3691From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 18 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have laid before the President your letter of the 16th. instant, and in consequence thereof have written to the Attorney General of the US. a letter of which I have the honor to inclose you a copy, and to add assurances of the respect with which I am Sir Your most obedt & most humble servt RC ( DLC : Genet Papers); at foot of text: “The Min. Pleny. of the Republic of France.” PrC ( DLC ). FC...
3692Thomas Jefferson to Caleb Atwater, 21 June 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Sir, for the paper you have been so kind as to send me , and I have read with pleasure the disquisition on the origin of our Indians. this long contested question seems no nearer it’s solution now than when first proposed. I am glad to see the ingenuity of others employed in such investigations, but have lost all interest in them myself . the advance of years tells me they are not...
3693IV. Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson, 30 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I did not expect to write to you again till my return to Philada., but as I think always of you, so I avail myself of every moment to tell you so which a life of business will permit. Such a moment is now offered while passing this lake and it’s border, on which we have just landed, has furnished the means which the want of paper would otherwise have denied me. I write to you on the bark of...
3694Thomas Jefferson to George Frederick Augustus Hauto, 26 March 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 7 th has been duly recieved with the plate therein inclosed describing your hydraulic engine on which you are pleased to ask my opinion. it’s combinations are full of ingenuity, and especially that for converting a rectilineal into a rotatory motion without the great loss of force occasioned by the ordinary means of a crank. but long experience and multiplied disappointments...
3695From Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 20 February 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I am now to acknoledge the receipt of your favor of Jan. 25. Colo. Franks sailed in the packet of this month from Havre for New York. This arrangement of the packets opens a direct communication between Paris and America, and if we succeed as I expect we shall in getting Honfleur made a freeport, I hope to see that place become the deposit for our Whale oil, rice, tobacco and furs, and that...
3696From Thomas Jefferson to Burrill Carnes, 9 August 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I am now to acknolege the receipt of your favor of July 19. By a letter of this day to Messrs. Schweighauser & Dobree I have asked the favor of them to put into your hands one of the good muskets, bayonets and sabres which came from Holland, and to inform you what they think they would sell for, if they should be sold. This information I will ask you to communicate to the Commissioners of the...
3697Thomas Jefferson to Richard Rush, 2 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Rush , & his thanks for the copy of his oration of the 4 th of July, which he has been so kind as to send him, and for his the friendly wishes for he expresses for his health and happiness. to the last nothing contributes more than the contemplation of such specimens as mr Rush has sent him of the eloquence of his country devoted to the celebration...
3698From Thomas Jefferson to John Holmes Freeman, 19 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I now inclose you 350. D. to be applied as follows. James Walker 100 . D John Perry 100 .
3699From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Carrington Cabell, 23 January 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
When I wrote my letter of yesterday I had not seen the Enquirer of the 17 th I recieved it in the evening & did not close my eyes thro’ the night but to dream of the Scotch gift presented us by the University bill with it’s amendatory Provisos. for thus they make it stand. ‘Be it enacted that the 15,000. D. annual endowment given to the University shall stand discharged of all liability for...
3700From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 8 November 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I will sign a proclamation for the sale of the lands North West of Ohio whenever you think proper. I believe the form is in your office. and in the course of this week we will agree on the officers. I am afraid we know too little as yet of the leadmines to establish a permanent system. I verily believe that of leasing will be far the best for the US. but it will take time to find out what rent...
3701[From Thomas Jefferson to Nathanael Greene, 13 February 1781] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Richmond, 13 Feb. 1781. Minute in Va. Council Jour. , ii , 292: “Tuesday February 13th 1781 … Letters of this date from the Governor to General Greene, Colonel John Gibson, and Colonel Brodhead, on the Subject of the Western Expedition … being read, are approved, and ordered to be registered.” No such letter from TJ to Greene has been found and none of this date was acknowledged by Greene....
3702From Thomas Jefferson to William H. Cabell, 9 August 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of the 7th. I informed you that on consultation at Washington it had been concluded best to commit the whole business of flags to Capt Decatur. I now find that I had not recollected our conclusion correctly, and that it had been understood that the commanding officers, by land & water should have equal authority to license the sending & recieving flags: which is not only proper,...
3703From Thomas Jefferson to the Auditors, with Account of Goods Furnished to the Indians by Major Linctot, 11 November 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
Be pleased to issue on the within certificate from Colo. Broadhead a warrant for the sum due on the within account in specie or it’s value in paper money at the current exchange, to be paid to Majr. Lintot or order and charged to the Continent. An Account of what goods Mr. Godfrey Linctot Major and Agent General of all the Indien Nations have Furnished to the Indiens for the Service of the...
3704From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph H. Nicholson, 20 November 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his salutations to mr Nicholson and will furnish him with the information desired respecting gunboats. in the message it was considered as prudent to place the paragraph respecting insults in our harbors, & that on gunboats as far apart as the frame of the message would bear, that they might not appear in connection as a menace, nor bring any of the measures into...
3705Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Macon, 19 August 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
You have probably seen in the newspapers a letter of mine recommending Col o Taylor ’s book to the notice of our fellow-citizens. I am pelted for it in print, and in letters, also, complaining of the unfair use made of it by certain commentators. for this misuse I cannot be responsible. but I inclose to you my answer to one of these letters and place it in your hands as the Depository of old &...
3706Thomas Jefferson to William Richardson, 25 July 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
hav g rec d no answer to my l re of the 2 d inst. I wrote again to W m Richardson , Richmond , for ½ doz. yds scarlet Rattinet ,
3707From Thomas Jefferson to Matthew L. Davis and William A. Davis, 21 December 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Oct. 14 did not get to my hands till the 3d. of Nov. when the arrangements for my departure to this place engrossed my whole time nor have I been master of the earliest part of it here. With respect to the Notes on Virginia which you propose to reprint it is not in my power to add to, or alter them at present. the subject would require more time & enquiry than are within my power...
3708Thomas Jefferson to Frederick A. Mayo, 2 March 1822 (abstract) (Jefferson Papers)
wrote to him for Johnsons & Warner ’s edn of 1813. of Johnson ’s dict. FC ( MHi ); abstract in TJ’s hand at foot of text of PoC of TJ to Mayo, 19 Feb. 1822 ; on verso of a reused address cover of Joel Yancey to TJ. Not recorded in SJL .
3709Thomas Jefferson to John B. Spargella, 10 February 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Spargella , and his thanks for the elegant engravings of which he has been so kind as to send him half a dozen copies. he fears it will be to the design and execution, more than to the choice of subject they may owe their success. he tenders nevertheless his acknolegements to mr Spargella for the his partiality in the selection of a subject for the...
3710Thomas Jefferson to Eleuthère I. du Pont de Nemours, 30 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
After having expected for some time that you would be so kind as to inform me of the amount of the keg of powder you sent me, that I might remit it to you, I wrote to you on the 4 th of Nov. last , requesting that favor, & that you would add to it the amount of a similar envoy of powder to be forwarded to me, that both parcels might be paid for in one remittance. I had not then learnt the...
3711Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Johnson, 29 November 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I intended to have gone to mr Clay’s this morning believing it would tend to ensure his meeting us. but the forenoon was so unlikely that I did not go. I will go tomorrow morning to see him and must therefore request you to put off our meeting till Tuesday morning at the hour & place agreed on. in the mean time to shorten our work after other things shall be settled, I have prepared a deed of...
3712From Thomas Jefferson to George Wythe, 13 June 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
An indisposition of several weeks has prevented my sooner acknowledging the reciept of your favor of Apr. 22.—The bookseller whom I have employed at Strasburgh always is Armand Koenig. A Biographical dictionary to which I have been obliged to have recourse for information about Phlegon, authorises me to inform you of these circumstances relative to him. He was surnamed Trallion, from a city in...
3713From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 17 September 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the perusal of the two letters which are now inclosed. I would also have inclosed Fenno’s two last papers but that Mr. Randolph, who has them, has rode out. If he returns in time they shall be sent you by the bearer. They contain nothing material but the Secretary’s progress in paying the national debt, and attacks and defences relating to it. The simple question appears to me...
3714From Thomas Jefferson to Geismar, 20 February 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
You have had great reason, my dear Sir, to wonder that you have been so long receiving an answer to your request relative to the drawings of a Cabriolet and Phaeton. Your object was to have such drawings as that a workman could work by them. A painter’s eye draught would not have answered this purpose; and indeed to be sure of having them done with the accuracy necessary to guide a workman I...
3715From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 12 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of the 14th. of August I inclosed you a note respecting some abuses said to have been committed in the works at Newport. tho’ I am since informed that the facts are possibly or even probably true, yet I find they were sent to me under a forged name. this may render circumspection necessary, as it certainly lessens the probability of the truth of the information. I thought it...
3716From Thomas Jefferson to Ferdinand Grand, 22 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honoured with your letter of yesterday on the subject of the accounts of the United states and of Virginia. My only object in allotting to each the articles which had been paid for them respectively was to enable you to send to the commissioners of the treasury an exact state of the advances which have been made for them: otherwise those advances will appear less than they really are....
3717From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 23 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you the letter of a mr Shuter asking permission to send a vessel to Lima. in this you will be pleased to do according to rule, the case presenting no circumstance to entitle itself to an exemption. Also the letter of Stephen Cross of Newbury port suggesting laxity in his brother the Collector, and a spirit of resistance to the laws in the place. Lastly an anonymous letter from N.Y....
3718Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Williams, 11 June 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of June 12 th was recieved in due time. having occasion now to remit to mr Appleton a further sum of 1305. Dollars I have desired my correspondent in Richmond Col o Bernard Peyton to procure a bill netting that sum in London , made payable to yourself according to his instructions. this sum I have to request you to remit to him with the inclosed letter which informs him of the...
3719Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 7 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
The season for my annual call for books and wines from France now recurring, I had desired my correspondent mr Gibson of Richmond to remit you a sum of 400.D. which he writes me he has done. this I must request you, according to your usual goodness, to dispose of for me by investing it in a safe bill on Paris , where I wish 135.D of it made payable to Mess rs Debures, freres , libraires de...
3720From Thomas Jefferson to John Garland Jefferson, 4 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of Oct. 21. and now inclose you an order on Mr. Brown of Richmond for seventy five dollars, which according to your statement in the letter will suffice for your fall supply and a quarter’s board. Before another quarter is out I shall be in Virginia and will take care to furnish you with another order in time. I do not recollect whether you had made a beginning...