty of inclosing you, the ground on which these applications are placed. his success will depend on the terms he offers; and so far as character may decide in competitions otherwise equal, his cannot be on more favorable foundation than that of your recommendation and Chancellor Brown’s...
5Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 28 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Our fathers taught us an excellent maxim ‘never to put off to tomorrow what you can do to day.’ by some of their degenerate sons this has been reversed by never doing to-day what we can put off to tomorrow. for example I have been more than a year intending to send you a Merino ram, next week , and week after week it has been put off still to next week , which, like tomorrow, was never...
6Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 14 November 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
We have safely recieved the cask of timothy seed, as also the very excellent parcel of butter which you have been so kind as to send us; for which be pleased to accept my thanks, or perhaps I should more properly request you to tender them with my respects to mrs Stuart . You have, days since, seen the most excellent, rational & dignified message of the present president , & the documents...
7Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 14 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
In a letter to you of Aug. 8. I took the liberty of requesting you to procure for me some timothy seed to the amount of a 10. Dollar bill then inclosed. this being to replace some seed I borrowed in the spring from mr Divers , and the season now approaching for sowing it, I am induced to mention it again merely by the fear that perhaps my letter (which went by post) might not have got safely...
8Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 8 August 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I ask the favor of you to purchase for me as much fresh timothy seed as the inclosed bill will pay for, pack & forward, and that you will have the goodness to direct it to be lodged at mr Leitch’s store in Charlottesville by the waggoner who brings it. you see how bold your indulgencies make me in intruding on your kindness. I do not know that the government means to make known what has passed...
9Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 22 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I some time ago (in Jan.) took the liberty of putting a letter for Peter Derieux under cover to you, supposing he lived in the neighborhood of Staunton . I have just now rec d a letter from him dated Warrenton N.C. where it seems he is now settled. I have therefore to ask the favor of you to return the letter to me. A letter from Washington informs me that a vessel is arrived at N. York...
10Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 13 January 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Peter Derieux , to whom the inclosed letter is directed, lived some time since at the Sweet springs , but removed from thence, I never learned, with certainty, to what place, but it is believed here, to Staunton or it’s neighborhood. as in that case you will know something of him, and the letter being from his friends in France & therefore interesting to him, I take the liberty of putting...
11From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 22 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
A mr William Jenkings who lives 4. or 5. miles from the Natural bridge and whom I suppose to be a merchant, called on me two days ago to propose to purchase my lands at the bridge. I asked him some questions about the adjacent lands, in order to get his ideas of the value. he said the adjacent tract had been sold two or three times at about 10. D. & some of it as high as £4. the acre. I...
12From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 30 September 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
No special invitation can be necessary to satisfy you that you are a welcome guest here at all times & all hours. whenever your court rises by 3 aclock you can get here to our dinner; but at that or at any other day or hour convenient to yourself we shall always be glad to see you. ever & affectionately yours RC ( ViHi ); undated (see below); addressed: “The honble Judge Stewart...
13From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 5 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Caruthers, to whom I addressed the commission of Marshal for the Western district of Virginia, having been late in signifying his declining the office, some inconvenience may perhaps have arisen from the long vacancy. I have now proposed it to Colo. Andrew Moore with but little hope however of his acceptance. in case of his declining the two who stand most recommeded are a capt. Croudson...
14From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 25 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote on the 8th. inst. to ask your recommendation of an Attorney & Marshall for the Western district of this state, but I learn you were absent on your circuit . on the enquiry I have been able to make, I have appointed mr John Monroe Attorney. but I cannot decide between Andrew Alexander, John Alexander, & John Caruthers , recommended by different persons for the Marshall’s office. pray...
15From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 8 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived here on the 4th. and expect to stay a fortnight in order to make some arrangements preparatory to my final removal to Washington.—you know that the last Congress established a Western judiciary district in Virginia , comprehending chiefly the Western counties. mr Adams, who continued filling all the offices till 9. aclock of the night, at 12. of which he was to go out of office...
16V. To Archibald Stuart, 12 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The H. of R. has been in conclave ever since 2 aclock yesterday. 25. ballots have been taken, & were invariably 8. 6. & 2. divided. the intervals of balloting were from half an hour to an hour. I can venture nothing more by post but my affectionate salutations. P.S. 1. P.M. the H. of R. suspended the balloting from 7. to 12. this morning, & after trying a few balots again with the same effect...
17From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 24 September 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
I trouble you with the inclosed copies of mr Clarke’s last letters to me, which will shew you he is indebted to me from Mar. 19. 98. £90.18.8½. what he says about it’s being [to be collected cannot] concern me, because by our original agreement the nails were to be sold for ready money only, & therefore I charged only a ready money price. if he sold on credit, doubtless he laid on a good...
18From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 14 May 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved by the hands of mr Coalter £13. from mr Alexander. he is mistaken in supposing I had recieved £3–10–3 on his account from Gamble & Grattan, his letter now inclosed by you being the first and only mention to me that such a paiment had been expected. however this balance is not worth troubling you further with. I am sorry still to be troublesome with my nailery. mr Mcdowel writes me...
19From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 13 February 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
I avoid writing to my friends because the fidelity of the post office is very much doubted. I will give you briefly a statement of what we have done and are doing. the following is a view of our finances in round numbers. the impost brings in the last year 7½ millions of dollars, the Excise, carriages, auctions & licences ½million, the residuary small articles ⅛ of a million. it is expected...
20From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 8 June 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you some further communications from our envoys at Paris. to the information contained in these I can add that by the latest accounts mr Pinckney was gone into the South of France for the health of his family, mr Marshall to Amsterdam, and mr Gerry remained at Paris. it appears that neither themselves nor the French government dreamt of war between the two countries. it seems also...
21From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 5 September 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I furnished to Wm. Alexander of Augusta in 1795. nails to the amount of £16-10-3. The year following I gave Mr. Saml. Clarke an order on him for the amount. He talked about some suit he had employed Joseph Monroe to bring for him in my county, the proceeds of which were to pay me. But lawsuits against others are not paiments to me; and in fact Joseph Monroe has removed into a distant part of...
22From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 4 January 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to your favor of Dec. 31. and to the question whether adviseable to address the President on the subject of war against France, I shall speak explicitly, because I know I may do it safely to you. Such is the popularity of the President that the people will support him in whatever he will do, or will not do, without appealing to their own reason or to any thing but their feelings...
23From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 29 June 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
The very contracted state of my acquaintance in my own country after so long an absence, and the general interest which prompts us to present strangers of distinction passing through it to the best men of our country, render me troublesome to you. The bearer hereof is the Duke de Liancourt of one of the most distinguished families of France, and of the wealthiest, till the events of his...
24From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 21 June 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof is Mr. Volney the celebrated traveller and author of several works highly esteemed in Europe. His name will also have been known to you among the worthies of the first National assembly of France. As he takes Staunton in his rout Westward I take the liberty of committing him to your good offices while there. He wishes to supply himself there with a cheap horse, just...
25From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 26 May 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
Two or three days before the reciept of your favor of the 20th. I had recieved a letter from Mr. John Stuart of Greenbriar, accompanied with a leg bone and two joints of the toe of the animal mentioned in your letter. They are of a species not yet known most certainly, and the animal must have been as preeminent over the lion, as the big buffalo was over the elephant. The bones are too...
26From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 5 April 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I am doomed to be a very troublesome acquaintance to you. I am now in want of a stone mason, one with whom I had agreed to begin my house within 3. weeks from this time having yesterday notified me that he cannot come. Mr. Cocke of this county tells me of a Mr. Felty Millar of your town a good workman and suitable on every account for my purposes. The object of this letter is to get you to...
27From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 22 February 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
My letter of Jan. 3. was still in my hands, when the reciept of considerable orders for nails, immediately wanting, prevented my commencing a supply for Staunton. I therefore thought it better to hold up my letter till I could begin on a stock for Staunton. We are now at work on them, and in about 10. days shall have ready a supply of VIs. VIIIs. Xs. XIIs. XVIs. XXs. and of XVI. penny brads ....
28From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 3 January 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I troubled you once before on the subject of my nails, and must trouble you once more, but hope my present plan will protect you from all further embarrasment with it. I sat out with refusing to retail, expecting the merchants of my neighborhood and the upper country would have given a preference to my supplies, because delivered here at the Richmond whole sale prices, and at hand to be called...
29From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 26 July 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I am very thankful to you for your kind attention to our lost infant. The person you sent arrived here safely with James and their charge, and will be properly rewarded . Knowing the disposition of James, I readily conceive his conduct, and would have wished that to have been properly rewarded too, were it not that it would have added new pain to the parents of the child. I write this line by...
30From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 20 July 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved your favor of the 9th. It happened fortunately that I had preserved the original rough paper on which I had estimated the books separately which I had to dispose of. On that I find that the Modern entries, Burrows, Peere Williams, Salkeld and Strange were estimated at fifty dollars and twenty two cents. The same books cost me in England £18–5. sterling which is 81.D. 11c....