4561From Thomas Jefferson to Daniel D. Tompkins, 15 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this day recieved your Excellency’s favor of the 9th. instant, and I now return you the papers it inclosed. the case of opposition to the embargo laws on the Canada line, I take to be that of distinct combinations of a number of individuals to oppose by force & arms the execution of those laws, for which purpose they go armed, fire upon the public guards, in one instance at least have...
4562From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 25 August 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I confess that the inclosed letter from General Turreau excites in me both jealousy & offence, in undertaking, & without apology, to say in what manner we are to recieve & treat Moreau within our own country. had Turreau been here longer he would have known that the National authority pays honors to no foreigner. that the state authorities, municipalities & individuals, are free to render...
4563From Thomas Jefferson to James Jackson, 1 May 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
You will probably have seen in the Washington federalist of April 30. mr Mitchell appointed Atty of Georgia on your recommendation , denoted a man of most infamous character. this is merely calling of hard names which I never notice. but the editors pretend that they are possessed of a fact which is too bad for publication . whether the fact be of such a nature as to make it the duty of the...
4564From Thomas Jefferson to Christian VII, 16 October 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received the letter in which your Majesty informs me, that the bad state of health, under which Mr Peter Blicher Olsen, heretofore your Majesty’s Minister Resident and Consul General to the United States, has labored, has induced you to yield to his prayers by recalling him from that appointment As during his residence with us he has merited our esteem, I cannot omit to do him justice...
4565From Thomas Jefferson to James Lindsay, 25 April 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I must apologise for an error of mine in weighing some money delivered me by mr Lilly as recieved from you; and which I made to weigh less than you had done. you were right and I was wrong. I inattentively weighed it as Spanish gold, and it was not, till going to weigh some of it out again to another person, I adverted to it’s being all in Portuguese half joes & Moedas : and calculating anew,...
4566From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Willson Peale, 19 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of the 13. & 15th. are recieved. if I rightly understand them, you have in hand one Polygraph 17⅝ I. by 11⅝ I. and another of 16. by 11. both of which will write to the bottom of a 4to. sheet. the larger one is that which will suit best as a present for my friend, and therefore I will ask you to send on that. The smaller one of 16. by 11. I observe is only 1⅜ longer than my 8vo....
4567From Thomas Jefferson to Jones & Howell, 20 September 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I shall very shortly have occasion for a considerable quantity of sheet copper, proper for covering cornices & making gutturs, which I presume should be of the thinnest kind to be had. I think that what I purchased for those uses antiently did not weigh more than half a pound or thereabouts to the square foot. as the price of sheet copper to the square foot will determine me as to the quantity...
4568From Thomas Jefferson to John McAllister, 5 June 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of mr Mc.Alister to send him by mr Briggs a pair of spectacles of the small light kind which mr Mc.Alister has heretofore made on the particular model which was furnished him. and to send with them spare sets of glasses from the youngest to the oldest magnifiers. mr Barnes informs Th:J. that he has arranged with mr Mc.Alister not only the paiment for these, but to...
4569From Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 28 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to you the day before yesterday, since that I have taken a more correct view of my [probable] receipts & expenditures and find that I may venture to take Haxall’s horse immediately at 500. doll. paiable at 90. days. it would be a great inconvenience to have to send from Washington for directions; & on the [other hand] a convenience to have […] brought to Monticello by the messenger who...
4570From Thomas Jefferson to United States Congress, 14 April 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
During the blockade of Tripoli by the squadron of the US. a small cruiser, under the flag of Tunis, with two prizes, (all of trifling value) attempted to enter Tripoli, was turned back, warned, & attempting again to enter, was taken & detained as prize by the squadron. her restitution was claimed by the Bey of Tunis, with a threat of war in terms so serious, that, on withdrawing from the...
4571From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Smith, 17 September 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The object of the present is merely to acknolege the reciept of yours of the 14th. and to mention that I have recieved a letter from mr Gallatin disapproving of the first order for the sailing of the John Adams, on general grounds & also on the special ground that the appropriations for that object were exhausted: further that mr Madison will be with me tomorrow, and that I will then take the...
4572From Thomas Jefferson to the House of Representatives, 23 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
In further compliance with the desire of the House of Representatives, expressed in their resolution of Dec. 31. I now transmit the Report and map of Isaac Briggs, referred to in my message of the 1st. instant, and recieved by the last post from New Orleans. RC ( DNA : RG 233, PM , 8th Cong., 2d sess.); date altered from 22 Feb.; endorsed by a House clerk. PoC ( DLC ); dated 22 Feb. Recorded...
4573From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 22 April 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Having returned a few days since, I called on mr Ludlow to have the offices for this house now begun. he told me he awaited your instructions, papers etc and would write to you immediately. having three months now before our Autumnal recess I should be glad this work could be pushed on such a scale as to compleat one end at least while I am here. having given you the only sketches I had of the...
4574From Thomas Jefferson to Peter Kuhn, Jr., 30 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved, in April last, a letter from mr Thos. H. Storm written in your absence, & informing me he had sent on for me 50. bottles of Nebioule wine. these arrived safe, with the loss of only 10. of them, and were of very fine quality, answering fully to what I recollected of that wine when at Turin. Since that I have recieved your favors of Mar. 25. Apr. 25. & May 28. informing me that you...
4575From Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Auguste Adet, 29 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your two letters of Mar. 3. & 6. have been duly recieved, and with them the copy of your elementary lessons in chemistry, for which I pray you to accept my thanks. my occupations not permitting me to read any thing but the papers of the day, I reserve it among the treasures to be carried into that retirement to which I shall withdraw at the close of my present period. I hope that in the mean...
4576From Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 10 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I now inclose you 150. D. in Richmond bank bills to cover a draught I have this day made on you at sight in favor of Nathaniel Gordon of Orange or order for 133D. 25 I send from hence by a vessel bound for Richmond which sails tomorrow 10. casks, & 17. boxes, besides 3 or 4 boxes of which I do not know the marks & numbers. the captain’s reciept will be inclosed. I have written to mr...
4577From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Preble, 18 November 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of Capt Preble to take a family dinner with him tomorrow at half after three Thursday Nov. 18. 1802 Tr (TJ Editorial Files); 1961 typescript of RC in possession of Dundas Preble Tucker, La Jolla, California; addressed: “Capt Preble.” Edward preble , a moderate Federalist from Maine who had served with a Massachusetts sloop during the American Revolution, received...
4578From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 14 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I yesterday recieved by post from Doctr. Currie the award of the arbitrators to pay to mr Ross of the tobacco of the upper James river or Appomatox inspections 12,485. ℔. with interest at 5. per cent from Oct. 15. 1790. I must in the first place ask the favor of you to put 50. D. into the hands of Doctr. Currie for the arbitrators, and then to enlarge the purchase of tobo. for one of the...
4579From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 27 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of Nov. 18. by mr Trist has been duly recieved. my business is become so intense that when post day comes, it is often out of my power to spare a moment. the post too, being now on the winter establishment is three days longer in carrying our letters. I am sincerely concerned at the situation of our dear little ones with the whooping cough, but much rejoiced that they have past the...
4580From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 12 August 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Not recollecting precisely the time you proposed to go to Philadelphia, I now take the liberty of asking you, as you pass through Wilmington to pay for me to the revd. Wm. Pryce four dollars which I owe him for a book, and have never before been able to find a channel of remittance: and then in Philadelphia to procure for me half a dozen bl of portable soup, and to subscribe for McCorkle’s...
4581From Thomas Jefferson to James Bowdoin, 10 July 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you on the 10th. of July 06. but, supposing from your not acknoleging the reciept of the letter, that it had miscarried, I sent a duplicate with my subsequent one of Apr. 2. these having gone by the Wasp, you will doubtless have recieved them. since that yours of May 1. is come to hand. you will see, by the dispatches from the department of state, carried by the armed vessel the...
4582From Thomas Jefferson to Micajah Carr, 30 October 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved an answer from mr John Murchie attorney in fact for the Donalds in the following words, to wit. ‘I now beg leave to transmit you a statement of the debt due by Wm. Mc.Gehee to the surviving partners of James & Robert Donald & Co. you will observe that it corresponds nearly, if not exactly with your statement; & as the paiment of the principal & interest is all that is wished...
4583From Thomas Jefferson to Meriwether Lewis, 27 April 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 20th from Lancaster was recieved the night before last. not having heard from you since the time of my leaving Washington, I had written to you on the 23d. and lodged it in Philadelphia. you will therefore probably recieve that & this together. I inclose you a copy of the rough draught of instructions I have prepared for you, that you may have time to consider them, & to propose...
4584From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 20 September 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
In writing to you for the bolting cloths I omitted to inclose the directions of the millwright (James Walker) respecting them which may perhaps have been omitted in his letter to mr Webster; as also his note of mill irons to be executed by mr Dunlap. this last I have inclosed in a note to mr Dunlap left open for your perusal, & which I will beg leave to recommend to your attention. Not being...
4585From Thomas Jefferson to William Hendrick, 17 July 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 7th. has been duly recieved; but the cursory reading which the pressure of other business has obliged me to give to it does not enable me to understand the description in the letter, so as to form a judgment of the Mouldboard you propose. indeed other duties so constantly require my attention that I do not now permit myself to indulge in studies of this kind, altho’ most...
4586From Thomas Jefferson to John F. Oliveira Fernandes, 28 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Some time last summer I recieved information from my house-joiner at Monticello that some watermen had put into his hands a very elegant walking staff which they had brought for me, but accompanied by no letter or other indication from what quarter it came. I was near returning from my autumnal visit to that place before this information recurred to my mind when I made enquiry for the object...
4587From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 21 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to your letter on the paiment of the guards at New-London, I beg leave to mention that it was not till about a fortnight ago that measures could be taken for their relief. a party from some recruits at Winchester was about that time ordered to proceed to New London. so soon as they arrive, the guards you ordered can be dispensed with, and if you will then have the accounts of...
4588From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 7 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
A letter from mr Randolph to mr Coles informs him he shall bring you here, but does not say if with or without the family. I shall rejoice my dear to receive you here, and them, or as many of them as you can bring. I feel much for what you will suffer on the road for such a spell of severe weather we have not known for years. the thermometer has been down, of mornings at 14. 12. 10. and once...
4589From Thomas Jefferson to Oliver Evans, 1 September 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for your attention to the little commission I troubled you with. the articles are all safely arrived. mr Barnes, my agent at Washington will, this day sennight remit you three hundred & forty four Dollars 96/100 the amount thereof. my mills will be going in October. the situation is one of the best in the Union, without exception, and I am in want of a tenant for them. perhaps it...
4590From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 29 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson will thank Genl Dearborne to consider the inclosed. the writer appears to have that sincere enthusiasm for his undertaking which will ensure success. the education of the common people around Detroit is a most desirable object, and the proposition of extending their views to the teaching the Indian boys & girls to read & write, agriculture & mechanic trades to the former,...