101From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 24 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a letter from Ellen, which, I presume, will inform you that all are well at Edgehill. I received yours without date of either time or place, but written, I presume, on your arrival at Philadelphia. As the commencement of your lectures is now approaching, and you will hear two lectures a day, I would recommend to you to set out from the beginning with the rule to commit to writing...
102From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Newton, 4 March 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Feb. 16. is recieved, and according to the permission therein given me, I will ask that two pipes of Madeira of the Brazil best quality may be imported for me annually while here. the two lately sent me by mr Taylor were recieved yesterday. I set out in a day or two on a very short visit to Monticello. if you will be so good as to address the bill for the cyder to mr Barnes of...
103From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mathews, 8 July 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary at War having gone on to New York for the purpose of having that place put into a state of defence, your letter of July 4. to him has been put into my hands. I see with satisfaction that in an emergency too sudden to have been provided for by orders from hence, you have, under the guidance of your own judgment & patriotism, taken the measures within your power towards supporting...
104From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Newton, 5 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
We have just heard of the calamitous event of Norfolk . I have not heard whether any persons are named to recieve donations for the relief of the poor sufferers, and therefore take the liberty of inclosing two hundred dollars to you, & of asking the favor of you to have it applied in the way you think best, for the relief of such description of sufferers as you shall think best. I pray not to...
105From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Munroe, 28 May 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of last night is this moment recieved. no apologies are necessary for calling on me on business. it is to do business that I am placed here, and I meet the duties of my office not only without repugnance but with desire. I recieve yourself particularly with pleasure whenever the business of your office requires it. my hours of greatest convenience are from ten to one. subjects which...
106From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 15 December 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Genl. Sumpter has arrived here and I have this morning had a conversaton with him on the subject of the law of S. Carolina against the transportation of slaves across that state. he says there would be no doubt of the success of an application to the legislature while in session for a special permission, & that he met large emigrations of slaves going on upon that assurance but the legislature...
107From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Paine, 9 October 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Your 2d. letter on the subject of gunboats came to hand just before my departure from Monticello. in the mean time the enquiry into the proposition had been referred, agreeably to our usage, & to reason, to the practical persons of the department to which it belonged, deemed most skilful. on my arrival here I found the answers of the persons to whom it was referred, the substance of which I...
108From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Lehré, 8 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the reciept of your favor of Oct. 14. & to thank you for the information it contained. while the opposition to the late laws of embargo has in one quarter amounted almost to rebellion & treason, it is pleasing to know that all the rest of the nation has approved of the proceedings of the constituted authorities. the steady union, which you mention, of our fellow citizens of...
109From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Beale Ewell, 15 June 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I see with real concern the situation in which you are placed, and fear you do not form a true judgment of it yourself. you are charged by certain persons with improper acts. the Secretary of the Navy is in duty bound to have the charge investigated. you decline attending that investigation. the consequence will be that innocent things may be made appear otherwise, merely for want of...
110From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Freeman, 16 November 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of mr Freeman, as he will be in the Mathematical shops in Philadelphia to endeavor to procure for him an accurate compass for surveying, with 2. pair of sights moving concentrically, an outer graduated circle with a Nonius to take angles accurately without regard to the needle, with it’s ball & socket & staff. he believes they are called Circumferentors but is not...