3721From Thomas Jefferson to Delamotte and Others, 5 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof, Mr. Lear, proposing to establish himself in commerce in the new city of Washington, he now sets out to visit such parts of Europe as he supposes may furnish him either articles or connections in the mercantile line useful for his position. He is well known as the late Secretary of President Washington, and I can further assure you that he is a person of great understanding,...
3722From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 18 May 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of a consultation with the heads of departments tomorrow at 12. a clock, & that they will add that of dining with him. NHi : Papers of Albert Gallatin.
3723From Thomas Jefferson to Mordecai Miller, 9 November 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
A letter from mr Warren Ashley of Norfolk informs me that a case sent from London to his care for me, had been forwarded to you. no invoice or other notice of it has come to me, but I presume it contains a camera obscura, as I expected one from London. should this consignment by mr Ashley have subjected you to any demand for import, shipping charges or others, they shall be remitted you...
3724From Thomas Jefferson to John Mclean, 10 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you many thanks for your kind attention to the request of my letter of the 30 th Ult. the arrangement you have made will fully answer our purposes, and I would not on any consideration have wished you to infringe any rule of your office. equal justice to all is the polar star which keeps the public man always safe in his course, and blameless. and the measure you have taken for us...
3725Preface to a Manuscript on Bacon’s Rebellion, 10 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The Original Manuscript, of which the following is a copy , was communicated to me by Mr. King, our late Minister Plenipotentiary at the court of London, in a letter of Dec. 20. 1803. the transaction which it records, altho’ of little extent or consequence, is yet marked in the history of Virginia as having been the only rebellion or insurrection which took place in the colony during the 168...
3726From Thomas Jefferson to Lewis Willis Daingerfield, 5 September 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Aug. 26. is recieved, & the agreement for the hire of the negroes of mrs and miss Dangerfield for the next year considered as closed, on the same terms as were agreed on for the present year, that is to say for Edmund 70. D. Warner 69. D. Sampson 60. D. Polly 40. D. Gabriel 82 D. Billy 80. D. Tom 74. D. Jack 60. D. & George 55. D. in all amounting to five hundred & ninety...
3727Memorandums to Albert Gallatin, 10 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Nicholas Gilman Henry S. Langdon John Goddard John Mc.Clintock } to be Commissioners of bankruptcy for New Hampshire. N.York Albany
3728From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Hollingsworth, 4 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I received last night your favor of the 2d. inst. informing me you had employed Eli Alexander to superintend my business; on the terms proposed, finding him the same furniture which I supplied to Mr. Biddle and paying his travelling expences there, and that he will set out by the 15th. inst. I agree to the terms, confiding that he will make his travelling expences reasonable. He had better go...
3729Thomas Jefferson to William D. Meriwether, 21 August 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I send the inclosed letters to you as one of the executors of our late friend Governor Lewis . you probably know the fate of Poor Pierney his servant who lately followed his master’s example. the 1 st letter is from him stating his account. the 2 d & 3 d are from Christopher Suverman with whom he boarded till his death. Suverman
3730From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 3 September 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Reynolds , collector of York, is dead, and Wm. Carey of that place is recommended very strongly by mr Shields. tho’ I have great confidence in mr Shields’s recommendation, yet as the best men some times see characters thro’ the false medium of friendship I pray you to make what enquiry you can in Richmond & communicate it to me. Accept assurances of my constant & affectionate esteem & respect....
3731From Thomas Jefferson to John Tyler, 19 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been prevented by a pressure of business from sooner acknoleging the reciept of your friendly letter of Dec. 22. and with this acknolegement I pray you to accept my sincere congratulations on the late testimony of public confidence manifested by the legislature of your country in their electing you to the first office in the state. certain I am that there is no one to whose fidelity it...
3732From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 14 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson requests the favor of Genl: & Mrs. Dearborn & Mr. Wingate to dine with him on Monday the 17th: at half after three, The favor of an answer is asked. Privately owned.
3733From Thomas Jefferson to James H. McCulloch, 17 October 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 14th. has been duly recieved, covering a bill of Excha. for 92.75 D drawn on me by mr Lennox of Jamaica. I am much indebted to him for his kindness in the execution of the commission on account of which this bill is drawn. your application to myself was perfectly proper and I now inclose you the amount in a draught of the bank of the US. here on that at Baltimore; with my...
3734Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 14 November 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
The last year was the only one of my life that I ever had pork to spare. this year as usual we have hardly enough for our enormously large family, being equally deficient in the carcases as well as the means of fattening. I should have been very happy to have supplied you had it been otherwise. RC ( DLC ); addressed: “Craven Peyton esq. Monteagle.” SJL entry reads “no pork to spare.”
3735Thomas Jefferson to William F. Gray, 18 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your kind intervention in the passage of books between mr Millegan and myself is too great a convenience to me not to entitle you to my best thanks which I give you with a just sense of the favor. I lately recieved thro’ you a box in good order, and this day send another for him addressed to your care. his bindings are so much superior to any thing which can be done in America , even by the...
3736From Thomas Jefferson to Antoine François Tardieu, 10 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his salutations to M. Tardieu, and his thanks for his excellent maps of the United States & the bay of Mexico. he incloses for his acceptance an actual survey of the Missisipi from it’s source to the mouth of Ohio. this was done by ascending the river with a compas, & long line, & correcting the latitudes from time to time by celestial observations. it is undoubtedly...
3737From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Donald, 17 September 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor of writing to you on the 28th. of July, when appearan[ces] rather threatened a war in Europe from the quarter of Holland. Since that the affairs of that country have continued to become more and more incapable of reconciliation. In the mean time a war has actually broken out between the Turks and Russians. It has been formally declared by the former against the latter, and...
3738Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 17 October 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have communicated to mr Higginbotham the substance of your letter of the 7 th and can now give you specific answers from him to your several queries. 1. the price 10. D. an acre paiable at Christmas of the years 1813. 14. 15. in equal instalments, with an understanding that if these paiments are delayed to & through April, paying interest on that delay, it shall not be deemed a breach of...
3739I. Secretary of State to the President, enclosing Opinion, 12 July 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson had a conference yesterday with Mr. Madison on the subject recommended by the President. He has the honor of inclosing him some considerations thereon, in all of which he believes Mr. Madison concurred. He has sketched the heads only, as the President’s mind will readily furnish the developement of each. He will wait on the president at one aclock on some other business, and then...
3740From Thomas Jefferson to W. & J. Willink, N. & J. Van Staphorst, & N. Hubbard, 4 August 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
This serves to advise you that, on the 31st. of July, I drew on you in favor of Messieurs Leroy and Bayard of this place, for four thousand and thirty six florins courant of Holland paiable at 60. days sight, which be pleased to honor and charge to the account of the United States of America, as for arrears of Salary due to me as their late minister plenipotentiary in France and payable out of...
3741Thomas Jefferson to the Democratic Republican Delegates of Washington County, Pennsylvania, 31 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The satisfaction you express, fellow citizens, that my endeavors have been unremitting to preserve the peace & independance of our country, & that a faithful neutrality has been observed towards all the contending powers, is highly grateful to me, and there can be no doubt that in any common times they would have saved us from the present embarrasments, thrown in the way of our national...
3742From Thomas Jefferson to George Taylor, Jr., 19 August 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his compliments and good wishes to Mr. Taylor, incloses some papers which he will see what is to be done with, without explanation. He wishes he could recieve here an octavo copy of the laws of the U.S. comprehending the last session, being at a loss for want of them. PrC ( MHi ). Enclosed in TJ to Washington, 19 Aug. 1792 . See note to that letter for the papers enclosed.
3743From Thomas Jefferson to Mademoiselle Thomas de Langat, 27 January 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Je m’empresse, Mademoiselle, de faire reponse à la lettre que vous me faites l’honneur de m’ecrire au sujet de Monsieur Blaine, et de vous observer que la meilleure partie à prendre, à ce qui me paroit, c’est d’écrire à Monsieur Barclay qui se trouve actuellement à Philadelphie. C’est probable que Monsieur Blaine y est aussi, et assurèment Monsieur Barclay fera son mieux pour vous faire payer...
3744To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 16 January 1799 (Madison Papers)
The forgery lately attempted to be plaid off by mr. H. on the house of representatives, of a pretended memorial presented by Logan to the French government, has been so palpably exposed as to have thrown ridicule on the whole of the clamours they endeavored to raise as to that transaction. Still however their majority will pass the bill. The real views in the importance they have given to...
3745To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 16 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
Yours of yesterday was recieved last night. The McGehee who is the subject of it, is an overseer of mine at a place, which on account of it’s importance to me, mr. Randolph takes care of. He employed McGehee, & solely superintends him. We consider him as extremely industrious, active, attentive, and skilful in the old practices, but prejudiced against any thing he is not used to. We have...
3746From Thomas Jefferson to Washington City Tammany Society, 2 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The observations are but too just which are made in your friendly address on the origin & progress of those abuses of public confidence & power which have so often terminated in a suppression of the rights of the people, & the mere aggrandizement & emolument of their oppressors. taught by these truths and aware of the tendency of power to degenerate into abuse, the worthies of our own Country...
3747From Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 9 May 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my letter of Mar. 1. by the way of Havre and those of March 12th. and 15th. by the way of London no opportunity of writing has occurred till the present to London. There are no symptoms of accomodation between the Turks and two empires, nor between Russia and Sweden. The Emperor was on the 16th. of the last month expected to die certainly. He was however a little better when the last...
3748From Thomas Jefferson to G. Pin, 6 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Je me profite, Monsieur, du premier moment de mon arrivée pour vous accuser la reception de la lettre que vous avez eu la bonté de m’adresser de Toulouse le 26me. Mai, avec les renseignements sur le canal de Languedoc. Ces renseignements sont exacts, bien detaillés, et precieux, comme on devoit en attendre d’une personne de vos connoissances. Ils remplissent parfaitement l’objet que je m’avois...
3749Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Maverick, 12 May 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of Aug. 11. and Mar. 4. are just now rec d Age, debility and decay of memory have for some time withdrawn my attention me from attention to matters out of without doors. the grape you enquire after as having gone from this place is not now recollected by me. as some in my vineyard have died, others have been substituted without noting what, so that at present all are unknown. that...
3750From Thomas Jefferson to La Rouerie, 26 January 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor of informing you on the 12th. inst. of the measures I had taken to obtain as early paiment as possible of the interest due to the French officers. I have as yet no answer from Mr. Adams, and I informed you that in truth that application afforded little hopes. The effect of my letter sent to America must probably be awaited. In the mean time I receive a letter from the treasury...