1From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 24 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
My grandson Th: J. Randolph the bearer of this letter is too well known to you to need a letter...
2From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 18 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 11 th is recieved. those of Nov. 2. and Dec. 14. had been so in due time. I suppose...
3From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 3 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I am about to ask a friendly office of you which I hope will give you no other trouble than to...
4From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 15 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of Oct. 14. I gave you an account of the riot we had had at the University, and of...
5From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 14 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Octob.—has been duly recieved. the information which I have given you from time to...
6From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 9 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I am still a debtor for your letter of June 27. my health is some excuse, but not quite a...
7From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 4 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Knowing the interest you take in the progress of our University, I will now undertake to give you...
8From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 8 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I returned the 1 st vol. of Hall by a mail of a week ago and by this shall return the 2 d we have...
9From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 9 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieve your letter of the 2 d while La Fayette is with us. our county has recieved him as...
10From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 17 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 10 th instant. as soon as the vote of invitation to M. de...
11From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 10 April 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 29. is duly recieved, and I learn from it with great gratification that we are...
12From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 8 September 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of July 28. from Avon came to hand on the 10 th of August and I have delayed answering...
13From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 28 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
From your letter of prophecies I too have caught the spirit of prophecy: for who can withold...
14From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 29 December 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of the 17 th with it’s kind enquiries as to the state in which my...
15From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 19 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I have waited for a frost to announce to me your return to winter quarters; and altho’ we have as...
16Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 24 November 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Your welcome favor of the 12 th came to hand two days ago. I was just returned from Poplar Forest...
17Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 4 August 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I owe you a letter for your favor of June 29. which was recieved in due time, and there being no...
18Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 13 April 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 27. is recieved, and my grandaughter Ellen has undertaken to copy the...
19Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 31 October 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 21 st is recieved. my late illness, in which you are so kind as to feel an...
20Thomas Jefferson to William Short, [29] June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of June 22. is recieved. that of May 25. had come to hand in due time, and was in my...
21Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 21 December 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
The messenger who carried yesterday to the Post-office a copy of our University Report which I...
22Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 10 November 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Altho’ become averse to the taking up my pen, I cannot suffer myself to be entirely forgotten by...
23Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 29 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
On the reciept of your favor of the 11 th (which did not come to hand till the 23 d ) I proceeded...
24Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 14 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved two days ago your favor of the 5 th and shall be very happy to see Marshal Grouchy...
25Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 19 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Higginbotham having mortgaged to you the lands he purchased as a security for the paiments...
26Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 14 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
A circumstance has occurred here which will occasion a drawback of about 30.D. in mr Higgenbotham...
27Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 10 August 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 18 th ult. after loitering unaccountably on the road, reached my hands on the...
28Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 5 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return, the day before yesterday, I found here your favor of Apr. 23. and answer without...
29Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 9 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Th:J. to W. Short. The inclosed was omitted by accident to be forwarded to you in my last. it is...
30Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 7 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege your favor of Mar. 14. and will answer it’s several enquiries. le mot de...
31Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 28 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Having procured an appointment for the 21 st inst. the Surveyor , arbitrators, parties (by their...
32Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 15 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Of the last 5 months, 4 have been past at Poplar Forest where I am engaged in improvements...
33Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 27 June 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
We are unlucky in our endeavors to procure a settlement of your boundary. immediately on the...
34Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 15 May 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 3 d finds me just on my departure for Bedford , and I return you therefore the...
35Enclosure: Order on United States Treasury, 18 April 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
J. B. 4 870 Pay to W m S. or order 10,500 D. in part of the sum of 23,950 D. appropr d by the act...
36Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 18 April 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
The departure of the post and my distance from the office leave me barely time to acknolege the...
37Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 25 March 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I was waiting to write to you on the subject of my bonds only until I could recieve an answer to...
38Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 28 November 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of Oct. 28. came to hand on the 15 th inst. only. the settlement of your boundary with Col...
39Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 20 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my short letter by mr Rives I have to acknolege the reciept of your two favors of June 9. &...
40Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 17 May 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer mr Rives , the son of one of our wealthiest citizens and of the neighboring county of...
41Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 26 March 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of Feb. 23. I desired you to send me mr Higginbotham ’s rent-note, as well as his...
42Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 23 February 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I am first to thank you for the indulgences of yours of Feb. 6. I believe that by the combined...
43Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 28 January 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I scarcely ever sat down to write a more painful letter than the present. when in Oct. 1812. I...
44Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 9 November 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
You have heretofore been apprised of a claim of Col o Monroe to a corner of your tract of land on...
45Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 18 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 2 d is recieved, and a copy of Higgenbotham’s mortgage is now inclosed. the journey...
46Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 30 May 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I returned from Bedford on the 15 th inst. and have been in the hope of having the pleasure of...
47Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 25 April 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Feb. 16. remains still I believe to be acknoleged. as I did not go to the court...
48Enclosure: Bond from David Higginbotham to William Short, 31 January 1813 [due 1813] (Jefferson Papers)
2226 ⅔ D Know all men by these presents that I, David Higginbotham of the county of Albemarle and...
49Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 10 February 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your patience has been put to the proof, and yet I have not been one moment in default. in my...
50Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 26 December 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I am just returned from Bedford and find here your favor of Nov. 29 . as an object which needs no...