1801To Thomas Jefferson from John Tyler, 30 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg leave to recommend to your Notice Mr Saml Tyler my Nephew who anxious as I am and as all true Republicans are to witness the change of sentiment in the people by your promotion to the high and responsible office of President has visited the Fœderal City to join in the Genl. Joy. I have not the vanity to suppose you bestow a thought on me while engaged in the great duties of your public...
1802To Thomas Jefferson from Anonymous, [before 3 March 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
As the subject of this letter is delicate, I rely on your knowledge of the hand writing. In this moment when so many personal and official vexations are brought to bear on persons in every grade of public station I consider it as a duty to inform you that casual circumstances have given me reason to expect, that will make an application to you at sometime after the 3d. of March. I presume it...
1803To Thomas Jefferson from John Vanmetre, 28 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your friendly letter Addressed to me dated monticello September the 4th 1800, and Also to Apoligise for its publication—The fact was that though it was particularly gratifying to me as An Individual yet I could not deny myself the pleasure Of Communicating its Contents to some of my friends Whom I also conceived to be the friends (in common) of the great...
1804To Thomas Jefferson from Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 28 August 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
We have before us your very esteemed favors of 30 April and 1 May. You have greatly obliged us by your explanation of the paragraph in a former letter, concerning Land Speculators. We are entirely of your opinion on that Subject. With Mr. Greenleaf We never had any the least dealings. We close your account Current with us, by the Bond You have forwarded for ƒ2800.— payable the 25 December 1802...
1805To Thomas Jefferson from Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 10 July 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
We are honored with your esteemed favor of 8 May, inclosing Letters for General Kosciuszko & the Baron de Geismar, which have been carefully forwarded, and to the former We likewise transmitted duly accepted, the Bill to his order sent us by Mr. John Barnes of Philadelphia. Messs: Danl. Ludlow & Co. of Newyork advise us to have received from you Two Hundred Dollars, that We place to the Credit...
1806To Thomas Jefferson from Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 26 June 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
We have before us your very esteemed favors of 27 and 28 March. Accept our hearty thanks for your kind and friendly interference in procuring an Act aggregating us to the Citizenship of the State of Virginia, And be assured, We shall ever be happy on all occasions to testify our gratitude to You and to the State. As matters have turned out in this Country it is little probable We shall have...
1807To Thomas Jefferson from Peter Charles Varlé, 1 February 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Susquehanna Canal, 1 Feb. 1798 . Having observed the ravages of yellow fever in Philadelphia in 1793 he developed a plan for countering the disease, which was favorably received by the people to whom he communicated it. Their attention to the subject lessened with the decline of the epidemic, but the return of the fever last year shows that the malady has not been eradicated. As this is a...
1808To Thomas Jefferson from Dr. John Vaughan, 10 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The friendly manner in which you received my late communication induces me to resume the privilege of addressing you, to mention a few incidents respecting the unfortunate dilemma in which we are placed. Mr. Bayard, our representative, has lately written to a friend here, that “the Federalists in Congress talk of supporting Mr. Burr, & that it is in his power to give the casting vote”: &...
1809To Thomas Jefferson from Dr. John Vaughan, 3 December 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
You will please to accept the enclosed pamphlet as a tribute of esteem from its author. The only apology, I have to plead in extenuation of the privilege assumed, is the liberality necessarily attached to your character as a Philosopher. With anxious solicitude for the (just) result of this auspicious day, I am your most obedient, incognant, hbl Servt. RC ( DLC ); at head of text: “Thos....
1810To Thomas Jefferson from Josef Ignacio de Viar, 20 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The agreeable News, which Reached us yesterday Morning of your Election to the Presidential Chair, have afforded me singular satisfaction, and Now beg, you will accept of my most sincere congratulation on the Occassion. I have the honor to be with great esteem, and Respect Sir Your most obt and humble Servt RC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “Thoms. Jefferson Esqr. Vice-President of the United...
1811To Thomas Jefferson from Volney, 19 July 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Le Surlendemain de Votre départ, le propriétaire du Vaisseau qui réunissait Mes Convenances s’etant decidé à Ne point l’expedier, je me decidai de mon côté à quitter philadelphie, et depuis cinq à Six jours je respire dans la Ville-campagne d’où je Vous ecris un air peut-etre aussi chaud Mais plus pur. Il N’est plus question de la fievre. Vous M’avez demandé Mon plan de Marche, le Voici. Le...
1812To Thomas Jefferson from Volney, 15 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
N’ayant pû avoir l’honneur de Vous revoir avant Votre depart, j’espère que Vous recevrez encore avant toute autre Voye, un Exemplaire de Ma reponse au dr. priestley que je joins ici. Si le français S’imprime comme jai lieu de le croire, Vous ne tarderez pas Non plus de l’avoir. C’est une affaire finie de Ma part. Le Saint-homme N’aura plus de Moi une Virgule. Avant trois Semaines je compte...
1813To Thomas Jefferson from Volney, 5 July 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Je Suis aussi touché de Votre offre, en la considerant et quant au fonds et quant à la forme, que le peut être un cœur qui Connaît le Sentiment de L’amitié et le prix de la générosité. Je N’hesiterais pas de l’accepter, si j’étais dans le cas. Mais heureusement mon œconomie et ma prévoyance ne me laissent rien à desirer du coté de l’argent. Mon motif de rester ici porte sur d’autres causes,...
1814To Thomas Jefferson from Volney, 2 September 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Malgré la facilité et Même la brièveté du chemin de chez Vous ici, je Suis arrivé à une heure après Midi Si rôti, Si meurtri Si fatigué que j’ai à peine la force de Vous ecrire pour Vous remercier du bon Vieux guide et des deux chevaux qu’il remene[ra] demain en bon etat. Il est probable que je N’aurai point occasion de Vous ecrire plus amplement avant Mon retour à philadelphie. Votre...
1815To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Waterhouse, 1 December 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Having long regarded Mr. Jefferson as one of our most distinguished patriots & philosophers, I conceived that a work which had for it’s end the good of the community, would not be unexceptable to him.—Under that impression I have here sent him “ A prospect of Exterminating the small-pox ,” and am with the utmost consideration and respect his very humble servt. RC ( DLC ); at foot of text:...
1816To Thomas Jefferson from Isaac Weaver, Jr., 25 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Altho’ acquainted only with your publick character, I gratify feelings which appear to be in unison with those of this State, in congratulating you on the happy issue of the momentous struggle of America to continue advantages gaind’d by the price of revolutionary blood, in preserving the right of electing to the highest office in the United States, the man in whom the publick choice centers,...
1817To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander White, 5 December 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I have examined my correspondence with Col: Little and Mr Strode respecting the proposed road ; I find Colonel Little only engaged to join with Mr. Strode in tracing the ground, in which he said three other gentlemen one a surveyer and all good Woods men, would assist; but I never heard of anything being done; and unless Mr Strode was on the ground (and of this he would probably have...
1818To Thomas Jefferson from John Wickham, 2 April 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
In reply to your Letter of the 25th. Ulto. I have to inform You that, though generally retained as Counsel for Mr. Welch, I am not his Attorney in Fact, Mr. Benjamin Waller of Wms.Burg acting in that Character, it was solely with a View to serve him that I undertook in his Stead to make the Adjustment which took place between us.—I have inclosed your Letter to Mr. Waller, & doubt not he will...
1819To Thomas Jefferson from John Wickham, 22 June 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
By your Letter of the 15th. I find I did not make myself understood in my reply to your Letter requesting an Extension of the Time of payment of your Debt to Mr. Welch—though Counsel for Welch in all his Suits in the superior Courts I have nothing to do with the Collection of his Debts, that Business is done exclusively by Mr. Waller, to whom You will be pleased to address yourself on the...
1820To Thomas Jefferson from John Wickham, 16 [July] 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
In reply to your Letter of the 15th. Ulto. inclosing a Bill on Mr. Hooper to be applied to the payment of your Debt to Mr. Welch I wrote to You on the 22d. Informing You that I had no concern with the collection of Mr. Welch’s Debts, being only engaged as his Counsel, & that the Business of collection belonged wholly to Mr. Waller; In my Letter I returned You the order on Mr. Hooper. My...
1821To Thomas Jefferson from James Wilkinson, 29 November 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose you a series of the Meteorological observations, which, should they be deemed worthy of record, may I hope be ascribed to the Author, the Honble Willm: Dunbar of the Forest near Natchez.— Some petrifactions, an Indian Knife, & a Sketch of the settled parts of the Mississippi Territory, are also offered for your amusement, but I must request that no copy of the Sketch may be allowed...
1822To Thomas Jefferson from James Wilkinson, 22 May 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been obliged by a letter from you, with reference to two Italian Busts, which you Expect to receive by way of New Orleans, and being on the Eve of my departure hence for that City, in my route to the Atlantic States, (probably to land at the City of Washington) I embrace the present occasion to make this acknowledgement, and to offer you my assurances of attention, to the Commission...
1823To Thomas Jefferson from James Wilkinson, 1 September 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I will rely on your goodness to excuse this intrusion produced by my desire to prevent interpretations, which I should be sorry to merit— Your Letter of the 16th. Jany:, after some considerable lapse of time, reached my Hands at Natchez, & was answered by a Mr. Nolan, anterior to my departure from thence in May— I had then cause for belief that Mr. N. would have presented Himself to you, long...
1824To Thomas Jefferson from Marinus Willett, 24 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The very slender personal acquaintance I have with you may require an apology for this address—I do not recollect having the honor of being in your company except at the Introduction of President Washington on my arrival at this City with Mr McGillivray (the Creek Chief) and once at Dinner with President Washington—No person however can be more compleatly happy on account of your Election to...
1825To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Williams, 5 December 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to introduce to your Notice William Tate Esqr. late an Elector to vote for a President & Vice President of the U.S. who goes charged with the Vote of that Body to you, & to assure you of the great Respect & Esteem of Sir your Obt. Servt. RC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “Thomas Jefferson Esquire Vice President of the United States”; endorsed by TJ as received 12 Dec. and so recorded in...
1826To Thomas Jefferson from Hugh Williamson, 2 February 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
At Boston, from which I am now returning on my way to New York, a gentleman of much Information expressed a wish to me that some of the southern Members would, before the arming bill passes or without Delay, introduce a Bill for a Law in perfect conformity to the British Navigation Act. Such a Bill if opposed by the Eastern Brito-Americans would as he conceives effectually turn New England...
1827To Thomas Jefferson from Hugh Williamson, 8 December 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed account of the Temperature of the Air in Quebec was given me by a gentleman from that City who had little to do and amused himself with meteorological observations . The circumstance that induced me to copy this Part of the Journal was the remarkable coincidence of the coldest weather with the conjunction of the Sun & Moon during the 4 cold months. Has it been observed in other...
1828To Thomas Jefferson from Hugh Williamson, 3 March 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
The Letter you did me the favour to write on the 11th: ult: had been left at my lodging by the Penny Post and was handed me on my return to this City. The Report of the Committee I have returned to be forwarded to whom it concerns in the State of Tennessee on Cumberland River . Congress as I observe or rather the House of Reps. have given leave to bring in a Bill to repeal the Stamp Act, not...
1829To Thomas Jefferson from Hugh Williamson, 28 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I had expected to inclose a Letter by the friday Mail for Mr. Caffery Nashville, Tennessee for I arrived here on Thursday PM but to write was impracticable. In a family of five young Ladies who had by a very short Illness lost a Parent, they too of much sensibility and delicate Constitutions, I found other attentions than writing Letters. I gave Mr. Cafferrys Letter to Dr. Wistar and wrote the...
1830Enclosure: Memorandum on Exports of North Carolina, 2 February 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Some Accot of the Exports of No: Carolina. Tar Pitch Turpentine annually @ 120,000 Brls. Tobacco 10,000 Hhds { Indian Corn 20 @ 50,000 [Brls?] Peas 5,000 Bushels Herring 3 &
1831To Thomas Jefferson from Hugh Williamson, 24 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
This forenoon I was inform’d by a Letter from N York that Mr. Apthorp is dead and to be buried tomorrow. The family extremely solicitous that I should come on without delay. I shall from New York write a Letter to Mr. Caffery who wrote me concerning the big Bones and after thanking him for his attention to my former Request shall refer him to such Letter as he may receive from some Officer of...
1832To Thomas Jefferson from Willink, Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 31 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit us to congratulate you, on your election to the high and honorable Office of Vice President of the United States, in the discharge of which We most sincerely and ardently wish you the Success that our personal knowledge and experience assure us your exertions, Zeal, and perseverance to promote the Honor, Interest, and Prosperity of your Country will most amply merit. The warm part We...
1833To Thomas Jefferson from John Wise, 28 January 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
It having been communicated to me by a friend, that he had understood you had, some short time since, in a public company, at Francis’s Hotel, in the city of Philadelphia, used expressions to my injury and discredit, I have thought proper to address you, with intent as well to ascertain the truth of the report, as to be informed, if it be true what motive induced the observation and what Idea...
1834To Thomas Jefferson from Caspar Wistar, 18 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I should have replied sooner to your favour of Feby. 3d. but I did not wish to intrude upon you at a period so awfully important to our Country—the accounts we have received this day (from Washington on Sunday) are such as give us great reason to hope that some of the Gentlemen to whom accident has given the power to decide will have obeyed the dictates of reason & finished the dispute before...
1835To Thomas Jefferson from Caspar Wistar, 8 December 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I am not certain that you will have leisure to attend to the subject which follows, but the circumstances appear so interesting that I cannot refrain from communicating them to you, & if you are not able to devote any time to the subject you will still be much interested in the event— It appears by the Medical Repository (a periodical publication at New York) that there have lately been found,...
1836To Thomas Jefferson from Caspar Wistar, 19 October 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
The unceasing calls of my profession have accasioned me to postpone my answer to your esteemed favour longer than I wished—You committed Chancellor Livingstons first paper on the Steam Engine to my care—it was read at the next meeting of the Society & referred to Messrs. Patterson & Latrobe. Those Gentlemen finding no references to the figure, in the descriptions which accompanied it, were...
1837To Thomas Jefferson from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 30 December 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to acknowledge having received from you a statement of the claim of William Short Esquire, for salary, as Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Spain.—It was my expectation that the question upon which this Demand has so long unfortunately been suspended, would have been determined during my continuance in Office—I have however been informed within a few days, that...
1838To Thomas Jefferson from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 10 May 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
A constant pressure of urgent business has delayed my acknowledgment of the Letter which I had the honour of receiving from you, dated the 12th. of April, in which you represent that the following payments have been made by Messrs. Pendleton and Lyons, in pursuance of their assumpsit to Edmund Randolph late Secretary of State, dated Novr. 14th. 1797, vizt. 1798. Novr. 21st. Payment to George...
1839To Thomas Jefferson from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 15 December 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honour to transmit herewith, a Report on the Petition of William Imlay Commissioner of Loans for the State of Connecticut, which was refered to me by order of the Senate on the 5th. instant. I have the honour to be very respectfully Sir Your obedient Servant RC ( DNA : RG 46, Senate Records, 5th Cong., 2d. sess.); in a clerk’s hand, signed by Wolcott; at foot of text: “The Honble....
1840To Thomas Jefferson from James Wood, 4 February 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the honor of your Letter of the 24th. Ultimo with the inclosure, [no]tifying [the] death [of] Mr. Tazewell. I delayed answering your letter until this time, in expectation that a temporary Appointment wou’d be made by the Executive—I am now inclined to think that none will take place, before a permanent One is made by the Legislature; the Board were equally divided as to two...
1841To Thomas Jefferson from John Wright, 20 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Having lately arrived in this City with the view of erecting sundry patent Machines to facilitate the business of agriculture, I take the liberty of addressing you for the purpose of knowing, whether you will be pleased to accept of one, to cut straw upon a principle different from Any now in use—. If this offir should be accepted, I will with pleasure forward the machine to any place you...
1842To Thomas Jefferson from George Wythe, 22 February 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
George Keith Taylor sent to me a letter written to him by Caleb Lownes , in which that benevolent man consenteth to superintend our hospital for reception and amendment of sinners formerly doomed to the gibbet. i was desired to hand the letter to the governor, which hath been done, and to do what is mentioned in the subjoined extract from his letter to me: ‘will you be so good as to write to...
1843To Thomas Jefferson from George Wythe, 23 April 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Whenever that εγχειριδιον περι την σνμβουλην νομοθετικην , which thou art preparing, shall be published, as i anxiously hope it will be, reserve two or three copies for me. Adieu. RC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ as received 29 Apr. and so recorded in SJL . εγχειριδιον περι την σνμβουλην νομοθετικην : “Manual of the Legislative Counsel,” or, more literally, “Handbook of the Lawmaker’s Advice.”
1844To Thomas Jefferson from George Wythe, 7 December 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Your sollicitations are with me more cogent motives than with his slave are the mandates of a despot. Page 1, line 9, &c. is not the parliamentary term ‘leave out’ instead of ‘strike out’? 21. the statement seemeth exact. 23. the question is simply, that the committee do agree to it, if amendments be not made, or, if they be, that the committee do agree to it, with the amendments 24. the final...
1845To Thomas Jefferson from George Wythe, 10 April 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
After the seventh decad of my years began i learned to write with the left hand, as you may see by this specimen, and that with ease, although slowly. yet if to write were painfull, i should, before this time, have answered your letter of 28 of february: but i have been endeavouring to recollect what little of parliamentary procedings i formerly knew, and find myself unable to give information...
1846Enclosure: Queries on Parliamentary Procedure, 7 December 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
9. In Committee . The paper before a committee, whether select or of the whole, may be a bill, resolutions, draught of an address &c. and it may either originate with them, or be referred to them. in every case the whole paper is read first by the clerk, & then by the chairman by paragraphs, Scob. 49. pausing at the end of the paragraph, & putting questions for amending if proposed. in the...
1847To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Young, 29 October 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
When I sat down to address you, my first intention was to apologize for the liberty I have taken in troubling you with my speculations on Astronomy, Physiology, and Mechanics, at this critical period, when the most important national concerns demand your attention, and doubtless occupies all the faculties of your mind; But when I considered that the great Doctor Franklin, and the celebrated...
1848To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 4 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I had this honor on the 21. of october last , since which I have continued a convalesents, depriving me the pleasure of personally paying you my respects, as I have long wished and continue to do so, when the inclemency of the season moderates in mean time I am happy to avail myself of the goodness of General Smith, now in this City, to express to you the satisfaction I have in the current...