4861Thomas Jefferson to Martin Oster, 5 July 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved, four days ago, a letter from M. de Pauly with such a statement of the facts in the case of Mons r & M de de Beauvois as enables me to write him an opinion as to the course to be pursued. not knowing how the good offices required to be rendered M. de Beauvois may be divided between you, I have thought it might serve him further to inclose you a copy of my letter to M. Pauly , which...
4862Thomas Jefferson to Robert Ould, 2 March 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to thank you for the copy of the Abridgment of the Lancastrian method of education which you were so good as to send me. when that method was first introduced I was too much engaged in business to pay more than a very limited attention to it; altho’ it was the subject of considerable discussion before the public; and since my retirement no circumstance has led my enquiries towards it....
4863Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Paganel, 15 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved through mr Warden the copy of your valuable work on the French revolution, for which I pray you to accept my thanks. that it’s sale should have been suppressed is no matter of wonder with me. the friend of liberty is too feelingly manifested, not to give umbrage to it’s enemies. we read in it, and weep over, the fatal errors which have lost to nations the present hope of liberty,...
4864Thomas Jefferson to Mary Page, 4 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Jan. 2. by some unusual course of the post was near a month before it reached this place, to which a further delay has been added by my absence of upwards of a month from home, to which I returned but two days ago. I make it among my first duties to acknolege it’s reciept, to offer this apology for so late a reply, and to give you assurances of the pleasure I should recieve from...
4865Thomas Jefferson to Théodore Pahlen, 15 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 4 th did not arrive here till yesterday, owing to the late rains which have rendered the waters and roads nearly impassable for the mail. I hasten to acknolege it’s reciept, and to express a due sense of the honor of the visit you give me the hope of recieving here, and the value I set on the double gratification it will afford of manifesting to the representative of the...
4866Thomas Jefferson to Théodore Pahlen, 13 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been honored with your letter of the 25 th Ult. and have to return you my thanks for those of Mad e de Tessé , & Gen l La Fayette , and for the print of Baron Humboldt , all of which are come safely to hand, & present to me the proofs & recollections of their much valued friendships. to these acknolegements permit me to add my congratulations on your safe arrival in the United states ,...
4867Thomas Jefferson to Charles G. Paleske, 30 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the communication of the papers respecting the Union canal company of Pensylvania . no one is more anxious to see enterprises of that nature carried into execution, and especially to see them formed into a general system, and the public contributions, which other nations employ in war, applied by us to the improvement of our country. retired now from all intermedling with...
4868Thomas Jefferson to Thomas H. Palmer, 6 March 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to the enquiries in your letter of Feb. 22. I have to observe to you that the constitution of Virginia has undergone no formal change, nor recieved any formal amendment since the date at which it was passed. altho passed by the ordinary legislature, & elected for ordinary legislation only, (for the establishment of a government had not been contemplated at the time of their election)...
4869Thomas Jefferson to Thomas H. Palmer, 16 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson , with his respectful salutations to mr Palmer , returns him the inclosed letter, which has not been called for as mr Palmer expected. PoC ( MHi ); on verso of reused address cover of Joseph Dougherty to TJ, 25 Nov. 1816 ; dateline at foot of text; endorsed by TJ. Enclosure: enclosure to Palmer to TJ, 23 Oct. 1816 .
4870Thomas Jefferson to Thomas H. Palmer, 22 May 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Palmer and returns the Prospectus of the Historical Register with his subscription, which he with pleasure subjoins to it, in the hope that he will have some agent in Richmond to whom the price may be annually paid. wishing him all the success which so useful a Repertory merits, he tenders him the assurance of his respect. PoC ( MHi ); dateline at...
4871Thomas Jefferson to Samuel P. Parsons, 19 April 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Mar. 16. was recieved on the 12 th inst. only, & the corn-drill arrived at the same time by a boat. possessing already one of Martin’s drills, this will be returned in the same way it came. for this reason as well as because you ask my opinion, I shall go into explanations. your’s came without the pieces which go into the 3. mortises having chains appended to them: but I presume...
4872Thomas Jefferson to Alden Partridge, 2 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I am but recently returned from my journey to the neighborhood of the Peaks of Otter , and find here your favors of Nov. 23 & Dec. 9. I have therefore to thank you for your meteorological table and the Corrections , of Col o Williams ’s altitudes of the mountains of Virginia which I had not before seen; but especially for the very able
4873Thomas Jefferson to Alden Partridge, 12 October 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the statement of Altitudes , which you have been so kind as to send me of our Northern mountains. it came opportunely, as I was about making enquiries for the height of the White mountains , of N. Hampshire , which have the reputation of being the highest in our Maritime states, and purpose shortly to measure geometrically the height of the Peaks of Otter , which I suppose the...
4874Thomas Jefferson to William Partridge, 4 December 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I do not find myself competent to solve the question asked in your letter of Nov. 19 . that is whether a book on the subject of dying which shall be six years in coming out and cost 96. or say something more than 100.D. bound may probably meet with such adequate encouragement as that it may be safely undertaken. the price will certainly confine the purchases to such only as may propose to...
4875Thomas Jefferson to Matthew Pate, 23 November 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to ask the favor of you to locate the inclosed warrant N o 4915 . for 100 acres of land , on the vacant land between my own lines of the Poplar forest , those of the late William Cobbs and the adjacent landholders, with whose lines I am not yet acquainted. I shall endeavor to obtain a [...] knolege of them, and as soon as I can, I will ask the favor of you to make the survey. Accept the...
4876Thomas Jefferson to John Patterson, 27 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer of this mr George Flower is an English gentleman farmer, on a tour thro’ the US. to look for a settlement for his family and friends. he wishes to see what we consider the best course of farming as adapted to the particular circumstances of our country. on this ground I address him to yourself am and mr Randolph . in return for any information you give him of that kind he will give...
4877Thomas Jefferson to Robert Patterson, 21 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 12 th is recieved and also the Nautical Almanacs for 1811. 12. for which accept my thanks as well as for the artificial horizon proposed to be forwarded. as it would be liable to be broken, it would come best by some of the vessels sailing daily from Philadelphia to Richmond addressed to me to the care of Mess rs Gibson & Jefferson merchants at Richmond , adding ‘ to be...
4878Thomas Jefferson to Robert Patterson, 29 June 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed paper came to my hand for communication to the Philosophical society as you will percieve by it’s contents. this I beg leave to do thro’ you, and to avail myself of this as of every occasion of assuring you of my friendship & respect. RC ( PPAmP : Thomas Jefferson Papers); addressed: “Doct r Robert Patterson Philadelphia”; franked; postmarked Milton , 30 June. PoC ( MHi ); with...
4879Thomas Jefferson to Robert Patterson, 10 November 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Sep. 23. came to hand in due time, and I thank you for the Nautical almanac it covered for the year 1813. I learn with pleasure that the Philosophical society has concluded to take into consideration the subject of a fixed standard of measures weights and coins; and you ask my ideas on it; insulated as my situation is, I am sure I can offer nothing but what will occur to the...
4880Thomas Jefferson to Robert Patterson, 27 December 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
After an absence of five weeks at a distant possession of mine to which I pay such visits three or four times a year, I find here your favor of Nov. 30. I am very thankful to you for the description of Redhefer’s machine. I had never before been able to form an idea what his principle of deception was. he is the first of the inventors of perpetual motion, within my knolege, who has had the...
4881Thomas Jefferson to Robert Patterson, 31 August 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
At the request of mr Warden I transmit to the A. Philosophical society an Analysis of tobacco by M. Vauquelin , translated by mr Warden . Having lately recieved from mr Treat , an officer stationed at our post on the Arkansa , a meteorological diary of two years & three months continuance, I take the liberty of presenting it to the society.
4882Thomas Jefferson to Robert Patterson, 7 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I had thought that the copies of the Nautical Almanac which you had been so kind as to furnish me with some time ago, had included the present year, till I had occasion to use one, and found myself mistaken. having no other medium of obtaining it at present this moment, I have indulged myself with the hope that your friendship would permit me to ask the favor of you to send me that of the...
4883Thomas Jefferson to Robert Patterson, 29 May 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
It is long since any occasion presented itself of addressing a letter to you. I avail myself with pleasure therefore of that offered by the papers I now inclose you. they were intended for the society as I judge from the superscription. a long journey soon after their reciept from which I am but just returned, prevented my earlier transmission of them. I was very sensible of the solidity of...
4884Thomas Jefferson to Robert Patterson, 9 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you another paper from our indefatigable calculator William Lambert . I do not know whether he is a member of our society, but I think his assiduities and qualifications render him entirely worthy of the choice of the society. our literary fare must be of homespun materials, I presume, during the continuance of the war, except so far as we may be refreshed by the precarious reciept of...
4885Thomas Jefferson to Robert Patterson, 23 July 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson incloses to D r Patterson a paper from M r Lambert proposing a correction of the Julian calendar additional to that of Gregory , which paper was intended for the use of the society ; and he salutes D r Patterson with sincere friendship & respect. PoC
4886Thomas Jefferson to Robert Patterson, 11 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed work came to me without a scrip of a pen other than what you see in the title page. ‘A Mons r le president de la societé.’ from this I conclude it intended for the Philosophical society , & for them I now inclose it to you. you will find the notes really of value. they embody and ascertain to us all the scraps of new discoveries which we have learnt in detached articles, from less...
4887Thomas Jefferson to Robert Patterson, 8 April 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 15 is duly received. I think the time-piece should not be risked until our coast becomes entirely safe by an armistice, or considerably so by some remission in the vigilance of the British cruisers. In the meantime, I should be glad you could take charge of it yourself and keep it agoing. Perhaps, if Mr. Voight has prepared the apparatus for ascertaining the rod vibrating...
4888Thomas Jefferson to Robert Patterson, 1 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Lambert does not, in the inclosed letter , say precisely that he meant it as a communication to the Philosophical society , yet from a particular expression in it, I think it was his idea. I send it to you therefore to be made such use of as the you think proper, and of which you are the best judge. I salute you with constant esteem & respect. RC ( PPAmP : APS Archives, Manuscript...
4889Thomas Jefferson to Robert Patterson, 10 November 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I write this letter separate, because you may perhaps think something in the other of the same date, worth communicating to the Committee. I accept willingly mr Voigt’s offer to make me a timepeice, & with the kind of pendulum he proposes. I wish it to be as good as hands can make it, in every thing useful; but no unnecessary labour to be spent on mere ornament. a plain, but neat mahogany case...
4890Thomas Jefferson to Robert Patterson, 1 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Dec. 13. came to hand but two days ago. nothing could be so desirable to me as to have settled in the neighboring village of Charlottesville such a family of artists as is described in mr Hassler ’s letter to you . yet I dare not advise it; because I do not believe they could find employment there. it would be a good stand for a single workman, a real proficient in the...