511To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Appleton, 22 June 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Thomas Jefferson, of monticello, to Th: Appleton of Leghorn—D r 1825 June To a piedestal of white statuary marble Dollars Agreeably to instructions to Gia o Raggi 40. — To care, freight from Carrara duties & porterage 6. — 46 — D r Thomas Jefferson in acco t
512From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Barclay, 5 May 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
After the letter I did myself the honour of writing you to assure you that I would reimburse you the necessary expences for sending young Mercier to his own country, I took occasion in my first to the Governor of Virginia to mention your attention to him, and my undertaking, and to pray that he would endeavor to find out his family. I now receive a letter from the present governor , Mr....
513From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 12 December 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I believe we may consider the election as now decided. letters recieved from Columbia (S.C.) this morning, & dated Dec. 2. which was the day of appointing their electors, announce that the republican ticket carried it by majorities of from 17. to 18. the characters named are firm, & were to elect on the next day. it was intended that one vote should be thrown away from Colo. Burr. it is...
514To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 4 June 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I shall make no appology for the trouble I am going to give you, because I have the strongest sense of your disposition to serve me. I see by the papers that Commissioners for negociating the loans are going to be appointed for the different states in the Union, and, if it should be thought proper in all respects, I would be glad to discharge the duties of the office either in Massachusetts,...
515To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas S. Kennedy, 14 January 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just seen your Excellency’s nomination of Mr. Monroe to the appointment of Minister to France &c announc’d in the public prints. If this information be correct, there is no doubt of the Senate’s Concurrence, in which event ’tis probable Mr. Monroe will shortly be at Washington Should the office of Secretary to the Embassy be vacant upon his arrival there, and this be the first...
516From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 3 May 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be handed you by mr Milledge who takes the route by Edgehill on purpose to give you information on the subject of Georgia. mr Clarke, a son of Genl. Clarke, of that state is with him. he is a sensible young man & has been studying the law here some time under John Thompson Mason. having before mentioned these gentlemen in my letters, nothing more need be added. I wrote to you by...
517To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Rodney, 20 February 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Being distant from the seat of government, and unacquainted with the business of the Cabinet, it is with reluctance that I Take the Liberty of Troubling you with this letter, or of advising any thing respecting public appointments in any case, but on the present Occasion have been prevailed on by a number of leading Republicans to write a few lines respecting the Collectorship of the Port of...
518From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Sim Lee, 26 December 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
I am much obliged by your friendly communication of the intelligence from the Chevalier de la Luzerne. It was delivered to me on the 22d. Instant, two days after the date of your letter, and three days sooner than I received it by Express in the ordinary way, a Time very precious if the Enemy should really visit us. I was sorry that the Master of the Vessel returned before I could send to him,...
519From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 15 September [1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 4th. to Maria arrived last night. Mine of last week mentioned a contagious fever which had broke out in Philadelphia. Since that it is so much spread, as to have driven every body off, who can get out of the town, and to have suspended business of every kind. I have never been into the town since the President’s departure on the 10th. But I find it impossible to keep my servants...
520To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 26 February 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
I did not expect to have written by this post as I was much engaged in preparing some papers & in the business of the farm my Overseer being abroad on some affairs of his own, and Martha had written fully this morning. I recollect however now (7 oclock in the Evening) that tis necessary to inform you the Nailery will soon be out of iron if it does not receive a supply from you. George came...
521From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Whiting, enclosing List of Materials for Temporary Buildings at Richmond, 26 June 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
At the request of the directors of the public Buildings in Richmond, I am to desire that you will provide for them locks of different kinds fit for house doors, hinges for do., window glass, putty, lathing nails and shells. For the quantities I must refer you to the Directors themselves. I am Sir Your humble Servant, RC ( CSmH ). In a clerk’s hand, signed by TJ. Addressed: “Thomas Whiting...
522Thomas May (for John Ayers & Company) to Thomas Jefferson, 9 April 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
We have placed under charge of M r Bernard Peyton of this City a Barrel of Corn to be forwarded to you at the request of M r Jechonias Thayer of Boston, State of Massachusetts , from which place we lately received it. M r Thayer states to us, that the Corn is considered valuable, as being very prolific and may do well in this climate, but requires a longer Season to mature it, than that of...
523From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, [8 January 1795] (Jefferson Papers)
My letters of the last post inform me of Mussi’s having sent on my clover seed; so that it is to him I must remit the 51 D.—67 c. balance of Stras’s money, after taking out Mr. Lyle’s and Taylor’s. I must trouble you therefore to try and get a bill on Philadelphia for that sum paiable to Joseph Mussi, merchant Philadelphia, at the corner of 7th. and Market streets, and to inclose it to him....
524To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Cox, 16 July 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
An excursion in the upper part of our State, which kept me some time from home, has prevented an earlier reply to your letter of the 3 rd June— It will give me great pleasure to have you 30 Gallons of the Grape Juice put up in the best stile and entirely unmixed with any other substance—The season for procuring it, is in October, and previous to that time I will make arrangements with Mr James...
525To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Munroe, 22 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
The length of the new Road in the Presidents Square is, 1130 feet, or 68½ perches nearly. The Cost of the above road per rolls returned by Overseer is $359.72. T Munroe respectfully informs the President that there is another framed house building near Mr Pichons which evades or an attempt is made to evade the proclamation by bringing down a hipp’d roof within twelve feet of the cill— The...
526Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Law, 23 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I am now entered on my 69 th year. the tables of mortality tell me I have 7. years to live. my bibliomany has possessed me of perhaps 20,000. volumes. of these there are probably 1000. which I would read, of choice, before I should the historical, genealogical, chronological, & geographical Atlas of M. Le Sage . but it is also probable I shall decamp before I get through 50. of them. why then...
527From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Sim Lee, 12 March 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
The prisoners of Convention and those taken at the Cowpens having been ordered on the late Approach of Lord Cornwallis to move on to our Northern Boundary, while Congress could be consulted as to what should be done with them, I have received a Letter from the President from which the inclosed is extracted. They have I believe reached as far as Winchester from which place they are now ordered...
528Thomas Jordan to Thomas Jefferson, 13 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I took the liberty of applying to you for the above am t by Letter dated some weeks back, requesting you would have the kindness to remit me the am t to the care of Doctor May of this City, but as I have not had the pleasure of hearing from you, I presume it must have escaped your recollection, therefore beg leave to remind you, which hope you’ll pardon Having received all the Subscriptions...
529Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ladd, 20 August 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 8 th was recieved on the 14 th inst. and I now inclose you fifty Dollars, my portion of the fee for your report, with many thanks for your patient & candid attention to this case, and great satisfaction at the prospect of seeing it terminated in my time. Accept the assurances of my great esteem & respect. PoC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “M r Thomas Ladd”; endorsed by TJ. Ladd’s...
530Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 10 February 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
M rs Cooper writes to me that no letter has been received from you since my departure from Philadelphia , and desires to know whether she is to set out with her family to Virginia in the beginning of the Summer or sooner. My first course here, will end in June. my second will occupy four months of the next winter, when I shall quit this situation for Charlotte’sville If I am wanted there....
531To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Appleton, 8 May 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I greatly regret it was not in my power, to comply with your wishes, that your chimney-mantles might be Sent, by a different vessel, from that which carries the bases & the paving squares; but there was no other vessel in port, at the time.—I have mention’d to M r Thompson, the Collector, those cases which are for your private account, and they are so mark’d, that there can arise no...
532To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 12 December 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to day seen a M r Mauray of this place who has about 4 or 5 quarter casks, of the Scuppernon wine, 2 Yrs. old, which he says he will sell at 87½¢ a Gall. if you take it all, he brought it in from Carolina for a gentleman of Norfolk, who declined takeing it because it is not sweet —It is very different from that I drank at Monticello, I have therefore obtained a bottle which I shall send...
533To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Leiper, 26 November 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Inclosed is a copy of a letter I sent you by Post on the 9th Ult: in answer to yours of the 26th of Septr. and the post following I sent you a Note informing I had wrote you an answer to your letter of the 26th and in that beged leave to refer—Since have had no answer and from that circumstance conclude my letters to you or yours to me have miscarried is the reason I again write you on the...
534To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Cooper, 17 March 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope you have received about this time, a copy of my tract on Materialism which I ordered to be sent to you when printed from Philadelphia. I sent you some time ago a third edition of my tract on The Tariff. I see with infinite regret the ignorance or the cowardice of each of the Presidential Candidates on this Question: not one of them dares come out boldly on the one side or on the other...
535From Thomas Jefferson to Mademoiselle Thomas de Langat, 27 January 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Je m’empresse, Mademoiselle, de faire reponse à la lettre que vous me faites l’honneur de m’ecrire au sujet de Monsieur Blaine, et de vous observer que la meilleure partie à prendre, à ce qui me paroit, c’est d’écrire à Monsieur Barclay qui se trouve actuellement à Philadelphie. C’est probable que Monsieur Blaine y est aussi, et assurèment Monsieur Barclay fera son mieux pour vous faire payer...
536Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 21 September 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you remarks on your letter to Mr Carr: not much differing from the spirit and substance of my former letter . I do not disagree with you in the least as to the measure of national happiness in the two countries, but the worst government in other respects is certainly the most powerful. Your plan of a Militia, I and Gen l John Steele took pains to recommend about the year 1802–3 but he...
537To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Munroe, 21 July 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I have in hand between three & four thousand Dollars of the ten thousand recd. 3d. Instant; but as the Expenditures at the Capitol during the present & two next months will be much greater than heretofore it may. perhaps prevent inconvenience if it should be the Presidents pleasure to leave with the Secretary of the Treasury, or some other person here a warrant for such sum as may be...
538To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas H. Palmer, 9 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Knowing the interest you take in every species of literary improvement, I have ventured to send you a few copies of a prospectus for a class of young ladies, which I flatter myself will be found an improvement upon the prevailing system of female education. Should you, on a perusal of the “Outlines” agree with me in opinion, may I ask the favour of your presenting the copies sent to such of...
539Thomas W. Maury to Thomas Jefferson, 17 October 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Herewith you will receive a specimen of Kenawha salt, received by me from Judge Summers with a request that I would present it to you. No uncommon pains were used either in its selection, or in the process of making it, inasmuch as I saw it taken from one of many kettles boiling in the same furnace, all of which were of similar quality.— I also send you a specimen of the coal of Western...
540To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Munroe, 14 July 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I find on a diligent and particular enquiry of the Overseer & others who saw the riotous workmen parading the streets, and heard a good deal of what was said amongst them that Matthias Kyne (or Kyan) Charles Dent, mark Fahey, Thomas Bean John King, & Thomas Crowley, then in the public works, and Brian Larner & one or two others, whose names are not known, and who were not employed by the...