4021George Williamson to Thomas Jefferson, 10 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
No ordinary occasion should induce me to intrude on your leisure hours. you will perceive that the prosp work, the prospectus of which I send you, has more than ordinary claims on the literati of this Country. I regreat that I have not an acquaintance in your State whom I can interest, and through whom this might have been presented to you. had my honorable friend Doctor Mitchill still...
4022Joseph H. Nicholson to Thomas Jefferson, 3 May 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
M r James H. MCulloch , the son of our Collector , is going westward on some scientific Pursuits, and as he wishes to take Monticello in his way, I beg leave to introduce him to you—I flatter myself when you know him, you will not find him unworthy of your acquaintance—One of his Objects is to look into the Mineralogy and aboriginal History of our Country, and as these are Subjects which you...
4023Peter S. Du Ponceau to Thomas Jefferson, 14 November 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
It is a duty no less pleasing than honorable to me, to address you on behalf of the Historical & literary Committee of the American Philosophical Society , in the Capacity of their Corresponding Secretary. You have, no doubt, been informed of the recent establishment of this Committee, & of the views & objects for which it has been instituted. If not, you will receive full information on the...
4024Thomas Jefferson’s Account with James Leitch, 16 March 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Thomas Jefferson Bot of James Leitch 2 y d Mixed Cloth $8 } 16– ¼ 〃 Drab Cloth 〃1–25 – 31 9 Skanes Silk 9 d 1–
4025Horatio Turpin to Thomas Jefferson, 8 December 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
by the death of Maj r Joseph Scott of Richmond the office of Marshall for the Middle district of Virginia has become vacated Should you think you can with propriety recommend me to the President for that office Shall be very thankful to you to do so if I have any claim to a preferance it arises from my Services as an old Revolutionary officer and Death has made Such havock among us that I...
4026James Chamberlain to Thomas Jefferson, [received 28 June 1811] (Jefferson Papers)
This strange application will, I have no doubt, surprise you, but dire necessity compels me to it—being well acquainted with your benificence, makes me thus bold to apply to you to save me from ruin,—to detail the cause or causes of my present embarrasment perhaps wou,d be useless, inasmuch as you can not in the least be acquainted with the facts— but suffice it to say, that at the...
4027James Freeman to Thomas Jefferson, 14 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have lately returned to Boston , where I had the pleasure of finding the note of October the 10th , which you did me the honour to address to me. I still regret, as do all my friends here, that I had not the opportunity of hearing you speak. But I shall always remember with gratitude the hospitality of those members of your family, whom I had the satisfaction of seeing; and I rejoice in...
4028Alexander von Humboldt to Thomas Jefferson, 12 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Vous connaissez assez les sentimens respectueux d’attachement et d’amitié que je Vous porte, pour sentir Vous même la satisfaction que j’ai eu en recevant Votre lettre en date du 6 Mars . Je n’ai pas eté heureux depuis que j’ai quitté Votre beau pays. Battu par la tempête, on est plus sensible aux vrayes jouissances morales. Quelle carriere que la Votre! Quel exemple ravissant, Vous avez...
4029John Martin Baker to Thomas Jefferson, 1 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the Honor to address you frequently from the Island of Majorca , where in June 1810 I had the Satisfaction to remit you, per the American Schooner Hellen of Salem Cap William Brown , to the particular care of the Collector of that port, One Box containing an Extensive Petrel collection , p natural productions of the
4030David Bailie Warden to Thomas Jefferson, 18 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg leave to inform you, that, at the moment, when I was on the eve of embarking for France , at Newport, I received a note from the President directing me to suspend my departure till I received further instructions on this point. I propose to wait for them at this City; and will be glad to be the Bearer of letters which you proposed to commit to my care. General Bailey informs me that he...
4031Stephen Cathalan to Thomas Jefferson, 29 November 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Before this may Reach you, you will have been Informed by M r John Vaughan of Phil a that I acknowledged him by my Letters of the 8 th Sep ber Last & the 2 d Oct ber Receipt of his Letter of the 31 st July Inclosing one of the 30 th d
4032Gibson & Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson, 27 January 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
your letter of the 21 st we duly received & have as directed therein deposited $100 in the Bank of Virginia , to the credit of mr. James Hamilton of Williamboro’ n.C. —we likewise inclose you herein, a further sum of $100 .— mr Gibson is at present out of town, he will return in a few days Gibson & Jefferson ⅌ James Ligon RC ( ViU
4033Samuel Pleasants to Thomas Jefferson, 17 August 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeably to your request, I send you by the stage-driver, the Books ordered in your esteemed favor of the 11 th inst. I regret that my young man (in my absence) when making up the last package, omitted the 2 nd vol. of the Statutes at Large—it is now forwarded. I hope in the course of the ensuing fall to publish the 4 th vol. of this work, which shall be forwarded without delay. With the...
4034William D. Meriwether to Thomas Jefferson, 13 June 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of recommending to you M r Veltenair , who wishes to take likenesses from some of your busts, he is an ingenious artist, an excellent musician, and a person who I think merits attention RC ( MHi ); dateline at foot of text; endorsed by TJ as received 14 June 1811 and so recorded (with notation: “by Veltenair ”) in SJL . Christian veltenair was an itinerant artist, inventor,...
4035Alexander J. Dallas to Thomas Jefferson, 16 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
At the request of M r Isaac Briggs , I take the liberty of asking you to state your reccollection of the facts represented by that gentleman in the inclosed letter, relative to the subject of his Petition, referred by the Senate to this Department. I have the honor to be, with every Sentiment of respect and attachment, Sir, Y r mo. obed Sev t RC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “The Honble Thomas...
4036John Taggart to Thomas Jefferson, 15 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 15th Ulto I rec d and acording to Your Instructions have Shiped the Oil and Lead on bord the Schooner Jane Benoni Jackson Master bound for Richmond to the Care of Mess rs Gibson & Jefferson of that place She is Expected to Sale on the 17th Inst. You will find a bill Enclosed I wish the artickles may be pleasing to you— RC
4037Horatio Turpin to Thomas Jefferson, 2 July 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be handed you by M r W m Harris the Grandson of your Old Acquaintance Col o John Harris of the Mankin town who wishes to go on board of the Navy and if you could by a letter to the President be instrumental in Obtaining a birth for him he would be thankful to you to do so, he is a young Gentleman of good morals addicted to none of the prevalent vices & I think I can with Safety...
4038John Barnes to Thomas Jefferson, 4 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
On mature reflection I have thought, your paying for those four years passed 8 per C t Int—on Gen l K —$4,500 (transferred to your a/c with him ) —without being Allowed—on that Acco t the Amo t of an extra premium and expences the Gen l must have been at, in the purchase of some Other Public stock, that would immediately produce the like Interest, for Instance, the Bank of Col a
4039Thomas Leiper to Thomas Jefferson, 30 November 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Your very interesting letter of the 12 th June came duly to hand and I have again and again since put my opinions on record with a view of forwarding to you but I have been so completely mistaken in my conjectures respecting the issue of Bonaparte and the French nation that what I wrote one day I was obliged to blot out the next—But now my mind is made up respecting the people of that nation...
4040Archibald Thweatt to Thomas Jefferson, 4 January [1810] (Jefferson Papers)
In my answer to your favor of the 18 th ult I omitted to remind you that the Will of R.S. is most clearly admitted by the bill for it alleges “that the said R.S. made his testament and last will with all due solemnities bearing date the 15 th day of May 1759 , and in it he devises his whole estate real and personal to his wife Elizabeth and her heirs for ever” &c. However it will be better to...
4041William Short to Thomas Jefferson, 18 July 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of May 5. is the last I have had the pleasure of recieving from you. It crossed on the road one I wrote to you of May 7. This last was to inclose to you, as agreed on with M r Higginbotham , his mortgage & last bond. I hope & take for granted they were recieved by you & that M r H. has disposed of them to his satisfaction. I am the more certain of this, as he would certainly have...
4042Oliver Whipple to Thomas Jefferson, 29 March 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
You will pardon me for persuing y ou i nto the Shades of retirement: I do not wish to disturb your Repose; but to bring to your recollection, that there is a person now resident here (whose signature you will remember) who, tho’ he has no demands for the fullfilment of any specific promises, during your late administration, has some claims on your Friendship, and Generosity. You will certainly...
4043Elizabeth Trist to Thomas Jefferson, 10 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
In consiquence of a letter I received from my Daughter of 28 th August, in which She mentions that in the calamitous State of Orleans in consiquence of the inundation She had sent for the Boys home. and they do not wish to return to that place again which detirmines M r Tournillon to make every exertion in his power to send them to this section of the US in the Spring to finnish their...
4044Francis W. Gilmer to Thomas Jefferson, 1 November 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
My inclination to visit Philadelphia with Mr Correa which has been strengthened by every days acquaintance with h im has finally determined me to do so; and I must beg of you the favor which you were so kind as to promise, in giving me a letter to Doctr. Wistar . I am sensible, of the obligation which such a recommendation as yours will imp ose upon me of deserving it, & will promise my...
4045Charles Thomson to Thomas Jefferson, [by 7 January 1817] (Jefferson Papers)
I received your letter of January last when I was under a paralytic stroke but not Sensible of it. I felt no acute pain, and my Sight was as usual. I could read without spectacles but could not comprehend what I read, nor its connextion with what preceded or followed. I read your letter and was pleased. I made sundry attempts to answer it but in vain, and what at last I sent as an answer , I...
4046Thomas Williamson to Thomas Jefferson, 19 December 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
The above certificate was obtained from M r Hay for the purpose of deciding a Bet between M r M c Intosh and myself but not proving satisfactory to him, I must beg the favour of you to say whether you have not been in London —or whether you have even ever seen the present King of Great Britain —If the above information could have been got here, I should not have taken the liberty (which I beg...
4047John Fowler to Thomas Jefferson, 27 May 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Thomas Smith now a resident (and has been for many years) of this place intends to visit the neighbourhood of Richmond (Virginia) some time this summer and wish’s to pay his respects to you on his way thither. I beg leave to introduce him to your Acquaintance, He is an amiable intelligent Gentleman, Has been Uniformly a warm supporter of the Rights of our excellent Government, and will be...
4048John Wayles Eppes to Thomas Jefferson, 2 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Since M r Carr left us I have been confined at least two thirds of my time—I am at present confined to my room— During the whole winter I have been subject to relapses more or less violent and life at times has been felt almost as a burthen of which I would be willing on any terms to be released—My complaint has in every attack been confined to the same knee—which was for the first time...
4049George Hay to Thomas Jefferson, 15 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
It would have given me great pleasure, to have called on you, once more, before I left this place; but I could not do So, conveniently, without postponing my departure for one day. This postponement my engagements in Richmond forbid. I expect however to be here again in less than three weeks, and shall certainly, immediately after my return, pay my respects at Monticello .— I object to the...
4050George Greer to Thomas Jefferson, 9 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I on the 5 th Instant received a Letter from William Thornton Esq r City of Washington , Wishing me to forward for you such parts of Janes’s Domestic & factory Loom, & Such parts only as would require attention in the Construction. from which I inferr that the frame is not included M r Francis C Clopper of montgomery County in this State is proprietor of the patent right for the state of Virginia