441Benjamin Henry Latrobe to Thomas Jefferson, 5 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
The high respect & attachment which I have always professed and very sincerely felt for you has not been proved by the frequency of my letters to you. But knowing how much your time & mind are occupied by correspondence of infinitely more importance, I have never had the vanity to believe that I am entitled to intrude upon you with t special occasion.—Another reason,—the reason indeed which...
442Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 3 March 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your favor of the 26 th Ult o and in conformity thereto have accepted the offer made through M r Taylor of 50$ p r foot front, the credit I had agreed to extend to 60 d /. 120 d /. & 180 d /.—it is understood that this is to commence from the time a sufficient conveyance is made— We have received 201 bls: of your flour, 60 of which from Shadwell
443Joseph St. Leger d’Happart to Thomas Jefferson, 20 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
At the receipt of my claim, in a draft, which, I hope, will be duly discharg’d, I find myself under inexpressible obligations to you and by you, to accept the present acknowledgments, for the Service, you have, So kindly, render’d me, in the case. Gratitude, being one of the most precious principles, man can possess, happy, indeed, must he be, who can appreciate all the delights, there are in...
444Joseph Dougherty to Thomas Jefferson, 5 May 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
This moment the President requests me to go below Alex a for four merino sheep, a ewe and ram for yourself and the same for him: I have just time before I go to let you know that I am ready and willing to render you any services in my power and will win wait your instructions— RC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ as received 9 May 1810 and so recorded in SJL . Dougherty here canceled “6.”
445Enclosure: List of Sardinian Mineral Specimens Sent to Thomas Jefferson, [ca. 15 March 1810] (Jefferson Papers)
Note des differen tes Productions de L’Isle de Sardaigne contenante la présente Caisse. N o 1.2. Holzstein, von Ploaghe, 〃 3. Obsidian, von Pau, 〃 4. Stern madreporit, von Gergei, 〃 5. Vom mispickel metallisierter quartz, von der Speranza beÿ Alghero, 〃 6.
446From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 10 March 1813 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your two favors of the 8 & 21. Ult. The conduct & character of the late Commander at Niagara, as pourtrayed in the narrative inclosed in the first, had been before sufficiently brought to our knowledge. Some of his disqualifications for such a trust were indeed understood when he was appointed Inspector General . General Dearborn seems not to have been apprized of some of the...
447Joseph Delaplaine to Thomas Jefferson, 11 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honour of duly receiving your obliging favour of the 9 th of February last . You have been pleased to correspond with me much on the subject of your portrait. Being very desirous to obtain it, and fearing that M r Stuart will never be prevailed upon to give up yours, I avail myself of your kind offer to receive in your house, any Artist I might send to further my Work. Accordingly I...
448James Lyle to Thomas Jefferson, 24 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I was happy to see you so well, when I had the Honor of your last visit at Manchester , I went to Richmond the next day to have waited on you, but found you were engaged in business of importance. I expected you would have made me a further payment as I had every reason to expect it as I had informed you I was in distress for money. I am sorry you should make me the last. I want the money for...
449Henry Banks to Thomas Jefferson, 21 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor, herewith to send you, a publication relating to the Manufactory of Arms. Upon perusal you will find a development of a greater tissue of fraud and folly than has ever been before exhibited in this country. Altho many of the guilty persons are unmasked yet there are others, and it is with regret that I speak it, who deserve to be equally exposed. To you it must be obvious that...
450Robert M. Patterson to Thomas Jefferson, 3 December 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor to receive your letter , of the 24th of last month, in which you decline a reelection as president of the American philosophical Society . This letter was laid before the Society, at their meeting last evening, and excited a general regret among the members: no particular order, however, was taken on it; the Society choosing to adopt, in this particular, the Same course which...
451Hugh Nelson to Thomas Jefferson, 22 March 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
An application is now pending before Congress on behalf of the officers and soldeirs, of the late Virginia line on state establishment, to secure to them the Lands which Virginia had engaged to give them; and for which in many instances Land Warrants were issued, but which have never been satisfied. In the cession which Virginia made to the United States , of her lands lying on the North-West...
452Bernard McMahon to Thomas Jefferson, 23 September 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I herewith send you a small box con t aining 6 Dwarf Persian Iris, 12 Cloth of Gold Crocus 6 Iris Xiphium, 6 Iris Xiphium a new & fine variety , 12 Double Persian Ranunculuses; with the seeds of some very superior Impatience Balsamina, Red Antwerp Raspberry & Centaurea macrocephala, as a part of a collection to be forwarded in a few days for your acceptance, by Sir, P.S. I am happy to inform...
453Philip I. Barziza to Thomas Jefferson, 14 February [1817] (Jefferson Papers)
Your Kind Letter was sent to me at Richmond where I was gone with my guardian M r M c Candlish , in hope of hearing a favourable decision of my cause from the General assembly and for the purpose of endeavouring to make fall the thick veil under which my affairs Lay conceald. In the first place, Sir, I render you my most sincer and greatful thanks for the goodness which you had to recommend me...
454George Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson, 16 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your favor of the 12 th , and have selected the house of Gordon Trokes & Co , as being the most eligible in my opinion for the supply of your groceries.—They consent to receive payment half annually, which is more I expect than any other house here would do for such articles. I doubt however if you will be supplied even on nearly as advantageous terms, as you might be from...
455Robert Patterson to Thomas Jefferson, 11 November 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Presuming that you may not as yet have seen a little tract, by Doctor Buchanan , on “Christian Researches in Asia ,” lately republished in Boston ; and not doubting that you would find it highly interesting, I have taken the liberty of sending you a copy, of which I most respectfully request your acceptance. Some time ago, inclosed I believe in A Nautical Almanack for the year 1813, I returned...
456George Twyman to Thomas Jefferson, [by 3 July 1809] (Jefferson Papers)
I remember that I heard you say your attention was now on your garden; you also shew’d me your place for seeds. Those I have inclos’d are very good summer turnip-seed. I think from long experience the best time for sowing is about the 20 th or twenty betwean the 20 & last of July. However it Depend very much on the Season. therefore my way is to sow at Difrent times, in the space of 10. or 12...
457From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 12 November 1813 (Adams Papers)
As I owe you more for your Letters of Oct. 12. and 28 than I Shall be able to pay. I Shall begin with the P.S. to the last. I am very Sorry to Say, that I cannot assist your memory “in the Enquiries of your letter of August 22d.” I really know not who was the compositor of any one of the Petitions or Addresses you enumerate. Nay farther I am certain I never did know. I was So Shallow a...
458Anonymous to Thomas Jefferson, 21 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I feel a reluctance in addressing myself to you, which the knowledge of your character will always inspire. For to occupy one moment of your time so well employed in noble pursuits, will I fear be too great an intrusion. But when I behold you in the character of the Father and Protector of youth, I am inspired with a confidence which at once overcomes every obstacle. As an individual you are...
459John Lynch to Thomas Jefferson, 25 December 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
at the request of one of our Woman Friends Anne Miflin , resideing in the City of Phillidelphia , who was on a religious Visit in this State and haveing a Concern that bore on her Mind respecting the Black Colonisation of the Black people on the Coast of Africa and that some plan Might be adopted for that purpose and for relief of this State, from so heavey a Burthen, (a like Concern lay on...
460William Thornton to Thomas Jefferson, 3 April 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I should before now have answered your esteemed favor of the 9 th Feb y last , but I wished to communicate something relative to the Looms: I find nothing yet worthy of your attention.— I have made several Enquiries relative to the mode of lining the Cisterns for Water. In the West Indies where Pouzzolane abounds, they plaster them in the inside with this Substance mixed with lime & sand, and...
461George Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson, 19 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
If you go to Bedford as soon as you contemplate, you will be surprised I expect at not finding the 3 dozen chairs there, which you ordered several months ago.—The first person who engaged to make them disappointed us altogether, & the next one has been a long time about them.— They are however at last ready, and shall be forwarded by the first safe boat, to the care of Sam l J. Harrison RC (...
462Louis Philippe Gallot de Lormerie to Thomas Jefferson, 13 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
L’intérest que vous aves pris Si genereusement a mon Passage me fait un devoir presque indispensable de Vous informer que par un heureux Concours de Circonstançes Je suis Enfin parvenu a m’Embarquer Effectivement avec Lagrement de M.C. a bord du Brig de LEtat Sus mentionné ou Je suis maintenant nous n’attendons qu’un Vent favorable pour mettre a la voile tandis que LEscadre-Ennemie est occupée...
463Thomas Law to Thomas Jefferson, 13 November 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
For several months I did not think the Baltimore printers “ family anecdote ” of consequence enough to send home, but in May I forwarded it, & my B r Lord Ellenborough says that “ Fox never did or would have used the expressions quoted as his,—it was not his manner of acting” — I am induced to intrude with this, out of justice to so worthy a man, & not to convince you that the Federal...
464James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 11 September 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I send herewith a few papers which have come to my hands along with those addressed to myself. Jackson according to a note sent from Annapolis to M r Smith was to be in Washington on friday evening last. The letters from M r Pinkney brought by him, were dated June 23. and merely rehearsed a conversation with
465Peter Derieux to Thomas Jefferson, 12 December 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
N’ayant pas eu l’honneur de vous ecrire depuis plus de deux ans, par la crainte de vous importuner J’ose esperer que vous me pardonnerés de prendre aujourd’hui cette liberté, pour vous Supplier de me marquer Si les promesses que vous eutes la bonté de me faire par votre Lettre de juillet 1813 . de voulloir bien user votre influence auprés de mon beau pere en ma faveur, ont eu le Succés que...
466Theodorus Bailey to Thomas Jefferson, 27 July 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
The letter under cover has remained in this Office unclaimed for a considerable time—We know not where to send it to meet its address—I have therefore thought it most advisable to return it to you. I should have mentioned that it has been advertised. I embrace this occasion to renew to you the Assurance of my sincere respect and regard. RC ( MHi ); endorsed by TJ as received 11 Aug. 1816 and...
467John Barnes to Thomas Jefferson, 23 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Esteemed fav r 7 h recd 21 st Relieved me from the Vague Rumour, which indeed, I paid little regard to— the Stock—intended for these treasury notes, are the funded 7 ⅌Cents. which I shall attend to—with reference to a Bill on London the Most extravagant exchanges in paper, both to the Northw d and S o w d has so deranged, the exchanges on Europe , that the Shipping Mercht s
468Guerrant & Staples’s Bill to Thomas Jefferson for Food, 12 September 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Jefferson To Breakfast 2 3 3 Servants 4. 6 Dinner 3–0 3 Servants 4–6 5 Horses 24 30 hours 2
469From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 9 April 1809 (Madison Papers)
I return the letter of Mazzei, without however having ascertained the fact as to the remittance by the Sculptor. Latrobe I presume, will give the information in his answer to the letter which I have forwarded to him. He is now in Philada. A Secretary of Legation with a sort of Extra establishment has just arrived from England, with despatches for Erskine. I have a private letter only from...
470Charles Holt to Thomas Jefferson, 25 October 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
As I cannot suppose you for a moment indifferent to the welfare of a country with whose prosperity your name and services are so intimately connected; and as you cannot, therefore, have ceased to feel an interest in the proper conduct of those indices of public opinion the Newspapers, your patronage to one of which I have heretofore so long experienced; I feel myself guilty of great neglect in...