2951Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin O. Tyler, 26 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 14 th is just now recieved, and I return you my thanks for the indulgence with which you are pleased to consider the part it has fallen to my lot to bear in the transactions of our country. the times in which I have happened to live placed the efforts of all under requisition, and mine have no claim but for a well intended zeal. the Engraving you propose to publish of the...
2952Thomas Jefferson to James Baker, 24 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respectful compliments to mr Baker , and asks the favor of him to send him a kental of good dumb fish and ½ doz. kegs of tongues and sounds, for which mr Gibson will be so kind as to make payment as before . the bearer mr Gilmore will bring them safely & immediately.
2953Thomas Jefferson to James Oldham, 24 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his friendly salutations to Cap t Oldham and asks the favor of him to select for him 4. good mortise doorlocks, of brass & plain for doors 1 ⅜ & 1 16 thick, that is to say 1 ½ I. wanting 1 16 mr Gibson will be so kind as usual to pay for them, and the bearer mr Gilmore
2954Thomas Jefferson to John Armstrong, 20 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
A M. Jullien , one of the literati of France proposes to write the history of Gen l Kosciuzko , and requests me to obtain for him the materials for that part of it which he passed in the service of the US. of this I know nothing myself, for I believe I hardly knew Kosciuzko personally during the revolutionary war. our intimacy began on his last visit to America . I imagine you knew more of him...
2955Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 20 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 16 th and am thankful for your attention to my wants. I saw William Johnson the evening before his boat started last. he told me that he should not go down himself, but that his brother would, and he would be answerable for every thing trusted to him as if to himself. I was on horseback and at the river side, so could not give him a written order, but...
2956Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 20 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
A few days before I recieved your favor of the 16 th I had recieved one from a friend in Massachusets , shewing their sensibility on the imputed claim of our having given the ‘first impulse to the ball of the revolution.’ I cannot better answer your letter than by sending you an extract from the answer I gave to that , which I now do. it does not however appear to me that this question is...
2957Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 15 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 11 th came to hand last night only, and we have no mail setting out for Richmond until the 17 th . I am sorry for this lapse, and had I known that unstamped paper (as that you inclose) would do, I would have prevented it. I now return you the two notes signed, and as I shall go to Bedford the 2 d week of April and not be back till the first week in May, I inclosed inclose a...
2958Thomas Jefferson to Wilson Cary Nicholas, 15 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
If I could refuse you any thing, it would be the request in your’s of the 9 th to submit to the operation of having my bust taken. of all operations it is the most revolting, whether you stand, as was Ciracchi ’s method, or lie down and have your face plaistered over with gypsum , as was Houdon ’s or sit as with the painters. I have no doubt of mr Coffee ’s talents from what you say of him;...
2959Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 15 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
The injury which the grinding of plaister does to the mill, and the offence it gives to our bread customers hav e obliged me to make it a rule to grind plaister for nobody but myself. it shall be done for you however on this occasion. but my water wheel has given out, and we are now engaged in renewing it. this will not be compleated till about a week before which time I wish your plaister to...
2960Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Burwell, 14 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Feb. 17. found me suffering under an attack of rheumatism, which has but now left me at sufficient ease to attend to the letters I have recieved. A plan of female education has never been a subject of systematic contemplation with me. it has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters occasionally required. considering that they would be placed in a...