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Your favor of Mar. 6. was duly recieved, & with it the pamphlet of M. Thouïn on the subject of engrafting, for which be pleased to accept my thanks. should your curiosity lead you to visit this part of the US. as your letter gives me reason to hope, I shall be very happy to recieve you at Monticello , to express to you in person my great respect, and to recieve from yourself directly the...
M r Randolph first, and latterly mr Short have flattered me with the hope that you would pay us a visit with the returning season. I should sooner have pressed this but that my vernal visit to Bedfor d was approaching, and I wished to fix it’s precise epoch, before I should write to you. I shall set out now within a few days, and be absent probably all the month of May; and shall be very happy...
Your favor of the 10 th by the delays of our winter post, is but just recieved and mine of the 19 th I presume reaches you about this time. they have passed each other by the way. I am sorry that your visit to us will be delayed until your return from Kentucky ; mais tout ce qui est differé n’est pas perdu ; and it will then and always be welcome. you promise also to call on us en passant....
Yours of the 9 th has been duly recieved, & I thank you for the Recipe for imitating Puzzolane ; which I shall certainly try on my cisterns the ensuing summer. the making them impermeable to water is of great consequence to me. that one chemical subject may follow another, I inclose you two morsels of ore found in this neighborhood, & supposed to be of Antimony . I am not certain, but I...
I mentioned to you in a former letter that mr Say had asked of me information relative to the price of lands E t c. in the neighborhood of Charlottesville with a view to the removal of his family to this country. in the inclosed letter I have given him the best and fullest information I could, of every circumstance which might influence his judgment and final determination. altho’ I have...
When I learned that you proposed to give a course of Botanical lectures in Philadelphia , I feared it would retard the promised visit to Monticello . on my return from Bedford however on the 4 th inst. I recieved a letter from M. Dupont flattering me with the prospect that he and yourself would be with us so soon as my return should be known. I therefore in the instant wrote him of my return ,...
I arrived here the morning after we parted, to wit, yesterday morning, and I have this day written by mail to mr Rhea and Gov r Milledge : but I have thought it also safe to inclose in this letter a duplicate of that to Gov r Milledge , and put both under cover to mr Rhea , lest any miscarriage should happen to that sent by mail. there is no person in Georgia who can be so useful to you as mr...
I learnt, my dear Sir, with inexpressible concern, on my arrival at home, that my detention in Bedford had lost me the pleasure of your visit here. having heard nothing from you since our parting on the Natural bridge , I had supposed your return longer delayed than you had expected, and that even possibly your course might be so shaped as to take Poplar Forest in your way. I hungered for your...
Your favor of Mar. 29. was recieved just as I was setting out for this place. I brought it with me to be answered hence. since you are so kind as to interest yourself for Cap t Lewis ’s papers , I will give you a full statement of them. 1. ten or twelve such pocket volumes, Marocco bound, as that you describe, in which, in his own hand writing, he had journalised all occurrences, day by day,...
I had determined, my dear Sir, to have withdrawn at the close of this year to have withdrawn from all subscriptions to newspapers, and never to read another. but the National Intelligencer of the 1 st inst. has given me so much pleasure that I shall defer for a year longer my resolution. it announced your appointment from your new king , to be his minister to this country. if this is...