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I received your very interesting letter of the 26 th of March 4 days after date, for which I return you my most grateful thanks. At the request of several of your particular friends in this place I have taken the liberty to publish it, for whatever emanates from on a National subject, from the pen of Columbia’s Illustrious Statesman and Patriot will ever excite the attention of his fellow...
You will pardon the liberty I take, in transmitting to you a Discourse , delivered at the consecration of a Jewish Synagogue in this City, which I trust may have sufficient novelty, if not interest to induce you to peruse. Nothing I am persuaded can be more gratifying to you, than to See the Jews in this Country in the full enjoyment of civil and religious rights, to know that they possess...
Your favor of 8 April desiring me to remit to Europe 1000$ which M r Patrick Gibson of Richmond was to remit to me on your ℀—& also his of 4 May Informing he could not procure a Dft & desiring me to Draw—are both this moment received—I shall negociate the Dft as speedily as may be—& procure the Dfts on Paris
By the next stage that leaves this place for Charlotesville , I will forward to you a Box which has been addressed to my care,— I presume by Mr Milligan . It gives me much pleasure to be thus able to serve you. RC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ as received 11 May 1818 and so recorded in SJL . RC ( MHi ); address cover only; with PoC of TJ to Charles Simms, 30 July 1818
I have sent a box of Books for you to the care of W m F Gray of Fredericksburg it contains Tacitus 8 vols and two other Octavo volumes also a folio volume which is either yours or Miss Randolph s it was left with me by M rs Madison — at the time it was left I had nothing of that kind to bind and when I was binding for you last year it was forgotten I have put into the box four Books for M r Carr
Knowing your present aversion to writing, & knowing also how much you are accablé by inevitable correspondence, I have abstained for some time from adding to this load. If I break in upon you at this moment it is because I am in search of information that I know not where to look for otherwise, & indeed which I can have no certainty of finding from you—If you recollect, among the articles...
I take again the liberty of Sending you a few lines—and this without any further apologÿ, as I take it for granted that you do me the justice, that I can not wish, to intrude on your more Serious occupations, or importune you, for making a Sacrifice of your precious time, in answering these:—what value I may place on one of your lines—I do not desire these at that rate—and on this footing I do...
I pray you accept the enclosed Map, as a mark of the respect of RC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “Thomas Jefferson Esq r Virginia”; endorsed by TJ as received 18 May 1818 and so recorded in SJL . Enclosure: Gardiner, Map of the late Surveys in the Southern District of the Alabama Territory (Philadelphia, [ca. 1817]).
I have the pleasure of sending you by Captain Corran bound to newyork , a small parcel containing some pamphlets, catalogues of Books, and a file of a french newspaper—the annales des Politiques —If you will send me a list of the Books which you wish to have, I think that I could procure them for you a great deal cheaper than if furnished by any Bookseller, especially if you can allow some...
I took the liberty of applying to you for the above am t by Letter dated some weeks back, requesting you would have the kindness to remit me the am t to the care of Doctor May of this City, but as I have not had the pleasure of hearing from you, I presume it must have escaped your recollection, therefore beg leave to remind you, which hope you’ll pardon Having received all the Subscriptions...