1From Thomas Jefferson to James Walker, 14 November 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I remit you through mr Freeman one hundred dollars, & shall regularly make you the same remittance monthly hereafter. I am anxious to hear that the toll mill is going, as I cannot doubt there must now be water enough for her whatever be the state of the dam. I have desired mr Jefferson (if he has not before done it) to send up a hogshead of pit-coal for Stewart; and I have bespoke at...
2From Thomas Jefferson to James Walker, 8 March 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your letter of the 4th. inst. I did not suppose that I was in your debt. the impression on my mind was that the last paiment I made compleatly discharged the balance, and having left my papers at Monticello, I cannot now examine into them. but I shall be at home in about a month and you must then come & let us examine into the matter, and whatever is right shall be done....
3From Thomas Jefferson to James Walker, 6 August 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
My mill stones have been arrived some time, and the wall and roof of the toll-mill house are finished. every thing therefore waits for you, & as the season is approaching when they will be wanting, & custom begins now to thicken I hope you will come immediately. I shall recieve 100. D. for you by Saturday’s post, which will be ready when you come. hoping to see you immediately, I salute you...
4From Thomas Jefferson to James Walker, 1 September 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
In an account presented to me by mr Shoemaker are the charges below stated, as to the reasonableness of which I am an entire stranger, and therefore ask the favor of you to inform me what would be the proper charges. I ask this of you the rather because you know exactly the nature of the articles, and because I shall have entire confidence in what you shall think right. Be so good as to lodge...
5From Thomas Jefferson to James Walker, 16 October 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 10th. did not come to hand till yesterday. had it come by the post of the 10th. & arrived on the 12th. as it ought to have done, I could have complied with the request of the hundred dollars, as on that day I settled & paid the demands of the month which I regularly do the 2d. week of every month, after which it is rarely in my power to answer a demand of any size till the...
6Thomas Jefferson to James Walker, 22 May 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved your former favor stating the prices of mill work, and finding that mr Brown’s bill was considerably different, I proposed to him to refer the bill to you, and to ask the favor of you to come and see the work and settle the prices between us. this favor I have now to ask of you, and shall very gladly pay you for your time whatever you think proper. if you could name the day that...
7Thomas Jefferson to James Walker, 17 April 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I originally employed you to build my saw mill having confidence in your work & prices. when it was turned over to mr Brown , it was understood between you and myself that he was to be governed by your prices. we are now about coming to a settlement, which renders it necessary for me to ask the favor of your prices. mr Brown handed me a bill of yours, but it related only to gristmills,...
8From Thomas Jefferson to James Walker, 28 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Oct. 1. was recieved in the course of that month, altho’ the delay of compleating my mill will not only lose me the intermediate rent, but endanger rival establishments getting the start, yet my absence from home rendering it impossible for me to make other satisfactory arrangements, I must acquiesce in the delay of another twelvemonth as you propose, and expect you to begin for...
9From Thomas Jefferson to James Walker, 26 January 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved your letter of the 16th. but I do not sufficiently understand the difficulty of containing the water within the banks of the canal, under the toll-mill shed, to give directions about it. I must therefore leave it to your direction. I recieve with real grief the account of the tumbling down of the new walls of the toll mill. I had hoped that I had seen the end of my expences for...
10From Thomas Jefferson to James Walker, 20 September 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
The walls of my tollmill will be finished in a fortnight, and the mason mr Hope wishes immediately to begin the manufacturing mill, as he thinks he can raise the walls to the lowest floor this season. I must therefore ask the favor of you to come over in the course of a fortnight & lay off the foundation & give him a plan to proceed on. you know we agreed to make it 10. f. longer than mr...