391Thomas Jefferson to Honore Julien, 8 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has recieved with pleasure & thankfulness M r Julien’s letter of the new year’s day , and his kind wishes & compliments of the season, which he reciprocates with much cordiality. he will always be happy to hear of his welfare & prosperity. the occupations of the garden, the workshops, & the farms fill up the whole of Th: Jefferson’s time with attentions equally interesting to his...
392Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Provenchere, 8 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respectful salutations to Mons r Provenchere , and with pleasure complies with the request of M. Silvestre , with whom he has the advantage of a correspondence by sending him the inclosed letter , lately recieved under cover from M. Silvestre . PoC ( MHi
393Thomas Jefferson to Elizabeth Eppes, 9 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Dec. 9 . did not get to hand till the day before yesterday, and then without the article for Francis said to be inclosed. whether forgotten to be inclosed or lost by the way yourself will be able to know. Francis had written his first letter to his papa , his second to his Mama , and had been promising to prepare one for yourself for a day or two before the reciept of yours. it...
394Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 10 January [1810] (Jefferson Papers)
You proposed to me at court the hiring one of the shoemakers of your late brother , which at that time I declined. I will now however be willing to take him and should prefer having the one which can sew the neatest. I really think the house, garden E t c at Bunker’s hill rents too low. it cannot be worth less than 50.D and I suppose that this is the time for fixing it’s rent at a proper...
395Thomas Jefferson to Peter V. Daniel, 11 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Dec. 22. did not get to hand till the 7 th inst t . it would have given me great pleasure to be able to furnish any useful information on the case of John Stadler ; & the more so as it would have been a gratification to the interest you take personally in the welfare of his family. the name does not sound new to me. but I have racked my recollection in vain as to any knolege of...
396Thomas Jefferson to John Wood, 11 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to thank you for the publication you have been pleased to send me, on the Cycloid, & it’s application to the diurnal rotation of the earth, to the winds & tides. it is a work of great Mathematical erudition; and it’s calculations & principles will doubtless excite the attention of Mathematicians of the first order. I propose to send two or three copies to my Mathematical friends beyond...
397Thomas Jefferson to Elias Glover, 13 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Dec. 10 . is safely recieved as had been that of Nov. 1 . I have not examined my papers to see if I have the letter from Matthew Nimmo of Nov. 28. 1806. which you ask for. I have no recollection whether I recieved such a letter. but it is not on that ground I decline looking for & communicating it . besides the general principles of law & reason which render correspondences even...
398Thomas Jefferson to Bernard McMahon, 13 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Dec. 24. did not get to hand till the 3 d inst. and I return you my thanks for the garden seeds which came safely. I am curious to select only one or two of the best species of or variety of every garden vegetable, and to reject all others from the garden to avoid the dangers of mixture & degeneracy. some plants of your gooseberry, of the Hudson & Chili strawberries, & some bulbs...
399Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Thweatt, 13 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of Dec. 28 . & Jan. 4. have been duly recieved. I had not recollected the admission of the will in the bill. this however I presume they would be permitted to correct by amendment if it were found they had done it against the fact. but their quotation gives me a hope the will is recorded, as I know not how else they could have a copy. There was a compleat set of accounts current...
400Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 15 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Dec. 12. has been duly recieved as was also that of Sep. 28. with the blank subscription paper for the academy of Frederic county , inclosed in your letter of Sep. nothing has been done. I go rarely from home, & therefore have little opportunity of solliciting subscriptions. nor could I do it in the present case in conformity with my own judgment of what is best for institutions...
401Thomas Jefferson to George Richardson, 16 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Dec. 22. has been duly recieved. if you wish to write to your brother in Jamaica & will send the letter to me I will endeavor to get a conveyance for it. should you propose to go to Jamaica , it is presumed a passage can always be had from any of the seaport towns, where also you can be al inoculated with the kine pox before your departure. Baltimore or Norfolk would I suppose...
402Thomas Jefferson to Eli Alexander, 17 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
When I saw you at court I requested you would not meddle with any grounds without the 8. fields of Shadwell till we should settle our difference as to Lego . yet in my ride to-day I percieve you have ploughed a considerable piece of ground outside of those fields. if we cannot settle this question between ourselves, or by disinterested neighbors, I shall not decline the umpirage of the law,...
403Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 17 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
It is long since I have had occasion to write to you. your favor of the 12 th now furnishes it. the annual remittance to my friend Kosciuzko shall never wait a moment for my quota of it. accordingly I now inclose you a letter to Mess rs Gibson & Jefferson who will thereupon pay the sum you shall call for. it’s precise amount I cannot fix so well as you can. you know what would have been the...
404Thomas Jefferson to Dabney Carr, 17 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote some time ago to mr Barlow to ask the favor of him to lend me an instrument called a Dynamometer, and took the liberty of saying you were to be in Washington shortly and would be so kind as to bring it. it is in a box about the size of that of a surveying compas. will you be so good as to call on him, & take charge of it if he can spare it to me. Your’s affectionately PoC ( MHi ); at...
405Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 17 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 10 th came safely to hand, and I now inclose you a letter from Francis . he continues in excellent health, and employs his time well. he has written to his Mama & grandmama . I observe that the H. of R. are sensible of the ill effect of the long speeches in their house on their proceedings. but they have a worse effect in the disgust they excite among the people, and the...
406Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 17 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Since mine of the 3 d inst. I have drawn on you on the 11 th for 30.D. paiable to John Butler or order, and for 20.D. paiable to Edmund Bacon or order. and this day I have inclosed to mr Barnes a letter addressed to you, desiring you to answer his draught for a sum of between 3. & 400.D. which is not exactly known to me, but will be fixed by him. Affectionately Yours
407Thomas Jefferson to William Baldwin (Draft), 19 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 7 th inst. has been duly recieved, with the pamphlet inclosed, for which I return you my thanks. nothing can be more exactly & seriously true than what is there stated; that but a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, & perverted into an engine for...
408Thomas Jefferson to William Baldwin (Final State), 19 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns to mr Baldwin his thanks for the copy of the letters of Cerus & Amicus just recieved from him he sincerely wishes it’s circulation among the society of friends may have the effect mr Baldwin expects of abating their prejudices against the government of their country. but he apprehends their disease is too deeply seated: that identifying themselves with the mother society...
409Resolutions of the Orleans Territorial Legislature, [19 January 1810] (Jefferson Papers)
Resolutions. Résolutions. Resolved by the Legislative Council and by the house of Representatives of the Territory of Orleans , that the long, important and faithfull public services of Thomas Jefferson , late President of the United States , entitle him to the thanks of a gratefull nation. Résolu par le Conseil Legislatif
410Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 19 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns mr Ritchie thanks for the copy of mr Wood’s New theory of the rotation of the earth which he has safely recieved. he thinks he was indebted to mr Ritchie some time ago for a copy of Peter Plimley’s letters also, and that he has failed to make his acknolegements for it. he begs him now to recieve them, and to assure him that he has rarely met with such a treat. he...
411Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Main, 20 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 10 th inst. has been duly recieved & I now return you the paper it inclosed with some subscriptions to it. I go rarely from home, & therefore have little opportunity of promoting subscriptions. these are of the friends who visit me, and if you will send their copies, when ready, to me, I will distribute them, and take on myself the immediate remittance of the price to you. I...
412Thomas Jefferson to Jesse Perry, 20 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Watkins , who superintended & worked with my out-carpenters, has left me this year. he was employed in such carpenter’s work as the plantations required, and I gave him 150. Dollars a year, his provisions & a house to live in. I do not know on what footing you are at present employed with your brother , & certainly do not mean to break in on any arrangement of his with you. but if it...
413Thomas Jefferson to John M. Perry, 20 January 1810, with Notes on Agreement with Perry, 19 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
There is an old affair between mr Magruder & myself which I really had supposed done with, but he has lately revived it. he furnished me with some plank, & charged such extravagant prices as never had been given in this neighborhood by the half. I paid him according to the highest prices I had ever paid, amounting to £27–9 and wrote him that if he was not satisfied with that I would replace...
414Thomas Jefferson to Thomas T. Hewson, 21 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of the 8 th inst. informing me that the American Philosophical society had been pleased again unanimously to re-elect me their President. for these continued testimonies of their favor, I can but renew the expressions of my continued gratitude, and the assurances of my entire devotion to their service. if in my present situation, I can, in any wise, forward...
415Thomas Jefferson to Jonathan & Thomas Foster, 23 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to Mess rs J. & Thomas Foster for the Prospectus of their paper. he would willingly have become a subscriber, but that, attached to reading of a very different kind, & to other pursuits, he has ceased to read newspapers & consequently to subscribe for them. he prays them therefore to recieve this apology, with his best wishes for the success of their paper &...
416Thomas Jefferson to Erastus Granger, 23 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Granger with his thanks for the two specimens of Indian eloquence which he was pleased to send him, & are safely recieved. they are both of a very high order of merit, & especially that of Red Jackett . he is very sensible of this mark of attention from mr Granger & of the kind sentiments expressed in his letter & prays him to accept the assurances...
417Thomas Jefferson to Paul Hamilton, 23 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letter would have been more properly addressed to yourself, or perhaps to the Secretary at War . I have no knolege at all of the writer; but suppose the best use I can make of his letter, as to himself or the public, is to inclose it to you for such notice only as the public utility may entitle it to. perhaps I should ask the favor of you to communicate it, with the samples, &...
418Thomas Jefferson to Joel Barlow, 24 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 15 th is recieved & I am disconsolate on learning my mistake as to your having a dynamometer. my object being to bring a plough to be made here to the same standard of comparison by which Guillaume’s has been proved, t nothing less would be satisfactory than an instrument made by the same standard. I must import one therefore, but how, in the present state of non-intercourse is...
419Thomas Jefferson to Gideon Granger, 24 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I was sorry, by a letter from mr Barlow the other day, to learn the ill state of your health, and I sincerely wish that this may find you better. young, temperate, & prudent as you are, great confidence may be reposed in the provision nature has made for the restoration of order in our system when it has become deranged; she effects her object by strengthening the whole system, towards which...
420Thomas Jefferson to John Garland Jefferson, 25 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Dec. 12. was long coming to hand. I am much concerned to learn that any disagreeable impression was made on your mind by the circumstances which are the subject of your letter. permit me first to explain the principles which I had laid down for my own observance. in a government like ours it is the duty of the Chief-magistrate, in order to enable himself to do all the good which...