1From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Donald, 30 May 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
When I left public office I expected to be so much at leisure that I should keep up a very animated correspondence with my friends. On my return home I found my farms in a ruinous condition, which made it necessary for me to undertake their recovery and culture myself. Forced to make myself acquainted both with the theory and practice, I at length became so fascinated with the occupation that...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Donald, 22 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have yet to acknolege your favors of Mar. 10. and Apr. 4. Just before their receipt I had heard of the calamity which had befallen you and which has since befallen so many on your side the water. I heard it with poignant distress, for however it may be with others, I find that my earliest affections are my strongest. I have delayed answering your letter because I wished to be able to say...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Donald, 5 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
My last to you was of Nov. 11. since which I have received your several favors of Sep. 6. Nov. 7. Dec. 12. and Jan. 5. by all of which I see proofs of your friendly dispositions in your attention to the small-stuff commissions I trouble you with. The bill for £37–10 drawn by Count Andriani in favor of Mr. William B. Giles was to answer for a watch which the latter gentleman desired me to order...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Donald, 11 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
This accompanies a duplicate of my letter of Oct. 11. troubling you with some small commissions, to which I must add the having some window sashes made for me agreeable to the inclosed directions, and the sending them to Virginia in the ensuing spring.—But there is another commission with which I trouble you with real reluctance. It is to procure for me from Glasgow or Edinburgh a mason...
5Enclosure: Directions for Window Sashes, 11 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
8. pair of Astragal and hollow, mahogany, window sashes, for windows 6. f. 6. I. high and 3 f. 3 I. wide in the clear of the architrave. The gobbets to be for panes 18. I. square. Both sashes to run up and down. The above are drawings of some sashes made by Adam Dennis. No. 13. St. Clement’s lane Lombard street, London, about the year 1774 for me. I should chuse those now desired to be made as...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Donald, 11 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Having determined to try my Bedford tobacco this year at the London market, I could have no hesitation to whom to consign it. I have therefore ordered it to be very carefully handled, and in some degree sorted, to be got down to Richmond as early as possible and there delivered to Mr. Brown to be shipped to you on my account. According to arrangements taken with Mr. Brown as to the sum I might...
7Enclosure: Invoice of Books and Articles to be Bought in Dublin and London, [11 October 1792] (Jefferson Papers)
Books to be purchased at Dublin, and shipped thence to Richmond in Virginia, to the care of James Brown. Precedents in Chancery. Peere Williams’ } reports } These are all to be 8vo. editions and where they are not to be had in 8vo. they are not to be sent. The Irish 8vos. are preferred to the English because cheaper. Atkyn’s Vezey’s Wilson’s Kaim’s principles of equity. Ld. Raymond’s } reports...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Donald, [8 June 1792] (Jefferson Papers)
I was going to acknolege th[e receipt of yours of Jany. 5th. and Feb.] 15. when I was seised with a yearning of [the heart, which] obliges me to stop till I could write the inclosed. He is a good man to whom it is addressed, and he is himself the bearer of it. I shall make it the subject of a conversation with him. I thought it would not be disagreeable to you to enter with him the claim we...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Donald, [23 November 1791] (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved duly with yo[ur favor Lackington’s ca]talogue, and now in consequence thereof[, seize a moment by] Mr. Morris to send you the inclosed [list, with a prayer that] you will send it to Lackington, re[ceive the books, and forward] them to me at this place. He will [pack them. The amount] would be about 12 guineas, were he to [have the whole un]sold. But it has usually happened, e[ven...
10Enclosure: Lackington’s Catalogue for 1792, [23 November 1791] (Jefferson Papers)
£ s d 0– 4–6 859. Keith’s hist. of the Brit. plantns. in Virga. with maps neat. gilt. scarce. 4to. 3– 0–0 1843. Hume’s H. of Eng. 8.v. new. in a curious & very elegt. bindg. inlaid wth. maroc. silk headbands, registers &c. 8.V. 8vo. 1790 2–0 2147. Locke’s Collection of pieces. good copy. 8vo. 2–6 2149. Locke’s familr. Ires h. b. uncut. 1737. 8vo. 2–3 2150. Locke’s posthumous works. neat. 8vo....