831From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Cowdrey, 9 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Cowdrey and his thanks to himself & the Committee of the Wallabout for the copy of their publication which has come safely to hand. if the records it contains can inculcate in nations a due regard to humanity even towards their enemies, and the advantages as well as the duty of lessening the evils of war, a great good will be effected. DLC : Papers...
832From Thomas Jefferson to John Redman Coxe, 15 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respectful salutations to Doctr. Coxe, and his thanks for the communication of the volume on vaccination. he has deposited it in the Secretary of state’s office as desired, and doubts not it will contribute much to the public satisfaction as to this salutary discovery, and to their information as to the manner of treating it. he prays him to accept his respects &...
833From Thomas Jefferson to John Redman Coxe, 6 December 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The vaccine virus being at present lost in this part of the country, Dr. Gant has sollicited me to endeavor to recover it for him & his brethren of the profession here. the difficulty of keeping up a constant succession of inoculated subjects, and the uncertainty of success from matter which is not fresh, will probably expose every part of the US. to the accident of losing the matter, and...
834From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Redman Coxe, 30 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of the 23d. and am happy to learn that you mean to favor the public with an account of the vaccine inoculation from your own experience, which I am persuaded will be highly useful. I think it an important object in such a work to bring the practice of the inoculation to the level of common capacities: for to give to this discovery the whole of it’s value, we...
835From Thomas Jefferson to Tench Coxe, 21 September 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I have read with great satisfaction your observations on the principles for equalizing the power of the different nations on the sea, and think them perfectly sound. certainly it will be better to produce a balance on that element by reducing the means of it’s great Monopoliser, than by endeavoring to raise our own to an equality with theirs. I have ever wished that all nations would adopt a...
836From Thomas Jefferson to Tench Coxe, 17 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have not been inattentive at any time to the considerations which urged the availing the general government of your services; but my own principles, & the uniform doctrine of the Republicans that no man should be removed for a mere difference of political opinion, has allowed little to be done in the way of appointment. the office into which it would have been most natural to place you, was...
837From Thomas Jefferson to Tench Coxe, 27 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved on the 24th. of January a communication, which from an endorsement in your hand I knew to have come from you. others had been recieved at different periods before, which candor obliges me frankly to say had not been answered, because some of the earliest of them had been of a character with which I thought it my duty to be dissatisfied. observing however that you have continued to...
838From Thomas Jefferson to Zadok Cramer, 12 March 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Cramer and his thanks for the volume of Brown’s dictionary of the Bible which he has been so kind as to present him. it was certainly his intention in subscribing at that work to do it on the footing of all others, and however sensible and thankful for the kind intentions expressed in mr Cramer’s letter, yet knowing that the artist cannot live but...
839From Thomas Jefferson to Zadok Cramer, 8 March 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Cramer and subscribes with pleasure for a copy of Brown’s dictionary of the bible which he proposes to print at Pittsburg. PoC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ. he proposes : see Cramer to TJ, 14 Feb.
840From Thomas Jefferson to John Peter Van Ness, 11 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Colo. Van-Ness & Judge Craunch, and returns the draught of the answers to the interrogatories in the form in which he can make oath to them, which he will be ready to do any forenoon that it may suit them to do him the favor of calling on him. CSmH : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.