1From Thomas Jefferson to Hugh Rose, 2 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly received your favor of May 15. by Mr. Chandler, and meant to have returned the answer by him but that he took his route by the way of New York.—I should with great pleasure now send you in writing my opinion on the question you stated to me, but that I have really entirely forgotten it. The business eternally passing thro’ my mind and occupying it exclusively, wipes out at once the...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Hugh Rose, 11 September 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I received at Philadelphia your much esteemed favor of May 15. and wrote you from thence a long letter in answer. The part of it respecting your dispute with Colo. Jordan’s representatives I shall await your orders in. I am now within a few days of returning to Philadelphia, but shall be at home again in March, never more to change my residence. Then and ever after I shall be always ready to...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Hugh Rose, 26 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I received yesterday your favor of the 13th. and I hasten to answer it, tho’ a long interruption of my attention to questions of law renders it necessary for me to give opinions on them with great diffidence, and especially where the Virginia laws come into consideration, as they have been so much changed since I knew any thing of them. As these stood when I left Virginia in 1784. you might...