24741To Thomas Jefferson from Martha Jefferson Randolph, 14 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I have but a moment to return you a thousand thanks for your goodness in writing so regularly to me during Mr R’s illness. I have been in a state of great anxiety upon his account. Thank heavens it is past. we are all well and after saturday shall look for you hourly god bless you My Dear Father believe me to be yours unalterably Mr Burwell arrived on thursday only and is still with us ViU .
24742From Thomas Jefferson to Lewis Harvie, 14 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof is Lewis Harvie esquire, heretofore of my family at this place, & a member of the legislature of Virginia, and now a Member of the Council of State of that Commonwealth. proposing to go to Europe for his health, & uncertain what particular parts of it that may lead him to, instead of letters to particular persons, I give him this open and general letter to all Consuls & other...
24743To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Williams, 14 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I am now about to address you with more real concern than I ever did, not that I am more timorous towards my duty, or fearful of the consequences, but because I have once before been under the disagreeable necessity for a simular course and in which from my Situation I may be thought to be partially interested. And furthermore that it must be at all times with much delicacy and caution you...
24744To Thomas Jefferson from Jean Marie de Bordes, 15 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Je viens de traduire de l’Anglais en Français un petit traité de morale trop bien connu de votre Excellence, pour me permettre de lui en faire l’éloge; c’est l’Economie de la vie humaine, par Robert Dodsley. Cet ouvrage manquait à ma patrie, j’ai cru devoir lui en faire le présent: en publiant de plus l’original à côté de ma traduction, j’ai tâché de favoriser le goût de ceux qui, partisans de...
24745To Thomas Jefferson from John Brook, 16 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I do not wish to cast a censure upon any man. But it is a pitty that so fine a vessel as the Brig Dolly should be suffered to lie here and rot. her standing rigging cables &c have been exposed at this place for more than 14 months. The commanding officer lives on york-river and comes down only once a quarter to recieve his pay. I will not blame the collecter—the Navy agent—nor the Secretary of...
24746To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Claxton, 16 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr Latrobe has mentioned to me the necessity of very shortly moving the furniture from the late chamber of the Ho. of Rep.—as this will be attended with some expence; and will naturally fall in the furnishing department, I shall as soon as you may be pleased to furnish me with a written authority, proceed in the business as far as may be necessary at this time—I find, Sir, that the furniture...
24747To Thomas Jefferson from Gideon Fitz, 16 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
P.S. The irregularity and apparent uncertainty in the mails urges me to send this as a duplicate of the foregoing letter, and by a different route; The original was sent by the way of Nashville; this through the State of Georgia. We have not received any information from Mr Briggs, the last mail from Nashville has just arrived, with a few packets only, and not a single one for this place. I...
24748To Thomas Jefferson from William Jones, 16 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 13th. I enclosed to you a letter I had received from the Havanna, and the same motive suggests the propriety of communicating the following extract of a letter I have this instant received from the same person and place dated the 23d ulto. viz. “I yesterday informed you of an order from his C. Majesty by way of New Providence to the government of this Island, stating that whenever the...
24749From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 16 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr Randolph continues well. nothing has happened to throw him back. he rides out now on good days in the carriage. he came down to breakfast with us to-day. but the quantity of blood taken from him occasions him to recover strength slowly. it is now certain that his calculation for departure will be truer than mine. judging by the advance of his strength for the last week, it will take another...
24750To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 17 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I herewith submit to your consideration a project for laying out the ground around the president’s house. The present enclosure together with the buildings already erected & those projected are also laid down in their proper situations so as to give to You at one view all the merits of the plan. By the arrangement the public are put to no inconvenience of communication between the parts of the...