6691From Thomas Jefferson to James Blake, 12 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
You will proceed with all diligence in the Ship bound to Cadiz, in Spain, with the dispatches committed to you for Messrs. Carmichael and Short, Commissioners Plenipotentiary of the United States of America, at Madrid. When arrived at your port of destination, or any other to which you may by accident be forced, proceed directly to Madrid by such conveyance as will best reconcile safety,...
6692To Thomas Jefferson from Enoch Hazard, 5 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
In this season, when the highest public interests engage your excellency’s attention, it is a painful necessity I am under of intruding upon your excellency any subject of mere personal concern. If the circumstances I beg leave to state are not an adequate excuse: I must place my reliance upon the known indulgence which the weight of government has never prevented your excellency from...
6693To Thomas Jefferson from Dumoulin de Seille & Son, 24 July 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
We have the honour to present you our most humble Respects, and Beseech you to take in Consideration that we take the Liberty to Inform you. Being Corespondents of the Consuls of different foreign nations which trade in the harbours of Bordeaux, Rochefort, and other Neighbouring Places Exporting of it the Provisions and Marchandises fit for their Maintenance, and our advantageous Situation to...
6694From Thomas Jefferson to Meriwether Jones, 19 October 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of the 15th. I have but a single copy of the pamphlet you ask for, and that is bound up in a volume of pamphlets of the same year and making one of a long suite of volumes of the same nature I mention this to impress you with the value I set on the volume as part of the history of the times, and to justify a request of attention in the use and return of it. it...
6695I. Jefferson’s Draft Memorandum on Consular Vacancies, 21 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
A note of the vacant consulships and of the candidates. Mr. Palyert says some think him a native of Engld. some of America. He travelled in the U.S. before the war. During the war he was at Lisbon, a tory. He is now a member of the Eng. factory. Is very rich and has great connections with this country. John Telles, whose papers were laid before the President some time ago, is also a candidate....
6696From Thomas Jefferson to Cornelia Jefferson Randolph, 26 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I congratulate you, my dear Cornelia, on having acquired the invaluable art of writing. how delightful to be enabled by it to converse with an absent friend, as if present. to this we are indebted for all our reading; because it must be written before we can read it. to this we are indebted for the Iliad, the Aeneid, the Columbiad, Henriade, Dunciad, and now for the most glorious poem of all,...
6697To Thomas Jefferson from John van Heukelom & Son, 1 March 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
When your Excellency reads the following details of an affair between us and Thos. Barclay, Esqr:, a man certainly known enough, we hope you will excuse our freedom to apply to your Excellency on this Subject. We think Mr: Barclay Himself must approve of this Step as we tried in vain these three years every possible means of Persuasion, always carefully avoiding every thing which could offend...
6698To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Warren, 10 November 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor some months since to address a letter of thanks to you for the intended honor of an appointment as Collector for the Port of Marblehd. I recieved from General Dearborn an intimation of this your intention, & was highly flattered with your notice & consideration. It was with extreme reluctance that I could bring my mind to decline any appointment conferred by you, under an...
6699James Oldham to Nelson Barksdale, 27 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
The standard adopted in your advertisment for the rule of Prices, for the carpenters and Joiners worke of the Buildings to be erected at the university of virginia , I tender to you my servises to undertake one or two of the Buildings at 25 ⅌ cent advance on the adopted rule, the worke to be performed agreeable to the Turms specifyed in the advertisment , but the kiln drying of Plank and...
6700Peter Minor to Thomas Jefferson, 17 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have taken the liberty of sending You the enclosed “ Projet of a Law to encourage the raising of Sheep” in the hope that you will lend your attention to the Subject, improve upon, or modify the Scheme, & assist us to in trying to obtain its passage by the next legislature . The principal features I have taken from the Pennsylvania Dog Law, as it is mentioned by Judge Peters in the Memoirs of...
6701Topics for Consultation with Heads of Departments, 10 February 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Sy. War . Wafford’s settlemt . qu. if Indns. wd accept rent? instruct Meigs to bring settlemt. of Cherokee road to an end settle Wafford’s affair. Wilkinson & Dinsmore to purchase above Yazoo of Choctaws to examine our rt betw. Tombigbee , Alibama Harrison to buy of Kaskaskias of the Pioria chief
6702From Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 31 August 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Not knowing how far the inclosed address may serve to give a certain conveyance to the letter, I have thought it safest to put it under your cover, not doubting that your communion with the person would enable you to procure it a sure passage to it’s destination. I am with esteem Dear Sir Your friend & servt PrC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “Mr. John Vaughan.” Enclosure: TJ to Benjamin Vaughan,...
6703To Thomas Jefferson from Gideon Granger, 19 January 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I designed to have called and taken leave of you before my departure from Washington but a press of Company at my Office prevented till after your usual hours for morning Visits and I was unwilling to disturb the moments of conviviality in the Evening. I tarried two days in Baltimore and also in Philadelphia in both of which places I am fully convinced the Embargo is approved of by the...
6704To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Munroe, 31 August 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of enclosing for your Signature a warrant for $10,000; the balance in my hands, towit about $1000 of the $20,000 heretofore drawn being insufficient to meet the Expenses of the present month which will be demanded in a few days.— I also enclose Sketches of the Expenditures since the Account last rendered , which was up to the first of July.— The Expenses on the Streets will I...
6705Thomas Jefferson to John Manners, 12 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of May 20. has been recieved some time since: but the increasing inertness of age renders me slow in obeying the calls of the writing table, and less equal than I have been to it’s labors. My opinion on the right of Expatriation has been so long ago as the year 1776. consigned to record in the Act of the Virginia code, drawn by myself recognising the right expressly, & prescribing...
6706Thomas Jefferson to André Daschkoff, 12 August 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of July 5. has been duly recieved, and, in it, that of my friend mr Short . I congratulate you on your safe arrival in the American hemisphere, after a voyage which must have been lengthy in time, as it is in space. I hope you may experience no unfavorable change in your health on so great a change of climate, and that our fervid sun may be found as innocent as our cloudless skies...
6707To Thomas Jefferson from Archibald Campbell, 13 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed letter came under cover to me by a late arrival here from Bordeaux—and accompanied a bill of Lading for 14 Cases of wine Shipt for you by my friends Messrs. Fenwick Mason & Coy. who write me to take your direction where to forward the wine after arrival here. If you have an invoice of its cost—you will please Send it me—or a copy thereof—in order to have the necessary entry made...
6708To Thomas Jefferson from Joel Barlow, 2 February 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty to present you with a short treatise of mine on the present circumstances of Europe, which by a kind of moral reaction may stand a chance to be of some use in America; as a habit of reflecting on the subjects here treated may induce us to prize such of our own institutions as are good, and to improve those that are defective. I hope to sail for America in a short time;...
6709Thomas Jefferson to Louis H. Girardin, 21 October 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 7 th has been recieved, and I now send you the letter of mr Page which you requested, and will subjoin to this letter the comparative view of some of Longman’s prices with what Congress paid me for the same books. Longman’s book itself shall go by the same mail— I thank you for your attention to the Microscope. it was well repaired and safely recieved. to your Weekly...
6710To Thomas Jefferson from Johann Ludwig de Unger, 10 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Salzliebenhalle, 10 May 1788 . Thanks TJ for his letter of 16 Feb. 1788 and for granting the favor asked of him; says he is deeply affected by TJ’s remarks “sur le Bonheur et les Avantages propres à l’Amerique.” “Un tel Eloge de la Part de Votre Excellence est garant de la Prosperité de ces Contrees si interessantes a tant d’egard, et inspire en meme Tems des Voeux ardens pour la Durée de...
6711Notes and Plans for Western Defense, [23 July 1779 and after] (Jefferson Papers)
Plan for regimenting & stationing the two Western battalions. Joseph Crocket & James Knox Lt. Colonels commandants } appointed by the Council George Walls, Robert Powell. Majors. William Cherry, Samuel Gill. Captains. Thomas Walls, Peter Moore. Ensigns. no. of men supposed they will raise Officers to be recommended by the feild officers of the respective countries Destination . Yohogania. a...
6712To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Carter, 17 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Ludlow Farm, 17 July 1791 . He is obliged for the information in TJ’s of the 10th. He will leave it to his son to decide, but his own choice would be for an American education. “The prejudices formerly imbibed, by the Americans…sent to Brittain for an education, I always thought, were too strong, ever to be overcome. But since our Independence, I hope that no such consequences will derive....
6713Ferdinand R. Hassler to Thomas Jefferson, 1 August 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
With the present I have the honor to forward You two Boocks which M r Warden , Consul general of the Un: St: at Paris charged me to deliver to You, & I hoped to have the honor to present to You myself; but an as my mission here is not so near at its end as I expected at that time, the Instruments being not yet near finished as I expected, I take the Liberty to forward them to You to avoid...
6714To Thomas Jefferson from John Mason, 7 July 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Having this day sent in my Resignation, to Mr. Madison as Commissioner of the Cumberland-Road, I feel that, I owe to you some personal explanation on that head— In the beleif that I could have rendered Services in that business, I undertook the Duty you were pleased to assign me, with great chearfulness, looked forward to its Execution, with much pleasure, and was successfully making my...
6715To Thomas Jefferson from William Stephens Smith, 22 September 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor of addressing you on the 18th. inst. in answer to your favor of the 9th. of August, since which I have received yours of the 13th. inst. Mr. A. returned here on the 7th. or 8th. He took up the subject on which you impatiently wait an answer on his arrival, a short letter on which, you must have received before this. However he is still thinking on it, and you will hear more...
6716To Thomas Jefferson from George Jefferson, 27 August 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
Not having been able to meet with any Havanna sugar I send you a barrel of brown, by Mr. Hendersons boat. Yr. Very humble servt. 246 – 18 – 228 ℔s. @ 88/. £10 – 7. RC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “Thomas Jefferson esqr.”; endorsed by TJ as received 2 Sep. and so recorded in SJL .
6717Bernard Peyton to Thomas Jefferson, 19 April 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 16th: reached me last evening, with its several enclosures. The three checks on the V a Bank from the Bursar of the University were duely paid, amounting to $1781.57, & I will forthwith proceed to execute your wishes by purchasing a bill on London for the nett sum of $1644, the first of which, together with your letter to M r Williams , shall go by the next ship to London or Liverpool
6718John Lamb to the American Commissioners, 20 May 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
After maney little Disapointments, I arrived at Algiers the 25th March and within the term of three or four Days I found that the whole amount of the money in my hands belonging to the publick would not purchas the people who are the unfortunate in consequence of which I Dispatchd Mr. Randall so that your Excellencyes might have the earlyest notice of our matter in that Quarter: in a short...
6719James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, 14 February 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
my engagment in preparing instructions, for our ministers at gottenburg , Russia , Sweden , & Paris , for M r Clay & M r Russell to take with them, prevented my answering sooner your favor of the 27 th ult
6720From Thomas Jefferson to Christian Frederick Michaelis and Others, 4 February 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
The American Philosophical Society having heretofore done themselves the honour of naming you one of their members, the President has been pleased to transmit to me the Diploma made out in the forms used by the society, and authenticated by their seal. I do myself the honour of forwarding it to you and at the same time of assuring you of the sentiments of esteem & respect with which I have the...