141From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Leiper, 14 December 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of Oct. 9. & 16. came to hand in due time, as has done that also of Nov. 26. in the country we put off writing letters to a rainy day, and are apt then to take up what is most pressing. your first letter being an answer to mine, and the terms for my tobo inferior to what I was offered in Richmond, the replying to it yielded to some others more immediately urgent. I had been assured...
142From Thomas Jefferson to Robert R. Livingston, 14 December 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Your former communications on the subject of the steam engine , I took the liberty of laying before the American Philosophical society, by whom they will be printed in their volume of the present year. I have heard of the discovery of some large bones, supposed to be of the Mammoth, at about 30. or 40 miles distance from you: and among the ones found are said to be some which we have never yet...
143From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Rush, 14 December 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of the 2d. inst. and the melon seeds accompanying it. I shall certainly cherish them, and try whether the climate of Monticello can preserve them without degeneracy. the arrival of Genl. Davie here with the treaty is our only news. mr Elsworth is gone to England, and returns again to France to pass the winter in it’s Southern parts for his health....
144From Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 12 December 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I know, my dear friend, that you sent me, so long ago as August, the much desired, and much valued piece on education , which I read with great pleasure, and ought to have acknoleged it’s receipt. but when I am at home there are so many delicious occupations of the more active kind that it is as difficult to drag me to my writing table, as to get a horse, broken loose from confinement, to...
145From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 12 December 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I believe we may consider the election as now decided. letters recieved from Columbia (S.C.) this morning, & dated Dec. 2. which was the day of appointing their electors, announce that the republican ticket carried it by majorities of from 17. to 18. the characters named are firm, & were to elect on the next day. it was intended that one vote should be thrown away from Colo. Burr. it is...
146From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Patterson, 10 December 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
The annual period for electing a President of the American Philosophical society being now approaching, and no circumstances rendering it probable that I may be able to attend their sessions in Philadelphia it is become my duty to desire the society to turn their views to some other person, better situated and more capable of discharging the functions of their President. permit me to do this...
147From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Young, 10 December 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the receipt of your astronomical & physiological treatises by the hands of mr Davenport and to return you my thanks for this attention. the heads of these works shew them to be interesting, and I shall peruse them with great satisfaction. their nature however requiring serious reflection it is possible that my occupations here may oblige me to delay the pleasure of the...
148To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Pinckney, 6 December 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you some days since by the Express which carried our Votes & informed You of the necessity there was for my remaining sometime longer here to use my Exertions & those of my friends to fix the republican interest out of the reach of any future federal attack—that the Exertions of the Federalists had been so uncommonly great in the late Election, as to give serious apprehensions to our...
149From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 5 December 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
You are probably anxious to hear of the election, and indeed it is the only thing of which any thing is said here: and little known even of it. the only actual vote known to us is that of this state . 5. for A. & P. and 5. for J. & B. those who know the Pensva legislature best, agree in the certainty of their having no vote. Rhode isld. has carried the Fedl. ticket of electors by about 200 in...
150From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Ogle, 1 December 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
The Senate of the United States, have requested me to notify your Excellency, that the honorable James Lloyd hath resigned his seat in the Senate, as appears by the Journals of the Senate, an authenticated copy whereof I have directed to be made out and herewith transmit for your information and that of the Legislature of the State of Maryland. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your Excellency’s...