1Thomas Jefferson to Binney & Ludlow, 5 February 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I am much indebted to you, gentlemen, for your attention and civility in n the notice I recieve from you of a box cask of garden seeds from Marseilles , supposed to be intended for me. but I think it probable the Capt n was mistaken in supplying from his memory the defacement of the address on the cask. I never had a correspondent in Marseilles but mr Cathalan our late Consul and his...
2Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 5 February 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Jan. 20. is just now recieved on the subject of mr Stewart and my portrait. he must have spoken without reflexion when he supposed it in my possession and hanging in my hall. the peculiarities of his temper and ideas render him a difficult subject to handle. in the inclosed letter I have endeavored to bring his recollection to rights as softly as I can. with respect to the 1 st...
3Thomas Jefferson to Thomas W. White, 5 February 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
The state of my health permits me, but with pain, to write even the short acknolegement of a letter . I am moreover too much unacquainted with the general taste to know what would suit it , or to judge what book would be of ready sale; and I should be sorry to advise an unprofitable one. there is a valuable history of Englan d Baxter ’s, which I have long wished reprinted here. it was too...
4Thomas Jefferson to William Wirt, 5 February 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
It would require a longer letter than my health enables me to write, to detail to you the obstacles which have so long delayed the transmission to you of the papers of Gen l Kosciuzko . ill health on my part has had it’s share, unsuccesful efforts to withdraw the original will in the General ’s own handwriting from the court in which it was recorded, and other untoward obstacles, have never...