11To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Leiper, 16 March 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
In a former letter I wished you to give us another Declaration Republicans against the Holy Alliance but your answer you were done with Politics but at this Crisis I think it impossible—But President Monroe has done the Business for you for he has sent a Chalenge to the Holy Alliance if they come within Our Hemisphere they shall not do it with impunity— I observe in this days paper that the...
12From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Leiper, 31 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
On my late return from Bedford I found here your three favors of May 9. 13. and [blank] the millet you have been so kind as to send me is not yet arrived. accept my thanks for it, as well as for the details as to it’s culture and produce. I shall turn it over to my grandson Th: J. Randolph, to whom I have committed the management of the whole of my agricultural concerns, in which I was never...
13To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Leiper, 27 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I had wrote you several letters which I intend for you but believe me I had not the Courage to forward them from the circumstance of their having too much vinigar and pepper in them and as I was giving you my opinions freely of many parts I see I might mistaken and from that circumstance I retained them—But notwithstanding I am obliged to believe with Horace from my own person knowledge—”That...
14To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Leiper, 13 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
A few days ago I wrote you and by the same mail I sent you Two small Bundles of Pamphlets and if you have not time to read them please put them into the hands men who are well disposed to Curtail our import and encrease our Exports—I was of the opinion that the Millit perhaps had not got into your part of the country because every thing in the farming line does not spread rapidly for altho’...
15To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Leiper, 9 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have sent you by Mail this day Matthew Carey Apeal to Common Cause and Common Justice—Matthew Carey address to the Philadelphia society for Promotion of National Industry & M Carys New Olive Branch & Matthew Careys treatises on M r Cambriling’s work entitled an Examination of the New Tariff & Matthew Carey Desultory Facts and Observations & James Gray Sketch of the Present condition and...
16Thomas Leiper to Thomas Jefferson, 29 April 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I have your letter of the 19 th and your kind and affectionate attention to my son I esteem as a singlar favor for altho’ he was not yet the the favor was the same you believing him to be my son the favor confered on me was the same for which I return you my best thanks I wrote you a few days ago assigning my reason why I did not pay the draft and as metters have now turned out it was very...
17Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Leiper, 27 April 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 19 th is recieved, and I percieve I have been taken in, and it is not for the first time by strangers pretending to be the sons of my friends. in this case the statement by the applicant calling himself your son was that in passing thro the neighboring county of Orange , in the night, & embarrassed in deep roads, his trunk was cut from behind his gig, that he was on his way...
18Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Leiper, 19 April 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
M r George Lieper your son has informed you that in his passage thro’ the neighboring county of Orange he had the misfortune to lose his baggage. he called on me in distress and I was happy in the opportunity of being useful to him by giving him a draught negociable in Charlottesville for 75.D. the sum he asked and he gave me a counterdraught on you. on his return to Charlottesville he met...
19Thomas Leiper to Thomas Jefferson, 19 April 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Annexed you have a Copy of an order drawn on me for seventy Five Dollars by a certain George G Leiper on Thomas Leiper and son we have no such firm here— My son George Ge G. Leiper being here I handed to him the order who afirmed he never wrote it indeed I could have certified this myself—But how came your name to be on the back of the order from that circumstance I had got my consent to have...
20Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Leiper, 3 November 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be handed you by mr Watson a student of medecine of this neighborhood who goes to Philada to compleat his studies in that line . having no acquantance there he naturally wishes to be known to somebody that his standing & character in his own state may be known to somebody there , and being the eleve of my family physician , & having under him attended me kindly & assiduously thro’ a...