651From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, [22 February 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President, incloses him a letter he received from Mr. Short yesterday, by which he expected to leave the Hague on the 12th. of December: also the answers he has prepared to the two petitions from Post Vincennes . RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); undated; addressed: “The President of the US.”; endorsed by Tobias Lear as a letter of 22 Feb. 1793. Tr ( Lb in same,...
652From Thomas Jefferson to Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 20 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
In consequence of the invitation expressed in the letter of the Mayor and Municipality of Marseilles to the President of the United States, inclosed in your letter to me of Aug. 24. desiring that supplies of wheat and flour might be sent from the U.S. to Marseilles, a load of wheat and flour is now shipped on board the British ship the Grand Duke, Capt. John Pollock of 300. tons, and destined...
653From Thomas Jefferson to Andrew Donald, 7 November 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved at New York your account, but could not do any thing in it till I could come here, and have recourse to my papers. I find the balance of £27–3–9 due, which I have desired Colo. Nichs. Lewis, who takes care of my affairs, to pay you with interest from the 19th. of April 1783. This will be done as soon as money, for which judgments have been already obtained, can be collected. We hope...
654From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 24 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
We have no letter from Monticello since Mr. Randolph’s of Jan. 30. to Maria. However we hope you are all well and that there are letters on the road which will tell us so. Maria writes to-day. Congress will rise on Saturday next, a term which is joyous to all as it affords some relaxation of business to all. We have had the mildest winter ever known, having had only two snows to cover the...
655To Thomas Jefferson from Michael Jenifer Stone, with Jefferson’s Note, 23 December 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
[ Philadelphia ], 23 Dec. 1790. He presents his friend Mr. Hobson from New York, who will request a passport from this place to England for Gilbert Morewood, who intends to sail in a British vessel and seeks protection in case of war between England and Spain. Hobson says that Morewood is a United States citizen. Although he forgets the particulars, he has understood the same from information...
656To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 16 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson finding the inclosed letter out of it’s place, suspects it may have escaped him when he sent the others to the President. lest that should have been the case he now sends it with his respects. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW . Jefferson had laid the enclosure,...
657I: From Thomas Jefferson, 25 January 1792 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President of the U.S. and subjoins what he supposes might form a proper introduction to the statement prepared by the Secretary at war. the occasion is so new that however short the letter proposed, he has no doubt it will need correction both as to the matter & manner. Sir As the circumstances which have engaged the U.S. in the present Indian war,...
658III. Thomas Jefferson to Tench Coxe, 17 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Th : Jefferson presents his compliments to Mr. Coxe and being to write to the President this morning, he has no hesitation to inclose to him Mr. Coxe’s letter, and to assure Mr. Coxe of his wishes for success to the application. He has not waited to consult with Mr. M. because he should have lost a post in the conveyance of the letter, and that as to himself he had no doubts to consult about....
659Enclosure: Memorandum from Thomas Jefferson, 3 November 1792 (Washington Papers)
To the bill which shall be brought in for continuing the act of July 1. 1790. c.22. ‘providing the means of intercourse between the U.S. and foreign nations’ it is proposed to add the following clause. And be it further enacted that where monies have issued, or shall issue, from the Treasury, for the purposes of intercourse or treaty with foreign nations, under the authority of the said act,...
660From Thomas Jefferson to John Bolling, 8 February 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Among the accounts which it is necessary for me to settle before my departure, are the administrations of the deceased part of our family. That of my sister Jane was finished by Mr. Carr who delivered me your bonds to the several distributees. These I have lately given out, and you will probably receive applications for the money from Randolph, C. L. Lewis and Mr. Marks. That due to my mother,...
661From Thomas Jefferson to Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 30 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have laid before the president of the United States the letter of May 10th. of Captain Henry Burbeck, commandant of the Fort of St: Tammany, to his Excellency the Governor of East Florida, with the other letters relating thereto, which you were pleased to put into my hands, and I have the honor to inform you that, the president having entirely disapproved of the expressions which Capt....
662From Thomas Jefferson to Peter Carr, 10 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your’s of Oct. 24. a little before bed-time of the same evening, and being to set out early the next morning it was impossible for me to answer it. It was the less material, as I had written some days before, and left in the hands of Mr. Jefferson a letter to my sister on the same subject. I had before imagined that the present state of her family would render it convenient to...
663To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 10 January 1792 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of State having received information that the Merchants and Merchandize of the United States are subject in Copenhagen and other ports of Denmark to considerable extra duties, from which they might probably be relieved by the presence of a Consul there, Reports to the President of the United States: That it would be expedient to name a Consul, to be resident in the port of...
664From Thomas Jefferson to William Prince, 6 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
When I was at your house in June I left with you a note to furnish me with the following trees, to wit Sugar maples. All you have. bush cranberries. All you have. To these I must now desire you to add the following; the names of which I take from your catalogue, to wit According to your estimate and the prices in your catalogue these will be covered by 30. dollars which sum you will recieve...
665From Thomas Jefferson to Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 17 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your favor of the 15th. and return you my thanks for the observations you are so good as to make. The Canary islands shall be specially noted in the Report, and the duty on flour reexported to the colonies shall be stated, as I know it to be, common to the flour of all foreign nations, and not confined to ours alone. I will make enquiries as to the nature of the commerce...
666From Thomas Jefferson to Adam Lindsay, 20 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 4th. inst. came duly to hand as did also the 3. boxes of candles by capt. Johnston. I shall, as you desire, await the remaining 110 ℔ to remit you the cost of the whole in one bill. I shall thank you to keep in mind my request for the Hughes’s crab cyder of the best quality. It is in high esteem here. I rejoice to hear of the daily increase of Norfolk, being satisfied that...
667From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 13 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary of State incloses to the President the letter to the King of France with the alteration he proposes for incorporating the vote of the house. If the President approves it, he will be so good as to return it in time to be written at large to-day, signed and sealed. Th: J. thinks the copy of the resolution delivered the President with the signature of the Speaker will be the proper...
668From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Harrison, 17 March 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
After forwarding to you my dispatches by the last post, I undertook for the use of Mr. Grand also, to make a proper statement of his debets against the US. against Virginia, and myself; ascribing every article of his charges to it’s real party. As his whole accounts, while under my inspection are thus brought within the compass of a single sheet of paper, I thought it would be well to send you...
669From Thomas Jefferson to James Sullivan, 8 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I was yesterday honored by the receipt of your letter of June 2. on the subject of Mr. Letombe’s continuance in the consulship, and am sorry to inform you that an appointment had taken place three days before and the Exequatur had issued. I should with pleasure have handed in your testimony in favor of Mr. Letombe had it not been too late; in which I should have been gratified in rendering a...
670From Thomas Jefferson to Angelica Schuyler Church, 8 September 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I know not how our letter account stands, but I am willing enough to suppose myself in debt that under that pretext I may recall myself to your memory. Your kind enquiries after our situation during the rage of the yellow fever in Philadelphia, by some delay on the way, did not get to me till 6. months after it’s date. It found me in a safe asylum from all the cares and dangers of that...
671From Thomas Jefferson to George Clinton, 27 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to acknolege the receipt of your Excellency’s favor of the 19th. inst. with the exemplification of the treaties accompanying it as also the Bill of the secretary, amounting to 12½ dollars, for which I take the liberty of inclosing him a bank post note thro’ your Excellency, as I know not his particular address. Be pleased to accept my thanks for your attention and assurances...
672From Thomas Jefferson to Grand & Cie., 9 June 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof Mr. Haskell, being employed to act here on behalf of a company, and likely to have occasion to deposit and pass thro the hands of a banker considerable sums of money, is disposed to give a preference to your house. He wishes therefore to be made known to you. I had not the honour of an acquaintance with Mr. Haskell in America, but he brought to me from thence the most...
673To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Jefferson, 12 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The President has thought proper to appoint Colo. David Humphreys, minister Resident for the U.S. at the court of Lisbon, with a salary of 4500. dollars a year, and an outfit equal to a year’s salary. Besides this, by a standing regulation, he will be allowed his disbursements for gazettes transmitted here, translating & printing papers where that shall be necessary, postage, couriers, &...
674From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 10 January 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your favor of the 26th. Dec. only two days ago, and tomorrow the bearer Mr. Petit , my overseer, will set out for them. The weather for two days past would not admit of his moving, or they should not have remained an unnecessary hour on your hands, as the trouble of buying them is more than enough on you. You make me happy by the prospect of seeing you here soon. I hope it will be...
675From Thomas Jefferson to David Ross, 11 January 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this day recieved your favor , covering copies of the accounts, and your observations on them. The rapid reading I have been able to give them does not satisfy me that there can be any just measure of dealings between man and man but real money. However, these papers are long and the subject intricate. They will take me a considerable time to examine and weigh, probably several days. My...
676From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 20 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson, with his respects to the President incloses him the draught of a letter to Mr. Pinckney: also some Canada gazettes, with the letter from Colo. Fay accompanying them. He perceives from this letter that Colo. Fay had not awaited his approbation to make use of the name of Th:J. in the land-job. He thinks it possible the government of Canada may get hold of this, and perhaps make...
677From Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Cutting, 30 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Your brother, with whom I have the honor of an acquaintance, has promised that he would ask your permission for me to address a line to you on a subject very interesting to me. I have just received permission to pay a six months visit to America. I wish to sail about the 1st. of October and from Havre preferably to every other port because my baggage, which is heavy, may go to that by water....
678From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Hawkins, 1 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
At Mrs. Trist’s desire I forward to you about a dozen beans of three different kinds, having first taken toll of them as she had done before. They are of the scarlet flowering kinds. This is all I know of them. The most beautiful bean in the world is the Caracalla bean, which though in England a green house plant, will grow in the open air in Virginia and Carolina. I never could get one of...
679From Thomas Jefferson to Adam Lindsay, 15 September 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Your kindness in offering to execute any little matters for me in your place, will perhaps induce me to trouble you annually, during my residence in Philadelphia for the two articles of Myrtle wax candles, and Hughes’s crab cyder, which can be got no where else. I will now ask the favor of you to procure for me, in the proper seasons 250. њ of myrtle wax candles, moulded, and of the largest...
680From Thomas Jefferson to David Humphreys, 11 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege yours of May 19. 29. and July 20. being Nos. 72. 73. and 76. It is long since I wrote to you, because I knew you must be where you could not receive my letters: and perhaps it may be sometime before I write to you again on account of a contagious and mortal fever which has arisen here, and is driving us all away. It is called a yellow fever, but is like nothing known or...
681From Thomas Jefferson to C. W. F. Dumas, 2 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Taking for granted that before the arrival of the vessel by which this goes, Mr. Short will have left the Hague on a temporary mission to Madrid, I have taken the liberty of addressing to you a packet of plans of the city of Washington on the Potomak, with a desire that they may be exhibited (not for sale) but in such shops, houses, or other places, where they may be most seen by those...
682From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson Bolling, 31 October 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Being to set out for Philadelphia this week, I cannot take my departure without expressing to you my disappointment in having been unable to see you during my stay in the state. I was once obliged to go as far as Richmond, but my business here permitted only four days for that journey. I had hoped that a contract I had negotiated between Colo. T. M. R. and his son, had secured Edgehill as a...
683To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander Hamilton, with Jefferson’s Comment, 19 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to The Secretary of State requests him to name some hour tomorrow forenoon when it will be convenient for him to receive at his house the Secry. of the Treasury and Attorney General on the subject of the sinking fund . [ Note by TJ at foot of text: ] This was to dispose of 50,000 Doll. in the purchase of paper. It was agreed to repeat the...
684To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 29 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President some letters brought by the Rider yesterday afternoon, & which he found on his return home in the night. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State. According to GW’s journal, these enclosures were letters “From Thos. Pinckney Esqr. of the 25 Sept. 93,”...
685From Thomas Jefferson to George Divers, 26 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
As I propose to purchase a still here for the use of my plantations, and understand there is a good deal in the size, proportion and number of the vessels, I take the liberty of requesting you to inform me what particulars I had better provide. I make this appeal [to] you the rather, as you can judge of the extent and manner in which I am to carry on the business, proposing nothing more than...
686From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 11 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of July 29. and Aug. 1. are now before me, and the inkpot was duly received, for which I return you a thousand thanks, for it is to me a great convenience. You did not mention the price, but I suppose it to be about 3. dollars (judging from the former one) and will not fail to replace it by the first person I can find passing. Schneider’s price is high. I must do the less in his...
687From Thomas Jefferson to Sampson Mathews, 19 August 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson with a renewal of his respect and esteem for Colo. S. Matthews, takes the liberty of putting under cover to him the inclosed letters to Mr. Pleasants and Mr. Winston , the former to be forwarded to the springs by any safe opportunity the latter to be delivered to Mr. Winston only when he shall arrive at Stanton. He wishes many long and happy years to Colo. Matthews. PrC ( MHi )....
688From Thomas Jefferson to Wilson Cary Nicholas, 1 November 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof Majr. Faire is the person whom Mr. Madison and myself mentioned as proposing to set up a glass manufactory. We had recommended James river to him. In passing thro’ Culpeper however he had almost or even quite determined to fix there: induced principally by the offers of credit for their provisions, for the expence of first establishment being great, and their capital not so,...
689From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Antoine Gautier, 8 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
A Friend of mine having desired me to procure him a watch from Paris, I am led to trouble you with the commission, as well from the circumstance of your having aided me in getting one from Romilly for myself, as because I am glad of an occasion to keep hold on your acquaintance and recollection, which will ever be duly prised by me. Be so good then as to get M. Romilly to make exactly such...
690From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Lilburne Lewis, 4 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The constant calls of public business, which scarcely ever permit me to turn to what is private, will I hope apologize for my late acknolegement of your letter of Mar. 23. on the subject of the claims of Anthony and Giovannini against Mr. Mazzei. With respect to Anthony, I always assured him that whenever I should have any money of Mr. Mazzei’s in my hands, I would join him in referring his...
691From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Willard, 1 April 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received the letter wherein you are so good as to notify to me the honor done me by the American academy of arts and sciences in electing me one of their members together with the diploma therein inclosed: and I beg leave through you, Sir, to return to the academy the homage of my thanks for their favor, and to express to them the grateful sense I have of it. I only regret the...
692From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 14 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly recieved your favor of the 11th. with the pamphlet it inclosed, for which be pleased to accept my thanks. In accepting the office I am in, I knew I was to set myself up as a butt of reproach, not only for my own errors, but for the errors of those who would undertake to judge me. It was the objection which the longest delayed my acquiescence in the President’s appointment. I have...
693From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 13 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 2d came yesterday. I wrote to Mr. Randolph two days ago, but by a bungle of the servant it did not get to the post office in time, so I suppose that and this will get to hand together, and both probably only the evening before I shall reach Monticello. Still should my former one desiring horses, have missed, this will be in time for them to meet me on the road, and relieve mine in...
694From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Leslie, 27 June 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I find among the letters to Mr. Jay, one from Mr. Coxe on the subject of the vibrating rod thought of by you for a standard of measures: and I have received from Mr. Madison a manuscript pamphlet of yours on the same subject. Congress having referred to me to propose a plan of invariable measures, I have considered maturely your proposition, and am abundantly satisfied of it’s ability; so that...
695To John Adams from Thomas Jefferson, 20 April 1790 (Adams Papers)
Encroachments being made on the Eastern limits of the United States by Settlers under the British Government, pretending that it is the Western and not the Eastern River of the Bay of Passamaquoddy which was designated by the name of S t. Croix in the Treaty of Peace with that nation, I have to beg the favour of you to communicate any facts which your memory or papers may enable you to...
696From Thomas Jefferson to Isaac Shelby, 29 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The Commissioners of Spain residing here have complained to the President of the United States that certain persons at this place are taking measures to excite the Inhabitants of Kentucky to join in an enterprise against the Spanish Dominions on the Missisippi; and in evidence of it have produced the printed address now enclosed. I have it, therefore in charge from the President to desire you...
697From Thomas Jefferson to David Rittenhouse, 8 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson incloses to Mr. Rittenhouse the first criticism which has come to his hands on the rod-pendulum as a standard of measure. It is from a clergyman of Scotland. The author’s language is so lax, that it is difficult to know with precision what idea he means to express. It is particularly so in the following sentence at the bottom of the 1st. page. ‘It is therefore impossible to fix...
698From Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 2 April 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Behold me, my dear friend, dubbed Secretary of state, instead of returning to the far more agreeable position which placed me in the daily participation of your friendship. I found the appointment in the newspapers the day of my arrival in Virginia. I had indeed been asked while in France whether I would accept of any appointment at home, and I had answered that without meaning to remain long...
699From Thomas Jefferson to John Stuart, 10 November 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the receipt of your last favor together with the bones of the Great-claw which accompanied it. My anxiety to obtain a thigh bone is such that I defer communicating what we have to the Philosophical society in the hope of adding that bone to the collection. We should then be able to fix the stature of the animal without going into conjecture and calculation as we should...
700From Thomas Jefferson to John Lamb, 17 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Since the reciept of your favor of Feb. 17. two paper packages from New York have been left here, containing newspaper and pamphlets. I was not at home and therefore do not know whether they were those committed to Capt. Bayley, and which were the subject of your letter. Should any others come, containing dutiable articles you may be assured of information of it from Sir Your very humble...