1From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 11 March 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeably to my promise in my letter of the 9th. inst. I have this day inclosed to Messrs. George Jefferson & co. one thousand dollars in bank bills to be applied to the credit of their advances for you. the residue shall follow as mentioned in the same letter. I am Dear Sir Your’s affectionately RC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “T M Randolph”; endorsed by Randolph: “March 4. 7. 9. 11. 1800” (see...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 22 February 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you last on the 15th. since that we are quieted by an entire confidence in the account from the Natchez that the Spaniards will immediately deliver up the posts. the conduct of our agents there was so waspish as to have induced a suspicion that, if war was to take place against France, we meant to drive Spain into it also, that our Southern states might have something to conquer and...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 15 March 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of Feb. 26. came to hand on the 8th. inst. but after mine to you of that date was sealed. I at the same time recieved one from G. Jefferson informing me I had no nail rod in his possession. Richardson however, who happened to be present told me that on the 1st. of Feb. he saw in mr Johnston’s warehouse a considerable parcel of nail rod which they told him was mine. I therefore wrote...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas McKean, 9 January 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Beckley informs me he has proposed himself to your notice in the disposal of offices in this state. his long residence here has given you such opportunities of personal knolege of him that it is unnecessary to supply that: otherwise I should add with pleasure & truth my testimony of the talents, diligence & integrity with which he has conducted himself in office, and of his zealous...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 9 June 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I have scarcely a moment left to write to you, having waited till the morning of the departure of the post to see Barnes in expectation I could inform you of the sale of our tobacco . Your’s arrived yesterday. I had found it safest to sell for 10. Dol. as no more than 9 1/2 D. has been given for new tobacco and Lieper would not take it, as he formerly did, at the old tobacco price, giving a...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 21 June 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 10th. is recieved. I had expected mine of the 14th. would have been my last from here, as I had taken measures for my departure on the 20th. but on the 19th. in the morning we heard of mr Marshal’s arrival at New-York, and I thought it better to remain and see whether that circumstance might engender any thing new, and in which I could be of any service. I have reason to believe...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 7 March 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to you on the 4th. inst. and yesterday recieved yours of the 27th. ult. I find on enquiry that the 400. D. of mr Short’s which I thought were in mr Jefferson’s hands have been applied to the credit of mr Barnes, for so much he had advanced here for mr Short. this reduces so far what I had depended on. on rallying all other resources I find I can cover about 1800. dollars for you, and...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 17 February 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved by the last post Martha’s letter of Jan. 30. since which date I wrote to you on the 4th. & to her on the 11th. inst. your letters if they came by the Fredericksburg mail would arrive here on Saturday and would give time to answer them by Wednesday morning, the departure of our mail. but they have for some time past reached us only Tuesday afternoon, which shews they go in the...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 1 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you last on the 19th. acknoleging yours of Dec. 8. from Richmond which is the last come to hand. we have nothing from Europe more than you see in the newspapers. Congress seem to be resting on their oars, uncertain what to do. we think the less they do the better, and therefore concur in all adjournments, postponements & whatever else will rid of time. the election is still...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Newton, 17 October 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. William Short (now in Europe) owns 1000. as. of land in St. Bride’s parish Norfolk county called Green sea land adjoining to Patrick Henry & co. at their S.W. corner by patent dated Dec. 10. 1784. his affairs are under my care, and it is but lately that this possession has come to my knowlege. I am apprehensive no taxes have been paid for it, & indeed that it had never been placed on the...
11From 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...
12From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 9 May 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
My last to you was of the 3d. instant. yours of the 29th. April is now recieved. Champlain came perfectly safe: and I am in hopes you will have found Escarbot as I know it is in the library, and I think in one of the 3. presses fronting the door: I mean those near the commode, but the North East range of them. you will see in Bache an Alien bill worthy of the 8th. or 9th. century. it will pass...
13From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 3 January 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to Martha the last week. I believe I omitted to concur with mr Eppes in asking the favor of you as a mutual friend to have the hire of his negroes the last year estimated by any body you think a judge. the men, women, & children are known to Page , being all by this time with him except one or two of the children. perhaps mr Eppes may have left a list of them with you for this purpose....
14From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 10 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I promised to procure for the Chevalier de Freire , minister of Portugal an account of our manner of cultivating tobacco so detailed as that a person might, by it’s instruction, pursue the culture with exactness. I always intended to have got two or three judicious planters to state to me their methods, which I should have noted down, and out of the whole have made out one. I now see that it...
15From 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...
16From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 26 April 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Your last of the 14th. was acknoleged in mine of the 19th. the bill for 12. armed vessels passed by about 4. to 3. in the H. of R. that for the establishment of a Secretary of the navy was tried yesterday on it’s passage to the 3d. reading, and prevailed by 47. against 41. it will be put on it’s passage to-day. the bill for a provisional army of 20,000. men is somewhat doubtful in event. the...
17From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Carstairs, 9 April 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof, Richard Richardson, is a bricklayer who has worked a great deal for me in Virginia. being industrious & desirous of improving in his art, he is come here by my advice to learn what is to be learnt here. he wishes now to work a while with a plaisterer, and understands that a mr Johnston of your acquaintance is engaged in that line of business: I take the liberty therefore of...
18From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Leiper, 23 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I am much indebted to you for the trouble you have been so good as to take with messrs. Jackson & Wharton, on the subject of my tobo. for tho’ I am under no obligation to have any thing to do with them, my tobo. having been sold to Mc.Murdo & Fisher of Richmond, yet had there been any fraud in the package of the tobo. I should have no hesitation to relieve them from it. but from your favors of...
19From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 31 March 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 22d. came to hand by last post . the dates of my late letters to you have been of the 4th. 7th. 9th. 11th. the last only of these is acknoleged in yours, on which day I sent on 1000. D. to mr Jefferson . on the 13th. I inclosed him 400. D. and on the 19th. 470. D. making up the whole sum of 1870. D. of the two first sums I have recieved his acknolegement, & expect the last. the...
20From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 7 June 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to my dear Martha on the 31st. of May. hers of the 12th. May is the last I have recieved from Belmont. I have now determined to leave this on the 20th. inst. I shall be obliged to you therefore to order Jupiter to set out in time to be at Fredericksburg on Sunday the 24th. instant. he must bring my chair, and three horses, because I have a workman to carry with me. this admits him to...
21From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 14 May 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Congress having continued their session to this day, I shall leave this place tomorrow, & expect to pass through Richmond the 20th. or 21st. to mrs Bolling’s & the next day to join mr Eppes & Maria. probably I shall make 4. 5. or 6 days stay in that neighborhood. we have no foreign news. the Feds have determined to run Genl. Pinckney in conjunction with mr Adams, not without hope, by the aid...
22From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 26 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Nothing new has occurred this week, except that prices get duller. Embargo is also now beginning to be talked of, and I begin to fear I shall not get the price for my tobacco which I have held it at. Ten dollars may perhaps be yet had, tho’ I have been afraid to ask the fact lest it should be thought a symptom of my falling. No judging yet when Congress will rise as the Representatives have...
23From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 3 July 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Mc.gehee is mistaken in supposing I had made mr Madison’s nails. not a single one is made, because he promised to give me notice sufficient for having them made before he should go away. your letter being delivered to me at Monticello at 2. aclock & my people all over at Shadwell, I can do nothing in it to-day; but they finish at Shadwell tonight & will all come over here, and in the...
24From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 8 March 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you last on the 22d. of Feb. and then acknoleged the receipt of yours of the 12th. Feb. which is the last come to hand. I am now sending off a hogshead of molasses and 4. bushels of clover seed. I write to mr Jefferson to forward the latter immediately by some waggon, as the season for sowing it will be far advanced. mr Page & George have written directions where to sow it; to wit the...
25From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 11 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours has been duly recieved , and the clover seed goes tomorrow in the schooner Industry, Capt. Green bound for Richmond. It is addressed to Chas. Johnston, and is in 3. casks containing 3 1/8 bushels each, of which 4. bushels are for yourself and the rest for me. It will be desireable to have it forwarded immediately, and of preference by waggon. I shall be at home the 19th. or 20th. and...
26From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Lomax, 12 March 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
Your welcome favor of the last month came to my hands in Philadelphia. so long a time has elapsed since we have been separated by events that it was like a letter from the dead, and recalled to my memory very dear recollections. my subsequent journey through life has offered nothing which in comparison with those is not [cheerless?] & dreary. it is a rich comfort sometimes to look back on...
27From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 23 March [1797] (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived at home on the 20th. inst. and found the cherry and peach trees in general blossom. They had begun about a week before that. This day our first dishes of asparagus and spinach came to table. This may enable you to compare climates. The price of wheat at Philadelphia and Baltimore was 2.13 D. at Alexandria and Dumfries 1.67 at Fredericksburg 1.16. The merchants of Philadelphia and...
28From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 24 May [1798] (Jefferson Papers)
My last was to my dear Martha, of the 17th. the last recieved from you was of the 29th. of Apr. acknoleged in mine of May 9. the severe alien bill of the Senate still hangs before them, & one rather worse in the H. of R. which had got on to it’s 3d. reading, was in that stage recommitted yesterday by a majority of 2. it will perhaps be a little softened. the Senate yesterday passed a bill for...
29From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 14 June 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you last on the 7th. inst. since which yours of the 3d. is recieved. I shall certainly leave this on the 20th. and be at Fredericksburg on the 23d. consequently one day before my horses, which in my last I desired might set out Saturday the 23d. & be there Sunday the 24th. in the mean time I thank you for putting an end to the cultivation of tobacco as the peculium of the negroes. I...
30From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 29 June 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
The day of adjournment walks before us like our shadow. It will not take place till the 3d. or 4th. of July. Consequently I shall not be at home till the 10th. or 11th.—Yours of the 19th. inst. came to hand on the 27th. We still go on undoing what in the beginning of the session had been too ardently begun. A bill to authorize the President to lay embargoes, brought into the Senate, has been...
31From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Bell, 18 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a copy of the President’s speech at the opening of Congress , from which you will see what were the objects in calling us together. When we first met our information from the members from all the parts of the union was that peace was the universal wish. Whether they will now raise their tone to that of the executive and embark in all the measures indicative of war and by taking a...
32From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 4 December 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Having pressing occasion here for three hundred dollars, which I have not been able to get for an order on Richmond, I must pray you to call on mr Jefferson for that sum on my account, and to bring it to me. as Jamey, the bearer of this, sometimes drinks and might lose his papers, it will be safer for me to send the formal order to mr Jefferson by post, which I now prepare with a letter to...
33From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 11 January 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
I am in hopes you are by this time in the regular reciept of Bache’s papers; and in a few days you may expect the Chronicle from Boston, both are to begin Jan. 1. so that your year may end always at a marked period. tho we hear nothing official from our envoys at Paris, yet the rumors are very unfavorable. I begin to fear, not war from them, but that they will refuse to have any settlement...
34From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mifflin, 1 July 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof Mr. Blacon having some business with you desires me to give him a line of introduction. He was a good revolutionist of the first National convention, closely connected with La Fayette, a worthy and wealthy person well known to me in France. On these grounds I take the liberty of presenting him to you. He will have with him a friend Mr. Sermaize whom I have not before known. I...
35From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 19 February 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
I am so hard pushed for time that I can only announce to you a single event but that is a great one. it seems that soon after Gerry’s departure from France, overtures must have been made by Pichon, French chargé d’affaires at the Hague, to Murray. they were so soon matured that on the 28th. of Sep. 98. Taleyrand writes to Pichon approving what had been done, & particularly of his having...
36From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 22 February 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Since writing my letter of this morning yours of the 12th. inst. is come to hand. I very much doubt Bates’s not having recieved my bill. however it happens luckily that I have a copy of it with me, & therefore write him the inclosed letter subjoining the bill. he has still time to get it before the rise of the sap, & I will pray you to send Jupiter off immediately with the letter with orders...
37From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Willing, 23 February 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to mr Willing, and other gentlemen managers of the ball of this evening. he hopes his non-attendance will not be misconstrued. he has not been at a ball these twenty years, nor for a long time permitted himself to go to any entertainments of the evening, from motives of attention to health. on these grounds he excused to Genl. Washington when living in the...
38From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Newton, 20 December 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I ask the protection of your cover to obtain a safe conveyance of the inclosed to it’s address, as I understand the person lives in Norfolk. we have recieved the French Treaty, but not being yet ratified, we are not at liberty to specify it’s contents. it does not give satisfaction; however I suppose it will be agreed to. the parity of votes between the two republican candidates at the late...
39From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 20 December 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Dinsmore asked me to lend him Gibb’s Rules for drawing , and I forgot to lay it out for him. it is a large thin folio, lying uppermost of a parcel of books laid horizontally on the shelf close to my turning chair. be so good as to give it to him. it is bound in rough calf, and one lid off. should mr Madison send for my diamond it is in the upper part of the tool chest, in the cell adjacent...
40From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 28 January 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Si vales bene est. ego valeo . having occasion to write to-day to Dr. Wardlaw, I touched a little on politics, but think it better to avoid it. having recieved from N. York this morning a paper giving the details of the revolution at Paris, I inclose it to you, as you cannot get it through the other papers by this week’s post. all reflections on this subject would be nugatory.—our tobo. was...
41From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 19 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a copy of the President’s speech. Before that was delivered the dispositions of all the members from every quarter seemed averse from war. But that disposition appears to be changing, and those are taking the hue of the speech who wish the Executive to be the sole power in the government. The Republican interest has lost by the changes in the last election , particularly by those...
42From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 9 March 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 1st. inst. came to hand yesterday. that of Feb. 27. had thrown us off our guard so as to lose a discounting day. however on Wednesday the 12th. I shall remit to mr Jefferson 1000. Doll. on Saturday 15th. 400. more and on the Saturday following (22d.) 468.79 making up the whole 1868.79 Mr. Jefferson will recieve every remittance on the 6th. day after it’s departure hence. not...
43From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas McKean, 2 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have long waited for an opportunity to acknolege the reciept of your favor of Dec. 15. as well as of that by Doctr. Mendenhall . none occurring I shall either deliver the present to Genl. Muhlenburg or put it under cover to Doctr. Wistar to whom I happen to be writing, to be sent to your house in Philadelphia or forwarded confidentially to Lancaster. The event of the election is still in...
44From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 15 June 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
It was expected the last week that we might have risen on Saturday next. Those expectations are now pushed off to Saturday the 24th. and perhaps it may be even later than that. I conclude however that instead of sending off my chair and horses on Saturday the 24th. as I had desired, they must set out on Wednesday the 28th. so as to be at Fredericksburg Thursday evening of the 29th. This will...
45From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 9 April 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of Mar. 31. did not come to hand till the 5th. inst. It is a pity it had not been recieved before the election , as it gave much uneasiness and embarrasment to your friends to be unable to give any account of you. It made a serious impression even on the zealous; and I have this day written a circular letter , with the apologies your letter furnished, addressed to every militia captain...
46From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, [25 November 1800] (Jefferson Papers)
I ought to have brought with me my catalogue of books, but forgot it. it is necessary for me in making out a catalogue for Congress at the desire of their joint commee. it is lying I believe either on the table in my book room, or under the window by the red couch in the Cabinet. will you be so good as to send it to me by return of post, well wrapped & sealed up in strong paper. direct it to...
47From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, [29 August 1798] (Jefferson Papers)
I find that the Ogee plain I sent you, was for the architraves of my doors as well as your windows. as we are now about these, I must borrow it of you again. what is become of the Carr’s brook expedition, and what the present intentions on that subject? we are always ready. loves & kisses to Martha & the little ones. Adieu. RC ( DLC ); date supplied from endorsement; addressed: “Mr. Randolph...
48From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 2 March 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
All well. no news from our commissioners at Paris. no talk yet of the time of adjournment, though probably it will be very soon after we hear from Paris. I wrote you 2. letters on the 22d. of Feb. no change in the price of wheat or flour. old tobacco at 13.50. I write in the moment of the departure of the post so can only add kisses to my dear Martha & the little ones and an affectionate Adieu...
49From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 26 February 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 16th . and Martha’s of the 8th. came to hand on the 23d. inst. in mine to you of the 19th. I informed you that the President had nominated W. Vans Murray M.P. to settle our differences with France. yesterday however he superseded that by a nomination of Chief Justice Elsworth, P. Henry and W. V. Murray to be envoys extray. & M.P. to the French republic; but the two former are not...
50From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 30 November 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Davy will set out in the morning on his return with the horses. I will endeavor before he goes to get one of Hamilton’s pamphlets for you, which are to be sold here. Bishop’s pamphlet on political delusions has not yet reached the bookstores here. it is making wonderful progress, and is said to be the best Anti-republican eye-water which has ever yet appeared. a great impression of them is...