41Thomas 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...
42Thomas 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...
43Thomas 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...
44Thomas 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...
45Thomas 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...
46Thomas 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...
47Thomas 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....
48Thomas 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...
49Thomas 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...