4861Thomas Newton to Thomas Jefferson, 7 August 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Rich d E Lee of Norfolk a friend of mine, is on a visit to that part of the State in which you reside— He feels desirous of calling on you before he leaves it—as he is not personally acquainted with you permit me to make you acquainted with him. M r Lee is a firm republican—you will find him intelligent and devoted to the interest & honor of our Common Country—I remain with great RC (...
4862New York State Legislature to Thomas Jefferson, 24 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The legislature of the state of New York , on the occasion of your voluntary retirement to the shades of private life, from the office of chief magistrate of the United States , cannot, without injustice to their feelings refrain from expressing their respect for your exalted character, their gratitude for your public services, and their best wishes for your personal happiness. Like your great...
4863John Nicholas to Thomas Jefferson, 12 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
John Nicholas also presents his Comp lts to M r Jefferson , & informs him that he saw his Sister, M rs Marks , a few days ago, who requested him to inform desire M r J—
4864Wilson Cary Nicholas to Thomas Jefferson, 3 August 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your letter of the 15 th of July by my servant messenger. Circumstanced as you were and indeed as M r Appleton , is, I regret extremely that I gave you the trouble of the application I made . I am sure you will believe I cou’d have had no wish that a deserving man shou’d be removed from office to make way for my son , and that the last thing that I cou’d have expected or wished was...
4865Wilson Cary Nicholas to Thomas Jefferson, 18 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inform you that you are appointed one of the Visitors of the Central College in Albemarle , and to forward you the enclosed commission . It is hoped that it will not be inconvenient for you to undertake the execution of this office. RC ( DLC ); in a clerk’s hand, signed by Nicholas ; at foot of text: “ Thomas Jefferson , Esq.”; endorsed by TJ as received 31 Oct. 1816 and so...
4866Wilson Cary Nicholas to Thomas Jefferson, 24 February 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
The situation that I have been in for some time past has prevented my answering your last letter and making my acknowledgements for your friendly attention to M r Armistead . I have the pleasure to inform you, your application procured M r A. an appointment that if he is prudent will enable him to support his family. A long and intimate acquaintance with you has given me a thorough knowledge...
4867Wilson Cary Nicholas to Thomas Jefferson, 1 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I expected for some time past to have the pleasure of seeing you tomorrow, but I cannot venture from home, until I have securd my wheat. I shou’d have finished my harvest yesterday but for the wet weather last week. I have yet 150 acres to cut. I suspect nine or ten shillings a bushel has been given for wheat to be delivered early. wou’d it not be well for us to embrace that price? I shou’d...
4868Wilson Cary Nicholas to Thomas Jefferson, 8 November 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I am very much obliged to you for allowing me to read your letters to M r Eppes . I have done it with great satisfaction and attention. Your letters contain the ablest system of finance that I believe cou’d be devised, if the U.S. were now to commence their financial operations, with all the powers of the State and Gen l Governments and we were free from prejudices against paper money and the...
4869Wilson Cary Nicholas to Thomas Jefferson, 22 March 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
With the most anxious desire to serve my country I fear my ability will not be commensurate with my wishes. The last assembly , had as little mercy in the labour they assigned me, as they showed discernment in the selection of an agent. There are some of the duties I have to perform, that, I feel myself entirely incompetent to and shou’d be quite in despair, but for the hope of obtaining your...
4870Wilson Cary Nicholas’s Circular to the County Courts, 12 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
The “ Act to provide an accurate Chart of each County and a general Map of the Territory of this Commonwealth,” directs the Executive “to cause such surveys to be made of the exterior boundaries of the Commonwealth, as may be necessary to ensure greater accuracy in the details of the preceding Charts where they present the boundaries of adjacent States, and to cause such surveys to be made of...
4871Wilson Cary Nicholas to Thomas Jefferson, 14 July 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Most unexpectedly to me, my son Robert , writes me from Washington , “ that he had received such proposals in Baltimore , as induced him to determine to go immediately to Leghorn & to settle at that place. He says “it wou’d add very much to my prospects to be appointed Consul for the U.S. at Leghorn .” will you my Dear Sir, add to the obligations that I am under to you by interesting yourself...
4872Wilson Cary Nicholas to Thomas Jefferson, 25 May 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had a severe attack of the rheumatism, which has prevented my going to Washington , I am now better and I hope in four or five days to be able to set out if there is a necessity for my going. Will you do me the favour to give me your opinion as to the probability of the duration of the present session? It does not seem to me that any legislative measure wou’d now be necessary or proper...
4873Wilson Cary Nicholas to Thomas Jefferson, 6 August 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this moment heard that the doctor, who attends your brother left his house last night, under a belief he cou’d not live many hours. It is reported he has lately made a will; by which he has given the whole of his property , except, about six hundred acres of his back land, and eight or ten negroes to his wife in fee simple. I thought I owed it to you to give you this information as it...
4874Enclosure: Commission Appointing Central College’s Board of Visitors, 18 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Virginia , to wit:— Whereas, by an Act of the General Assembly , Passed the 14 h day of February 1816, intitled, “An act for establishing a College in the County of Albemarle ,” it is made the duty of the Governor for the time being, as Patron of the said College , to appoint Visitors thereof—Therefore, I, Wilson C. Nicholas , Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia , do, in pursuance of the...
4875Wilson Cary Nicholas to Thomas Jefferson, 4 February 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I was excessively mortified two days ago, to find in my possession a letter written on the 20 th of Dec r in answer to your favour of the 16 th of that month . I am the more distressed lest you shou’d suppose from my silence I had not received as I ought the reproof it contained. Admonitions from you, I shall ever consider as proofs of your friendship and I beg you to be assured, there does...
4876Wilson Cary Nicholas to Thomas Jefferson, 18 July 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
But for Macon , who thinks no man honest or independent, who does not abuse his friends, the law to permit letters from you to be franked wou’d have had an unnanimous vote, notwithstanding his opposition the vote was nearly so. There was no opportunity to mention the prosecutions while I stayed in Washington , I had several conversations with Granger , his recollection of the circumstances did...
4877Wilson Cary Nicholas to Thomas Jefferson, 16 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Large appropriations have been made for internal p improvements & I expect the literary fund will be increased several hundred thousand dollars. I am sure the application of public money to these objects will meet your approbation. You are made one of the Directors of public works . I took the liberty (thinking it cou’d not be agreeable to you to serve) to suggest it was unreasonable to impose...
4878Julian Ursin Niemcewicz to Thomas Jefferson, 4 September 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Being constantly mindful of my Citizen Ship of the United States of America , grateful for the Attentions which I have received in that Country, from You Sir & my other friends, desireous of conveing on our Society the honor of reckning You in its Number I took the Liberty to propose You for a Member of the Royal Society, of the friends of Sciences in Warsaw , & have the pleasure to anounce to...
4879Hezekiah Niles to Thomas Jefferson, 30 June 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
The president ’s messa ge communicating the disclosures of Henry was printed in no 28, page 19, vol 2, of the Reg. But I take pleasure to enclose no 29, which is missing . RC ( DLC ); mutilated at fold; endorsed by TJ as received 5 July 1815. Enclosure: Baltimore Weekly Register 2, no. 29 (21 Mar. 1812). The Baltimore Weekly Register 2, no. 28 (14 Mar. 1812), devoted most of its space to the...
4880Hezekiah Niles to Thomas Jefferson, 24 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Assured that it will afford you pleasure to notice any improvement in what, perhaps, may be called the household arts , I enclose a small piece of a preparation just offered for sale in our city for the purpose of clarifying coffee, as well as wines & other liquors. I have tried it for the former, And it completely answers the purpose—a piece an inch square is the quantity for a gallon,...
4881Hezekiah Niles to Thomas Jefferson, 1 October 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
[ Ed. Note : In SJL on 6 Oct. 1811 TJ recorded receipt of a letter written five days earlier in Baltimore by “R. Niles.” TJ’s reply to Niles of 14 Oct. 1811 is also recorded in SJL . While neither of these letters has come to light, their contents can be conjectured. On 29 Oct. 1813 TJ sent Hezekiah Niles, the editor of the Baltimore Weekly Register , $15 for a “3. years subscription” to his...
4882Hezekiah Niles to Thomas Jefferson, 23 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
you may have observed a proposition of a correspondent , publïshed in the Weekly Register of the 23rd ult. as to a collection of Speeches, &c. belonging to the period of our revolution. I have reason to believe it comes from one of the first men of our country, & it has excited no little attention. Be pleased to refer to it. The collection being So loudly called for, I shall attempt to make...
4883Noël de la Morinière to Thomas Jefferson, 5 February 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai l’honneur de vous adresser le Programme de l’ Histoire des poissons utiles , dont je vous prie de faire agréer l’hommage à l’illustre Société des Sciences de Philadelphie . Pour imprimer à cet ouvrage le degré de perfection, qu’il est Susceptible d’acquerir, j’aurais besoin de quelques renseignements sur les poissons des rivieres et de mer de l’Amérique Septentrionale . la Société des...
4884Opie Norris to Thomas Jefferson, 19 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I am informed that you wish to lease the Shadwell Mills , for another term of years, after the Shoemakers lease is out, I wish to rent them, provided, I can get the Shoemakers to give up the balance of their lease, If you will lease the Mills to me, for 4 years after their term Expires—at the same rent, that the Mills are rented to the Shoemakers , that is to say, Twelve hundred & fifty...
4885John Norvell to Thomas Jefferson, 5 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your liberality and goodness will pardon the liberty I take in addressing this note to you. Believing that if you can be satisfied of my reputation and real character as a moral and honest young man, and of my competency to fill the situation of a clerk in one of the departments, you will be kind enough to interest yourself in my favor, I beg leave to solicit your patronage, in procuring a...
4886Joshua Norvell to Thomas Jefferson, 15 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Remotely situated from the seat of political information, relating to the interests of the gov t of the U.S. the people in this Quarter at all times feel much at a loss on subjects of general concernment. There is, however, a topic (in which considerable feeling is expressed) lately come into discussion; and about the policy or impolicy of the provisions of government concerning much...
4887James Ogilvie to Thomas Jefferson, 16 March 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty to enclose a printed paper containing a brief outline of a literary enterprise, on the execution of which I have entered, in the College of Columbia .—It would I trust be quite impertinent to Say how gratifying and acceptable to me, the communication of any idea that may occur to you during its perusal, would will be:—You will particularly oblige me, by mentioning the French...
4888James Ogilvie to Thomas Jefferson, 24 May 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
At the time, my dear Sir, when I am about to suspend for many months, the prosecution of the design I have undertaken: for the purpose of more systematic preparation, I cannot deny myself the pleasure of troubling you with a few lines.— During the progress of my rapid and extensive excursion, altho’ the concentrated enthusiasm, which my pursuit excited, necessarily occasioned an almost...
4889James Ogilvie to Thomas Jefferson, [ca. 5 August 1814] (Jefferson Papers)
This speculation on Neology appears to me equally valuable & new: It perfectly concurs with the opinion I was led to form, when I had occasion to examine this subject several years ago: Language & especially the modern languages of civilised nations are necessarily in a state of incessant mutation & flux: As new discoveries are made new terms must be provided to express designate these...
4890James Ogilvie to Thomas Jefferson, 24 November 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to thank you for a letter , which had I wanting wanted any additional motives to stimulate my exertions during my temporary seclusion from the world, would have supplied them.—Accept my cordial thanks for the benevolent interest in my future welfare & usefulness you have done me the honour to express, coupled with an assurance, that I shall endeavour to deserve a continuance of your...