3701Henry H. Sherman to Thomas Jefferson, 3 June 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Perhaps you will be somewhat surprised at what I am about to write, but Sir I have a particular reason for doing it— you may Sir recollect of receiveing a 4 to Vol. entitled Statisicl Annals of the U. States , from M r Frederic A. Mayo . there is annother 4 to Vol. entitled Drydens Fables—Those 2 Vols. were bound in a superor style, the reason of my writing to you on this subject is M r Mayo...
3702To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Shore, 22 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
My heart is delighted at the result of your application to the Legislature—Perpetual disgrace belongs to that portion of the Legislature, which voted in the opposition—Permit me respectfully to say that M r Jefferson could not ask any thing of the State, which would be refused; first, because he would not a sk that , which ought not to be granted—second, ture he might ask, he has a right to...
3703William Short to Thomas Jefferson, 4 July 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have not hastened to reply to your letter of June 19. because I saw that your departure for Bedford would prevent your recieving it until your return; & the present will reach Monticello at your debotter . I am sorry that M r H. should think any thing further, to be necessary for his safety; not, assuredly, that I am not willing to give him every satisfaction his caution can devise, but...
3704William Short to Thomas Jefferson, 5 December 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you a thousand thanks for your kind & friendly letter of the 24 th ult o . The details as to the state of your health I had been long wishing for—they are now doubly gratifying to me, as they inform me that you have so perfectly recovered from the only inroad I had ever known on your constitution. And this attack I percieve was brought on by an inattention to the sound maxim— il n’y a...
3705William Short to Thomas Jefferson, 12 November 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
If I knew any other way less troublesome to you, of hearing of you & the state of your health, I would not intrude this letter on you, knowing, as I do, how much you are oppressed by correspondence. Since my return from a summer excursion of more than three months, I have enquired at different times of such of your friends here as were in the way of hearing from you, but there is not one that...
3706To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 2 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I cannot too much thank you for your kind letter of the 14 th It gave me great relief from the anxiety I was under on account of reports as to your health & the affairs of the University—To the last, as mere reports, I should have paid no attention, after those which prevailed on the same subject, & without even the shadow of a foundation, some time ago. But the Richmond Enquirer which I see...
3707To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 29 March 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
The last letter which I have had the pleasure of writing to you, was of the date of Octob: 9. in acknowlegement of your kind favor of the 8 th of Sept r . You are well assured that my long silence has not proceeded from indifference to the gratification of hearing from you, but from an unwillingness to add to your burthen, already too great, of correspondence with your friends. In the mean...
3708To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 14 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I had this pleasure on the 2 d ul to & trust that letter got safe to hand. I inclosed in it a song composed & sung at a public dinner by a man of your own age, & who to me has always professed the longest & most invariable friendship for you. I sent at the same time the discourse of a Russian on public education. I thought it might perchance amuse you to see the ideas in those climates on this...
3709To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 4 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
It is always a great gratification to me to recieve one of your letters. That of Aug: 9. I found here on my return from my summer’s excursion—It gratified me first by informing me that your long confinement had not affected your general health, of which I was very apprehensive, & secondly by the account you give me of the state of the University—That account came here most opportunely—for a...
3710William Short to Thomas Jefferson, 11 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Knowing your present aversion to writing, & knowing also how much you are accablé by inevitable correspondence, I have abstained for some time from adding to this load. If I break in upon you at this moment it is because I am in search of information that I know not where to look for otherwise, & indeed which I can have no certainty of finding from you—If you recollect, among the articles...