31To James Madison from Isaac Briggs, 8 March 1823 (Madison Papers)
On the 30th. of January last the Board of Public Works of Virginia elected, for their principal...
32Isaac Briggs to Thomas Jefferson, 21 May 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 15 or 16 instant I wrote to thee from New York , informing thee that I had received an...
33Isaac Briggs to Thomas Jefferson, 9 May 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I feel myself treading on sacred ground when I approach the scenes illuminated and made glorious...
34To Thomas Jefferson from Isaac Briggs, 9 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
My last letter to thee was dated at this place, 29th. of the month just past, a few days after my...
35To Thomas Jefferson from Isaac Briggs, 22 December 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Although still in state of convalescence, and but just able to attend to business a few minutes...
36To Thomas Jefferson from Isaac Briggs, 24 June 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
A few days since, I returned from the Eastward, where I had been viewing and examining in...
37To Thomas Jefferson from Isaac Briggs, 27 September 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I have before me thy favor dated April 26. 06. Thy own benevolent heart can estimate more justly...
38Isaac Briggs to Thomas Jefferson, 30 March 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Thy kind letter of 27 Ultimo , I received on the 2 instant. It was like a healing balm to my...
39To Thomas Jefferson from Isaac Briggs, 2 October 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
No doubt it is matter of surprise that we proceed so slowly. Indeed when I undertook this journey...
40Isaac Briggs to Thomas Jefferson, 16 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
May I intrude on that retirement where from a dignified elevation the mind looks over the...
41To Thomas Jefferson from Isaac Briggs, 8 September 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 12th. of the month just past, I arrived at Natchez;—on the day following I waited on...
42To Thomas Jefferson from Isaac Briggs, 31 October 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Having heard that the Commissioners for adjusting and reporting the evidences of claims to land...
43Isaac Briggs to Thomas Jefferson, 7 May 1816, with Postscript by Mary B. Briggs (Jefferson Papers)
Thy kind favor, of Apr 17. 16 , had been forwarded from Brookeville to this place, my present...
44To Thomas Jefferson from Isaac Briggs, 3 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
About 12 days ago, I returned from an excursion up the Mississippi river. The object of this...
45To Thomas Jefferson from Isaac Briggs, 9 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I am apprehensive that what I am about to write would by a mind less benevolent than thine be...
46To Thomas Jefferson from Isaac Briggs, 1 March 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeably to my promise , I have investigated thy Problem for finding the longitude by lunar...
47Isaac Briggs’s Account of a Visit to Monticello, 2–4 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
In my last letter to you, dated on the 7, I brought down to my arrival at Monticello the narative...
48To Thomas Jefferson from Isaac Briggs, 24 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
As a member of the American Philosophical Society I take the liberty of addressing its President....
49Isaac Briggs to Thomas Jefferson, 15 May 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived here the day before yesterday—and I have this day received the appointment of surveyor...
50To Thomas Jefferson from Isaac Briggs, 18 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
By last mail, on the 11th. instant, I wrote to thee acknowledging the receipt of thy acceptable...
51To Thomas Jefferson from Isaac Briggs, 26 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
It was with a high degree of satisfaction, I observed in a letter I lately received from my...
52To George Washington from Andrew Ellicott, Benjamin Ellicott, and Isaac Briggs, 29 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
We trust we have manifested, during our employment in the city of Washington, our zeal for its...
53To Thomas Jefferson from Isaac Briggs, 2 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Some time ago—very long after its date—the mail brought me thy favor of the 11th. of August. I...
54To Thomas Jefferson from Isaac Briggs, 26 November 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I am just arrived here in safety and good health after a journey, of the unavoidable delays,...