1From Thomas Jefferson to J. Phillipe Reibelt, 30 April 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return here I found the Plutarque de la jeunesse 4. vols. and the 5th. vol. of the Plutarque d’Amyst, of which I keep the former & return the latter. when I came to examine more at leisure the Annales des Beaux arts, I found it did not give a compleat idea of the gallery of Paris, & that I had been too hasty in returning the Manuel du Museum. if therefore this last remains still on hand...
2From Thomas Jefferson to J. Phillipe Reibelt, 2 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I have 10. vols. of the Quarto edition of the Oiseaux de Buffon, with planches enluminées: but they go only to plate 646. being 5. vols. of text, & 5. vols. of plates. could you undertake to import the residue of the work for me, ready bound: for otherwise binding here costs as much as the book. the books which made the subject of your last letter had been taken by the offices. I gave your...
3From Thomas Jefferson to J. Phillipe Reibelt, 5 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night yours of the 3d. the volumes of the Oiseaux de Buffon which I possess are bound in that kind of binding which has been most common in France for many years, spotted, the leaves red on the edge, and double lettered on red. the two pieces you sent me on printing & the polytypage are so curious, & on so interesting an art, that I propose to keep them with your leave. I...
4From Thomas Jefferson to J. Phillipe Reibelt, 10 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letters of the 3d. & 6th. had already come to hand when that of the 1st. was recieved only the last night. on recurring to my papers respecting General Kosciuzko I found among them the original patent you desire, & the plot. I therefore send them to you. they had remained here, because entirely unnecessary to the title having once been recorded. the record of title preserved in the public...
5From Thomas Jefferson to J. Phillipe Reibelt, 17 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his salutations to mr Reibelt, and his thanks for the Communication of the Catalogues, which he now returns except 1. the Notice de la galerie des Antiques, & the Catalogues des estampes. the 1st. of these appearing to be a complete catalogue of the new acquisitions of the Museum, and the other comprehending matter new to him altogether, he begs leave to detain them a...
6From Thomas Jefferson to J. Phillipe Reibelt, 29 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
The box of books announced in your letter of the 17th. is recieved, and I will ask the favor of you to send the remaining volumes of the Botaniste Cultivateur, and of the Traité des Abeilles; these being among those which I shall keep. they may come by the stage. In the catalogue of titles and prices you inclosed, I need some explanations. ‘Portefeuille des artistes 4. V. 14D.40c. European...
7From Thomas Jefferson to J. Phillipe Reibelt, 21 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
It has been out of my power sooner to acknolege the reciept of your favors of June 11. 13. and 19. of the box of books sent here, I retain Le Botaniste Cultivateur, in 1st & 2d. vol. in expectation of the 3d and 4th. Le parfait jardinier 4to. 1.30 Culture de la vigne. Rosier Etc. 2. v 8vo. 2.50 Des Abeilles. de la Rocca. 3. v. 8vo. 3.20 Portefeuille des artistes 4. cahiers. 14.40 Meteorologies...
8From Thomas Jefferson to J. Phillipe Reibelt, 24 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Hearing of no vessel bound from this neighborhood to Baltimore, I have this day sent your box of books to the stage-office, directing, as I have always done, the master of the stage office to put the costs of transportation into my account. Having occasion for some book of tables, turning the present French measures & weights into the antient ones, to save one the trouble of calculation, I...
9From Thomas Jefferson to J. Phillipe Reibelt, 10 July 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Being within two or three days of my departure for Monticello, a press of business has prevented my sooner acknoleging the reciept of your letter of the 7th. the sum appropriated by Congress for furnishing the President’s house is small in comparison of the size & wants of the house, which is very large and as yet has been very scantily accomodated. the sum now appropriated will barely furnish...
10From Thomas Jefferson to J. Phillipe Reibelt, 13 July 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just time to acknolege the reciept of your favor of the 10th. & to inform you that should you continue disposed to purchase a farm in the neighborhood of Charlottesville, you cannot be better advised than by mr George Divers, & mr Thomas M. Randolph (my son in law) both of that neighborhood. I shall see them in a few days and will recommend to them attention to any request of that kind...
11From Thomas Jefferson to J. Phillipe Reibelt, 12 October 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of the 1st. & 5th. found me here but so pressed by the accumulation of business which had awaited me, that I have not been able sooner to acknolege them. I am truly happy that you recieved satisfaction from your visit to Monticello. I feel but one uneasiness on these occasions, which is that the current of public business and the burthen of my private affairs which force themselves...
12From Thomas Jefferson to J. Phillipe Reibelt, 19 October 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 15th. was recieved in due time. the work on Perroquets is a very superior one, and cheap at the price you are so good as to propose. but I have never permitted myself to indulge in the luxe typographique because if one immerges into it there is no bottom to it: and for a considerable time past I have discontinued adding to my library any thing except new works of merit in real...
13From Thomas Jefferson to J. Phillipe Reibelt, 21 October 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
You were so kind as to send for my inspection formerly Michaud’s Histoire des chenes, which I returned because it was too large & unhandy rather an object of the luxe typographique than of use. if you have a smaller edition of the same work I shall be glad to receive it by the stage. if not, will you indulge me with another examination of the large one, & say what the price is. DLC : Papers of...
14From Thomas Jefferson to J. Phillipe Reibelt, 3 November 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I have not been able sooner to acknolege the reciept of your favors of the 24th. & 31st. when I asked the favor of you to take the bust for me at 30. D. I at the same time observed I would take it at any price from 30. to 40. D. you must permit me therefore to consider the last mentioned sum as the price. at the same time I wrote to you declining accepting it as a present I wrote to desire...
15From Thomas Jefferson to J. Phillipe Reibelt, 16 November 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of the 12th. & 14th. came together last night. you have done right in remanding to Richmond the bust &c which I consider as mine on the footing of my letter of the 3d. inst. I return you the inclosed papers with thanks for the communication. I think that respecting Zambeecari’s and Andreole’s ascension would be worthy of insertion in the public papers. I thank you for the...
16From Thomas Jefferson to J. Phillipe Reibelt, 21 November 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his salutations to mr Reibelt. he has recieved & tried the bottle of Champagne, & finding it not better than what he had before, & of which he has a sufficient stock, he declines taking it with many thanks for the offer. if mr Reibelt will do him the favor of paying for the bottle, Th:J. will be thankful to him, and remember it in the first remittance to be made to him....
17From Thomas Jefferson to J. Phillipe Reibelt, 21 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
During the sitting of the legislature, & especially at it’s commencement it is rare that I can find a moment for my private correspondences, hence my tardiness in acknoledging the reciept of your favors of the 3d. 16th. & 19th. I had often thought on the subject you propose as to the mode of procuring German emigrants to take the place of our blacks. to this however the state legislatures are...
18From Thomas Jefferson to J. Phillipe Reibelt, 31 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
The difficulty of withdrawing myself a single moment from the mass of public calls on me at this time must apologise for my not having made you a remittance of the 41½ D. immediately on reciept of your letter of the 22d. I now inclose you a draught from the bank of the US. here on that at Baltimore for that sum. should you take this in your way to Winchester I shall be happy to see you; and...
19From Thomas Jefferson to J. Phillipe Reibelt, 10 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I find, at length, a moment in which I can hastily acknolege the reciept of your letter of the 2d. there happens to be a vacant factorship at Natchitoches on Red river, the one which you would suit best, & would suit you best of all those within our limits. It is an antient French village, where there is a tolerable society, & the factory for the neighboring tribes of Indians, who are entirely...
20From Thomas Jefferson to J. Phillipe Reibelt, 20 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Des plans et coupes des Maisons de Paris par Krafft et Ransonet in fol. la livraison et suiv. en feuilles. Des Annales du Museum des Arts par Landon. No. 14 et suivants du 5me vol. et le suit e. Abregé du systeme de Linné par Gilibert 8vo. Des Connaissances des tems, l’An 1804. et suivans Institut du droit de la Nature par Rayneval. 8vo. Lucrece de la Grange. Seneque du meme. De l’edition in...
21From Thomas Jefferson to J. Phillipe Reibelt, 10 July 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your several favors of May 8. 15. & 29. & of June 5. have been duly recieved, and I have to return you my thanks for the plate presenting a comparative table of the height of different mountains, & your own Memoir on the affairs of Germany. in one of these you request that your son of 8. or 9 years old may be entered as a cadet, & of preference in the cavalry. we can scarcely be said to have...
22From Thomas Jefferson to J. Phillipe Reibelt, 3 February 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I was informed with sincere concern, by the Secretary at war, that your long delay in getting to your post had made it his indispensible duty to rely no longer on your going there, and to make another appointment. as he is responsible for the conduct of his officers, it is just he should be uncontrouled in the choice of them, and the rather in a country which admits no officer to recieve the...
23From Thomas Jefferson to J. Phillipe Reibelt, 12 August 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Mar. 28. did not get to my hands at Washington till July 7. and as I had left Parkyns’s designs of gardens at this place I was obliged to defer answering you till I came here. I now inclose it to you with many thanks for the use of it. I suspect you will find in the grounds you propose to improve on these models, in the highest degree, an obstacle which we find considerable even...
24From Thomas Jefferson to J. Phillipe Reibelt, 22 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Oct. 25. with the seed of the wild Estragon came to hand last night for which I now return you my thanks. the inclosed duplicate of my letter of Aug. 12. written from Monticello, will explain to you why your letter of Mar. 12. could not be answered until I returned to Monticello where I had left Parkyns’s designs of gardens, and that I then inclosed them to you with the letter....
25From Thomas Jefferson to J. Phillipe Reibelt, 28 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of July 25. Aug. 10. 25. Sep. 1. 7. 18. have been duly recieved. the last Aviso which we sent to Europe is now daily expected to return, and it is not yet decided whether we shall send any other during the winter. but were we to do it, it would always be on such short warning as would render your profiting by it impracticable, as the notice of time, vessel, or port never exceeds a...