1From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, [5 April 1790] (Jefferson Papers)
Th:J. sends to Mr. Remsent the letters of Mr. Short to be filed, first copying and sending him the paragraph mentioned to him before. He will thank him for the printed cypher he established with the O. of Foreign Aff. as he may use it safely with Mr. Short, who will have access to his copy at Paris. RC ( CtY ); undated, but endorsed by Remsen: “Mr. Jefferson April 5. 1790” addressed: “Mr....
2From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, [9 August 1790] (Jefferson Papers)
Th : Jefferson being to go to the President’s at 8. aclock, and perhaps for the day, would be glad to see Mr. Remsen at least a quarter before 8. and that he will bring with him whatever printed cyphers he has of the kind furnished by Th: J. in order to compare them with two he has received from Mr. Adams. RC (George A. Ball, Muncie, Indiana, 1945); undated; addressed: “Mr. Remsen” and written...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 18 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved yours of the 16th. inst. and sincerely condole with you on the great loss you have sustained. Experience, however, in the same bitter school has taught me that it is not condoleance, but time and silence alone which can heal those wounds. I beg you not to hasten your return to this place earlier than your own feelings and the affairs of your family may dictate, as we can...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 14 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly recieved your favor of the 11th. with the pamphlet it inclosed, for which be pleased to accept my thanks. In accepting the office I am in, I knew I was to set myself up as a butt of reproach, not only for my own errors, but for the errors of those who would undertake to judge me. It was the objection which the longest delayed my acquiescence in the President’s appointment. I have...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, [10?] August 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th:J. will be obliged to Mr. Remsen to purchase two copies of Hutchins’s historical narrative of Louisiana and West-Florida immediately. They are for Mr. Short and Mr. Carmichael, to be paid for out of his contingent money. He will thank him for a 3d. copy which he will pay for himself. It is said they are to be had at Berry & Rogers’s. RC ( DLC photostat); dateline partly illegible. Not...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 7 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
You may remember that I troubled you with my letters of Mar. 18. to Messrs. Carmichael and Short, their instructions &c which you had written me word you could send to Amsterdam by a ship of Messrs. brothers Coster & co. which was to sail about the 21st. of March. By a letter from Mr. Short dated Amsterdam July 20. he had not yet recieved them, and being anxious on the subject had enquired of...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 13 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I am to acknolege the receipt of your favor of Oct. 15. and to thank you for the medal it contained, which was the first I had seen.—You may remember that before your departure from this place I informed you of my intention to retire from my office in March next. Accordingly when I was in Virginia the last summer I put under way all the arrangements necessary for resuming my buildings the...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 25 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I am extremely obliged to you for the trouble you have so kindly taken in my little commissions. Schneider did mention to me the price of 2. dollars a day, at the time I asked if he would go to Virginia to work for me, and I remember I thought it enormous, but at the same time concluded as the time of my employing him was very distant, it would be time enough to settle price when I should make...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 11 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of July 29. and Aug. 1. are now before me, and the inkpot was duly received, for which I return you a thousand thanks, for it is to me a great convenience. You did not mention the price, but I suppose it to be about 3. dollars (judging from the former one) and will not fail to replace it by the first person I can find passing. Schneider’s price is high. I must do the less in his...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 9 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I am returned to this place about a week ago, the President having concluded to fix the Executive here till the meeting of Congress or till we shall see whether Philadelphia becomes safe. It is believed to be so now, insomuch that the refugee inhabitants are flocking into it. It is said there are no new subjects in the hands of the Physicians since the great rains. Some of those before...
11From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, [14 November 1791] (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson will be obliged to Mr. Remsen to have copies made out immediately of the reports in the cases of How, and Colvill for the President also of the clause which was changed in Mangnall’s. RC ( PWacD photostat); date established from the reports of 14 Nov. 1791, a Monday, printed in Vol. 22: 295–300.
12From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 30 October 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
I received yesterday your friendly favor of the inst. and have to thank you for your attention to the gongs. There being two of them did not merit apology: I am glad to get them, and can find use for both. Be so good as to tender to Mr. Gouverneur my particular thanks for his attention to this little commission. I inclose you an order for 25. Dollars on Mr. Lownes of Philadelphia, which...
13From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 11 March 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of Feb. 3 . and have to acknolege the safe receipt of the gongs, and thank you for your care of them. The threshing machine was also safely received very long ago, and I thought I had acknoleged it.—I am engaged in a nail manufactory , which I carry on altogether with my own boys, and am enlarging it as more and more of these grow up. I have 9 now at work, and...
14From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 2 April 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to you two or three posts ago, since which, the applications of my customers for 4d. nails have convinced me that I must make them, and experience of doing it on the anvil shews some other method must be tried. I have also recollected that at either Troy or some other little town up the Hudson I saw a man cutting the 4d. nails and that the implements were of very small cost, and not...
15From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 18 June 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the receipt of your favor of April 30th . By that I observed you expected Mr. Burral to be shortly in New York and to give you further information on the subject of the machine for cutting nails. Without waiting for the further information, (as I am much pressed for nails) I am disposed to accept his offer of making a machine for 40. Dollars. The difference of a few dollars...
16From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 17 December 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Nov. 23 . came to hand yesterday. Three days after the date of mine of Oct. 16 . yours of Sep. 11 . came to hand, and very soon after I learnt the arrival of the nail machine at Richmond. I expect now every day to recieve it here, for such is the lax and careless mode of business in this state that both the time and insurance for getting any thing brought from Richmond here (70...