1From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Walker, John Walker, and Nicholas Lewis, 5 April 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of inclosing to you a resolution of council requesting you to carry into execution the desire of Congress as to the settlement of Colo. Wood’s accounts. I am with much respect & esteem Gent. Your most obedt. humble servt. RC ( ViU ); addressed: “Doctr. Walker John Walker Nicholas Lewis esqrs. Albemarle.” For the enclosure and the events leading up to the appointment of the...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Griffin Peachy, 13 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I received by the last post your favor of the 3d. covering the resolutions of the inhabitants of Petersburg and it’s vicinity respecting the President’s late proclamation. I shall have the honor of forwarding them by the first post to Mount Vernon to which place the President is gone. He will certainly receive with great satisfaction this testimony from the inhabitants of Petersburg and it’s...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 14 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of Aug. 20 . I inclosed you the 1st. of John Wilcocks’ bill on Messrs. Edwd. Mc.Culloch and Co. of London for £1077–11–9 sterl. (cost here 5000. Dollars) payable to yourself at 60. days sight to be applied to the use of our diplomatic gentlemen abroad. In my letter of the 11th. inst. I inclosed the 2d. and now the 3d. of the same bill. I have also engaged the bank of the US. to...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Thomas, 10 May 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
Please to furnish Capt. Markham for the use of the brig Jefferson with twenty three fathom of seven inch rope, six coil of spunyarn, 150 ℔. seine twine, six coil of 2½ inch rope, three coil of 2.I. do. and one coil of 3½ I. do. six hanks of Marline six do. of Housline two coil of Hamberline. RC ( PWacD : Feinstone Collection, on deposit PPAmP ); at foot of text: “Capt Thomas”; with notations...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 12 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The George Barclay has fallen down the river before I had notice she was about to sail: I have therefore only had time to send out and get the inclosed bill of Mr. John Vaughan on Messrs. Bird, Savage & Bird of London for £13–13 the amount of the model of the threshing machine you were so kind as to send me. It is gone on from New York to Virginia without my having seen it. Accept many thanks...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 15 September [1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 4th. to Maria arrived last night. Mine of last week mentioned a contagious fever which had broke out in Philadelphia. Since that it is so much spread, as to have driven every body off, who can get out of the town, and to have suspended business of every kind. I have never been into the town since the President’s departure on the 10th. But I find it impossible to keep my servants...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 27 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
My last letters to you were of the 11th. and 14th. of Sep. since which I have received yours of July 5. 8. Aug. 1. 15. 27. 28. The fever which at that time had given alarm in Philadelphia, became afterwards far more destructive than had been apprehended, and continued much longer, from the uncommon drought and warmth of the autumn. On the 1st. day of this month the President and heads of the...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mifflin, 21 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honored with your’s of yesterday’s date relative to the French sailors in the jail of Philadelphia. The object of the original enquiry I took the liberty of making on that subject, was to know whether they were in the custody of the Executive or the Judiciary authority of the country: and being informed that it is in that of the Judiciary, the Federal Executive does not think itself...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 30 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
My letters to you have been of Nov. 2. 17. 24. Dec. 8. all of which I hope you have received. Yours come to hand have been of the 31st. of Oct. 7th. 14th. and 30th. of Nov. and 11 th. of December .—When I wrote the last Sunday , I hoped my furniture, books &c would have been embarked and sent off the next day. But the vessel loitered till the river has frozen up, and will now prevent their...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Willing, 16 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respectful compliments to the President of the bank of the US. Being now to make up his annual account of the expenditure of the fund of 40,000 Đ for the legislature, he begs the favor of the President to have him furnished with a copy of the account of the Secretary of state on the bank books, down to the present day, to serve so far as a Voucher. RC (Facsimile in...
11From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 24 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I received yesterday your favor of the 14th. Mine of the 2d. ought to have been then at hand, and since that those of the 10th. and 17th. All will have informed you of my health, and being here. I am happy that you think Tarquin will suit you, and insist on your acceptance of him. This is no sacrifice to me, because my sole motive for having thought of parting with him was that he is...
12From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 2 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
After having experienced on my journey the extremes of heat, cold, dust and rain, I arrived here yesterday. I found at Baltimore that the stages run no further North, and being from that circumstance thrown into the hands of the harpies who prey upon travellers, was pretty well fleeced to get here. I think from Fredericksburg here with a single servant cost me upwards of seventy dollars....
13From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Sim Lee, 28 June 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
Having just received from Carolina an authentic state of things as they exist there at present, I have thought it worthy of being communicated to Congress by putting into motion our line of express riders . The sum of it is that Clinton has sailed with about 5000 men from Charlestown; but whither, is not known: that that place is garrisoned by 800 men: that they have 2500 men at Cambden; their...
14From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Turpin, 3 June 1771 (Jefferson Papers)
Below I send you a state of the prices of the books you mentioned in your’s as far as it is my power to judge without having seen them. Much depends on their being new, much or little worn, and also upon the editions. And besides this the prices are sometimes accidentally high or low. However I have affixed such prices as I have usually known them cost in England. If the Hawkins’s pleas of the...
15From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 2 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to you on the 26th. Ult . since which I have received yours of the 14th. Ult. Maria is well, and is with me on the Schuylkill. A malignant fever has been generated in the filth of the docks of Philadelphia which has given great alarm. It is considerably infectious. At first 3 out of 4. died, at present not more than one out of three. Three days ago (my latest information) about 70. had...
16From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Hutchins, 24 January 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been recurring to your pamphlet (which I borrowed for that purpose) for the times at which the inundations begin and end in the Missouri, Missisipi, Illinois, Ohio, Wabache, but I do not find it mentioned there. Will you be so kind as to give me as accurate an account of these times as you can? Does the Tanissee overflow periodically? I suppose not. Will you give me leave to correct an...
17From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Chittenden, 4 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The letter of July 8 . which you did me the honor of writing was duly recieved, and I immediately delivered to the President that which it covered, recommending to him Mr. Knight as successor to Mr. Chipman in the office of Judge for the district of Vermont. The circumstances you stated in favor of Mr. Knight, and your own and your council’s testimony on his behalf placed him on ground as...
18From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., [27 October 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Th:J. will be obliged to Mr. Randolph to make George prick out the inclosed grains of wheat below the garden wall or wherever he thinks best. It is of the genuine early wheat gathered by Mr. Jones in a field here which was reaped on the 5th. of June.—So far all well. I set out in the stage between 3. and 4. in the morning. Adieu. RC ( DLC : TJ Papers, 94: 16106); partially dated; addressed:...
19From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Sim Lee, 13 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honoured with your Excellency’s favor of the 3d. inst. The answers given to the French Consul are so perfectly proper that no further observation on the subject is necessary. It is really unfortunate that the agents of the French republic should be conducting themselves as if their object was to disgust and alienate all the friends of their nation. It is but an act of justice however to...
20From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., [8–9 December 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
I forgot in the inclosed to mention that my Model of the threshing machine is at length sent by the Ellice Capt. Weymouth bound from New York to Richmond, addressed to Colo. Gamble. I have written to him to hold it subject to your order. Knowing nothing of the size or construction of the model, I am not able to say whether it may not be too small or too delicate to trust by a waggon, or how...
21From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 1 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed affidavit will inform you of the capture of the ship Jay, an American vessel, laden with flour &c. alledged to be American property, bound to Havre de grace, taken by the armed brig Orestes and carried into Plymouth. Though nothing is yet known of the further proceedings against her, yet I have thought it well, not to lose time, to inclose you the affidavit, and to desire that if...
22From Thomas Jefferson to William Temple Franklin, 6 July 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Jefferson has the honor to present his compliments to Mr. Franklin. He is here without furniture, without housekeeper and faisant très mauvaise chere. If Mr. Franklin is disengaged to-day, and will do him the favor to partake of his little meal without ceremony, it will be so much the more obliging. He dines at half past three pretty exactly. RC ( PPAmP ). Not recorded in SJL .
23From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 14 January 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Mr. Gallatin. This letter comes to him, as others have done, from Mr. Tronchin Minister for Geneva at Paris. Th: Jefferson will with pleasure on all occasions give a conveyance of Mr. Gallatin’s letters through the same channel, putting them into his dispatches to our Chargé des affaires at Paris. RC ( NHi : Gallatin Papers); written on address cover...
24From Thomas Jefferson to James Kerr, 15 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Mr. Ker. He has put into the hands of Mr. Bankson a note of Mr. J. Bringhurst’s payable at sight, out of which Mr. Bankson will pay Mr. Ker’s account. It has been impossible for Th:J. to go to town to recieve and deliver the money to Mr. Ker. He will be back again in seven weeks, proposing to set out tomorrow. PrC ( DLC ); conjoined to PrC of TJ to...
25From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 12 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The fever spreads faster. Deaths are now about 30. a day. It is in every square of the city. All flying who can. Most of the offices are shut or shutting. The banks shut up this day. All my clerks have left me but one: so that I cannot go on with business. I shall therefore set out in 3. or 4. days and perhaps see you before you get this. H. had truly the fever, and is on the recovery, and...
26From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 8 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
This was my day of course for writing to Maria, but business obliges me to postpone her till the next Sunday, which I have the better right to do as I have not yet received a letter from her.—I inclose you a second letter received from Mr. Leroy in reply to a second which I wrote to him. I thought it not amiss to cultivate his good dispositions as these might facilitate the sheltering your...
27From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 17 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Immediately on the receipt of your letter of Oct. 31. I extracted what was necessary from it and wrote to Mr. LeRoy. His answer has produced a state of things with which you are probably unacquainted; which however, tho it presents a much broader scene, may present also more security for you, than that which we had understood to exist. The debt from Colo. Randolph to Mr. LeRoy and others is in...
28From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Hollingsworth, 17 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I received yesterday your favor of the 13th. and accept willingly the offer of the clover seed at the price you mention. I hope Mr. Alexander will be setting out by the time you recieve this, as the place he is to overlook must be suffering much for want of him. I am with esteem Sir Your most obedt. servt PrC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “Mr. Jacob Hollingsworth, Elkton.” Tr ( ViU :...
29Thomas Jefferson and Edmund Randolph to George Wythe, 1 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Aug. 17. was received, and the address it covered was immediately delivered to the President. We are sincerely & affectionately Your’s PrC ( DLC ); entirely in TJ’s hand; at foot of text: “George Wythe, Chancr. of Virginia.” Tr ( ViU : Edgehill-Randolph Papers); 19th-century copy. Recorded in SJL as a letter from “Th:J. & E.R.”
30From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Ward & Brothers, 18 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your letter of the 16th. inst. and have communicated it to the President of the US. in order that such use may be made of your proposals as the future provisions of the legislature shall render expedient, these not having as yet furnished any grounds to act on it. I have the honor to be gentlemen Your most obedt. servt PrC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “Messrs. Samuel Ward &...