23181To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel H. Smith, 29 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Samuel H. Smith presents his respectful compliments to Mr. Jefferson, and sends, accompanying this note, the Bee sent to S.H.S. from the Post office thro’ mistake, and the French Calender which ought to have been returned long since. The only apology S.H.S. can offer for this conflict is the having sent it on the very day on which Mr. Jefferson last left the city for Monticello, and its being...
23182Samuel H. Smith to Thomas Jefferson, 11 September 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
In compliance with the request of D r Barton , I have caused to be inserted in the Nat. Intel r his letter to you , which you were good enough to transmit to me on the 8 th ult. However disputable some of the Doctor’s opinions may be, the subject is highly interesting, and is one on w ch a mind of his vigor can scarcely fail to throw much light. M rs Smith unites with me in an expression of...
23183To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Harrison Smith, 13 December 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly received your favor of the 2 d of August in reply to mine of the 22 d of July. I did not then, as, perhaps, I should have done, return you my thanks for the candid expression of your opinions; opinions w h I cordially respect, although they are not, on one point, so explicit as I had hoped they might be. Notwithstanding frequent and flagrant misrepresentations of your sentiments I have...
23184To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Harrison Smith, 18 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Thomas Jefferson Esquire to S. H. Smith 1805 March. To printing 50 copies of a supplementary note to the account of the Mould Board
23185Samuel H. Smith to Thomas Jefferson, 21 October 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I was this day invited by the Library Com e to a conference with them. They represented that in consequence of the amendment to their report, it became necessary to ascertain the value of the library & to obtain an authority from the two Houses to pay it, to enable them to do w ch they enquired of me whether I could specify the sum that would be received for it. I replied that I was unable to...
23186Samuel H. Smith to Thomas Jefferson, 15 February 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I tender you my cordial felicitations on the returning blessings of peace, the value of w ch will be more sensibly realised by a people who have borne with fortitude the privations and met with courage the perils of war,—blessings to w ch they have always had a moral right, and w ch they now hold by the tenure of physical power. How inestimable the benefits that have flowed from the possession...
23187Samuel H. Smith to Thomas Jefferson, 15 August 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the satisfaction of advising you of our having reached home in perfect health and safety after one of the most charming excursions we have ever taken. To crown the whole with pleasure we found our little girls as hearty and happy as when we left them, and can, therefore, with full fellow feeling congratulate you and your family on the complete disappearance of indisposition of which M r...
23188To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Harrison Smith, 20 July 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Recived from the President of the U.S. ten dollars and fifty cents on an account rendered—for the Nat. Intel. Univl. Gaz. and some pamphlets— RC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ as received 20 July. In his financial memoranda, TJ recorded a payment of ten dollars to Smith for newspapers ( MB James A. Bear, Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and...
23189Samuel H. Smith to Thomas Jefferson, 30 January 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I am happy to advise You that the bill authorisi n g the purchase of Your Library has passed the two houses of Congress . I enclose for Your satisfaction a copy of the bill. It now rests with the Library committee to make the final agreement. The sum stipulated is precisely that estimated by M r Milligan . I shall, doubtless, in a few days hear from the Committee , when I will again write You....
23190To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Harrison Smith, 23 July 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
In consequence of the conversation I had the pleasure of holding with you at the time you Subscribed to the Institution for the education of youth in this City, I took the liberty of causing it to be understood that there was good reason to believe that you could not decline the appointment of a Trustee; and I considered it most fit to make this intimation to the Council from the Smallness of...