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I acknowledge with many thanks your kind letter giving me an account of your application to Mr Cabell . I shall be able in a year or two to form a very interesting collection of American ores and minerals, which I shall so form and arrange as to be an elementary collection for the use of Tyro’s in my part of the back Country, rather than a curious collection for the amusements amusement of...
ENCLOSED you will find my draft No. 280, on Tho s Nelson , C r of Ls— for, Dollars, 8.580— the amount of warrant No. 95— issued by the Secretary of the Treasury — on receipt whereof be pleased to favor me with an early acknowledgment
I shall always acknowledge with grateful sensibility my obligations to you for your very friendly application to the secretary of the navy in favor of my son Mann — Mann waited on him in Washington , was very kindly received by him, and assured of obtaining a warrant so soon as there is a vacancy—The profession he has chosen, I confess, is not perfectly agreable to me, but he has a right to...
I omitted to inform you of a Sale I made on the 8 th Ins t of 138 Bbls of your Superfine flour to W m H Hubbard at 6$ on 60 days time— I have since then disposed of the remainder of it say 81 Bbls Superfine & 36 Fine to Smith & Riddle on the Same time at 6¼$— in this last sale is included 41 Bbls Superfine delivered me by mr Warwick by direction of Colo l Randolph
Thy favor of the 25 th Ult o requesting a postponement of the time fixed on by me for the settlement of the Accounts between the Parties, in the case of Gilliam v Fleming , I received in due course of Mail, and would have replied to it sooner, had I not have expected Skelton Jones , (to whom thou hadst written on the same subject) to have called on me and signified his assent to the...
I expect to go to Richmond tomorrow, and as soon as I see M r Randolph , I will communicate to him the contents of your letter of yesterday — The proposition to pay the Rent of Shadwell Mill in Flour, in lieu of money, will be very agreable to me, and probably will be equally so to M r Randolph ,—under any possible arrangement we must sustain a considerable loss this year—at the present money...
I send you remarks on your letter to Mr Carr: not much differing from the spirit and substance of my former letter . I do not disagree with you in the least as to the measure of national happiness in the two countries, but the worst government in other respects is certainly the most powerful. Your plan of a Militia, I and Gen l John Steele took pains to recommend about the year 1802–3 but he...
It has been stated to me that the term for which you rented your mills is about to expire, and that the present tenant will not continue longer, if this be correct, Permit me to enquire whether you are disposed to rent them again, and if you have made any disposition of them.—Being unknown to you, it may not be improper merely to mention, that I have been some years engaged in the milling...
I have just been informed that the Federal Marshal of this District, has resigned his office, in consequence of which, the President , I presume, will make an early appointment of a succeessor—Permit me Sir, to solicit your friendship as early as possible upon the occasion. I remain with the highest respect RC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “Thomas Jefferson late P. U. States Washingtn ”; endorsed...
I received a few weeks ago your letter containing answers to some questions respecting the Constitution of Virginia , for which I return you many thanks. I have taken the liberty of again addressing you, to call your attention to the enclosed Prospectus of a new Periodical Work to w h I intend to devote my exclusive attention. Should the Plan meet your approbation, & should you think the work...