17571From Thomas Jefferson to George Dyson, 5 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Having occasion to desire a pipe of the wine of Marsalla from mr John Woodhouse merchant of that place, mr Smith the Secretary of the Navy has authorised me to desire mr Woodhouse to draw on you for paiment, and your draught on the Navy department shall be placed to the credit of your account with the United States. mr Woodhouse will accordingly draw on you which I hope will be honored, and...
17572From Thomas Jefferson to David Gelston, 5 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I troubled you yesterday with a letter for mr Appleton to be sent by the John Adams, but if she be gone, to be returned to me. I take the liberty now of asking the same favor as to those inclosed addressed to Messrs. Cathalan, Higgins & Woodhouse and salute you with friendly respects. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
17573From Thomas Jefferson to William Higgins, 5 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
A wine of Marsalla in Sicily beginning to obtain credit here for it’s resemblance to that of Madeira, I am desirous of trying it, and have been advised to address myself to you as most able to furnish me of the best. I therefore ask the favor of you to send me two pipes of your best, addressing them to the Collector of the customs of any port of the US. to which the vessel on which they are...
17574From Thomas Jefferson to John Lenthall, 5 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Lenthall and sends him a letter this moment recieved inclosed from mr Latrobe. being handed him among his own he broke it open without looking at the superscription; but seeing mr Lenthall’s name at the head of it, he closed it instantly & assures him on his honor he did not read one other word in it. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
17575From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Willson Peale, 5 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
By Capt. Hand who sailed 4. days ago, I sent the desk polygraph you left here, and the box of minerals. freight paid here. in the former box is a book for mr Vaughan. with the minerals was a list of those furnished by mr King. but there were some sent me by Capt. Lewis which you will find described in the inclosed list from him. the more I reflect on the improvement of your son by projecting...
17576From Thomas Jefferson to J. Phillipe Reibelt, 5 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night yours of the 3d. the volumes of the Oiseaux de Buffon which I possess are bound in that kind of binding which has been most common in France for many years, spotted, the leaves red on the edge, and double lettered on red. the two pieces you sent me on printing & the polytypage are so curious, & on so interesting an art, that I propose to keep them with your leave. I...
17577From Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 5 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Apr. 29. came to hand the day after mine of May 2. was written. some parts of it therefore were anticipated. I inclose for examination a most excellent account of the Washita river written by the Chevalier D’Annemours, formerly Consul of France in Virginia & Maryland, & who has resided on the Washita now many years. he is a man of science, good sense, & truth, and may be relied...
17578From Thomas Jefferson to John Woodhouse, 5 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Being informed that you are settled at Marsalla for the purpose of carrying on a trade in the wines of that place which so much resemble those of Madeira, I take the liberty of asking you to send me a pipe of the first quality. be so good as to address it to the Collector of the customs of any port of the United states to which the vessel may happen to be bound, who will pay charges & forward...
17579From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel R. Demaree, 6 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Dec. 28. was handed to the Philosophical society, who referred the subject to a Committee, and recieved a report from them. they have inclosed me that report with a request that in communicating it to you I would at the same time convey their thanks for the attempt to promote a laudable object. a great and sudden change in the Alphabet of any language is probably not to be...
17580From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Kinnan, 6 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you the papers recieved from Colo. Bentley which do not ascertain the quantity of lands claimed by mr Harrison. and unwilling to insist on a condition which tho’ secured by express compact with mr Ronald, may be thought hard with his family, I acquiesce in the relinquishment of the balance still due from them as an equivalent for the rightful claims of mr Harrison. Resuming &...
17581From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 6 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Apr. 19. & mr Randolph’s of Apr. 27. have given me the agreeable information of mr Randolph’s success, & the more agreeable & important information that you are getting well. for the restoration of your stomach my chief dependance is on your own resolution to observe rigorously whatever regimen you find from experience to agree with you: and it will take a long course of this...
17582From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Fitzhugh, 10 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved the day before yesterday some cow-peas from mr Randolph, by the stage, which I had desired him to send for you the bearer now brings them, and they are in good time for planting if chequered 4. f. apart they will cover the ground: but they do not begin to run till harvest, & then get their whole growth very rapidly. I found it would be difficult by any description to enable you to...
17583From Thomas Jefferson to J. Phillipe Reibelt, 10 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letters of the 3d. & 6th. had already come to hand when that of the 1st. was recieved only the last night. on recurring to my papers respecting General Kosciuzko I found among them the original patent you desire, & the plot. I therefore send them to you. they had remained here, because entirely unnecessary to the title having once been recorded. the record of title preserved in the public...
17584From Thomas Jefferson to James Cheetham, 11 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
My account transmitted by you is recieved. early in the spring of the last year, I gave mr Barnes (who is kind enough to transact most of my money business for me) a list of sums to be paid for newspapers recieved in the year. among these was 19. D. for yourself. not knowing the other articles of the account I could not add what was due for them. he tells me he wrote to a mr Alexr. Richards to...
17585From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 11 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I could not sooner return your drawings, because I could not till yesterday have a conference with mr Gallatin. some parts of your propositions being approved, some doubtful, some not satisfactory. I can only write short observations as texts for consideration, and to be discussed vivâ voce when you come here. the piers instead of half columns at the junction of the new with the old buildings...
17586From Thomas Jefferson to George Logan, 11 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night a letter from mr Thomas Brannagan 163. S. Waterstreet Philadelphia, asking my subscription to the work announced in the inclosed paper. the cause in which he embarks is so holy, the sentiments he expresses in his letter so friendly that it is highly painful to me to hesitate on a compliance which appears so small. but that is not it’s true character, and it would be...
17587From Thomas Jefferson to Oliver Evans, 13 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Evans & his thanks for his letter of the 8th. which has been recieved. the questions presented by the proposition of mr Clymer are Whether the Missile powers of the Fire engine may not be used on board ship to prevent boarding, & With what matter most effectual it may be charged? these will be a subject of consideration for better judges than Th:J....
17588From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Miller, 13 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to the revd mr Miller for the pamphlet he has been so kind as to send him, which he has perused, as he does whatever comes from his pen, with great pleasure. he salutes mr Miller with esteem and respect. NjP : Samuel Miller Papers.
17589From Thomas Jefferson to Brockholst Livingston, 16 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
A Commission to Brockhurst Livingston of New York to be District judge of New York Thomas Fenwick of Washington county in the district of Columbia to be a justice of the peace for the sd county DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
17590From Thomas Jefferson to George Dyson, 16 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote by the John Adams to mr Woodhouse of Marsalla desiring him to send me a pipe of Marsalla wine. by an arrangement with mr Smith the Secretary of the Navy, I was authorised to desire mr Woodhouse to draw on you for paiment, with an assurance that your draught on the Navy department should be placed to the credit of your account with the US. this was done, & I inclosed to mr Woodhouse a...
17591From Thomas Jefferson to James Oldham, 16 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
As judge Gantt’s first letter gave me reason to expect a 2d immediately, I have waited to recieve that. it came to hand last night and I now inclose you both. as your action at Common law is dismissed, and you are not one of the Suitors in the Chancery proceeding I do not understand how you are to share with those who are. but of this mr Gantt is a better judge. if I can at any time see mr...
17592From Thomas Jefferson to J. Phillipe Reibelt, 17 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his salutations to mr Reibelt, and his thanks for the Communication of the Catalogues, which he now returns except 1. the Notice de la galerie des Antiques, & the Catalogues des estampes. the 1st. of these appearing to be a complete catalogue of the new acquisitions of the Museum, and the other comprehending matter new to him altogether, he begs leave to detain them a...
17593From Thomas Jefferson to Peter Roche, 17 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
By a catalogue of yours published in Philadelphia, I percieve that you have the following books which I will ask the favor of you to send me, to wit Connaissance des tems pour l’année 1806. avec les additions. Lecons d’histoire par Volney. 2. v. 8vo. Voyage d’Antenor en Grece. 3. v. 8vo. Diccionario portatil Espanol-Ingles & Ingles-Espanol por Gattel, 2. v. 16vo. should you also have the...
17594Notes on Briggs’ Opinion on Jacobins in Mississippi Territory, 18 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Briggs Isaac considers the following persons in the Misipi territory as the Jacobins, enragés, of the place Cato West Thomas M. Green, brother in law of Cato West. judge Kerr Doctr. Shaw, postmaster, suspected of opening and detaining letters. Turner, the register. son in law of Cato West. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
17595From Thomas Jefferson to William Tatham, 19 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I do not remember that I ever returned a letter unopened to any mortal living, and had still less supposed I had done it to you, of whom I had seen much to approve, and always wished you well. I had heard of your being in town, and was conscious of nothing which should have prevented your calling on me. you would have met a reception dictated by antient and friendly recollections, and I now,...
17596From Thomas Jefferson to William Tunnicliff, 19 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Tunnicliff and asks permission to add one other article to the list he formerly sent him to be procured in London, to wit, a Protracting parallel rule, which may be had where the other mathematical articles are procured. MoSHi .
17597From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Smith Barton, 21 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his friendly salutations to Doctr. Barton: when sending him the dried specimens of plants from mr Dunbar he omitted to send some moss which he had taken out of the hotsprings of the Washeta, in a temperature of 150.° in which he says are some of the animalculae, inhabitants of the moss. Th: J. having no microscope here has been unable to see them: but he commits them now...
17598From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Latham Mitchill, 21 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his friendly salutations to Dr. Mitchill & sends him the extract of a letter he has recieved from mr T. M. Randolph with a small bag containing, as he supposes the specimen of salt mentioned by mr Randolph. he received but one, tho’ two are mentioned. Extract of a letter from TMR. to Th:J. dated Edgehill May 11. 05 ‘A person from Greenbriar county of this state, the...
17599From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 21 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Miss Eleanor W. Randolph to Th: Jefferson D. 1805. May 21. To a letter which ought to be written once in every 3. weeks, while I am here, to wit from Jan. 1. 1805. to this day, 15. weeks 5. Cr. Feb. 23. By one single letter of this day’s date 1 Balance due from E. W. Randolph to Th:J. Letters 4 5 So stands the account for this year, my dear Ellen, between you and me. unless...
17600From Thomas Jefferson to James Sullivan, 21 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
An accumulation of business which I found on my return here from a short visit to Monticello, has prevented till now acknolegement of your favor of the 14th. Ult. this delay has given time to see the result of the contest in your state, and I cannot but congratulate you on the advance it manifests, & the certain prospect it offers that another year restores Massachusets to the general body of...