9001[To Thomas Jefferson from Thomson Mason, 21 August 1776] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Gunston Hall, 21 Aug. 1776 . On this date Nicholas Cresswell “Called at Mr. Mason’s” and obtained promise of letters of introduction “for some of the members of the Congress”; two days later he again called on Mason who gave him a “letter to Messrs. Francis Lightfoot Lee, Thos. Stone, Thos Jefferson, and John Rogers Esq., all members of the Congress.” A week later Cresswell noted in his...
9002To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Cooper, 10 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
St. Croix, 10 July 1793 . He wrote to TJ on 1 May and received his 21 May circular, but will not be able to provide the information expected in his 26 Aug. 1790 request for a semiannual report on American trade with this island. Most American imports here are subject to a 10 percent duty without the privilege of exporting part of the value thereof in sugar. Few American products fall into the...
9003To Thomas Jefferson from John Paul Jones, 20 March 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I embrace the occasion of a young Gentleman, just arrived here Express from St. Petersburg, and who sets out immediately Express for Paris , to transmit you the foregoing Copy of my last of the 18th. I have written to Norway and expect a satisfactory Answer. The minister of France is surprised to have had no object from Versailles respecting me . I pray you and so does he to push that point...
9004To Thomas Jefferson from John Bondfield, 15 July 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Bordeaux, 15 July 1786 . Has shipped on board the Comte d’Artois , Capt. Stephen Gregory, 50 cases of arms, numbered 1 to 50, from the manufactory at Tulle, addressed to the governor of Virginia for the account of that state; lists papers enclosed. The governor must return an “especially authenticated” certificate to cancel Bondfield’s bond for the safe delivery of the arms. Has drawn draft in...
9005To Thomas Jefferson from Lafayette, 16 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Give me leave to present to You M. L’ Herbette a french Citizen of a Respectable family, Great personal Merit, and to Whose Worthy Uncle I am Under Obligations the Nearest to the Heart—I know this introduction will insure to Him Your Good Wishes and kind Patronage—With the Highest Regard and Most friendly Affection I am Yours RC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ as received “by mr L’Herbette ” on 16...
9006To Thomas Jefferson from James Ronaldson, 4 December 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
It is with no small degree of reluctance, that I impose on you the trouble of this letter. I am sensible that you have done a full share of the duties and labours of Society, and ought now to be allowed the pleasures and comforts of that retirement you have so ardently sought. I hope that the object of this letter, will, in the goodness of your heart and the recollection of past times, find...
9007George Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson, 11 February 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Shoemaker’s dft was paid a few days after it became due, when the amount was of course remitted to Fredericksburg agreeably to your direction. From the great fall in the price of Tobacco in Lynchburg I take it for granted that were you were not able to dispose of yours.— It sells here by the face of the note at no more than 4 $.—some of a very fine quality has lately been sold as low as...
9008To Thomas Jefferson from Oliver Parsons, 29 January 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The undersigned, a Committee of the Dickinson Library Company in Granville, County of Hampden & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, present to your Excellency our best respects, and beg leave to state that there is established in this Village a respectable Classical School and by the libirality of a Gentleman in our vicinity, a Library has been formed; and we have also been the beneficiaries of...
9009To Thomas Jefferson from Justus Erich Bollmann, 4 May 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duely received Your Excellency’s Letter of the 30th. of April. I have read it with sincere Emotions of Gratitude and the Impression it has made upon me will be the more permanent since this Proof of Your kind Disposition towards me is the first Circumstance which seems to interrupt a long Chain of adverse Occurrences. There are many Reasons why a Change of Scene would be agreable to me...
9010To Thomas Jefferson from Madame d’Houdetot, 18 October 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
I am Greatly Indebted to you for Your Polite attention in Sending me so early the News of our Dear and Venerable Doctor’s happy and safe arrival in his own country. He is become Respectable To all Nations and Peculiarly dear to his own, as well as To his Numerous Friends and acquaintances. You have Reliev’d me from a Great Load of uneasiness, and afforded me at the Same Time a most heartfelt...
9011To Thomas Jefferson from Bolling Stark, 30 April 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
It is probable your Excellency may have heard that I reached Cumberland old Court house on wednesday last with the books and papers belonging to Your’s, and the other public-boards, where I judged they would be perfectly secure from the enemy, but on Saturday, we were alarmed with an account of their having penetrated the country as far as chesterfield Court-house, at which place they had...
9012To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Anderson, 1 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Although I do not feel myself Authorisd to interfere, in the Smallest degree, with any thing, that may in the least appertain to your Administration,—Yet feeling Very much interested, in the welfare of the Family of Mr. John Hall—Marshall of Pennsylvania,—I hope you will pardon my presumeing to request, that he may be Continued in his present office—I have had, a Very early and long...
9013To Thomas Jefferson from D. L. Morel, 15 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg you pardon if I dared to trouble you. in september last, as I can recollect, I took the liberty to make to you the homage of a contrivance to apply ores to the navies; the draf was explained by a long subjoined memorandum. so many tricks are used, that I am till now uncertain if the Writing is come to you. however desirous that it could be of some usefulness to america and mankind...
9014To Thomas Jefferson from Richard Henry Lee, 8 July 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
Chantilly, 8 July 1779 . Acknowledges TJ’s letter of 17 June. “Every good Whig will wish success to a governor whose principles of action are not the incentives of whim, or the suggestions of partiality; but who is influenced by motives of sound whiggism, which I take to be those of genuine philanthropy‥‥ In Virginia we have properly two frontiers, one bordered by a wilderness, the other by a...
9015To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, 12 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The Hague, 12 July 1791 . He acknowledges TJ’s of 13 May and has made good use of his account of the prosperity of the United States. If the volume of European quarrels allows space for this felicitous example set by the New World, it will be seen in the newspapers. He has written Luzac to continue sending the gazette by the English packet boats. As for the question of American packets, this...
9016To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 4 July 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the favor of your letter of the 1st. of July yesterday evening & have immediately taken the necessary steps to procure 6 Stonecutters,—but as this is the Anniversary of our Independence I have found it impossible to procure the attention of anybody today . Tomorrow, I expect to be able to make sure of as many as the city can spare. I have called the Master Stonecutters together, & have...
9017To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 28 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of 22 d covering your bill is received, & I beg you to accept my most heartfelt thanks. I have held a conference on it with some of our friends, and I think it will be a powerful instrument in our hands. Our friends in the other house were committed to the Williamsburg party to vote in the first instance , for the postponement. Then they will be free. If that question should not be...
9018James Oldham to Thomas Jefferson, 25 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
my Letter of the 18 th Instant informd you of the quantity of Glass that I was then able to Procure, the models derected to me wos receivd yesterday and this morning I deliverd to Gibson & Jefferson the quantity of Panes Sutable to each modle. also 70 Panes 12 by 18 I. Boston Glass which is all that can be Procurd at Present. The 5 Panes nesary to make the complement wonting cannot be got...
9019To Thomas Jefferson from Souche, 16 June 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ay Eté Chargé par des Seigneurs qui avait L’honneur d’etre Connu de vous, de faire un modelle d’une Caffetiere Et de vous la faire passer, Ce c’est Ce que Je fit de Suitte Et L’ay remise à la messagerie Royalle. Je suis En paine de sçavoir Sy vous l’avés Recüe ou non. Dans Cette perplexité Je prend La liberte de vous Ecrire pour vous prier, Monseigneur, d’avoir La bonté de Me le marquer afin...
9020To Thomas Jefferson from Meriwether Lewis, 19 May 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be handed you by Mr. McKennan, the Prothonotory of Washington county Pensylvania, whom I beg leave to make known to you as a gentleman of sobriety, integrity and a sound republican in the wost of times . The pecuniary circumstances of Mr. McKennan are but moderate, his family numerous and entirely dependant on his exertions for support: thus situated he is about to remove to the...
9021To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Brown, 10 November 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I ought, perhaps, to apologise for the liberty I have taken in enclosing to you the Memoir on Nitre & Gun Powder at a time when the important concerns of Government are likely to engage so much of your attention. As the Secretary of the Navy, however, did me the honor to ask my opinion concerning the probable causes of the defects of those articles I was desirous of evincing my readiness to...
9022To Thomas Jefferson from J. P. G. Muhlenberg, 14 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The President will—I hope, pardon the Liberty I take of addressing a line to Him, on a subject relating merely to myself—I have been honord with the appointment of Supervisor in this State—my intention was, to execute the duties of the Office, faithfully, & diligently, and to enable me to do this, I disengagd my self from all other business whatever, & the short time I have been in...
9023To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Sarly, 22 December 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
As the Commander of an American Ship I feel it a Duty incumbant on me to Inform you of any Circumstances which may affect the Dignity or Honour of my Country in this Quarter of the Glo[be]. And as it has been my study during my Abscence to Support the character of an American; I feel the Insult offered to our Colours with double force by Foreigners wearing them without the smallest title to...
9024To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, 2 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Ma derniere, où je communique une Adresse à Votre Excellence, étoit envoyée à Amsterdam pour être acheminée demain, lorsque celle de Votre Excellence du 14e. Nov. me fut remise. Je vois et sens, quoiqu’à mon grand regret, qu’Elle ne peut concourir au moyen honnête de me tirer pendant une couple de mois au moins de la situation vraiment pénible et cruelle où je me trouve ici, surtout pendant...
9025To Thomas Jefferson from William Gordon, 8 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I trouble you afresh from an apprehension that either your Excellency did not receive my letter of February , or that your answer has miscarried. I mentioned in my letter my having delayed to write, till I had gotten forward in printing; and informed you that I had finished the two first volumes, and should be obliged to you for your friendly assistance in the way you had proposed, by...
9026To Thomas Jefferson from John Vaughan, 9 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
On receipt of your favor I called on M r Strickland relative to Fresco painting, there is no professed Painter of that Branch, but he believes that the Brother of W P Warren Scene Painter of the New Theatre is the only one to be got who is capable of doing it. He recommends your sending immediately a Description of the work wanted—dimensions, what ornaments, how disposed &c. together with any...
9027To Thomas Jefferson from John A. Graham, 2 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Having been informed that certain Individuals have said, or written to the Executive of the United States, things which have called in question my want of attachment to the present administration, so derogatory to my honor and feelings—. I here take the liberty to forward the enclosed letter, which I procured to be published in Vermont more than three Years since: as by the affidavit hereunto...
9028To Thomas Jefferson from Madame de Doradour, 4 December 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Je répond Monsieur sur le champ à votre lettre . Je suis dezollée de l’accident que vous avés eprouvé. Il faut que la chute que vous avés faite aye été bien viollente. Que j’aurois desirois etre a paris pour pouvoir vous tenir quelque fois compagnie. Ma qualité de votre compatriote m’aures donnés des droits Monsieur a vous servir de garde malade et j’aurois jouie avec delices de cette...
9029To Thomas Jefferson from Neil Jamieson, 14 June 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
A parcle of Philad. News Papers came to hand some days ago to forward for you. I have sent those of this City till todays date. I hope they will get safe to hand. I wrote you and Colo. Humphreys, which I presume you receved. If I can render any acceptable services here you will be pleased to Command Sir your obd. Hbe. Serv., RC ( MHi ); endorsed. Recorded in SJL as received 22 July 1785 “by...
9030To Thomas Jefferson from John Watkins, 4 April 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
In pursuance of a resolution of the house of Representatives of the territory of Orleans, entered into in consequence of advice received from His Excellency the Governor, that there was a vacancy of one member in the legislative council, I have the honor to transmit to you an extract from the journal of the said house by which it will appear that Julien Poydras & Dominique Bouligny were duly...