301From Thomas Jefferson to Aaron Burr, 11 February 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Feb. 3. came to hand two days ago. I am sorry to observe my friend Currie’s claim to be so unpromising, however I shall still hope for something under the wing of your judgment, which you say will be decided Mar. 14. and if that shall fail, that he may come in for his share under the general attachment. I have no conception how Morris’s immense conveyances to his [four] sons &...
302From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 12 April 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you two letters on the 5th. inst. since which I have recd yours of the 2d. I send you, in a separate package, the instructions to our envoys & their communications. you will find that my representation of their contents, from memory, was substantially just. the public mind appears still in a state of astonishment. there never was a moment in which the aid of an able pen was so...
303From Thomas Jefferson to Sir Peyton Skipwith, 4 September 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Aug. 25. has been handed me by Majr. Nelson. after the reciept of your former letter on the subject of your demand against mr Short I wrote to him informing him of it: and I am almost certain that in some letter to me since he has answered the article. but though I have spent near half a day in searching his letters (which are voluminous & written in a microscopic hand which...
304V. Form of Lease, [ca. 13 April—May 1800] (Jefferson Papers)
Articles of lease & agreement between Th:J. as attorney for W.S. and A.B. It is agreed that the said A.B. shall hold the tenement [here describe it] in lease for one year from the last day of Nov. 1799. and so on from year to year until either party shall give notice to the other that the lease is to be at an end on the 1st. day of December ensuing such notice. that the sd A.B. shall divide...
305Notes on Conversations with Benjamin Hichborn, 25 and 26 December 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
1800. Dec. 25. Colo. Hitchburn thinks Dr. Eustis’s talents specious & pleasing, but not profound. he thinks Jarvis more solid. he tells me what Colo. Monroe had before told me of, as coming from Hitchburn. thus he was giving me the characters of persons in Massachusets. speaking of Lowell , he said he was in the beginning of the revolution a timid whig, but, as soon as he found we were likely...
306From Thomas Jefferson to John Stuart, 14 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
You were chosen a member of the American philosophical society so long ago as 1797. and as I lived at a distance from Philadelphia, the Secretaries were advised how to address your diploma when it should be filled up. by some accident unexplained to me it seems it has never been forwarded. I did not know this till I recieved it a few days ago. I have the honour now to inclose it. the bones you...
307To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 26 December 1800 (Madison Papers)
All the votes are now come in except Vermont & Kentuckey, and there is no doubt that the result is a perfect parity between the two republican characters. The Feds appear determined to prevent an election, & to pass a bill giving the government to mr. Jay, appointed Chief justice, or to Marshall as Secy. of state. Yet I am rather of opinion that Maryland & Jersey will join the 7. republican...
308To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 25 March 1800 (Madison Papers)
Your’s of the 15th. is safely recieved. I percieve by that that I had by mistake sent you Ramsay’s Eulogy instead of Cooper’s smaller pamphlet, which therefore I now inclose, merely for the last paper in it, as the two first were in the copy I first sent you. I inclose also mr. Nicholas’s amendment this day proposed to the bill concerning President & V. P. formerly sent you. We expect it will...
309From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 15 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved several letters from you which have not been acknoleged. by the post I dare not, and one or two confidential opportunities have past me by surprise. I have regretted it the less, because I knew you could be more safely and fully informed by others. mr Tyler, the bearer of this, will give you a great deal more information personally than can be done by letter. four days of...
310From Thomas Jefferson to William Frederick Ast, [17] September 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
According to your desire I will now state to you the reasons which have induced me to decline engaging finally in the mutual insurance against fire. when I had the pleasure of meeting you at Dumfries in Jany. 1798. you were so good as to sit with me the evening & to go into considerable details on the subject of your plan of insurance . the calculations were of some length & difficulty, I was...
311From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Miller, 25 February 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the reciept of your favor of the 13th. with the sermon inclosed, for which I return you my thanks, and have read it with great satisfaction. praise, when given within the limits of truth & nature affords us an occasion of exercising some of the most pleasing & virtuous emotions of the mind, of paying by a just tribute a debt of gratitude which we owe to those who have...
312From Thomas Jefferson to John Coalter, 25 September 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
I was just sending off the inclosed letter to the post office when I learned that mr Stuart was gone on the Kentucky line and would not be back again till November; and as it would be a real convenience to me to obtain paiment of the money, due from mr Clarke, which is the subject of the letter, and I have not time to repeat the particulars of the letter, I take the liberty of opening &...
313List of John Adams’s Appointments, 23 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Feb. 23 qu. Thos. Bee . chief judge } 5th Circ. qu. John Sitgreaves of N.C. distr. judge + Joseph Clay. of Georgia + Wm. Mc.lung: Kentuky. to be circuit judge of 6th. qu. Jacob Read . judge of distr. of S.C. vice Bee qu. Wm. H. Hill
314From Thomas Jefferson to James Wilkinson, 23 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of asking the protection of your cover for a letter to Lieutt. Meriwether Lewis, not knowing where he may be. in selecting a private secretary, I have thought it would be advantageous to take one who possessing a knolege of the Western country, of the army & it’s situation, might sometimes aid us with informations of detail, which we may not otherwise possess. a personal...
315From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson Eppes, 18 May 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
It is very long since I have heard from Eppington. the last letter I [recieved?] was from mr Eppes dated Apr. 4. so long without hearing from you, I cannot be without uneasiness for your health. I have been constantly in the hope that we were within 3. or 4. weeks of rising, but so often disappointed I begin to lose my faith as to any period of adjournment; and some begin now openly to avow...
316From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Moss White, 11 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved a few only of mr Morse’s papers from Danbury, not more I believe than 2. or 3. and do not recollect to have seen the pieces signed the Enquirer to which you allude in your letter of the 1st. inst. I shall with pleasure read the pamphlet you send me, and I pray you to accept my thanks for it. if I can be instrumental in extinguishing the feuds which some late occurrences have excited...
317From 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...
318From Thomas Jefferson to William Dunbar, 12 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of July 14. with the papers accompanying it came safely to hand about the last of October. that containing remarks on the line of demarcation I perused according to your permission, and with great satisfaction, and then inclosed to a friend in Philadelphia to be forwarded to it’s address. the papers addressed to me, I took the liberty of communicating to the Philosophical society....
319From Thomas Jefferson to Volney, 5 August 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Our post having failed to come as far as Charlottesville the last week delayed my reciept of yours of July 19. and consequently the answer to it one whole week. I consider it the more unfortunate as the period you have still to stay with us is flowing out. It is the wisest philosophy which directs us always to view circumstances under their most pleasing aspect. I will not consider therefore...
320From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson Eppes, 8 March 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
I am this moment arrived here, and the post being about to depart, I set down to inform you of it. your sister came over with me from Belmont where we left all well. the family will move over the day after tomorrow. they give up the house there about a week hence. we want nothing now to fill up our happiness but to have you & mr Eppes here. scarcely a stroke has been done towards covering the...
321From Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 21 December 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor from the Hundred came to hand the [day before] yesterday. I have been detained here a week by bad weather. [this morn]ing mr Nicholas & myself breakfasted at Sun-rise to set out: but heavy snow is now come on. we shall start as soon as it holds up. our election was yesterday. Woods carried it against P. Carr by 247. against 122 votes. those of your people who were unwell when you...
322From 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...
323Memorandum of Expenses in Philadelphia, [June 1798] (Jefferson Papers)
Expences. Philada. Dawson gives for 2. furnished rooms on the second floor in 8th. street 7. Doll. a week, without board. Innes & his son give 14. D. a week for board & 2. excellent rooms furnishd. at mrs Lawson’s 4th. street. 2 very good rooms therefore genteely furnished, without board may be said 10. Bossèe (5th. street) will furnish a soupe, 2 dishes of meat [entrées] (of which one may be...
324From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 29 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved from you, before you left England, a letter inclosing one from the Prince of Parma . As I learnt soon after that you were shortly to return to America, I concluded to join my acknolegements of it with my congratulations on your arrival; and both have been delayed by a blameable spirit of procrastination for ever suggesting to our indolence that we need not do to-day what may be done...
325Notes on Sir William Scott, 1 November 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
1799. Nov. 1. see Aurora of this date. Sir Wm. Scott judge of the British high court of Admiralty in the case of the Swedish captures. his philippic against Philosophy & Philanthropy , the love of science & the love of man; for attempts to diminish the miseries of war at sea, as is already done by civilized nations at land, by permitting unarmed persons to pursue their ordinary occupations,...
326To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 3 May 1798 (Madison Papers)
I wrote you last on the 26th since which yours of the 22d. of April is recieved acknowleging mine of the 12th. so that all appear to have been recieved to that date. The spirit kindled up in the towns is wonderful. These and N. Jersey are pouring in their addresses offering life & fortune. Even these addresses are not the worst things. For indiscreet declarations and expressions of passion may...
327To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 1 June 1797 (Madison Papers)
I wrote you on the 18th. of May. The address of the Senate was soon after that. The first draught was responsive to the speech & higher toned. Mr. Henry arrived the day it was reported. The addressers had not as yet their strength around them. They listened therefore to his objections, recommitted the paper added him & Tazewell to the committee, and it was reported with considerable...
328To Thomas Jefferson from William Floyd, 15 March 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I am much obliged to you for the pamphlet you Sent me, and have only to regret that there is not a more general circulation of that and Such like publications throughout the United States—as it would have a great tendency to enlighten many honest well meaning persons who are Deceived and Missled by those who have been employed throughout the United States to represent and missrepresent with a...
329From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson Eppes, 2 December 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
You will be surprised at receiving a letter from me dated here at this time. But a series of bad weather having suspended our works many days, has caused my detention. I have for some time had my trunk packed and issued my last orders, and been only waiting for it to cease raining. But it still rains. I have a bad prospect of rivers and roads before me. Your sister removed to Belmont about...
330From 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...