1Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 27 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
The Parliamentary Manual, originally compiled for my own personal use, was printed on the supposition it might be of use to others, and have some tendency to settle the rules of proceeding in Congress , where, in the lower house especially they had got into forms totally unfriendly to a fair extrication of the will of the majority. no right over it was therefore wished to be retained over it...
2Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 9 February 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the copy of the Olive branch you have been so kind as to send me. many extracts from it which I had seen in the newspapers had excited a wish to procure it, but the effecting this had been prevented by the difficulty of making small or fractional remittances to Philadelphia and especially since the bank bills of the different states have ceased to be recievable in all others. a...
3Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 10 February 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to m r Carey and his thanks for the copy of the 2 d edition of Clark’s Naval history which has come safely to hand. he is happy to find that mr Clark is continuing the work, and ensuring to us the preservation of the facts as they occur. he has recovered more of those of the Revolutionary war than had been deemed practicable. Th:J. salutes mr Carey with...
4Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 16 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I was very unlucky indeed in being in time for so small a portion only of the books I had wished of D r Priestly ’s library. there was one in particular ( Benson ’s Saxon Vocabulary) I would rather have given double price for than have missed. the amount of the 3. vols on their way to me being 3.75 D I inclose you 4.D. in Virginia bank notes, which I understand pass with you. the difference of...
5Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 11 [November] 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieve here (where I pass a good deal of my time) your favor of Oct. 22. covering a Prospectus of a new edition of your Olive branch : I subscribe to it with pleasure, because I believe it has done & will do much good, in holding up the mirror to both parties, and exhibiting to both their political errors. that I have had my share of them, I am not vain enough to doubt, and some indeed I...
6Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 19 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the copy of mr Clarke’s Sketches of the naval history of the US. which you have been so kind as to send me. it is a convenient Repertory of the cases of that class, and has brought to my recollection a number of individual cases of the Revolutionary war which had escaped me. I recieved also one of mr Clarke’s circulars asking supplementory communications for a 2 d edition. but...
7Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 13 October 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the copy of the 6 th edition of your Olive branch, which you have been so good as to send me . I am glad to see that it grows in size and demand: and in compliance with the invitation of your printed letter of the 4 th inst. which is also recieved, I will notice a circumstance in your Appendix which may be worthy of correction in the new edition proposed. in page 400 . the...
8Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 1 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Correa has favored me with a copy of your catalogue of D r Priestly ’s library, on which I have found the articles underwritten , which I will pray you to forward to me, or such of them as remain on hand, to Richmond to the address of Mess rs Gibson & Jefferson merchants there, who will pay the freight. I believe there are few weeks or days without a vessel sailing from Philadelphia for