61From Thomas Jefferson to John Quincy Adams, 30 October 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson requests the favour of Mr. Adams to dine with him on tuesday Nov: the 3rd. at half after three, or at whatever later hour the house may rise. The favour of an answer is asked. MHi : Adams Papers.
62From Thomas Jefferson to John Quincy Adams, 28 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson requests the favour of Mr. Adams to dine with him on Wednesday the 31st . at half after three, The favour of an answer is asked. MHi : Adams Papers.
63From Thomas Jefferson to John Quincy Adams, 6 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson request the favour of Mr Adams to dine with him on Monday the 9th. instant—Dinner will be on the table precisely at sun:set— The favour of an Answer is asked MHi : Adams Papers.
64From Thomas Jefferson to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 8 August 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your letter of the 28th. of July expressing a wish that your brother could find some emploiment in New Orleans in which his knolege of the French & Spanish languages might be made useful. it would have been pleasing to me to have been able to point out such an emploiment, & more so to add that any such was within my powers of appointment. but the only appointments I make...
I have duly recieved your letter of the 28th. of July expressing a wish that your brother could find some emploiment in New Orleans in which his knolege of the French and Spanish languages might be made useful. it would have been pleasing to me to have been able to point out such an emploiment, & more so to add that any such was within my powers of appointment, but the only appointments I make...
66From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Adams, 29 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I addressed a letter to you, my very dear & antient friend, on the 4th. of March: not indeed to you by name, but through the medium of some of my fellow citizens, whom occasion called on me to address. in meditating the matter of that address, I often asked myself, is this exactly in the spirit of the patriarch of liberty, Samuel Adams? is it as he would express it? will he approve of it? I...
67From Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Auguste Adet, 5 February 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
It is long since I ought to have acknoleged the reciept of your favor congratulating me on my advancement to the post I now occupy. the constant demand of attention to cases which admit no delay has forced me to long postponements of those of a less urgent character. that my own happiness, & probably my reputation, will not gain by this [advance]ment is more than probable. you know too well...
68From Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Auguste Adet, 29 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your two letters of Mar. 3. & 6. have been duly recieved, and with them the copy of your elementary lessons in chemistry, for which I pray you to accept my thanks. my occupations not permitting me to read any thing but the papers of the day, I reserve it among the treasures to be carried into that retirement to which I shall withdraw at the close of my present period. I hope that in the mean...
69From Thomas Jefferson to John Agnew, 20 March 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I see with pleasure, fellow-citizens, in your address of Feb. 15. a sound recurrence to the first principles on which our government is founded, an examination by that test of the rights we possess & the wrongs we have suffered, a just line drawn between a wholsome attention to the conduct of rulers, & a too ready censure of that conduct on every unfounded rumor, between the love of peace, &...
70From Thomas Jefferson to Eli Alexander, 15 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
A debt which has been contracted with mr Higgenbotham in my absence, has obliged me to assign to him my rents in Albemarle as they become due. I have hoped that by apprising you of this you might be able so to arrange your dealings with him as to have the paiment made convenient to you. I have informed him that your rent for 1807. is but 160. D. I tender you my best wishes. MHi : Coolidge...
71From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Eston Randolph, 28 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Higginbotham presses me for the paiment of which your rent was to make a part. as soon therefore as your convenience admits I would sollicit the paiment, to be made to him. I would not urge it but that he has been entitled some time to expect it of me. I salute you with affection esteem MHi : Coolidge Collection.
72From Thomas Jefferson to Czar of Russia Alexander I, 29 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Desirous of promoting useful intercourse & good understanding between Your Majesty’s subjects and the citizens of the United States, I have appointed William Short, one of our distinguished citizens, to be, in quality of Minister Plenipotentiary of these United States, the bearer to you of assurances of their sincere friendship, and of their desire to maintain with Your Majesty and your...
73From Thomas Jefferson to Czar of Russia Alexander I, 19 April 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I owe an acknowledgement to Your Imperial Majesty of the great satisfaction I have recieved from your letter of Aug. 20. 1805. and sincere expressions of the respect and veneration I entertain for your character. it will be among the latest & most soothing comforts of my life to have seen advanced to the government of so extensive a portion of the earth & at so early a period of his life, a...
74From Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Alexander, 22 May 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Having, on recommendations from the Senators & Delegates of your state made two appointments of Marshal, both of which have been declined and apprehending a delay which might be injurious to the state were I to continue nominating without a previous knolege that the party would accept, I take the liberty of inclosing you a blank commission, and of asking the favor of you to insert in it the...
75From Thomas Jefferson to the Aliens of Beaver County, Pennsylvania, 2 May 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The satisfaction which, in the name of the foreigners residing in Beaver county, you are pleased to express in my appointment to the Presidency of the United States, the expectations you form of the character of my administration, and your kind wishes for my happiness demand my sincere thanks. born in other countries, yet believing you could be happier in this, our laws acknolege, as they...
76Enclosure: To Allegany County Republican Citizens, 23 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sensible of the kindness of the republican citizens of the county of Alleghany in Maryland, in their cordial congratulations on my election to the office of President of the United States, and I pray you to be the organ of my acknolegement to them. the confidence reposed in me on committing to my management the helm of our political affairs, shall not be abused; but, to the best of my...
77From Thomas Jefferson to John Allen, 25 October 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The duties of my office calling for all my time, I do not find myself at liberty to indulge in pursuits of the nature of that which is the subject of your letter of September 28. I observe that physicians are as far from being agreed as to what is the yellow fever, as what is it’s cure. if the disease which you have so successfully treated be that which all of them would call the yellow fever,...
78From Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Coit Allen, 7 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your representation and request were received on the 7th. inst : and have been considered with the attention due to every expression of the sentiments and feelings of so respectable a body of my fellow-citizens. No person has seen with more concern than myself, the inconveniences brought on our country in general, by the circumstances of the times in which we happen to live; times to which the...
79From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Allen, 12 March 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Being in the moment of my departure for Monticello to take a short respite after our winter campaign, I have barely time to acknolege the reciept of your favor, and to thank you for the friendly dispositions it manifests. the last thirty years are probably more pregnant of instruction to mankind than any equal period which history furnishes. our portion of it will certainly exhibit what will...
80From Thomas Jefferson to James Hughes, 21 April 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Cathalan of Marseilles, by letter of Dec. 20. informed me that he had shipped some wines & other articles for me on your ship the New Orleans, which had sailed the day before, bound for Norfolk. having never yet heard of the arrival of the vessel, I take the liberty of asking information from you respecting her, & my articles on board her, if you can give any. Accept my respectful...
81From Thomas Jefferson to Paul Alliot, 27 April 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved on a short visit to this place your letter of the 14th. and the papers it covered, and have perused with satisfaction that containing your historical and political reflections on Louisiana. they are replete with views which are benevolent, and which appear to me to be just, altho’, for want of local knolege, I am unable to decide on them competently. in the present stage of...
82From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Alston, 4 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your letter of July 6. covering the resolutions of the legislature of South Carolina of June 29. and I see in those resolutions a new manifestation of the National spirit of which South Carolina has given so many proofs. it is the more exemplary, as it is certain that no state sacrifices more by the operation of a measure which, whether to avoid war, or to prepare for it,...
83From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Alston, 23 January 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved a few days ago, your favor of Dec. 26. covering the very flattering resolutions of the legislature of South Carolina, and I beg leave, through the same channel, to return the answer. it is highly consolatory to those charged with the care of the National affairs to be approved by their constituents, and to recieve assurances of their cooperation & support in whatsoever measures the...
84From Thomas Jefferson to American Philosophical Society, 30 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Being to remove within a few months from my present residence to one still more distant from the seat of the meetings of the American Philosophical society, I feel it a duty no longer to obstruct it’s service by keeping from it’s chair members whose position, as well as qualifications, may enable them to discharge it’s duties with so much more effect. begging leave therefore to withdraw from...
85From Thomas Jefferson to American Philosophical Society, 21 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the reciept of your favor of the 1st. inst. informg me that the A.P.S. had again elected me President of the Society for the ensuing year. for this mark of their continued favor I pray you to present them a renewal of my thanks and my profound respect. I have still to lament that my distance & other occupations leave me nothing but expressions of useless regrets that I have...
86From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Anderson, 3 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Oct. 28. did not get to my hands till Nov. 20. I immediately referred the case to the War office for enquiry. they find that George Purcell, a corporal of Capt Nicoll’s company died Oct. 21. 1808. and that he appears from the accounts of Capt Sterrett late district paymaster to have had pay due him at the time of his death from the 1st. of August preceding, that is to say 2....
87From Thomas Jefferson to Isaac Anderson, 24 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Anderson & his thanks for the communication of the within letter of mr Walker which he now returns. he recieves great satisfaction from every new evidence that the Society of friends are becoming sensible that the prejudices concieved against the principles of his administration were without foundation. he is particularly sensible of the kind...
88From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Anderson, 4 March 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this moment recieved your favor of this morning, but as I suppose from it that you were then on the point of departure, this can only follow you. the appointment which is the subject of it will not take place till autumn, and in the mean time we shall no doubt be recieving applications. you are sensible that it will be our duty to select from the whole number of candidates, & not...
89From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Anderson, William Cocke, and William Dickson, 23 February 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
It is upwards of a twelvemonth since my attention was drawn to the importance of a road which should enable the inhabitants of Tenissee & Kentucky to seek a market on the Savannah, and instructions were immediately given to our Commissrs. Genl. Wilkinson & others to negotiate with the Cherokees for permission to the states interested to open the road through their country. it was stiffly...
90From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Anderson, 28 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
At the date of my nominations of Dec. 20. I had already recieved information which induced me to withold till further information at least, the renomination of mr Easton as judge of Louisiana. I had then recieved nothing respecting mr Lucas. and altho’ at this time nothing has come forward impeaching his integrity, yet the inclosed papers induce a doubt whether the passions of his mind, which,...