1To Thomas Jefferson from Peregrine Fitzhugh, 25 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Indian Queen, 25 Feb. 1793 . The enclosed will explain his embarrassing situation and the expedient adopted for his relief. The success of his lottery entirely depends on the exertions of relatives and friends as well as the support of a “Humane Public.” He would patiently accept his disappointment if only his happiness were at stake, but he can leave no means untried when his beloved wife and...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Peregrine Fitzhugh, 25 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeably to my promise I cover you as many Grains of the Cumberland Corn as can be conveniently conveyed in a Letter and I hope they will reach you safe. I have also sealed up very carefully about a Pint of the same Corn and shall request our Friend John Mason to forward it to some Gentleman in Fredericksburg of whom I will give you notice in a P.S. to this Letter that you may direct any of...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Peregrine Fitzhugh, 19 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg you to accept my thanks for your favor of the 9th. ulto. and for the peas which it notifies having been lodged for me with my friend John T. Mason. I shall receive them in a few days and will pay every attention to their Culture. I have lately met with some of the same species of Corn tho’ in a much purer state than what I sent you but the Season being too far advanced to admit a chance...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Peregrine Fitzhugh, 20 June 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been duly favored with your Letter of the 4th. Inst. and beg you to accept my thanks for the various interesting communications which it contains. I shall certainly avail myself of the information which you have been polite enough to give me on the subject of News papers. Bache’s we already have, to this I will add Smiths when he begins to publish. We receive as you surmize the...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Peregrine Fitzhugh, 15 October 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I took the Liberty of thanking you for your favor of the 4th. of June in a Long Letter directed to you at Philadelphia but having seen in the papers a few days after an account of your departure from thence for Virginia I had then my doubts and am still under an uncertainty whether it arrived in time to find you there or whether it ever got to your hands. As that Letter contained some...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Peregrine Fitzhugh, 2 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
The occasion will I hope be a sufficient apology for this Letter which might on any other be deemed presumptuous and obtrusive. From the last Accounts we have received the aspect of our public affairs in which are materially involv’d those of this part of the Country appears to be getting every day more gloomy; and altho I say and do every thing in my power to check the growing Fears of my...