20251From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 7 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved a letter from Anne which informs me she is well. I had letters from home two days ago, when all were well there; I must get you to call on mr McAlister, optician on Chesnut street & pay him 2. Dollars for me; and on old mr Pemberton with the inclosed letter, and pay him the price of a book sent me, which I believe is 4. Dollars. my remittance to mr Peale yesterday was meant to...
20252From Thomas Jefferson to Anne Cary Randolph Bankhead, 8 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Nov. 26. came safely to hand, and in it the delicious flower of the Acacia, or rather the Mimosa Nilotica from mr Lomax. the mother tree of full growth which I had when I gave him the small one, perished from neglect the first winter I was from home. does his produce seed? if it does I will thank him for some, and you to take care of them: altho’ he will think it a vain thing at...
20253From Thomas Jefferson to Abraham Bishop, 8 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Nov. 30. is duly recieved, & I thank you for your kind attention to the little commission respecting the cloth. I shall be glad to recieve it whenever it can come, but a great desideratum will be lost if not recieved in time to be made up for our new year’s day exhibition when we expect every one will endeavor to be in homespun, and I should be sorry to be marked as being in...
20254From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 8 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The idea of regulating the coasting trade (to N. Orleans for instance) by the quantity of tonnage sufficient for each port, is new to me, & presents difficulties through which I cannot see my way. to determine how much tonnage will suffice for the coasting trade of Boston, N. York, Philadelphia & the other ports great & small, and to divide this tonnage impartially among the competitors of...
20255From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 8 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Harrison will continue in office till the 3d. of March. I send you tit for tat, one lady application for another. however our feelings are to be perpetually harrowed by these sollicitations, our course is plain, & inflexible to right or left. but for god’s sake get us relieved from this horrible drudgery of refusal. Affectionate salutations. to be returned NHi : Papers of Albert Gallatin.
20256From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 8 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I imagine you will have recieved a reference from the H. of R. which will require your return to this place. several other matters of importance have been waiting for you. I inclose you a presentment of a grand jury here against a worthless gambler of the name of Bailey, who lives in Baltimore, for an assault on mr Coles my Secretary, on account of an act of duty on the part of mr Coles. I...
20257From Thomas Jefferson to United States Senate, 8 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate the several persons named in the inclosed list, signed by the Secretary at War, to the several commands therein proposed under the act of Apr. 12. 1808. for raising for a limited time an additional military force. DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
20258From Thomas Jefferson to St. George Tucker, 8 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
What I now write is confidential for yourself, at least that it comes from me. I inform you with sincere grief that the Senate has negatived the nomination of mr Harrison. on what particular ground I am not informed. I learned that two objections would be made 1. the emploiment of mr Taylor a federalist in the office. 2. it had become known or understood that mr Harrison meant to make a...
20259From Thomas Jefferson to John Wrenshall, 9 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
To the Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Pittsburg in Pennsylvania. I am much indebted, fellow citizens, for your friendly address of Nov. 20. and gratified by it’s expressions of personal regard to myself. having ever been an advocate for the freedom of religious opinion & exercise, from no person, certainly, was an abridgement of these sacred rights to be apprehended less than...
20260From Thomas Jefferson to Anne Cary Randolph Bankhead, 10 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Jefferson writes to enquire of me whether he ever had the small pox, and cannot attend the anatomical dissections till he gets an answer for fear of catching that disease. I am almost certain that he & yourself were carried by your Papa to Richmond when very young & inoculated there under his eye. you were probably old enough to remember it. write me an answer by the return of post that I may...