631To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 5 April 1798 (Madison Papers)
I wrote you last on the 29th. ult. since which I have no letter from you. These acknolegements regularly made and attended to will shew whether any of my letters are intercepted, and the impression of my seal on wax (which shall be constant hereafter) will discover whether they are opened by the way. The nature of some of my communications furnishes ground of inquietude for their safe...
632Enclosure II: Table of Estimates, 31 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Estimate on the scale of 200. cells and 340. f. diam. of area on the scale of 144. cells & 245. f. diam. of Area. Quantity Dollars Quantity Dollars Bricks. Arcade 1120. feet running measure (for an internal area of 340. f. diam.) 386,000. 278,208 106. cross arches, of half a brick thick. 10,600 7,800 108. vaults at mid height of the Piazza, half a brick thick. 38,016 27,360 200. vaults of...
633From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 25 October [1797] (Jefferson Papers)
I like your second title better than the first because it [is shorter.] I should like the following better than either. ‘The Foreign affairs of the US. during the years 1794. 5. 6. laid before his fellow citizens by J.M. their late M.P. to the republic of France.’ The reason of my preference is that it implies no inculpation of the Executive. Such an implication will determine prejudiced men...
634From Thomas Jefferson to Stevens Thomson Mason, 27 October 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor by mr Craven has been duly recieved, and I am very thankful for your attention to the subject of my former letter . it is one I have very much at heart, for I find I am not fit to be a farmer with the kind of labour we have, and also subject to such long avocation. mr Craven had thought too much of the Raspberry plains to be satisfied with our mountainous country: however, although...
635From Thomas Jefferson to William Bradford, 6 November 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
To be present at the meeting of Congress would have required me to set out on this day. But circumstances of necessity oblige me to ask of the Senate the indulgence of some time, probably of about a fortnight. Whether it be more or less I shall repair to my station the first moment it is possible for me to do so. A knolege that in the mean time it is so worthily filled, leaves me nothing to...
636From Thomas Jefferson to Harry Innes, 20 June 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the reciept of your favor of March the 2d. and to return you many thanks for it. I am very desirous to collect all the information I can relative to the murder of Logan’s family, who were the perpetrators, & how far Cresap had counselled or ordered it; for tho’ there exists a very general belief that he was present, yet the information I have recieved seems rather that he...
637From Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 4 June 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
I now inclose you mr Martin’s patent. a patent had actually been made out on the first description, and how to get this suppressed and another made for a second invention without a second fee was the difficulty. I practised a little art in a case where honesty was really on our side & nothing against us but the rigorous letter of the law, and having obtained the 1st. specification, and got the...
638Memorandum to Tadeusz Kosciuszko, [25 April 1798] (Jefferson Papers)
Memorandum. The triplicate of both bills of exchange & the copy of the letters of advice enclosed to Messrs. Nicholas & Jacob Van Staphorst & Hubbard bankers of Amsterdam. therefore the […] of the bills & letters must […]. they are […] informed that the half yearly dividends […] [return?] […] to them, therefore they […] with you […] recieve […] the conveni[…] […] [much con]nected with […]...
639From Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 19 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to you Dec. 23. via Petersburg, and to Maria Jan. 4. via City point. neither seems to have reached you Jan. 12. the date of your letter which came to hand yesterday. I answer it immediately according to my promise to Maria. and if mine be acknoleged as soon as you recieve it, we may hear from each other regularly every fortnight, as a letter is but 6 days going hence to Richmond, and...
640From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 18 April 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege your several favors of Mar. 18 & 26. and Apr. 1. & 8. the contents of which have been attended to. the corks by mr Richardson are received, & the packages by the little Jim are said to have arrived at Milton last night with some of Dr. Bache’s goods. since my last 4. hhds of my tobo. from this place have gone down. we began to be under great apprehension (and there is...
641Notes on a Conversation with Samuel Smith, 12 January 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
12. Genl. Sam. Smith says that Pickering, Wolcott & Mc.Henry wrote a joint letter from Trenton to the President then at Baintree, dissuading him from the mission to France. Stoddard refused to join in it. Stoddard says the instructions are such as that if the Directory have any dispositions to reconciliation, a treaty will be made. he observed to him also that Elsworth looks beyond this...
642From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Pendleton, 19 April 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
My duties here require me to possess exact knolege of parliamentary proceedings. while a student I read a good deal, & common placed what I read, on this subject. but it is now 20. years since I was a member of a parliamentary body, so that I am grown rusty. so far indeed as books go, my commonplace has enabled me to retrieve. but there are many minute practices, which being in daily use in...
643To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 30 January 1799 (Madison Papers)
My last to you was of the 16th. since which yours of the 12th. is recieved and it’s contents disposed of properly. These met such approbation as to have occasioned an extraordinary impression of that day’s paper. Logan’s bill is passed. The lower house, by a majority of 20. passed yesterday a bill continuing the suspension of intercourse with France, with a new clause enabling the President to...
644From Thomas Jefferson to Carlo Bellini, 24 April 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved, my dear friend, with great sensibility your favor of the 1st. instant. [it] recalled to my mind many very dear scenes which passed while we had the happiness of possessing you here. events have separated the actors & called them to other stages; but neither time, distance, nor events have weakened my affections for them. the portrait of one of them which you propose to gratify me...
645From Thomas Jefferson to Josiah Parker, 13 January 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to the several enquiries in your letter of this day, I have the honor to inform you that the marble statue of Genl. Washington in the Capitol in Richmond with it’s pedestal cost in Paris 24,000. livres or 1000 Louis d’ors. it is of the size of life, and made by Houdon, reckoned one of the first statuaries in Europe. besides this we paid Houdon’s expences coming to & returning from...
646From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Carr, 21 April 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of Mar. 23. came duly to hand, and by the same post a letter of the 24th. from mr Eppes informing me that Maria was so much better that in a few days she would be able to go to Montblanco. I since learn that Patsy is got home, whence I conclude that all is at length well. it has been indeed a most painful and tedious case; and my anxieties have been extreme. mr Eppes proposed to me to go...
647Notes on a Conversation with Benjamin Rush, 5 April 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Apr. 5. Dr. Rush tells me he had it from mrs Adams that not a scrip of a pen has passed between the late & present Presidt. since he came into office. MS ( DLC : TJ Papers, 102:17525); entirely in TJ’s hand; on same sheet as Notes on Senators’ Comments about House Impeachment Committee, 12 Mch. 1798.
648From 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...
649From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 5 February 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to mr Randolph on the 30th. of Jan. having just then recieved his of the 19th. it was not till yesterday that I learned from the Post office that our post now departs on Wednesday morning from this place. my letters hitherto have been written for Thursday morning, so that you will have recieved them a week later. tell mr Randolph that the day on which I wrote to him, but after I had...
650From Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 6 April 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
I had just recieved from New York the box containing mr Martin’s model of the hand-threshing machine, & the drill, when your favor of Mar. 25. came to hand, and I had nearly compleated a drawing to be filed in the Secretary of state’s office. I suspend further proceeding till I hear from you. in the mean time mr Bingham had communicated to me a model which he had recieved from England. I think...
651Enclosure: Tobacco Statement, 7 February 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
No. 95. 131. 1527. 96. 131. 1546. 100. 131. 1569. 101. 131. 1607 177 131. 1425 186. 131. 1615 217
652From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Norborne Nicholas, 11 August 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Having omitted for some days to turn my attention to your plan , when I reverted to it, some particulars of your desire had so escaped my memory that I could not recall them. be so good as to drop me a line stating what rooms are indispensable, & what more would be desireable. also what sizes would suit you best for a dining room & parlour, & particularly the former; for I believe you were...
653Notes on a Conversation with Henry Tazewell, 1 March 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Mar. 1. mr Tazewell tells me that when the appropriations for the British treaty were on the carpet and very uncertain, in the lower house, there being at that time a number of bills in the hands of Commees of the Senate, none reported, & the Senate idle for want of them, he, in his place, called on the commees to report, and particularly on mr King, who was of most of them. King said that...
654From Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 23 December 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived here on the 4th. day of my journey without accident, & found myself better provided with lodgings than I expected. in general Congress is comfortably & conveniently lodged; dearer however than at Philadelphia; in my own case considerably so. the French treaty will meet considerable opposition in Senate. the judiciary system is again brought forward, & there is great fear will...
655From Thomas Jefferson to Wilson Cary Nicholas, 26 August 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
I am deeply impressed with the importance of Virginia & Kentuckey pursuing the same tract at the ensuing sessions of their legislatures. your going thither furnishes a valuable opportunity of effecting it, and as mr Madison will be at our assembly as well as yourself, I thought it important to procure a meeting between you. I therefore wrote to propose to him a ride to this place on Saturday...
656From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 6 September 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
I am to ask the favor of you to call on mr John Thompson Callender & pay him the sum of 50. Dollars on account of books of which he is advised in the within letter, and you will oblige Dear Sir Your friend & servt PrC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “50. Doll.” and “[Mr]. George Jefferson”; endorsed by TJ in ink on verso. Enclosure: TJ to Callender, 6 Sep. 1799 .
657From Thomas Jefferson to St. George Tucker, 9 May 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
I am much obliged by your friendly letter of the 2d. inst. and your attention to mr Martin’s libels on the subject of Logan, the first only of which I have ever read: for when I found by his stile that truth was not his object, but to gratify party passions, I determined to read no more, but to make proper enquiries into the fact he questioned, & in due time publish it. I turned to the papers...
658From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 2 January 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you from Monticello with a statement of my draughts on you. I have this day drawn on you in favor of James Strange agent for the Donalds for £98–5 paiable at 10. days sight. the £500. which you recieved from mr Pendleton were for mr Short. as it was wanting here, & I had money here which it suited me better to transfer to Richmond, I have been able so far to make the exchange within...
659From Thomas Jefferson to John Hoomes, 3 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your servant arrived here this afternoon with the horse , [and I] have only this moment been able to go and see him. I am quite satisfied with his first appearances, & have no doubt I shall continue [to be?] so. the servant wishing to go immediately to Georgetown to take […] passage for tomorrow morning, I give him dollars to cover your [advances] for his expences, & those of his return &...
660Notes on William Blount’s Impeachment Trial, 5 January 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
Impeachmt odious. rival of trial of jury Jan. 5. 99. H. considers the indepdce of Senate on people to be for tht reason the best feature in the constn Martens . Bradford MS ( DLC : TJ Papers, 105:17952); entirely in TJ’s hand; endorsed by TJ: “Impeachment.” TJ’s outline above summarizes the arguments pursued by the defense in William Blount’s trial, which commenced on 17 Dec. 1798, more than...
661From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, [18] July 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
After parting with you at Philadelphia, I recollected that the box which Mr. Johnston was forwarding to you for me, went from this place and contained a large tooth and another bone of the Mammoth. I must ask the favor of you to open it and to take the tooth, have it packed in a box of exact size, to be directed to ‘the Prince of Parma,’ and delivered to the Chevalier Yrujo, Minister of Spain,...
662From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 31 July 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Just after closing and sending away my letter of the 18th. Mr. Lott desired me to pay you for him 40. Dollars which I undertook to do. The last post day however escaped me without observing it: so that there has been a fortnight’s delay not at all imputable to Mr. Lott . Be pleased now to debit my account and credit his by that sum, or perhaps it might be a dollar or two or some cents more,...
663From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 26 February 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
Since the date of my last letter I have entered into an engagement which will render it necessary that I should recieve the proceeds of my tobo. on the 1st. of September. the sale must therefore be made on a credit not exceeding that time. I set out from hence in three days. I am Dear Sir Your affectionate friend PrC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “Mr. George Jefferson”; endorsed by TJ in ink on...
664From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 26 March 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I never learned till last night that our Executive are sending off a vessel from New York for France, & that this morning’s post is the last which can reach her before her departure. I have therefore barely time to inform you that I am writing you a long letter containing a comprehensive view of all your affairs here under my care. in the mean time I may shortly mention the single particular...
665From Thomas Jefferson to Louis of Parma, 23 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved from your Royal highness the letter with which you were pleased to honor me through the channel of Mr. Pinckney then our envoy extraordinary at the court of Spain, in which you expressed your wish to establish a correspondence with some person in the US. of America who might be able to furnish subjects of Natural history from this country in exchange for those of Europe. I have...
666From Thomas Jefferson to Sir John Sinclair, 23 March 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the receipt of your two favors of June 21. & July 15. & of several [separate] parcels of the Agricultural reports . these now form a great mass of information on a s[ubject] of all in the world the most interesting to man; for none but the husbandman makes any thing [for him] to eat, & he who can double his food, as your exertions bid fair to do, deserves to rank, [among...
667From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 26 June 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be handed you by mr James Dinsmore, a housejoiner whom I have engaged to live with me. he goes by water to Richmond and on his arrival there, being a stranger, I have desired him to ask your aid to get him a passage by a waggon or boat to our neighborhood, he has in his charge some articles of mine, of value, which I wish him to keep with him to my house. I wish him not to delay in...
668From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson Eppes, 4 January 180[1] (Jefferson Papers)
Washington Jan. 4. 1800. [i.e., 1801] Your letter, my dear Maria, of Dec. 28. is just now recieved, and shall be instantly answered, as shall all others recieved from yourself or mr Eppes. this will keep our accounts even, and shew by the comparative promptness of reply which is most anxious to hear from the other. I wrote to mr Eppes Dec. 23. but directed it to Petersburg. hereafter it shall...
669From Thomas Jefferson to Waller Holladay, 4 July 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 18th. ult. came to hand on the 26th. I have examined my papers on the subject of it, & find that I have recieved but one letter from mr Littlepage since I returned to America, & that was dated at Warsaw Dec. 26. 1791. the want of conveyances as well as the want of matter interesting to him in his then position, prevented my writing to him. I have since been informed (and I...
670From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 11 March 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeably to what I informed you in my letter of the 9th. inst. I now inclose you one thousand dollars in bills of the banks of Pennsylvania & the United States, on account of the advances you have made for mr Randolph to mr Picket. the residue shall follow according to what is mentioned in the same letter. I am Dr. Sir Your friend & servt PrC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “Mr. George Jefferson.”
671From 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...
672From Thomas Jefferson to George Ruffin, 28 October 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
Colo. Skipwith, in a late visit to me, delivered me in your name an antient piece of armour, which he informed me had been turned up by a plough in a field of your neighborhood. it appears to be the true cotte de mailles , or hauberk of antient times, & a very sufficient defence against the arrows of the Indian aborigines of our country, and was doubtless brought over for that purpose. I...
673Notes on Senate Debates, 11 March 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Mar. 11. the jury bill before the Senate . mr Read says that if from any circumstances of inaptitude the Marshall cannot appoint a jury analogously with the state juries, the common law steps in & he may name them according to that. and Mar. 12. same bill. mr Chipman speaking of the case of Vermont where a particular mode of naming jurors was in force under a former law of that state, when the...
674From 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...
675Certificate for George Logan, 4 June 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
I Thomas Jefferson do hereby certify that George Logan the bearer hereof, who is about to visit Europe on matters of business, is a citizen of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania and United States of America, of one of the most antient & respectable families of the said commonwealth, of independant fortune, good morals, irreproacheable conduct, and true civism; and as such he is recommended to...
676From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 21 June 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
Your two favors of the 17th. came to hand yesterday. the duplicate manifest of No. 10. is recieved & the deficient one of No. 7. shall be inquired for. I am glad the tobo. was shipped to N. York before my request to suspend it was recieved, as the information about the rise of the Richmond price seems more than dubious. at any rate by the time we know the success of this shipment we must...
677From Thomas Jefferson to Tarleton Bates, [23?] February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Not knowing where the persons to whom the [enclosed are?] directed, may be at this time, and believing that this knoledge may [be] acquired at Pittsburg, I have taken the liberty of putting them under cover to you, and of adding a sollicitation that you would be so good as to address and forward them by any conveyance which may occur to the persons for whom they are, wheresoever they may...
678From Thomas Jefferson to William Dunbar, 24 June 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
Though I have not the pleasure of a personal acquaintance with you, yet the liberty I take of introducing myself to you will I hope find it’s excuse in the motives leading to it. much enquiry you know was excited on the discovery of America as to the origin of it’s inhabitants found here at the time of that discovery. many hypotheses have been hazarded but none of them satisfactory. I have...
679From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 30 January 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
My letters to you have been of Jan. 3. & 17. to Martha of Dec. 27. and Jan. 23. yours of the 19th. came to hand yesterday. we have now got the derangement of the post set to rights. your letters arrive on Tuesday, & the post goes out again on Thursday. he arrives in Charlottesville the Thursday following & comes away on Saturday (I believe, but perhaps Friday) and gives an answer in three...
680From 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...