2271Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 27 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
My calls for money being here, and my grandson having to transfer the monies of his collection to Richmond it is a mutual convenience to give him my draughts on you in exchange for cash here, inasmuch as it saves to us both the hazards of the road. I have accordingly this day drawn on you in his favor for 446. D 25 c which (if my tob o should not be arrived) be so good as to cover by a sale of...
2272Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Delaplaine, 29 January 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 15 th is recieved, as was in due time that of Oct. 11. with the poem of mr Meade , and I did not know that I had omitte d to return my thanks for it. this I hope will be kindly imputed to my increasing inability to write letters. when I gave you a written opinion on the biographical work you were engaged in, you will recollect I mentioned that it was the singular case in...
2273Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s List of Recommended Books, [ca. 4 October 1809] (Jefferson Papers)
History Diodorus Siculus . Justin Herodotus by Littlebury 2. v. 8 vo Thucydides by Smith . 2. v. 4 to [perhaps there may be an 8 vo edition] Xenophon ’s Hellenics.
2274From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 23 January 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letters which have come to hand are as follows Date Recd. Passage Weeks— Days Weeks— Days No. 29 May 9. Oct. 14. 22–4 No. 38 Aug. 4. Nov. 20. 15–3 30 11. 14 22–2
2275From Thomas Jefferson to Gabriel Holmes, 3 August 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of transmitting you the extract of a letter recieved from mr Appleton our Consul at Leghorn bearing date the 2 d April of the present year. I have thought it a duty to be the channel of this explanation from him, as having perhaps been in some degree the instrument of his being employed in directing the execution of the statue of Gen l Washington, which will ever be a...
2276To John Adams from Thomas Jefferson, 15 May 1819 (Adams Papers)
your letter of Apr. 2. was recieved in due time, and I have used the permission it gave me of sending a copy of that of Mar. 2. to the editor of Tracy’s Political economy. Mr. S. A. Wells of Boston, grandson of our old friend Saml. Adams, and who proposes to write the life of his grandfather, has made some enquiries of me relative to revolutionary antiquities which are within your knolege as...
2277From Thomas Jefferson to Jonathan Williams, 14 July 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
A press of business has prevented me from sooner acknoleging the reciept of your favor of June 18. altho’ I do not feel myself entitled to give an opinion on questions to which the members of the new military institution are solely competent, yet being requested by you, I shall frankly express it as my opinion that if you appoint all the members of the legislature to be members of the...
2278From Thomas Jefferson to John Paul Jones, 5 November 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
The resolution of Congress of Oct. 29. 1783. is the only one I have seen on the subject of the Danish business. That is directed expressly to ‘the Ministers plenipotentiary of the U.S. at the court of Versailles empowered to negociate a peace.’ It is true that I had the honour of being named in that commission and was preparing to come when we received news of the signature of the preliminary...
2279From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Crew, 10 September 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been honoured with your favor of Aug. 21 and am glad to hear that the prospect for the crop of wheat in Virginia this year is favorable. I am persuaded there will be a great demand in this country before the next harvest. They have begun on the present one, two months sooner than common, and I imagine it was not more than would feed them three weeks over and above the year. Consequently...
2280Thomas Jefferson to James Le Ray de Chaumont, 29 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved lately a copy of your Address to the Agricultural society of Jefferson county in New York , which presuming to have come from yourself, I beg leave here to return you my thanks for the pleasure derived from it’s perusal. I see with great satisfaction these societies rising up, in different parts of the several states, and I expect from them much advantage to the agriculture of our...