1VI. On Weights and Measures, [ca. April 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
The English foot is to the Parisian as 1000:1068 The English foot is such that a pendulum which vibrates in a second is 3f.3.2I. long The English mile is 1760 yards = 5280 feet An acre is 208.7 feet square. There are 640 acres in a square mile. The English use two kinds of pounds, viz the Avoirdupois and the Troy pound. by the former they weigh heavy coarse commodities by the latter they weigh...
2III. On the Port of Norfolk, [May 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
The friends of Petersburg, Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Alexandria may possibly unite to prevent exclusive privileges being given to Norfolk. These collected would form about an eighth part of the legislature and perhaps adding to them their accidental connections and influence they may make one fourth of the legislature. All the country below these which compose one third of the legislature...
3From Thomas Jefferson to G. K. van Hogendorp, 4 May 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
Having waited thus long in the vain hope of procuring a private and confidential conveyance for the papers you left in my care, I am obliged at length to trust them to the post, lest a longer detention of them should prove inconvenient. I hope they will pass safely. The desire of establishing a correspondence, which I am sure will be useful to me, induces me to consider as an invitation to it...
4I. On Tobacco Culture, 4 May 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
In Virginia two species of tobacco are cultivated, very distinct from each other. They are called Oroonoko and Sweetscented. The first is the hardiest and of the greatest produce; the last of the most delicate flavour. I think it used to sell about an eighth higher than the Oroonoko. All other names given to our tobaccoes are arbitrary and particular; every plant of tobacco going from Virginia...
5VI. Replies to Queries: New Hampshire, June 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
New-Hampshire. June 1784. I. Government. The amount of the civil list is not yet fixed under the new constitution. The last year it was between three and four thousand pounds lawful. Their State debt is about 150,000 pounds lawful. The interest, and 10 or 15 per cent of the principal is paid by way of discount in taxes. The evidences of this debt sell at about one half their nominal value. The...
6[From Thomas Jefferson to G. K. van Hogendorp, 24 July 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ On board the Ceres, off Scilly Isles, 24 July 1784 . Entry in SJL reads: “Ceres. off Scilly. G. K. Van Hogendorp. recommending Mr. N. Tracy.” Not found.]
7From Thomas Jefferson to G. K. van Hogendorp, 20 November 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
I expect you will have thought me inattentive to my promise of sending you the information you wished as to the state of New Hampshire; but the delay has not proceeded from that source. The first part of my time after my arrival here was necessarily occupied by the public business on which I came, and before this was got into a train I relapsed into that state of ill health in which you saw me...
8From Thomas Jefferson to G. K. van Hogendorp, 29 July 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
By an American gentleman who went to the Hague about a month ago I sent you a copy of my Notes on Virginia. Having since that received some copies of the revisal of our laws, of which you had desired one, I now send it to you. I congratulate you sincerely on the prospect of your country’s being freed from the prospect of war, which however just, is always expensive and calamitous and sometimes...
9From Thomas Jefferson to G. K. van Hogendorp, 13 October 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
Having been much engaged lately, I have been unable sooner to acknolege the receipt of your favor of Sep. 8. What you are pleased to say on the subject of my Notes is more than they deserve. The condition in which you first saw them would prove to you how hastily they had been originally written; as you may remember the numerous insertions I had made in them from time to time, when I could...
10From Thomas Jefferson to G. K. van Hogendorp, 25 August 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour of the 2d. instant has been duly received, and I employ the first moment which has been at my disposal to answer it. The author of the part of the new Encyclopedie which relates to Political oeconomy having asked of me materials for the article Etats-unis, and stated a great number of questions relative to them, I answered them as minutely and exactly as was in my power. He has...