1701From Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 23 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Will you be so good as to procure & forward for me to Monticello two or three dozen bottles of Syrop of punch by the first boats? MHi : Coolidge Collection.
1702From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 7 August 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I dare say that Purcell’s map must be of value, and it would be well if his representatives would publish it. but whether worth your purchase & at what price Genl. Wilkinson might perhaps satisfy you. I shall write to Marentille that if you think it worth while to give him 50,000 D. for his project, you will inform him. in the contrary case it may be put away in your pigeon hole of projects....
1703From Thomas Jefferson to Theodorus Bailey, 10 June 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Having occasion to have a small commission executed at New York and little acquaintance there, I take the liberty of asking that favor of you. I recieved some time ago information that there was a large batch of Champaigne wine at Norfolk, & recieved a sample which I found fine. but before my letter asking some of it got there it was shipped round to N. York. it was sold at Norfolk @ 62½ cents...
1704From Thomas Jefferson to James Tilton, 16 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly recieved your favor covering the resolutions and address of the citizens of Wilmington & it’s vicinity, and I beg leave through the same channel to return the inclosed answer. I have no doubt that whenever an appeal shall be made to the great body of our fellow citizens in every part of the union, their good sense & honest views will be a perfect security to us. I entirely concur with...
1705From Thomas Jefferson to J. Phillipe Reibelt, 21 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
During the sitting of the legislature, & especially at it’s commencement it is rare that I can find a moment for my private correspondences, hence my tardiness in acknoledging the reciept of your favors of the 3d. 16th. & 19th. I had often thought on the subject you propose as to the mode of procuring German emigrants to take the place of our blacks. to this however the state legislatures are...
1706From Thomas Jefferson to Joel Barlow, 19 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
The 4. older looking boxes contained what was stated in the list formerly sent you from Monticello. the 4. new boxes contained the collection I had at this place, as follows. Boston papers. 1797-1800. 1800.1 . 1805. 1806. 4. vols Philadelphia Advertiser. 97. 8 . 99. 1800. 3.
1707From Thomas Jefferson to John Page, 3 July 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
By a letter from mr Walker to mr Madison I learn that he had visited you lately at Rosewell, and thought that some occupation in the public concerns would not be refused by you. I wish there was any thing to offer, which might give you amusement, profit & little labor. but our’s you know is not a government of any great choice of office. we have reason to consider as very near at hand a...
1708From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph H. Nicholson, 23 February 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
It may be stated with truth, I believe, that the Secretary of the Navy has made his estimate on the present state of things in the Mediterranean, and the possible necessity of keeping that up, by sending a relieving squadron in place of the three frigates which are under orders to return. tho’ this could only be necessary in case our warfare there should become much more extensive, yet...
1709From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Eston Randolph, 7 June 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The rent which you mentioned as due for Lego I will ask you to be so kind as to pay at your convenience to mr Higginbotham, to whom I am in debt a sum of money and promised him he should recieve all my rents. I have mentioned this to him. I propose setting out tomorrow morning for Washington. I salute you with friendship & respect. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
1710From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson Eppes, 14 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved in due time yours & mr Eppes’s letters of Nov. 6. and his of Nov. 26 . this last informed me you would stay at Eppington 2. or 3. weeks. having had occasion to write during that time to mr F. Eppes, without knowing at the moment that you were there, you would of course know I was well. this with the unceasing press of business has prevented my writing to you. presuming this will...
1711From Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, 22 July 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 1st. inst. was duly recieved, and I would not again have intruded on you but to rectify certain facts which seem not to have been presented to you under their true aspect. my charities to Callendar are considered as rewards for his calumnies. as early, I think, as 1796. I was told in Philadelphia that Callendar, the author of the Political progress of Britain, was in that...
1712From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 22 November 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Will you be so good as to give this a severe correction both as to stile & matter, & as early a one as you can, because there remains little enough time to submit it to our brethren successively, to have copies made Etc. think also what documents it requires, & especially as to Spanish affairs. before we promise a subsequent communication on that subject, it would be well to agree on it’s...
1713From Thomas Jefferson to J. Phillipe Reibelt, 24 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Hearing of no vessel bound from this neighborhood to Baltimore, I have this day sent your box of books to the stage-office, directing, as I have always done, the master of the stage office to put the costs of transportation into my account. Having occasion for some book of tables, turning the present French measures & weights into the antient ones, to save one the trouble of calculation, I...
1714From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Donath, 11 June 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Will you be so good as to send for me to Richmond addressed to the care of messrs. Gibson and Jefferson, a box of about 100. panes of strong glass , accurately 12. I. wide, or a little under rather than over. the length must not be less than 14. I. but if not to be found of that length exactly, but a little longer, it need not be cut, as it is for skylights and to be overlapped, so that some...
1715From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Little, 31 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. White, one of the Commissioners of this city, informs me that he has heretofore had conversations with you on the subject of a road we have been wishing to get from this place to Slaterun church as direct as can be had tolerably level; for levelness is a still more important consideration than distance. it is become more interesting now to me to find such a course. as I am setting out...
1716From Thomas Jefferson to Aaron Vail, 4 November 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
The schooner Citizen, capt Lawson, being employed by our government to carry some gun carriages to the Emperor of Marocco, and to touch at Lorient, in going, in order to deliver there the ratification of our late treaty with France, I take the benefit of your cover for a letter to mr Livingston, our Minister Plenipotentiary, accompanied by a small box of about 8. or 9. inches cube addressed to...
1717From Thomas Jefferson to James Dinsmore, 3 January 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I conclude absolutely to cover my terras with sheet iron , and have accordingly written to Philadelphia to see if I can procure sheets 15. I. wide and 9½ f. long.—The method of doing it is shewn below Fig. 1. it consists in forming gutters across the terras declining from the ridge pole to the eaves, the gutters being 21. I. horizontal measure each. We shall take off the present shingling, and...
1718From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 25 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
No occasion having arisen, since the last account rendered by my predecessor, of making use of any part of the monies heretofore granted to defray the contingent charges of the government, I now transmit to Congress an official statement thereof to the 31st. day of December last, when the whole unexpended balance, amounting to 20,911. D 80 c was carried to the credit of the Surplus fund, as...
1719From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Willson Peale, 9 April 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
My letter of the 5th. had been written but not sent off when I recieved yours of Mar. 30. with the new penbar. this finds me so near my departure for Washington that all is now hurry. I have not time therefore to change the penbars for trying the Diagonal writing; & I should not be without fear of deranging the machine, & losing the use of it while I yet stay & while I have much to write. I...
1720Notes on Laying Off Garden, 29 May 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Garden, as laid off for levelling 1806. May 26. 27. 28. Cross measures from S.E. to N.W. 5. f. base of terras 4. border 10. walk 50. bed 10. walk 84 5. terras base
1721Order on John Barnes, 23 January 1803 [document added in digital edition] (Jefferson Papers)
Pay to the driver who carried mrs Randolph and mrs Eppes to Virginia twelve dollars for value recieved on account of Your humble servt RC ( MLexSC ); at foot of text: “Mr. John Barnes Georgetown”; endorsed by Barnes; signed by Joseph Dougherty acknowledging payment.
1722To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 1 May 1807 (Madison Papers)
I return you Monroe’, Armstrong’s, Harris’s & Anderson’s letters, & add a letter & act from Govr. Mc.Kean to be filed in your office. The proposition for separating the Western country mentioned by Armstrong to have been made at Paris is important. But what is the declaration he speaks of? For none accompanies his letter, unless he means Harry Grant’s proposition. I wish our ministers at...
1723From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 15 April 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
As soon as I possibly could after my arrival here, I prepared the general instructions for our mission up the Arkansa & Red rivers, but could not make a fair copy of them in time for the last post. they are inclosed in the letter to mr Dunbar which I send open for your perusal, and then to be forwarded to him. it will enable you to see and to supply what is deficient, and to alter whatever on...
1724From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 25 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I communicate for the information of Congress the Report of the Director of the Mint of the operations of that Institution during the last year. RC ( DNA : RG 233, PM , 8th Cong., 2d sess.); endorsed by a House clerk. PoC ( DLC ). RC ( DNA : RG 46, LPPM , 8th Cong., 2d sess.); endorsed by a Senate clerk. Notation in SJL : “Mint.”
1725I. Draft Cipher Table, [April 1803?] (Jefferson Papers)
The man whose mind on virtue bent ujh qft epxbp yvas dd maknpa zcmu the equivalent of the 1st. lre is taken from the 1st. col. of the 2d from the 2d
1726From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Willson Peale, 12 July 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
The Polygraphs for mr Volney, Commodore Preble and the President’s Secretary have been all recieved in good order and are found good. the portable one for myself is also recieved, and is approved in every respect except perhaps in one part, on which I have not had trial enough to decide. it seems to copy the first 4. or 5. lines of the page with defects of nearly half the lines: sometimes...
1727From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Waterhouse, 9 March 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Legerat hujus Amor titulum nomenque libelli. Bella mihi, video, bella parantur, ait. So Ovid introduces his book Remediorum amoris, a lecture against tobacco was calculated to excite a similar alarm in a Virginian, & a cultivator of tobacco. however being a friend neither to it’s culture nor consequences, I thank you for the pamphlet, and wish a succesful opposition to this organ of Virginia...
1728To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 5 May 1802 (Madison Papers)
I think it is dean Swift who says that a present should consist of something of little value, & which yet cannot be bought for money. I send you one strictly under both conditions. The drawing was made by Kosciusko for his own use, and the engraving also I believe. He sent me four copies, the only ones which have come to America. The others I give to my family, and ask yourself & mrs. Madison...
1729Notes on Waddy Thompson, 31 October 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Waddy Thompson near Greenville court house S. C. 5. years Atty Genl. of S. C. now a judge of a Superr. ct. much belovd by his nbrs, honest, of amiable manners, willing to go to Natchez & probably to N. O. a steady Republican. DNA : RG 59—LAR—Letters of Application and Recommendation.
1730From Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 16 August 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved a letter from mr Hay asking whether he shall enter an appeal? and informing me he has written to you on the subject, it would be necessary for me to know whatever has passed relative to this, & as it is important & pressing in time, I am obliged to ask a consultation with you. Accept my friendly salutations ViU .
1731From Thomas Jefferson to George Clinton, 31 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of the 22d. written on the occasion of the libellous pamphlet lately published with you. I began to read it, but the dulness of the first pages made me give up the reading for a dip into here & there a passage, till I came to what respected myself. the falshood of that gave me a test for the rest of the work, & considering it always useless to read lies, I...
1732From Thomas Jefferson to Gabriel Duvall, 5 November 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The place of Comptroller of the US. is vacant by the resignation of mr Steele. it is in it’s nature partly Executive, and partly judiciary, as the Comptroller decides in the first instance all questions of law arising in matters of account between the US. and individuals. the office hours are from 9. A.M. to [3]. P.M. during which it furnishes pretty steady daily occupation. the Salary is...
1733From Thomas Jefferson to Fulwar Skipwith, 4 May 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I am about to ask from you the execution of a troublesome commission, without being able to encourage it’s undertaking by an assurance that it may not be repeated hereafter. the meanness of quality, as well as extravagance of price of the French wines which can be purchased in this country have determined me to seek them in the spot where they grow. when in France I visited all the remarkeable...
1734From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Chas, 3 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have safely recieved the copy of your history of the American revolution, of your smaller work on the Premier Consul of France, & of the Synonimes of Dalembert, Diderot & Jaucourt which you have been pleased to send me, and for which accept my respectful thanks, & the assurances of my sensibility at this mark of attention. it is a happy circumstance for our country that it’s fortunes...
1735From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 15 April 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 9th. was recieved on the 13th. and can only be answered by tomorrow’s post, the ordinary course requiring 9. or 10. days from writing a letter to the reciept of it’s answer. I return you the exequatur unsigned, but have signed a blank paper to submit to your consideration the port which shall be inserted in it. the one filled up with Natchez admits that a consulship for...
1736From Thomas Jefferson to Cornelia Jefferson Randolph, 3 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have owed you a letter two months, but have had nothing to write about, till last night I found in a newspaper the four lines which I now inclose you: and as you are learning to write, they will be a good lesson to convince you of the importance of minding your stops in writing. I allow you a day to find out yourself how to read these lines, so as to make them true. if you cannot do it in...
1737From Thomas Jefferson to Pierce Butler, 27 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of the 19th & 21st. are duly recieved. mr Pintard’s application is with the Secretary of state. there is considerable competition for the consulship of Madeira , & mr Pintard’s application is not for himself but for his nephew, perhaps in Commendam. your recommendation of Capt. Conelly will be duly attended to. we do not however expect to send another squadron to the Mediterranean...
1738From Thomas Jefferson to William Keteltas, 15 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson requests the favour of Mr. Keteltas to dine with him on Tuesday 15th at half after three, The favour of an answer is asked. RC (Donald A. Heald Rare Books, New York, 2018); undated, but see below; printed form, with blanks filled by Isaac A. Coles reproduced in italics; notation by Coles in lower right corner: “Wm Keteltas Counsellor at Law.” Tuesday 15th : although New Yorker...
1739From Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 8 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved the day before yesterday your favor of the 3d. inst. the post leaving this always the day before the return of the post of the preceding week prevents our neighborhood from recieving an answer from hence till the Thursday sennight after they have sent off their letter. I do not perfectly understand your statement of the additions on account of a greater quantity of forest land than...
1740From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 13 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you a letter of Short’s for perusal, & one of Edgar Patterson asking what is already I presume provided for. one of General Armstrong which I do not well understand because I do not recollect the particular letter which came by Haley. I presume the counsel he refers to is to take possession of the Floridas. this letter of June 15. is written after the cession by Carlos to Bonaparte of...
1741From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 4 May 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Davy has been detained till to-day in order to carry home another decayed horse which I must pray you to let run at large in the day, having him fed night & morning. I apprehend Davy will have to lead him most of the way, and I cannot conjecture the time it may take him to get home. I had hoped to have set-off tomorrow, and to have been at home on Sunday, but I think it rather probable I shall...
1742From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 12 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Below is a list of my poor crop of tobo. made at Poplar forest the last year. how much can I get for it with you, in cash, and how much on 90. days credit? your answer will enable me to judge what to do with it. as I am informed it was sent off in April, I presume it is with you long before this date. accept my affectionate wishes. Nett TI. No. 1152 1578. PF. 1153 1686 1154 1562 1155 ...
1743From Thomas Jefferson to Elisha Avery, 17 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Avery; he has this morning examined the law erecting the territory of Michigan, and finds that the Marshal or sheriff is not appointed by the President, but by the Governor. nevertheless he is so well satisfied of the indispensable necessity that that office should be filled by a person speaking French as well as English, & of the convenience of...
1744Pardon for Jacob Coleman, 26 February 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States, to all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting: Whereas Jacob Coleman, of the State of Pennsylvania, was convicted before the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Pennsylvania, begun and held in the City of Philadelphia in the month of April in the year One thousand eight hundred & six, of a Misdemeanor, in relation to the...
1745From Thomas Jefferson to John Woodside, 14 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Woodside & his thanks for his attention to the handsome drawing by mr Mills, to whom he prays mr Woodside to make his thanks also acceptable when he informs him of the delivery. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
1746From Thomas Jefferson to John Warkson, 3 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Mar. 21. was duly recieved, proposing yourself for my employ as a carpenter, mill-wright or miller. at present I have no occasion for service in either of these lines, but about this time twelvemonth I probably shall—but I imagine that in the neighborhood of so considerable a place as Fredericktown, these services are so much higher than where I live that a change would hardly...
1747From Thomas Jefferson to United States Congress, 8 January 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I communicate for the information of Congress the Report of the Director of the Mint of the operations of that establishment during the last year. DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
1748To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 12 August 1808 (Madison Papers)
Your’s of the 10th. came to hand yesterday & I return you Foronda’s, Tufts, Soderstrom’s & Turreau’s letters. I think it is become necessary to let Turreau understand explicitly that the vessels we permit foreign ministers to send away are merely transports, for the conveyance of such of their subjects as were here at the time of the embargo, that the numbers must be proportioned to the...
1749From Thomas Jefferson to Daniel Ludlow, 1 July 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of the 28th. and much regret that my omission to mention the Christian name of the mr Ludlow correspondent of mr Barnes, in my letter to Capt Hazard should have led him to present it to the wrong person. mr Charles C. Ludlow was the one meant, & to whom the remittance was made. I have seen a letter from him to mr Barnes acknoleging the reciept of it, &...
1750From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Harrison Smith, 13 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I troubled you by the last post with an answer to the petitions against the embargo. I now inclose the copy of an answer to the Counter-Addresses, which being not likely to be so numerous, I will pray you to print me 50. copies & to send them by the post which will leave Washington on Monday the 19th. inst. I salute you with esteem & respect. Catalog--Christie’s, American and European...