61Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, 11 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I owe you, dear Madam, a thousand thanks for the letters communicated in your favor of Dec. 15. and now returned. they give me more information than I possessed before of the family of mr Tracy . but what is infinitely interesting is the scene of the exchange of Louis XVIII . for Bonaparte . what lessons of wisdom mr Adams must have read in that short space of time! more than fall to the lot...
62Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 11 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Forty three volumes read in one year, and 12. of them quartos! dear Sir, how I envy you! half a dozen 8 vos in that space of time are as much as I am allowed. I can read by candlelight only, and stealing long hours from my rest; nor would that time be allowed me indulged to me, could I, by that light, see to write. from sun-rise to one or two aclock, and often from dinner to dark, I am...
63Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas G. Dufief, 11 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of mr Dufief to inclose a copy of the Commentary on Montesquieu published by Duane in 1811. to mr Adams at Quincy Mass. charging it to Th:J . he salutes him with friendship & respect. PoC ( DLC ); on verso of a reused address cover from
64Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 10 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
It would seem mighty idle for me to inform you formally of the merits of Col o Trumbull as a painter or as a man. yet he asks my notice of him to my friends , as if his talents had not already distinguished him in their notice. on the continent of Europe his genius was placed much above West ’s. Baron Grimm , the arbiter of taste at Paris in my day, expressed to me often his decided & high...
65Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull, 10 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Our last mail brought me your favor of Dec. 26. the lapse of 28. years which you count since our first intimacies, has diminished in nothing my affection to for you. we learn, as we grow old, to value early friendships, because the new-made do not fit us so closely. it is an age since I have heard of mrs Church . yet her place, in my bosom, is as warm as ever; and so is Kitty ’s . I think I...
66Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 6 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Dec. 29. came to hand last night, and I am very much relieved by it’s reciept. your long silence had reduced me to despair, which would have been quieted had you sent me earlier the candid explanation you have now given, inasmuch as it would have let me understand the real ground of the delay. I am happy however that you have begun, and that it will be your interest to get it...
67Thomas Jefferson to Chapman Johnson, 26 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
You have heretofore known something of jarrings between the Rivanna company and myself. certain claims of right, equal, & even paramount to my own, which they set up to my canal, and whi a work which has cost me 30,000.D. and which would render it’s value almost null to me, oblige me to bring a suit in chancery to quiet my title . I have prepared a bill , but cannot finish it until I can see...
68Thomas Jefferson to Jerman Baker and Archibald Thweatt, 1 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I lately addressed a letter to mr Thweatt , intended equally for you in a case of my own: I now address this to you equally intended for mr Thweatt , in the case of another. it is to sollicit your attention to the petition of Visc o Philip S. Barziza one of the coheirs of Col o Ludwell owner of the Green spring estate . the mother of the petitioner was sole daughter of
69Thomas Jefferson to Philip I. Barziza, 1 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Dec. 14. is but just recieved, informing me of your petition to the legislature . I have outlived all my antient acquaintances in that body; but I have two or three young friend s there to whom I write by this mail , and ask their attention to your case. these are mr Thweatt of Chesterfield & Baker of Cumberland in the
70Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 1 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
A member of a family to which I have been much attached by long intimacies sollicits my asking the notice attention of some of my friends to his petition before the legislature . he is the Viscount Barziza , youngest of two sons of Count Barziza of Venice by the only daughter & heiress of the late mrs Paradise , who was the daughter of Col o
71Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas G. Dufief, 1 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of Dec. 16. and hasten by the first return of the mail, to express my mortification that the remittance of 31.D which I had desired Mess rs Gibson & Jefferson to make you in June, and which I had taken for granted was done had however never been done. it must have been ac c identally overlooked by mr Gibson , as in a mass of business happens sometimes with the...
72Thomas 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...
73Memorandum Books, 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Jan. 2. Renewed my note in bank of 2000.D. for the 19th. inst. 5. Borrowed of Mr. Leitch 20.D. 7. Sewers 1.D. 8. Hhd. exp. 2.D. 10. Recd. of Th:J. Randolph 50.D. 13.
74Proposals to Revise the Virginia Constitution, 12 July 1816. II: Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Revising the Virginia … (Jefferson Papers)
Convention by the people general suffrage for Delegates freeholders for Senate equal representn. seat of govmt every 10 th year. 100. members. Senators older both houses older pay to be fixed biennial elections Gov r elected by
75Notes by Thomas Jefferson Randolph and Thomas Jefferson on a Land Purchase, [ca. January 1817] (Jefferson Papers)
The lots of Lucy Nancy & Frances below the town at $25 per acre Lucys lot N o 1 between the town & the river at the same The three lots in the upper field at $20 per acre The ends of lots N o 3.4.5 to be back lots
76Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 31 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 23 d came to hand last night, and I now inclose you two powers of Attorney , one to be used at each place, and copied verbatim from the form in your letter . I have not attested it before a magistrate, because it would cost me a ride of many miles to find one, which I am not able to take, but it is impossible that this can be requisite for a power of attorney to transfer a...
77Enclosure: Power of Attorney from Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes for Transfer of Assets, 31 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Know all men by these presents that I Thomas Jefferson of Monticello in the county of Albemarle Virginia do hereby constitute and appoint John Barnes of George town Columbia my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name to transfer into the name of Thaddeus Kosciuzko , heretofore a General in the service of the United States , and at present of Switzerland , all the stock of the United...
78Thomas Jefferson to John Melish, 31 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Nov. 23. after a very long passage is recieved, and with it the Map which you have been so kind as to send me, for which I return you many thanks. it is handsomely executed and on a well chosen scale; giving a luminous view of the comparative possessions of different powers in our America . it is on account of the value I set on it that I will make some suggestions. by the...
79Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the Rent Claims of the Heirs of Bennett Henderson, [by 30 December 1816] (Jefferson Papers)
Some Notes on the claim of rents by Frances , Lucy & Nancy C. Henderson . The loss I have sustained by this purchase amounts to the whole value of the lands. it is a fair object in me then to save as much of that loss as I possibly can; it is justifiable to avail myself of every principle of law or equity, which can protect me, and a candid judge, either in law or equity, would give me the...
80Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas G. Dufief, 30 December [1816] (Jefferson Papers)
wrote him a note for the best dict. not larger than 8 vo Ital. & Eng. or Ital. & Fr. the former preferred caeteris paribus. FC ( DLC: TJ Papers , 208:37184); on recto of reused address cover of William Sampson to TJ, 30 Nov. 1816 ; abstract in TJ’s hand; partially dated; subjoined to PoC of TJ to Dufief, 14 Dec. 1816 . Not recorded in SJL .
81Thomas Jefferson to William D. Meriwether, 30 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have put into the hands of my grandson the papers and notes relative to the rents due to the three younger representatives of the late mr Henderson , and have left to him entirely the settlement of them, and whatever he does I will confirm and execute. he sets out to Richmond this morning, will return on Saturday, & then be always ready to finish the business. I am Sir PoC ( MHi ); on verso...
82Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 30 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I lent you some time ago the deed & receipt of John Henderson as to the property of the younger children of Bennet Henderson , which I must ask the favor of you now to send me as it is essential to fix the time when I begin to be accountable for rents, which matter is now immediately to be settled with Cap t Meriwether and mr Wood . have you been able to collect any testimony of the age of...
83Thomas Jefferson to William Sampson, 30 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Nov. 30. came to hand some time ago, and I delayed answering that I might acknolege at the same time the receipt of mr Ensor s volumes which you had been so kind as to forward. that on National government with your letter of Nov. 26. were deli forwarded by mr Lovett an by
84Thomas Jefferson to Fitzwhylsonn & Potter, 29 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 11 th is received, as also the 2 d vol. of Pleasan ts’ edition of the laws. the bundle of Edinburg Reviews was sent from Milton at the time formerly mentioned, and are supposed to have been left at a place where the stages are changed. my grandson is now setting out for Richmond
85Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 28 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
A load of flour was sent off from hence a few days ago, and another will follow within two or three days. that from Bedford is of necessity later, it’s distance from Lynchburg rendering it impracticable to be sent there until they have done all their fall seeding. mr Yancey informs me he will not be able to get his tobacco down till March. My grandson is the bearer of an order for 220.D. and I...
86Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Delaplaine, 25 December 1816 (first letter) (Jefferson Papers)
My general aversion from the presumption of intruding on the public an opinion of works offered to their notice has yielded in the present instance to the merit of your undertaking, and to your belief, well or ill founded, that my testimony in it’s favor may be of advantage to it. I have written therefore, in a separate letter , which you are free to publish, what I can conscientiously say on...
87Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Delaplaine, 25 December 1816 (second letter) (Jefferson Papers)
On my return from Bedford , after an absence of 7. weeks, I found here your favors of Oct. 28. Nov. 13. 20. & 23. with a copy of the 1 st N o of your Repository. but I found also an immense accumulation of letters recieved during my absence, some of which claimed my first attentions. you know my aversion to the drudgery of the writing table. the great affliction of my present life is a too...
88Thomas Jefferson to William H. Crawford, 24 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return after a long absence I learned that you had been so kind as to send the Collector’s commission to mr Minor , and that he had declined it. it seems he had in the mean time engaged in a business from which he could not withdraw, a circumstance unknown to me when I troubled you on the subject. my thankfulness to you however is not the less. I mentioned at the same time mr Southall ’s...
89Thomas Jefferson to Charles Willson Peale, 24 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved in October a letter from mr M c Ilhenny whom you were so kind as to recommend as a watchmaker, informing me he would come on to establish himself at Charlottesville as soon as he could hear from me. I was just about setting out on a journey to Bedford , and answered him therefore by advising him to postpone his coming till my return. he did so, and arrived in Charlottesville by the...
90Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel T. Eldredge, 23 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to ask your permission to become a subscriber to your ‘ New York public sale report ’ and inclose you a five dollar bill for the first year in advance. it is of the bank of Virginia which I understand is negociable with you at par. be pleased to direct the papers to me ‘at Monticello near Milton .’ and to accept the assurances of my respect. PoC ( DLC ); on verso of reused address cover...