1Elijah Griffiths to Thomas Jefferson, 19 April 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
It is now near 4 years since I have had the satisfaction of hearing from you, I however hope, in your retirement from the busy walks of life, you have experienced much satisfaction in a retrospective view of your life, & in the present enjoyments. We have much speculation on the subject of peace, founded on the mission of Mess. Gallatin & Bayard . This may have been a very prudent measure, to...
2Thomas Jefferson to Elijah Griffiths, 22 May 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return from a journey, after an absence of three weeks, I found here your favor of Apr. 19. but in the mean time had seen by the public papers that the office of Treasurer of the mint , had been given to the son of the late occupant , which of course precluded the application requested on your behalf. Retirement from the busy walks of life has added much to my happiness, by relieving me...
3Thomas Jefferson to Elijah Griffiths, 15 May 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved in due time your favor of April 7. & it revived pleasing recollections of our former acquaintance, and of my sense of your worth, which the lapse of 20. years has not obliterated. For some time after my retirement from public affairs I yielded to the requests of others to sollicit for them appointments under the general government. these however became so numerous & burthensome as...
4Thomas Jefferson to Elijah Griffiths, 28 May 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Nov. 14 . came to me in due time, but much oppressed with business then & to the end of my political term, I put it by as I did the civilities of my other friends till the leisure I expected here should permit me to acknolege them without the neglect of any public duty. I am very sensible of the kindness of the sentiments expressed in your letter, & of the general indulgence with...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Elijah Griffiths, 14 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
You are acquainted with the result of our State election. Let me congratulate you on that result. It speaks the sentiments of this Commonwealth, on the Measures of the General Government. A Stranger from reading our antirepublican newspapers, might have anticipated a different issue, but we are sound to the core. We believe the General Government has, by its measures, consulted our true...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Elijah Griffiths, 30 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr William Dewees , a practitioner at our Bar, has been advised by his friends to apply for the appointment of Commissioner of Bankruptcy. I have long known this gentleman; his principles & practice has been in unison with the friends of Elective Goverment; his connections are respectable; & his character as a professional man, Stands unimpeached. Should Mr Dewees be approved of, it will...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Elijah Griffiths, 22 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of July last was delivered to me at Monticello, from which place I had nothing new, or worthy the subject of an answer. that of Feb. 22. is now to be acknoleged. I have considerable hopes that our government will go on with less opposition than preceding occasions have called for. I rather expect that several circumstances latterly have brought over & consolidated with us a large...
8Thomas Jefferson to Elijah Griffiths, 5 January 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Dec. 11. has been recieved, and certainly no one would more gladly be useful to you than myself. but from the time of my retiring from office, so multitudinous were the applications to me to sollicit appointments from government that I should have had to submit to a total prostration of all self respect, or to refuse decline interfering generally. I have done so rigor o usly, but...
9Elijah Griffiths to Thomas Jefferson, 28 January 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I address you a line, not to repeat my fo r mer request, but to say, that if the Bankrupt bill now before Congress showld should become a law, I will still be a petitioner to be a commissioner under it’s provisions, in that event I will be much obliged by your interposition in my behalf in the way you were so kind as to propose formerly . A very painful event took place here last thursday...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Elijah Griffiths, 22 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The United States have now time to contemplate the late astonishing political Scenery. That incongruous aggregation; the high toned federal faction, the staunch old tories, the whole tribe of English renegadoes & apostate Americans, with views widely distinct from each other. Again the Lancasten & Spartan band, the conflagration of public offices and the last expiring struggle in congress;...
11To Thomas Jefferson from Elijah Griffiths, 8 July 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
The republicans in general, & your particular friends in this quarter, have just recovered from sensations of the keenest regret & heartfelt sorrow; consequent to a Current report of your death. We have just congratulated each other on a satisfactory contradiction of what we considered a general calamity; and an individual affliction to ourselves. We feel anxious to know what, or whether any...
12To Thomas Jefferson from Elijah Griffiths, 7 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of march 22d came to hand three days after that date. I beg leave to introduce to you, my friend John Israel Esqre. Editor of the Herald of Liberty (Washington Pennsylvania) he has acted his part well in the heat of the day in our State, & promises to be of great use to the cause of elective goverment in time to come; he will be much gratified & esteem it an honor to be made known...
13To Thomas Jefferson from Elijah Griffiths, 19 January 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
It is a long time since I have heard from you, I think the last was a public account of your having suffered from a fracture of your arm, and from which I have understood you had quite recovered. I observed by your correspondence with President Adams last year, that you both suffer from the winter season; this appears to be the universal experiece of aged persons in cold climates, but...
14Elijah Griffiths to Thomas Jefferson, 11 December 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Your much esteemed favour dated May 15—20: was duly received. It gives me great satisfaction to believe, that I have been thought worthy to be enroled, amongst the number of your friends. The period of our former acquaintance has often recured to my mind with pleasing reflections; and the then portentous state of our national affairs, has since in happier times, greatly increased my confidence...
15To Thomas Jefferson from Elijah Griffiths, 8 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Professional pursuits have absorbed so much of my attention, since the last Presidential election, that I have been a very superficial observer of the political affairs of our country. Knowing the just views, & upright intentions of the Executive of the Union; I rested in the hope, that the adverse party, had the policy, if not the justice, to estimate properly, that lenity which was extended...
16Elijah Griffiths to Thomas Jefferson, 7 April 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Through the medium of the public papers of last year, I heard with much concern of your severe indisposition, to which has since been added the pleasing information of an improvement in your health, which latter I hope is well founded. The viscissatudes viscissitudes we have experienced in extreme heat last summer, & ext r eme cold last January, have been very trying to aged and infirm persons...
17To Thomas Jefferson from Elijah Griffiths, 4 August 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope you will pardon the liberty I take in giving a few hints of the events which have taken place since last Session of Congress disolv’d, & the present State of the public mind in this State.— If the Aurora finds its way into your neighbourhood, the whiping business which follow’d the Nothampton expedition , Mr. Liston’s recent dispatches (found on the horse thief) together with many other...