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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Perkins, Buchanan & Brown | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from Perkins, Buchanan & Brown, 2 … | 1769-10-02 | Having entered into some engagements with our worthy Friend Mr: Thos. Adams for Mr: Jordan by... |
| 2 | Nelson, Thomas, Sr. | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Nelson, Sr., 6 March … | 1770-03-06 | I was extremely concerned to hear of your Loss the account of which had reached us some time ago.... |
| 3 | Nelson, Thomas, Jr. | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Nelson, Jr., 6 March … | 1770-03-06 | I just received your melancholy account of the Loss you have sustaind, and have only time, (the... |
| 4 | Page, John | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 6 March 1770 | 1770-03-06 | I have heard of your Loss [and] heartily condole with you, but am much pleased with the... |
| 5 | Wythe, George | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from George Wythe, 9 March 1770 | 1770-03-09 | I send you some nectarine and apricot graffs and grapevines, the best I had; and have directed... |
| 6 | Ogilvie, James | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from James Ogilvie, 28 March 1770 | 1770-03-28 | I am disappointed hitherto in every attempt to get ordained. The Commissary wrote against me in... |
| 7 | Page, John, Jr. | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, Jr., April 1770 | ≈1770-04-01 | When you were at Col. Lewis’s my Heart was with you, but something more than a Punctillio, for it... |
| 8 | Botetourt, Norborne Berkeley, Baron de | Jefferson, Thomas | Commission as Lieutenant of Albemarle, 9 June 1770 | 1770-06-09 | HIS EXCELLENCY The Right Honourable Norborne Baron de Botetourt , his Majesty’s Lieutenant and... |
| 9 | Jordan, Samuel | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Jordan, with … | 1770-08-07 | I some time Since received a letter from Colo. Randolph of Tuckahoe requesting I would inform him... |
| 10 | McCaul, Alexander | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander McCaul, 26 August … | 1770-08-26 | The last time I had the pleasure of writting you accompanied an Account of some Books you ordered... |
| 11 | Burke, Thomas | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Burke, 3 September 1770 | 1770-09-03 | I received yours of July 15th a few days past, and Immediately communicated your Sentiments and... |
| 12 | Drummond, Mrs. | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from Mrs. Drummond, 12 March 1771 | 1771-03-12 | I am sorry to say, by this Man, who is come down so late that all the valluable fruite, and... |
| 13 | Burke, Thomas | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Burke, [ca. April] 1771 | ≈1771-04-01 | I have been labouring to prevail on Tuckers Executors to come to a Speedy trial of the Cause, but... |
| 14 | Ogilvie, James | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from James Ogilvie, 26 April 1771 | 1771-04-26 | Though I have wrote you and Mr. Walker twice, yet I am at a loss to know whether any of my... |
| 15 | Randolph, Thomas Mann | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 10 May … | 1771-05-10 | I omitted giving the Treasurer my Bond for things purchas’d at the Palace Amount £8:18:6. Indeed... |
| 16 | Burke, Thomas | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Burke, 10 July 1771 | 1771-07-10 | I have at length prevailed on Mr. Taylor to answer a Bill in our Court spedily, and I here... |
| 17 | Skipwith, Thomas | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Skipwith, 17 July 1771 | 1771-07-17 | This I have left at the Forest to remind you of your obliging promise and withal to guide you in... |
| 18 | Ogilvie, John | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Ogilvie, 19 July 1771 | 1771-07-19 | Though the distance at which we are removed deprives me of the benefit of personal acquaintance... |
| 19 | Burke, Thomas | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Burke, 19 August 1771 | 1771-08-19 | I have your Favours of June and July 20th the first dated from Albermale the last from... |
| 20 | Skipwith, Thomas | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Skipwith, 20 September … | 1771-09-20 | Agreeable to my general fate I could not get here until some time after your departure. It is... |
| 21 | Burke, Thomas | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Burke, 24 September … | 1771-09-24 | I have long laboured to do something with Mr. Taylor but almost in vain. Altho the Question is... |
| 22 | McCaul, Alexander | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander McCaul, 8 July 1772 | 1772-07-08 | I received yours of the 7th of Septr. last only the 10th of June last, and where it had been... |
| 23 | Lewis, John | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Lewis, 4 October 1772 | 1772-10-04 | Have received yours by Col. Lewis’s Man, and find he has not deliver’d my mesage as I directed,... |
| 24 | Wayles, John | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Wayles, 20 October 1772 | 1772-10-20 | I received your favour by […]st and thank you for the various intellig[ence. The?] Genl. Courts... |
| 25 | Madison, Rev. James | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from the Rev. James Madison … | ≈1773-01-01 | I know not in what Manner sufficiently to thank you for your kind offices . It is happy that... |
| 26 | Farrell & Jones | Jefferson, Thomas | XIII. Farell & Jones to Thomas Jefferson, 30 July 1773 | 1773-07-30 | It is with great concern we have heard from Mr. Evans of the Death of our worthy Friend Mr.... |
| 27 | Macpherson, Charles | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from Charles McPherson, 12 August … | 1773-08-12 | I regret, exceedingly, that I have at this distance of time to answer your very polite letter of... |
| 28 | Taylor, James | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from James Taylor, 20 August 1773 | 1773-08-20 | There is no Such Will as Joseph Smiths Recorded in the County of Orange. I am Sr. Yr. Hble... |
| 29 | Blair, John | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Blair, 2 March 1774 | 1774-03-02 | I have noted the Time of your Petitions coming into the Office, which will give them Priority... |
| 30 | Hook, John | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Hook, 12 May 1774 | 1774-05-12 | I sent a Message to you by Mr. Steptoe offering you a small tract of Land laying between your Old... |
| 31 | Hazard, Ebenezer | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from Ebenezer Hazard, with … | 1774-08-23 | As the Collection, mentioned in the Proposals annexed, is a Matter of Importance to the Colonies... |
| 32 | Wythe, George | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from George Wythe, 5 April 1775 | 1775-04-05 | I do not know that the terms on which the crown engaged to grant the lands in Virginia are... |
| 33 | Wythe, George | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from George Wythe, 6 April 1775 | 1775-04-06 | Since my letter of yesterday, I have looked cursorily over all the charters in my office. Of... |
| 34 | Tucker, St. George | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from St. George Tucker, 8 June 1775 | 1775-06-08 | I must apologize to you for the Liberty I take in addressing you as a Member of the General... |
| 35 | Hazard, Ebenezer | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from Ebenezer Hazard, 30 June 1775 | 1775-06-30 | Your very obliging Letter of 30th. April did not come to hand before a few Days ago, or it should... |
| 36 | Gilmer, George | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from George Gilmer, [26 or 27 July … | ≈1775-07-26 | Your favour of the 5th Inst. this instant came to my hands in our encampment in Wallers Grove ,... |
| 37 | Tucker, St. George | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from St. George Tucker, 12 August … | 1775-08-12 | Were I certain that a Letter I addressed to you a few Weeks ago, by way of Virginia had been... |
| 38 | Randolph, Edmund | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from Edmund Randolph, 31 August … | 1775-08-31 | No new Occurrence at Cambridge can justify an Intrusion on the well-employ’d Moments of a... |
| 39 | Randolph, John | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Randolph, 31 August 1775 | 1775-08-31 | I have recieved ten Guineas of the Treasurer and have left the Violin with Mr. Cocke of Wmsburg.... |
| 40 | Walker, Thomas | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Walker and Others, 13 … | 1775-09-13 | After a very disagreeable, wet and fateagueing Journey, we got here on the 10th Inst. the day... |
| 41 | Committee of Safety for the Colony of Virginia | Jefferson, Thomas | Commission as Lieutenant of Albemarle, 26 September … | 1775-09-26 | The COMMITTEE of SAFETY for the Colony of VIRGINIA To Thomas Jefferson Esquire By Virtue of the... |
| 42 | Walker, John | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Walker, [ca. October … | ≈1775-10-01 | I am thus far on my way to attend the Business of my Indian department at Salisbury and have just... |
| 43 | Cary, Archibald | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from Archibald Cary, 31 October … | 1775-10-31 | I had the Pleasure of yours of the 17th Instant last night by Post, am much obliged to you for... |
| 44 | Nicholas, Robert Carter | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Carter Nicholas, 10 … | 1775-11-10 | I was favour’d with your Letter the other Day by Mrs. Randolph . We had before her Arrival heard... |
| 45 | Eppes, Francis | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Eppes, 10 November … | 1775-11-10 | I was so much ingaged last week in watching the motions of his Lordships Tenders, that I was... |
| 46 | Page, John | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 11 November 1775 | 1775-11-11 | I thank God I am now so well that I could venture to write you a long Letter if a Multiplicity of... |
| 47 | Pendleton, Edmund | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from Edmund Pendleton, 16 November … | 1775-11-16 | Former labours in Various Public emploiements now appear as recreations compared with the... |
| 48 | Lynch, Charles | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Lynch, 20 November … | 1775-11-20 | I receiv’d your favour dated Philadelphia Oct. 26th by the Express. In answer thereto I assure... |
| 49 | Page, John | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 24 [November 177]5 | 1775-11-24 | I was not a little disappointed to find that you still complain of my not writing to you, when I... |
| 50 | Nelson, Thomas, Jr. | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Nelson, Jr., 4 February … | 1776-02-04 | I had written to you soon after the repulse of our Troops at Quebec, giving you, as I thought, a... |