15081Thomas Jefferson to Alexander H. Everett, 19 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns to mr Everett his thanks for the care he has been so good as to take of the Programme of the Harlaem society of sciences , recieved from mr Van Marum , and now come safe to hand: and he avails himself with pleasure of this occasion of assuring him of his great esteem and respect. RC ( MHi : Everett-Peabody Family Papers); dateline at foot of text; addressed: “ M r Everett...
15082Thomas Jefferson to James Fishback, 19 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Presuming that a copy of your oration delivered in Lexington on the 4 th of July last, which came inclosed to me yesterday, may have come from yourself, I take the liberty of addressing to you my thanks for this mark of attention. I have read it with satisfaction, a single paragraph only excepted in the following words excepted. ‘ mr Jefferson , it is said, declared that when he was in Paris ,...
15083Thomas Jefferson to David Gelston, 19 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote yesterday morning in answer to yours of Aug. 31. and in the evening recieved the Invoice you requested, which I now inclose with mr Warden ’s letters & other papers. I will thank you for the return of these when they shall have answered your purpose. as I presume the usual apprehensions from Equinoctial gales are not of many days, I will request you to forward the books to Richmond as...
15084Thomas Jefferson’s Agreement with Thomas Eston Randolph & Company, 19 September 1816, with Thomas Jefferson’s Note, 18 … (Jefferson Papers)
Shadwell Mill 19 th Sept r 1816 —We agree to deliver to the order of Tho s Jefferson Esq r Six hundred bushels of Shipstuff at eighteen-pence ⅌er bushel to be deducted from the first quarters Rent—and to be deliver’d viz t 200 bushels in the second week of October next,—200—on the 1 st Nov
15085John Payne Todd to Thomas Jefferson, 19 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of mentioning that M r Labarshette , who will have the honor of paying his respects; brought a letter from Gen l Lafayette to the President, and carries with him, a certificate from the same, of services rendered by his father and himself during our Revolution; which are titles certainly to civility. RC ( MHi ); endorsed by TJ as received 20 Sept. 1816 and so recorded in SJL...
15086Montlezun’s Account of a Visit to Monticello, 20 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Vendredi 20 septembre 1816. Voyage de Montpellier à Monticello ( Albemarle ). A sept heures du matin, je suis parti de Bentivoglio , Couper’s-Tavern ; et de nouveau, traversant les bois, j’ai passé à trois milles de là, devant la maison du juge Gordon , d’où je suis allé franchir à gué le
15087William W. Hening to Thomas Jefferson, 23 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 15 th was delivered to me, after the arrival of the last mail only ; and I have not lost a moment in complying with its contents.— I send you by the Charlottesville stage-driver, the three first volumes of the Statutes at large.— Unfortunately the sheets of the 4 th Vol. which had been sent to Petersburg , to be bound, were all destroyed by the dreadful conflagration at that...
15088Dabney Carr to Thomas Jefferson, 24 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have hesitated for some time, whether I should write to you, on the subject of this letter. I am sure you will do me the justice to believe that what I shall say is dictated by an anxiety for your repose. I have seen in pretty free circulation here, a letter written by you to a M r Kercheval , on the subject of calling a convention, & discussing the topicks which would probably come before...
15089Thomas Jefferson to Stephen Kingston, 25 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 12 th inst. was recieved in the moment of my setting out on a long journey, and is therefore answered from a very distant place. the case to which it relates appears to be now in the courts of Pensylvania , and before it’s legislature. it cannot be doubted that both of these authorities will, in their respective functions do what is right and just: for a private individual...
15090James H. McCulloch to Thomas Jefferson, 25 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I yesterday received a bill of lading of two cases Tuscan wine for your order, in a letter from M r Thomas Appleton of Leghorn . The vessel has just entered that bears the consignment & it may be some days before they are landed. It will enable me to forward them to you in the most convenient manner, if you can give me some directions as to the route in which they will be least exposed by a...