51From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 28 November 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
It is so cold that the freezing of the ink on the point of my pen renders it difficult to write....
52Deed of Mortgage of Slaves to Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 21 November 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
This deed made on the 21st. day of Nov. 1796. between Thomas Jefferson of Albemarle in Virginia...
53From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 13 November 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
Your two favors of Sep. 25. and Oct. 15. are duly recieved. It will be proper to have the sashes...
54From Thomas Jefferson to John Carey, 10 November 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Sep. 1. came to hand three […] [It] had been recieved in due time, but was not...
55From Thomas Jefferson to John Stuart, 10 November 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the receipt of your last favor together with the bones of the Great-claw...
56From Thomas Jefferson to James Currie, 22 October 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
The return of Mr. Randolph’s servant affords me the first opportunity of informing you that I...
57From Thomas Jefferson to William Cocke, 21 October 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
The letter you were so good as to [write me of late?] came duly to hand, and I always learn with...
58From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Smith Barton, 10 October 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors should have been sooner acknoleged but that I have been in daily expectation of...
59From Thomas Jefferson to Bushrod Washington, 9 October 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I now inclose you the record in the case of Dickenson v. Paulett and Marks. Mr. Marks, by...
60From Thomas Jefferson to William Booker, 4 October 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this summer had a threshing machine made on the Scotch model, and have already got out a...
61From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 2 October 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
Your two favors of Sep. 18. and 20. are recieved, and I now inclose letters to Mr. Donath and Mr....
62From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Donath, 2 October 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Sep. 22. came to hand two days ago, by which I observe you have laid by for me 7....
63From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 11 September 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just recieved from Mr. Donath a letter announcing that he has brought my glass. The two...
64From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Donath, 11 September 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I know not how it happened that your favor of Aug. 8. did not reach me till our last post. A...
65Questions on the Cow Pea, with Answers of Philip Tabb, [after 30 August 1796?] (Jefferson Papers)
Questions relative to the Cow-pea. Answers. 1. Does dry or moist Land, rich or poor, suit it...
66From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Pleasants, [27 August 1796] (Jefferson Papers)
[…] the establishment of the plan of emancipation if it should precede I am not prepared to...
67From Thomas Jefferson to Wilson Cary Nicholas, 19 August 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I now inclose you the draught you desired, which I have endeavored to arrange according to the...
68From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 19 August 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
We are all well, and nothing new in our neighborhood. I have not heard from Edgehill this week....
69From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 12 August 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your favor from Staunton , and was happy to learn that your journey was agreeing with...
70From Thomas Jefferson to George Wythe, 8 August 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
The object of my letter of January 16. was the preservation of the laws of this state still in...
71From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 7 August 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of July 27. mentioning that Mr. Donath’s arrival with my glass...
72From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Eppes, 4 August 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieve with great satisfaction your information that we are likely to get Cary’s claim against...
73From Thomas Jefferson to William Alexander, 26 July 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
The large and constant remittances of cash which I am obliged to make to Philadelphia for nailrod...
74From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Willis, 15 July 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I was happy to recieve your favor by your son and happier to recieve him, and to learn that you...
75From Thomas Jefferson to Madame de Chastellux, 10 July 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
The letters of May 26. and Sep. 7. with which you honored me found me retired from business...
76From Thomas Jefferson to Tench Coxe, 10 July 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of June 22. has been duly recieved, and I again avail myself of the permission to...
77From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 10 July 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
Your brother recieved a letter from you a few days since in which he says you mention having...
78From Thomas Jefferson to J. P. P. Derieux, [4 July 1796?] (Jefferson Papers)
[…] after […] Loss by fire you […] I procured 2. bed ticks, 3 pair sheets, and 6. blankets to ask...
79From Thomas Jefferson to David Rittenhouse, 3 July 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letter has been misdirected to me. The services therein offered are for the...
80From Thomas Jefferson to Jonathan Williams, 3 July 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I take shame to myself for having so long left unanswered your valuable favor on the subject of...
81From Thomas Jefferson to —— Hite, 29 June 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof is the Duke de Liancourt one of the principal noblemen of France and one of the...
82From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 29 June 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
The very contracted state of my acquaintance in my own country after so long an absence, and the...
83From Thomas Jefferson to John Breckinridge, 21 June 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of introducing to you Mr. Volney the celebrated traveller, author, and member...
84From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ducoigne, [21 June 1796] (Jefferson Papers)
This letter will be delivered you by Mr. Volney, my friend, [and a] countryman of old France. He...
85From Thomas Jefferson to Harry Innes, 21 June 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Volney is so well known for his celebrated travels and other works, and as a member of the...
86From Thomas Jefferson to Henri Peyroux de la Coudrèniere, 21 June 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
Retired to my estate and withdrawn from the bustle of public life I had not expected an occasion...
87From Thomas Jefferson to Isaac Shelby, 21 June 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be delivered to you by Mr. Volney, well known in the literary world and a distinguished...
88From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 21 June 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof is Mr. Volney the celebrated traveller and author of several works highly...
89To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 19 June 1796 (Washington Papers)
In Bache’s Aurora of the 9th inst. which came here by the last post a paper appears which, having...
90From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 19 June 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you May 22. advising you of a draught for 100.D. payable to Saml. Howell junr. & Co. The...
91From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington du Motier de Lafayette, [19 June 1796] (Jefferson Papers)
The enquiries of Congress were the first intimation which reached my retirement of your being in...
92From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 19 June 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
In Bache’s Aurora of the 9th. inst. which came here by the last post, a paper appears which,...
93From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 12 June 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
The dreadful misfortune of poor Derieux , who has lost his house and all it’s contents by fire...
94From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Willson Peale, 5 June 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved a proposition from Europe which may perhaps be turned to account for the...
95From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Marx, 4 June 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I am favored with yours of May 29. Some time in the course of the last year I was informed by Mr....
96From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 26 May 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
Two or three days before the reciept of your favor of the 20th. I had recieved a letter from Mr....
97From Thomas Jefferson to John Stuart, 26 May 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I have great acknolegements to make you for your favor of April 11. which came to hand a few days...
98From Thomas Jefferson to James Brown, 23 May 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Randolph tells me that a hogshead of my P. Forest tobacco has been lately sold by the...
99From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 2[2] May 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 22d. of the last month I drew on you in favor of Robert Barclay for twenty seven dollars...
100From Thomas Jefferson to Mann Page, [16 May 1796] (Jefferson Papers)
I am growing old, and am grown lazy, and particularly [in wri]ting letters. Yet, when any...