24831To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Carrington, 10 November 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Madison and myself have done ourselves the honor to write you very fully as late as the 23d. Ult., but as the Chevalier Jones is but now about to sail in a Merchant Man for Holland, from whence he means to go directly to Paris, I just use this additional opportunity to inclose you the papers from the period of our former letters to this date. They contain sundry peices upon the subject of...
24832Joseph Bringhurst to Thomas Jefferson, 2 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
The Wife of our mutual friend Isaac Briggs called on me yesterday to consult me respecting thy favour of the 17 th ultimo to her husband . She dessired me to informed inform thee of the absence of her husband as an apology for the delay of a reply . Isaac has been obliged to attend Congress the greater part of the session for the purpose of obtaining a law for the settlement of his publick...
24833To Thomas Jefferson from Caesar Augustus Rodney, 4 January 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
At the present period I feel it a bounden duty to communicate to you, every article of information, in my power. A single spark may throw a glare of light on the dark intrigues & nefarious plots now in operation. I hasten therefore to forward the enclosed, which I have just received from my father. Whatever a firm & sincere friend of the Union, in his situation, can effect in that quarter,...
24834To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 7 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the pleasure of recieving by Mr. Blake your friendly letter of July 11th.—and answered it by one of a size so enormous that I should not have had courage to have sent it but for the recollection of your being now retired to private life. Although I have not since been so happy as to hear from you, and of course know nothing more of my affairs in Mr. Browne’s hands than there mentioned,...
24835To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 27 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
We are still in the state, mentioned to you in my last, of certainty as to the retiring of the combined armies, and of conjecture as to the cause of it. The issue of the military operations has been the direct opposite of what I counted on in my prolix letter No. 111.—but one of the leading circumstances which I then mentioned seems more than ever probable; namely the scission between Vienna...
24836John Wood to Thomas Jefferson, 10 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
From a conversation with Colonel Randolph , I was sorry to learn, that you understood from my letter to you last summer in answer to your obliging favour respecting the classical Professorship in the central college , that I had declined the proposal which you made to me. The situation of my health was such then, that I was dubious whether I could undertake the superintendance of any public...
24837Madame de Tessé to Thomas Jefferson, 9 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
je profite, Monsieur, d’une occasion bien favorable pour vous envoier les marons d’inde que vous m’avés demander dans un juste intervale entre leur maturité et leur germination. M r de la Fayette m’accusera de ceder a mon Gout seulement, Lorsque je crois Remplir un devoir d’équité en vous priant de placer dans votre bibliotheque La gravure d’un illustre voyageur, passionné de votre...
24838Peter S. Du Ponceau to Thomas Jefferson, 24 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received the Letter you have done me the honor to write to me on the 17 th inst. There is no part in which the two MSS of the line in our possession are both alike defective; what is wanting in the one is supplied by the other as far as they respectively go; but I ought to observe that the MS. which you have had the goodness to deposit with us is not So Satisfactory or So full as the...
24839To Thomas Jefferson from George Mason, 6 October 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be delivered You by my Son William, who commands the Militia Company ordered from this County to Carolina: The Men are mostly Volunteers; who turned out from the Battalion at large, without any Regard to the Divisions to which they belonged; there are among them Several Soldiers, and three or four Serjeants who had served out their Time in the Virginia Line on Continental...
24840To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 26 March 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
By my calculation I hoped to recieve your letter from Aix yesterday. Although it has not arrived I shall go into the country to-day, not foreseeing that the delay of one day in recieving it can be attended with any bad consequences. It will come to me at St. Germains in four and twenty hours and perhaps less after its arrival here’ if that should be before my return. I shall be four or five...
24841To Thomas Jefferson from Frances Wright, 26 July 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I c d have wished & had intended my dear Sir to see you on the subject upon w ch I now write but the indisposition of my sister urged me to place her under the charge of a friend to proceed slowly to Bedford spring on the Alleghany where I must Join her so soon as I have procured some necessary information in this city. You will receive from my paternal friend the prospectus of a plan on w ch...
24842George Ticknor to Thomas Jefferson, 15 March 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have already in my letters from London , and in the letters I have written you from here Oct. 14. Oct. 30. and Novem. 25. told you of so many changes in my plans, that, if I were not sure that you will appreciate my reasons, I should be almost ashamed to write you now to tell you of another. The truth, however is, that I find Göttingen so entirely suited to my purposes—the opportunities and...
24843To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 26 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
My late private letters to you have been of Jan 24. Feb. 29. and May 15 (1792). I should have written to you probably more often had it not been, that having so long importuned you on painful and personal subjects, I did not chuse to continue fatiguing you by my Jeremiades on my present situation. I found it impossible to lose sight of it entirely in my unreserved communications with you; and...
24844To Thomas Jefferson from John Vaughan, 25 December 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Under present circumstances I do not concieve myself authorised not to send you an extract of a letter from a common & much respected friend —he wishes his name may not be used, because he thinks it probable “in the course of human Events, that the French may find it perfectly convenient to take possession of this quondam apendage to Louisiana ,” in which case the avowal of such sentiments...
24845To Thomas Jefferson from Willink, Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 1 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Since our last Respects of 4 April, We are honored with your esteemed favors of 20 March and 12 April through Thos. Pinckney Esqr. who advised us to have received from you bills of Exchange to the amount of £4000. Stg. of which £3,000. Dft of Willing Morris & Swanwick on John & Francis Baring & Co. of London has been protested for non acceptance, but hope has been given it will be paid. 400....
24846To Thomas Jefferson from Lafayette, 8 October 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
My Letter of the 1st July Has Made You Expect a More particular Answer to Your important Communications—Yet, However impelled I was By friendship Gratitude, and American patriotism, it Has Become impossible for me to find a proper Opportunity—I Have Been detained at the Hot Springs of Mont d’or from Which I derived Much Benefit and the probability, in a Second pilgrimage, to Compleat My Cure—I...
24847To Thomas Jefferson from David Bailie Warden, 2 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the honor of receiving your letter, of the 16th of july last, and have to regret that the one, of the first of May, by the St Michael, never reached me. I cannot well imagine how it has been lost. The letters you were pleased to inclose, to my address, were immediately forwarded, except those for General La Fayette; and one for Mr Hackley, for which I seek a safe channel of...
24848To Thomas Jefferson from “A. B.”, 3 February 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I am not ignorant of the epithet that a Solicitation of this kind is intitled to, and that it ought to be treated accordingly, except the instance is Sufficiently Sympathetick with necessary quallifications to render it admisable. Which I trust when elucidated will in part if not in whole be an apoligy for this. I am a Single Citizen aged about 35 years whose family & Character I trust if...
24849To Thomas Jefferson from Horatio Gates, 9 September 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
Intelligence of a very particular sort is Just arrived from Camden, by a person in whom we can confide; and no doubt remains, but that he may have been imposed upon by a Finesse of the Enemy. Since then, Two Deserters from the Enemys 23 Regiment, came in, in a manner confirm the Intelligence. It is as Follows. That Lord Cornwallis is going immediately to Embarque his Main Force at George Town...
24850Joseph H. Nicholson to Thomas Jefferson, 3 May 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
M r James H. MCulloch , the son of our Collector , is going westward on some scientific Pursuits, and as he wishes to take Monticello in his way, I beg leave to introduce him to you—I flatter myself when you know him, you will not find him unworthy of your acquaintance—One of his Objects is to look into the Mineralogy and aboriginal History of our Country, and as these are Subjects which you...
24851Peter S. Du Ponceau to Thomas Jefferson, 14 November 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
It is a duty no less pleasing than honorable to me, to address you on behalf of the Historical & literary Committee of the American Philosophical Society , in the Capacity of their Corresponding Secretary. You have, no doubt, been informed of the recent establishment of this Committee, & of the views & objects for which it has been instituted. If not, you will receive full information on the...
24852To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Alston, 6 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The Legislature of South-Carolina, deeply impressed with the situation in which the U. States have been placed by the unfounded & arrogant pretensions of the belligerent Powers of Europe; & aware of the force derived; in a Government like our’s, from public opinion; have deemed it incumbent upon them, at the present crisis, to make known to the World their unalterable determination to support...
24853To Thomas Jefferson from Edmond Charles Genet, 6 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Je viens De Decouvrir la plus affreuse conspiration qui ait été formée contre le Succès Des armées de la republique francaise. Je viens de Decouvrir tous les fils et toutes les preuves De la trame infernale qui, depuis deux mois, tenait dans vos ports l’escadre françhise dans un etat de nullité; De cette trame qui menaçait non Seulement la Sûreté De nos vaisseaux, mais encore celle De nos...
24854To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 16 July 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I did not recieve until yesterday the letters which I mentioned, in my last to you of the 11th. inst., had been promised by a person who called here and left the newspapers. They were forwarded to me by M. Bondfield of Bordeaux. I had previously recieved duplicates of all of them except that of March the 30th. At present I have recieved all the letters which I know of your having written...
24855James Chamberlain to Thomas Jefferson, [received 28 June 1811] (Jefferson Papers)
This strange application will, I have no doubt, surprise you, but dire necessity compels me to it—being well acquainted with your benificence, makes me thus bold to apply to you to save me from ruin,—to detail the cause or causes of my present embarrasment perhaps wou,d be useless, inasmuch as you can not in the least be acquainted with the facts— but suffice it to say, that at the...
24856Alexander von Humboldt to Thomas Jefferson, 12 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Vous connaissez assez les sentimens respectueux d’attachement et d’amitié que je Vous porte, pour sentir Vous même la satisfaction que j’ai eu en recevant Votre lettre en date du 6 Mars . Je n’ai pas eté heureux depuis que j’ai quitté Votre beau pays. Battu par la tempête, on est plus sensible aux vrayes jouissances morales. Quelle carriere que la Votre! Quel exemple ravissant, Vous avez...
24857John Martin Baker to Thomas Jefferson, 1 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the Honor to address you frequently from the Island of Majorca , where in June 1810 I had the Satisfaction to remit you, per the American Schooner Hellen of Salem Cap William Brown , to the particular care of the Collector of that port, One Box containing an Extensive Petrel collection , p natural productions of the
24858Stephen Cathalan to Thomas Jefferson, 29 November 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Before this may Reach you, you will have been Informed by M r John Vaughan of Phil a that I acknowledged him by my Letters of the 8 th Sep ber Last & the 2 d Oct ber Receipt of his Letter of the 31 st July Inclosing one of the 30 th d
24859To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Voigt, 29 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The Citizens of Philadelphia, friends to our Government and your administration, have often expressed a desire of seeing a Medalion struck to commemorate the declaration of Independence and the last triumph of republicanism on the 4th March 1801—, and I know that not only the Citizens of this State but every true Patriot in the Union would be pleased to have those Epochas handed down to...
24860To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Harrison, 4 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
If your Excellency should not have the copy of the letter, at present in your possesion which you sent to Sir John Sinclair, I will transcribe that Extract to which my letter refers. As I feel conscious, every real Philanthropist will join with your self in those important truths and the Ideas though originally your own cannot be too often reiterated. “Extract of a Letter from Mr Jefferson to...