391From Thomas Jefferson to Wilson Cary Nicholas, 26 August 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
I am deeply impressed with the importance of Virginia & Kentuckey pursuing the same tract at the ensuing sessions of their legislatures. your going thither furnishes a valuable opportunity of effecting it, and as mr Madison will be at our assembly as well as yourself, I thought it important to procure a meeting between you. I therefore wrote to propose to him a ride to this place on Saturday...
392From Thomas Jefferson to Uzal Ogden, 12 February 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to the reverend mr Ogden and thanks him for his pamphlet which he has read with great satisfaction. the example which has been set by the great man who was the subject of it, will be of immense value to mankind if the Buonapartes of this world, & those whose object is fame & glory, will but contemplate & truly calculate the difference between that of a...
393From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel A. Otis, 14 May 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
It has been usual for the Vice-president to retire before the close of the session in order to give the Senate an opportunity of appointing a President pro tempore . in conformity with that usage, and this being the last day of the session, I ask the favor of that honorable body to excuse my further attendance, and to accept the homage of my dutiful respects. I am with esteem Dear Sir Your...
394From Thomas Jefferson to Josiah Parker, 13 January 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to the several enquiries in your letter of this day, I have the honor to inform you that the marble statue of Genl. Washington in the Capitol in Richmond with it’s pedestal cost in Paris 24,000. livres or 1000 Louis d’ors. it is of the size of life, and made by Houdon, reckoned one of the first statuaries in Europe. besides this we paid Houdon’s expences coming to & returning from...
395From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Pendleton, 19 February 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my last which was of the 14th. a Monsr. Leblanc, agent from Desfourneaux has come to town. he came in the Retaliation, and a letter from Desfourneaux, of which he was the bearer, now inclosed, will correct some circumstances in my statement relative to that vessel which were not very material. it shews at the same time that she was liberated without condition. still it is said , but I...
396From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Pendleton, 3 May 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof mr Alexander Woolcot proposing to go on to Virginia, and from a great respect for your patriarchal & republican character, expressing a great wish to be made known to you, I take the liberty of giving him a line of introduction. he is himself a strong republican, a man of understanding and of good character; which I affirm partly on my own knolege of him, but state more on...
397From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Pendleton, 22 April 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Feb. 24. which was intended to have reached me at Philadelphia, did not arrive there till I had left that place, and then had to follow me to this, which must apologize for the delay in acknoleging it. in the mean time I had seen in our papers the one with your signature , and seen it with great satisfaction. omitting one paragraph of it, I may be permitted to give to the...
398From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Pendleton, 19 April 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
My duties here require me to possess exact knolege of parliamentary proceedings. while a student I read a good deal, & common placed what I read, on this subject. but it is now 20. years since I was a member of a parliamentary body, so that I am grown rusty. so far indeed as books go, my commonplace has enabled me to retrieve. but there are many minute practices, which being in daily use in...
399From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Pendleton, 14 February 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you a petition on the 29th. of Jan. I know the extent of this trespass on your tranquility, and how indiscreet it would have been under any other circumstances. but the fate of this country, whether it shall be irretrievably plunged into a form of government rejected by the makers of the constitution or shall get back to the true principles of that instrument, depends on the turn which...
400From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Pinckney, 29 October 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Sep. 12 . came to hand on the 3d. inst. I have delayed acknoledging it in hopes of recieving the longer one you mentioned to have written. but that has not yet reached me. I was both pleased and edified by the piece on Robbins’s case . it ought to be a very serious case to the judge. I think no one circumstance since the establishment of our government has affected the popular...
401From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Priestley, 27 January 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of the 18th. I omitted to say any thing of the languages as part of our proposed university. it was not that I think, as some do, that they are useless. I am of a very different opinion. I do not think them essential to the obtaining eminent degrees of science, but I think them very useful towards it. I suppose there is a portion of life during which our faculties are ripe enough...
402From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Priestley, 18 January 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to thank you for the pamphlets you were so kind as to send me . you will know what I thought of them by my having before sent a dozen sets to Virginia to distribute among my friends. yet I thank you not the less for these which I value the more as they came from yourself. the stock of them which Campbell had was I believe exhausted the first or second day of advertising them. the papers...
403From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Xavier Bureaux de Pusy, [7 January 1800] (Jefferson Papers)
I avail myself of the first moments of leisure […] my arrival here to acknolege the reciept of your favor of Dec. 9. & to express my regret that my absence deprived me of the pleasure of a personal interview. it is the first opportunity which has ever been presented me of asking a thousand questions as to my much esteemed friend La Fayette whose sufferings have been to me a source of the most...
404From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Randolph, 18 August 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved only two days ago your favor of the 12th . and as it was on the eve of the return of our post, it was not possible to make so prompt a dispatch of the answer. Of all the doctrines which have ever been broached by the federal government, the novel one of the common law being in force & cognisable as an existing law in their courts, is to me the most formidable. all their other...
405From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 7 March 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to you on the 4th. inst. and yesterday recieved yours of the 27th. ult. I find on enquiry that the 400. D. of mr Short’s which I thought were in mr Jefferson’s hands have been applied to the credit of mr Barnes, for so much he had advanced here for mr Short. this reduces so far what I had depended on. on rallying all other resources I find I can cover about 1800. dollars for you, and...
406From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 17 February 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved by the last post Martha’s letter of Jan. 30. since which date I wrote to you on the 4th. & to her on the 11th. inst. your letters if they came by the Fredericksburg mail would arrive here on Saturday and would give time to answer them by Wednesday morning, the departure of our mail. but they have for some time past reached us only Tuesday afternoon, which shews they go in the...
407From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 11 March 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeably to my promise in my letter of the 9th. inst. I have this day inclosed to Messrs. George Jefferson & co. one thousand dollars in bank bills to be applied to the credit of their advances for you. the residue shall follow as mentioned in the same letter. I am Dear Sir Your’s affectionately RC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “T M Randolph”; endorsed by Randolph: “March 4. 7. 9. 11. 1800” (see...
408From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 13 January 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I have suffered the Post day to come upon me for two weeks past so unexpectedly as to be unable to write even the necessary letters of business. I found on my arrival that Barnes had not had the courage to sell our tobacco notwithstanding my positive directions to do so. he could then I believe have got 7½ D. for it. I struggled for a fortnight for that price, but was obliged at length to take...
409From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 31 March 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 22d. came to hand by last post . the dates of my late letters to you have been of the 4th. 7th. 9th. 11th. the last only of these is acknoleged in yours, on which day I sent on 1000. D. to mr Jefferson . on the 13th. I inclosed him 400. D. and on the 19th. 470. D. making up the whole sum of 1870. D. of the two first sums I have recieved his acknolegement, & expect the last. the...
410Memorandum to Thomas Mann Randolph, 30 October 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
the above is the standard we use. Th:J. will be obliged to mr Randolph to have them made & shod as quick as possible, as his corn is suffering much for want of being got in. Oct. 30. 99. MS ( DLC ); written on scrap of paper, entirely in TJ’s hand. Not recorded in SJL . TJ here canceled “4¼.” TJ here canceled “2¼.
411From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 14 May 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Congress having continued their session to this day, I shall leave this place tomorrow, & expect to pass through Richmond the 20th. or 21st. to mrs Bolling’s & the next day to join mr Eppes & Maria. probably I shall make 4. 5. or 6 days stay in that neighborhood. we have no foreign news. the Feds have determined to run Genl. Pinckney in conjunction with mr Adams, not without hope, by the aid...
412From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 3 July 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Mc.gehee is mistaken in supposing I had made mr Madison’s nails. not a single one is made, because he promised to give me notice sufficient for having them made before he should go away. your letter being delivered to me at Monticello at 2. aclock & my people all over at Shadwell, I can do nothing in it to-day; but they finish at Shadwell tonight & will all come over here, and in the...
413From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 4 February 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of Jan. 18 never reached me till this day, so that it has loitered a week somewhere. our post going out tomorrow morning, I hasten to answer it. my anxiety to get my lands rented is extreme. I readily agree therefore that mr Kerr shall take for 5. years, or say till Christmas 1804. the Oblong, Square field, and the one on the river next below the Square field, comprehending the orchard:...
414From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 4 March 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you last on the 17th. of February. since that I learn by a letter from Richmond that Martha is with her sister. my last letter from Eppington was of the 16th. of Feb. when Maria was hoped to be in fair way of speedy recovery. the continuance of the non inter-course law for another year and the landing of our commissioners at Lisbon, have placed the opening of the French market (where,...
415From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 19 February 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
I am so hard pushed for time that I can only announce to you a single event but that is a great one. it seems that soon after Gerry’s departure from France, overtures must have been made by Pichon, French chargé d’affaires at the Hague, to Murray. they were so soon matured that on the 28th. of Sep. 98. Taleyrand writes to Pichon approving what had been done, & particularly of his having...
416From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 28 January 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Si vales bene est. ego valeo . having occasion to write to-day to Dr. Wardlaw, I touched a little on politics, but think it better to avoid it. having recieved from N. York this morning a paper giving the details of the revolution at Paris, I inclose it to you, as you cannot get it through the other papers by this week’s post. all reflections on this subject would be nugatory.—our tobo. was...
417From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 7 May 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of Apr. 26 . came to hand the 2d. inst. we have recieved information, not absolutely to be relied on, that our envoys are arrived at Paris and were recieved with peculiar favor. I have seen a letter from a person there of the best information dated in January that the dispositions of the present government were so favorable that a carte blanche would be given to our envoys & that it...
418From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 9 March 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 1st. inst. came to hand yesterday. that of Feb. 27. had thrown us off our guard so as to lose a discounting day. however on Wednesday the 12th. I shall remit to mr Jefferson 1000. Doll. on Saturday 15th. 400. more and on the Saturday following (22d.) 468.79 making up the whole 1868.79 Mr. Jefferson will recieve every remittance on the 6th. day after it’s departure hence. not...
419From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 26 February 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 16th . and Martha’s of the 8th. came to hand on the 23d. inst. in mine to you of the 19th. I informed you that the President had nominated W. Vans Murray M.P. to settle our differences with France. yesterday however he superseded that by a nomination of Chief Justice Elsworth, P. Henry and W. V. Murray to be envoys extray. & M.P. to the French republic; but the two former are not...
420From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 2 February 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
My letters to yourself and my dear Martha have been of Jan. 13. 21. & 28. I now inclose a letter lately recieved for her. you will see in the newspapers all the details we have of the proceedings of Paris. I observe that La Fayette is gone there. when we see him, Volney, Sieyes, Taleyrand gathering round the new powers, we may conjecture from thence their views and principles. should it be...