6631Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 11 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I hand you inclosed sales of your 67 bls: flour N t Prds $484.90 at your credit, also copy of your acco t Cur t to this day balanced by $375.25 to your debit and lest something may occur to cause me to neglect it at the proper time I inclose you two notes, for renewal of those due next month— I have received a small box of seeds from Alexandria , will you be pleased to direct the disposal of...
6632John H. Cocke to Thomas Jefferson, 10 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Correct opinions in the liberal arts being the result of more cultivation than has fallen to my lot, and having the highest confidence in your taste in Architecture, I have taken the liberty to desire M r Neilson to call on you with the plan of my Building for the purpose of consulting you upon some points which he will explain:—not doubting, that such a trespass upon your valuable time will...
6633Thomas Lehré to Thomas Jefferson, 10 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
By yesterday , and this days mail, I have Sent you three of the daily papers of this City by which you will see how grateful even our rising generation are towards you. It is with the greatest pleasure I inform you, that I have of late received letters from a number of your old friends in various parts of this State, in which they express a great desire to know whether I can inform them of the...
6634Thomas Jefferson to John Wharton (1771–1845), 10 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I had formerly occasion to consider with attention Oliver Evans ’s right to a patent for his elevators, conveyers, and hopper boys, and satisfied my self that the elevator had and conveyor had been in use some thousand years. of the hopper boy I found no evidence but I was afterwards assured that it had been invented in Maryland and Pensylvania and in use some years before the date of Evans ’s...
6635Thomas Lehré to Thomas Jefferson, 9 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have taken the liberty of Sending you the enclosed paper , by which you will see, that your Republican friends here, at the celebration of our National Independence, have not failed, to give you, as one of our standing Toasts.— With my best wishes for your Welfare and happiness through life RC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ as received 19 July 1818 and so recorded in SJL . For the enclosed paper ,...
6636John Wharton (1771–1845) to Thomas Jefferson, 8 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Jefferson , will Oblige a Friend, in giving his Opinion upon the Subject of Oliver Evans s Pattent Rights, Particularly his Hopperboy; Whether under the act of Congress he can Claim unlimited Damages—or Whether he is the Inventer of the Hopperboy—or Whether there was a Renewal of the patent right of the Hopperboy . Your answer to those Enquireries together with any other information upon...
6637Brett Randolph to Thomas Jefferson, 7 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
In the year 1801 , I improvidently abandoned a lease of 14 years upon a farm in this County in the expectation of being appointed to an office in Frederick’sburg where I unavoidably remained untill I had nearly exhausted my small pecuniary resources—and unfortunately, soon after I had resumed the occupation of a farmer, the times became unfavorable and I have been for several years struggling...
6638Thomas Jefferson to Wilson Cary Nicholas, 6 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
The letter to mr Dandridge which you intrusted to me, I delivered the next morning to mr Hunter to be put into the post office at Concord , a mile from his house . he promised to do it the same day himself, and said the stage would take it on this day, and deliver it in Richmond on the 8 th which I trust will be done. certain that I shall not suffer in your hands, I administer to this...
6639Thomas Jefferson to Richard N. Thweatt, 6 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have for some months been expecting a cask of Scupernon wine which mr Burton of N. Carolina was so kind as to procure for me. I have not heard from mr Burton himself thro’ what channel he forwarded it, but Francis Eppes tells me he thinks it was either addressed to your care or to that of mr Johnson a merchant of Petersburg . I take the liberty of troubling you with this enquiry, and with...
6640Robert Walsh to Thomas Jefferson, 6 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Not being able to resist my itch for scribbling, I have undertaken, in concert with Judge Cooper and a gentleman of New York , to contribute to a magazine of which I take the liberty of sending you two Numbers . The first article of each is of my doing , and the “Reflections on the Institutions of the Cherokees” are from the pen of M r F. Gilmer so well known, and so piously attached, to you....