1Address to the Senate, [4 March 1797] (Jefferson Papers)
Entering on the duties of the office to which I am called, I feel it incumbent on me to apologize...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson, 11 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved with great pleasure your letter from Varina, and though I never had a moment’s doubt...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 11 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours has been duly recieved , and the clover seed goes tomorrow in the schooner Industry, Capt....
4From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 12 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved no letter from you since that which you wrote on your departure from Madrid ....
5From Thomas Jefferson to Sir John Sinclair, 12 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I take shame to myself at this late acknolegement of the receipt of so many of your favors: but...
6From Thomas Jefferson to William Strickland, 12 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been longer in acknoleging the reciept of your favor of May 28. 96. than I would have been...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 23 March [1797] (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived at home on the 20th. inst. and found the cherry and peach trees in general blossom....
8From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 26 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose a note for some more sashes to be made by Mr. Trump, as we have put up those he...
9From Thomas Jefferson to William Vans Murray, 27 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
After congratulations on your appointment to represent us with the new Batavian republic, I take...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 27 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to Mr. Randolph two or three days ago, but I imagine he will recieve the letter at...
11From Thomas Jefferson to Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 27 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
My last to you was of Apr. 24. 96. since which I have recieved your favors of the same year of...
12Enclosure: Bond to Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 26 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Know all men by these presents that I Thomas Jefferson of Monticello in the county of Albemarle...
13From Thomas Jefferson to Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 28 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
In a letter of yesterday’s date I acknoleged the reciept of all yours which have come to hand...
14From Thomas Jefferson to James Wood, 31 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 3d. inst. did not get to Philadelphia till I had left it, and therefore came...
15Enclosure I: Notes on Plan of a Prison, 31 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Notes and Explanations Fig. 1. The Ground plat of the building, which is an octagonal periphery...
16Enclosure II: Table of Estimates, 31 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Estimate on the scale of 200. cells and 340. f. diam. of area on the scale of 144. cells & 245....
17From Thomas Jefferson to John Brown, 5 April 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Tho’ you thought you had made such progress in your plan that it could not be altered, yet I send...
18From Thomas Jefferson to Peregrine Fitzhugh, 9 April 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 25. came safely to hand with the grains of [corn it covered] for which accept...
19From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 9 April 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yours my dear Martha, of Mar. 31. four days ago. The inoculation at Richmond having...
20From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 9 April 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of Mar. 31. did not come to hand till the 5th. inst. It is a pity it had not been recieved...
21From Thomas Jefferson to Elizabeth House Trist, 9 April 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
We feel too much interested here in the dispositions you expressed to become our neighbor, not to...
22From Thomas Jefferson to Volney, 9 April 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 15. came to hand a few days ago. It has been among the greatest of my regrets...
23To Thomas Jefferson from William Wirt, with Jefferson’s Notes, 4 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Mrs. Gilmer directs me to enquire whether you can furnish her with 20,000. 6 penny nails 10,000....
24From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 7 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Among the multiplicity of things I had to think of on my departure from home I omitted to speak...
25From Thomas Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry, 13 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 4th. inst. came to hand yesterday. That of the 4th. of Apr. with the one for...
26From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Smith Barton, 17 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his friendly compliments to Dr. Barton and his thanks for his note of...
27From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Bell, 18 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a copy of the President’s speech at the opening of Congress , from which you will...
28From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 18 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I was informed on my arrival here that Genl. Pinckney’s dispatches had on their first receipt...
29From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 18 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived here in good health on the 7th. day after my departure from home, without any...
30From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 19 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a copy of the President’s speech. Before that was delivered the dispositions of all...
31From Thomas Jefferson to Alexandre Giroud, 22 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved at this place from Mr. Bache the letter of the 20th. Germinal with the seeds of the...
32From Thomas Jefferson to Allen Jones, 22 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I have lately recieved from a Mr. Giroud of St. Domingue [a] few seeds of the Bread tree, from...
33From Thomas Jefferson to Louis of Parma, 23 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved from your Royal highness the letter with which you were pleased to honor me through...
34From Thomas Jefferson to Angelica Schuyler Church, 24 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I learn through the newspapers your arrival at New York and hasten to welcome you to the bosom of...
35From Thomas Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry, 25 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I this moment recieve your [favor] of the 22d. Nine days before that, to wit, May 13. I had...
36From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson, 25 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to your sister the last week, since which I have been very slowly getting the better of...
37From Thomas Jefferson to William Wardlaw, 25 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
[I have] your receipts for the [monies] […] cre[dited] […] to bring with me a memorandum of the...
38From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 26 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Nothing new has occurred this week, except that prices get duller. Embargo is also now beginning...
39From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 29 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved from you, before you left England, a letter inclosing one from the Prince of Parma ....
40From Thomas Jefferson to Antonia Reynon Carmichael, 30 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I am to return you my thanks for the copy of the memoire you have been so good as to send me. It...
41From Thomas Jefferson to Horatio Gates, 30 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the pamphlet of Erskine inclosed in your favor of the 9th. inst. and still more...
42From Thomas Jefferson to John Oliver, 30 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Tho strongly impressed myself against the possibility of forming a self moving machine, yet I do...
43From Thomas Jefferson to John Gibson, 31 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
In my Notes on the state of Virginia I have given a translation of the celebrated speech of Logan...
44From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1 June [1797] (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you on the 18th. of May. The address of the Senate was soon after that. The first draught...
45From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 1 June [1797] (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of May 24. is recieved, and I have directed the springs to be made according to your...
46From Thomas Jefferson to Dugald Stewart, [2 June 1797] (Jefferson Papers)
It is as much as six years ago that I proposed to our Philosophical society to add the respect of...
47From Thomas Jefferson to Peregrine Fitzhugh, 4 June 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I am favored with yours of May 19. and thank you for your intentions as to the corn and the large...
48From Thomas Jefferson to Wakelin Welch, 4 June 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Aug. 22. never came to my hands till about a fortnight ago. In the meantime, that...
49From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 8 June 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you last on the 1st. inst. You will have seen by the public papers that the amendment for...
50From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 8 June 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of May 20 came to hand the 1st. inst. I imagine you recieved mine of May 18. about six days...