871Joel Barlow to Thomas Jefferson, [received 21 July 1811] (Jefferson Papers)
Mammoth Rye . I recieved it last year from France . it is lately from Asia . I sowed 70 grains in my garden. it produced 7483 grains. but they are not so plump as those I sowed. It is heavier than wheat & gives a flour as white. The stalk being more solid than that of common rye it will probably resist the fly. Sow in Sep r — Caspian wheat . recieved with the rye. was extremely plump & heavy,...
872Henry Dearborn to Thomas Jefferson, 23 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
In your letter of the 16 th you were good enough to mention my Son ,— I was inform’d by M r Smith my former principle Clerk that an attempt would probably be made by Pickering to injure the character of my Son as an agent for fortifications, and M r Smith observed that he had mentioned the subject to you & that a postponement was thought advisable of his nomination as an officer in the Army
873William Short to Thomas Jefferson, 19 November 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I was exploring the Jersey mountains in search of a farm when your favor of the 15 th Oct. was forwarded here, agreeably to directions left with my agent at Philadelphia , as to my letters. I did not succeed in my search but hope to be more successful next year.— Let me now express all my thanks for your kindness as to Ind. Camp —I am indeed truly obliged by it, & prefer much the plan of...
874General Republican Committee of the City and County of New York to Thomas Jefferson, 16 September 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The Republican citizens of the City and County of New York , by their resolution unanimously passed, at a general meeting, determined to signify to you the high sense which they entertain of your virtues, talents and valuable services to our beloved country, together with their full approbation of the measures pursued during your administration. By the same resolution they have rendered us the...
875André Thoüin to Thomas Jefferson, 18 December 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Permettez-moi de vous présenter un de nos Savans confrères, M r Lakanal , membre dela classe d’histoire et de Littérature Ancienne de notre institut ; homme recommandable par Sa moralité autant que par ses connaissances et aux quels nos institutions Scientifiques ont de grandes obligations. Il quitte notre vieille Europe , dans laquelle la civilisation va en retrogradant, pour Se fixer lui et...
876Benjamin Smith Barton to Thomas Jefferson, 12 April 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be handed to you by Judge Woodward , whose great merits, in various respects, are not unknown to you. The Judge is about to visit you, for the purpose of your position concerning a work on the “classification of human knowledge,” in which he has long been engaged. I have had frequent conversations with M r Woodward , who has developed to me, at length, the outlines of his plan, in...
877John Adlum to Thomas Jefferson, 27 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I did not receive your favour of the 16 th U lt untill yesterday. I now reside in the neighbourhood of this Town, and have lived here near two years, I heard by accident of your letter being in the Post office of Havre degrace , and wrote to the Post master for it, it was very neglectful of him not to forward it to me, as he knew I resided in this vicinity, As I suppose the person to whom I...
878William A. Burwell to Thomas Jefferson, 22 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Colo Waller Taylor Senator from Indiana has requested me to enclose the papers of Mr Graham for your examination; Mr Graham he informs me is very respectable & attatches considerable importance to the discovery he thinks he has made, But such is the confidence he places in your opinion that it will be abandon’d upon a suggestion of yours from you —I am aware that this will give you trouble,...
879John Barnes to Thomas Jefferson, 20 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
since I had the pleasure of Answering your fav r of the 4 th Ins t M r Geo Williams of Balt o has fav rd me with answer to my 2 d letter to him—on the expected advices from G K
880Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours to Thomas Jefferson, 20 December 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
vous aurez compris à quel point, malgré les bontés dont Madame votre Fille nous a comblés, j’ai regretté de ne vous avoir pas vu dans votre Palais de Mounticello. Si vous y avez lu le mémoire pour les Républiques Equinoxiales, je vous Serais obligé de me le renvoyer, ou directement Si votre franchise de ports de lettre S’étend à ce pouvoir, ou par l’intermédiaire Soit de Monsieur le Président...
881Lewis A. Pauly to Thomas Jefferson, 9 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received the letter you did me the honor to write concerning the succession of peter Piernet deceas d claimed by M r de Beauvois , in right of his Wife , and Which you are so good as to befriend. last summer I received likewise a letter from M r and M rs de Beauvois , requesting my attention to that claim in concert with a
882William Short to Thomas Jefferson, 1 November 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I have delayed, much longer than I had intended, to answer your favor of the 21 st Sep. & to thank you for your wonted kindness in attending to the commission I took the libert e y of troubling you with— It was executed as you expected & ready for me here, whither I came after whiling away the sickly Season in the Jersey & at Morrisville , which you know is become the seat of Gen l Moreau .— I...
883Hugh Holmes to Thomas Jefferson, 17 May 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my return to this place I have procured and now enclose a reciept from One of Our manufacturers for washing merino wool If you have determined to prepare y r merino wool at home for the loom this reciept will be usefull—The filling ought to be spun with a ╳ bond band and but slightly twisted—If however you should prefer Our management of the fabrick ab initio and will send the wool in...
884Skeffington Selby to Thomas Jefferson, 5 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
My friend Tho s Hunt Surviving Partner of the late firm T. & R. Hunt , London — informs me Edm d Pendleton jun r Esq r Caroline County Virginia received from
885Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 6 March 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 25 th ult o is received I should be much pleased to find your opinion to be correct, with regard to a rise in the price of flour in April, we know at present nothing of the markets in Europe on which to form a correct judgement, but my present impression is that they will not justify higher prices, and the quantity required in the West Indies (together with our own consumpt)...
886Edward Coles to Thomas Jefferson, 23 November 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Edward Coles is desired by the President to send M r Jefferson the enclosed papers; and to inform him of the sudden death of the Vice President , who expired after a few moments illness, with a kind of paralytick fit, about one hour since RC ( DLC ); dateline at foot of text; endorsed by TJ as received 26 Nov. 1814 from Washington and so recorded in SJL . Enclosures not found. vice president...
887Joseph Slaughter to Thomas Jefferson, 2 September 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I am willing to attend on Monday next at Aney Place you will name for the purpose of Taking depositions I have Some Business at your Smiths Shop Tomorow and will Call and se you Capt William Irvine is near new London Joel Leftwich David Sanders & Jabas Leftwich if notice is given to take the dep o sitions in new London that will be out of this County I am RC (
888George Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson, 1 September 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I some days since sent on your two dogs by Thomas Becks , having paid him 2$ for their feed, & for his trouble in carrying them up—as he said he was short of provisions, & had nothing to spare them. he promised to feed them well, & to take great care of them. I likewise forwarded by Becks the stolen trunk. I have not heard the particulars of the trial, but am told that the thief was sentenced...
889James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, 4 October 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the pleasure to receive your favor of the 24 th of sep r , to which I shall pay particular attention, and on which I will write you again soon. Nothing but the disasters here, and the duties which have devolvd on me, in consequence, the most burthensome that I have ever encounterd, would have prevented my writing you long since, as well as more recently. I had devoted this morning...
890Henry Andrews to Thomas Jefferson, 7 February 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Prehaps you will be surpriz d and no doubt condem the author of the following lines either as an impudent person or at least conclude him conducted by an overheated immginaton but Sir I beg you to pardon the intrusion and listen a moment to the solicitation of a youth who has through the malice of Enemies together Connected with the frailities of inexperience too much to be regretted by the...
891William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 20 July 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just rec d yours of the 13 th and can only assure you of my constant attention to your interest. I can not think with patience, of your having this repose, to which you are so justly entitled, interrupted, in this way and yet, rather inconsistently I am sincerely pleased at having an opportunity of being any way useful to you: for I am yours in very truth devotedly yours Tr ( MdHi :...
892George Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson, 11 June 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
The nail rod which you have so long expected, and which was shipped from Philadelphia the 12 th of last month , was only received a few days since. It was forwarded to day by a M r Fitch , to whome we had to pay 12/. on account of the carriage. I inclose you a note for your signature, with which to renew the one in the bank. I likewise inclose you a
893Joseph Delaplaine to Thomas Jefferson, [ca. 24 April 1812] (Jefferson Papers)
I will take it as a particular favour if you will give me your name to the Emporium of Arts & Sciences . The value of the subscription is nothing, it is the honor of having your name I am anxious for. RC ( DLC : TJ Papers , 191:33940); undated; subjoined to enclosure; addressed: “Honorable Thomas Jefferson Monticello Virginia”; postmarked Philadelphia , 24 Apr.; endorsed by TJ as received from...
894Nathaniel Macon to Thomas Jefferson, 21 October 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
By M r M c lure I yesterday received the letter, which you wrote to me on the 24, of last month , and have written at his request, two to two of his principal creditors, in each letter I gave an extract from yours; one of the creditors lives in Franklin , the other in Granville , each about 40. miles from me; I was not acquainted with M
895William Roscoe to Thomas Jefferson, 25 April 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I presume upon your well known partiality to liberal & scientific pursuits, to introduce to your notice M r Jn o Bradbury , a Fellow of the Linnean Society who has undertaken a tour thro’ the province of Louisiana , for the purpose of collecting the various specimens of Natural History which it may be found to furnish. Among those who have encouraged his undertaking, in which he will be...
896Thomas Lehré to Thomas Jefferson, 22 April 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 10 th Inst. has just been handed to me, for which be pleased to accept my sincere thanks. I am happy to hear that M r Eppes is elected a member of the 13 th Congress , because, he will then have it in his power, by his great firmness and splendid talents, to aid our Government, in vindicating our honor and rights. The enemies of our present administration, and the British...
897Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours to Thomas Jefferson, 5 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
J’envoie en Amérique trois bons Précurseurs, ma Belle Fille Madame de Pusy que vous y avez déja vue; Sa Fille très aimable qui a eu l’honneur de diner chez vous à Washington quand elle êtait encore enfant, et qui ne dément point ce qu’elle promettait alors; et enfin Maurice de Pusy qui n’avait que trois mois la premiere fois qu’il S’est embarqué pour les Etats-Unis , et qui est devenu...
898John Wayles Eppes to Thomas Jefferson, 21 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 24 th of June has been received and read with great pleasure—If the war continues and with it the present rate of expenditure nothing but a rigid adherence to principles such as you state can secure us against the evils of a permanent debt— The duration of the Taxes reported to the present Session of Congress has been limited to the war and one year after its conclusion in...
899John Porter to Thomas Jefferson, 17 May 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I Am under the Necessity of applying to my friends for Some help from a long Confinement Under the afflicting hand of god with the Rhumatick Complain t is now about 29 years helpless in a Very great measure and am become more So of late years with other Complaints had an inflamation fell in my legs Nearly five years ago with a Braking out all over my legs with a Constant Runing no intermition...
900John Barnes to Thomas Jefferson, 19 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
My last inquiry respecting the good Gen l K. was of the 18 th Nov r last . since when, nothing has transpired with me, to direct, in what mode I should proceed, in Order to transmit him Via London , or Amsterdam —a further Remittance in Course of a M o or two—I have already Interest on hand, to the Amo t of $1130 65/