151To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 22 June 1817 (Madison Papers)
In two packages, distinct from this letter, I return you your father’s meteorological diaries, which you were so kind as to lend me, and a piece on paper money recieved from you some time ago. From the former I have made out tables of rain and snow, and a calendar of animal and vegetable matters announcing the advance of seasons. Having now compleated 7. years of observations since my return...
152Thomas Jefferson to William Darby, 22 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Sir, for the copy of your Description of Louisiana which you have been so kind as to send me . it arrives in the moment of my departure on a journey of considerable absence. I shall avail myself of the first moments of leisure after my return to read it, & doubt not I shall recieve from it both pleasure and information. the labors of an oppressive correspondence reduce almost to...
153Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 22 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
In two packages, distinct from this letter, I return you your father ’s meteorological diaries , which you were so kind as to lend me, and a piece on paper money recieved from you some time ago. from the former I have made out tables of rain and snow, and a calendar of animal and vegetable matters announcing the advance of seasons. having now compleated 7. years of observations since my return...
154Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Eston Randolph, 22 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
You need not hurry yourself at all as to the extracts from your Day-book. a letter from George Stevenson to mr Randolph just recieved gives the uneasy information that your son Eston is very ill at Baltimore . indeed he says that he is in imminent danger. his case is an inflammatory fever. having given this cause of alarm, mr Stevenson will undoubtedly write by every mail while the crisis...
155Thomas Jefferson to Daniel Brent, 23 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I very lately took the liberty of requesting you to give a safe passage with your official dispatches to a part of my European correspondence. I have now to ask the same for the residue not then ready, and hope this will close the trouble imposed on you for the present year for which I pray you to accept my apologies, with the assurance of my great esteem and respect. PoC ( DLC ); on verso of...
156Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 23 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
In a letter of the 6 th inst. I took the liberty of troubling you with a part of my annual correspondence at Paris . the remainder, not then ready, I now take the liberty of putting under your cover as a supplement to the trouble then giving given . not knowing where Baron Humboldt is I must ask the favor of you to add the necessary address. nothing new having occurred since my last, I can...
157Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Garrett, 23 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I thought it so important to close with mr Perry & especially to get a clause for the conveyance of the land put into writing that I undertook to sign the inclosed paper in your name. we have agreed that 2. copies of this shall be made, the one for him the other for you, leaving out the clause for conveying the land, and that the deed for the land shall be signed at the same time with the 2....
158Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 23 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Anxious to be on a sure footing as to provision for my additional note at the bank of Virginia , in the event of it’s not being within th e rule to renew it, I wrote to mr Nicholas President of the National branch bank of Richmond to know if I could be accomodated there with 2000.D. to be renewed for some months. his answer recieved yesterday is in thes e words. ‘we are restrained by the...
159Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah A. Goodman, 23 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sorry it will not be in my power to furnish you the money you desire, nor any further sum whatever until next April, and it would be but deception to engage it. indeed when I paid the last sum , this was stated to you, and distinctly agreed to. all my resources are exhausted by the failure of my crops, until another comes in. it will then give me as great pleasure to pay this debt, as to...
160Conveyance of Lands for Central College from John M. Perry and Frances T. Perry to Alexander Garrett, 23 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
This indenture made on the 23 d day of June 1817. between John Perry & Frances T Perry his wife of the county of Albemarle on the one part and Alexander Garrett proctor of the Central college acting in trust for the sd college on the other part witnesseth that the sd John
161Agreement between John M. Perry and Central College, 23 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Articles of Agreement made and concluded this twenty third day of June one thousand eight hundred and seventeen between Alexander Garrett as Proctor of the Central College in Albemarle on the one part and John M. Perry on the other part, Witness, First, that a Pavilion or Schoolhouse being to be built for the said College on one of the lots of land purchased for the s d College of the said
162Thomas Jefferson to Robert H. Saunders, 23 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of May 9. did not get to hand until the 15 th instant, and your post office not being named in your letter I must direct this to Goochland courthouse where it mentions that you have a plantation. having trees so near as you describe to your house, and higher than the chimnies, I should certainly prefer fixing the Conductor to a tree, as a higher object, and because should the rod...
163Thomas Jefferson to James Dinsmore, 25 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
On examining the sites for our college we found not one comparable to Perry ’s, and prices beyond our means; and as Perry persisted positively in refusing a deed but on condition of doing the wooden work of the building now proposed, it was concluded we ought not to lose the permanent advantages to the institution, on a question about the execution of this single building, and especially as he...
164Thomas Jefferson to William Lee, 25 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 16 th has been duly recieved, and on communicating it to some of the inhabitants of Charlottesville they find an excellent young man of 20. years of age who has been brought up a linen-weaver, and who is willing to devote a year to learn the stocking weaving business, which is more likely to succeed here than his first trade. supposing he is to be discharged at the end of a...
165Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 25 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I send off Nace and Philip this morning to assist in your harvest, and intended to have set out myself, but am prevented by the lameness of one of my horses. I am in hopes he will be fit for the road in 2. or 3. days more, and that I shall be close on the heels of the bearers. we begin to cut rye this day and on Monday our wheat will be in order. it is recovered from the fly more than we ever...
166Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Harrison, 26 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
The American Philosophical society (at Philadelphia ) are in possession of a MS. journal of Col o Byrd , father of the late Col o W m Byrd , while he was on the line of Virginia & Carolina . I suppose it went with the Westover
167Thomas Jefferson to Dominick Lynch, 26 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I am very thankful for the honor done me by an association with the American society for the encouragement of domestic manufactures instituted in New York . the history of the last 20. years has been a sufficient lesson for us all to depend for necessaries on ourselves alone: and I hope that 20. years more will place the American hemisphere under a system of it’s own, essentially peaceable and...
168Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 28 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have your papers under consideration, and altho’ I think myself tolerably satisfied on the subject, yet, as I am about setting out to Bedford and too much pressed with preparations for that journey, I would rather keep them till my return (a fortnight hence) as both there as well as on the road I can consider it more uninterruptedly. if the letters of Col o Lewis N o 1. to 26. referred to in...
169Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 28 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your two letters of the 2 d and 18 th have been recieved in due time. mine of the 7 th had partly anticipated your requests of the 2 d I thank you for the advance to mr Girard , and now inclose 70.D. to cover it in bills of the Virginia bank which I understand pass with you. the duplicates you advise for Cathalan & Debures , I had
170Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 1 July 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
This moment arrived here, I find your favor of June 26 and lest the notes should be wanting, I sign them without loss of time and inclose them with assurances of my great esteem & respect PoC (Mrs. T. Wilber Chelf, Mrs. Virginius Dabney, and Mrs. Alexander W. Parker, Richmond, 1944; photocopy in ViU: TJP ); on verso of portion of reused address cover; at foot of text: “ M r Gibson ”; endorsed...
171Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 8 July 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
It is now five and forty years since I have withdrawn from the practice of the law: I have but occasionally, within that period, read any thing on it’s subjects, have rarely reflected on them with any attention, or permitted myself to form opinions with any degree of confidence, still less to oppose these opinions to those of gentlemen now of that faculty, and in dayly familiarity with the...
172Enclosure: John Barnes: Account with Thomas Jefferson, [ca. 11 July 1817] (Jefferson Papers)
John Barnes , In ℀ with Thomas Jefferson Esqr — 1814 Sep r 2 d Of Gibson & Jefferson Rich d recd
173Thomas Jefferson to Charles Clay, 12 July 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
This is the only fair day since you were here, & being to depart tomorrow, I must employ it otherwise than in paying the visit I had intended you. I shall be back however within 3. weeks and have time then to render the double. In the mean while as your Paul is desirous of laying up useful things in the storehouse of his mind, I send him a little bundle of canons of conduct which may merit a...
174Thomas Jefferson to Paul A. Clay, [ca. 12 July 1817] (Jefferson Papers)
1. never spend your money before you have it. 2. never buy what you don’t want, because it is cheap: it will be dear to you. 3. take care of your pence . the pounds will take care of themselves. 4 3. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold. 5 4. never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day. 6 5. never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 7. never do a good thing by...
175Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 16 July 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I found your favor of June 28. on my return hither from my other home , about 90 miles S.W. from hence and near Lynchburg , the mos t growing place in America . they have there the new method of moulding the stock brick in oil, and execute with it the most beautiful brick work, I have ever seen. I went there to try to get a workman skilled in it to come and build our first Academical pavilion,...
176Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 16 July 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I returned from Poplar Forest yesterday, and now send you your papers with my opinion on them. the issue of the cause will depend mainly on the question whether you knew of the estate in remr conveyed to the daughters? Col o Lewis ’s d deposition is the only testimony that you he informed you of it; is the only testimony against you but your answer, his deed to the contrary and other...
177Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 17 July 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
you are quite free, my dear Sir, to make the use you propose of the opinion I gave you, and under the cautions you express. my object is to avoid giving useless offence. I salute you with friendship P.S. your serv t has been detained by the interruption of a visit from a foreigner RC (Mrs. Charles W. Biggs, Lewisburg, W.Va., 1950; photocopy in MsSM ); dateline between note and postscript;...
178Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the Siting of Central College, 18 July 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
1817 Operations at & for the College July 18. a. the place s at which the theodolite was fixed being the center of the Northern square, and the point destined for some principal building in the level of the square l.m n.o. the fall from a. to d. 18.f. ₒ from a. to d the bearing magnetically S. 21. W add for variation 2 ½ S.
179Thomas Jefferson to John H. Cocke, 19 July 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
The promptitude of subscriptions, far beyond my expectations calls for a prompt decision on some matters which I had supposed might have been in time at our fall meeting. I propose to go to mr Madison’s to consult with him between the middle & last of the ensuing week, and I should be very happy if you could come, go with me to the College ground to see what is done & doing and then to mr...
180Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah A. Goodman, 20 July 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
with respect to the girl Sally , the fair thing is to consider the bargain as annulled, and for me to repay you the sum allowed for her, 150.D. with interest till repaid: but I cannot undertake the repayment but in all May 1819. I had as live pay in May 18. as in Aug. 18. but I could not do this conveniently, this with the repayment of her clothing comes to something more than you propose. I...