1From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 17 December 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Nov. 23 . came to hand yesterday. Three days after the date of mine of Oct. 16 . yours of Sep. 11 . came to hand, and very soon after I learnt the arrival of the nail machine at Richmond. I expect now every day to recieve it here, for such is the lax and careless mode of business in this state that both the time and insurance for getting any thing brought from Richmond here (70...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 18 June 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the receipt of your favor of April 30th . By that I observed you expected Mr. Burral to be shortly in New York and to give you further information on the subject of the machine for cutting nails. Without waiting for the further information, (as I am much pressed for nails) I am disposed to accept his offer of making a machine for 40. Dollars. The difference of a few dollars...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 2 April 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to you two or three posts ago, since which, the applications of my customers for 4d. nails have convinced me that I must make them, and experience of doing it on the anvil shews some other method must be tried. I have also recollected that at either Troy or some other little town up the Hudson I saw a man cutting the 4d. nails and that the implements were of very small cost, and not...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 11 March 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of Feb. 3 . and have to acknolege the safe receipt of the gongs, and thank you for your care of them. The threshing machine was also safely received very long ago, and I thought I had acknoleged it.—I am engaged in a nail manufactory , which I carry on altogether with my own boys, and am enlarging it as more and more of these grow up. I have 9 now at work, and...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 30 October 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
I received yesterday your friendly favor of the inst. and have to thank you for your attention to the gongs. There being two of them did not merit apology: I am glad to get them, and can find use for both. Be so good as to tender to Mr. Gouverneur my particular thanks for his attention to this little commission. I inclose you an order for 25. Dollars on Mr. Lownes of Philadelphia, which...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 9 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I am returned to this place about a week ago, the President having concluded to fix the Executive here till the meeting of Congress or till we shall see whether Philadelphia becomes safe. It is believed to be so now, insomuch that the refugee inhabitants are flocking into it. It is said there are no new subjects in the hands of the Physicians since the great rains. Some of those before...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 11 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of July 29. and Aug. 1. are now before me, and the inkpot was duly received, for which I return you a thousand thanks, for it is to me a great convenience. You did not mention the price, but I suppose it to be about 3. dollars (judging from the former one) and will not fail to replace it by the first person I can find passing. Schneider’s price is high. I must do the less in his...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 25 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I am extremely obliged to you for the trouble you have so kindly taken in my little commissions. Schneider did mention to me the price of 2. dollars a day, at the time I asked if he would go to Virginia to work for me, and I remember I thought it enormous, but at the same time concluded as the time of my employing him was very distant, it would be time enough to settle price when I should make...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 13 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I am to acknolege the receipt of your favor of Oct. 15. and to thank you for the medal it contained, which was the first I had seen.—You may remember that before your departure from this place I informed you of my intention to retire from my office in March next. Accordingly when I was in Virginia the last summer I put under way all the arrangements necessary for resuming my buildings the...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 7 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
You may remember that I troubled you with my letters of Mar. 18. to Messrs. Carmichael and Short, their instructions &c which you had written me word you could send to Amsterdam by a ship of Messrs. brothers Coster & co. which was to sail about the 21st. of March. By a letter from Mr. Short dated Amsterdam July 20. he had not yet recieved them, and being anxious on the subject had enquired of...