1Thomas 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...
2Thomas 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...
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, 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...
5Thomas 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...