1Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 16 October 1819 (SJL description) (Jefferson Papers)
[ Monticello , 16 Oct. 1819 . SJL entry reads “ corn. wheat. hogs. taxes. cheese. biscuit. iron sheet.” Letter not found.]
2Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 30 December 1820 (SJL description) (Jefferson Papers)
[ Monticello , 30 Dec. 1820 . SJL entry reads “ a chair. 2 doz. wine. trees.” Letter not found.]
3Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 2 January 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved duly your favor of Dec. 22. and felt sincere satisfaction at the assurances it expressed of your continued friendship. of this indeed I never entertained a doubt, nor that this was the governing principle of your endeavors to promote my interests. these I saw plainly were faithful & zealous always and gave me therefore unbounded confidence in your care of my affairs. these were...
4Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 27 January 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved by my grandson yours of the 14 th and cannot say that I have recieved any thing which has given me more pain . nothing on earth was farther from my intention than that it should be considered as intended to give you an opportunity to withdraw. it was sincerely meant, as it was expressed, to be a withdrawal of myself from a superintendance to which age had rendered me incompetent and...
5Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 11 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I am lately returned from the Warm springs with my health entirely prostrated by the use of the waters. they produced an imposthume and eruptions, which with the torment of the journey back reduced me to the extremest weakness. I am getting better, but still obliged to lie night and day reclined in one posture, which makes writing all but impossible. the visitors of the college meet the 1 st...
6Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 30 October 1819 (SJL description) (Jefferson Papers)
[ Monticello , 30 Oct. 1819 . SJL entry reads “ Moses ’s Billy rec d . sell Han ’s Billy 6. or 700.D. Robertson
7Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 7 June 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I omitted among my memorandums to request you to have all the seed of the oat-grass at mr Goodman ’s saved, in order to make lots near each of the Overseer’s houses. it comes a month earlier than any other grass, and is therefore valuable for ewes & lambs, calves, yearlings and poor cows. there should also be good clover lots adjoining, independant of the large clover fields. I have enquired...
8Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 11 December 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Dec. 11. 19. wrote to Joel Yancy by Henry going with 2. mules to bring John Hemings E t c. & tools. that J.H. must put away all remaining stuff, first making a list of it for me that I may know what will be wanting for next year. send preserved peaches by him request Hepburn to come, see our streams, site & buildings & give a bill of scantling. I will pay the time & expence of the journey.
9Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 29 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
According to promise I now inclose you mr Morris ’s and Maj r Pollard ’s reciepts for their 1 st instalments to the Central College . I shall set out tomorrow for the meeting at Rockfish gap , and when our business is done there I shall go on to the Warm springs . I shall probably be back the last week of August, and be with you a fortnight after. I salute you with friendship and respect. PoC (
10Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 27 November 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Henry delivered your letter and all the articles entrusted to him safely on Tuesday night. I now inclose you a list of the cloathing to be given to every one of the people according to their ages, also of the blankets and beds to be given this year, which you will find in the columns headed 1819. I have given the columns of the last and next year, to shew those who recieved the last year &...
11Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 11 May 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Jefferson will not be able to go to Bedford for some time. he set off this day to Richmond to see his own tob o look ed at and sold. he advises that that of Pop. For. be sent off immediately to Richmond . I had on the road a conversation with a gentleman of knolege on the subject, and he assures me that the Lynchbg purchaser, besides deducting the carriag e,
12Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, [18?] October 1819 (SJL description) (Jefferson Papers)
[ Monticello , (18?) Oct. 1819 . SJL entry for a letter to Yancey listed immediately underneath that to Yancey of 16 Oct. 1819 reads “taxes E t c. Hanah’s Billy .” Letter not found. Yancey
13Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 14 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
We should have been now about setting off for Poplar Forest , but for the accident of 3 of my carriage horses being recently taken with the disease called the sore tongue. I am told that the cure of this will require 10. days and will leave them so emaciated as to require time to make them able to take the road. the time of my setting out depends therefore on this uncertainty. mrs Randolph...
14Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 18 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
It being now high time to try the experiment of burning our stubble fields as a means of destroying the brood of the fly deposited in them, and ready the first warm spell to come out and lay their eggs in the new wheat, I take up my pen to state to you the method as going into practice here. you take a still day, and burn a margin all round the field sufficient to secure the fences. then the...
15Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 9 December 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
In directing the distribution of the pork for this season I believe I omitted to state that 10. hogs should be kept for my use at Poplar Forest as usual. if there is any old bacon left it will be acceptable here when the waggon brings the pork. you will be so good as to inform me on what day our waggon should be there to join Dick ’s in bringing the pork, butter E t c. I propose to send Phill...
16Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 12 May 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I now inclose you an order on mr Gibson in favor of mr Hepburn for 50.D. it is the first moment it has been in my power. not knowing his Christian name I have left a blank for it to be inserted. I am still uncertain as to the time of my setting out for Poplar forest , tho extremely anxious to do so. under this uncertainty I leave it to mr Hepburn to come on immediately or await my visit to...
17Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 4 January 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I have for sometime been becoming sensible that age was rendering me incompetent to the management of my plantations. failure of memory, decay of attention and a loss of energy in body & mind convince me of this; as well as the vast change for the better since my plantations here have been put under the direction of my grandson T. J. Randolph . his skill, his industry and discretion satisfy me...
18Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 22 April 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I confidently expected to have set out for the Forest on the 15 th or soon after, under the known necessity however to be here again the 1 t week in May. but one circumstance after another has turned up to delay me untill time has so advanced that were I now to go, I could stay not more than 3. or 4. days. I must therefore defer it 2. or 3. weeks more. Never were such times seen as we have...
19Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 18 August 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
On the very day the waggon left us, my daughter , wh o was to accompany me to Bedford was taken sick. she is better and thinks that by tomorrow or next day she will be strong enou gh for the road. I do not think so; but still count from day to day on departing either with her or without her as her convalescence may admit. ever & affectionately yours PoC ( MHi ); on verso of reused address...
20Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 23 October 1819 (SJL description) (Jefferson Papers)
[ Monticello , 23 Oct. 1819 . SJL entry reads “ inclos g ord. on P.G. fav r A. Robertson 146.D. taxes John Hem. to put up E. & W. stair doors. Billy
21Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 21 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I informed mr Darnell that nothing on account of the misfortunes of the last year, scarcely any thing made for market there or here, immense purchases of corn for bread here and some there, and unexampled taxes, I could not pay his wages till another crop should come in. he said he should be particularly in want of 50.D. which therefore I promised to send him. I have also to pay John Depriest...
22Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 10 November 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
When I wrote to you on the 11 th of Sep. I confidently hoped to recover my health and strength to be with you long before this. but I am not yet able to go out of the house: and altho’ much recovered, I shall not have strength for the journey until it will be too cold to undertake it. I shall not therefore see you until April . in this case I must pray you to act in all things for the best...
23Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 21 July 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of the 18 th I omitted a material article, which was to give the inclosed bill to mr Atkinson & get him to saw it immediately so as to have it ready on the arrival of the carpenters. there are, I imagine, belted poplars in the cleared grounds sufficient to furnish the stocks, for I do not suppose they will take more than 3. or 4. trees. he will need help in pitting, but the...
24Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 20 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
A letter of the 14 th from mr Gibson informs me my tob o was not then down. this occasions me to send the bearer express, our cross mail being too dilatory to be depended on. my anxiety on this subject is occasioned by my having money engagements due at our last and next court which depend for fulfilment on the tob o getting to mr Gibson ’s hands, until which I cannot draw on him. I imagine...
25Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 4 January [1819] (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 18 th Dec. was not recieved till the 28 th . that of the 24 th came at the same time which proved that the first had lost a week at some of the intermediate post offices, and often they lose a fortnight. the bringing home some corn detained the waggon till now. it carries up some doors for the house which should be put in one of the rooms where they will be kept dry, and a...
26Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 25 December 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter by Jerry I forgot to request you to send by the waggon the barrel of biscuit also, as before spring it will become mouldy probably and spoilt. With respect to the canal, I look to the grinding plaister as the thing which is to produce us crops and improve our lands. and that therefore we should think it a lasting compensation for shortening a particular crop somewhat. yet I would...
27Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 20 May 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of the 12 th inst. I left to the convenience of mr Hepburn whether he would come on immediately, or await my visit to Bedford ; but the time of that visit is become so uncertain, and the pressure of my want of him here is so urgent, that I must pray you to press on him to come on immediately, as the distress for some of my work is so great that every day’s delay is a serious...
28Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 14 November 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 3 d did not get to Charlottesville unti l last night. I had written to you on the 30 th of Oct. by mr Bishop who said he would deliver it in 2. days. I presume you recieved it soon after yours of the 3 d . the cart now carries up the window irons for John Hemings
29Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 3 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
When I left you I counted with certainty on being at Poplar Forest during the last week at the latest; but the decision on my road here which comes on in our court to-day or tomorrow has detained me. to that is now added the difficulty of keeping our workmen at the College together so as to ensure the finishing it. this depends on their diligence for one fortnight more within which time the...
30Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 22 May 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my letter by mr Burwell I have reciev ed from mr Gibson an account of the sale of my tob o . he says 3 hhds were refused, the other very much stained and the quality of the tob o inferior. it averaged 5.82 and deducting carriage it will be 5 ½ D. on this trial of the Richmond