801From Thomas Jefferson to Theodorus Bailey, 20 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I have found my letters for Europe to which I have taken the liberty of asking your attention get always to their destination with so much certainty, that I am tempted to abuse your goodness by often asking the same favor. the communicns with Leghorn, which the wants of our university will still for a while continue, are so necessary to that instn as to render their safe transmission greatly...
802Thomas Jefferson to Theodorus Bailey and David Gelston, 9 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have written to a mr Ebenezer Herrick of West Stockbridge Mass. for a Spinning machine of his invention which he writes me he can more handily send to N. York than to any other port. I have taken the liberty to say to him that if he will commit it to you, you will be so kind as to have it embarked on board some vessel bound to Richmond . should any expence attend this, messieurs Gibson and...
803Thomas Jefferson to William Bain, 12 July 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
My grandson has made a last effort to get hi s tenant to give up the grounds at the Secretary’s ford . but he the tenant appears to be entirely unwilling to part with it and would requir e in exchange such a sacrifice of the adjacent fields as would destroy the value of the remainder. I fear therefore that that ground is not to be obtained. as you seemed anxious to have some certain resource...
804From Thomas Jefferson to Ambrose Baker, 17 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed printed notice from the Proctor of our university will answer most of the enquiries of your letter of the 2 d instant. it says nothing of the two articles of cloathing and pocket money. of the former you are the best judge. of pocket money from a half dollar to a dollar a week is an ample allowance. the letter sum indeed is too much. the students go to what schools they please...
805From Thomas Jefferson to Evan Baker, 29 August 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
The distress of the post at the Barracks in Albemarle, for want of animal food being very great, you are desired after reserving 200 of the beeves you have purchased to go with Colo. Crocket, and 600 others to be sent when he shall furnish you with a proper escort, to send all the rest to the barracks in Albemarle. The two hundred it is supposed must be of the first you purchase; but that the...
806Thomas 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.
807Thomas Jefferson to James Baker, 9 February 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Understanding that you keep supplies of Codfish and of Tongues and sounds, I have to ask the favor of you to furnish me with a Kental of good dumbfish , and a keg of tongues and sounds. mr Gibson my correspondent in Richmond , will be so good as to recieve & forward them and to pay you the amount on presenting him this letter Accept the tender of my respect PoC ( MHi ); on verso of portion of...
808Thomas Jefferson to James Baker, 29 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 23 d , informing me of the deposit of Dum-fish with mr Gibson which I shall direct the first boat from this place to call for; & I shall be glad to recieve by the same conveyance 4. kegs of tongues & sounds, such as the one you sent me some time ago, to be lodged also with mr Gibson who will pay this in addition to the amount of the fish. I thank you for...
809From Thomas Jefferson to Jerman Baker, 15 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I forward the inclosed letter from Doctr. Witherspoon the moment it comes to my hand, in hopes that I may receive Mr. Robinson’s ultimate determination before I leave this place; as, should it come afterwards his or your letter might remain here unopened and the opportunity be lost. I am with great esteem Dear Sir Your friend & servt PrC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “Jerman Baker esq.” Tr ( DLC...
810XXII. Thomas Jefferson to Jerman Baker, 26 June 1778 (Jefferson Papers)
I now inclose you a state of the tickets received by Mr. Wayles and to whom sold. It is taken from two or three states made out by him at different times and corresponding with one another. One of these appears to have been in Colo Byrd’s hands for examination and has some small queries and annotations in his hand writing which shews it to have been approved. Their authenticity is further...
811Thomas Jefferson to Jerman Baker, 1 September 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
It may be of service to the Visitors of the University to possess a statement of the quota of taxes payable into the treasury by the several counties respectively. that being the basis ratio of the distribution of their portions of the literary fund to the primary schools we may have occasion to make use of it. I presume you possess such a statement, and therefore ask the favor of you to...
812From Thomas Jefferson to Jerman Baker, 12 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Jan. 15. with Mr. Robinson’s letter came to hand Jan. 30. I immediately put them into the hands of a Professor of the college here, in whose recommendations I should have confided. He at first had a hope of engaging one of two good persons who presented themselves to his mind. Both however concluded that the object was not sufficiently enticing, and I have now inclosed the letter...
813Thomas Jefferson to Jerman Baker, 23 December 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
My grandson Jefferson tells me he wrote to sollicit your patronage of the petition of Cap t Joseph Miller now before the legislature praying the confirmation of the will of Tho s Reed his half-brother, under which he claims his property. that letter, with the petition will have fully possessed you of the facts and principles on which his claim is founded, and I add my sollicitations that you...
814Thomas Jefferson to Jerman Baker, 6 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Sep. 26. came to hand yesterday only. I had before mentioned Wayles in a letter to D r Cooper so as to engage his friendly attentions to him, and I now inclose you a letter to him to be handed personally. in that I have expressed my views of the most profitable course for him according to your request ; and if you approve of it, perhaps Wayles might do well to take a copy of that...
815From Thomas Jefferson to Jerman Baker, 22 June 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Other engagements have prevented my earlier attention to the enquiries of your’s of the 3 d as to the title of the late Col o Skipwith to the lands at Indian Camp. that title is unquestionable. the part of the tract , called Indian Camp was originally 2,400. a s (if I recollect the quantity correctly) the property of Francis Eppes of the Hundred, who had a son, Col o Rich d Eppes (father of)...
816Thomas Jefferson to Jerman Baker, 14 May 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Wayles and Francis are now here and will enter with mr Stack who opens his school three days from this time in Charlottesville , for Latin, Greek and French. he is recommended to me by D r Cooper as the best classical scholar he has ever met with in the US. and my conversations with him satisfy me that his method is solidly good. he is a very modest & correct man in his conduct. his tuition...
817Thomas Jefferson to Jerman Baker, 25 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 13 th was recieved by our last mail. Francis is now here engaged in learning Spanish. I thought he could not employ the winter better. but he has lost much of it at home. I think in a couple of months he may make such progress as that he will be able afterwards to pursue it by himself. I would then rather have him with mr Wood than any other teacher I know, but would much...
818Thomas Jefferson to Jerman Baker and Archibald Thweatt, 1 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I lately addressed a letter to mr Thweatt , intended equally for you in a case of my own: I now address this to you equally intended for mr Thweatt , in the case of another. it is to sollicit your attention to the petition of Visc o Philip S. Barziza one of the coheirs of Col o Ludwell owner of the Green spring estate . the mother of the petitioner was sole daughter of
819From Thomas Jefferson to Jerman Baker, 17 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letter from Dr. Witherspoon came to hand soon after I had written mine of the 12th. to you on the subject. I have only therefore as an appendix to that letter to inclose it to you and ask an explanation on the subject of board as early as you can send it, that it may be forwarded in time to the Doctor. I am to add that the same doubt had arisen here with Mr. Patterson, and was one...
820Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Thweatt and Jerman Baker, 14 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
There is a petition before the legislature for establishing a turnpike road from Rockfish gap through Charlottesville to Moore’s ford on the Rivanna , in which I am much interested, and as I have outlived all my Legislative acquaintances, I must request the favor of yourself and mr Baker (to whom this letter is meant to be equally addressed) to pay some attention to it. but I ask you to do in...
821Thomas Jefferson to John Martin Baker, 25 July 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 16 th has been duly recieved, and your kind offers of service, on your return to the Balearian islands is recieved with the thankfulness to which it is so justly entitled. the prices of the productions of Majorca are really so favorable as to tempt me to trespass on your goodness by adding to the two pipes of Albaflor wine, some other small articles as noted below. your...
822Thomas Jefferson to John Martin Baker, 8 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Baker and his acknolegements for the instructive volume on the trade of the Mediterranean just recieved. not being able to send in paper the exact subscription price, he incloses a 5. Dollar bill which he prays mr Baker to let lie in account in the event of his asking any other copies of the work, and he salutes him with friendship & respect. PoC (...
823Thomas Jefferson to John Martin Baker, 14 September 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
your favor of Aug. 29. is delivered to me here, within 4. or 5 days of my departure for Monticello . by a letter from the President I have reason to expect to find him then at his seat in my neighborhood, and consequently sooner than a letter addressed to him and sent to you, as you have desired, could possibly get to his hands. I reserve myself therefore for a personal application, more early...
824Thomas Jefferson to John Martin Baker, 9 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Feb. 18. found me suffering under an attack of rheumatism which has but just now left me at sufficient ease to attend to letters recieved. this rendered it impossible to have made in time the application you requested to the President, even could it have been made properly. but after the considerations I had urged on him when here, and the dispositions he expressed I could not...
825Thomas Jefferson to John Martin Baker, 12 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
The President arrived at his residence soon after my return to Monticello , and recieving a visit from mr Madison at the same time, we jointly spoke with the President on your subject. he has every possible disposition to befriend you, and if he should find obstacles to your present wish, he will still retain his disposition to do justice to your merit on some other occasion. as the Secretary...
826Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Baker, 19 January 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of Dec. 8. came safely to hand and I was glad to learn you were seated at Columbia . that institution will have sustained a great loss in mr Elliot ; but I still think you will be better there than any where else that I know of. with respect to your pursuits I cannot advise them with precision; because I do not know whether you are so far advanced in classic science as that you may...
827From Thomas Jefferson to William Baker, 30 May 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
A large district, consisting of about ten or a dozen counties of Virginia 4. or 5 of Maryland, & the territory of Columbia, was created by the last Congress into a separate district by the name of the district of Potomac, the court of which is to be held […]. mr D[ent] who was appointed the Marshal, after [acting?] some time has resigned [he says] it would [seem?] from the richness & extent of...
828From Thomas Jefferson to William, Benjamin, and W. L. Bakewell, 15 April 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Feb. 8. came to my hands only a few days ago and yesterday the barrel of ale therein mentioned was delivered here. I am to return you thanks in the first place for the indulgence with which you view my character & administration, and the dispositions you express in favor of those political principles which have made this country what it is, & the abandonment of which, whenever...
829From Thomas Jefferson to Alfred Balch, 25 April 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Balch whose letter of the 21st. he did not recieve till yesterday. the present Minister of the US. at London having a Secretary attached to him, the additional emploiment arising from the occasional mission lately determined on, has not been thought sufficient to require an additional Secretary: nor consequently the occasion of being useful to those...
830From Thomas Jefferson to Stephen B. Balch, 18 December 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I took a little time the other day to consider of the application of mr Cathcart, his proposition being new, himself an entire stranger, & no paper communicated which could explain the intentions of the respectable authority under which he stated himself as acting. your presence however, as well as his statement, satisfies me on these points. but having omitted to ask his lodgings, & unable to...
831Enclosure: List of Books for the Library of Congress, 14 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Law of Nature and Nations ✓ Rutherforth’s institutes of natural law. 8vo. Puffendorf devoirs de l’homme et du citoyen. 2.v. 12mo. Beller’s delineation of Universal law. 4to. ✓ Grotius’s Laws of war with Barbeyrac’s notes. ✓ Puffendorf’s law of nations with Barbeyrac’s notes. ✓ Burlamaqui sur la droit naturelle et Politique 4to. Wolff droit de la nature et des gens. Lat. Fr. 6.v. 12mo. ✓...
832From Thomas Jefferson to Abraham Baldwin, 10 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved a message from you the other day on the subject of Cathcart . he is the person who was appointed by mr Adams & confirmed by the Senate as Consul at Tripoli. he is personally known to me, & pretty well known. he is the honestest & ablest consul we have with the Barbary powers: a man of very sound judgment & fearless . he married the daughter of some respectable family in...
833From Thomas Jefferson to Abraham Baldwin, 4 February 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Dufief a bookseller of Philadelphia who possesses Dr. Franklin’s library, has inclosed me the catalogue with a desire that I would put it into the hands of the Committee charged with procuring a library for Congress, with an offer of the whole or any part of it at what he says shall be moderate prices. my dealings with him give me confidence that his prices would be moderate. without...
834From Thomas Jefferson to Abraham Baldwin, 14 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I have prepared a catalogue for the library of Congress in conformity with your ideas that books of entertainment are not within the scope of it, and that books in other languages, where there are not translations of them, are to be admitted freely. I have confined the catalogue to those branches of science which belong to the deliberations of the members as statesmen, and in these have...
835From Thomas Jefferson to Abraham Baldwin, 13 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Having determined that our negociations with the Chickasaws, Chocktaws, Cherokees & Creeks should be conducted by the same Commissioners, going a circuit for that purpose, & that Davie, Wilkinson & Hawkins should be the Commissioners, we were obliged to postpone the commencement on account of the necessary absence of Genl. Wilkinson in the Northwest. the instructions however and every thing...
836From Thomas Jefferson to Abraham Baldwin, 1 May 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
A mr Putnam of Georgia was lately appointed to the command of a revenue cutter on the recommendation of yourself, Genl. Jackson & mr Milledge; and I trust on good grounds. the Washington Federalist however of Apr. 30. charges him with having been tried and convicted of having stolen a gold watch. a charge so specific brought forward in the public papers, I have always supposed sufficient to...
837Thomas Jefferson to Henry Baldwin, 15 February 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to mr Baldwin for the able report on the Tariff he has been so kind as to send him. questions on Political economy are certainly among the most complicated of any within the scope of the human mind. that the public should have differed therefore so much on that which is the subject of this report, is not to be wondered at. it will end, it is to be hoped in a...
838Thomas Jefferson to Roger Sherman Baldwin, 9 March 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your letter of Feb. 24 . and am sorry it is in my power to furnish no other materials for the biography of your very respectable grandfather, mr Roger Sherman than such as are very generally known. I served with him in the Old Congress in the years 1775. & 1776. he was a very able and logical debater in that body, steady in the principles of the revolution, always at the...
839Thomas Jefferson to William Baldwin (Draft), 19 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 7 th inst. has been duly recieved, with the pamphlet inclosed, for which I return you my thanks. nothing can be more exactly & seriously true than what is there stated; that but a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, & perverted into an engine for...
840Thomas Jefferson to William Baldwin (Final State), 19 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns to mr Baldwin his thanks for the copy of the letters of Cerus & Amicus just recieved from him he sincerely wishes it’s circulation among the society of friends may have the effect mr Baldwin expects of abating their prejudices against the government of their country. but he apprehends their disease is too deeply seated: that identifying themselves with the mother society...
841From Thomas Jefferson to Isaac Ball, 3 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Ball, and his thanks for the little book he has been so kind as to send him. he has gone over it with real pleasure, and found as much material information on the animal economy as could be brought into so small a compass. he with satisfaction offers himself as a subscriber for a second edition & salutes mr Ball with respect. DLC : Papers of Thomas...
842From Thomas Jefferson to Isaac Ball, 3 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Doctr. Ball and his thanks for the 2d. edition of his animal economy which he recieves with pleasure, and values for it’s compendious form, and clear arrangement. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
843Thomas Jefferson to the Baltimore Tammany Society, 25 May 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your free & cordial salutations in my retirement, are recieved fellow citizens, with great pleasure, & the happiness of that retirement is much heightened by assurances of satisfaction with the course I have pursued in the transaction of the public affairs, & that the confidence my fellow citizens were pleased to repose in me has not been disappointed. Great sacrifices of interest have...
844From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Bancroft, 26 February 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you on the 21st. inst. on the subject of Mr. Paradise, which I hope you have received. By the death of Mr. Williamos a copy of my Notes on Virginia got into the hands of a bookseller, who was about publishing a very abominable translation of them when the Abbé Morellet heard of it, and diverted him from it by undertaking to translate it for him. They will thus appear in French in spite...
845From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Bancroft, 25 September 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Expecting to receive by tomorrow’s post a letter from Mr. Trumbull announcing an occasion of getting to America, and that I must leave this place in the same instant I have only time to acknolege the receipt of yours of Aug. 21. in due time after it’s date, to recommend to you the saving my credit as to the bill I drew on you, whenever Mr. Paradise’s remittances shall put it in your power and...
846From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Bancroft, 9 April 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 27th. has been duly received, and in answer to the information relative to D. I can only beg the favor of you to avail yourself of any moment which may occur wherein principles either of fidelity or venality might induce him to give up the books, for the U.S. I will answer the price as far as 12. or 15. guineas for that containing his correspondence from Aug. 1777. to Mar....
847From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Bancroft, 24 April 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your favor of the 14th. and communicated it to Mr. Paradise, who desires me to observe that, after retaining a very moderate subsistence for himself and Mrs. Paradise (as that of £200 a year apeice which has been proposed) his first and ruling object is to pay his debts: that therefore instead of desiring a full third of all remittances from Virginia, including debts, he...
848From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Bancroft, 26 January 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have deferred answering your letter on the subject of slaves, because you permitted me to do it till a moment of leisure, and that moment rarely comes, and because too, I could not answer you with such a degree of certainty as to merit any notice. I do not recollect the conversation at Vincennes to which you allude, but can repeat still on the same ground, on which I must have done then,...
849From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Bancroft, 15 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 10th. is just now received, and as the refusal of one of Mr. Paradise’s creditors to accede to the deed of trust, will occasion some change in Mr. Paradise’s plan this again will require that the whole be dispatched. As the post goes out in the morning, and his lodgings are very distant from me I cannot consult him expressly on the occasion, but many conversations have put me...
850From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Bancroft, 6 May 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieve your favor of Mar. 27. just as I am setting out for Bourdeaux, Nantes, Lorient and Paris where I shall be about the middle of June. I have hastily scribbled therefore the inclosed letter to Mr. Wythe, which will explain to Mr. Paradise what I suppose best for him to do, without repeating it here which my hurry scarcely admits. If I can do any thing further for him in this or any...