6301Mathew Carey to Thomas Jefferson, 14 February 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have rec d Your favour of the 27 th ult. & thank you sincerely for Your polite attention to my request . If M r Milligan has the Parliamentary Manual in the press, I shall not interfere with him. I am, respectfully, RC ( MHi ); at head of text: “Thomas Jefferson, Esq r
6302John Barnes to Thomas Jefferson, 13 February 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your much esteemed fav r 27 th Ult o received the 1 st Ins t persuade me the sett of ex for 1810. has reached the good Gen ls Banker. sh d any demur in point of paym t in either sett, the
6303Nathaniel G. Ingraham, Alexander Phoenix, William Nexsen, and John Redfield to Thomas Jefferson, 13 February 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Four of your fellow Citizens overwhelmed by the calamities of the times, with large families totally destitute of the means of Subsistence, are incarcerated by the government of their Country for—debt. Attached to the Republican Administration of that government by every tie which can direct & controul the affections of man, they have thro’ a series of misfortunes & sacrifices supported &...
6304Hugh Nelson to Thomas Jefferson, 13 February 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I must beg your pardon for having led you into an Error in my former letter concerning your manuscript. Your letter was recd at the Capitol, where having no opportunity of examining my Books and papers brot from home, having intended to bring the manuscript with me, it was taken for granted that it was put up and brot here. But on examination it was found that I had left it at home in my desk....
6305Gibson & Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson, 12 February 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
We have received your note by M r Johnson there are at present no ploughs to be procured here, John Sam l Adams is in daily expectation of receiving some of Peacock’s — Vail & Rogers likewise expect a supply of the Cary plough— we have been equally unfortunate in our search after Burnet seed, the only chance of obtaining it, is from M r
6306Charles Simms to Thomas Jefferson, 12 February 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have at length met with an opportunity of shipping in a vessel from this Port to Richmond a quarter Cask of wine, a bag of almonds, a box of olives and a box of marble, which I received for you from Salem —and which I have consigned to the care of Mess rs Gibson and Jefferson of Richmond the charges for duties Freight & drayage on those articles amount to $15 ⁹³⁄₁₀₀ , which I have requested...
6307James Barbour to Thomas Jefferson, 11 February 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
With sincere thanks, I acknowledge the receipt of your letter in answer to mine —The prompt compliance with my request, coupled with the very satisfactory view you have given me of the subject referred to in my Communication to you, has laid me under fresh obligations; and is an additional evidence of your friendly disposition—Every impression of my mind was perfectly in unison, with the...
6308Benjamin Rush to Thomas Jefferson, 11 February 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Few eforts of the Acts of my life have given me more pleasure than the one you are pleased to acknowledge in your last letter . I wish in your reply to M r Adams’s letter you had given him the echo of his Communications to you respecting his daughter M rs Smith and her husband
6309From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 10 February 1812 (Adams Papers)
I have received with great pleasure your favour of the 23 of January. I suspected that the Sample was left at the Post Office and that you would soon have it. I regret the Shabby Condition in which you found it: but it was the only Copy I had, and I thought it Scarcely worth while to wait till I could get a Sett properly bound. The Dissertation on the State of real homespun was a feast to me,...
6310John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 10 February 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received with great pleasure your favour of the 23 of January . I suspected that the Sample was left at the Post Office and that you would Soon have it. I regret the Shabby Condition in which you found it: but it was the only Copy I had, and I thought it Scarcely worth while to wait till I could get a Sett properly bound. The Dissertation on the State of real homespun was a feast to me,...
6311Ezra Sargeant to Thomas Jefferson, 10 February 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour of the 3 rd Inst. has been duly recieved—I will engage to furnish two hundred & fifty copies of the pamphlet mentioned say from 65 to 70 pages of the same type and size of paper of the Edinbergh Review, for one hundred and thirty Dollars. All the care possible shall be taken to have it correct, in fact the proof reading shall go through the same channel as the Reviews. It will...
6312Randolph Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson, 8 February 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I Received yours of the 6 instant , and am extreemly oblige to you for the things you were so kind as to send me. which came to hand safe, I have not had a tetch of my complaint since I saw you, and have Greatly mended in flesh. I have rode down to snowden on horse back and I found it not disagree a tall with me, tho I rode very slow, and once I went down in the gigg all appeard to a Gree...
6313From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 7 February 1812 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. several letters from you which not requiring special answers, I now beg leave to acknowledge in the lump. I have delayed it in the hope that I might add something on our public affairs not uninteresting. If there be any thing at present of this character it will be found in the inclosed paper from N. York. We have no late official information from Europe; but all that we see from...
6314Henry Andrews to Thomas Jefferson, 7 February 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Prehaps you will be surpriz d and no doubt condem the author of the following lines either as an impudent person or at least conclude him conducted by an overheated immginaton but Sir I beg you to pardon the intrusion and listen a moment to the solicitation of a youth who has through the malice of Enemies together Connected with the frailities of inexperience too much to be regretted by the...
6315James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 7 February 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have rec d several letters from you which not requiring special answers, I now beg leave to acknowledge in the lump. I have delayed it in the hope that I might add something of on our public affairs not uninteresting. If there be any thing at present of this character it will be found in the inclosed paper from N. York . will We have no late official information from Europe
6316Samuel J. Harrison to Thomas Jefferson, 5 February 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I rec d your Letter of the 26 th ult o yesterday, & Accept your proposal of Seven Dollars ⅌ 100 t for your present Crop of tob o —Ten H hds only, are in: & none Sent to Richmond
6317From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 3 February 1812 (Adams Papers)
Sitting at My Fireside, with my Daughter Smith, on the first of February My Servant brought me a Bundle of Letters and Newspapers from the Post office in this Town: one of the first Letters that Struck my Eye, had the Post Mark of Milton 23. Jany. 1812. Milton is the next Town to Quincy and the Post office in it is but three Miles from my House. How could the Letter be so long in coming three...
6318John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 3 February 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Sitting at My Fireside, with my Daughter Smith , on the first of February My Servant brought me a Bundle of Letters and Newspapers from the Post office in this Town: one of the first Letters that Struck my Eye, had the Post Mark of Milton 23. Jan y 1812 . Milton is the next Town to Quincy and the Post office in it is but three Miles from my House. How could the Letter be So long in coming...
6319Joseph Milligan to Thomas Jefferson, 2 February 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
As you will See by the Enclosed proof of the first 12 pages of the Manual I have had it printed to meet your Idea as to Size and think that it is certainly a great improvement as it may be bound like the Volume of the British spy herwith sent So as to make an elegant pocket Volume I have not yet got the house of representatives to take a Vote on ordering a certain Number for the house but I...
6320Tadeusz Kosciuszko to Thomas Jefferson, 1 February 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai eu l’honneur et le si sensible plaisir de reçevoir vos deux lettres et celle de M r Barnes avec une lettre d’echange. En les relisant dans ma solitude (car je suis a la campagne a 16 lieux de Paris près de Fontainebleau ) Jai vu que vous avez fait beaucoup pour la suretè de votre Pays et beaucoup pour les connoissances dans tous Les genres nècèssaires. Mais qui me dira positivement que...
6321John Moody to Thomas Jefferson, January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have written on to washington to Obtain a Majors Commision in the Service to Several friends—at this Crisis of publice affairs my pulse Beats high I am willing to offer my Sevices in a Suitable Station and the above would be an Eligeable one, I will take it particularly king kind if you will be So Very Oblidgeing as to write a few Lines of Reccomendation in my favour to the people proper...
6322Gibson & Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson, 30 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 5 th Ins t relative to your crops of flour and Tobacco, we observe was replied to by M r Ligon on the 9 th : we regret we did not sooner notice the quotations he gave you of the prices of the latter as we do not consider them applicable to such a crop as yours, but merely for small crops or pic
6323George Hay to Thomas Jefferson, 29 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I ought to ask your pardon, and I do ask it for having So long delayed to answer your last letter , and to comply with the requisition which that letter contained. You will be disposed to grant it, I am Sure, when I inform you that much of my time has been occupied by business in Court, which pressed most heavily upon me, and much of it devoted to duties arising from the recent calamity which...
6324John B. Magruder to Thomas Jefferson, 27 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Letter of the 15 Ins t is now before me. I observe its contents and observe that the stattments therein contain’d are perfectly correct so farr as they respect the A/c’s and Nails. I am very sorry that the young Man who you saw; should have (through in attention to the a/ situation of the accounts betwen us) made the Errowneous demand which he did; which occation’d you the trouble of...
6325Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours to Thomas Jefferson, 25 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
un livre de la plus haute importance m’a êté prêté par M r Warden ; et je voudrais bien qu’il m’eut êté donné de votre part . Ce Sont les Commentaires Sur Montesquieu . Un autre Américain m’a dit qu’on croyait aux
6326Jean Guillaume Hyde de Neuville to Thomas Jefferson, 22 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Veuillez agreér mes Sinceres remerciments pour la réponse obligeante que vous avez bien voulu faire à ma lettre, je ne doute point du Succès de ma reclamation puisqu’elle est appuyeé par vous. Jai lhonneur d’être avec autant de reconnoissance que de respect Please accept my sincere thanks for the obliging answer you kindly gave to my letter. I have no doubt about the success of my claim with...
6327Mathew Carey to Thomas Jefferson, 21 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your parliamentary Manual has been for a long time out of print, & in demand. I have written to the publisher, M r S. H. Smith , to enquire whether he has any objection to a republication of it. And wish to be informed by you, whether, if he consents to its being reprinted, you have any alterations or improvements to make in it. RC ( MHi ); at head of text: “Thomas Jefferson, Esq r ”; endorsed...
6328Ferdinando Fairfax to Thomas Jefferson, [ca. 20 January 1812] (Jefferson Papers)
I comply the more readily with Doctor Thornton’s request (that I would express to you my opinion of Barret’s machine for Roving and Spinning) from knowing your desire to patronise and promote the Useful Arts, and the readiness with which you communicate information of their improvements. As I know, and have every year occasion to observe, how many un important Patents are obtained, and how...
6329William Thornton to Thomas Jefferson, 20 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this Day had the honor of your Letter of the 14 th Inst: enquiring into the goodness of the Domestic Spinner by Ebenezer Hearrick . Having been very much confined by sickness I sent to the office for the Drawing of Hearrick’s machine. It may possibly answer, but I think it cannot spin fast the length of the thread every motion being very short. It consists of a Frame, a principal Band...
6330John Melish to Thomas Jefferson, 18 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly received your esteemed letter of the 10 th March ; and I now write you with pleasure, from an opinion that the subject is congenial to your present pursuits.— I have lately returned from a very extended Tour to the Western Country, and now intend to prepare my whole Travels for the Press, as you will see by the enclosed Prospectus, and Plan.—I have commenced procuring Subscribers here...
6331Henry Wheaton to Thomas Jefferson, 17 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg your attention to the enclosed Address, written by a friend, and which as I know you to be sensibly alive to everything which concerns the welfare of science, I flatter myself you will read not without pleasure—as it indicates the growing respectability of the healing art among us. With my prayers for the continuance of your life and health I remain sincerely with great respect your...
6332Richard Barry to Thomas Jefferson, 16 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have wrote you a letter about two weeks before Christmas, not hearing from you since I fear it has not come to your hands yet the contents of it was praying you would be so good as to let me have the ballance of my account Indeed Sir, I would not call on you now but I am building a house and I find it will take all my little earnings to meet the demands of it RC ( MHi ); at foot of text:...
6333Samuel J. Harrison to Thomas Jefferson, 16 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Griffen tells me that you have directed your Overseer , to Send your present Crop of Tob o to Richmond ; which I am Sorry to hear; as I had intended to make you a Liberal offer for it: and as it is not yet too late, I hope you will say by Return of M
6334John Barnes to Thomas Jefferson, 15 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I regret exceedingly—at the lapse of time, since I had the pleasure of receiving your last fav r dated the 3 d July —I have also to regret the want of intelligence—respecting the uncertain fate of the two years Annual Remittance for Paris —viz— Bowie & Kurtz 14 h feb
6335John Dortic to Thomas Jefferson, 15 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your honour of the 1 st october last reached my home during my absence, while travelling through Virginia , where I went as far as Richmond . Probably I Should have proceed farther had I not been called back by unexpected business I make this apology, Sir, to prove to you that I could not Sooner convey to you my thanks for the kindness of your answer to the inquires I had taken the liberty to...
6336James Barbour to Thomas Jefferson, 14 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
The partiality of my Country having bestowed on me, the station of Chief Magistrate of the Commonweal, the wish, nearest my heart, is to conduct myself in such a manner, as to evince, that its confidence has not been, entirely, misplaced. On the one hand, I wish to exercise no power not granted by the constitution ; on the other not to abandone one, which may have been conferred by that...
6337William P. Newby to Thomas Jefferson, 13 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
you found on my return that I had not Stated the number of Hogs kill’d we ware not done killing at the time the return was filed. I now present to you the number with the total w t N o 1. 40 Hogs w t 4.967 N o 2. 22 do w t 1.838
6338Colin Buckner to Thomas Jefferson, 12 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Being about to become a member of the family of Mr Christopher Clark , and being a Stranger here, I have thought it a duty I owe to that Gentleman to obtain a letter from an acquaintance who is known to him, you are the only one near this to whom I can apply,— Col o Taylor who gave me a letter to you at the time I received an appointment in the Army, will forward me a letter for Mr. Clark by...
6339Thomas T. Hewson to Thomas Jefferson, 11 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
The American Philosophical Society lately held its annual meeting for the election of Officers. On this occasion the Society reiterated its expressions of respect for your person, by again unanimously electing you to the Presidential Chair , in the confident expectation, that your patronage and assistance would still be extended to the promotion of useful knowledge, more especially, at this...
6340Robert Patterson to Thomas Jefferson, 10 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have rec d & read your interesting communication of the 10 th Nov r with great satisfaction, and have laid the same before the Committee appointed on the subject of your former communication; who, I am sure, will give it that consideration which it so highly merits. In the meantime, Sir, you will permit me to make a few observations, which may not, however perfectly agree with the ideas...
6341William Lambert to Thomas Jefferson, 9 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed abstract of calculation relative to the longitude of Monticello from Greenwich by the apparent times of internal contacts of Sun and Moon on the 17 th of September last, will, it is hoped, be accepted by you as an accurate result, admitting the data to be correctly stated. Having in a former communication, given rules for ascertaining the altitude and longitude of the nonagesimal,...
6342John Low to Thomas Jefferson, 9 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour of the 27 th Dec r has this day come to hand, acknowledging the receipt of my two former letters from Washington .—I can assure you that you have certainly Subscribed for a Set of the Encyclopædia, and in your own hand writing.— In order to convince of the fact I shall take the liberty of calling upon M r Remsen , and M
6343Gideon Granger to Thomas Jefferson, 8 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just received yours of the 30th. Ult: and given instructions to the Postmaster of the City if any Such bundles arrive for the future, to detain them and notify me, and you may be assured I shall keep them Carefully as well as apprise you of their being in my possession. RC ( DLC ); in a clerk’s hand, signed by Granger; at foot of text: “Thomas Jefferson Esq Monticello V a ”; endorsed by...
6344William Lambert to Thomas Jefferson, 8 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to transmit an abstract of the calculation of the longitude of Monticello west of Greenwich, founded on the apparent times of the internal contacts of Sun and Moon on the 17 th of September last, as contained in your letter of the 29 th of December ; and having ascertained the elements with scrupulous exactness, tested by various rules, the accuracy of the result, according to...
6345James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, 6 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
A circumstance has occurr’d with which it may be useful for you to be made acquainted , with, merely to put you on your guard. you have doubtless seen a letter publish’d in the gazettes, which is imputed to Gen l Wilkinson & said to be written from this place in 1803. to Mr Power at N. Orleans , requesting him to use the
6346Thomas Sully to Thomas Jefferson, 6 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
In my Letter to you dated the 22 d of December , I had the honour to communicate in the name of the Society of Artists of the United States , the information that you were elected an honorary member of that body; I have now the pleasure of informing you that at their last annual meeting held on Jan y 2 d for the choice of Officers, you were elected their President for the present year. You...
6347Joseph Milligan to Thomas Jefferson, 3 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope you will pardon me but as the manuel is out of print and many applications for it I wished to know whether I might have your permission to print a new edition during the present Session of Congress : the booksellers both of Baltimore & Philad have applied to me for it therfore I wished to say to them whether I might Calculate on supplying them from the New edition I proposed with your...
6348From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 1 January 1812 (Adams Papers)
As you are a Friend to American Manufactures under proper restrictions, especially Manufactures of the domestic kind, I take the Liberty of Sending you by the Post a Packett containing two Pieces of Homespun lately produced in this quarter by One who was honoured in his youth with Some of your Attention and much of your kindness. All of my Family whom you formerly knew are well. My Daughter...
6349Resumption of Correspondence with John Adams, followed by John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 1 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
As you are a Friend to American Manufactures under proper restrictions, especially Manufactures of the domestic kind, I take the Liberty of Sending you by the Post a Packett containing two Pieces of Homespun lately produced in this quarter by One who was honoured in his youth with Some of your Attention and much of your kindness. All of my Family whom you formerly knew are well. My Daughter...
6350Thomas Erskine Birch to Thomas Jefferson, 1 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Some time in Nov r last I transmitted by the mail to your address a copy of the Virginian Orator, in which was inclosed a letter . Separate from the packet there was delivered to the stage-driver, at the same time, a letter to G & R Waite of Baltimore in which was inclosed 3 tickets in the “ Susquehanna Canal lottery” all of which had drawn prizes, but by a reference to the post Office...