23131To Thomas Jefferson from Christopher Greenup, 28 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The Representatives from Kentucky have lately received a Letter from the Governor of that State, inclosing a Resolution of the General Assembly directing an application to be made to Congress for a reimbursement of the Expence incurred in carrying on expeditions against the Indian Tribes since the first of January 1785. On examination I find this business was brought before Congress the second...
23132Statement of Account from John Francis, 15 May 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
T. Jefferson Esqr. dr. To J. Francis. Board from 28 Decr 1799 till 14 May 1800. 19 Weeks & 5 days at 30 Dolls. $591.50 Wine & porter 40. Candles 8. $639.50 Cash rec’d 400. Ballance due $239.50 Rec’d payment MS ( MHi ); in unknown hand, signed by Francis; with note in TJ’s hand at foot of statement: “May 15. gave ord. on J. Barnes”; endorsed by TJ. Cash rec’d : on 16 Mch. TJ ordered John...
23133Thomas Jefferson Randolph to Thomas Jefferson, 31 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
You are no doubt anxious to hear what we are doing and what are our expectations as it respects defence, and the arrival of the enemy. Our governor as pompous, perhaps, as patriotic, has taken the field, and is encamped at fairfaild , two miles from town, with M r Lee Mercer , H. Nelson , aid, and about 2500, men under the immediate command of Gen. Cocke . There are 2,000 at Camp Holly
23134To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Barnes, 4 February 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return from Naples a few days since, Mr Jefferson, I found my friend Mr Mazzei had some favorite Vines &c and Letters to send to the President of the U.S. and requested me to find a Vessel which would convey them with care; On my arrival in Leghorn I fortunately found the Hannah nearly ready to sail, and arranged with the Master, Yardsley, to take them on board, who I have no doubt will...
23135To Thomas Jefferson from George Jefferson, 12 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
You will receive your account inclosed, made up to the end of the year; from which you will observe there was then an apparent balance in your favor of £1147–19–3. from this deduct £813–19–9 not due from M. & F. until the 1st. of April next, and the real balance which was then in our hands will be found to have been £333–19–6. I have heard of a small draught of yours in favor of James Lyon ,...
23136To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, 25 November 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The Hague, 25 Nov. 1791 . Acknowledges TJ’s letter of 30 Aug. 1791 and takes pleasure in the favorable news it contains of conditions in the U.S. He has published some of this news in a supplement to the Leyden Gazette of this date and plans to make similar use of the work by Mr. Coxe that TJ sent him.—He rejoices in the success of “ l’Expédition contre les Sauvages ” and hopes that it will...
23137To Thomas Jefferson from William H. Cabell, 17 July 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be presented to you by Mr. Woodward, who will shortly pass through Washington on his way to New-York—Permit me to introduce him to your acquaintance as a gentleman of talents and respectability. Any attentions which you may extend to Mr. Woodward, will be acknowledged as a favor conferred on me. I have the honor to be with the highest respect Sir yr. Obt. Servt. DLC : Papers of...
23138To Thomas Jefferson from Peter Arrell Browne, 1 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honour to send you enclosed a copy of the First Annual Report of the proceedings of “the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the promotion of the Mechanic Arts,” to which are prefixed the Charter, Constitution, and Bye laws of the Institute, with a list of the members and officers for 1824 and 1825 and the standing committees of the present year. I make no doubt but...
23139To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Patterson, 30 March 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sorry to inform the President that I have not any of the Extract of Peruvian Bark—as that article contains a considerable proportion of resin it will require either spiritous liquor or a tolerably high degree of heat to effect its solution—If none of it can be procured in George town I could make some of it by tomorrow evening—twelve grains forms a dose about equal to 60 grains of the...
23140Mark Langdon Hill to Thomas Jefferson, 17 April 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I am highly honored by your favor of the 5 th inst. , and in relation to the publication of the letter there refered to, it is only necessary for you to indicate a wish, to insure, on my part, an implicit compliance. There never has been any biographical sketch of M r Langdon , which has been attributable, in part, to the want of materials, or a particular knowledge of the most important...
23141To Thomas Jefferson from James Hamilton, 27 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The friendly but imprudent Zeal of Mr. Cruse of Alexandria, to promote what he supposed my Interest, makes it necessary to trouble you with this Letter. I hope you will do me the Justice to believe that the application which his Letter of last Post informs me he has made on my behalf is entirely without my privity or Knowledge. I had not at any moment contemplated or thought off the office he...
23142To Thomas Jefferson from David Austin, 26 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Having attended the hand of national fulness as long as finances would serve, & having pressed for attention by means which decency or delicacy would scarcely warrant, I find myself set down in this City.—My thoughts are for Phila. or farther eastward: still as I am likely to pass a few days with the good people of this place I am induced once more to signify to the President that it is with...
23143To Thomas Jefferson from Peter Carr, 24 October 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
My mother desires me to intimate to you, that there are several very pressing claims against her, which she has given assurances shall be discharged in january next. By something in one of your last letters, she hoped it would have been in your power, to furnish her with the means; if it should, a line upon the subject would be satisfactory to my mother. We all here wish you a good journey and...
23144To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 22 October 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you a few days past in great hurry by the Albemarle post which I presume has been received. You have been able to collect from that communication that my services will be offer’d for the Senate, unless upon the information of my friends it shall appear probable they will be rejected. I gave you there a detail of circumstances relative to that business, and can only now add that as far...
23145To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 1[5] May 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
This is the third Letter I have written to you since the Reciept of yours of 7th. of May by last Thursdays Post. My second Letter by the Post of Yesterday will inform you fully of my Plans and Reasons for them. I only write this to prevent all Inconveniences from any Miscarriage of my former Letters. Jame sets out to Albemarle this Morning. My Intention was, as it was impossible for me to set...
23146To Thomas Jefferson from George Jefferson, 21 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to day received another dividend of 3 ⅌ Cent on Mr. Short’s James River shares, being $:198.—it is placed to the credit of Mr. Barnes, who shall be advised of it by tomorrows post. Your things from Washington have arrived, and shall be forwarded by the first boats. I am Dear Sir Your Very humble servt. RC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “Thomas Jefferson esqr.”; endorsed by TJ as received 26...
23147From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 8 May 1784 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 8 May 1784. In his “Summary Journal of Letters,” Jefferson recorded that he received in Philadelphia on 24 May a letter from JM written in Richmond on 8 May ( Boyd, Papers of Jefferson Julian P. Boyd et al., eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson (18 vols. to date; Princeton, N. J., 1950——). , VII, 235; Jefferson to JM, 25 May 1784). There is no clue concerning the subjects...
23148To Thomas Jefferson from Theodore Foster, 21 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Be pleased to accept my sincerest Thanks, for your Letter of the 6th. Ulto., which I Recd. the 15th,—the Day the General Assembly of this State met, at Newport, which I was obliged to attend during the Session. For more than a Fortnight, after my Return home, I was so much afflicted by an Inflamation in my Eyes and Face, (the Effect of a Sudden Cold), as to be unable to write. I should...
23149To Thomas Jefferson from the Commissioners of the Federal District, 14 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Hallet having informed us that the situation of his family, required his presence in Philadelphia, we have desired him to wait on you, and communicate with the President and you, respecting another Plan for a Capitol , which he engages to prepare. The plan which he has exhibited, and which was drawn by our directions, after his fancy piece, does not meet altogether with our approbation,...
23150To Thomas Jefferson from François Soulés, 21 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
In the parliamentary pocket-book I published, I find a note to that purport: a member of the Commons is a Knight, a citizen or burgess. He must be resident within the same county the day of the writ of summons and ought to have 40 shillings of free hold within the said county, beyond all charges &c . A person who has just published a book intitled, les Comices de Rome &c. maintains that to be...
23151To Thomas Jefferson from John Shaw, 23 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The President is respectfully in formed that an express mail has a short time ago arrived from the eastward with the letters we send by the bearer for him— With great respect & esteem DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
23152To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 7 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The within extra-account of E. Burroughs for building the light houses seems proper, being clearly work which was not contemplated by the contract. But as this is not an item of repairs, but in fact an addition to the contract for building which was approved by the President, no alteration can legally be made without his approbation. The propriety of allowing the account is respectfully...
23153To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, 31 August 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Mrs. Dearborn & myself intend seting out for Monticello on tuesday, I had anxiously hoped that dispatches would have arrived from Paris before I left the City, and that something more explicit would have been communicated from London, but nothing of the kind has arrived,—the Kickapoos are uneasy and threaten hostilities, but the measures taken by Govr. Harrison will I presume have the desired...
23154From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 22 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
I think Colo. Humphrey’s in one of his letters to you, refers to his to me, for some article of News. I see nothing therein that we have not had before; but send it nevertheless, for your perusal. Can any thing be said, or done, respecting the Marquis de la Fayette? I send the letter that you may give it another perusal. I send a letter also from a French Gentleman in New York offering his...
23155To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 28 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Are the enclosed in conformity to your ideas? If not, will you be pleased to note the necessary alterations—It would be well to let the Secretary of the Treasury see them— Respectfy &c &c. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
23156Eli Alexander to Thomas Jefferson, 6 February 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
yesterday at Montecelo , I omited to Consult you with respect to a pease of ground which I wish to Clear at shadwell , of about two or three acres. for the purpose of fire wood and rails. there is very little timber on it. owing in part to the Waggoners Commiting depredations when encamping at the place—as also rails taken from it at different times to repair the fenceing burnt by them. the...
23157To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 6 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your obliging letter wrote at the moment you were setting out for Monticello,—I sent to my Son Rembrandt at New York, and I doubt not he will profit by your hints of different times and prices, to seperate and accomodate the Variety of Company that probably will desire a sight of the Skeleton. In order to improve and fit my Son Rubens to conduct my Museum, I have permited him to accompany his...
23158From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Jefferson, 26 December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I beg leave to suggest, that it would be useful for the Consuls of the United States, every where to be possessed of the Laws of the U States respecting Commerce & Navigation—giving it as a standing instruction, to make known in the best manner possible, in the parts where they reside those regulations, which are necessary to be complied with abroad by Merchants, & the Owners & Masters of...
23159To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 22 September 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
The particular Attention paid by the Executive to my Recommendations, and Informations could not but be flattering to me, but the Manner in which you expressed your Approbation of them, in your last Letter , greatly abated the Satisfaction I should have felt. But, should I tell you what I felt and thought on reading your Letter, you might think me either captious or Hypocritical for I must...
23160To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington, With Jefferson’s Comment, 19 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have run over the four numbers of Genl. Green’s letters to Congress—herewith returned—and find nothing contained in them, unmarked by you, which ought, in my opinion, to be with held from the Public. Even those of the 3d. of Novr. 1780, tho’ quite unnecessary, might pass with an explanatory note on the then value of our paper currency. It probably is best to [leave] out the scored part of...