401Thomas T. Hewson to Thomas Jefferson, 20 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The American Philosophical Society having received thro’ you communications from M r Warden , M r Lambert & M r Treat , I am directed by the
402Citizens of Richmond to Thomas Jefferson, [20 October 1809] (Jefferson Papers)
A number of the citizens of Richmond , being informed of your arrival in this City, have assembled to testify their respect, and to welcome you to the metropolis of your native State. Deeply impressed with a conviction of the important and distinguished services which you have rendered to your country, this meeting would deem itself as deficient in principle as in gratitude, were it not to...
403Augustin François Silvestre to Thomas Jefferson, 20 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Je profite de l’occasion que m’offre le retour en amérique de l’aviso The happy Return , pour vous envoyer le 11 e volume des mémoires de la Société d’agriculture , que j’avais eu l’honneur de vous annoncer par ma dernière lettre du 8 juin. je desire qu’il vous offre quelque intérêt et que vous y reconnaissiez la persévérance des efforts de la Société pour le perfectionnement de l’art...
404John Tyler to Thomas Jefferson, 20 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The Governor’s respects to M r Jefferson and begs leave to inform him that the Council of State and many Gentlemen wish his Company at the Eagle Tavern to morrow 4’ OClock. If this be agreeable to him he will please to signify his inclination, and in that Case he will be good enough to dine with the Gov r the next day with his Companions RC ( DLC ); dateline at foot of text; addressed: “M r...
405Henry Banks to Thomas Jefferson, 21 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor, herewith to send you, a publication relating to the Manufactory of Arms. Upon perusal you will find a development of a greater tissue of fraud and folly than has ever been before exhibited in this country. Altho many of the guilty persons are unmasked yet there are others, and it is with regret that I speak it, who deserve to be equally exposed. To you it must be obvious that...
406Alexander McRae to Thomas Jefferson, 21 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
IT IS but a poor return I make for the friendship you have shewn to me, when I put you on your guard against a scoundrel. If your leisure had permitted, it was my intention this day, in the course of conversation, to have communicated the information I shall now give you, and I would yet prefer a verbal communication, because it might be more full and satisfactory, than it can now be, writing...
407St. George Tucker to Thomas Jefferson, 21 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Will M r Jefferson have the goodness to accept the enclosed Attempt , from the pen of one who has not for more than thirty years thought of a composition in Latin, as a small tribute of the most sincere respect, esteem; and as a Testimony of the best wishes of his friend. RC ( DLC ); dateline at foot of text; endorsed by TJ as received 21 Oct. 1809 and so recorded in SJL . St. George Tucker...
408William W. Hening to Thomas Jefferson, 22 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have now the pleasure of presenting to you the first volume of the Statutes at Large, which was published on yesterday, only. In the execution of this work I have had to encounter many difficulties; but I have spared no pains to render it as perfect as possible. The typography is the best that could be procured in this place, where I was compelled to publish it, for the purpose of revising...
409Alexander Burot to Thomas Jefferson, 23 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Ce n’est point à M r Thomas Jefferson président des États unis , dont le nom Sera à Jamais Celebre dans les deux hémispheres, pour avoir su allier les qualités Sublimes de L’homme d’État, avec les vertus du Citoyen, que je m’adresse; c’est à M r Jefferson habitant, planteur de Virginie et pere de famille au quel j’ay L’honneur d’avoir recours dans L’infortune. par Suitte des malheurs de S t...
410William Eustis to Thomas Jefferson, 25 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Arriving at the seat of Government a few days since I find your very kind letter of the 6 th instant . Be pleased to receive my grateful acknowlegement of the favorable terms in which you express your approbation of my appointment to an office, the arduous duties of which I wish it was in my power more satisfactorily to discharge. In my native state and in New Hampshire I derived great...
411Samuel Greenhow to Thomas Jefferson, 25 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
You executed two declarations for assurance some time past, which were delivered at this Office by the S. Agent M r Dawson ; with verbal Instructions, that, they should not be recorded until you directed it.—As there were no written Instructions to hold them up, I did not wish to take them into my Keeping, since it is my duty to record every declaration on receipt of it, & to address a letter...
412Lafayette to Thomas Jefferson, 26 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I wish I might make use of the present Opportunity to tell You the Conditions of the peace Lately made with Austria —But Last Evening, the first members of Government knew no more of it than myself— I am Returning to La Grange —the Emperor is Expected this day at fontainebleau , and if the Vessel is Somewhat detained, G al Armstrong will Be able to write the particulars of the treaty. inclosed...
413David Bailie Warden to Thomas Jefferson, 27 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the pleasure of writing to you by the Wasp sloop of war, and of sending you several brochures. I am instructed, by the Secretary of the agricultural Society , to send you the last volume of their transactions. I inclose a map which the author beg you to accept. more than twenty American vessels, with rich cargoes, have been lately carried to different ports of France , Holland , and...
414Zadok Cramer to Thomas Jefferson, 30 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty, and the pleasure at the same, of transmitting a copy of a new spelling for thy inspection—It is totally of domestic materials of the western country, and will give thee an idea of our progress in the book manufactury, west of the mountains With high respect for thy Services to the United States , and for the compliment thou paid me on a former occasion RC ( MHi ); endorsed...
415Thomas Lomax to Thomas Jefferson, 30 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
By the Carriage, which I now send up for my Daughter , you will receive some filbert Cions, and Nuts, as well as the Juboli , and Acacia , the latter I have been obliged to lay in a flat Box, as the weight of those, out of which they were taken, I was afraid would be too heavy, and dangerous to be put into the Carriage. They will I hope reach you in safety, to be placed in other Boxes. The...
416James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 30 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
In the operation of removing from my former quarters, the Digest of the City Code & business , which you had been so good as to furnish me, has, by some unaccountable accident, been either lost, or possibly so thrown out of place, as not to be found. I have written to M r Capt: Coles , to take Monticello in his way, and ask the favor of you to permit him to take another copy, from your...
417Gideon Fitz to Thomas Jefferson, 1 November 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
My personal acquaintance with you and the kind attention you have been pleased to bestow on me in my outsetting in life is my apology for the freedom I take in offering you the following remarks. This is the third letter I have ventured to trouble you with relative to the adjustment of the land claims in this country.—It is with diffidence I write it, though I have long been convinced, that it...
418Elias Glover to Thomas Jefferson, 1 November 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Being desirous of repeling Certain Calumnies injurious to my reputation, which have been circulated by my inveterate & insatiable enemy John Smith — It is deemed necessary to procure if possible a copy of a certain letter addressed to you while President of the U States by Matthew Nimmo , Esquire, under date of the 28 th November 1806 . Communicating certain information relative to Burrs late...
419William Fontaine to Thomas Jefferson, 3 November 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter gave me great relief—It reconciles me to my self—The friendly & flattering terms in which it is conceived, and the promptitude with which it was dispatched, afford the most decisive & consolatory evidence, that you take an interest in my feelings; & that I have not lost your friendship. Far from any thing unpleasant having arisen at the hand of yourself or family, it was a...
420David K. Hopkins to Thomas Jefferson, 3 November 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Since I wrote you last year, I have not been Idle, I understand the Subject on which I wrote much better.—I observed to you that all kinds of motion aught to be communicated by the Screw or, circularly inclined plane.—with water I wou’d (for to communicate motion to a Mill) inclose a circularly inclined plane, of or Screw, nearly equal in length to the fall of water, erect it perpendicular &...
421Johann Severin Vater to Thomas Jefferson, 4 November 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Be pleased to accept the book, which I take the liberty to offer You as a mark of the high veneration, I have allways felt for the wise ruler of a great country people, and which I feel more particularly for the philosopher, who instituted and still pursues profound inquiries into the history of the native American tribes and their languages. I flatter myself, that, if You find my book...
422David Campbell to Thomas Jefferson, 5 November 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Having a direct conveyance I cannot deny myself the pleasure of expressing the high consideration and Esteem I continue to entertain for you. I shall not name public or political matters to you. You know them all better than I do myself. The State of Tennessee increases in population and consequence remarkably indeed. The Cherokees will soon leave us their Country. They are daily emigrating to...
423Thomas Eston Randolph to Thomas Jefferson, 5 November 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have taken advantage of M rs Randolph ’s absence to employ the house servant at my buildings—who has had the care of the rabbits—and I observe they have suffer’d by a change of keepers— I therefore send you a pair which have been long reserv’d for you—and hope you may succeed with them better than I have done—They may be fed with Cabbage leaves—clover—indeed almost any kind of green...
424William Turpin to Thomas Jefferson, [received 5 November 1809] (Jefferson Papers)
this will be handed you by my Neighbor Tho s Mitchell , he intends calling on you as he passes through Albemarle , you will find him a Man of information and friendly to the present administration. the high esteem which I have for you, has originated in the love and good will, which I have discovered in your writings as well as in almost every public act of your administration, the more...
425Jacob L. Kesteloot to Thomas Jefferson, 6 November 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai l’honneur de vous offrir, par l’occasion de M r Troost , ún exemplaire du discours Sur les progrès des Sciences, lettres et arts depuis 1789, (Première partie); Ouvrage au qúel j’ai ajouté quelques notes. Je m’estimerais heureux, S’il vous plaisait, Monsieur, de considérer cet offre, comme úne faible marque de la haute considération avec la quelle j’ai l’ honneur d’être. P.S. J’espère...
426James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 6 November 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I rec d your letter from Eppington . I had not heard that either the Attorney Gen l or the Gov r of Illinois meant to resign. Inclosed are several letters for you rec d from France by the return of the Wasp .
427William Fleming to Thomas Jefferson, 9 November 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you by mail the rattle of a snake which cap t Mann , who presented it to me, said was six feet and a half long; and, from the length of the rattle, I have no doubt but his information was correct: tho’ I do not recollect ever to have seen one more than four feet.— Inclosed you have a lil l y of the Allegheny mountain ; but it is so much withered as to have lost its fragrance: and I much...
428Gabriel Richard to Thomas Jefferson, 9 November 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived at Detroit the 24 th of July last . I found then about a Dozen of Indian children already at the School of Spring Hill . They appear till This momment, very content with their new Condition. I have written several letters from New york and from Detroit to m r Galatin and m r Smith
429Nathaniel Chapman to Thomas Jefferson, 10 November 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
By the Linnean Society of this City, I have recently been appointed to deliver their next anniversary discourse. The subject which I have selected for the occasion, is, an inquiry into the causes, and changes of climate. In consequence of the almost total want of written documents, I find that I am exceedingly embarrassed to collect a sufficient number of facts to warrant any conclusion...
430Albert Gallatin to Thomas Jefferson, 11 November 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I perused your affectionate letter of the 11 th ult o with lively sensations of pleasure excited by that additional evidence of your continued kindness and partiality. To have acquired and preserved your friendship and confidence is more than sufficient to console me for some late personal mortifications; tho’ I will not affect to conceal that these coming from an unexpected quarter, and...
431John Milledge to Thomas Jefferson, 11 November 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved your packet of the 11 th of last month containing Twelve different kinds of rice, for which you have my thanks—I am no rice Planter, but will divide the rice among Planters of that grain, who I know will pay particular attention to its culture, and ascertain whether any or the whole of them, are preferable to the aquatic, which we have in common cultivation—Three parcels contain...
432Isaac A. Coles to Thomas Jefferson, 12 November 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Madison has just given me a Box for you, containing some Books I believe, which shall be sent by the friday’s Stage, addressed to the care of M r Benson the Post Master at Fredericksburg — he has also given me for you M r Livingston’s treatise on Sheep which shall be forwarded by the next Mail.
433C. & A. Conrad & Company to Thomas Jefferson, 13 November 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
When Captn Lewis was last in Philadelphia we contracted with him to publish his travels & then & then since incurred considerable expences in preparing for the publication. The accounts recieved here yesterday by the Nashville newspapers of his decease induce us to use the freedom of addressing to advise you of the contract. That such a contract was made should be known to whoever has controul...
434George Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson, 13 November 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Immediately on the receipt of your favor of the 31 st ultimo by T.J. Randolph , (with which however he did not call until Saturday) I waited on M rs Page , and to my surprise was informed, that she had not a spare room, having lately taken two young ladies to board with her during the winter: and that it was therefore out of her power to accommodate Jefferson , unless he could stay in the same...
435Citizens of Lynchburg to Thomas Jefferson, [14 November 1809] (Jefferson Papers)
The Citizens of Lynchburg , with unaffected pleasure, behold the arrival of M r Jefferson among them. Desirous to offer him, in the plain and simple mode that the infancy of their Society permits, an evidence of their Cordiality and respect, they wish to invite him to partake of a public dinner with them, at M rs Ward ’s tavern, on Saturday next. RC ( MHi ); partially dated at foot of text;...
436Anonymous to Thomas Jefferson, [15 November 1809] (Jefferson Papers)
The nature & importance of the Object of this Prospectus is the only apology I can offer, for an intrusion, that may appear novel & singular. The Preamble as published in the Boston papers , is added, & may give some explanation for me, unnecessary to repeat here—but only add, that this is a proposal for a publication, in which I shall never have any other concern, than as a subscriber, &...
437Marc Antoine Jullien to Thomas Jefferson, 15 November 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
j’ai connu dans ma premiére jeunesse votre estimable compatriote le Docteur Priestley , qui a bien voulu m’honorer de son amitié et correspondre quelquefois avec moi. j’ai depuis été lié en france avec plusieurs de ceux qui vous ont connu personnellement et qui vous ont apprécié. Dans le moment actuel, M. Dupont de nemours , membre de l’institut , que je vois habituellement à paris , me parle...
438William Thornton to Thomas Jefferson, 16 November 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor of your very friendly Letter of the 11 th Ultimo , and am much pleased with your wishes to colonize so many Objects of utility and delight. In this Country we have every climate & soil, and certainly whatever will flourish on Earth will flourish with us. I am glad the pair of Sheep got safe, & I will with great pleasure send some more Fig trees in the way you mention, or by...
439Aron S. Barton to Thomas Jefferson, 17 November 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Dire necesity Obliges y me to R r equest of you the Loan of three thowsand Dollars to inable me to prosecute a Cotton factory , which I had previusly intended to Rear Beliveing You to be the patron of institutions I make this application to you Cofidently Believeing you and your friends will Contriburt this Small Sum to My Necesity and Greatly Oblige Dear Sir your Friend—Beliveing this to be a...
440Benjamin B. Ford to Thomas Jefferson, 17 November 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Benjn B Bernard some time since obtained a patent from the U States for a Machine said to be either invented or improved upon by him. whether he did or not I am unprepared to say—sometime afterwards I in conjunction with my brother became possessed of the right for this State ( Virg a ) and upon my application to sundry persons for the premium who had built upon his plan, They refused to pay...
441Lafayette to Thomas Jefferson, 18 November 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I Have Been for a Long time in daily and disappointed Expectations of a Letter from You, Nor do I know when I may obtain the Comfort of Your Correspondence—in the Mean while Much Havock Has Been Made in Europe — I don’t Speack of the British Expedition Under Lord Chatam —it is But justice to Say that, whatever Be their intention, they did as Litle Harm as possible Considering their Numbers and...
442George Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson, 20 November 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have sold your Tobacco to Samuel Myers at 39/6 at 60 days, having had it reviewed, which I found absolutely necessary, as some persons who saw it inspected, said it was of so inferior a quality, that I found I could not otherwise get an offer for it.—I should have done better with it, (Tob o having risen) but most of the stemmed part was very ordinary indeed. You will receive an account of...
443Enclosure: Gibson & Jefferson’s Account of Tobacco Sale, 18 November 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Sale of 11 Hhds Tobacco made on a/c Thomas Jefferson Esq r 1809 Nov 18 th Sold Sam l Myers at 60 d/s the whole viz t Shockoe 1125. 135. 1500
444William C. Rives to Thomas Jefferson, 20 November 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
An unexpected call from my friends has rendered it necessary for me to leave this neighbourhood before your return from Bedford . In consequence of this event I am prevented from delivering that portion of your books, which I have already read. I intend, however, to return after a few days, when you shall receive them.—Permit me, sir, to avail myself of this opportunity of expressing the...
445Samuel Greenhow to Thomas Jefferson, 21 November 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 7 th Current I received on yesterday—and shall comply with your request, in keeping up the declarations or reports of your buildings, sent by M r Dawson .—I think you have constructed a given a construction to a part of my letter of 29 May 1809 , which it will hardly admit of.—I thought it my duty to inform you of some Circumstances which had occurred in Loudoun , and were...
446William W. Hening to Thomas Jefferson, 21 November 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Being about to announce the publication of the first Volume of the Statutes at Large, I cannot suppress the anxiety which I feel to accompany it with the testimonials of some literary Characters whose recommendations would tend to introduce it. The Judges of the Supreme Courts, at this place, with the members of the bar, have offered their sanction to the utility of the work; but knowing the...
447William Miller to Thomas Jefferson, 24 November 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
It does not appear by the records of this court, that any such will as Reuben Skelton’s has been proved and recorded in the said Court—nor does it appear that letters of administration has been granted to any person by the said Court—It it is presumed therefore that he was not a resident of this County at the time of his death RC ( MHi ); endorsed by TJ as received 26 Nov. 1809 and so recorded...
448James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 27 November 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
A gentleman of intelligence & good standing in Kentuckey lately signified to a friend here, that he was much in conversation with Col. Monroe during his trip to that Country, and that Sentiments which were repeatedly dropped by him, left no doubt, that altho’ he declined a more important Station at N.O. he would not object to the vacancy produced by the death of Gov r Lewis
449James Leitch to Thomas Jefferson, 29 November 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
By the Bearer M r Lindsay you will be handed M r Richard Barry’s Draft on you in my favour for Two Hundred & Forty three Dollars & thirty five Cents—If Convenient for you to discharge the same at present; Or in the Course of thirty Days from this time it will be Considered a favour done your Obd t Serv t RC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “Thomas Jefferson Esqr Monticello”; endorsed by TJ as...
450Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond to Thomas Jefferson, [ca. November 1809] (Jefferson Papers)
je proffite d’une occasion favorable pour avoir l’honneur de vous faire parvenir le second volume des essais de Geologie , divise en deux parties. vous ne recevrés pour le moment que la premiere, la Seconde ne pouvant être terminee entierement que dans quinse jours, Sera remise aussitot qu’elle Se Me parviendra; à M r warden pour vous être envoyeé par le premier Batiment americain qui partira....