51Enclosure: Substance of an Address, [ca. 12 January 1802] (Jefferson Papers)
The time is now fully arrived when it has become expedient to decide the fate of the Museum to...
52To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 24 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Believing you would be pleased in knowing my success in a trip up the north river, by the...
53To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 30 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Since the receipt of your favor of the 23d. having the determined size of the Polygraphs, the...
54To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 10 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I was desirous to made enquiry of the Merchant about the Packet which carried your Lamp &...
55To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 14 September 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 12th. ult. enclosing the payment of Sixty Dollars for your small polygraph,...
56To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 11 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour of the 29th. July I did not receive until I had reached the place of bones, when I...
57To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 28 June 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
My son Rembrandt now at Baltemore exhibiting his Skeleton of the Mammoth, writes me as follows....
58To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 12 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
every object which can add to the comforts and conveniences of life are important to us, none...
59To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 20 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
with great reluctance I wrote my last letter to you, for I hold the military profession as the...
60To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 23 April 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Model for a very small Polygraph is now before me, to give a proper answer on it, I must...
61To James Madison from Charles Willson Peale, 21 May 1801 (Madison Papers)
While offering to your acceptance the two enclosed Publications, I am prompted by my knowledge of...
62To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 18 July 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Yesterday General Proctor called on me with the enclosed Letter to make what use I pleased with...
63To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 12 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your small Polygraph sent by Mr. Hawkins I have at last received from New York. It is ingeniously...
64To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 29 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
It gives me pleasure to inform you that I am so far on my return to the Museum with the Bones...
65To James Madison from Charles Willson Peale (Abstract), 17 April 1805 (Madison Papers)
17 April 1805, “Museum.” “Desireous of having some business done in the Patent Office I have...
66To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 2 September 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just received the enclosed Pamphlet with Letters from my Sons —they closed their...
67To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 14 November 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The Polygraph you desire for Mr. Volney is in the hands of my Workmen, who are pleased in the...
68To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 13 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I now write with your Polygraph by way of tryal, and find that it is absolutely necessary to hold...
69To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 2 July 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The machinery to make your Inkpots moovable will be sent by tomorrows post, the only difficulty...
70To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 19 May 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 15th Instant received yesterday. The Cabinet work of your Polygraph is nearly...
71To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 28 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Polygraph for Mr. Volney $60.— The Polygraph at Washington & that at Monticella being 60$...
72To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 23 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
It is to be regreted that you had not sent sooner, when we might have sent you some of Coll....
73To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 29 April 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Your drawings of a Polygraph I received in due time. It was my intention to have wrote, that you...
74To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 14 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Wishing to find some means of improving the Machinery of your Polygraph, I have since writing the...
75To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 1 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
It will give me pleasure to meet your wishes in every thing which may tend to the benefit and...
76To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 5 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 27th. Ult. and 1st. Instant I have received.—A Polygraph with the alterations you...
77To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 18 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
When I wrote last, the 10th. Ult., the head of a Common Ox then before me was so imperfect as to...
78Enclosure I, Diagram: Top of Bison Skull, 10 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
View of the Upper Part From the Suter H the center of the Head to root of the horn I 7 Inches...
79To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 10 January 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received letters from my Sons dated Octr 14th, about two weeks after they had opened their...
80To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 3 June 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The Baron requests me to present his compliments that he will do himself the pleasure to wait on...
81To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 18 December 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Polygraph will be put into the Mail Stage on tomorrow. Desiring to make it as correct as...
82Diagram: Fossil Skull from Kentucky, 18 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
View of Bone from Kentucky, presented the American Philosophical Society. MS ( DLC : TJ Papers,...
83To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 10 November 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Having finished your Polygraph, I find it performs very well; therefore I have put the Pens as...
84To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 5 April 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The Skins of the several Antilopes was so badly managed in the Skining, and also so much eaten by...
85To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 6 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your obliging letter wrote at the moment you were setting out for Monticello,—I sent to my Son...
86To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 21 June 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I am pleased that I can announce to you what I esteem an important improvement of the machinery...
87To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 30 October 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
By the Mail Stage I have sent you two Polygraphs in one Box. The ease with which writing may be...
88To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 23 September 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 15th. also the Model I have received—and I doubt not by clamping the boards...
89To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 22 July 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Polygraph is in the Schooner Charming Mary, Captn. Potter, now on his passage to Richmond—It...
90To James Madison from Charles Willson Peale, 19 March 1806 (Madison Papers)
The three Polygraphs intended as presents for Tripoli are finished, but finding I was too late to...
91To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 8 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received yours of the 6th. Instant enclosing fifty Six Dollars for the use of Mr. Randolph...
92To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 10 February 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
In conversation with a friend this morning as the Indians were leaving this City, he said they...
93To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 25 November 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Puting some of the Machinery togather will complete the Polygraph you intend for Mr. Volney—It is...
94To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 22 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Hawkins has not in any of his letters to me, said a word about the price of the Polygraph he...
95To James Madison from Charles Willson Peale, 14 February 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
14 February 1803, Museum. “Be pleased to accept the inclosed. Should you ever meet me in the...
96To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 8 October 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Several days I have been meditating to write and give you a description of Mr. Hawkins’s...
97To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 24 May 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Polygraph was nearly finished before I received your favor of the 21st. Instant, and your...
98To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 12 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just returned from a journey into Montgomery County or your letter of the 1st. Instant...
99To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 12 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I was in the country when your note encloseing a Check for fifty Dollars, for the use of Mr....
100To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 2 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
After a long silence Rembrandt again communicates to me, dated London March 28th.—1803. “ The...