1From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Harrison Smith, 16 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Would the two inclosed pieces marked ☞ be worth publishing? they would shew our countrymen how immensely indulgent we are to foreign merchants, & perhaps suggest the lawfulness of some restrictions which might be useful. Smith’s note : enclosg memorial of British Merchants at Petersburg on Russian on their trade. PPAmP .
2From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Harrison Smith, 30 July 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of mr Smith to have his paper delivered at the post office, during his absences from Washington. he presumes their delivery at the President’s house is the cause of his never recieving them while at Monticello.—he had the pleasure of finding his family all recovered. he presents his salutations to mr Smith. DLC : J. Henley Smith Papers.
3From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Harrison Smith, 2 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson salutes mr S. H. Smith with esteem, and thinks that some such paragraph as the following published in his paper, would do good. Removal by the President. Pope, Collector & Inspector of the port of New Bedford in Massachusets for not using due diligence in the execution of the embargo laws. Isaiah Weston is appointed in his place. I do not recollect Pope’s Christian name. it...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Harrison Smith, 13 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I troubled you by the last post with an answer to the petitions against the embargo. I now inclose the copy of an answer to the Counter-Addresses, which being not likely to be so numerous, I will pray you to print me 50. copies & to send them by the post which will leave Washington on Monday the 19th. inst. I salute you with esteem & respect. Catalog--Christie’s, American and European...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Harrison Smith, 8 October 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson salutes mr Smith & having copied the inclosed, returns it with some queries & supplements for his use. RC ( DLC : J. Henley Smith Papers); undated; addressed: “Mr. Samuel H. Smith”; endorsed by Smith: “From Th. Jefferson Oct. 8. 1803.” Not recorded in SJL . Enclosure not identified.
6From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Harrison Smith, 2 March 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th:J. presents his compliments to mr Smith & considering it as rendering an essential service to the nation to fix them in the defensive system of gunboats, and draw them off from the offensive one of a navy, submits to him the propriety of publishing the Copenhagen article of the within paper, inclosed in crotchets. DLC : J. Henley Smith Papers.
7From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Harrison Smith and Margaret Bayard Smith, 23 April 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson requests the favour of mr and mrs Smith —to dine with him on Tuesday next (26th.) —at half after three, and any friends who may be with them . Apr. 23. 1803: The favour of an answer is asked. RC ( DLC : J. Henley Smith Papers); printed form, with blanks filled by TJ reproduced in italics; addressed by TJ: “Mr. Samuel H. Smith”; endorsed by Smith.
8From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Harrison Smith, 20 October 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
It has been found impracticable to get ready the South wing of the Capitol for the reception of the H. of Representatives at the meeting of the ensuing session of Congress. the obstacle has been the impossibility of getting, from a quarry which admits the working but of a limited number of hands, so many very large blocks of stone, without a flaw, as were necessary to bind together the heads...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Harrison Smith, 19 July 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Is it worth while to contradict the barefaced falsehoods of Coleman in the 2d. page 5th. column of the inclosed paper. It is false that I ever drew such a paper as is there ascribed to me. It is false that I ever signed such a paper drawn by another. the appeal to the records of any state for a paper so signed is without foundation. I believe that such a paper was drawn by a very timid, honest...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Harrison Smith, 21 December 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Smith, and incloses the little book which he wishes to have printed, without subjecting it to any copy-right. he will ask of mr Smith either to print him 100. copies at his own expence, or for mr Smith to print it on his own account & let Th: J. have 75. copies at the selling price. the sooner it is begun, the better. RC ( DLC : J. Henley Smith...
11From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Harrison Smith, 24 June 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed communication from Dr. Mitchell to the Philosophical society was under cover of a letter to me dated at New York on the day I left Philadelphia. as I did not come directly home, it was but lately it came to my hands. I now inclose it to be laid before the society. I am with great esteem & respect Dr. Sir Your most obedt. servt RC ( DLC : J. Henley Smith Papers); addressed: “Samuel...
12From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Harrison Smith, 16 November 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to mr Smith for the volume sent him. he incloses the account of a lifeboat which he thinks may be interesting to the seaports of the US. should mr Smith think proper to publish it at any time, and should he believe it would attract more attention to publish the first paragraph of the letter from mr Tatham to Th:J. (which alone relates to the subject) he is free...
13From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Harrison Smith, 23 October 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed paper seems intended for the legislative as well as Executive eye; but certainly not to be laid before the former in a regular way. the only irregular one would be in the newspapers. but this must depend on it’s merit and your opinion of it. there are a few just ideas in it, but they are as a few grains of wheat in a bushel of chaff. I know not from what quarter it came, there...
14From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Harrison Smith, 25 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson omitted to observe to mr Smith yesterday on the subject of mr Barton that as to the offices of the general governmt. Pensylva. Maryld. & Virga. are so overcharged, that, on a principle of distribution, no office respecting the union generally can be given in those states till something more of an equilibrium has been obtained. offices exerciseable within a state are always filled...
15From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Harrison Smith, 9 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I am overwhelmed with petitions from Massachusets. I give the same answer to them all, but as it is pretty long it requires more writing than I can get done in the country. I therefore inclose you a copy and must pray you to have 150. printed on good quarto writing paper & a large good type, and to send them to me by the post which leaves Washington for Milton this day sennight, as the...
16From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Harrison Smith, 2 August 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I agree with you in all the definitions of your favor of July 22. of the qualifications necessary for the chair of the US. and I add another. he ought to be disposed rigorously to maintain the line of power marked by the constitution between the two coordinate governments, each sovereign & independent in it’s department, the states as to every thing relating to themselves and their state, the...
17From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Harrison Smith, 12 August 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 8th. there was no mistake in sending you the proceedings of the H. of Burgesses instead of the Convention. the General assembly (consisting of a Council & H. of B.) met on the call of Ld. Dunmore at Williamsburg June 1. 1775. they consumed the whole of a short session in the controversy with Ld. Dunmore, & had the controversial papers printed separately...
18From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Harrison Smith, 8 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson supposes mr. Smith, in addition to the 10.17 D has omitted to charge him the price of the vol. of the Universal gazette for the last year. if he will be pleased to note it at the foot hereof, mr. Barnes will recieve this note as an order for the 10.17 D and that article in addition to it & will pay it. RC ( CSmH ); addressed: “Mr. Samuel H. Smith Jersey avenue”; with Smith’s...
19From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Harrison Smith, 11 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 4th. is recieved. I formerly, at the desire of mr T. P. Smith wrote to Bishop Madison , President of Wm. & Mary college in Williamsburg to know whether there was room for him in that institution as professor of Chemistry. the answer was communicated to mr Smith. from it’s tenor, and from the course of that institution since I do not suppose it in a situation to offer him any...
20From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Harrison Smith, 21 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Can mr Smith print 50. copies of the inclosed within a week from this time for Th: Jefferson? he would wish to have it an 8vo. page on a 4to. leaf, so that the leaf may bind up either with the Philosoph. transactions, or Maese’s dictionary. RC ( DLC : J. Henley Smith Papers); addressed: “Mr. Samuel H. Smith”; endorsed by Smith. Smith charged TJ $3.50 for printing 50 copies of the enclosure,...
21From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Harrison Smith, 19 December 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Do not for the world, my dear Sir, suffer my letter of Aug. 2 d to get before the public, nor to go out of your own hands, or to be copied. I am always averse to the publication of my letters, because I wish to be at rest, retired, & unnoticed: but most especially this letter. I never meant to meddle in a Presidential election; and in a letter to a person in N. York written after the date of...
22From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Harrison Smith, 24 October 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Smith may notify in his paper that I have recieved a letter from Capt. Lewis dated at St. Louis Sep. 23. at which place himself, capt Clarke & their party arrived that day. they had past the preceding Winter at a place which he calls Fort Clatsop near the mouth of the Columbia river. they set out thence on the 27th. of March last, & arrived at the foot of the Rocky mountains May 10, where...
23From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Harrison Smith, [23 February 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
The bookbinder promises me 40. copies of the Manual on Thursday morning. your’s therefore might be offered for sale on Saturday. A commee of the H. of R. communicated to me the record of their having elected me &c. I took that occasion to make my acknolegements to the House & to the nation. their communication & my answer are entered on the Journals of the house, & I wish them published. I...
24From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Harrison Smith, [6 January 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson sends mr Smith Cobbett’s 1st. number of his Porcupine , in which he may find some matters worth publication. his address will convince those, who were duped by him here, what his true character was. there are two important rules of order past by the Senate which must be inserted in the Manual under the head of treaties. Th:J. must therefore borrow the M.S. a little while. MS (...
25XV. To Samuel Harrison Smith, 4 March 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
in the paragraph beginning ‘During this course of administration &c & in the expression ‘they might indeed have been corrected &c ‘ indeed ’ & insert ‘ perhaps ’ it will then read ‘they might perhaps have been corrected. RC ( DLC : J. Henley Smith Papers); undated; addressed: “Mr. Samuel H. Smith.” Not recorded in SJL . it will then read : see Document XIII
26From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Harrison Smith, 31 July 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Your paper of the 23d. came to my hands the day before yesterday. observing in it what is said on the subject of the paper charged on me by Coleman, I turned to the Journals of the Virginia convention of that time, to wit, ten months before the declaration of Independance, and found in them & about that date, a paper drawn by me in answer to Lord North’s conciliatory propositions , which...
27Thomas Jefferson to Samuel H. Smith, 23 August 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Sam l H. Smith , & his thanks for the oration he has been so kind as to send him. he has read it with great pleasure, and sympathises in all it’s sentiments sincerely, one excepted, respecting the exhausting our resources on a navy. our strength is on the land, & weakness on the water. our enemies’ strength is on the water, at land nothing. and...
28Thomas Jefferson to Samuel H. Smith, 21 September 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I am imposing a task on your friendship which needs much apology, and will be explained in the letter accompanying this. it is to offer my library to the library committee of Congress . I would not have trespassed on your time so much, but that I hope it will give you little trouble. the delivery of the accompanying letter (which is written separately with that view) and the Catalogue will...
29Thomas Jefferson to Samuel H. Smith, 12 April 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 5 th and now inclose for mr Barton a letter of introduction to M. de la Fayette , the only personal acquaintance I have, now living in France . On politics I can say little to you, having withdrawn all attention to them from the day of my retirement. my confidence in both my successors has been so entire, that assured that all was going on for the best...
30Thomas Jefferson to Samuel H. Smith, 6 August 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a letter from D r Barton to myself, with a note from him expressing a wish it might appear in your paper; which wish he repeated verbally in a visit he paid me lately. as there seems to be a dearth of news at present, perhaps it may be as acceptable to your readers as any thing else: but of this you are to judge for yourself. I am in arrears with you for the last year. if you...