1Thomas Jefferson to Gideon Granger, 24 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I was sorry, by a letter from mr Barlow the other day, to learn the ill state of your health, and I sincerely wish that this may find you better. young, temperate, & prudent as you are, great confidence may be reposed in the provision nature has made for the restoration of order in our system when it has become deranged; she effects her object by strengthening the whole system, towards which...
2Gideon Granger to Thomas Jefferson, 1 March 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received yours of the 24 th Jan y which has remained unanswered untill this time in consequence of continued and distressing sickness. I have been greviously afflicted with the Rheumatism in my head and bowels and a nervous affection. A Post office is this day directed to be d at George’s Tavern . Next to the approbation of my own conscience the testimonial you have furnished of my...
3Thomas Jefferson to Gideon Granger, 20 September 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I am just returned from a place I possess in Bedford county near Lynchburg , and where I pass certain portions of the year. it is the most valuable of my possessions, and will become the residence of the greater part of my family. as yet I am personally a stranger among the neighbors there, and have never had the opportunity of making myself personally acceptable to them by any particular...
4Gideon Granger to Thomas Jefferson, 27 September 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
When your letter reached me last winter I was extremely low in health, and my mind desponding. I had just removed my family to this place: neither my wife , nor myself had health Sufficient to enter into Society. I felt for my family and for myself: indeed it appeared to me that my complaint must shortly take me out of Life, and my family be left amongst Strangers. Happily I am restored to my...
5Gideon Granger to Thomas Jefferson, 4 October 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been duly favoured with yours of the 20 th Ult o . For several years I have been endeavouring to accommodate Lynchburg with two mails a week in some manner not incompatible to the first Sec. of the Post Office Act which compels me to regulate my expenditure by the product of the route. Under the law passed at the last Session I find on examination that I shall be enabled after the 1 st...
6Thomas Jefferson to Gideon Granger, 22 October 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your two favors of Sep. 27. and Oct. 4. have been duly recieved. the substance of the latter I immediately communicated to my friend at Lynchburg , where the information will be recieved with joy. the former was a week before it got here. about the 25 th of Sep. writing to two members of the cabinet on other business, and having just heard of Cushing’s death, I had reminded them of our friend...
7Gideon Granger to Thomas Jefferson, 24 June 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
A few days past I rec’d your note acknowledgeing the receipt of my late list of Post offices, which was transmitted without my knowledge and in consequence of my suggesting a determination to furnish you, as I now do, by the volume herewith transmitted, a complete view of the present state of this Department. RC ( DLC ); in a clerk’s hand, signed by Granger; at foot of text: “Thomas Jefferson...
8Thomas Jefferson to Gideon Granger, 1 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Will you be so good as to inform me to what place I should address a letter to James Lyon , son of Col o Matthew Lyon . it is so long since I have heard any thing of him, that I am quite uninformed of his residence, and have occasion to write to him. Let me take this occasion of thanking you for the new, post book, which is a daily convenience to me, and of renewing the assurances of my...
9Thomas Jefferson to Gideon Granger, 30 December 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have often been extremely mortified at the abuse of my right of transmission by mail, committed by booksellers and sometimes by foreigners in sending packages of books, which I have always forbidden when apprised in time. a recent instance is so gross it is as to require my special mention of it to you. a mr Low of New York , publisher of an Encyclopedia has sent on 3. quarto volumes by...
10Gideon Granger to Thomas Jefferson, 8 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just received yours of the 30th. Ult: and given instructions to the Postmaster of the City if any Such bundles arrive for the future, to detain them and notify me, and you may be assured I shall keep them Carefully as well as apprise you of their being in my possession. RC ( DLC ); in a clerk’s hand, signed by Granger; at foot of text: “Thomas Jefferson Esq Monticello V a ”; endorsed by...