1Thomas Jefferson to Joel Barlow, 29 July 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I fear I shall overload yourself, if not your ship, with my accumulated commissions. the inclosed publications will, I think be acceptable to men of mind in any country. will you be so good as to deliver them according to their respective addresses, and accept renewed assurances of my great esteem and respect PoC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “M r Barlow”; endorsed by TJ. Enclosures not identified.
2Thomas Jefferson to Joel Barlow, 16 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I felicitate you sincerely on your destination to Paris , because I believe it will contribute both to your happiness and the public good. yet it is not unmixed with regret. what is to become of the history of the our Post-revolutionary history ? of the antidotes of truth to the misrepresentations of Marshal ? this example proves the wisdom of the maxim never to put off to tomorrow what can be...
3Thomas Jefferson to Joel Barlow, 31 December 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
In removing my effects from Washington I had the misfortune of having a trunk stolen, which, besides papers of irretrievable value, contained other things highly prized, & among them nothing more so than a Dynamometer I had just recieved from France . the Agricultural society of the Seine had sent me one of Guillaume’s ploughs, which, by that instrument was proved to require but half the force...
4Thomas Jefferson to Joel Barlow, 11 May 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Since the packet with which I troubled you on the 16 th of April , I have recieved the inclosed letter from for Gen l Kosciuszko ; it is from mr Barnes , his agent here, covering a remittance of £200. sterling to the General on account of interest arising on his money in our funds & banks. I cannot avoid solliciting your care of it, knowing it’s importance to the comfort of the General . it...
5Thomas Jefferson to Joel Barlow, 8 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
It is long since I ought to have acknoleged the reciept of your most excellent oration on the 4 th of July. I was doubting what you could say, equal to your own reputation, on so hackneyed a subject. but you have really risen out of it with lustre, and pointed to others a field of great expansion. a day or two after I recieved your letter to Bishop Gregoire a copy of his diatribe to you came...
6Thomas Jefferson to Joel Barlow, 22 July 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I had not supposed a letter would still find you at Washington . yours by last post tells me otherwise. those of May 2. & 15 had been recieved in due time. with respect to my books, if lodged at the President’s house , if you should see mr Coles , the
7Thomas Jefferson to Joel Barlow, 24 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 15 th is recieved & I am disconsolate on learning my mistake as to your having a dynamometer. my object being to bring a plough to be made here to the same standard of comparison by which Guillaume’s has been proved, t nothing less would be satisfactory than an instrument made by the same standard. I must import one therefore, but how, in the present state of non-intercourse is...