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...
6571Thomas Jefferson to William C. Rives, 28 November 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
The distresses of our country, produced first by the flood, then by the ebb of bank paper are such as cannot fail to engage the interposition of the legislature . many propositions will of course be offered, from all of which something may probably be culled to make a good whole. I explained to you my project, when I had the pleasure of possessing you here; and I now send it’s outline in...
6572From Thomas Jefferson to William Hilliard, 31 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 3 d was duly recieved, and 4. of the 5. boxes of books have come safely to hand. nothing is heard yet, I believe, of the 5 th probably the 4. might be as many as the waggon could take in, and the 5 th may await another conveyance. in that, I expect is contained the volumes of some of the works which are missing. but this is conjecture only, for I have been confined to the...
6573Thomas Jefferson to John Wood, 7 August 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of July 27. has been recieved here, with the copies of the Quaeres proposed for Bedford and Albemarle counties. in the former county I am so total a stranger that I know not a single person to whom I could commit it’s paper with any confidence of answers to it’s enquiries. but I will put it into the hands of some one better acquainted with the characters of the county. I shall...
6574Thomas Jefferson’s Explanations of the Three Volumes Bound in Marbled Paper (the so-called "Anas"), 4 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Explanations of the 3. volumes bound in Marbled paper In these 3. vols will be found copies of the official opinions given in writing by me to Gen l Washington , while I was Secretary of state, with sometimes the documents belonging to the case. some of these are the rough draughts, some press-copies, some fair ones. in the earlier part of my acting in that office I took no other note of the...
6575Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel F. Moore, 22 September 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Sir, for the Remarks on the pronuntiation of the Greek language which you have been so kind as to send me. I have read them with pleasure, as I had the pamphlet of mr Pickering on the same subject. this question has occupied long & learned enquiry, and cannot, as I apprehend, be ever positively decided. very early in my classical days I took up the idea that the antient Greek...
6576Thomas Jefferson to Peter Stephen Chazotte, 29 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to mr Chazotte for the copy he has been so kind as to send him of his Essay on the best method of teaching languages, and he sees with pleasure the great attention now shewn to facilitate the communication of instruction to youth. besides the good which each method offers in itself, it adds that of inducing others to improve on it, and the result must be happy...
6577From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Abbot Cummings, 22 April 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my last of the 9 th I have recieved representations from the faculty of our Professors, on the subject of the annual importations of the Periodicals desired by the Visitors. they say that to answer their views it is indispensable that they should come at shorter intervals, quarterly, for example, at least. I must therefore correct the request in that letter, and pray you to direct your...
6578Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Gilmore, 12 May 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Colclaser delivered me the note you left with him. I should not have occasion for constant employment of a person in your line at present however I should be glad to employ in you in putting up a wooden wall at the West end of my large mill instead of the stone one which must be taken down, and in building my sawmill on this side of the river , where also I propose to erect a geered...
6579Thomas Jefferson to Rejoice Newton, 8 December 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I owe my thanks to the American Antiquarian society for the honor done me some time ago since, in electing me a member of their useful and much respected society, of which I recieve a diploma attested by yourself. I accept it as a mark of their good will, and not with the hope of meriting it by any service I can render. I may say with Seneca ‘ senex sum, et curis levissimis impar .’ age and...
6580Thomas Jefferson to James P. Preston, 1 December 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
In obedience to the law establishing the University of Virginia the Visitors of that institution , at their last meeting of Oct. 4. agreed to a Report on the disbursements, funds and condition of the University , which they instructed me to authenticate, and transmit, with the documents therein referred to, to the President and Directors of the Literary fund . this duty I now perform. Since...
6581Thomas Jefferson to Nicholas Biddle, 20 February 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns thanks to mr Biddle for his very able and instructive address to an Agricultural audience, and is pleased to see the stores of science so happily blended with science. practice. it will surely produce a salutary excitement among our farmers and especially at a moment when the habitual Cannibalism of Europe promises a demand for bread with their blood. he salutes mr Biddle...
6582Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Eston Randolph, 15 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 10 th was handed to me yesterday afternoon only when the Shadwell mills were built, the rent was settled on great enquiry made in this state as well as in those North of us, at one out of every 24. Barrels of flour expected to be manufactured, and to be taken at the place of sale. we supposed the Shadwell mills would manufacture 5000. Barrels of which, according to this...
6583Receipt from Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 22 November 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
1821 November 22 Rece d of the Proctor of the University of Virginia his Df t on the Bursar for One hundred and fifty Dollars for a Hoisting Machine for the use of the said University MS ( ViU: TJP-PP ); in a clerk’s hand, signed by TJ; endorsed in same clerk’s hand: “Hoisting Machine to Thomas Jefferson 22
6584Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 15 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 9 th was delivered by mr Cosby . you will have seen, by the advertisement I took the liberty of inclosing you, the ground on which these applications are placed. his success will depend on the terms he offers; and so far as character may decide in competitions otherwise equal, his cannot be on more favorable foundation than that of your recommendation and Chancellor Brown’s...
6585Thomas Jefferson to Louis H. Girardin, 26 December 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 13 th never came to hand till yesterday evening, and as mr Hall presses you in time I lose none in forwarding you the 1 st vol. of Botta. if you should conclude to translate it, the other volumes shall be sent successively as they shall be wanting. Botta gives a list of the authorities he consulted: but in fact has chiefly followed Marshal & often merely translated him in...
6586From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson Smith, 21 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
This letter will, to you be as one from the dead, the writer will be in the grave before you can weigh it’s counsels. your affectionate and excellent father has requested that I would address to you something which might possibly have a favorable influence on the course of life you have to run, and I too, as a namesake, feel an interest in that course. few words will be necessary with good...
6587Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Sawing Instructions for James Martin, [ca. 11 February 1820] (Jefferson Papers)
200 f. of ½ I. plank of any width and length 200 . f. of ¾ I. d o d o 300 . f. of 1.I. d o
6588Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 16 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be handed to you by mr William C. Preston a young gentleman of this state, either son, or nephew (I know not which) to the gentleman of that name with whom you served in Congress about 1792. I do not know him personelly, but learn from those who do, and in whom I have confidence, that he is of excellent talents, and perfect integrity. his standing in this state is high, and he will...
6589Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 14 July 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
The periods for the renewal of my notes in the Farmer’s & US. bank s approaching I inclose you the two of 3000.D. each for those banks which you have heretofore been so kind as to attend to, to which I add another to the US. bank for 2250.D. heretofore endorsed by mr Gibson , but now by my grandson to relieve mr Gibson , mr Marx having informed me that this change would be admitted. I shall be...
6590Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 18 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
After long delay for want of a tide we were enabled by the last rain to send off by Johnson ’s boats 106. (I think) barrels of flour to be delivered to you. from the mill too I expect mr T. E. Randolph has sent, or will immediately send 50. barrels of toll rent flour. besides placing you in safety as to my curtailments, these remittances will put you in funds to meet a draught I must make on...