571From Thomas Jefferson to George Loyall, 22 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the rec t of your favor of the 14 th and still more especially to acknolege the kindness with which you lent your aid to a late measure of extreme importance to me and to my family. the 1 st vote indeed was very appalling, and made me fear I had made a very improper proposition which could be rejected off hand by so great a proportion of the house. the practice of selling...
572From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 8 September 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of July 28. from Avon came to hand on the 10 th of August and I have delayed answering it on the presumption of your continued absence. but the approach of the season of frost in that region has probably, before this time, turned you about to the South. I readily concieve that, by the time of your return to Philadelphia, you will have had travelling enough for the present, and...
573From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 2 November 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Oct. 18. came to hand yesterday. the atmosphere of our country is unquestionably charged with a threatening cloud of fanaticism, lighter in some parts, denser in others, but too heavy in all. I had no idea however that in Pensylvania, the cradle of toleration and freedom of religion, it could have arisen to the height you describe. this must be owing to the growth of...
574From Thomas Jefferson to Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, 4 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
This, my dear friend will be handed you by Tho s Jefferson Randolph who goes with his fellow citizens to welcome you among us. he is my grandson and as such I am sure you will recieve him kindly, and the more so for his moral merit and the high veneration with which from his cradle he has been taught to entertain for you.—I am just recovered from an illness of some weeks, have been able to...
575Thomas Jefferson to Felix Pascalis, 2 January 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved on the 26 th only your letter of the 15 th of December p r oposing to our University the purchase of the collection of Natural curiosities recommended by you; and I regret that that institution is not yet in a sufficient state of forwardness to avail ourselves of the advantage. our buildings are not yet half finished: and, until they are compleated, our whole funds must be applied...
576From Thomas Jefferson to Frederick Winslow Hatch, 12 February 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson sends to mr Hatch the inclosed order more tardily than he wished, but as soon as he could. he hopes mr Hatch experiences no ill from the storm to which he was exposed yesterday. a night’s rest has restored Th: J. from the exhaustion produced on him by the violence & continuance of the efforts of strength he was obliged to exert. he presents to mr Hatch his friendly and respectful...
577Thomas Jefferson to Harrison Hall, 3 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Hall , acknoleges the reciept of his letter of Mar. 24. & assures him he has never had an idea of publishing a new edition of the Notes on Virginia . he has occasionally made some little memorandums and perhaps may continue to do so, which he may leave to be added should it be thought worthy of a posthumous edition . He prays mr Hall to remind him...
578From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Tornquist, 5 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
It is not in my power to give a definite answer to the offer in your favor of the 27 th from Boston, of a physical, chemical and astronomical apparatus. Dollond’s name would sfft ly recommend the articles made by him. but we are not yet in possn of funds for those objects. a sum has been voted instead for a library and apparatus but when it will be recieved is quite uncertain; and when rec d...
579Thomas Jefferson to Gerard E. Stack, [26 March 1820] (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Stack & returns with pleasure the introductory letter of D r Cooper presented to him by mr Stack , together with his own testimony on the same subject. unfortunately the letter is disfigured by the loss of it’s blank leaf, an operation to which Th:J. is obliged to subject all papers he recieves, in order to keep their volume within more convenient...
580Thomas Jefferson to Jesse Wharton, 25 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Sep. 25. is just now recieved, and to answer it will require some explanation. our legislature , at their last session authorised the Visitors of the University to borrow money to finish the buildings, pledging the public annuity of 15,000.D. settled on it for the repayment of the loan. money was accordingly borrowed and the buildings will be compleated by this time twelvemonth....
581Thomas Jefferson’s List of Books for Hilliard, after 14 July 1824, 14 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
recomm d to Hiliard Bonheur et Morale Sax. gram. vocab. Pentateuch Orosius . Turner Ludlow Baxter. Locke on govmt Sidney Gibbons Univ. hist. ant t Fresnoy Tablettes Chronol. geon Dumeril portatif de Grenet et Bonn 7.38 d
582Thomas Jefferson to Francis Adrian Van der Kemp, 25 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of M r Vanderkemp to make his thanks acceptable, if occasion should offer to the worthy lady, miss Halshoff who has been so kind as through him to send him her interesting Republican Manuel. it is replete with the soundest principles of human independance, and I commiserate her sufferings in so holy a cause. gloomy however as is the present appearance of it’s...
583From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Swift, 21 June 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your favor of the 11 th with the catalogue it covered, and which I now return. as soon as funds for the procuring a library for the University were put into the hands of the Visitors we took up the subject and concluded that having formed a catalogue of what was requisite for us, we would employ an agent to make the purchases. we accordingly engaged mr Hilliard, of the...
584Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 26 November 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 11 th came to hand yesterday only. how it could have slumbered 15. days on the road is inexplicable but by great default. it happens in this case to produce no ill because on the day of the date of yours I had forwarded to you the notes desired, which you probably recieved a day or two after. I am really miserable at the state of our river , and the continuance of the most...
585From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Selden Garnett, 14 February 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to thank you for the copy of Col o Taylor’s New views of the Constitution, and shall read them with the satisfaction and edification which I have ever derived from whatever he has written. but I fear it is the voice of one crying in the wilderness. those who formerly usurped the name of federalists, which in fact they never were, have now openly abandoned it, and are as openly marching,...
586From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 10 February 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I rejoiced to learn that Jefferson had filled up my deficit with you. T. E. R. failed me mortifyingly be so good as to place the inclosed note of Th: J. R. for 400.D to my credit. it will quickly be drawn for. in the mean time be so good as to send me about 100.℔ Java or Bourbon coffee, the latter preferably if to be had, as also a quarter cask of Sicily Madeira, the best your place affords...
587From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Eppes, 1 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 23 d ult. has been recieved. I have diligently gone over your father’s correspondence with me, which is very voluminous, and I send you the only letters which seem! to answer the purposes you have in view. they are 4. in number, to wit June 12. July 11. and Oct. 14. 1812. and June 12. 1820. the 3. first of these will shew he was aware that he was tenant for life only by...
588From Thomas Jefferson to Dabney Carr, 16 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
As a supplement to my letter of Apr. 3. I can now inform you that I have rec d M r Cabell’s, Gen l Cocke’s, & mr Madison’s written approbn of the appmt proposed in that letter. this with my own is a majority. I shall not write to the other 3. until I know you will accept, and then only as a just respect to them and for your greater satisfn without awaiting their answers to act on those of the...
589From Thomas Jefferson to Lewis E. Beck, 16 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Sir, for your pamphlet on the climate of the West, and have read it with great satisfaction. altho’ it does not yet establish a satisfactory theory, it is an additional step towards it. mine was perhaps the first attempt, not to form a theory, but to bring together the few facts then known and suggest them to public attention. they were written between 40. & 50. years ago, before...
590Thomas Jefferson to Wilson Cary Nicholas, 20 September 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday only (altho’ in a letter of the 9 th ) notice from the bank of the US. that one of the notes endorsed by me would fall due the 20/23 inst. the other Oct. 17 / 20. instead of a renewal I have thought it better to execute at once a bond instead of for both. I therefore inclose it to you as executed by Jefferson & myself & needing only your execution to enable me to inclose...
591Thomas 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...
592Thomas Jefferson to John Brockenbrough, 27 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return after a long absence, I found here your favor of Dec. 10 . I never owned but one piece of ground in Richmond which was conveyed to me by Charles Carter as trustee for Col o Byrd , and sold and conveyed again by me to David Higginbotham , to whom I delivered all the papers I had concerning it. a copy of the deed which I retained enables me to quote it’s description, to wit,...
593Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Wilson, 10 May 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Apr. 23. is just now recieved, and I am first to apologise for the liberty taken of having the articles which are the subject of it consigned to you. I recieve every year my supplies of wine from Marseilles , and of books from Paris by the way of Havre , and American vessels being rare in those ports, I am obliged to request their being sent by such vessel as may be in port, and...
594Thomas Jefferson’s Observations on George Divers’s Answer to Interrogatories in Jefferson v. Rivanna Company, [before 9 … (Jefferson Papers)
Observations on the answer of mr Divers . This def. having given his answer individually, and declined joining in the corporate body answer , I place the facts he has stated as of his own knolege , on the same footing as if given on oath: but his hearsays and opinions remain open to observation, in this case, as they would be on a regular answer on oath. Quere 10. Answer.
595Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 12 August 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Instead of answering your letter yesterday, I desired the bearer to tell you I should see you at Monteagle to-day, being anxious also to see my sister , before I set out to Bedford , whom you mention to be still unwell. I accordingly mounted my horse just now to visit you, but found him so lame I was obliged to turn back. with respect to the fodder I had, on mr Bacon ’s suggestion, searched...
596From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 30 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The marble bases and paving squares are arrived at N.Y. and will be immediately reimbarked thence for Richm d . Cases T.J. N o 1.—to 19. contain 1400. sq. f. of paving squares, and 12. other cases T.J N o 20. to 31 contain 10. whole and 2 half bases for the columns. as their transportation from Richmond up will be extremely difficult and expensive, special measures should be provided for it....
597Thomas Jefferson to Charles Willson Peale, 7 August 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Passing considerable portions of my time at this place, I keep for use here the portable Polygraph which mr Hawkins was so kind as to send me. but I have had the misfortune to break one of it’s ink glasses , which suspends it’s use, as no such thing can be got here. and to whom can I apply to replace it but to a friend in small things as well as great. without apology therefore I inclose you...
598Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Robertson, 16 November 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I had destined a sum of rent due to me July 1. to pay the am t of my last year’s acc t to you, 611.17 which however not being yet recieved I inclose you an order for that sum payable Jan. 1. ensuing being the earliest I can command with certainty. this will be due for wheat sold & payable then. mr Yancey had supposed we should have 1000.b. for market but as we proceed in fanning it , it...
599From Thomas Jefferson to E.D. Withers, 25 November 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 19 th inst. I wish certainly to be continued as a subscriber to the Edinbg Review. it would be more convenient for me to take it from the agent in Richmond, because that is my market and the depository of all my funds, and Col o B. Peyton, my correspdt there would pay the sbscrption annually on the call of that agent. if however it will be convenient for...
600Thomas Jefferson to Frederick A. Mayo, 11 May 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I am just returned home after an absence of some time and find here your letter of the 5 th . your former favors had also come to hand and the books safely arrived, and their execution entirely approved. the remittance of the amount of your account only awaits my being able to get to Richmond a parcel of flour which will be ready in about 10. days and will be immediately forwarded to Cap t...