1From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Richardson, 22 April 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 15th. inst. I wrote to you , desiring you would send off my horses on Friday the 9th. of May so that they might arrive at mr Eppes’s on the 11th. this was in expectation Congress meant to adjourn on the 5th. of May. but since that they have put off their adjournment a week longer, that is to say to the 12th. of May. therefore my horses must set off a week later than I had directed, that...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Richardson, 16 December 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Within a day or two after my arrival here, I called on Mr. Traquair, the Stonecutter, to whom I meant to apply for you. I explained to him your character and motives for wishing to pass a winter in learning to cut stone. He approved much of your motives, and immediately entered cordially into the desire to serve and aid you. On the subject of giving you board for your work he said he did not...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Richardson, 25 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 16th. has been duly recieved. it has not been in my power to enquire the price of journeymen here, as I have been very closely confined by business, and the buildings are so scattered here, that one does not know where to go for enquiry. I believe there will be a good deal of work done the ensuing season at this place, and am told workmen are more in demand here than at...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Richardson, 8 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved a few days ago your letter of Dec. 22. and on the 5th. inst. I wrote to mr Jefferson, and now inclose you an order on him for 550.16 D say £165–1. to be applied as follows . for Henry Duke for { Simon £21–10 Stepney 20–10
5From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Richardson, 29 April 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of the 15th. I had desired my three horses & chair to set out from Monticello on the 9th. of May to meet me at mr Eppes’s. but in the one which I wrote the last week (Apr. 22d.) I desired they should set out a week later, towit on the 16th. of May, as Congress had determined to rise on the 2d. instead of the 1st. Monday of May. the object of the present letter is, lest my last one...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Richardson, 17 February 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
The day after I wrote my letter of the 10th. your’s of Jan. 31 . arrived towit on the Tuesday, which shews it came by the Richmond mail. had it been in time for the Fredericksburg mail, it would have arrived here on Saturday, and could have been answered a week sooner. your former letters arrived on the Tuesdays also, so that their setting off one day later from you makes a week’s odds in...
7Memorandum to Richard Richardson, [ca. 21 December 1799] (Jefferson Papers)
Printed in New York Times , 15 Apr. 1923 (magazine section); date supplied from internal evidence and day of TJ’s departure for Philadelphia; at head of text: “Instructions.” For the engagement of James Dinsmore to work as a housejoiner at Monticello, see Vol. 30:249, 435. In a statement of his account with Dinsmore, dated 20 Dec. 1799, TJ noted that he paid the housejoiner $30, on 24 Oct....
8From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Richardson, 31 March 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
In your’s of the 21st. you acknolege mine of Feb. 17. since that I wrote to you on the 16th. and 25th. inst: the last was merely to inform you of the departure of a box of plants and 4. casks of plaister of Paris. I would have Fagg’s plank immediately sorted by mr Perry . what is fit for flooring to be kiln-dried directly, that not fit for it to be spread by way of floor in the loft of the...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Richardson, 10 February 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of Jan. 7th. and 18th. have both been recieved. on the 12th. of January I made a remittance to mr Jefferson, and directed him to pay out of it 329. dollars to your order as I notified you in my letter of the 13th. which I presume you recieved on the 22d. I am sincerely concerned for the death of Jupiter, which I am persuaded might have been prevented could I have prevailed on him...