1From Thomas Jefferson to Littleton W. Tazewell, 30 October 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
By a settlement between mr Wickam as agent for Walsh & Cary of London, & mr Eppes, mr Skipwith & myself as exrs of mr Wayles, a debt of his, due to Cary & Walsh was divided between us, each to pay one third part at certain instalments annually on the 19th. of July. we informed mr Wickam that as the payments would be made out of our annual crops, we should expect to be indulged so far as to...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Littleton W. Tazewell, 17 March 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the reciept of your favor of Feb. 14. never was so unfortunate a slip made as mine with respect to my last year’s tobacco. I was offered in May 11. Dollars in Richmond; but believing it would be higher as usual in the fall, & unaware of the effect of the nonintercourse law, I refused it, and after keeping it and bringing it here, have only lately been able to sell it for 7....
3From Thomas Jefferson to Littleton W. Tazewell, 10 April 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 29. is duly recieved and the object of the present is to answer your enquiries concerning mr Welch’s open account. consulting with the late mr T. Adams in 1774. about the importation of glass windows ready made & glazed for my house, he pressed me to address my commission to his friends Welch & co. I did so, making them a small shipment which turned out next to nothing,...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Littleton W. Tazewell, 28 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The instalments for my tobacco, sold the last spring, did not come in finally till my arrival here, when a new circumstance appeared to be arising which called indispensably for some preliminary expences, and obliged me to throw the paiment which should have been made to you agreeably to my letter of the last summer , on a fund which does not come in till April. I now inclose you an order on...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Littleton W. Tazewell, 26 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The pressure of my business has put it out of my power sooner to acknolege the reciept of your favr of Dec. 9. I had for some time ceased to make partial paiments towards the debt due to mr Walsh , under the purpose, when I should touch it again, to make a compleat discharge of it. the state of things in England had made me suppose he would not be desirous of removing money from this to that...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Littleton W. Tazewell, 5 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of December 24. never came to my hands till last night. it’s importance induces me to hasten the answer. no one can be more rejoiced at the information that the legislature of Virginia are likely at length to institute an University on a liberal plan. convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, & that they are not safe unless enlightened to a...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Littleton W. Tazewell, 27 February 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Altho’ your letter of Jan. 15. was recieved soon after that date, it has not been in my power sooner to notice it; nor can I at this time do more than acknolege it’s reciept. my papers relative to mr Wayles’s debt to Robt. Cary & co. are at Monticello, to which place I make a short visit every spring in order to pay some attention to my private affairs. I shall go there in the ensuing month,...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Littleton W. Tazewell, 13 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 7th finds me still here, detained by the illness of mr T. M. Randolph. the warning for such a sum as 1000. D. is rather short for me. my funds here are always more than exhausted at the end of a session of Congress. but my crop of tobo. is arrived or arriving at Richmond. I had before desired mr Jefferson to turn it into money as soon as arrived. I expect daily to hear from...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Littleton W. Tazewell, 18 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of the 13th. I informed you I expected my tobacco was arrived or arriving at Richmond, and that I would direct mr Jefferson to raise 1000. D. out of the first of it which should come to hand. I have just recieved a letter from him informing me it is not yet come down. my orders & the promises of my manager were such that I still hope a sufficiency will be down in time, as a single...
10Thomas Jefferson to Littleton W. Tazewell, 5 June 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter dated Apr. 29. never came to my hands till our last post of the 1 st inst. the research it desired has occupied some time. I am not in the habit of stating my accounts in a ledger, depending on a very exact entry of all pecuniary transactions in a journal. settling most things at short hand, this answers sufficiently; but in those of long standing the research becomes...
11Thomas Jefferson to Littleton W. Tazewell, 28 June 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
You may possibly have observed in the newspapers that mr E. Livingston had brought an action against me with very high-sounding damages. the cause of action has not yet been explained in pleading, but it is understood to be his removal by public authority from public grounds of which he had taken possession near N. Orleans , & where he was erecting works of ruinous consequences to the place....
12Thomas Jefferson to Littleton W. Tazewell, 13 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 3 d inst. is duly recieved, and I agree to settle up the principal & interest now due to mr Welsh , and give a new bond for the whole in exchange for the former. the bonds were given in the order stated on the next leaf as agreed with mr Wickham , & I have settled the paiments by applying the first to the first bond until it was paid off, then to the 2 d in like manner & so...
13Thomas Jefferson to Littleton W. Tazewell, 18 August 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Soon after the service of mr Livingston’s writ on me, I applied to the offices at Washington and obtained the letters & papers they possessed respecting our proceedings on the Batture of N. Orleans . I before possessed the printed opinions which had been given on the occasion; and having in my own mind an intimate knolege of the whole transactions, I thought it best to make a full statement of...
14Thomas Jefferson to Littleton W. Tazewell, 22 November 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I have still to acknolege the reciept of your letter of Sep. 27 . the preceding one covering the bonds had been previously recieved. your mention of what you recollected from Herodotus put me on examining that author more particularly than I had before done, and this led again to the investigation of the case of the Nile through all the authors I possessed on the subject. the result has been a...
15Thomas Jefferson to Littleton W. Tazewell, 23 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
When I recieved your letter of Dec. 29. my Memoir on the case of the batture was out of my hands, and not recieved by me till within a short time past. I have now made out from that a statement of the facts of the case , and have left 3. blank columns on every page, one to the right & two to the left of the text, for you gentlemen to insert any alterations, or instructions as to the evidence...
16Thomas Jefferson to Littleton W. Tazewell, George Hay, and William Wirt, 9 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
In a former letter I promised a list of the books quoted & possessed by me, & of those quoted but not possessed, that these last might be sought for in time, as far as necessary.that list is now inclosed with explanatory notes. such of them as it will be necessary for me to send, shall be sent to Richmond whenever desired. the communications by water between Richmond & Norfolk are so frequent,...
17Thomas Jefferson to Littleton W. Tazewell, 13 October 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Sep. 11. was recieved after a considerable delay on the road. on the subject of my debt to mr Welsh , if you will have the goodness to recur to my letter of June 5. 10. you will find a candid statement of the circumstances which have, of necessity, suspended my attention to it for a while. in winding up my affairs at Washington , an accumulation of outstanding accounts, which had...
18Thomas Jefferson to Littleton W. Tazewell, 12 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Livingston’s suit having gone off on the plea to the jurisdiction, it’s foundation remains of course unexplained to the public. I therefore concluded to make it public thro’ the ordinary channel of the press. an earlier expectation of recieving the pamphlets, & the desire of sending you one, has delayed, from post to post, my sooner acknoleging the reciept of your letter informing me of...
19Thomas Jefferson to Littleton W. Tazewell, 19 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of May 15. came to hand in due time. on the course of the suit of Livingston , I had thought with you that the question of jurisdiction might have been kept in reserve, as a dernier resort, and had suggested to the gentlemen in Richmond the pleading 1. the general issue, which would have tried the question of the public title, very interesting to the city of New Orleans ; 2....
20James Madison to Littleton W. Tazewell, 17 May 1834 (Madison Papers)
For several years past a continued indisposition added to my very advanced age, has disqualified me for the most part, for the duties of a Visitor of the University of Virginia. Not despairing however, altogether of a favorable change, and unwilling to withdraw myself from an Institution in which I have felt so deep an interest, I have thus long postponed the tender of my resignation. A...