1Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 16 October 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Either inaccurate expression in myself, or the misapp r ehension of a friend to whom I had communicated my former letters on our finances , having obliged me to write another in explanation, I inclose you a copy of it because you had taken the trouble to read the others. I should wish this to be seen by those to whom you had communicated the former, lest they also should have misapprehended...
2Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 30 September 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of the 23 d an important fact escaped me which, lest it should not occur to you, I will mention. the monies arising from the sales of the glebe lands in the several counties, have generally I believe, and under the sanction of the legislature, been deposited in some of the banks. so also the funds of the literary society. these debts, altho’ parcelled among the counties, yet the...
3Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 31 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letters of the 23 d and 24 th come to hand just in the moment of the return of our mail. I have only therefore time to inclose the Conveyances for which Miller’s bill is hung up. I had no doubt but that he had deposited them with the other papers. friendly salutations. RC ( ViU: TJP ); dateline at foot of text; endorsed by Cabell. For the enclosed conveyances
4Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 3 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I am afraid I have kept your papers longer than you expected. mr Randolph ’s absence till within these two days has been the cause of it. they are valuable documents , and are now returned. with respect to the copy of my letter , I know it is safe in your hands, and I rely on your effectual care that it be kept out of the public papers. affectionately your’s RC ( ViU: TJP ); at foot of text: “...
5Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 1 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
A member of a family to which I have been much attached by long intimacies sollicits my asking the notice attention of some of my friends to his petition before the legislature . he is the Viscount Barziza , youngest of two sons of Count Barziza of Venice by the only daughter & heiress of the late mrs Paradise , who was the daughter of Col o
6Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 14 July 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
You have sometimes thought my political ramblings worth the time and trouble of reading. I inclose you one a letter lately written on a subject now much agitated in our state . I will ask the favor of it’s early return by mail as I have no other copy. I salute you with friendship & respect. RC ( ViU: TJP ); dateline at foot of text; addressed: “ Joseph C. Cabell esq. Warminster ”; franked;...
7Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 5 January 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I learn by the newspapers that a petition has been presented to the legislature by the Rivanna company praying an enlargement of their powers. as these are to be executed wholly within my lands, and almost solely over my property, and have not hitherto been exercised by with much forbearance as to the injury to which they expose me, it becomes necessary for me while they ask for power, for me...
8Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 28 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
You enquire whether Say has ever been translated into English? I am certain he never has in America , nor do I believe he has in England . I have never seen his work named in their catalogues or advertisements nor do I believe it has been noticed by the Edinburgh reviewers. nor have they noticed the Review of Montesquieu , altho Duane sent them a copy. you will render this country a great...
9Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 27 June 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a letter from Judge Cooper of Pensylvania , a political refugee with D r Priestley from the fires & mobs of Birmingham . he is one of the ablest men in America , & that in several branches of science. the law opinion which he mentions, I have recieved, and a more luminous one has not been seen. it will produce a revolution of opinion on the question treated. not in the present...
10Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 13 July 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for Maine ’s recipe for preparing the haw, inclosed in your favor of the 4 th . I really thought it lost with him, and that the publication of it would be a public benefit. I do not know that his hedgethorn is to be found wild but in the neighborhood of Washington . he chose it, I think, for it’s beauty. I have extensive hedges of it, which I have too much neglected. the parts well...