3331To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 11 September 1801 (Madison Papers)
I have no letter from you by the mail, whence I conclude I may possibly recieve something by private conveyance. A letter from miss Paine to Virginia Randolph saying nothing of your health makes me hope it is reestablished. I inclose you a letter from Genl. Saml. Smith with Barney’s letter to him. It contains matters worthy of some attention. I do not believe that Murray would endeavor to...
3332From Thomas Jefferson to John Bullus, 6 January 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Dr. Bullas and returns him the other volume of Bell, certain parts of which he has read with great satisfaction. he asks the favor of him to let him know how much he is in his debt for his kind attendance on him, and has the satisfaction to inform him that his finger is entirely well, & the nail has protruded about one fifth of the whole length....
3333From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 12 January 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night information that 2. tons of nail rod were shipped from Philadelphia for me. they will probably be at Richmond by the last of this month. after writing my letter to you of yesterday I recieved your’s of the 8th. mr Minor is not obliged to recieve nails as his contract was for money. you had not mentioned to me the debt of 30. D. to John Carr for 6. barrels of corn. I have...
3334From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 3 June 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours by yesterday’s mail is recieved & I now return Pinckney’s & Graham’s letters. I thought it best to forward the passport for Hill’s vessel to mr Graham direct lest it should lose a post by going in to Montpelier. with mr Grymes’s request of a vessel I can do nothing till further advised. the application is new, and I think unnecessary, as I presume the trade to N.O. is sufficiently open...
3335Memorandum from Thomas Jefferson, 29 May 1804 (Madison Papers)
Tomson J. Skinner of Massachusets to be Commissioner of loans for Massachus⟨etts.⟩ William Few of New York to be Commissioner of loans for New York Daniel Humphreys of New Hampshire to be Atty. for the US. in the district of New Ha⟨mpshire.⟩ Thomas Rutter of Maryland to be Marshal for the district of Maryland. Joshua Prentiss of Massachusets to be Surveyor of the of Marblehead and Inspector of...
3336From Thomas Jefferson to James Oldham, 7 February 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for your attention to my little commission of the Mahogany and now inclose you an order on Messrs. Gibson & Jefferson for 37. D 50 c reimbursement of the amount with my salutations and best wishes for your success & welfare. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
3337I. Topics for Inaugural Address, 8 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Genl. topics the advantages of a peaceful system. that if once our debt is paid & taxes liberated, the surplus (after supportg. govmt) will supply annual exp. of war so that no other tax need ever be laid. removals from office. Philosophy licentiousness of press. MS ( DLC : TJ Papers, 234:41878); in TJ’s hand; undated; Documents III and V are on reverse side of same sheet.
3338From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 1 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I suppose Davy will set out tomorrow, and of course that he will hardly be back to Monticello before the 13th. in the mean time the season is advancing. I think therefore you had better take up the thorns in the Nursery, & plant them in the hedge of the South orchard as soon as the weather becomes favorable for it. the plants are to be every where 6. inches apart. a caution very strictly to be...
3339From Thomas Jefferson to John Breckinridge, 7 August 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
The office of Attorney General for the US. being not yet permanently filled, I have an opportunity of proposing it for your acceptance. both it’s duties & it’s emoluments are too well known to you to render it necessary for me to particularize them. I shall with the greater pleasure learn that you accede to my wishes in availing the public of your services, as your geographical position will...
3340From Thomas Jefferson to Owen Roberts, 18 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th Jefferson presents his respectful compliments to Doctor Rogers, & his thanks for the communication in his letter of September 12th. not recieved till the 3d. inst. the sentiments contained in his address are truly republican, and, were they as general as they are laudable, woul leave us without uneasiness under any unfriendly dispositions of the other hemisphere. Catalog--Rubinfine.
3341From Thomas Jefferson to Isaac Briggs, 8 July 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson salutes mr Briggs with friendship and incloses him an order of the bank of the US. here on that at Philadelphia for the remaining 200. Dollars. Privately owned.
3342From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 6 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
What I now write you must be as secret as the grave. there is at length an unanimity of opinion as to a mission to Petersbg. but some difference as to the time, whether now or not till the meeting of the Senate. but the latter opinion will I think give way to the importance of the mission being so secret that it shall be suspected by no mortal until it is arrived in Petersburg. I write you...
3343Memorandum Books, 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Jan. 1. Gave in Charity 5.D. 2. Lemaire’s accounts Dec. 25—31. Provisions for servts. 30. meat 180 ℔
3344From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Priestley, 29 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Dec. 12. came duly to hand, as did the 2d. letter to Dr. Linn and the treatise on Phlogiston, for which I pray you to accept my thanks. the copy for mr Livingston has been delivered together with your letter to him, to mr Harvie, my secretary, who departs in a day or two for Paris, & will deliver them himself to mr Livingston, whose attention to your matter cannot be doubted. I...
3345From Thomas Jefferson to John Holmes Freeman, 13 July 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I shall leave this place on the 21st. breakfast at Edgehill on the 24th. and proceed with the family immediately after breakfast to Monticello. I will thank you therefore to direct the houseservants to be in place. there are by this time at Richmond 10. or 12. packages which I hope will get up to Monticello by the time I do. I have not heard, but am in hopes you will have finished the work at...
3346From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 30 August 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
There can be no doubt that Foronda’s claim for the money advanced to Lt. Pike should be repaid; & while his application to yourself is the proper one, we must attend to the money’s being drawn from the proper fund, which is that of the war department. I presume therefore it will be necessary for you to apply to Genl. Dearborne to furnish the money. will it not be proper to rebut Foronda’s...
3347From Thomas Jefferson to Manchot, 21 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I am happy to recieve you at the seat of the Government of the United States, to take you and your nation by the hand, and to welcome you to this place. It has long been my desire to see the distinguished men of the Poutewatamies, and to give them the same assurances of friendship and good will which I have given to all my other red Children. I wish to see them living in plenty and prosperity,...
3348From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Smith, 3 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieve your letter of yesterday in the kind light in which you intended it, and as it suggests not a loss of you in our administration but only a change of position, I permit myself to consider whether it will lessen our difficulty. it brings the question to this point whether it is easier to find an Attorney general or a Secretary of the Navy? I apprehend it is easiest to find the former....
3349From Thomas Jefferson to Nicoll Fosdick, 1 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
It is long since I recieved your favor of Nov. 12. and although business has prevented my answering it sooner, I have not been unmindful of the favor of the information it contained, and of the kindness of the communication. after the clamor which had been raised against me on account of a former letter written to the same person & published by him, I had imagined he would be more circumspect...
3350From Thomas Jefferson to William Jones, 4 February 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson requests the favour of The Honble. Capt. Jones to dine with him on Monday next, the 7th. Instant at half after three, or at whatever later hour the house may rise. Friday Febr: 4th. 1803. The favour of an answer is asked. RC ( PHi ); printed form, with blanks filled by Meriwether Lewis reproduced in italics; addressed by Lewis: “The Honble. Capt. Jones”; also on address sheet in...
3351From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 12 January 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you some poetry, but am not sure whether I may not have sent you the same pieces before. my letters to your Mama will have informed you of my having been indisposed with a swelled face. it rose, suppurated, and has left me with a hard swelling still on the jawbone, which however I am in hopes will go down. it still confines me to the house for fear cold should affect it. otherwise I am...
3352From Thomas Jefferson to Ryland Randolph, 24 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The office of Surveyor & Collector for the port of Richmond having become vacant, it occurred that being in the part of the country where you have chiefly resided it might perhaps be acceptable to you. it’s emoluments are indeed very small (not exceeding I believe 400. D.) but I believe the trouble it gives is small in proportion. as there was not an opportunity of consulting you the...
3353From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 8 February 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
In questions like the present, important neither in principle nor amount, I think the Collectors should decide for themselves, and especially as they, and they only, are the legally competent judges: for I believe the law makes them the judges of the security. if the indulgence proposed be within the intentions of the law, they can grant it: if it be not, we cannot. but it is the practice in...
3354VIII. Referral of the Draft to Levi Lincoln (Jefferson Papers)
Will you be so good as to give the inclosed a scrupulous examination, and suggest any alterations for the better, and without any reserve. the sooner you return it the better, as, when it has been separately examined and amended by the gentlemen, I mean to ask their joint attendance to consider it finally. RC ( MHi : Levi Lincoln Papers); undated or date clipped; endorsed by Lincoln as 25 Nov....
3355From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Harrison Smith, 21 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Can mr Smith print 50. copies of the inclosed within a week from this time for Th: Jefferson? he would wish to have it an 8vo. page on a 4to. leaf, so that the leaf may bind up either with the Philosoph. transactions, or Maese’s dictionary. RC ( DLC : J. Henley Smith Papers); addressed: “Mr. Samuel H. Smith”; endorsed by Smith. Smith charged TJ $3.50 for printing 50 copies of the enclosure,...
3356From Thomas Jefferson to William H. Cabell, 24 July 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 20th. has been duly recieved. the relation in which we stand with the British naval force within our waters is so new, that differences of opinion are not to be wondered at respecting the captives who are the subject of your letter. are they insurgents against the authority of the laws? are they public enemies acting under the orders of their sovereign? or will it be more correct...
3357From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Willson Peale, 6 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose, for the use of my grandson a draught of the bank of the US. here on that at Philadelphia for 56. D. having added to the usual sum 6. Dollars, which I pray him to call & pay to mr Dobson for me, for books lately recieved from him. I begin already to be much occupied in preparing for my departure to those scenes of rural retirement after which my soul is panting. I salute you...
3358From Thomas Jefferson to Walter Jones, Jr., 12 August 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this day recieved the resignation of J. T. Mason as Attorney for the district of Columbia. I wish on this occasion to avail the public of your talents, and therefore propose the appointment to you, asking the favor of as early an answer as you can give me, as I learn that at some court early in next month, the presence of an Atty for the district at the trial of 2. criminals will be...
3359Opinion on George Walker’s Case, 14 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
On considering the case between the Commissioners and mr George Walker relative to the Semicircular area at the intersection of K. and 17th. streets & the Pensylva & Kentucky avenues, there appear but two ways in which that Area can be disposed of agreeably to law & practice. 1. we may continue the sd. streets & avenues to the Water street. there would then be no reasonable cause for laying...
3360From Thomas Jefferson to United States House of Representatives, 30 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
According to the request of the House of Representatives, expressed in their resolution of the 25th. instant, I now lay before them a copy of my proclamation of the 19th. of April last. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.