441Thomas Jefferson to James P. Cocke, 24 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I am so anxious to save a year, by taking advantage of the present spawning season, not yet over, that I send the bearer to take the chance of your being able by some means to catch some chubs and the rather as his time is not very valuable: insomuch that if a detention of 2. or 3. days could secure my object, I will I should think it more than an equivalent for his time. I suppose that if...
442Thomas Jefferson to John H. Cocke, 1 October 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Cocke and acknoleges the reciept of eight ewes by his servant, two on his own account and six for Col o Fontaine , and hopes in the ensuing season to be able to return them 4. half blooded Merinos, of the produce of the same ewes. he begs leave to assure mr Cocke of his great esteem & respect. RC ( ViU : TJP-Co ); dateline at foot of text;...
443Thomas Jefferson to John H. Cocke, 23 October 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I am thankful for the indulgence of your kind letter of Aug. 27. and happy in being now able to forward you an order on my correspondents in Richmond for the price of the horse you were so good as to let me have. I find him really valuable, and in the carriage particularly excellent, so as to be entirely contented with him. Our intelligence from abroad gives us reason to expect a long state of...
444Thomas Jefferson to John H. Cocke, 5 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I had expected long ere this that the sale of my flour in the hands of Mess rs Gibson & Jefferson in Richmond would have enabled me to send you an order on them for the price of the horse you were so kind as to furnish me with: and the rather as I had desired mr Gibson , as I informed you, to sell it for whatever he could get, & this I have been constantly repeating & expecting. but by our...
445Thomas Jefferson to John H. Cocke, 28 July 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
The servant who delivered your letter will recieve 4. ram lambs, 3 of them from the half dozen ewes you sent, the other in commutation for 2. ewes sent by Col o Fontaine , but which I am sure he never saw, as they were such miserable half grown, diminutive animals that I could not permit them to run with my flock, and sent them to another place. I send a lamb from my own ewes however in...
446Thomas Jefferson to John H. Cocke, 12 March 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Cocke, whose servant is desired to take as many Broom plants as he pleases, but having never found them to succeed by transplantation, he sends him some seed, which generally succeeds, altho sometimes it does not come up till the second spring.— he sends him also a little seed of the Sprout Kale , a plant he recieved from The National garden of...
447Thomas Jefferson to John H. Cocke, 19 April 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Patterson , and my grandson T. J. Randolph inform me you have a dark bay horse which you are disposed to sell at the price of 50.£ and which, from their description would suit me. they speak of him as a steady carriage horse, and a tolerable riding horse. if their information as to your purposes of selling him be right, I shall be glad to recieve him by the bearer , with the privilege of...
448Thomas Jefferson to William Cocke, 17 April 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved, my good old friend, your favor of Feb. 24. and rejoice to find you can still undertake distant military expeditions. it does not want much of 40. years since we were first together in the Virginia legislature. you are approaching therefore, what I have attained, the limits of the Psalmist , who says ‘the days of our years are three score years and ten.’ yet I hope it will be...
449Thomas Jefferson to John S. Cogdell, 29 September 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Cogdell , and his thanks for the copy of mr Cheves’s oration which he was so kind as to send him, and which he has read with pleasure. it is a very satisfactory specimen of sentiments & of talents worthy of being employed on the national theatre, and promising there a more general usefulness. he prays mr Cogdell’s acceptance of his acknolegements,...
450Thomas Jefferson to Edward Coles, 13 October 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I let lent to mr Barlow a great collection of newspapers pamphlets E t c in several large boxes, which on his departure he informed me he had deposited in the President’s house . I have therefore to request the favor of you to assist me in getting them back again. vessels are so constantly passing from Washington to Richmond that I presume there can be no difficulty in finding one which will...