1VIII. Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Bell, 16 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Having learned by Mr. Randolph’s last letter th[at the] post to Charlottesville is now regularly established, I ha[ve given] in to Freneau the list of subscribers you sent me to wit— John Nicholas William Woods Thomas Bell Divers & Lindsay Nicholas Lewis junr. Isaac Miller
2From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Bell, 22 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
You will probably be surprised at t[he receipt of my] letter of the last week . I had been waiting to [give your order] to Freneau; till the postage should be fixed, [and as soon as it] was, sent him your list of subscribers, and des[ired him to be]gin forwarding the papers. But he came to m[e soon after] and told me that he had received an order from you [long] ago, and had been constantly...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Bell, 25 September 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this day drawn an order on you in favor of Mr. Brown for £15–18–9. I have also desired Mr. Lewis if he should receive a debt of £10-14-5 from Lewis’s and Meriwether’s estates for which he is executor, to call on you for £1-12 to make up a sum of £12-6-4½ due to Henry Guy, and if Guy should come in before Mr. Lewis receives the £10-14-5 then to call on you for the whole £12-6-4½ and...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Bell, 14 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
My business here is of such a nature as to oblige me for long intervals to put aside all my private matters, and only to take them up at times when I have a little glimmering of leisure. Hence an almost total abandonment of my pecuniary interests, in cases often of real magnitude: and hence the long delay of answering your favor of Jan. 30. received two months ago. Tho’ I cannot view Mary’s...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Bell, 28 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I am favored with yours of June 12.—Mr. Jefferson my relation had detained the letter to you till he could write back to me and inform me of the difficulty of getting to Charlottesville, and how much more convenient it would be to him to take his goods in Goochld. My business made me late in answering him, and I then repeated my request to him to apply to you, as I observe that from a want of...