10551To Thomas Jefferson from Anthony Gerna, 22 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Il degno Sigr. Console Apleton doppo molte grazie e favori accordatemi, mi favorisce più distintamente col darmi il mezzo di far pervenire la presente sicuramente a L’E.V. per richiamarmi all’Onore goduto della di lei Conversazione nell’Epoca che si trovava in Parigi rivestita della confidenza Nazionale del primo Caraterre diplomatico della Nascente sagra independenza Americana. Nel periodo poi...
10552From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 20 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have to request that it may be given in charge to the director of the mint, to take measures for collecting samples of foreign coins issued in the Year 1792, of the species which usually circulate within the United States, to examine by assays at the mint whether the same are conformable to the respective standards required, and to report the result, that the same may be made known by...
10553To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 28 November 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you a pr. of Pen-arms with Screws for the Movement of the Pen-tubes, and also springs about equal to the additional weight of these arms. I have sent these things, under the Idea that you would not have much difficulty in taking off the old arms of you r Polygraph and placing these, should you like them—However if you prefer sending me the Polygraph and the new arms, I will fit them,...
10554To Thomas Jefferson from François D’Ivernois, 21 March 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
Il y a deja précisement six mois que j’ai eu l’honneur de m’adresser à vous en faveur de mes malheureux compatriotes, et l’impatience avec la quelle j’attens encore, tant de vous Monsieur, que de Mr. Adams, une premiere réponse à mes lettres n’est pour ainsi dire calmée que par l’espérance légitime dont je me nourris, que vous etes l’un et l’autre occupés des moyens d’accœuillir la...
10555From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 28 March 1825 (Madison Papers)
I saw Col. Barbour yesterday, as I intended. He remains decided agst. relinquishing his Judgship without a previous experiment of the Chair in the University. He feels evidently a strong attraction towards it; and I think a growing one. It is quite possible that the experiment he is making of his Judicial duties, carrying him as they will beyond the Mountains, will diminish his preference of...
10556John Barnes to Thomas Jefferson, 5 August 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
On recp t of your fav r 27 th Ul t in Ans r to mine of the 18 th I judge in it proper to present you with a View or statem t
10557To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Pinckney, October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote You two days since by a Vessel from hence—& as another goes in a short time I thought I would send You a Line to say I had written you & delivered Your Letters to Mr Lee our Consul at this port.—it seems to be the general opinion in France that their government will at an early day adopt some thing like the Navigation act of Great Britain, but that at present such is the Want of...
10558To Thomas Jefferson from William Cushing, 16 February 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Having examined the record of the Trials and Sentences of Jess Brown for uttering Counterfeit money; on the facts stated & recollected I am of opinion that he is a proper object of Pardon for the residue of the Sentences.— I have the honor to be, with greatest Respect Sir, your humble Servant DNA : RG 59—GPR—General Pardon Records.
10559[To Thomas Jefferson from Pierre Samuel Dupont, 12 September 1789] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Versailles, 12 Sep. 1789. Recorded in SJL as received 13 Sep. 1789. Not found, but it is likely that this was a letter transmitting the data on rice importations that TJ enclosed in letters to Izard, Ramsay, Rutledge, and Cutting on 18 and 24 Sep. 1789.]
10560To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 5 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Mui Señor mio y de toda mi Veneracion y respeto: mucho tiempo hace me veo privado del gusto de saber de la salud de V.E. enqe. tanto me intereso, tal vez por el impedimento de comunicacion de ese Pais con este, qe. hà estado en una completa revolucion, lleno departidos, aconteciendo hechos atrozes; y me dedico à reco g er quanto se hà impreso pa. mandarlo à V.E. todo Junto, pues la España darà...
10561From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 23 April 1796 (Madison Papers)
I inclose another number of the Debates on the Treaty. The subject is still going on in the House, as well as the press. The majority has melted, by changes and absence, to 8 or 9 votes. Whether these will continue firm is more than I can decide. Every possible exertion is made as usual on the other side. A sort of appeal has been made to the people, with an expectation that the mercantile...
10562To Thomas Jefferson from David Croll, 10 October 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The Petition of David Croll, late in the Service of the United States Navy; Most respectfully represents, that he sailed in the United States sloop of War the Ganges Captain Tingey , Commander in the year 1799, where he acted as Captain of the afterguard, and afterwards belonged to the United States Frigate The United States, Commodore Barry from thence went on aboard the Constellation Captain...
10563To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Rodney, 16 June 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
It is not for the sake of Troubling you or out of a propensity to digress from my own Tract of business that I resume my pen respecting Louisiana but because I am persuaded every information respecting that Country that may Tend to the general welfare will be Interesting To you. Yesterday I was informed by Mr. T. Calvit an Old Respectable Planter of this Territory—That it is believed That a...
10564To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, 2 August 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
Persuadé que Votre Excellence sera bien aise de connoître le contenu de l’incluse, je la lui adresse ouverte, avec priere de vouloir bien, après l’avoir lue, la cacheter et l’expédier par le Paquebot qui partira ce mois de L’Orient. Je regrette de ne pouvoir y entrer dans les mêmes détails que dans mes Dépeches qui vont directement de ce pays. Mais j’ai dû proraettre de ne point les exposer...
10565To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Pinckney, 26 April 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor sometime since of mentioning Mr. Freneau to you as a proper person to be the Collector of Charleston & we have some reason to suppose that had you known in time of his willingness to accept he would have been appointed.—I now have the honour to say that should the Floridas be ultimately obtained & annexed to our territory & any such office therein should be offered to him as...
10566Enclosure: Apportionment of Expenditures for Arkansas River and Red River Expedition, 4 April 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
two thirds of one years pay to the two Gentlemen to be imployed at 3 dol pr. day each $1460 for Instruments & tools 500 for outfit 300 for presents to Indians 600 money to take with them. 140 $3000 MS ( DLC : TJ Papers, 137:23731); undated, entirely in Dearborn’s hand. Dft ( PHi ); written on
10567To Thomas Jefferson from John Bracken, 6 August 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
J. Bracken most respectfully presents his Compliments to Mr. Jefferson, and requests his attention to the enclosed letter, when an occasion occurs of sending Dispatches up the Mediterranean. It relates to the late Mr. Belini’s affairs, & this liberty wou’d certainly not have been taken but on a presumption that the Friendship, which was known to be entertained for the deceased, will be readily...
10568To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Read, 7 April 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
The Court Martial of this County have directed me to lay before your Excellency, a Copy of their Proceedings respecting the March of their Militia, Ordered to the Southard to join General Greene, and to await your farther Orders respecting the same. And at the same time to Acquaint your Excellency that on the Approach of Lord Cornwallis to this State, the whole of the Militia of this County...
10569To Thomas Jefferson from William C. C. Claiborne, 7 July 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Captain Cammack of the Marine Corps being order’ed to the City of Washington, I cannot avoid testifying to you my entire approbation of his Conduct while on this Station, and recommending him to your notice as an officer of merit and Talents;—He has for some time commanded the Marines at New-Orleans, & while his own Department has been uniformly correct, the most exact discipline has been...
10570To Thomas Jefferson from George Jefferson, 9 October 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I have now only to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the 6th. inclosing the second halves of the 1200$, the first of which came to hand by last post. I am Dear Sir Your Very humble servt. RC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “Thos. Jefferson esqr.”; endorsed by TJ as received 12 Oct. and so recorded in SJL .
10571To Thomas Jefferson from United States Senate, 27 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Resolved, that the President of the United States be requested to cause to be laid before the Senate, such documents and papers, or other information as are in his possession, relative to complaints by the government of France, against the commerce carried on by the citizens of the United States, to the French island of Sn. Domingo. Attest. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
10572Elisha Ticknor to Thomas Jefferson, 22 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour of the 15 th August last reach’d Boston , in my absence, on a long journey in the country. I returned two days ago and found your letter , which informs me, that my son is “about sending me out Books” and at the same time will forward “a parcel” to me to be forwarded to you. These Books have not yet arrived, and since he has resolved to continue another year in Göttingen I have...
10573To Thomas Jefferson from John Lithgow, 4 March 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been honoured with your favour of the 4th. Jany. and am sorry to find that your Occupations do not permit you to revise the 19th Chapt. of the Notes—and I am therefore precluded from sending you my strictures— Buffon has erred when speaking of America & you have great merit in refuting him: but you have also erred in representing the manufacturers of Europe as being comparatively more...
10574To Thomas Jefferson from Jean Jacques Combes-Dounous, 14 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Platon l’a dit; “les Peuples seront heureux, lorsque les Chefs de gouvernement seront Philosophes, ou lorsque les Philosophes seront chefs de gouvernement. ” Ils ne sont pas fréquens dans l’histoire des Nations, les exemples de l’heureuse application de cette maxime du Prince des Philosophes. Néanmoins quelque rares qu’ils soient, la Providence se plaît à en donner quelquefois le spectacle au...
10575III. From Robert Smith, 25 October 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
1st. Section The Offences enumerated in the first Section of the proposed Law are Treason, felony, misdemeanor, breach of the peace and breach of the Revenue Laws. Treason cannot be committed but by a person owing allegiance to the U. States and therefore the Commanding Officer of a foreign armed vessel cannot be guilty of it. A felony cognizable in the Courts of the U. States cannot be...
10576To Thomas Jefferson from Mayer & Brantz, 15 November 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
By a vessel we had apprehended to be lost, we have at last received Books ordered for You from Amsterdam. We beg, You will direct us, how to forward them, either to the City of Washington or to Monticello. They cost, as appears, by the Accounts inclosed, $181.90. We have the honor to be, most respectfully, Sir, Your most obedient humble Servants MHi : Coolidge Collection.
10577Abigail Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 20 May 1804 (Adams Papers)
Had You been no other than the private inhabitant of Montecello, I should e’er this time have addrest you, with that Sympathy, which a recent event has awakend in my Bosom. but reasons of various kinds withheld my pen, untill the powerfull feelings of my heart, have burst through the restraint, and called upon me to shed the tear of sorrow over the departed remains, of Your beloved and...
10578To Thomas Jefferson from Isaac Ledyard, 29 [March] 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
After waiting a long time for further materials, the Travels of my kinsman are now prepared for the Press. The honor which you did me to hand me his Letters to you for publication, & the great respect with which he speaks of you in other Letters of this Compilation, make all the direct authority I have to transmit herewith several Subscription Proposals with the hope that it may be convenient...
10579To Thomas Jefferson from André Limozin, [ca. 30 September 1785] (Jefferson Papers)
I shall take a particular Care in forwarding by my Ship Eolus Captn. Paon your Box and three trunks according to the direction you give me: my ship is to sail on the 5th. Instant if wind and weather permitt it. I wish therefore that the two Virginia’s Gentlemen you mentionn may have left Paris before this reach you. I have the Honor to acquaint you that the French Ship La Diligence de Cadix...
10580To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington, 1 August 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
The letters you did me the favor to write to me on the 4th. and 7th. of Jany. have been duly received. In answer to your obliging enquiries respecting the dress, attitude &c. which I would wish to have given to the Statue in question, I have only to observe that not having a sufficient knowledge in the art of sculpture to oppose my judgment to the taste of Connoisseiurs, I do not desire to...
10581James Gibbon to Thomas Jefferson, 6 August 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
a parcell of seed directed to me for you is now forwarded, I know not whence or how they came, being left at my house by the master of a vessal l , in my absence; the outer covering being nearly destroy’d—I have replac’d it & hope they will get safe to y r hand RC ( DLC ); dateline at foot of text; addressed: “Th o Jefferson Esq r Monticello”; endorsed by TJ as a letter from John Gibbon...
10582To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 12 September 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose at last some observations on the Spanish affairs. The anxiety & occasional absence occasioned by the lingering illness of a child I finally lost had prevented my taking a sufficiently comprehensive view of the subject to commit any thing to writing: and even now I feel that it is very defective. Accept my congratulations on the Tripolan peace, and my wishes that you may terminate as...
10583Thomas FitzSimons’s Notes on Jefferson’s Draft Report on Commerce, [23 August 1791] (Jefferson Papers)
Spain Besides the Articles Enumerated Receives for her own Consumption a Considerable quantity of Rice. Portugal The prohibitions on Meals and Rice does not extend to Madeira, or the Azores, where they are Received freely. Great Britain Tobacco and Rice are the Articles principally Reexported. The United Netherlands Besides their Islands, have Colonys on the Main—Surinam, Demarara, &c. To...
10584George Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson, 8 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly received your favor of the 3 d inclosing a note for renewal in the bank, which is in good time. The sallad-oil should have been procured & forwarded as you directed, but I was told there was none good in Town.— some has arrived within this day or two, which the holders say is good: but that is so nearly a thing of course, that I will endeavour to learn before Harry’s arrival again, from...
10585To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 17 February 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The corks you write for shall go by the first Waggon I can find, to the care of Jacobs & Raphael of Charlottesville— I only wait for a trusty Boat, by which to send your coffee and Sicily Madeira Wine, as heretofore ordered— I have p d your dft: favor Jacobs & Raphael for $375— MHi .
10586From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, [ca. 24 July] 1810 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 13th. was duly recd. I have answer’d Bassette’s Enquiry on the ground you have been so good as to furnish. Whether the lamb from the Merino Ewe is to remain ours or not, I think no time should now be lost in sending for your share, the season being at hand when the Ewes will be in heat; and as care will be taken of the lambs whenever they may drop, it will be best that they should...
10587To Thomas Jefferson from Martha Jefferson Randolph, 16 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
With infinite pleasure I date once more from Monticello tho for the third time since my return but from the negligence of the servant that carried the letters once and the great hurry of the post another time they never got farther than Charlottesville. Our dearest Anne has had an attack of a different nature from her former ones which the doctor imagines to proceed from her fatening too...
10588To Thomas Jefferson from Caspar Wistar, 24 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The Bearer Mr. H. Toland Junr is a very interesting young Gentleman & Son of a very worthy Citizen of Philadelphia—I could not let him go to Washington without giving him an opportunity of paying his respects to you— Jefferson is very well employed, and in good health— With the greatest regard, I beg leave to Subscribe myself your obliged friend DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
10589To Thomas Jefferson from Joshua Clark, 15 April 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
it is verry molonkolly to Think that such An inferrar Raskal as Wm. Lee should be Councill. 1st. the said Joshua Clark & David Egbert belonged to A ship for 18 monts & the Councill Let the Go & Leave them in Bordeaux without Cloaths or money which the said Clarkes weidges were 380 Dollars and the said Egberts were about 427 Dollars. the imprisonment in that place is un expresible Cruel 1 Lb of...
10590To Thomas Jefferson from John Barnes, 7 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed 3, Cks. Amt $243.50 I hope will meet your wishes—I could Value my self on my Correspondt. Mr John Richards—as—I have more than the Above Amt still in his hands— your watch is already—with the Watch Maker—I have sent to you ⅌ the bearer, five dollar, in small change not very readily—to be had. here— I am sir your Obedt. H. svt RC ( ViU : Edgehill-Randolph Papers); at foot of text:...
10591To Thomas Jefferson from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 4 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
When Congress first began to fortify the ports & Harbours of the United States in 1794, among others a fort was directed to be erected on Beacon Island near Ocracock bar, to defend that Inlet. An Engineer was sent forward, who laid off the fort and the works were commenced, & carried on untill November following. In 1795. From the neglect of the then Secretary of War (Genl. Knox) nothing was...
10592I. The Welcome, 12 February 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
The address of the citizens of the County of Albermarle to the honourable Thomas Jefferson Esqr. Permit us to present to you our most sincere congratulations on your return to your native County. We should do a violence to our feelings, and illy reward your merit, if we did not upon this occasion, give you this testimonial of our esteem. At an early period of your life and a very critical æra...
10593To Thomas Jefferson from Madame d’Enville, 13 February 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai reçu, Monsieur, votre beau présent de graines, ceux qui verront les arbres qu’elles produiront vous béniront tant que la montagne de la Rocheguyon subsistera, Heureusement nous avons un jardinier bien en état de les faire prospérer et vous croyez bien qu’aucun soin ne sera négligé; elles nous Seront d’autant plus précieuses qu’elles nous viennent d’un homme que nous révérons, d’un vrai...
10594To Thomas Jefferson from James Ronaldson, 22 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The patterns of cloth and Yarn I have taken the liberty of sending to you, are all manufactured from the raw material, and carried through the whole process in Phila. The motive for submitting them to you is, to communicate as true an Idea as possible of the first efforts of this part of our Country, and enable you to form some opinion of what may be effected by our own energies should...
10595To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 5 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
A scheme is in now in agitation at this place the object of which is to remove the college of William and Mary to the city of Richmond. All the Professors of the college, except the Professor of Law, are decidedly in favor of it. Chancellor Brown, & others, of the Board of Visitors, will give it their support. What number of the Visitors will come into it I am not informed; but the friends of...
10596To Thomas Jefferson from Pio, 22 July 179[1] (Jefferson Papers)
Les sentimens que vous m’avez inspiré ne s’effaceront jamais de mon coeur, et vous me permettrez que je cherche toutes les occasions pour vous le dire me procurant par là la satisfaction, bien douce pour moi, de me rappeler à votre souvenir. Je vous ai écrit une autre fois, il y a bientôt deux ans par Mr. Rutlidge , mais je crains que ma lettre ne vous ait pas été rendue. Plût au ciel que...
10597To Thomas Jefferson from John Stokely, 11 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
an anxiety to hear whether we are to remain Independent of Britain, or whether we are to Humiliate ourselves, and assume The Charracter of Britain’s friends, & Incur the Ilwill of the rest of the world, urges me still to stay here a little longer tho I can Illy affourd it. It is with due deference to your Rank and expanded knowledge Sir, that I have heretofore offer’d, & that I now offer my...
10598To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington, 24 April 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
The letter herewith enclosed, came under cover to me in a packet from Mr. Lear, accompanied with the following extract of a letter , dated—London February 12th. 1794. “A Mr. Bartraud, a famous Agriculturalist belonging to Flanders, put into my hands a few days ago several papers for Mr. Jefferson on the subject of Manuring and vegitation, requesting that I would forward them to him by some...
10599To Thomas Jefferson from Schweighauser & Dobrée, 20 November 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Having just now learnt your nomination of Secretary of State, we beg leave to present you with our fellicitations and sincerely congratulate your Countrymen convinced that the greatest blessings a State can enjoy flows from a well chosen Ministry.—This Event destroys the hopes we have long entertained of seing you return to france and of bringing our unhappy affair against the Alliance to a...
10600To Thomas Jefferson from John Jay, 15 March 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the Honor of transmitting to you, herewith enclosed, an Extract from the Journal of Congress respecting your Appointment to represent the United States at the Court of Versailles as their Minister. On which be pleased to accept my sincere Congratulations. The next Packet will bring you a Letter of Credence, and such other Papers as this Appointment may in the Opinion of Congress render...