2221Thomas Jefferson to William Thornton, 24 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
On the reciept of your letter of Jan. 26. recommending Barrett’s Spinning machine, I wrote to him for one; but not knowing his particular address, my letter was long getting to him; so that within this day or two only, instead of a machine I have recieved only a letter from him. in this he informs me you have the exclusive right to make and sell them to our state; and adds that if you wish it...
2222Matthew Wills to Thomas Jefferson, 24 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Ashlin handed me your letter of the 20 th instant wherein you exp r essed a desire to get Some live Carp and I having the Seine that is halled at M r Ashlins &
2223Thomas Jefferson to John Graham, 25 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of mr Graham to give to the inclosed the safest passage which shall occur, and if possible, through a public vessel, & under cover to our Chargé at London , while we still have one there. the letter is to an old classmate ( mr Maury ) and ought not to go through an English post office if it can be avoided, being entirely confidential. he salutes mr Graham with...
2224Thomas Jefferson to James Maury, 25 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Often has my heart smote me for delaying acknolegements to you, recieving, as I do, such frequent proofs of your kind recollection in the transmission of papers to me. but instead of acting on the good old maxim of not putting off to tomorrow what we can do to-day, we are too apt to reverse it, & not to do to-day what we can put off to tomorrow. but this duty can be no longer put off. to-day...
2225Thomas Jefferson to John Rodman, 25 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Rodman and his thanks for the translation of Montgalliard’s work which he has been so kind as to send him. it certainly presents some new and true views of the situation of England . it is a subject of deep regret to see a great nation reduced from an unexampled height of prosperity to an abyss of ruin by the long continued rule of a single chief....
2226Thomas Jefferson to Hugh White, 25 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to the rev d mr White, and his thanks for the pamphlet he has been so kind as to send him. the questions this presents are certainly difficult, and mr White has done what alone can be done, he has presented ingenious views of them. Th:J. has long ago abandoned them as insoluble but by understandings limited as ours are, and believes it to be the case...
2227Theodorus Bailey to Thomas Jefferson, 26 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I do myself the honor to transmit to you under cover, a letter from the Post-Master at Scaghticoke , in answer to one I addressed to him on the subject of your letters to M r Oliver Barrett ; by which you will know that your letters have been delivered to M r Barrett . With the highest consideration and regard RC ( MHi
2228Benjamin Rush to Thomas Jefferson, 26 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 20 th instant came safe to hand, but not accompanied with the pamphflet you have mentioned in it. I have read your letter to M r Adams
2229Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 26 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 19 th was recieved yesterday. those of Feb. 20. & Mar. 5. had come to hand before, and were still in my Carton of ‘letters to be answered.’ the only circumstance in those which pressed for an answer had escaped my memory, until your last reminded me of it, that is to say, the visit proposed by General Moreau . and first I must set to rights the idea that a visit while at...
2230Thomas Jefferson to Matthew Wills, 26 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you many thanks for the fish you have been so kind as to send me, and still more for the your aid in procuring the carp, and you will further oblige me by presenting my thanks to Cap t Holman & mr Ashlin . I have found too late, on enquiry, that the cask sent was an old and foul one, and I have no doubt that must have been the cause of the death of the fish. the carp, altho’ it cannot...
2231Samuel J. Harrison to Thomas Jefferson, 27 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
your Letter of the 2 Ins t was rec d in due course, & this answer defered So as to meet you at poplar Forest . your Reasoning has produced no change in my opinion, as to your Right to call for the last payment of the Land—nor can I forbeare Remarking that your Letter Seems not to have been written in that Temper of which you are so charracteristick. I assir’d you that Scott had Sued both you &...
2232Thomas Jefferson to George Hay, 27 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 21 st is recieved. I am very sensible of the kindness of the motives on which you decline accepting compensation for the trouble you incurred in defending me at the suit of Livingston . yet the obligations I am under to you would not be lessened by that acceptance. your profession is as laborious as it is honorable, the eminence you have justly attained creates augmentation of...
2233Samuel Scott’s Bill of Complaint in Scott v. Jefferson and Harrison, [before 27 April 1812] (Jefferson Papers)
To the honble Creed Taylor , judge of the Superior court of Chancery for the Richmond district. Humbly complaining sheweth unto your honor your orator Samuel Scott That on the 15 th day of April in the year 1789 he entered with the Surveyor
2234James P. Cocke to Thomas Jefferson, 29 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I am conserned that every effort to procure fish for you have been inaffecttual, two has been caught but so managed that they are dead, so soon as I can command them I will advise you & then will endevour to mannage the thing better in the mean time am RC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “Tho s Jefferson Es r ”; endorsed by TJ as received 29 Apr. 1812 and so recorded in SJL .
2235Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 30 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 20 th came to hand last night only, and the same post brought me an answer from mr Morton which I inclose for your perusal & consideration, with a request to return it to me. mr Morton is a native of this state, not personally known to me till lately, but long ago much recommended to me by many here; but most particularly by mr Coles , who was much with him in Bordeaux ,...
2236Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Delaplaine, 30 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you my subscription , and shall recieve your Emporium with pleasure, and with still greater if the price can be paid to any one in this state. the difficulty of remitting to a distance small & fractional sums has induced me to new withdraw from newspapers and other things published out of the state. a regular knolege of the advance of the arts and sciences in Europe which D r Coxe is so...
2237Thomas Jefferson to Eleuthère I. du Pont de Nemours, 30 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
After having expected for some time that you would be so kind as to inform me of the amount of the keg of powder you sent me, that I might remit it to you, I wrote to you on the 4 th of Nov. last , requesting that favor, & that you would add to it the amount of a similar envoy of powder to be forwarded to me, that both parcels might be paid for in one remittance. I had not then learnt the...
2238Thomas Jefferson to James Leitch, 30 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson understanding that mr Leitch has olive oil, will be glad of a bottle of it. being to set out on a journey within 2. or 3. days he asks the favor of him to change the inclosed bill. the more of it he can spare in silver, the more convenient it will be for the road. RC (digital image on eBay website, 11 Apr. 2006, lot posted by Gallery of History, Las Vegas); dateline at foot of...
2239Thomas Jefferson to John Williams, 30 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I h If I have had any advice as to the small package of Coffee you mention, it has been so long ago that I cannot recollect it, nor now turn to the paper. I rather suspect it to be a parcel of some particular place or quality sent as a curiosity, perhaps from the new cultivators of that article on Florida point, with some of I whom I have had communications on that culture. if you will do me...
2240John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 1 May 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Yesterday, I received from the Post Office, under an envellope inscrbed inscribed with your hand, but without any letter, a very learned and ingenious Pamphlet , prepared by you for the Use of your Counsel, in the case of Edward Livingston against you. M r Ingersol of Philadelphia , two or three years ago Sent me two large Pamphlets upon the Same Subject. Neddy
2241Account with Isham Chisholm, [ca. 1 May 1812] (Jefferson Papers)
Isham Chisolm in Acc t with Th:J.
2242Notes on Expenses, [ca. 1 May 1812] (Jefferson Papers)
£ Col o Branham 3–6–6
2243Elbridge Gerry to Thomas Jefferson, 1 May 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the pamphlet this day received, respecting “the intrusion of Edward Livingston ”; & for your polite & friendly manner of transmitting it. The publick is much indebted to you on this, & on numerous other occasions, for performances; to which few are equal, & still fewer have a disposition. The opportunity now presented, is highly appretiated; as it enables me to revive those...
2244John Vaughan to Thomas Jefferson, 1 May 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
By Mail I send you from A. Michaux a Volume on the Oaks & one on the Birch &c being a Continuation of his Work— I have also in my hands One Sett 3 Vol. Destut Tracy & also Le Sage Vol. fol. Atlas for M Randolph will you please to direct the mode of Sending these— There has been great detention in getting possession of the Boxes or they would have been earlier at hand— We have the pleasure of
2245John Armstrong to Thomas Jefferson, 2 May 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I received, by the last Mail from the south, the pamphlet which you were so obliging as to address to me and percieving, by the note to page 24, that the only copy of Crozat’s charter you had met with, was that inserted by Joutel in his narrative of Le Salle’s last voyage, I take the liberty of sending to you one, which I obtained directly and in person from the depot of laws in Paris , but...
2246Thomas Jefferson to William C. C. Claiborne, 2 May 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
The honble mr Dawson , a member of Congress , proposes to become an inhabitant of the state of Louisiana . I think he must formerly have been personally known to you: but lest I should be mistaken in this, I take the liberty of making him the subject of this letter. he is a gentleman of liberal education, regularly brought up to the law, was very early in life placed in the council of state of...
2247Thomas Jefferson to John Dawson, 2 May 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Apr. 22 d is just now recieved, & finds me on the eve of departure for Bedford , and with time only for a hasty compliance with it’s request. I have thought it better not to specify any particular object lest, on your arrival at New Orleans , you may vary that of your present choice. I shall be happy if my letter can be of any service to you, and to my best wishes for your...
2248Thomas Jefferson to William Eustis, 2 May 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Among the candidates for commission in the army now to be raised, M r Archibald C. Randolph proposes to offer himself. he had a commission of Captain in that which was to have been raised in 1799. and I have no doubt that the testimonies of his merit on which that was granted are still to be found in the War office. to these he will be able to add others equally respectable of the present day....
2249Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 2 May 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
It is a grievous thing to be pressed, as I am, into the service of those who want to get into service themselves. the great mass of those sollicitations I decline: but some come forward on such grounds as controul compliance. M r Archibald C. Randolph , an applicant for command in the new army, is my near relation, which in his own eye and that of our common friends gives him a claim to my...
2250John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 3 May 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you on the first of this month acknowledging the receipt of your “Proceedings” &c and now repeat my thanks for it. It is as masterly a pamplet pamphlet as ever I have read; and every way worthy of the Mind that composed and the pen which commited it to writing. There is witt and fancy and delicate touches of Satyr enough in it to make it entertaining while the profusion of learning the...