12811Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 6 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Dec. 29. came to hand last night, and I am very much relieved by it’s reciept. your long silence had reduced me to despair, which would have been quieted had you sent me earlier the candid explanation you have now given, inasmuch as it would have let me understand the real ground of the delay. I am happy however that you have begun, and that it will be your interest to get it...
12812Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 22 December 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return here from Bedford a few days ago, I found the Hutton and Requisite tables, bound to my mind. by this mail I send you an Ovid’s metamorphoses almost entirely worne out & defaced, yet of so valuable and rare an addition edition that I wish you to put it into as good a state of repair as it is susceptible of. by the next mail I will forward a Cornelius Nepos to be bound. be so good...
12813Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 24 November 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 16 th was recieved on the 19 th and I thank you for the trouble you have taken with my catalogue, and I have no doubt your enumeration is right, mine having been estimated by counting a few pages & taking them for an average. I am contented also with your estimate of price, if the committee should be so, or that they should send on valuers, fixing on your estimate as a...
12814Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 27 February 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
The library committee of Congress having concluded to take my library without further valuation, at the amount of your estimate, I shall on reciept of the catalogue proceed to review it, arrange and number all the books according as they stand in the catalogue. as on this review many will doubtless be found missing & irrecoverable, deductions proportioned to their size and number must of...
12815Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 7 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Dec. 2. arrived here during an absence of 6. weeks from home, and on my return I thought to postpone an answer till I could accompany it with a remittance. as this however will require some 2. or 3. weeks yet, & in the mean time your letter of the 3 d arrives, I now acknolege the reciept of both. I am perfectly willing that you should print another edition of the Parliamentary...
12816Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 16 March 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly recieved your favor of Feb. 2. with a specimen of the size & type you proposed for the Manual, and think you have done prudently in accomodating it to the pocket rather than the shelf of a library. I have desired my correspondents, Mess rs Gibson & Jefferson of Richmond , to remit for me to mr Barnes a sum of money, out of which I have requested mr Barnes to pay you sixty five Dollars...
12817Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 1 June 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I keep at this place a small Polygraph which requir es paper exactly of the size of that now inclosed. I must ask the favor of you to send me a ream of that size. the quality too of the model is much liked, altho’ perhaps we do not make any such. I shall be glad also of another ream of 4 to letter paper for use at Monticello . that I now write on is about a good size. these may be packed and...
12818Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 17 October 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your two letters of Sep. 24. & Oct. 12. have been duly recieved. the packet of books will probably come on by the next stage. by the present one I send to the care of mr Gray of Fredericksbg a packet of 6. vols, which though made up of 4. different works, I wish to have bound as one work in 6. vols, to be labelled on the back ‘the Book of Kings.’ the 1 st & 2 d vols will be the composed of the...
12819Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 8 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
You must excuse me, dear Sir, if I trouble you with my inexpressible anxieties about the delay of publication of mr Tracy ’s book, as I hear nothing of it’s commencement altho’ you assured me it should be begun the 4 th of July. mr Tracy ’s complaints of me give me a right to complain highly of mr Duane , and now turn to you. pray let me hear from you, and say only what I may depend will be...
12820Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 28 February 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved duly your favor of the 3 d and with it the 3. vols of the Parent’s assistant, for which I thank you. it was very acceptable to my grandchildren & therefore to me. I shall also be glad to recieve the Tales of fashionable life when published. I had delayed asking you to forward your account until you could send me the 7 th & 8 th vols of the Scientific dialogues. but as it seems it...
12821Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 11 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
The last letter recieved from you was of Aug. 20. on the 27 th Oct. I wrote you a statement of our balance 136.75 D and that I should that day write to mr Gibson to remit it to you. I wrote to him the next day , and the day following set out for Bedford and was absent two months, so that I never heard from mr Gibson of the actual remittance. so that yet I have no reason to doubt it, and the...
12822Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 29 October 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you on the 17 th to which I presume I shall recieve an answer in due time. the packet of books mentioned in yours of the 12 th is not yet heard of. I mentioned this to mr Gray in a letter of the 25 th so that I suppose it will be forwarded, if it’s loitering is at Fredericksburg . The Library committee requires a proposition on my part as to the price of my library, & as a ground of...
12823Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 17 August 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just sent to Milton for the mail tumbrel a package addressed to the care of mr Gray , portage to Fredericksbg being first paid at Milton as it always will be. and you paying that from Fredericksbg to George town , we may save mr Gray the occasion of ever making any advances of money for what passes between us. the package contains 2. volumes which I wish to be divided the one into two,...
12824Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 27 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I n am in the daily hope of recieving new proof sheets and the particular wish that we may go thro’ the work before April, because I shall then go to Bedford and be absent a month. I do not know how our account stands; I mean independantly of the 60.D. for the translation; for I do not wish that reimbursement until you have made it by the sale of the book. if you will send me my account,...
12825Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 27 October 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
The answers to letters which had accumulated during a two months seven weeks absence in Bedford , and the daily calls of my own affairs here have delayed longer than I expected the examination promised in my letter of the 5 th into the paiment I beleived I had made of for the early volumes of Wilson ’s ornithology. I was led astray too in my researches by an idea that that paiment had been made
12826Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 18 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 7 th Ult. I wrote to you and forwarded at the same time the corrected translation of mr Tracy ’s book, with a request that you would forward to me for correction the proof sheets as they are struck off, and as we have three mails a week now from Washington , you will always recieve the sheet on the 5 th day after it comes from your hands, perhaps sometimes on the 7 th . having as yet...
12827Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 21 July 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
In your letter of June 4. you informed me you would be ab le to begin Tracy ’s work by the 4 th of July. my responsibility to m r Tracy makes me expect with anxiety the Prospectus & proof sheets. I hope soon to begin to recieve them. they shall meet no delay from me. will you be so good as to send me the Miniature editions of Homer ’s
12828Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 26 September 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
In a letter to you of Feb. 28. in answer to yours of the 3 d of that month, I acknoleged & thanked you for the parent’s assistant, & expressed a willingness to receive the Tales of fashionable life when published. to a former request of the 7 th & 8 th vols of Scientific dialogues, I added one for Mitford’s history of Greece , if an 8 vo edition could be had, and also for the 4 th
12829Thomas Jefferson to Robert Mills, 17 February 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Jan. 28. came to hand a few days ago and I have with pleasure borne testimony to your merits in a letter to the President of this day’s date. wishing you success on this and all other occasions, I tender you the assurance of my esteem and respect. PoC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “M r Robert Mills”; endorsed by TJ.
12830Thomas Jefferson to Robert Mills, [28] June 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Mills and his acknolegements for the copy sent him of the annual exhibition of the Columbian society of artists . he congratulates him on the success which seems likely to attend the instituti on and is particularly thankful to mr Mills for these repeat ed proofs of his personal attentions. he salutes him with grea t esteem and respect. PoC ( DLC
12831Thomas Jefferson to Robert Mills, 24 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the copy of the Report of a committee of the Society of artists of the United States , which you were so kind as to forward to me, and which I have read with great interest & satisfaction. the growing wealth & population of the US. cannot fail to produce an increasing demand for the productions of the Fine arts; and the talents of the present members, the judicious institutions...
12832From James Madison to the Inhabitants of Milton, Massachusetts, 18 May 1812 (Madison Papers)
I have re[c]d. the memorial of the Inhabts. of the Town of Milton on the subject of vaccination, and the interesting papers sent with it. These have been distributed as desired; and I return my thanks for the setts allotted to myself. In acknowledging this communication, I can not withold the tribute due to the exertions made by the Town of Milton, for verifying & diffusing that propitious...
12833Thomas Jefferson to Dabney Minor and Peter Minor, 24 January [1817] (Jefferson Papers)
On the subject of the rents claimed from me by the representatives of Bennet Henderson , my grandson desires me to put into your hands what information I have as to the rents for what are called the lower and upper field. I had given him a statement of those recieved from after 1807. when returning home to live I had taken the business into my own hands, and for the period before that while...
12834Thomas Jefferson to John Minor, 10 July 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved, three days ago only, your favor of May 17 . I was intimately acquainted with Col o Bernard Moore & much attached to him, & would certainly have done any thing for him I could for him then, or his family now. but I do not recollect that I was one of his trustees, & still less that I ever acted in the trust. my distance from him & my other occupations were such as to prevent it; & I...
12835Thomas Jefferson to John Minor, 6 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have executed a deed to Richard Tompkins as you desired, and acknoleged it at our last court, of which I inclose you a certificate. the substance of the deed was a conveyance to him of all the right & title vested in me and which I might convey lawfully & without injury to the rights of others. it is without warranty even against my own acts done heretofore, for I had totally forgotten that...
12836Thomas Jefferson to Lancelot Minor, 26 May 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Apr. 23. came here just as I had set out for Bedford , so that I recieved it only on my return from that place, which must apologise for the delay of the answer. that of Jan. 20. had been recieved in due time, and your order in favor of Capt Tomkins for the survey was paid. in mine of Oct. 29. I had promised, as soon as my wheat should be groun d and disposed of, that I would...
12837Thomas Jefferson to Lancelot Minor, 5 May 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor covering the commissions for acknolegements of the title of the two tracts of land now is just now recieved. it finds me on my departure to Bedford from whence I shall not return under a fortnight. I have time to write therefore only on that single subject. the opportunity of forwarding the commissions and deeds to Kentucky by your neighbor is so much better than any chance I have...
12838Thomas Jefferson to Lancelot Minor, 30 May 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Sea delivered your letter of the 27 th the last night together with the horse . a boy was to have been sent for him this morning, which mr Sea’s journey has saved. I have satisfied him for his trouble. all accounts whi against mr Marks which you think are justly due, we ought certainly to pay. but where, from circumstances known in the neighborhood they are disbelieved, or strongly...
12839Thomas Jefferson to Lancelot Minor, 14 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Nov. 25. came during an absence of 2. months in Bedford ; that of the 6 th inst. was recieved on the 10 th In my letter of Jan. 17 th of the last year I promised that in the spring of the present I would pay out of my own resources the debt to Col o Callis ’s estate . this shall assuredly be done as soon as my crop of flour is sold; which however I do not expect will take place...
12840Thomas Jefferson to Lancelot Minor, 23 May 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
M rs Marks now sets out with a view to qualify herself at the ensuing court for the administration of mr Marks’s estate. I hope she will not be disappointed by failure in the probat of the will. I give her a blank sheet of paper signed & sealed by myself as her security for due administration, such a bond being to be written over it as the court may require. I enclosed you by post the deeds of...