391Thomas Jefferson to William W. Woodward, 18 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 30. is recieved, & from the account you give of the size of the 5 th vol. of Scott’s bible I would prefer it’s being divided into two volumes in boards. the balance of 1.75 D shall be included in the first remittance I have occasion to make to any other person in Philadelphia , as I have no particular agent there. the books will come safest if put on board some vessel bound...
392Thomas Jefferson to John Adlum, 20 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of Feb. 15. & Mar. 13. were recieved in due time, but were not acknoleged because I was daily in expectation of the cuttings which should have accompanied the latter. on the 15 th inst. I recieved yours of the 10 th & concluding the bundle of cuttings had been rejected at some post office as too large to pass thro’ that line, I had yesterday, in despair, written my acknolegements...
393Thomas Jefferson to William O. Allen, 20 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of Feb. 9. with the copy of the publication called Love & Madness which it inclosed, & beg leave to return you my thanks for this mark of your attention. when I collected the proofs of the genuineness of Logan’s speech I did not know of this publication containing it. I afterwards recieved it from a friend. but that which you send me is of an edition older by...
394Thomas Jefferson to William Dickson, 20 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Feb. 20. came safely to hand together with the miniature of Governor Lewis & watch string. I immediately sent them to his mother , not doubting that the person who of all others possessed the greatest portion of his affection was the one for whom his wishes would have destined it. the deplorable accident which has placed her in the deepest affliction, is a great loss to the world...
395Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 21 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I found here your letter of the 2 d on my return from a three weeks visit to Bedford : and as I see by a resolution of Congress that they are to adjourn on the 23 d I shall direct the present to Eppington where it may meet you on your passage to Carolina . mr Thweatt is to let me know when I am to set out for
396Thomas Jefferson to Jonathan Shoemaker, 22 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
A little before my departure for Bedford I informed you that the pressures on me for money for corn & other objects would oblige me to rely on you for a very considerable sum of money, of which no delay could be admitted. on my return it was some days before I went to the mill to call on you, & then learned for the first time that you were gone to the Northward & would not be back till June, &...
397Thomas Jefferson to Richard Barry, 27 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
In your letter of Jan. 29. you were so kind as to inform me that mr Latrobe would do me the favor to spare me some window glass. having never heard further of it, I am afraid it has miscarried or lodged by the way. being much in want of it I trouble you with the request to make any necessary enquiries after it, & to be so good as to inform me, so that I may take measures to get it. Accept the...
398Thomas Jefferson to Sylvanus Bourne, 2 May 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Having recieved a letter from the perpetual Secretary of the first class of the royal institute of Sciences, of literature & of fine arts at Amsterdam , I take the liberty of returning the answer under the protection of your Address. it is not always easy to make out foreign names, & especially when subscribed as is frequent, in particular singular forms of character adopted by each individual...
399Thomas Jefferson to Gerardus Vrolik, 2 May 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 10 th of May of the last year came but lately to my hands. I am duly sensible of the honor done me by the first class of the Royal Institute of sciences, of literature, & of fine arts , in associating me to their class, and by the approbation which his Majesty the king of Holland has condescended to give to their choice. his patronage of institutions for extending among...
400Thomas Jefferson to William C. C. Claiborne, 3 May 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letters of Jan. 10. 12. & Feb. 1. came to hand only a fortnight ago. the inclosed contains my answer to the latter, for communication to the Legislature . so many false views on the subject of the Batture have been presented in & out of Congress that duty to myself, as well as justice to the citizens of N. Orleans & of the Western country generally required that I should avail myself of...