1Thomas Jefferson to Samuel H. Smith, 6 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of mr Smith to print for him 100. copies of the within letter each on a separate sheet of 4 to letter paper. he would be glad to have them by Thursday evening if practicable. he salutes him with esteem & respect. RC ( DLC : Henley Smith Papers); dateline at foot of text; endorsed by Smith. Not recorded in SJL . Samuel Harrison Smith (1772–1845) was born in...
2Thomas Jefferson to Samuel H. Smith, 3 August 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letter came to hand yesterday by mail after your departure. presuming it could not find you at the President’s , I have thought it best to return it to you at Washington where you will probably find it on your return. I hope mrs Smith & yourself will have performed your journey in good health & without accident, and shall be very happy if you shall have found the same pleasure in...
3Thomas Jefferson to Samuel H. Smith, 6 August 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a letter from D r Barton to myself, with a note from him expressing a wish it might appear in your paper; which wish he repeated verbally in a visit he paid me lately. as there seems to be a dearth of news at present, perhaps it may be as acceptable to your readers as any thing else: but of this you are to judge for yourself. I am in arrears with you for the last year. if you...
4Thomas Jefferson to Samuel H. Smith, 15 August 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Altho’ sollicitation for appointment is generally an irksome office, it is rendered the less so on in the present instance by the occasion it furnishes of addressing you after so long an interval. first then as to the direct object. Joseph Dougherty , who lived with me 8. years in Washington rather as a riding agent than as the head of my stable, informs me you are appointed Commissioner of...
5Thomas Jefferson to Samuel H. Smith, 23 August 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Sam l H. Smith , & his thanks for the oration he has been so kind as to send him. he has read it with great pleasure, and sympathises in all it’s sentiments sincerely, one excepted, respecting the exhausting our resources on a navy. our strength is on the land, & weakness on the water. our enemies’ strength is on the water, at land nothing. and...
6Thomas Jefferson to Samuel H. Smith, 21 September 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I am imposing a task on your friendship which needs much apology, and will be explained in the letter accompanying this. it is to offer my library to the library committee of Congress . I would not have trespassed on your time so much, but that I hope it will give you little trouble. the delivery of the accompanying letter (which is written separately with that view) and the Catalogue will...
7Thomas Jefferson to Samuel H. Smith, 21 September 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I learn from the Newspapers that the Vandalism of our enemy has triumphed at Washington over science as well as the Arts, by the destruction of the public library with the noble edifice in which it was deposited. of this transaction, as of that of Copenhagen , the world will entertain but one sentiment. they will see a nation suddenly withdrawn from a great war, full armed and full handed,...
8Thomas Jefferson to Samuel H. Smith, 11 October 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
In the letter which accompanied my catalogue I promised an Alphabetical Index of Author’s names referring to the chapters of the catalogue in which the titles of their works would be found at large. I have just finished & now inclose it. mr Millegan will be so good as to stitch it in at the end of the catalogue, the paper being of the same format. My affairs at a distant possession (in Bedford...
9Thomas Jefferson to Samuel H. Smith, 29 October 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of the 19 th and 21 st were recieved by our mail of the day before yesterday. presuming that the proposition in my letter of Sep. 21. was not sufficiently explained, I will state more particularly the course I had supposed the transaction would have taken. the proposition was that the books should be valued by persons named by the committee themselves, and the payment made in...
10Thomas Jefferson to Samuel H. Smith, 30 January 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Presuming that my Catalogue has by this time answered all the purposes of information as to the contents of my library, and needing it almost daily myself, I will ask the favor of it’s return; but only in the case of it’s being no longer useful to the Committee . I propose, on recieving it, to commence the task of reducing the whole mass exactly to the arrangement of the Catalogue, some...