1131Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Waterhouse, 3 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just recieved your favor of Feb. 20. in which you observe that mr Wirt , in pa. 47. of his Life of Patrick Henry , quotes me as saying that ‘ mr Henry certainly gave the first impulse to the ball of revolution.’ I well recollect to have used some such expression in a letter to him; and am tolerably certain that, our own state being the subject under contemplation, I must have used it...
1132Benjamin Henry Latrobe to Thomas Jefferson, 7 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived here with my family on the 12 h of Jan y and a few days afterwards was taken ill of my old complaint, the Hemicran i a , a complaint in which no one, I believe, can more heartily sympathise with me than yourself, as I believe you are often severely afflicted with it. I was confined to my room for three weeks. Immediately on my recovery I was called to Annapolis to examine the bar at...
1133Thomas Jefferson to John Martin Baker, 9 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Feb. 18. found me suffering under an attack of rheumatism which has but just now left me at sufficient ease to attend to letters recieved. this rendered it impossible to have made in time the application you requested to the President, even could it have been made properly. but after the considerations I had urged on him when here, and the dispositions he expressed I could not...
1134Thomas Jefferson to David Gelston, 9 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
In your letter of Feb. 6. you were so kind as to inform me that you had that day shipped my wines on board the schooner Brilliant , Cap t Black , belonging to Richmond . having heard nothing of her since, and that date having been followed by a month of dreadful weather , I am become quite uneasy lest some accident should have befallen her. it is to relieve this that I trouble you to say in a...
1135Wilson Cary Nicholas to Thomas Jefferson, 9 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
a M r Coffee , a sculptor of great eminence who is here, is very anxious to go to your house to take your Bust: I have promised him I wou’d make his wishes known to you. He is said to be a master in his art: Your friends feel a solicitude you shou’d indulge him . nothing can be more acceptable to the american people, than the preservation of the likeness of those of our Citizens, most...
1136Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 9 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 6 th day of Feb. mr Gelston of N. York shipped for me at that place a supply of wines from Marseilles on board the schooner Brilliant , Cap t Black , belonging to Richmond , addressing them to mess rs Gibson & Jefferson
1137Thomas Jefferson to Peter Jefferson Archer, 10 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Feb. 8. was long on the road & found me suffering under an attack of Rheumatism, which has but now left me at sufficient ease to attend to letters which have been recieved. these occasional infirmities, with the lethargising advance of years, render me dayly daily less and less qualified to pursue any continued object; and I have no doubt therefore that you have younger friends,...
1138Thomas Jefferson to Edward Graham, 10 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I am indebted to you for your favor of Jan. 24. and the courses of my lands at the Natural bridge . I will certainly be there in autumn with a view to the running and settling my lines with my neighbors, and shall ask your assistance; but as there is no reason why you should lie till then out of the fee for your past service, I now inclose you a five dollar bill, which I trust will go safe by...
1139Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Henry (of Rockbridge County), 10 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Having recieved no answer from D r Thornton to my offers to let him off of the lease of the Bridge , I consider the lease as continuing. I pray you therefore to do nothing with any of his works in consequence of my conversations with you while I expected he would give up the lease and to consider those works as still at his sole command. I shall certainly be with you in autumn to get my lines...
1140Thomas Jefferson to Philip Thornton, 10 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
On a visit to the Natural bridge the last summer I learnt that you had, for some time, suspended the manufacture of shot at that place. supposing therefore you might wish to get rid of the lease, I wrote you from Poplar Forest on the 17 th of Aug. that, if you chose it to surrender it, it might be considered as having ended on whatever day you had shut up the manufacture. having recieved no...