6561From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn, 5 November 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of Oct. 29. informing me of the shipment of my stores to Col o Peyton; and I have this day desired him to remit you immediately the 73D.93C am t of freight, duties & other charges, which I trust will get safely to hand, and with my thanks for your kindness be pleased to accept the assurance of my great esteem and respect. DLC : Blair-Woodbury Family Papers.
6562Thomas Jefferson to Frederick C. Schaeffer, 7 January 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of Dec. 30. with a pamphlet on pauperism, and a request of my opinion on the subject. but the state of my health is such, as well as the injunctions of my physician as to oblige me to withdraw from the labors of the writing table, to which I am no longer equal. the evil of pauperism is great, and growing pari passu with our great cities, to which all the...
6563Thomas Jefferson’s Statement of Account with Philip Mazzei’s Estate, 5 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Dollars 1808. Oct. 7. paid M c Graw attorney in the suit for the lot 50. 1813. July 14. recieved the price of the lot on sale 6342. 6292 1817. July 14. Interest on 6292. D @ 6. p r cent. 4. years 1510.
6564From Thomas Jefferson to Oliver Parsons, 14 February 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of Jan. 29. in which you are pleased to request a copy of my works to be deposited in your library. I have never published any work but the Notes on Virginia, of which I have but a single copy, and they are now very rarely to be found. all other writings of mine have been of an official character, and are only to be found among the public documents of the times...
6565From Thomas Jefferson to Horatio Gates Spafford, 1 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Apr. 8. has been recieved. the gazetteer you are so kind as to propose sending to me may come safely by mail, and I return you, by anticipn, my thanks for this attention. my reading now is for amusement rather than instruction in the wane of body cannot be unattended with that of the mind. extreme debility has obliged me to retire from all other business, and the only serious...
6566To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 16 May 1824 (Madison Papers)
You will see by the inclosed letter from mr. Cabell that a project is in agitation respecting Wm. & Mary Coll. which gives him much alarm. I communicate to you the letter as he requests, and with it my answer, as shewing the point in which I view it. I will ask their return when read, that I may be enabled to lodge my answer in Richmd. before his arrival there. On the question of engaging a...
6567Thomas Jefferson to William Lambert, 2 July 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to mr Lambert for the paper he has been so kind as to inclose to him for the University of Virginia , which shall be taken care of for that Institution. as to himself he has long since withdrawn his mind from all attention to difficult subjects, finding that lighter reading is more congenial with the quiet & repose which age and debility now render his summum...
6568From Thomas Jefferson to John Browne Cutting, 18 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly rec d your favor of the 9 th at which date it seems you had not rec d mine of the 2 d but as it must have got to hand very soon after I do not further answer your last. mine contained all the informn I possess and one document (the press copy) of your account) which in case of miscarriage, cannot be renewed. MHi .
6569Thomas Jefferson to Lewis D. Belair, 21 September 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments and thanks to mr Belair for the pamphlet he has been so kind as to send him on the Coalition and France . he sees with infinite pleasure that finest of all countries rising from her afflictions, and especially her acquisition of the freest and purest of all the European constitutions, which with her physical advantages cannot fail to enlarge and...
6570From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Bernard, 23 June 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you Sir for the copy of your Polyglot grammar which you have been so kind as to send me. the comparative view it presents of the grammars of diff t languages is curious and useful. I have looked over it with much satisfn and being withdrawn myself from the contempln of metaphysical subjects, (and none is more so than Grammar,) I am happy in having an oppty of placing it at once where...