41To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 18 February 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Since the situation of my family has been such as to leave me at liberty to return to Washington, I have been detained here by the most distressing pecuniary embarrassments. They have arisen from the recoil of the notes issued by the Ches: & Del. Canal Company upon me,—which I took in payment & paid away again more than a Year ago; and also from the misconduct of the persons who were...
42To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 21 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I have made a design, and a bargain for your redStone at 20₶. If you will have the goodness to send it to me ⅌ bearer it will immediately be put into hand. The Italians conceive themselves, and indeed are under such obligations to you, that they insistd on presenting to You their Labors,—but agreeably to your wishes I have made the bargain which appeared to me reasonable on all sides. I have...
43To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 17 November 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
In presenting to you the drawing of the Capitol, which I herewith leave at the President’s house, I have no object but to gratify my desire, as an individual citizen, to give you a testimony of the truest respect and attachment;—an attachment to which your high office adds nothing,—and which existed though not in the same degree for your character before I had the happiness to be known to you,...
44To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 28 May 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the two letters you have done me the favor to write to me before me, the first of the 22d & the last of the 26th. just now received.—The former I should have immediately answered had I not on the 21st. transmitted to you my report on the whole system & its reasons which I had pursued in the arrangements of the ground round the president’s house. I am sorry to have commenced otherwise...
45To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 23 January 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived here on Wednesday evening, having been 11 days on the road, 3 of which were spent in waiting till it was practicable to cross the Susquehannah. The last fortnight of my stay in Philadelphia was devoted to the providing of curtains to be hung round the house of representatives by direction of the Committee appointed to devise the means of rendering the Hall less objectionable on the...
46To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 14 June 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
As soon as I had put all my things on board the Vessel, I prepared to set off to Washington from Philadelphia, & the same evening recd. a letter from the Attorney general summoning me to appear as a witness at Richmond on Mr. Burr’s trial. I immediately sent my Son to Wilmington to represent to him the impossibility of leaving my family in the state they then were, without the common...
47To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 31 March 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Dr. Salary of the Surveyor of the public Buildings Cr. Decr. 29 to March 1st. 60 days. By one Years pay 1804. 1.700 April 17th. 9 July 1. 13 Balance, loss on this Engagement 86. 62 Oct. 20.
48To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 2 September 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to you yesterday, & gave you an account of the State of the Work in the South Wing of the Capitol. I will now report to you the progress of our work at the Presidents house. The South road is cut out excepting only at the Block A, at which [GRAPHIC IN MANUSCRIPT] the Men are hard at Work & in three Weeks they will have removed it. From the point B westward the Wall has not been...
49To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 30 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The impossibility in the present hurry of the Post office of ascertaining correctly the balances of the appropriations & indeed the variation hourly taking place in them by the payment of accounts, induced me to alter in the Report the passage rela tive to them, & to State merely tha t they were so nearly exhausted that the Work must soon close an d Workmen be discharged unless the legislature...
50To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 14 March 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeably to your desire I submit to you an estimate of one intercolumnation as erected on each side of the Presidents house, calculating for a Stone entablature, on the South front,—and also stating the difference if the entablature be of Timber. Should the public offices be accomodated in these rooms, the necessary security from fire might require them to be arched as in the Treasury...