1Thomas Jefferson to Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge), 26 November 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
The situation in which I left your dear Mama makes me very anxious to hear of her during my stay here. uncertain whether this may not find her in bed, I address it to you to pray you to write me a line letting me know how she is. if it is done, on the reciept of this letter and put immediately into the post office of Charlottesville , it will still find me here. direct to me at Poplar Forest...
2Thomas Jefferson to Francis Eppes, 26 November 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I have written to ask the favor of mr Halcomb to permit your cousin Baker and yourself to come and pass tomorrow and next day with me here. I send horses for you both, and will send you back on Monday morning. I left your aunt and cousins well at Monticello , and in the hope of seeing you here this evening, I remain affectionately PoC ( CSmH : W. J. Rheese Papers); endorsed by TJ. Eppes’s aunt...
3Thomas Jefferson to Thomas A. Holcombe, 26 November 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Presuming that Saturdays & Sundays are vacation days at your school I ask the favor of you to permit my grandson Francis Eppes and his cousin Baker to pass them with me at this place. they shall be returned again on Monday morning. and as I shall have to ask the same favor of you again at the end of the ensuing week which I shall stay here, I will conform exactly to the hours of sending for...
4Thomas Jefferson to Elizabeth Trist, 25 November 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Being so much more within writing distance here than at Monticello , and with time freer from interruption, I avail myself of it to renew to you the assurances of my constant friendship, and my wishes for your health and happiness. and as brother Jonathan must have become stale and lost his powers of excitement, I send you a little work of a higher order to make you laugh on a gloomy day. it...
5Thomas Jefferson to Peter Minor, 18 November 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 15 th is recieved, notifying me that the Directors of the Rivanna company have had under consideration the bill respecting the navigation of our river, that they have decided unanimously that the passage of that law as it was amended by the Senate , would comprehend every object of their petition to the last assembly , and that they propose to petition that the bill, as...
6Thomas Jefferson to William F. Gordon, 16 November 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
The omission of the affidavit to my bill v. Michie was from want of reflection and recollection. I know that in a suit at Common law where depositions are desired lest the witnesses should die before trial, an affidavit is always required and altho ours is a different case, yet it was not worth while to run any risk for want of a mere formality. I have therefore prepared an affidavit stating...
7Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 14 November 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your motions have hitherto put it out of our power to write to you from the uncertainty of the times and places at which a letter could meet you. your last however from Cayuga removes the difficulty, as we presume a letter now written will find you at Headquarters, and that these will be somewhere in the line between Sacket’s harbor and Montreal . we have heard of the movements of Gen l...
8Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Brown, 13 November 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 24 th of April I took the liberty of putting under your cover a letter for James L. Henderson of Washita , and in yours of May 25. you were so kind as to state to me the conveyance you had procured for it, and the probability that an answer might be returned by the same person. none having been recieved, I fear that that man Henderson does not mean to answer, altho’ in that letter I...
9Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Hornsby, 11 November 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of July 21. was recieved on the 6 th of Aug. and should have been answered immediately, but that I was in daily expectation of one from Gov r Greenup on the same subject. I accordingly recieved one a fortnight after in which he inclosed a letter from you to him proposing an interview. and in his letter to me he said he should make an appointment with you as soon as he should be...
10Thomas Jefferson to John Jacob Astor, 9 November 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Oct. 18. has been duly rec d and I learn with great pleasure the progress you have made towards an establishment on Columbia river . I view it as the germ of a great, free & independant empire on that side of our continent, and that liberty & self government spreading from that as well as this side will ensure their compleat establishment over the whole. it must be still more...
11Thomas Jefferson to William Champe Carter, 9 November 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
In a letter of Sep. 23. I informed you of a claim of Col o Monroe’s to some part of the lands you sold to mr Short , he thinks about 30. acres, and proposed to you a meeting at your convenience to run the lines. Col o Monroe I believe wrote to you at the same time. I was then obliged to limit the time of meeting to some day before the present Date, by the necessity of my visiting Bedford about...
12Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 9 November 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I must ask the favor of you to send me by return of post an hundred dollars in bills of from 5. to 20.D. on reciept of this I shall immediately set out for Bedford to hasten down my flour from thence. our river here will not yet float an empty boat, nor I expect permit a loaded boat till the middle of December. by soon after that period I am in hopes the winter gales will force the enemy from...
13Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 9 November 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
You have heretofore been apprised of a claim of Col o Monroe to a corner of your tract of land on the top of the mountain, which he supposes included within the lines of his prior deed. some years ago he mentioned this to me; but as mr Carter had conducted your survey in person, I imagined Col o Monroe had been illy informed, and as he never repeated the thing to me, I presumed he had become...
14Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 7 November 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
As the meeting of our legislature approaches, and I shall be absent in Bedford from the 17 th inst. to about the 8 th of Dec. within which period you will possibly be passing, I have thought it best to inform you that the Rivanna co. & myself consent that the bill concerning us which was before the legislature at their last session, should pass verbatim as amended by the Senate
15Enclosure: Abstract of the Rivanna Company Bill, [ca. 7 November 1813] (Jefferson Papers)
A bill to amend the act intituled an act incorporating a company to open E t c the Rivanna river from Milton to Moore’s ford E t c §.1. Be it enacted by the General assembly that instead of the tolls E t c [this section goes on to fix the tolls.] §.2. And be it further enacted that it shall be lawful for the court of Albemarle county
16Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas G. Dufief, 7 November 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I ought sooner, in answer to your letter of Sep. 29. to have said that I shall be glad to recieve the second hand copy of the Traité du Bonheur et de la morale, which you supposed you could get me. I am anxious to recieve the ‘American brewer & malster’ as soon as published. I have both Richardson & Combrune which you mention. accept my friendly & respectful salutations. PoC ( DLC ); at foot...
17Thomas Jefferson to Chapman Johnson, 7 November 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I was unwell during the last session of our district court , or I should have seen you there and delivered to you the inclosed for your kind assistance in the case of Michie’s Certiorari on the proceedings of forcible entry; and I was not without a hope that your business might have given you leisure to take a dinner or an evening with us which will always give me pleasure. I had a...
18Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 6 November 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just recieved from Gen l Kosciuzko a duplicate of his letter of May 30. to which he adds this P.S. ‘you render me a great service by the arranging arrangement with mr Morton to whom I owe many thanks for the most obliging manner in which I have been treated at Paris , and for the exactitude of his correspondent.’ this channel then being so agreeable to the General we had better adhere...
19Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 6 November 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I had not expected to have troubled you again on the subject of finance; but since the date of my last I have recieved from mr Law a letter covering a memorial on that subject which from it’s tenor I conjecture must have been before Congress at their two last sessions. this paper contains two propositions, the one for issuing Treasury notes bearing interest, & to be circulated as money; the...
20Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Law, 6 November 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Oct. 1. came duly to hand, and in it the Memorial which I now return. I like well your idea of issuing treasury notes bearing interest, because I am persuaded they would soon be withdrawn from the circulation and locked up in vaults & private hoards. it would put it in the power of every man to lend his 100. or 1000.D. tho’ not able to go forward on the great scale and be the...
21Thomas Jefferson to Wilson Cary Nicholas, 6 November 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
You took the trouble of reading my former letters to mr Eppes on the subject of our finances, and I therefore inclose you a third letter to him on an important branch of the same subject, banks, for your perusal, if the volume does not appear too formidable. be so good as to stick a wafer into the letter and put it into the shortest post-line for Ça-ira which is his nearest post-office.— I...
22Thomas Jefferson to George Hay, 2 November 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
You may remember the case of Peyton & Henderson in the courts of Chancery & Appeals , in which you acted for Peyton , and that I informed you that I had an interest in it. being in Washington myself & totally unable to pay any attention to it, it was so wretchedly managed by Peyton as to render failure inevitable. the two only witnesses who were important to him were not examined till a few...
23Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Voigt, 29 October 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
The watch had arrived safe and was entirely approved. I should have acknoleged it, but expected you would forward a seal and deferred my answer that I might at the same time remit you for that & the balance of 3.D. which I observe due on your bill . to remove suspence I now mention this with the assurance of my respect. PoC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “M r Tho s Voigt”; endorsed by TJ. Voigt...
24Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 28 October 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
According to the reservation between us, of taking up one of the subjects of our correspondence at a time, I turn to your letters of Aug. 16. & Sep. 2. The passage you quote from Theognis , I think has an Ethical, rather than a political object. the whole piece is a moral exhortation , παραινεςις , and this passage particularly seems to be a reproof to man, who, while with his domestic animals...
25Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 21 October 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 13 th with 300.D. inclosed is duly recieved, and I now return you the note for the bank filled up with 2000.D. the additional 500 D. being intended to cover my draughts until I shall get some flour down. I am concerned to learn that flour is but at 5.D. in Richmond . I see by the prices current of Philada it is there at 10.D. and some gentlemen now with me & recently from...
26Thomas Jefferson to Burgess Allison, 20 October 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I had seen the advertisement of your spinning machine some time ago, and wished to know it’s principle, as I was certain it would be ingenious. I have just been gratified with it in mr Cooper’s emporium, and am as much pleased with it as I expected. it has some valuable improvements on the Jenny which I am in the use of in my family. will you be so good as to inform me what one of them of 12...
27Thomas Jefferson to John Sen Trescot, 20 October 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Sep. 7. is just recieved, informing me that the society, heretofore called Antiquarian , had extended it’s views, and changed it’s name to that of the Literary & Philosophical society of South Carolina , and had named me one of it’s honorary members. I am very sensible of the honor done me by this nomination, and beg leave thro’ you to return my thanks to the society. my...
28Thomas Jefferson to Edmund M. Blunt, 19 October 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Blunt , and returns him many thanks for the copy of his edition of the Nautical Almanac for 1814. which he has been so kind as to send him. it is a very acceptable present as his inland situation renders it difficult to procure the English edition, to which mr Blount’s is made entirely equivalent by it’s exact conformity with the original. he...
29Thomas Jefferson to William McClure, 16 October 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I was just going out on my ride the other day when your son called with your letter , which prevented my doing more than sending an order for the barrel of flour. I have with chearfulness supplied your necessities in consideration of getting my spinners & weavers instructed, informing you always that when this was done, you would have to look to other resources: and desirous that you should do...
30Contract to Purchase Corn from Craven Peyton, 13 October 1813, with Subsequent Receipts (Jefferson Papers)
M. Bacon & C. Peyton have bargained for all the corn C. Peyton may have to sell—except about Seventy barrells—that is C.P. is to let M. Bacon hav e One hundred Barrells if he makes as much to sell aftar deducting the above Seventy; the Corn to be recav d between the 1 st & tenth of Nov r On the rivar bank. at Twenty Shilling ⅌ barrell payable on the
31Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 12 October 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Since mine of Aug. 22. I have recieved your favors of Aug. 16. Sep. 2. 14. 15. and ___ and mrs Adams’s of Sep. 20. I now send you, according to your request a copy of the Syllabus. to fill up this skeleton with arteries, with veins, with nerves, muscles and flesh, is really beyond my time and information. whoever could undertake it would find great aid in Enfield’s judicious abridgment of
32Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 6 October 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of Aug. 10. I informed you I should draw on you from Bedford for 600.D. in favor of Brown & Robertson . this I accordingly did; and from the same place made three other draughts in favor of the sheriff of Bedford for 111.D. Nimrod Darnell 50.D. & Jeremiah A. Goodman 37.50 D it is questionable however whether this last will be called for. in the same letter I mentioned that I...
33Thomas Jefferson to George Logan, 3 October 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of Sep. 18. and I percieve in it the same spirit of peace which I know you have ever breathed, and to preserve which you have made many personal sacrifices. that your efforts did much towards preventing declared war with France , I am satisfied. of those with England I am not equally informed. I have ever cherished the same spirit with all nations from a...
34Thomas Jefferson to Andrew Moore, 2 October 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of troubling you on behalf of a Cap t Joseph Millar , stationed at Charlottesville as an Alien ; and will state his case as represented to me, and as believed by me. his father & mother came over about 1768. to Maryland to settle there. he was born there soon after their arrival, and the father dying, the mother thought it safest to return to her friends in Ireland where...
35Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 28 September 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you the letters on finance, for perusal. I had not an opportunity of proposing the reading them to the President , there being much company with him. when will the ladies & yourself do us the favor of a visit? RC ( NN : Monroe Papers); dateline at foot of text; addressed: “The Secretary of State”; with endorsement and notes by Monroe on verso. Not recorded in SJL . Enclosures: TJ to...
36Thomas Jefferson to William Champe Carter, 23 September 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I was in hopes, after recieving the reacknolegement of your deed to mr Short that all further trouble was at an end. but a more serious one arises. Col o Monroe called on me two days ago and stated that the deed to mr Short had run in upon his prior one, and included some of the land, which he claims now to have settled. as he does not state this error of the lines as of his own knolege, but...
37Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 23 September 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson incloses to Col o Monroe the copy of a letter he proposes to send to mr Champe Carter , if the contents meet his approbation; which he asks the favor of him to signify to him, with the return of the letter. he sets out to mr Madison’s early tomorrow morning, weather permitting, which he does not mention to have any influence on Col o Monroe’s movements. perhaps indeed their...
38Thomas Jefferson to Henry M. Brackenridge, 20 September 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of July 25. is just now recieved: and I have read with pleasure the account it gives of the antient mounds & fortifications in the Western country. I never before had an idea that they were so numerous. presuming the communication was meant for me in my relation with the Philosophical society , and deeming it well worthy their attention, I have forwarded it to them, and with my...
39Thomas Jefferson to James Martin (of New York), 20 September 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your fa letter of Aug. 20. enabled me to turn to mine of Feb. 23. 98. and your former one of Feb. 22. 1801. and to recall to my memory the oration at Jamaica which was the subject of them. I see with pleasure a continuance of the same sound principles in the address to mr Quincy . your quotation from the former paper alludes, as I presume, to the term of office of our Senate ; a term, like...
40Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 19 September 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed biographical Notice of our late minister mr Barlow was prepared for some of the public papers of Europe , and has been forwarded to me by one of it’s authors . you will see subscribed to it as much of their names as they chuse to communicate. I inclose it to you supposing it possible you might think it worthy of translation and of publication in your paper. when done with I shall...
41Thomas Jefferson to Caspar Wistar, 19 September 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letter from mr Brackenridge on the subject of the mounds & remains of fortifications in the Western country, came to me without any indication whether meant, or not, for communication to the Philosophical society . considering it’s subject and the information it contains as meriting the attention of the society, I take the liberty of requesting your communication of it to them;...
42Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 18 September 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just recieved a letter of Dec. 1. from Gen l Kosciuszko , in which he says ‘I have recieved a bill of exchange of 5500 francs from mr Barnes , and I have been punctually paid by the house of mr Morton . I pray you to continue to remit to me my interest thro’ the same channel; if mr Morton will have the goodness to permit it’ This putting out of all doubt the preferable channel of...
43Thomas Jefferson to William Canby, 18 September 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of Aug. 27. am sensible of the kind intentions from which it flows, & truly thankful for them, the more so as the they could only be the result of a favorable estimate of my public course. during a long life, as much devoted to study, as a faithful transaction of the trusts committed to me would permit, no subject has occupied more of my consideration than our...
44Thomas Jefferson to Isaac Doolittle, 18 September 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for your care of the two letters from France which you have been so kind as to forward me. the Elogique Eloge historique de François Peron from mr Barnet came safely to hand, and I am only waiting a safe conveyance for the return of my thanks to him, as also for transmission of a book which M. Dupont desires me to send him. with my thanks be pleased to accept the assurance of my...
45Thomas Jefferson to William Duane, 18 September 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Repeated enquiries fr on the part of Senator Tracy what has become of his book (the MS. I last sent you) oblige me to ask of you what I shall say to him. I congratulate you on the brilliant affair of the Enterprize & Boxer . no heart is more rejoiced than mine at these mortifications of the English pride, and lessons to Europe that the English are not invincible at sea. and if these successes...
46Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas G. Dufief, [18] September 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 6 th has been recieved & I thank you for having forwarded the book to mr Adams as desired. in the Aurora of Sep. 7. I see a book advertised as under publication at N. York under the title of ‘the American brewer & malster ’ which, as teaching the method of malting Indian corn I should be very glad to get. could you procure it for me if published or when published. I would...
47Thomas Jefferson to Harry Innes, 18 September 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your information is correct that we possess here the genuine race of Shepherd dogs. I imported them from France about 4. years ago . thy they were selected for me by the Marquis Fayette , and I have endeavored to secure their preservation by giving them, always in pairs, to those who wished them. I have 4. pair myself at different places, where I suffer no other dog to be; and there are others...
48Thomas Jefferson to Isaac McPherson, 18 September 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the communication of mr Jonathan Ellicot’s letter in your’s of Aug. 28. and the information it conveys. with respect to mine of Aug. 13. I do not know that it contains any thing but what any man of Mathematical reading may learn from the same sources. however if it can be used for the promotion of right, I consent to such an use of it. your enquiry as to the date of Martin’s...
49Thomas Jefferson to Josiah Meigs, 18 September 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the information contained in your letter of Aug. 25. I confess that when I heard of the atrocities committed by the English troops at Hampton , I did not believe them; but subsequent evidence has placed them beyond doubt. to this has been added information from another quarter which proves it to the violation of women to be their habitual practice in war. mr Hamilton , a son of...
50Thomas Jefferson to William D. Meriwether, 17 September 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I lent you some time ago the London & Country brewer and Combrun’s book on the same subject. we are this day beginning, under the directions of Capt Millar , the business of brewing Malt liquors, and if these books are no longer useful to you I will thank you for them, as we may perhaps be able to derive some information from them. Accept the assurance of my respect & consideration. PoC ( MHi...