61Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Garrett, 8 May 1822, with Garrett’s Note and Receipt (Jefferson Papers)
M r Appleton ’s account stands thus. Proceeds of former remittance 1239. to be paid of it to Giacomo Raggi 200 applicable to capitels. 1039 whole cost of Capitels 1900 bal ce to be remitted clear of exchange. 861. Note by Garrett
62Thomas Jefferson to Smith Thompson, 19 August 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
A friend of mine, mr Gibson of Richmond is desirous of obtaining a Midshipman’s warrant for his son , a youth of about 14. years of age of a robust constitution, and a predilection for that line of life which may give hopes of a zealous pursuit of it. with the son I am not personally acquainted, but have no doubt that satisfactory vouchers may be exhibited of his character and...
63Thomas Jefferson’s Promissory Note to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 21 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
$3000. Sixty five days after date I promise to pay to Thomas J. Randolph or order, negotiable and payable at the Office of discount and deposit of the United States bank in Richmond without offset Three thousand dollars for value received MS ( MHi ); written on a half sheet in Patrick Gibson ’s hand, signed by TJ. At the date of this document, TJ was still at Warm Springs , not monticello ....
64Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Patrick Gibson, [ca. 14 May 1819] (Jefferson Papers)
1819. Th: Jefferson in account with P. Gibson . Feb. 8. Balance by acc t rendered 724. 15 say 724. 15 May 10. draughts to this day paid 781. 58
65Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Patrick Gibson, [ca. 12 September 1820] (Jefferson Papers)
Account Sales of 19 Bbls flour & One Hhd Tobacco for Th: Jefferson 1820 May 1 Recd for 1 Hhd Tobacco Shockoe TJ 1710.160.1550. Refused @ $5.10 $79. 05 June 21
66Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Account with William F. Gray, [ca. 20 January 1820] (Jefferson Papers)
Thomas Jefferson Esq r To William F. Gray Dr 1818 Octo 23 For 30 No s Edinburgh Review from No 28 to No 58 inclusive } 37 50 Nov r
67Thomas Jefferson’s Conveyance of Limestone Tract to Abraham Hawley, 28 February 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
This Indenture made on the 28 th day of February in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty one between Thomas Jefferson of Monticello in Albemarle on the one part and Abraham Holly on the other part witnesseth that the said Thomas in consideration of one hundred dollars, to him in hand paid and of the further sum of three hundred dollars secured to be paid hath given granted bargained...
68From Thomas Jefferson to Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, 9 October 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved, my dear friend and General, your letter of the 1 st from Philada, giving us the welcome assurance that you will visit the neighborhood which, during the march of our enemy near it, was covered by your shield from his robberies and ravages. in passing the line of your former march you will experience pleasing recollections of the good you have done. my neighbors too of our...
69Thomas Jefferson to William Huntington, 2[4?] July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jeffe r son asks the favor of mr H u ntington to dine with hi m on Sunday ensuing. RC ( DNDAR ); dateline at foot of text; damaged at crease. Not recorded in SJL . William Huntington (b. ca. 1794), merchant, educator, and Episcopal lay preacher, was a native of Connecticut who moved to
70Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 14 August 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
In a letter addressed to mr Dearborne I inclose this which covers the one to mr Gray which Jefferson told me would be acceptable to you.— about 20. years ago, mr Stewart of Boston drew my portrait, for which I then paid him 100.D. about 12. or 15. years ago he desired me to set for him again saying he did not like the former portrait & would rather draw another for me. I sat for him, and...
71From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Engelbrecht, 25 February 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
The kindness of the motive which led to the request of your letter of the 14 th inst. and which would give some value to an article from me, renders compliance a duty of gratitude. knowing nothing more moral, more sublime more worthy of your preservation than David’s description of the good man, in his 15 th psalm, I will here transcribe it, from Brady and Tate’s version. Lord, who’s the happy...
72To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 2 June 1820 (letter not found) (Madison Papers)
¶ From Thomas Jefferson. Letter not found. 2 June 1820 . Enclosed in Dolley Madison to Lewis J. Cist, 4 July 1842 ( DLC : Dolley Madison Papers).
73Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 18 May 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote about a week ago to mr Yancey to hurry down my tob o from Bedford . it was lying at Lynchbg so I presume will be with you in the course of a week. I expect too that the mill here is now ready to begin to deliver my flour. our river being swoln by the rains I have been unable to go there to inform myself of a certainty. I have a note in the Virginia bank for 1125.D. renewable on the 22...
74Thomas Jefferson to Vachel Worthington and George W. Anderson, 17 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I am very sensible of the testimony of respect rendered me by the Calliopean society , in naming me an honorary membe r of their institution. if distance has rendered my personal a ction with them impossible, I am endeavoring nevertheless to m erit the association with which they have honored me, by emp loying the slender faculties which time and nature have spared me in fostering an...
75Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 13 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Mine of Feb. 18. informed you I had desired mr Gibson to remit you 100.D. on account which he writes me he has done. the object of the present is to let you know I shall set out for Bedford the 10 th of April & be back by the 10 th of May which may govern you in sending the proof sheets of Tracy . I shall hope on my return to find my Tacitus here.
76Thomas Jefferson to Louis H. Girardin, 17 August 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Aug. 12. is duly recieved, covering the letter of mr Reynolds and some printed sheets containing solutions of Mathematical questions by him. these last I re-inclose presuming he would wish to keep possession of them. on the subject of Professors we are unable to say a word. the University has contracted a great debt, by permission of the legislature , for the repayment of which...
77Thomas Jefferson’s Estimate of Grain Needs, [ca. 1 October 1819] (Jefferson Papers)
Estimate of grain from Oct. 1. 19 —to July 7. 20 40 weeks Resources
78Thomas Jefferson to Wells & Lilly, 3 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Meeting casually with the 2 d of the Dissertations prefixed to the Supplement of the Encyclopaedia, by Playfair , I observe that you have before printed the 1 st and are proceeding to print the rest. I ask the favor of you to send me those already printed, and the others as they shall come out. I see on the covers of the 2 d your notice of some books you have for sale, among which are those...
79From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 30 April 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I am very glad you have engaged mr Southall to assist us in the affairs of the Univ y and following his and mr Carr’s counsel implicitly you cannot go wrong. accding to the opn of these gent. the one in writing the other expressed to me verbally I observe that the following proceedings may be instituted against Mosby & Draffen, if they have license 1 . prosecute them for the forfeiture of 30.d...
80Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 10 December 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the reciept of your favor of Nov. 23. the banks, bankrupt law, manufactures, Spanish treaty are nothing. these are th occurrences which like waves in a storm will pass under the ship. but the Missouri question is a breaker on which we lose the Missouri country by revolt, & what more, God only knows. from the battle of Bunker’s hill to the treaty of
81Enactments to Be Proposed to UVa. Board of Visitors, 22 Jan. 1824, 22 January 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Enactments to be proposed to the Visitors of the University of Virginia, for constituting, governing & conducting that institution. 1. In the University of Virginia shall be instituted, for the present 8. professorships, to wit, 1. of Antient languages. 2. Modern languages. 3. Mathematics. 4. Natural Philosophy. 5. Natural history. 6. Anatomy. 7. Moral philosophy. 8. Law. 2. In the school of...
82Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 19 August [1821] (Jefferson Papers)
Your f avor of the 15 th came to hand last evening, an d I avail myself with pleasure of the opportunity of being useful to you afforded by the request it contains on behalf of your son . with the Secretary of the Navy I have not a personal acquaintance, and therefore can expect no other effect from my intercession, than an increased confidence, on his part, in the grounds on which your son...
83Thomas Jefferson to Mary Lewis, 1 March 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks mrs Lewis ’s acceptance of half a dozen bottles of wine, which is 5. or 6. years old and will he thinks be of service to the tone of her st om ach. the bearer will bring the beans she was so kind as to offer, and any greens she has to spare without disfurnishing herself. he salutes her with antient and affectionate friendship, & wishes for her better health. RC ( DLC :...
84Thomas Jefferson to Wilson Cary Nicholas, 17 August 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
My letters from Monticello informing me of the President ’s return, I lost no time in bringing under his attention the wish of your son Robert to be placed in our new Southern territories; but unfortunately I had forgotten the particular office he had in view, and having left the letter at home could not have recourse to it. but I supplied the lapse of memory by taking the broader ground that...
85Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 20 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I think the raising the windows above the floor will be proper for the reason you mention . with respect to the arches & entablature of Hotel A . there would be 3. modes of doing it. 1. to make the arches of the width of those of the dormitories. but this would make the piers too heavy. 2. to raise the cornice entablature as you propose, th e objection to which is the breaking the line of the...
86Thomas Jefferson to de Bure Frères, 27 May 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
The books you were so kind as to send me the last year arrived safely and in good time. the letter and invoice which should have accompanied them got separated and did not arrive until a month or two after the books, which occasioned some difficulties and delay at the Custom-house for want of the invoice to settle the duties. it would be best always when you have closed a box of books for me;...
87Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Eston Randolph, 22 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I sincerely regret that we happen to see the same subject in lights so very different, with respect to the mill . but the rent of a real property must, you know, be a fixt thing. as it’s original cost cannot be varied, so the interest or rent on that cannot vary with daily and transient occurrences, and especially on a lease for time. it is easy to reduce a rent, but impossible to raise it...
88Thomas Jefferson to Daniel Brent, 8 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Long indulgence by your predecessors in the direction of the department of State in the privilege of getting my letters to Europe put under the same cover with their the official dispatches of the department has encoraged me to ask the same favor of you. my increasing aversion to writing will be a security against any abuse of this favor. on this ground I take the liberty of inclosing a letter...
89Thomas Jefferson’s List of Books to be Acquired in London, 21 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Grammatica Anglo-Saxonica ex Hickesiano Thesauro excerpta. Institutiones grammaticae Anglo-Saxonicae et Moeso-Gothica Hickesii Vocabularium Anglo-Saxonicum à Benson . The Saxon Heptateuch by Thwaites . Spelman ’s Anglo-Saxon Psalter. Marshal ’s Saxon gospels. 4 to Dordrecht . 1665.
90Thomas Jefferson to John Ayers & Company, 17 April 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved the corn announced in your letter of the 9 th . considering it as a confidence on the part of mr Thayer for the benefit of the public, I shall feel it a duty to distribute it’s proceeds to all who shall be disposed to profit by it: and requesting permission to return my thanks to mr Thayer thro’ the same channel by which I recieved his favor, and to yourselves for your care of...