1Thomas Jefferson to José Corrêa da Serra, 26 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 29. was recieved just as I was setting out for this place. I brought it with me to be answered hence. since you are so kind as to interest yourself for Cap t Lewis ’s papers , I will give you a full statement of them. 1. ten or twelve such pocket volumes, Marocco bound, as that you describe, in which, in his own hand writing, he had journalised all occurrences, day by day,...
2Thomas Jefferson to José Corrêa da Serra, 26 April 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 10 th by the delays of our winter post, is but just recieved and mine of the 19 th I presume reaches you about this time. they have passed each other by the way. I am sorry that your visit to us will be delayed until your return from Kentucky ; mais tout ce qui est differé n’est pas perdu ; and it will then and always be welcome. you promise also to call on us en passant....
3Thomas Jefferson to José Corrêa da Serra, 25 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I am highly gratified by the interest you take in our Central college , and the more so as it may possibly become an inducement to pass more of your time with us. it is even said you had thought of engaging a house in it’s neighborhood. but why another house? is not one enough? and especially one whose inhabitants are made so happy by your becoming their inmate? when you shall have a wife and...
4Thomas Jefferson to José Corrêa da Serra, 22 September 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived here the morning after we parted, to wit, yesterday morning, and I have this day written by mail to mr Rhea and Gov r Milledge : but I have thought it also safe to inclose in this letter a duplicate of that to Gov r Milledge , and put both under cover to mr Rhea , lest any miscarriage should happen to that sent by mail. there is no person in Georgia who can be so useful to you as mr...
5Thomas Jefferson to José Corrêa da Serra, 21 October 1819 (SJL description) (Jefferson Papers)
[ Monticello , 21 Oct. 1819 . SJL entry reads “ his visit. univers ty . botanic garden.” Letter not found.]
6Thomas Jefferson to José Corrêa da Serra, 5 June 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I had determined, my dear Sir, to have withdrawn at the close of this year to have withdrawn from all subscriptions to newspapers, and never to read another. but the National Intelligencer of the 1 st inst. has given me so much pleasure that I shall defer for a year longer my resolution. it announced your appointment from your new king , to be his minister to this country. if this is...
7Thomas Jefferson to José Corrêa da Serra, 20 July 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I returned from Poplar Forest about a week ago, and found here your favor of June 16. I learn with sincere regret your rheumatic indisposition; and the more as it strikes so directly at your summu n m bonum of botanical rambles. would it not be well to direct these towards the Augusta springs, which we consider as specific for that complaint? they are but about 80. or 90. miles from Monticello...
8Thomas Jefferson to José Corrêa da Serra, 11 April 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Since I had the pleasure of seeing you, I have learnt that you are about to leave us. considering myself only, this would fill me with regret; but my affection for you obliges me to suppress that selfish feeling, and to console myself with the assurance that you are appointed by your government to a high and important station, wherein you can do more good to your country, and more to our twin...
9Thomas Jefferson to José Corrêa da Serra, 28 June 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
When I learned that you proposed to give a course of Botanical lectures in Philadelphia , I feared it would retard the promised visit to Monticello . on my return from Bedford however on the 4 th inst. I recieved a letter from M. Dupont flattering me with the prospect that he and yourself would be with us so soon as my return should be known. I therefore in the instant wrote him of my return ,...
10Thomas Jefferson to José Corrêa da Serra, 24 October [1820] (Jefferson Papers)
Your kind letter, dear Sir, of Oct. 11. was handed to me by D r Cooper , and was the first correction of an erroneous belief that you had long since left our shores. such had been Col o Randolph ’s opinion, and his had governed mine. I recieved your Adieu with feelings of sincere regret, at the loss we were to sustain, and particularly of those friendly visits by which you had made me so...
11Thomas Jefferson to José Corrêa da Serra, 27 December 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 9 th has been duly recieved, & I thank you for the Recipe for imitating Puzzolane ; which I shall certainly try on my cisterns the ensuing summer. the making them impermeable to water is of great consequence to me. that one chemical subject may follow another, I inclose you two morsels of ore found in this neighborhood, & supposed to be of Antimony . I am not certain, but I...
12Thomas Jefferson to José Corrêa da Serra, 1 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I learnt, my dear Sir, with inexpressible concern, on my arrival at home, that my detention in Bedford had lost me the pleasure of your visit here. having heard nothing from you since our parting on the Natural bridge , I had supposed your return longer delayed than you had expected, and that even possibly your course might be so shaped as to take Poplar Forest in your way. I hungered for your...
13Thomas Jefferson to José Corrêa da Serra, 6 March 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I mentioned to you in a former letter that mr Say had asked of me information relative to the price of lands E t c. in the neighborhood of Charlottesville with a view to the removal of his family to this country. in the inclosed letter I have given him the best and fullest information I could, of every circumstance which might influence his judgment and final determination. altho’ I have...
14Thomas Jefferson to José Corrêa da Serra, 14 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
No one could recieve greater pleasure than I did at the proof that your sovereign set a due value on your merit, as manifested by the honorable duties assigned to you with us. but into this sentiment a little spice of egoism also thrust itself. as the appointment was to fix your residence almost in our vicinity, it gave me the hope of more frequently seeing you here. I trust that this hope...
15Thomas Jefferson to José Corrêa da Serra, 30 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
In the hope of recieving the annual visit as heretofore, I think it necessary to advise you of my future motions lest I should lose the benefit of it as befell me once before. on this day week I proceed to Poplar Forest where I shall continue to the 1 st of October , when the meeting of the visitors of the University will oblige me to return. perhaps that meeting may be an additional motive...
16Thomas Jefferson to José Corrêa da Serra, 17 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 6. was duly recieved, & with it the pamphlet of M. Thouïn on the subject of engrafting, for which be pleased to accept my thanks. should your curiosity lead you to visit this part of the US. as your letter gives me reason to hope, I shall be very happy to recieve you at Monticello , to express to you in person my great respect, and to recieve from yourself directly the...
17Thomas Jefferson to José Corrêa da Serra, 2 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
You have heard long ago that our legislature has passed the act for establishing their University at the Central college . we had hoped they would have accompanied it with an additional donation for erecting the necessary buildings. in this we are disappointed; and therefore are obliged to apply our funds generally to the erection of buildings for the accomodation of the Professors & Students,...
18Thomas Jefferson to José Corrêa da Serra, 10 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I set out tomorrow for Bedford , to return the first week in May. I note this to you because I have been flattered with your visit in May, and D r Cooper promised me he would accept your kind offer of a seat in your carriage. I wish you could be here some days before the 11 th of May , because on that day our Visitors meet and yourself and D r Cooper may, I am sure suggest to me so
19Thomas Jefferson to José Corrêa da Serra, 19 April 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Randolph first, and latterly mr Short have flattered me with the hope that you would pay us a visit with the returning season. I should sooner have pressed this but that my vernal visit to Bedfor d was approaching, and I wished to fix it’s precise epoch, before I should write to you. I shall set out now within a few days, and be absent probably all the month of May; and shall be very happy...