451Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 23 January 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
The last mail from Charlottesville brought me your letter of 17 th inst: accompanied by your three letters to m r Eppes on the subject of the ways & means of carrying on the war. Accept, I beseech you, my most sincere thanks for the communication of these papers which from the hasty perusal I have given them already promise me a fund of valuable & highly interesting matter. I shall observe...
452Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 19 October 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of 23 d Sep r reached me before I left home: that of 30 th since I came to this place. I have already given & shall continue to give to those letters the fullest consideration in my power. We have as yet settled upon no plan of finance or defence: & are waiting to hear the plans of congress . Our difficulties are great & encreasing. Your idea of issuing state certificates ought, & I...
453Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 17 September 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
The dangers of our country will be my apology for troubling you with this letter. I wish to draw your attention to the important subject of our financial difficulties, & particularly those which will present themselves to the Gen l Assembly at its next session: and to sollicit the favor of you to put me in possession of any hints, or plans which you may think adapted to the crisis. I went to...
454Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 27 December 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed letter, which I received under cover of your favor of 16 th Oct. having remained a sufficient length of time in my hands, I now return it agreeably to your desire, & beg you to receive my sincere thanks for the communication. I have taken the liberty to keep a copy of it, for my own gratification & instruction & for the occasional perusal of such friends as may be desirous to...
455Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 17 February 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been prevented by business of late, from writing you respecting the fate of the Bill founded on the petition of the Rivanna River company . The Bill as it came up to the Senate contained merely a proviso saving private rights. M r Johnson drafted two amendments, one requiring that the tolls should be collected at the Locks, & only on what passed should pass thro’ them, so long as the...
456Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 4 July 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I saw General Cocke on his way to Norfolk , early in June, and had a conversation with him on the subject of Hedges: in the course of which he informed me that you were under the impression that Maine ’s method of preparing Haws, so as to make them vegetate quickly, had died with him. It affords me pleasure to furnish you with it, in an extract of a Letter written by Maine to M r James...
457Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 5 February 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of 31 st ult has come to hand, and I am happy to learn from it that your books arrived in safety. The free communication of your opinion upon the subject of the alledged Right of the Gen l Assembly to annex additional qualifications to the members of the House of Representatives of Congress , places me under great obligations. Your letter did not get to hand before the subject was...
458Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 12 January 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your favor of 5 th ins t relative to the subject of the petition of the Rivanna Company . You may rest assured that I shall pay the most pointed attention to this business, and do every thing in my power to guard your rights from invasion. I immediately held a preliminary conversation with my friend Johnson , after which I waited on M r Barber Barbour , & obtained the use of...
459Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 12 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour of 1 st inst is now before me. With the nature & object of the petition you allude to, I was already acquainted from having received an explanatory letter from your grandson , covering a copy of the remonstrance. I had also conversed as well with him as with m r maury . I advised m r maury without delay to have an interview with his colleague , and to endeavor to obtain his...
460Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 6 March 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I have got thus far on my way home, and entrust to the neighbouring post office, your letters on Finance, which I hope will safely reach you. I must beg your pardon for having detained them longer than the period of my engagement. My private business in the lower country took up much more time than I had anticipated, and I was compelled to keep your letters thus long in order thoroughly to...
461Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 21 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you hastily by a late mail a short letter containing the substance of our proceedings respecting those Bills in which you felt a particular interest. A more particular statement may not be unacceptable to you. Capt: Miller ’s Bill passed by in the Senate by a vote of 12 to ab t 5. after an elaborate discussion, in which not only the merits of the particular claim, but the general law...
462Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 8 December 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I expected when I wrote you from Williamsburg , that my Servant would have come up with me from that place on the 5 th inst; but one of my horses being unavoidably detained, I was compelled to leave him behind; & was consequently disappointed, for the moment, in sending him on with your books. I was only waiting for his arrival, when to-day, I fell in with Gen l Moore , who told me he should...
463Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 23 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the honor of receiving the friendly & obliging letter which you wrote me on the 27th of last month , together with the one enclosed, from Judge Cooper of Pennsylvania , to yourself, of 10 th of May : & I feel some anxiety of mind least the tardiness of my reply, m to you, may be the cause of procrastinating yours to Judge Cooper much longer than may be agreeable to you. But as I did...
464Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 16 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I received in due time by the mail, your favor respecting M r Read ’s Miller ’s petition: and I have deferred writing to you, till the fate of that bill, & of the bill respecting the Central College , could be ascertained, so far as it depended on the House of Delegates . Both these bills arrived in the Senate this day: and I have had them committed, and shall take all the care of them in the...
465Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 26 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have at length procured from the Editor of the Enquirer & now return your original Letter to M r Carr . Its publication, in my opinion, was well timed, and has had produced a happy effect on the measures of the assembly . We have appropriated all our U. States’ debt, except $600,000, to the purposes of education , and have required the President & Directors of the Literary Fund , to report...
466Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 5 March 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
After a long detention on the road by the deep snow that fell in the latter part of the month of January I arrived here on 5 th ult, since which I have had the pleasure to receive your favor of 5 th Jan: together with the papers enclosed. you have imposed on me new obligations by this communication. The particular posture of my domestic affairs at the time I reached home, and the new...
467Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 19 February 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
The Bill respecting the Turnpike from Rockfish Gap was this day postponed indefinitely in the House of Delegates . Col: yancey , as I am informed by M r Thweat , did every thing in his power to push the Bill thro’ the House , after having consented to lay it on the table for the Balance of the session. The Bill for calling taking the sense of the people as to the expediency of calling a...
468Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 14 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Miller’s bill has passed. The Bill respecting the central college has also passed—but with modifications. The bill respecting the navigable waters of the commonwealth, with Col: Greene ’s amendments, has also passed. your various letters of late have been gratefully received: and your copy of the books in the national Library has been deposited in the Council chamber. I am compelled to...
469Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 4 August 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg you to accept my sincere thanks for your favor of the 13 th ins t , and for the communication of the accompanying letter on the propriety of calling a convention to amend the constitution of Virginia . The information you give me on the subject of Hedges is very acceptable; it will exempt me from the mortification of failures in experiments that extend thro so large a portion of human...
470Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 9 February 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
The petition of Count Barziza was rejected some time past in the House of Delegates I have kept a watchful eye on the Turnpike Bill to which you desired me to attend. M r Thweat has shewn a very friendly anxiety on the occasion. I spoke to several of my friends in the low House of Delegates , to cooperate with him. M r Maury has been ill nearly the whole of the session. But an agreement has...
471Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 23 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you by the last mail , that the bills respecting the Central College , and Capt: Miller ’s claim, had just reached the Senate : and that the former was objected to in two points: 1 st because it gives to the Trustees of the College the power of determining the time at which the act of 22 d Dec r 1796 . shall be carried into execution in albemarle , and 2
472Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 24 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Since writing the enclosed letter , I have conversed with m r Mercer of the lo House of Delegates , to whom I had lent your Letter to m r Carr , upon being informed by him that he had it in contemplation to endeavor to get a considerable part of the debt due from us by the Gen l Gov t
473Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 29 November 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of 7 th inst covering an abstract of the Bill respecting yourself & the Rivanna River C o , did not get to Warminster , till nearly a fortnight after I had left home for the lower country: and it was not untill the 26 th inst that I received it at this place. This will account for the delay of my answer; as well as for my not calling at Monticello on my way down, agreeably to your...
474Thomas Cadwalader to Thomas Jefferson, 6 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Having been apprized that an Application was made to you in December last, to procure my nomination to a field-Officer’s Commission in the Regiment of U.S. Cavalry , I beg leave to inform you that such application was made without my knowledge, or authority. RC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “Thomas Jefferson Esq re ”; endorsed by TJ as received 11 Oct. 1809 and so recorded in SJL . Thomas...
475Edward Caffarena to Thomas Jefferson, 5 September 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I avail myself of the favorable occasion per M r Baker now here with family, to have the honor to address you, and to pray you, Sir to receive a few select seeds of choiced flowers and plants produced on this soil, I hope they may prove fruitful in yours, if So, it will afford me the highest gratification to remit you Annual samples. Praying you Sir to excuse this liberty I have the honor to...
476Clement Caines to Thomas Jefferson, 2 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
The name of Thomas Jefferson has reached the West Indies and is celebrated throughout the World. It has excited sentiments of respect and high esteem in the breast of the person, who takes the liberty of addressing to you this letter. He wishes to express what he feels; but his means inadequately keep pace with his emotions. Such a tribute as is in his power he however tenders you. It consists...
477Charles Caldwell to Thomas Jefferson, 25 April 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Although personally unknown to you, at least, I fear, unrecollected, I address you frankly as a man of letters, in relation to and in behalf of the literature of our country. Amidst other numerous and to me more important engagements, I have allowed myself to be prevailed on lately to take charge of the editorial department of the Port Folio, a monthly Journal with the reputation of which you...
478Charles Caldwell to Thomas Jefferson, 30 April 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
As it is not known to me whether or not you have had an opportunity of becoming acquainted with the character of the Port Folio, your acceptance of a copy of it is respectfully solicited. Being a perfect tyro in the direction of a public journal, I possess, as yet, on that subject, neither pride to be wounded, nor prejudices to be overcome. Any opinion, therefore, you may have the goodness to...
479Abner E. Callaway to Thomas Jefferson, 25 November 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Will Mr Jefferson be so kind as to lend me a couple of hundread brick which shall be returned with, those lent to Colo Watts . This favour will be thankfully receaved by yours RC ( ViU : TJP-ER ); dateline beneath signature; adjacent to signature: “M r Tho s Jefferson”; endorsed by TJ: “Callaway Abner.” Abner Early Callaway (1787–1834) and his brother George Callaway inherited land in Bedford...
480George Callaway to Thomas Jefferson, 5 December 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
your note of this morni n g I have rec d & I am to express my utter astonishment at the claim you have therein set forth—such a claim was suggested to me by capt— Mitchell at the time you wished to sell him your wheat, but as to its validity I have never for a moment tho t of it—However that you may be yourself satisfied I will see you tomorow at your own house where the boy tells M r Griffen...
481Benjamin J. Campbell to Thomas Jefferson, 16 March 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have understood that you were in want of a number of looms of the most approved construction; Wherefore I take the liberty to inform you that I am now about obtain in g a paten t for one, not before in use; the outlines of which you will permit me to describe 1 st It Superceeds the necessity of warping in the web, for it takes the warp from spools, or bobbins, deposited in the rear of the...
482David Campbell to Thomas Jefferson, 7 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Without a personal acquaintance I beg leave to ask of you an answer to the following enquiries. In October 1780 a volunteer expedition was fitted out from the County of Washington under the command of Colonel William Campbell , which with extraordinary promptitude marched to the State of South Carolina and in conjunction with other militia from the Carolinas defeated and made prisoners, the...
483David Campbell to Thomas Jefferson, 5 November 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Having a direct conveyance I cannot deny myself the pleasure of expressing the high consideration and Esteem I continue to entertain for you. I shall not name public or political matters to you. You know them all better than I do myself. The State of Tennessee increases in population and consequence remarkably indeed. The Cherokees will soon leave us their Country. They are daily emigrating to...
484George W. Campbell to Thomas Jefferson, 9 September 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I have long intended troubling you with a letter, but have been deterred for want of something that seemed worthy your perusal— I should have embraced the occasion presented by your friendly & esteemed favor of last summer handed me by M r Barnes of George Town , of carrying my intention into execution, had not the very delicate state of my health, with the requisite attention to official...
485Trustees of the Lottery for East Tennessee College to Thomas Jefferson, 28 February 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
A few years since the Congress of the United States ceded to this State a part of the Lands within its Limits, on certain Conditions, one of which required, that the proceeds of the Sale of one hundred thousand Acres should be applied to the support of two Colleges to be established by the Legislature. In compliance with this requisition in the year 1807 East Tennessee College was...
486John W. Campbell to Thomas Jefferson, 20 December 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have taken the liberty of enclosing you a proposal for a work which I expect to publish during the next Summer. I have progressed in this work, as far as the year Seventy Six, but for the period, subsequent to that, I find it extremely difficult to procure materials. I would be much gratified by your advice as to the best sources of information; an d if you have any thing, that would yield...
487John W. Campbell to Thomas Jefferson, 29 July 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I avail myself of this method of making a proposition to you, respecting the publication of a complete Edition of your different writings, as far as they may be designed for the public; including the, “Notes on Virginia .” The work should be executed in Philadelphia , by the best publisher in the city, & in a stile, not inferiour to any prose work yet published in our country. Should the...
488John W. Campbell to Thomas Jefferson, 19 September 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I feel sensibly my obligations for your attention to my letter. From looking over the list of your official Papers & other Writings I am induced to believe that I could Select what would amount to an Octavo Volume which I would be happy to have the honour of publishing. The “Reports,” While Secretary of State Messages to Congress & Summary View, These or such of them as you might select, I...
489John W. Campbell to Thomas Jefferson, 20 December 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
After reviewing the papers contained in the volumes you were pleased to lend me, I have concluded to decline their publication, principally from the reasons suggested in your letter , that they would at this day, be not interesting to the mass of readers. I return the volumes, with my sincere thanks for the loan of them. I am RC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ as received 29 Dec. 1811 and so recorded...
490William Canby to Thomas Jefferson, 11 February 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
an Accurrence took place som time past, w h caused a desire to write to thee, hoping som imbecility of a mind frequently weak, need not always separate friends, to wit Reading our friend Ch s Thomsons Synopsis on the Evangelists, a thing New to me. & agreeable, particularly a Note appearing to Reconcile the apparently different genealogies, of the Lord Jesus , given in Matt w & Luke.—for th’o...
491William Canby to Thomas Jefferson, 27 August 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Esteemed friend, I have for years at times felt affection toward thee, with a wish for thy Salvation; to wit the attainment while on this stage of time (in the Natural Body) of a sutable portion of divine life, for otherways we know little more than the life of Nature, & therein are in danger of becoming inferior to the Beasts which perish , in consequence of declining the offers of divine...
492William Canby to Thomas Jefferson, [ca. 13] May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
it was with concern I heard (think in the 2 nd Year after I Rec d thy answer & Remarks on my Note ) that they were published in a Wilmington News paper, for tho’ it was far from my intention, yet I think my weaknes might make Room for som to do it—as I have not for som Years kept a key, or done much busines, Yet using som handicraft industry—yet often feel the Want of Natural Ability or...
493Joseph Darmsdatt to Thomas Jefferson, 24 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Acording your order I have send 6 Bls Herring to mess Brown & Co —to Lynchburg —& shal send 6 Bls H & 1 Bls Shad to milton by mr Randolph Boat who is not arivet there Account at head of text, above salutation: Thomas Jefferson Esq e Bought of Joseph Darmsdatt 1812 June 24 12 Barrels herrings
494Joseph Darmsdatt to Thomas Jefferson, 6 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I have a Quantity of fine fish now coming up of M r Sam l Tredwells putting up—of Edenton they are of the best Quallity and Cost high; they cannot be sold under 6½$—and if you chose I shall furnish You—please direct a Line to me by next mail as I may reserve them for you Joseph Darmsdatt ⅌ Abr m Cardozo RC (
495Mathew Carey to Thomas Jefferson, 14 January 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
By this day’s mail I send you a copy of the Olive Branch, of which I request Your acceptance, & am, RC ( MHi ); dateline at foot of text; at head of text: “Hon. Thomas Jefferson , Esq r ”; endorsed by TJ as received 30 Jan. 1815 and so recorded in SJL . The work sent to TJ by this day’s mail was probably the 9 Jan. 1815 second edition of Carey ’s The Olive Branch: or Faults on Both Sides,...
496Mathew Carey to Thomas Jefferson, 26 January 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
By this day’s mail, I take the liberty of forwarding you a copy of the second Edition of the Naval History, for which I request a place in your Library, as a mark of the esteem & respect of RC ( MHi ); dateline at foot of text; at head of text: “His Excellency Thomas Jefferson, Esq r ”; endorsed by TJ as received 4 Feb. 1814 and so recorded in SJL . Enclosure: Thomas Clark, Naval History of...
497Mathew 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...
498Mathew Carey to Thomas Jefferson, 23 September 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
By this day’s mail I send, & request Your acceptance of, a copy of the last Edition of the Olive Branch, greatly enlarged. Absence from Philadelphia & long continued indisposition have tarnished the work with some most egregious blunders, of which I feel deeply ashamed. I hope & trust the 72 d Chapter will be found a complete & unanswerable refutation of some most pernicious & deleterious...
499Mathew Carey to Thomas Jefferson, 3 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I have taken the liberty to transmit You by mail, & request your acceptance of, a copy of “Sketches of the Naval History of the U. States ,” which, due allowance being made for the haste in which it was prepared, will I hope be found not uninteresting. RC ( MHi ); dateline at foot of text; at head of text: “Hon Thomas Jefferson, Esq r ”; endorsed by TJ as received 9 June 1813 and so recorded...
500Mathew Carey to Thomas Jefferson, 12 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour of the 1 st inst. which I Rec d a few days since, is before me. Of the whole list of Books you wish, there are only three remain, of which I annex the Invoice . They shall be sent by the first opportunity in a Box to Fitzwhylsonn & Potter , my correspondents at Richmond , with directions to deliver them to Mes rs Gibson & Jefferson . RC