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You will be surprized at recieving a letter from me from this place—I did not contemplate being here & still less being in Europe as late as this— My very great anxiety to be again in America to attend to some of my affairs which required something to be immediately done, as the friend with whom I left my power to represent me at Philadelphia , M r Breck , had died without naming a substitute—...
M r Rives has presented to me the letter by which you were so kind as to make us acquainted—He has been here now some days & I have been very much pleased with him. His being your friend would have insured him at any rate my attention—but I really return you my thanks for having procured me so agreeable an acquaintance. I have taken pleasure in introducing M r Rives to such of my friends here...
I had the pleasure of writing to you on the 1 st of Nov. — & I took the liberty at the same time of inclosing a letter for Price , as being the best, if not the only certain means of getting a letter to him. I hope that was recieved by you—but it has not procured of Price the answer I had counted on. I had hoped it would have conquered his aversion to writing—After so long an interval, I no...
I was exploring the Jersey mountains in search of a farm when your favor of the 15 th Oct. was forwarded here, agreeably to directions left with my agent at Philadelphia , as to my letters. I did not succeed in my search but hope to be more successful next year.— Let me now express all my thanks for your kindness as to Ind. Camp —I am indeed truly obliged by it, & prefer much the plan of...
I have delayed, much longer than I had intended, to answer your favor of the 21 st Sep. & to thank you for your wonted kindness in attending to the commission I took the libert e y of troubling you with— It was executed as you expected & ready for me here, whither I came after whiling away the sickly Season in the Jersey & at Morrisville , which you know is become the seat of Gen l Moreau .— I...
Your favor of the 20 th of August followed me in my summer’s tour & overtook me whilst on the road—I postponed therefore acknowleging it until my return to winter quarters— I have been not the less grateful for your kindness & the trouble you are taking to bring to a happy conclusion the limits disputed limits between Monroe & myself—If his presence should be really necessary, or even his...
Jefferson — Feb 7. to enclose that of M r Bott a — announc g my return—on acc t of public affair & mail— & Breck’s death—& had known it sh d
Your kind letter of Octob: 14. was recieved here the 19 th the very day you fixed as that of your departure for Bedford to remain there until the 1 st of Dec:—I did not therefore attempt to answer it at the moment, as it would have remained at Monticello , until your return—And this I count will get there some time before you & recieve you at your debotter . I write thus early because I am...
Your kind letter of the 9 th of Nov: was recieved here at the time. You mentioned that you were setting off for Bedford & would be absent a month— I postponed therefore acknowleging its reciept so long that I determined to wait until I should again hear from you as to Carter s affair after you had heard from him—so as to trouble you less often. But as I know my good countrymen of the Carter...
Your two favors of the 7 th & 9 th have come to my hands & I return you many thanks for them. I calculated from your letter that you would be absent until the early part of May, & therefore did not acknowlege its reciept immediately. This will be anterior to your return & will wait for you at Monticello , where I hope you will arrive at the time expected & in good health. You will find there...
Your letter of the 8 th of March was delivered to me by M r Coles . I write this answer by precaution, as it is not certain that I shall not return with him. It will depend on the answer which Gen l Armstrong will recieve from this Gov t on the subject of his communications to them in consequence of the despatches by M r Coles . Should the answer be such as to shew that it would be unadvisable...
In consequence of an understanding between M r H : & myself, that I would inclose to you his bond & mortgage, when the payment was completed, I now take the liberty of inclosing his last bond & the mortgage — I have been informed by M r Gibson that he has recieved for me from the agent of M r H. at Richmond
Your kind letter of June 27. was in my absence taken up by my agent at Philadelphia & sent after me. I was then on a visit to the beautiful Lake, called by the French le lac du S t Sacrament & by their successors Lake George . The French showed their good taste in having chosen this to furnish them their holy water. Nothing can be more pure than it is. The fish there are worthy of being...
In the course of the last summer I had the pleasure of recieving a letter from you in which you were so good as to mark the progress that the land affair had made towards a final termination. You then thought it was inevitable in the course of the autumn succeeding. And although appearances so far were not favorable to me, yet I wished the point to be settled on several accounts. Having not...
Your kind & friendly letter of Nov. 28. gave me not the less pleasure for having remained so long unacknowleged—The cause of my silence has been an aff l iction in the eyes so highly inflamatory as to preclude me from the use of my pen & my books—The disorder seems now to have left me, but I am not yet placed in the statu quo ante , & am obliged to use my eyes sparingly. I cannot however...
Your favor of May 5. is the last I have had the pleasure of recieving from you. It crossed on the road one I wrote to you of May 7. This last was to inclose to you, as agreed on with M r Higginbotham , his mortgage & last bond. I hope & take for granted they were recieved by you & that M r H. has disposed of them to his satisfaction. I am the more certain of this, as he would certainly have...
I had the pleasure of writing to you on the 26 th ul to —& have since recieved your favor of the 23 d —for which I beg leave here to return my thanks.— Conformably with what I then announced I now send the work of Dupont which you were so good as to lend me . I despair of seeing any general system of education established during my day. I should however be much gratified if I could live to see...
You will be surprize d to see by the date of my letter that I am still at Paris . I hope when you shall have seen how this has been gradually occasioned that you will approve it. I hope also that it will be approved by your successor to whom I wrote on the subject not long ago by an occasion which Gen l Armstrong made use of, being the first he has had since the departure of the Union . It was...
I hastily noted to you the reciept of your favor of the 18 th ul to inclosing the mortgage of Higginbotham. I sent at the same time the first volume of the Bareith memoirs—I now send the second volume—& with it my sincere thanks for the perusal of the bavardage of this Princess , which has amused me much. I explained to you formerly how she came to be dressed up here in a new covering. Correa...
I had the pleasure of writing to you early in the last month & of informing you of the payment made to me here of the $10500. treasury notes— I sent you at the same time a precise statement of our account up to that time, shewing that this payment left a balance due you of $34 34/100 ; which conformably with your order I paid to M r Vaughan , of which he will, no doubt, have informed you. I...