161Thomas Jefferson to William Thornton, 24 August 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Having accidentally mentioned to my former servant Joseph Dougherty my misfortune in losing both my big-tailed rams, he, in his zeal for whatever concerns me, took the liberty of mentioning it to you & informed me you were so kind as to offer to supply my loss with one from your farm. by the cart which now goes to bring it, I take the occasion of returning you my best thanks for your kindness,...
162Thomas Jefferson to James W. Wallace, 24 August 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Having recieved a box of fine Havanna segars & knowing your fondness for them, I cannot make any use of them so gratifying to myself as by sending them to you. having occasion to send a cart to Washington , it will go by Fauq r C.H. to deposit this charge with you. it will return by Dumfries for a pair of Wild geese promised me there, as I have had the misfortune to lose the goose of the pair...
163Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 25 August 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
By the last post I acknoleged the receipt of your last letter, & at the same time took the liberty of making a remittance through you to mr Peale . having occasion to send a light cart to Washington , & being in want of half a pound of Sal-Ammoniac, an article necessary for tinning our copper utensils, & not to be had here, I ask the favor of you to procure it at an Apothecary’s & send it to...
164Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Dougherty, 25 August 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Davy now brings a cart for the big-tailed ram which Doct r Thornton has been so kind as to offer me. you will be so good as to apply for it, and to instruct Davy how to bring him & take care of him so that he may be in no danger of being hurt. with respect to the Merinos, I had rather put off beginning with them a year or two longer. my farms, which have been leased out d during my absence,...
165Thomas Jefferson to Robert Graham, 25 August 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
you were so kind, while I was at Washington as to offer me a pair of domesticated wild geese. having now occasion to send a cart to Washington , I direct the driver to return by the way of Dumfries & to recieve & bring them if you can now spare them. I should have saved you this oppo importunity had I succeeded with a pair I recieved from another quarter. but the goose of that pair...
166Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 25 August 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Will you be so good as to send me the account of mr T. E. Randolph , & the list of balances due from all persons for rent, firewood E t c of Henderson ’s lands, which were left with you the other day. they shall be returned immediately as I only wish their aid a little while in enabling me to state the whole accounts clearly. I see in your account but one charge for the taxes of the land. but...
167Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 27 August 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
M r W. Dawson , agent for the fire insurance company, has a claim on me for 11. D 40 c, fee on the valuation of certain property which I propose to have insured, which I will pray you to pay to him. as he informs me he is in want of it, will you be so good as to give him notice that he may call for it PoC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “George Jefferson”; endorsed by TJ.
168Thomas Jefferson to Alexander McRae, 27 August 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 10 th is recieved. I had certainly inferred, & too hastily as I percieve by a recurrence to your former letter, that your object would be to bring artists from Europe to this country. the expressions that your plan exposed you to hazard & combined public with private advantage led me into the error. I am afraid however I have been misconstrued in my turn. I did not mean to...
169Thomas Jefferson to William W. Hening, 28 August 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
By a letter just recieved from mr George Jefferson I learn that I had deposited with him my volume of ‘Fugitive sheets’ or Session acts from 1734. to 1772. with an injunction not to deliver it out of his own possession, while the volumes of newspapers were delivered to mr Burke , & are consequently lost I fear. knowing your care of such things you are freely welcome to recieve from mr...
170Thomas Jefferson to Charles Pinckney, 29 August 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
M rs Trist , daughter of the late mrs House of Philadelphia , both of them probably known to you, is now with us on a visit, and has been rendered extremely miserable by a paragraph in a Charleston paper, called the Strength of the people, mentioning the death of Samuel House ‘an old and respectable inhabitant of that city.’ she had a brother of that name, who has been living in Charleston...