1To Thomas Jefferson from John Garland Jefferson, 7 July 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour of the 11th June by my uncle Garland afforded me the most agreeable sensations, and demands my most grateful acknowledgements. Heaven was pleased in my infancy to deprive me of the best, and most indulgent of fathers, and nature still prompts the tribute of a tear, to his memory: but altho the dispensation seemed very afflictive I think I receive the most ample compensation for the...
2To Thomas Jefferson from John Garland Jefferson, 12 November 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I have now taken up board with one Hilton, a man with whom I am well pleased. He has the character of an honest good man, and I really believe that this is a character he justly merits. I am to give him twenty pounds by the year, for board, bed, and washing which I consider as a very reasonable price.—Convinced from the discourse you held with me a few days before your departure that you did...
3To Thomas Jefferson from John Garland Jefferson, 26 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have waited for some time with anxious hopes, in expectation of a letter from you; but having not as yet had that satisfaction, induced by the fairness of the occasion, I have resumed my pen to comply with one of his requests whose injunctions shall ever be held sacred by me; for believe me Sir, of the many incidents in life, there are few circumstances which cou’d give me more real, and...
4To Thomas Jefferson from John Garland Jefferson, [ca. 10 August 1791] (Jefferson Papers)
I flattered myself before this to have received an answer to my last letter , which was written some days before the reception of your favor of Feb. 5; but I was disappointed in my expectation: I do not however consider your omission in not answering my letter, as the effect of neglect, but as an unavoidable consequence of your official duty, which required your attention in preference to...
5To Thomas Jefferson from John Garland Jefferson, 6 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeable to your counsel I attended the District Court at Charlottesville. I flattered myself I shoud have seen you but was disappointed in the pleasing expectation: however, I hope the time is not far distant, as I have been told that you will be at Monticello this summer. In the mean time I shall be devoted to the study you have prescribed; and shall think my time not ill employed, if I can...
6To Thomas Jefferson from John Garland Jefferson, 14 August 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I heard about a fortnight ago, of your safe arrival, at Monticello, and received sensible satisfaction at the news. The pleasure it gave me woud have been compleat if I had been there to have congratulated in person your wished for return: but I content myself in the anticipation of the pleasure I hope to experience in your company in the fall. I must declare to you at the same time, that this...
7To Thomas Jefferson from John Garland Jefferson, 9 September 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I was taken a few days ago with the aigue, and fever. The first aigue was very slight, but was followed by a most violent fever. Yesterday my fever returned with such violence that I was almost delirious: it lasted all night, and I am at this time very much indisposed. I cou’d scarcely trace before the fever, any vestiges of the aigue, which I have cause to fear is about to be changed into...
8To Thomas Jefferson from John Garland Jefferson, 21 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your favor by Mrs. Carr about ten days ago. I shoud have been happy to have seen you while [you] were in Virginia; but that it was not convenient for you to send for me, was sufficient to prevent me from wishing it. Some days before the receipt of your letter, Mr. John Shelton of Goochland offered to board me if I would pay him by the quarter, to which I agreed; as I knew it would...
9To Thomas Jefferson from John Garland Jefferson, 6 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived in this place a day ago, in company with Mr. Peter and Samuel Carr, who I believe are on their way to Williamsburg. In consequence of a letter written to you a fortnight, or three weeks since, I expected to have found one in the office for me, but upon enquiry found none. The subject of my letter to you, was a request for money, or an order for money enough to supply myself with...
10To Thomas Jefferson from John Garland Jefferson, 18 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your favor of Nov. 4. in Richmond. I had not then time to answer it, but now return you my most hearty thanks. The money for which you gave the order, was paid upon application, and all my wants on this score were soon satisfyed. If it was possible for me to believe that benevolent or malicious spirits presided over men, and conducted them to good or bad Fortune, I shoud certainly...
11To Thomas Jefferson from John Garland Jefferson, 31 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been driving on since I wrote to you last post haste in my old pursuit. I have almost finished Tracy Atkins in the first collumn , I have finished Smith’s wealth of nations in the second, and Burnet’s history in the third. I have besides these perused the grecian history and Ferguson’s philosophy. The roman history I have not yet been able to procure, but intend to read it as soon as...
12To Thomas Jefferson from John Garland Jefferson, 27 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 14. instant, I received yesterday. It gives me real pleasure to find that my efforts meet with your approbation. And as this is an object I have ever had in view; so through life, will it prove a powerful stimulus to close application, and whatever may be best suited to procure your esteem and entire confidence. I have not yet determined in what courts I shall practice. This...
13To Thomas Jefferson from John Garland Jefferson, 6 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this moment received your favor of May 19. I was induced before the reception to take up a few goods of Mesrs’ Shelton & Harris. Their desires that I shoud deal with them, their offers to furnish little sums of cash, for necessaries which require cash, Mr. Sheltons conduct on his disappointment, with respect to the money due for a quarters board, the difficulty of getting to...
14To Thomas Jefferson from John Garland Jefferson, 21 September 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeable to your request I have examined the office of Lunenburg , and find that no conveyance was executed, by your father, or rather recorded in the Court of that County, between the year 1750. and 1757. I find from the Clerk of the County, that in 1752. Halifax was taken from Lunenburg , and Bedford in the year 1754. The Clerk supposes that the land in question, lies in the County of...