1Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 29 December 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
The last letter I have recieved from you, my dear & antient friend, was of the 15 th of Feb. 1811. that letter I answered two days after it’s reciept, to wit, July 9. 1811. since which I have not heard from you. such an interval excites anxieties to learn that you continue in health. my health remains good; a diminution of strength being the principal indication of advancing years. Since our...
2Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 9 August 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Sep. 24. came inclosed to me in one of Octob. 20. from mr Warden , which did not get to my hands until the 15 th of the last month. how the present answer will get to you I do not yet know but I shall confide it to the Secretary of State , to be forwarded with his despatches either to Paris or Leghorn . My letter of Dec. 29. 13. stated to you the circumstances, both here and...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 10 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
My last letter to you was of the 14th. of March 07. no occasion arose for writing again in the course of that year, and at the close of it, in December 07. our embargo put an end to the departure of vessels, which has continued from that time to this, 14. months. since my last, I have recieved yours of 07. Jan. 24. June 22. Sep. 13. Oct. 20. Dec. 19. 08. Mar. 29. the present will go very...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 7 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
My last to you was of the 2d. of August: since which’I have recieved yours of June 4. and Sep. 3. The letter to M. de Rieux, inclosed in the last, has been forwarded, and you may be assured of every aid of counsel I can give him. His own dispositions are good and prudent, and his industry exemplary.—I spoke with Mr. Madison yesterday on Dohrman’s affair. Nothing new has arisen on it since my...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 31 January 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
It is very long since I heard from you unless it be an exception that I received within these two or three days for the first time your letters of May 23. 1792. and Feb. 11. 1793. the contents of which shall be attended to. Nor have I for a long time heard from Messrs. Van Staphorsts & Hubbard. My letters to you of May and Sep. last will have informed you that at the same dates I remitted to...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 8 September 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
The first copy of my letter of May 30. went soon after that date. A second copy accompanies this. Soon after that date I received letters from Mr. Blair and Mr. Madison, extracts from which I now inclose you. By that from Mr. Madison you will percieve that Dohrman alledges some deductions from the sum claimed. If he accedes to Mr. Madison’s proposition of paying up what he acknoleges due, the...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 4 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of Mar. 10. I informed you that I wrote that day for the certificate of Bellini’s death. I now inclose it. I also mentioned that on the journey I was then taking to Monticello I should get information from your attorney mr Carr & probably be able to recieve & make you the remittance for Colle. I inclose you his letter by which you will see we shall be delayed till the fall. I got...
8[From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 28 April 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Annapolis, 28 Apr. 1784. Entry in SJL reads: “P. Mazzei. My proceedings in his affairs—adjournment Congr.—will bear testimony if he can fix particular point—correspond.—communicated de Rieux’s arrival at Chas. T. and letter to me.” Not found. Derieux’s letter is that of 22 Feb. 1784, q.v.]
9From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 16 February 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Anacreon. Antoninus. Sophocles. Xenophon’s Cyropaedia. Aeschylus. ——’s Hellenics. Euripides. ——’s Anabasis. Aristophanes. Herodotus. Seneca’s tragedies. Thucydides. Terence. Quintus Curtius. Plautus. Justin. Lucian. Diodorus Siculus. Horace. Dyonisius Halicarnassus.
10From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 18 July 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
It is very long I know since I wrote you. the following letters of yours I believe are all unacknoleged. 1801. Feb. 5. July 2. Nov. 15. 1802. Apr. 10. 17. Sep. 28. 1803. Apr. 15. May 20. Oct. 25 to Dec. 28. 1804. Jan. 27. Mar. 8. so constant is the pressure of business that there is never a moment scarcely that something of public importance is not waiting for me . I have therefore on a...