271From Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 21 December 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor from the Hundred came to hand the [day before] yesterday. I have been detained here a week by bad weather. [this morn]ing mr Nicholas & myself breakfasted at Sun-rise to set out: but heavy snow is now come on. we shall start as soon as it holds up. our election was yesterday. Woods carried it against P. Carr by 247. against 122 votes. those of your people who were unwell when you...
272To Thomas Jefferson from William Floyd, 15 March 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I am much obliged to you for the pamphlet you Sent me, and have only to regret that there is not a more general circulation of that and Such like publications throughout the United States—as it would have a great tendency to enlighten many honest well meaning persons who are Deceived and Missled by those who have been employed throughout the United States to represent and missrepresent with a...
273From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson Eppes, 2 December 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
You will be surprised at receiving a letter from me dated here at this time. But a series of bad weather having suspended our works many days, has caused my detention. I have for some time had my trunk packed and issued my last orders, and been only waiting for it to cease raining. But it still rains. I have a bad prospect of rivers and roads before me. Your sister removed to Belmont about...
274From Thomas Jefferson to John Beckley, 12 June 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
In consequence of my undertaking to mr Trigg, I wrote to my manager near Lynchburg to know if he could pay him 240. Dollars the 1st. of July. he has informed me he could not; but that, according to my directions in that case, he had engaged a merchant of Lynchburg to do it, in exchange for my draught for that sum in Richmond. I have accordingly made provision for the payment in Richmond. on...
275From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, [6 May 1799] (Jefferson Papers)
Your readiness to execute the little commissions I have had in New York has put me so much into the habit of troubling you with them that apologies would be tiresome to you. at this moment I have a great interest at stake, and I need for my government some information from your market. the act of Congress which cuts off our intercourse with France (where is the greatest consumption of our...
276From Thomas Jefferson to William Dunbar, 16 January 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Oct. 6. has been duly recieved & I am much flattered with the prospect of your communications . the vocabularies of the Western Indians are much desired; and your meteorological observations will also be very acceptable; as they will furnish materials for a comparative view of climates. your letter gives me the first information I have ever had of the language by signs used among...
277From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 26 September 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
By a letter by this day’s post addressed to John Barnes of Georgetown I desire him to remit you in the first week of October six hundred & eighty dollars. this is the mode which appears most convenient to you both. I have also desired him to remit you a sum of not quite 300. D. for mrs Anne Key & Walter Key which place to their own account, subject to their orders. I expect some stoves from...
278From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Richardson, 22 April 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 15th. inst. I wrote to you , desiring you would send off my horses on Friday the 9th. of May so that they might arrive at mr Eppes’s on the 11th. this was in expectation Congress meant to adjourn on the 5th. of May. but since that they have put off their adjournment a week longer, that is to say to the 12th. of May. therefore my horses must set off a week later than I had directed, that...
279From Thomas Jefferson to John McDowell, 14 May 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
I have still to acknowlege the reciept of your favors of Mar. 21. and Apr. 13. as also the reciept of forty pounds by mr Kenny. I am sorry it has not suited you to continue the sale of my nails; but I cannot expect it, if it does not suit your convenience. the long & still doubtful illness of my foreman together with my absence, have greatly affected my nailery, little having been done during...
280From Thomas Jefferson to John Gibson, 24 June 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to thank you for your favor of the 17th inst. and the [infor]mation it contained, but have still to trouble you for an explanation [of a] passage in [which?] you say ‘Capt Cressop was not present when [Logan’s relations] were killed.’ How then are we to understand that passage in Logan’s speech which says ‘Colo. Cressop the last year in cold blood and unprovoked killed all the relations...
281From Thomas Jefferson to Mann Page, 6 March 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the receipt of your f[avor] of [Feb.] 13. and […] thank you for the papers it contain[ed.] that of mr Anderson [is so much] […] that I take the liberty of reques[ting you] […] his signature, for which purpose I now inclose it to you. [it is possible] that whenever I shall have collected full evidence on the subject, I [shall] […] from the whole […] statement of the...
282From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Waterhouse, 25 December 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night, and have read with great satisfaction your pamphlet on the subject of the kine-pox, and pray you to accept [my] thanks for the communication of it. I had before attended to your publications on the subject in the newspapers, and took much interest in the result of the experiments you were making. every friend of humanity must look with pleasure on this discovery, by...
283From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 26 December 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
All the votes are now come in except Vermont & Kentuckey, and there is no doubt that the result is a perfect parity between the two republican characters. the Feds appear determined to prevent an election, & to pass a bill giving the government to mr Jay, appointed Chief justice, or to Marshall as Secy. of state. yet I am rather of opinion that Maryland & Jersey will join the 7. republican...
284From Thomas Jefferson to Auguste Belin, 27 February 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to M. Belin and his thanks for the funeral oration of M. Chaudron on General Washington. he has read this very eloquent production with great satisfaction. it is in truth a very pleasing thing to Americans to see foreigners so liberally participate in their grief on the loss of their great countryman. it is but justice to acknolege that the citizens of...
285From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Smith Barton, 1 March 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Dr. Barton. he is just now beginning to copy the Indian vocabularies lent him by Dr. Barton; but finds it necessary to know previously whether some of them may not already have been entered in the Vocabularies of Th:J. lent to Dr. B. he will therefore thank him for them, & if Dr. B. has not made the uses of them which he wished, they shall be speedily...
286From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Antoine Gautier, 14 January 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr Tenche Coxe, a gentleman of eminence in these [states] […] in commerce & of great respectability in that line, having some business to transact in Paris, & desiring me to recommend some[one] to him on whom he may rely for negotiating it, I have taken the liberty of advising his application to you on the personal acquaintance I had the honour of having with you while at Paris, and the...
287From Thomas Jefferson to Julian Ursin Niemcewicz, 16 January 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor which I recieved at Monticello was so long on the road that I expected you would be with us yourself very soon after. finding however the season advance beyond the time for expecting you, without these expectations being realised, I wrote to you and directed my letter to be put into mr Mc.lure’s hands, and I hope you got it safely. on my arrival here I recieved a letter from Genl...
288From Thomas Jefferson to Mann Page, 2 January 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
I do not know whether you have seen some very furious abuse of me in the Baltimore papers by a mr Luther Martin, on account of Logan’s speech published in the Notes on Virginia. he supposes both the speech & story made by me to support an argument against Buffon. I mean not to enter into a newspaper contest with mr Martin. but I wish to collect, as well as the lapse of time will permit the...
289From Thomas Jefferson to Horatio Gates, 30 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the pamphlet of Erskine inclosed in your favor of the 9th. inst. and still more for the evidence which your letter afforded me of the health of your mind and I hope of body also. Erskine has been reprinted here and has done good. It has refreshed the memory of those who had been willing to forget how the war between France and England has been produced; and who ape-ing St....
290From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson Eppes, 13 July 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived here on the 3d. inst. expecting to have found you here and we have been ever since imagining that every sound we heard was that of the carriage which was once more to bring us together. it was not till yesterday I learnt by the reciept of mr Eppes’s letter of June 30th. that you had been sick, and were only on the recovery at that date. a preceding letter of his, referred to in that...
291From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Norborne Nicholas, 2 November 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
[Your] favor inclosing the pamphlet came safe to hand. it was written [with that energy of] […] which distinguished everything from the same author. I [had] during the [last winter] read with great pleasure the letter to Judge Addison . it is an unanswerable […] of the [new] [usurpa]tion the federal government is […] about to add to their list, but [all the others] have been petty […] things...
292From Thomas Jefferson to Simon Chaudron, 18 December 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I am informed by a gentleman who called on you in Philadelphia that the watch is arrived, which you were so kind as to undertake to import for me. the question is how to procure a safe conveyance of it to this place, which can only be in a gentleman’s pocket; as experience has proved to me that no precautions of package can secure a watch brought in a trunk, on the wheels of a carriage, from...
293From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 6 February 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I mentioned in a former letter that 3. tons of nail rod, too large for my use, would be brought down from Monticello, & desired you to hold it till I could get mr Roberts’s order to whom it should be delivered in Richmond to his use. he now authorises me to have it delivered to Joseph Anthony, merchant in Richmond. I will ask the favor of you to do this, if the rod is come down, & to send me...
294From Thomas Jefferson to Patricot, 24 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The letter which I wrote you on the 20th. of Dec. I inclosed to Colo. Newton at Norfolk merely to know if you were there. he returned it to me with information that you were in New-York. I then directed it to New York, and being in consequence assured of your address by your’s of the 16th. inst. I have now the pleasure to forward you a letter and an open paper which I recieved from mr Short,...
295From Thomas Jefferson to Julian Ursin Niemcewicz, 30 November 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
By a derangement of our post we have been very long getting our Northern letters this summer, but some uncommon delay happened to yours, as by the time I recieved it, I had reason to hope daily to see you here. in this expectation I did not answer it as soon as it came to hand; but as the advance of the season now forbids further hope on that subject I do myself the pleasure of acknoleging the...
296From Thomas Jefferson to Andrew G. Fraunces, 28 June 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I know well that you were a clerk in the Treasury Department while I was in the office of Secretary of State; but as I had no relation with the interior affairs of that office, I had no opportunity of being acquainted with you personally, except the single occasion on which you called on me. The length of time you were in the office affords the best presumption in your favour, and the...
297From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 8 November 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
As soon as mr Pollard will give a form for the power of attorney [I sh]all be glad to send you one on behalf of mr Short; as I wish his interest to be represented at the meetings. Mr Short owned 1000. as. of green sea land in Norfolk county granted [to] him by patent Dec. 10. 1784. it is but lately I know of this. having [written] to Colo. T. Newton to learn on what footing it stood as to the...
298From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 8 March 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
I this moment recieve your favor of the 1st. inst. & am alarmed at the account of my nailery being out of nailrod. I left them with a provision to last till late in April, but whether it had all got home, or was still at Richmond my memory does not tell me. a person happening to be with me when I opened your letter who tells me he was in mr Johnston’s warehouse the 1st. of Feb. & saw a...
299From Thomas Jefferson to John Beale Bordley, 30 August 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Mrs. Randolph, your friend in England, & I believe your relation is entitled to large arrearages of an annuity settled on her by marriage contract, for the paiment of which Peter Randolph, Peyton Randolph & Philip Grymes were jointly & severally bound. Peter R’s estate is no longer solvent, & . Peyton R’s part devolves on Edmund Randolph, so that he and mr Grymes the son, are liable for the...
300From Thomas Jefferson to John McDowell, 1 October 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
Having to pay a sum of money at our ensuing court (the 7th. inst.) I am obliged to muster up all my resources. if you have any thing for me for nails sold, I should thank you to remit it. if nobody should be coming from your place to our court, I will send express for it a day or two after, if the sum should be worth while. I do not know the person who rides post; but if you know him or can...