12811Thomas Jefferson to Regnault de Bécourt, 20 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the work you have sent me , & which I have no doubt I shall peruse with equal pleasure & instruction. I percieve by a glance of the eye over it that it brings into question both moral & physical doctrines of long & general standing. but we ought never to fear truth, nor hesitate to follow wherever she leads. I shall be glad to be a subscriber for a couple of copies of the...
12812Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Hunter, 20 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Having two clocks out of order which I would wish to have put to rights, and understanding from you that you would come to do it if you could get a horse, I send one by the bearer. he goes on to Scott’s ferry on other business and will leave the horse with you, if you can come. if you cannot, he will take it on with him and return from Scott’s ferry. you shall in like manner be furnished with...
12813Joseph Hunter to Thomas Jefferson, 20 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I have rec’d yours of the morning and have to informe you that it was & is my intention to wate on you in A few days if I can arrainge my business at home in A manner to justify it. I have sent the beast back by the barer as I have w i thin A few days past got a horse at my command. In ten or twelve days without some unforeseen accident I sh all be with you. I am Your much Obliged Humb l Serv...
12814Thomas Jefferson to Randolph Jefferson, 20 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
The unexpected difficulties of bringing water to my saw mill & threshing machine, & the necessity of doing it before harvest, have obliged me to put off my visit to Bedford till after harvest. the spinning Jenny for Bedford is now ready but will not be sent until I go. while it is here it offers a good opportunity for your spinner to learn upon it. after it is gone there will be no idle...
12815Randolph Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson, 21 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I Received your letter by James and also the book which you sent: my wife is extreemly oblige to you for your present and is very much pleased with it the girl we will send in the course of a week we have not a woman except a girl of twelve or fourteen years old but what has children we expected the reason of your not coming on was on account of the weather being so worm but shall look for you...
12816Chapman Johnson to Thomas Jefferson, 21 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
The last saturdays mail, brought me Your favor of the 16 th covering a statement of the proceedings on the writ of forcible entry and detainer , in the case bew between yourself and David Michie — Yours of the 4. had been previously received and answered;— My answer , which I suppose you have here received, gives you the ground on which I suppose that the supersedeas certiorari was awarded.
12817Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 21 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
your favor of the 6 th has been recieved, and I will beg leave to add a few supplementory observations on the subject of my former letter. I am not a judge of the best forms which may be given to the gunboat; and indeed I suppose they should be of various forms suited to the varied circumstances to which they would be applied. among these no doubt Commodore Barney’s would find their place....
12818Benjamin Romaine to Thomas Jefferson, 23 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
As I have taken the liberty of using several of your Sentiments, in composing the enclosed Address,—the further freedom has been assumed of transmiting a Copy to you. Sir,—I also am one of the remaining survivers of our revolutionary war—was five years in the service (from the age of Sixteen to its close) in the New Jersey militia. During that time, was twice wounded, and once a prisoner. In...
12819Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas G. Dufief, 24 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of M. Dufief to send him the books noted below, always bearing in mind the Weekly mission in small parcels for the ease of the mail: and also to note to him the prices that he may make his remittances at convenient intervals. Tull’s horsehoeing husbandry, an old book in 8 vo Young’s Experiments in Agriculture. (I think it is in 3. vols. 8 vo ) Memoirs of Theophilus...
12820Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 24 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
This letter will be of Politics only. for altho’ I do not often permit myself to enter that field think on that subject, it sometimes obtrudes itself and suggests ideas which I am tempted to pursue. some of these relating to the business of finance, I will hazard to you, as being at the head of that committee , but intended for yourself individually, or such as you trust, but certainly not for...
12821Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 24 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Not doubting that you have C in your office Centuplicates at least of the last Census , and of the reports of the patents for new inventions which are made I believe annually from the patent office, you will gratify me much by having a copy inclosed to me. affectionately Adieu. PoC ( MHi ); dateline at foot of text; endorsed by TJ. The census sought by TJ was Aggregate amount of each...
12822John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 25 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
your favour of the 15 th came to me yesterday, and it is a pleasure to discover that We are only 9 days apart. Be not Surprised or alarmed. Lindsays Memoirs will do no harm to you or me. you have right and reason to feel and to resent the breach of Confidence. I have had enough of the same kind of Treachery and Perfidy practiced upon me, to know how to Sympathize with you. I will agree with...
12823John Strode to Thomas Jefferson, 25 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
My faithfull, and indeed I ought to Add, Worthy frd, M r William G. Arms , in Calling to See me affords me, Illustrious Sir, the Opportunity, Your goodness had Once confer’d on me to exercise, of Addressing You. In the Chain of Creation, I am not insensible how very elevated Your Situation is from mine, which is lost from the great Ocean of Universal good like a drop from the Bucket, altho’...
12824Frank Carr to Thomas Jefferson, 26 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Enclosed is a specimen of the Sulphuret of Antimony, which was found in this neighbourhood—It’s appearance, and the chemical tests to which I have exposed it shew it to be very pure—As we have not been able to discover the place from which this has been obtained, it’s value cannot be ascertained— With great respect RC ( ViU : TJP-CC ); addressed: “Thomas Jefferson Esq r monticello Monticello...
12825John Hopkins to Thomas Jefferson, 26 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I have taken the liberty to request your Excellency, amongst other Patriots of the American Revolution, to patronize a work, which is intended to be a faithful narrative; of those interesting events. It is presumed, that your Ex is acquainted, with many facts, & circumstances of that period; in which you bore, so sp l endid, & honourable a part; & which it would be important to know, & if it...
12826Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 27 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Ἴδαν ἐς πολύδενδρον ἀνὴρ ὑλητόμος ἐλθὼν, Παπταίνει, παρέοντος ἄδην, ποθεν ἄρξεται ἔργου· Τί πρᾶτον καταλεξῶ; ἐπεὶ πάρα μυρία ἐιπῆν. and I too, my dear Sir, like the wood-cutter of Ida, should doubt where to begin, were I to enter the forest of opinions, discussions, & contentions which have occurred in our day. I should exclaim with Theocritus Τί πρᾶτον καταλεξῶ; ἐπεὶ πάρα μυρία ειπῆν . but I...
12827Richard Rush to Thomas Jefferson, 27 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Immediately after the receipt of your favor of the 17th instant I wrote to Philadelphia , and have received from my mother an answer which I beg leave to lay before you, in her own words, as far as relates to the subject of our correspondence. “Both James and I have made search for the letters for Mr Jefferson ; the first he names (that of April 21. 1803 ) is not to be found; those I enclose...
12828John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 28 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
It is very true, that “the denunciations of the Priesthood are fulminated against every Advocate for a compleat Fre e dom of Religion. ” Comminations, I believe, would be plenteously pronounced, by even the most liberal of them, against Atheism, Deism; against every Man who disbelieved or doubted the Resurrection of Jesus or the Miracles of the New Testament. Priestley himself would denounc e...
12829Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 28 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I should like much the proposition in your’s of the 20 th to pay our remittances to G. Williams in Baltimore , and for Russel and Morton , on advice of that paiment, to pay the same to G l Kosciuzko . but neither of them could be entitled to a commission; because it would be as if we bought G.W’s bill on R. &
12830John Graham to Thomas Jefferson, 28 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the Honor some time since to receive a Letter from you , covering one for the Baroness de Staël-Hols t ein which you wished me to forward to Stockholm —at the time I received it I had hoped that I should be able to send it by mr Russell in a few days—and therefore delayed acknowledging the receipt of the Letter until I could have the pleasure of telling you that I had found so good a...
12831James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, 28 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
From the date of my last letter to you the President has been ill of a bilious fever; of that kind called the remittent. It has perhaps never left him, even for an hour, and occasionally the simptoms have been unfavorable. This is I think the 15 th day. Elzey of this place, & Shoaff of Annapolis , with D r Tucker , attend him. They think he will recover. The first mention’d, I have just seen,...
12832Robert Fulton to Thomas Jefferson, 29 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
As every advance in the arts which may You take a lively interest in every discovery which may be of use to america will give you pleasure, I I will communicate to you a discovery which one I have made, and on which I have just finished
12833Thomas Lehré to Thomas Jefferson, 29 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Yesterday was celebrated herew here with great enthusiasm and Joy, as the anniversary of the 28 th June 1776 , when the British Fleat under Sir Peter Parker , were was beat of f by Fort Moultrie .—
12834Thomas Jefferson to John L.E.W. Shecut, 29 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I am very sensible of the honor done me by the Antiquarian Society of Charleston , in the Rule for the organisation of their society which you have been so good as to communicate , and I pray you to do me the favor of presenting to them my thanks. age and my inland and retired situation make it scarcely probable that I shall be able to render them any services. but should any occasion occur...
12835Caspar Wistar to Thomas Jefferson, 29 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
After a long interval I have great pleasure in writing to you on the present occasion. The Bearer, Correa da Serra , has a wish to See you, & all your friends here are desirous that he Should do So. He leaves this to morrow, for that purpose, & I am now to State to you my Reasons for wishing him to make the visit. He is a Gentleman of excellent understanding, greatly improved by education—He...
12836John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 30 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Before I proceed to the order of the day, which is the terrorism of a former day: I beg leave to correct an Idea, that Some readers may infer from an expression in one of your Letters. No Sentiment or expression in any of my Answers to Addresses were obtruded or insinuated by any Person about me. Every one of them was written with my own hand. I alone am responsable for all the Mistakes and...
12837James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, 30 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
The President’s health is rather improved since my last to you. He had a bad night, but his fever is slighter than it has been at any time since his indisposition. The phisicians think him convalescent— in haste— respectfully & sincerely yrs. RC ( MHi ); dateline at foot of text; endorsed by TJ as received 2 July 1813 from Washington and so recorded in SJL .
12838Account with Reuben Perry for Work on Barn at Monticello, 1 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
A Bill of work done for Tho s Jefferson Esqr Sq. feet. In $ . Cts 127. 57. 6 Framing @ 6/– 127. 57½ 19. 60. Sheeting & shingling @ 10/6 34.
12839Thomas Voigt to Thomas Jefferson, 1 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I Rec d your favour of the 20 th on the 27 th and would have answered it sooner but I thought it best to delay it untill Such times as I Should hear of a Watch to answer the disscription which you mentioned in your Letter, In Concequence of the War, watches have taken a Verry Considerable Rise; and I find that I Can get no Good ones of that disscription, such as I Could Recommend, for less...
12840John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, [ca. 3–5] July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Correspondences! The Letters of Bernard and Hutchinson , and Oliver and Paxton &c were detected and exposed before The Revolution. There are I doubt not, thousands of Letters, now in being, but Still concealed, from their Party to their Friends, which will, one day See the light. I have wondered for more than thirty years that So few have appeared: and have constantly expected that a Tory...