31From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., [after 27 September 1792] (Jefferson Papers)
There being a possibility that the books or papers which Colo. Lewis gave in to me might be called for in some settlement, I meant to ask you to take the trouble of noting where they are, and of delivering them out either to Colo. Lewis or his son should they be wanting. The papers occupy three of the four pigeon holes at the right hand bottom corner of my press. The labels on the three...
32From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 2 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the receipt of yours of May 16. with the information always pleasing of your being all well.—In addition to the news which you will see in the papers, we now have the certainty of Dumourier’s operation. He had proposed an armistice to the Prince of Saxe Cobourg, which was agreed to on condition of his withdrawing his troops from the Netherlands. He did so. It was then...
33From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 6 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed papers will inform you of some checks the French have lately received. They are confounded and multiplied in the papers. The truth is that a combined operation in three different parts took place the first days of March, under Clairfayt, Saxe-Cobourg and Brunswick, every one of which succeeded. The first killed and wounded 1400, and took 600. The second killed and wounded 4000....
34From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 8 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
This was my day of course for writing to Maria, but business obliges me to postpone her till the next Sunday, which I have the better right to do as I have not yet received a letter from her.—I inclose you a second letter received from Mr. Leroy in reply to a second which I wrote to him. I thought it not amiss to cultivate his good dispositions as these might facilitate the sheltering your...
35From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 17 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Immediately on the receipt of your letter of Oct. 31. I extracted what was necessary from it and wrote to Mr. LeRoy. His answer has produced a state of things with which you are probably unacquainted; which however, tho it presents a much broader scene, may present also more security for you, than that which we had understood to exist. The debt from Colo. Randolph to Mr. LeRoy and others is in...
36From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 28 March 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived here on the 21st. inst. after as laborious a journey of a fortnight from Richmond as I ever went through; resting only one day at Alexandria and another at Baltimore. I found my carriage and horses at Alexandria, but a snow of 18. inches deep falling the same night, I saw the impossibility of getting on in my own carriage, so left it there to be sent to me by water, and had my horses...
37From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 13 February 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 1st. inst. came to hand on the 11th. which is quicker than has been usual. I see by an advertisement in the Virginia papers that the post to Charlottesville and Staunton is now established, so that on your return to Monticello I am in hopes you will find a more certain and quick conveyance than we have hitherto had for our letters. I will thank you for information of the days...
38From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 23 November 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you from George town inclosing some seed of the best white wheat. Our journey here was without accident, except that of retardation by the rains. Our delay happened however at the Susquehanna, where the abundance of Sheldrakes was some solace. My newly purchased horse ( Brimmer ) performed well; I drove him a good deal in the carriage. I do not think he lost a pound of flesh on the...
39From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 1 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknowlege the reciept of your favour of Apr. 7. which came to hand on the 20th. I hope my letters on the subject of my tobacco have got to hand in time to prevent any contract there interfering with the sale I made here. I learn that 4. hhds. more are coming on. Being entitled to the highest price given before payment, I believe I shall be sure of 5⅓ dollars which will neat me 29/3...
40From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 19 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 8th. came to hand yesterday. I received one at the same time of May 13. from Dr. Currie expressing his hope that Colo. T. Randolph would get the better of his complaints. This circumstance with that of your being all returned to Monticello in good health is most pleasing to my mind. Maria appears entirely recovered. At least I am relieved from apprehensions as to the nature...
41From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 6 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 5. came to hand on the 24th. and that of Mar.14. on the 1st. inst. With respect to Mr. Thompson it has been understood that his circumstances are desperate and that he is fond of the bottle. At the time the first appointments of consuls were made, their circumstances were not attended to, and an appointment or two took place of persons under embarrasments of that kind. We...
42From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 24 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I had always intended to endeavor to engage with some miller of capital here to erect my mill on such plan as he should chuse and then rent it to him for a term of years. Your letter informing me that Mr. Divers and others were proposing to take Mr. Henderson’s mill, but that they had not been able to agree, induces me to suppose it possible they might be willing to take mine. I should propose...
43From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 31 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received yours of the 20th. mentioning the proposition of Mr. John Ashlin to rent Elkhill the ensuing year, paying one fourth of the crop and putting only the low grounds into Indian corn. I do not know what proportion the present tenant was to pay, but it is pretty well established as a rule that where the landlord stocks the land the tenant pays half the produce in rent: where...
44From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 11 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letter to Mr. Madison is extremely confidential. Should it arrive before they set off with my horse, it may be sent by that opportunity; otherwise I will thank you to send a messenger express with it. Having written to you to-day by post I shall only add assurances of the sincere esteem of Dear Sir Your’s affectionately RC ( DLC ); addressed: “Thomas M. Randolph junr. esq....
45From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 24 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I received yesterday your favor of the 14th. Mine of the 2d. ought to have been then at hand, and since that those of the 10th. and 17th. All will have informed you of my health, and being here. I am happy that you think Tarquin will suit you, and insist on your acceptance of him. This is no sacrifice to me, because my sole motive for having thought of parting with him was that he is...
46From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 30 May 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I at length find myself, tho not quite well, yet sufficiently so to resume business in a moderate degree. I have therefore to answer your two favors of Apr. 23. and May 3. and in the first place to thank you for your attention to the Paccan, Gloucester, and European walnuts which will be great acquisitions at Monticello. I will still ask your attention to Mr. Foster’s boring machine, lest he...
47From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 14 August 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I am setting out on a trip to Rhode-island with the President tomorrow, by water. We shall be absent about 5. or 6. days, and of course his departure hence to the Southward will be that much later than he intended, and my departure, which must be after his, a little delayed. Still I hope to reach Monticello by the 15th. of September, or from that to the 20th. We have just concluded a treaty...
48From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 2 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
After having experienced on my journey the extremes of heat, cold, dust and rain, I arrived here yesterday. I found at Baltimore that the stages run no further North, and being from that circumstance thrown into the hands of the harpies who prey upon travellers, was pretty well fleeced to get here. I think from Fredericksburg here with a single servant cost me upwards of seventy dollars....
49Enclosure: Instructions on Timber for Monticello, [ca. 21 January 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Scantling for the operations of 1793 10. Sleepers. 23. feet long: 10 Inches deep. 4. Inches thick. 30. do. 12. feet long. same depth and breadth. 17. do. 18. feet long. same depth and breadth. 10. do. 23. feet long } all these are to be triangular, and to be got in the manner pointed out on the next page. 30. do. 12. feet long 17. do. 18. feet long. 10. do.
50From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 31 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to my daughter on the 24th. since which Maria has received yours of the 13th . Some cold nights lately make us fear for the fruit in Virginia. We have nothing remarkeable from abroad but what you will see in Freneau’s paper. Fenno’s will go to you through Mr. Madison. Private letters strengthen the idea of a civil war in England, and of a very general war through Europe. I am in hopes...
51From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 11 January 179[1] (Jefferson Papers)
I have this day recieved your favor of Dec. It is the first and only news I have had from home since I left it. I have written some scolding letters on this account. I am very sorry for the discontinuance of the Charlottesville post, and will contribute any thing reasonable for it’s reestablishment provided it goes from Charlottesville to Richmond directly, and returns there in like manner. In...
52From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 29 August 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
The President sets out tomorrow. I shall follow two or three days after, so that allowing for stoppages on the road I shall be at Monticello about the 18th. of Sep. unless I should go by the way of Mt. Vernon which will add a delay of two or three days. I hope I shall have the happiness of meeting yourself and my daughters there. Tho’ I count on remaining there a month, yet it will be subject...
53From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 25 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of July 14. I asked the favor of you to send off the horse you had been so kind as to procure for me, on the 1st. of Sep. to meet Tarquin at Georgetown, who is to be sent from hence, there the riders to exchange horses, Tarquin to be carried to Monticello, and the other brought here. I have since that received your letter of July 31. and Maria has received one of Aug. 8. neither...
54From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 21 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
We have as yet no direct confirmation from France of the retreat of the D. of Brunswick. However so many circumstances are stated in the English papers as to leave no doubt of the fact.—Wheat is fallen from 125 to 113 cents. This has been effected by the bank here, which refused to merchants purchasing wheat here the aids it has been in the habit of furnishing. Merchants no longer getting...
55From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 19 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I received yesterday your’s of the 7th. and am sincerely afflicted with the return of Anne’s indisposition. Having little confidence myself in medecine and especially in the case of infants, and a great deal in the efforts of nature, I direct my hopes towards them. Her mother was so much lower for 6 months, and was recovered almost instantaneously by a good breast of milk, that it learnt me to...
56From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 3 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter to my daughter, of the last week, I suggested to her that a possibility had arisen that I might not return home as early as I had determined. It happened unfortunately that the attack made on me in the newspapers came out soon after I began to speak freely and publicly of my purpose to retire this spring, and, from the modes of publication, the public were possessed of the former...
57From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 20 February 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I received last week your favour from Bizarre. The papers now forwarded will give you the general news. We have an odd story here from Baltimore of Genl. Scott’s having fallen on the Indians and killed 700. of them, tho it was not known that any expedition was meditated. You will perceive that the public effects have fallen. The people begin to see the fallacy and mischeif of the gambling...
58V. Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 3 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to Maria this day sennight, and to Martha three days before, to wit June 23. In this letter I asked information to be obtained from Colo. Lewis relative to my tobo. of which I had heard nothing. But having received the day after a letter from him, giving me full information, I mentioned in mine to Maria, that no notice should be taken of my desire expressed in the letter to her sister....
59From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 15 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 4th. inst. and am happy to hear our prospects of wheat are so good. I the more wonder at it when I recollect we were very late in our sowing last fall. As to Indian corn I think there is yet time for it to come to. I concur with you in opinion that it is a very hurtful culture to such lands as ours. I have been hesitating between it’s total abolition, and...
60From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 18 April 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you on the 28th of March: to Patsy on the 4th. of April, and to Polly on the 11th. I now inclose a letter for Patsy, which being delivered me by Sr. John Temple, I presume comes from one of her friends the lady Tuftons. The best channel for sending an answer will be to send it thro me, Sr. J. Temple and the D. of Leeds’s office. Letters and papers to the 5th. of Feb. from France shew...