2611To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 6 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
As I am extremely solicitous to avoid any misapprehension of my letter of the 30th ulto., I have now the honor of stating to you, in explanation of that part of it, to which you have adverted in yours of yesterday, that, although (as I formerly mentioned, in my first conversations with you, after my arrival in this country) I am not as yet empowered to conclude any definitive arrangement, with...
2612From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 5 October 1794 (Madison Papers)
On my return to Orange I dropped you a few lines on the subject of the deer. On my way into this part of the Country I passed Col. John Thornton of Culpeper, who has a Park, and will spare you with pleasure two or three, if you can not be otherwise supplied. He thinks he could by advertizing a premium of 10 or 12 dollars a head procure from his neighbors as many fawns to he delivered at...
2613To Thomas Jefferson from Adam Lindsay, 7 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Norfolk, 7 Apr. 1791 . He has TJ’s of the 17th ult. and is happy his papers arrived safe.—The myrtle candles desired are plentiful in fall but not to be got at this season, the weather being too warm to make them mold. With some difficulty he has got 54 ℔. at an advanced price of 20⅌℔ more than they would bring in the fall. He can procure any quantity TJ desires in that season. “Our spring...
2614To Thomas Jefferson from James Currie, 3 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Richmond, 3 Oct. 1791. He has learned from Colo. Randolph that TJ’s visit to Monticello will be too brief to afford him time to pay his respects and extend personal thanks for TJ’s assistance in helping him recover the debt John Griffin owes him. Griffin wrote him from Baltimore on 15 Sept., complaining of “the infamous conduct of those to whom he had confided his principal affairs and...
2615To Thomas Jefferson from William Hay, 3 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Altho’ I am fully sensible that your Office of Secretary of State employs your whole Attention, yet as you have at all Times shewed a great willingness to aid and encourage young Gentlemen in the prosecution of their Studies, I cannot help begging your Advice to the Bearer Mr. Bennet Taylor a Nephew of Mrs. Hay’s. His Father, in conformity with the Sons Inclination, intends him for the...
2616To Thomas Jefferson from John Nancarrow, 9 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
On dipping into the second Vol. of Desaguliers’ experimental Philos . I find that his 5th. size Engine which worked with 22 men, threw Water to the height of 55 yards or 165 feet, which if I am not mistaken exceeds the largest Engines made in Philada. altho’ a greater number of hands were employed. The Machine of Newsham in England expended 870 Gallons per minute with 22 men and the largest in...
2617To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 8 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Coxe has the honor to inclose to Mr. Jefferson an abstract from the general imports, intended to exhibit the quantum of manufactured supplies, which each foreign nation has the benefit of selling to the United States. The estimate is formed on a presumption that all the ad valorem articles from Europe and the E. Indies are Manufactures. This is almost universally true, and if it varies in...
2618To Thomas Jefferson from Mann Page, 3 July 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been requested to forward to you the enclosed Letter, which, as it relates to a subject, that I know, has long engaged your Attention, will, I am sure, be favourably received by you. I also send you a Publication in the Paper of this Day on the same Subject by the same Gentleman. If any thing can draw you from your Retirement, I am confidint that the Solicitation now made will not be...
2619To Thomas Jefferson from John Barret, Benjamin Harrison, Jr., and James Heron, 6 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The Mayor of this City has handed to us your favor of the 27th. Ulto., we have had a meeting to day and taken the proper Steps to communicate your Information to the different trading Towns of this State. That meeting have directed us (their Committee) to make our acknowledgements to Government for it’s Attention to our Interests, and to thank you for the Polite communication, these Orders we...
2620To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 27 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor of writing to you by the last post inclosing the gazettes of Leyden to go by the packet, as well also this letter if it arrives in time in London—it contains also two of the same gazettes. That of to day affirms the object of Mr. Jenkinson’s voyage with more positiveness than the general opinion seems to warrant. Whatever may be the future intentions of England, there seems as...