121Thomas Jefferson to John Hopkins, 11 August 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I subscribe with pleasure to the work of mr Allen’s which you propose to print: but as to assisting with materials, it is really not in my power. my life has been too busy a one to collect materials, or even to retain notes of what has been passing. those who act are generally too much occupied to write what is doing: lookers on, alone, have leisure for that. were I to resort to my memory, it...
122Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Hornsby, 21 April 1813, with Postscript, 24 May 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
A case occurring in which your kind interposition may befriend my quiet, I take the liberty of recalling myself to your memory, and our antient acquaintance, now I believe of more than half a century. you feel the value of tranquility at our time of life, and will therefore excuse my present sollicitation. I was induced very innocently to become the purchaser of the lands of the late Bennet...
123Thomas 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...
124Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Hunter, 20 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Having two clocks out of order which I would wish to have put to rights, and understanding from you that you would come to do it if you could get a horse, I send one by the bearer. he goes on to Scott’s ferry on other business and will leave the horse with you, if you can come. if you cannot, he will take it on with him and return from Scott’s ferry. you shall in like manner be furnished with...
125Thomas 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...
126Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 6 May 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
We arrived here, my dear Martha , well & without accident, favored on the road by the weather. the caravan also came well, except overpassing their stage the 2 d day, sleeping in the woods all night, without cover, and overwhelmed by a rain, in the center of which they were, while it did not extend 5 miles in any direction from them. the spinning Jenny is at work, well while with washed...
127Thomas Jefferson to Randolph Jefferson, 12 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s is recieved by Squire , and the girl begins this morning the first necessary branch, which is roving, or spinning into candlewick to prepare it for the spinning Jenny . this will take her some days, more or less, according to her aptness, and then she will commence on the Jenny. as she appears rather young, it will probably taker take her a month or 6. weeks to learn well enough to be...
128Thomas Jefferson to Randolph Jefferson, 8 August 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of yesterday found me unprovided with the sum you desired; but I have been able to borrow it among our merchants who are not much better off than others, all business being at a stand. we are experiencing the most calamitous year known since 1755. the ground has been wet but once since the 14 th of April . my wheat yielded but a third of an ordinary crop, about treble the seed. of...
129Thomas Jefferson to Randolph Jefferson, 20 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
The unexpected difficulties of bringing water to my saw mill & threshing machine, & the necessity of doing it before harvest, have obliged me to put off my visit to Bedford till after harvest. the spinning Jenny for Bedford is now ready but will not be sent until I go. while it is here it offers a good opportunity for your spinner to learn upon it. after it is gone there will be no idle...
130Thomas Jefferson to Randolph Jefferson, 8 September 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
The cart sets out this morning with your spinning Jenny in perfect order, and will deliver it I hope safe from accident. according to present appearances I may leave this on Saturday morning, and if in time to get to Noah Flood’s I may be with you to dinner on Sunday , but if I get only to Henry Flood’s I shall dine at Gibson’s & be with you on Sunday evening; and it is yet possible I may be...
131Thomas Jefferson to Randolph Jefferson, 25 May 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Supposing the shad season not to be quite over, and that in hauling for them they catch some carp, I send the bearer with a cart and cask to procure for me as many living carp as he can to stock my fishpond. I should not regard his staying a day or two extra, if it would give a reasonable hope of furnishing a supply. he is furnished with money to pay for the carp, for which I have always given...
132Lucy F. Smith to Thomas Jefferson, 23 May 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
In consequence of the long and earnest desire of my son Walter , to enter the Navy, and the advice of his friends seconding his views, I have consented to gratify him— Presuming on the friendship which subsisted between yourself and his father, Meriwether Jones , I will take the liberty of requesting your assistance in procuring him a Midshipmans warrant—his friends are respectable and...
133John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 9 August 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I believe I told you in my last , that I had given you all in Lindseys Memoirs, than that interested you. But I was mistaken. In Priestleys Letter to Lindsey Dec r 19. 1803 , I find this Paragraph “With the Work I am now composing I go on much faster and better than I expected; so that in two or three months, if my health continue as it now is, I hope to have it ready for the Press; though I...
134Samuel K. Jennings to Thomas Jefferson, 30 October 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I have satisfied myself, by a great number of experiments, that the influence of cold upon the skin, is the most universal cause which places the system in a state of predisposition to disease. I have also ascertained by experiment hundreds of times repeated, that a timely application of intense heat to the surface, will correct the predisposition, and prevent disease, even when sternly...
135John Tayloe to Thomas Jefferson, 27 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I trust you will excuse the liberty I take—in having the honor to enclose you the within letter—as it contains money I was fearfull it might miscarry—is the cause why I trouble you— RC ( MHi ); dateline beneath signature; addressed: “Thomas Jefferson Esq r Monticello —near Milton—V a ”; franked; postmarked 28 July ; endorsed by TJ as received 30 July 1813 and so recorded in SJL . Enclosure not...
136Burgess Allison to Thomas Jefferson, [3 November 1813] (Jefferson Papers)
It is now a year since I have had a letter from M r Hawkins ; he was then, and had been some time engaged as an Engineer, and had undertaken two very stupendous works: one of them the constructing a Tunnel under the River Thames about eleven miles below London , which he had nearly compleated. The other was a Tunnel through Shuters hill , about eight miles from London , to level the eastern road.
137Alrichs & Dixon to Thomas Jefferson, 18 March 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
we have to acknowledge thy favour 11 th current— ; in our reply to thine, of 3 rd Ins t ; (which we hope thou hast receivd;) we stated, what we supposd must be the cause of thy Carder not performing to satisfaction; and the way, we hoped, to remedy it.—we regret, exceeding, that thou has found so much dificulty; with thy machine;—we had tried it before we sent it on; and fully believed it...
138Benjamin Smith Barton to Thomas Jefferson, 23 March 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I find there is to be a “physician” general of the arm. of the U. States —I have the vanity to think, that I am not entirely unqualified for that important place, by my age, my experience in practise, & my long experience as a teacher of a “practical” branch of medicine. Perhaps, I have some claim upon the government, as a steady supporter, so far as I can go, of the measures of the executive....
139Isaac McPherson to Thomas Jefferson, 28 August 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly reciev’d thy verry able letter of the 13 th In s , and have greatly to regret that the public had not been possessd of the views thou hast there taken of the subject, before the late trial of O Evans v s Sam l Robinson in the circuit court at Baltimore —had it been the case, the result of that trial must have terminated the question betwe e
140John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 25 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
your favour of the 15 th came to me yesterday, and it is a pleasure to discover that We are only 9 days apart. Be not Surprised or alarmed. Lindsays Memoirs will do no harm to you or me. you have right and reason to feel and to resent the breach of Confidence. I have had enough of the same kind of Treachery and Perfidy practiced upon me, to know how to Sympathize with you. I will agree with...
141James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, 7 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
During the last session of Congress the current business pressed so heavily on me, and after its adjournment, the preparation of instructions for our ministers employed under the mediation of Russia , and in other duties connected with it, kept me so constantly engaged that I have scarcely had a moment of respite since I left you. I seize one to communicate some details, which it may be...
142Chapman Johnson to Thomas Jefferson, 10 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknowledge your’s of the 4 th , received this morning, and to promise you my attention, to the case of David Michie against yourself, depending in the Albemarle circuit Court ,— I was apprised of the application for a certiorari, during the sitting of the last court, and on the authority of your former letter, would have contested the propriety of granting it, if the application had...
143James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, 23 November 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed was written before my late visit to Albemarle , and detaind in consequence of it, to be deliverd in person, but afterwards forgotten and left here. I need not add my sincere desire that you will have the goodness to decide the question to which it relates. we have nothing from abroad, immediately, concerning our own affairs; and no new light as to the result, of the great battles,...
144John Wayles Eppes to Thomas Jefferson, 26 September 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I met with Doct r Flood at Buckingham court house on the second monday of the present month. From him I had the pleasure of hearing you were in good health and that a letter from you to me had been put into the mail at his Fathers on that morning—The letter has not been received and I am unable to account for its failure—Even if it had gone on to Richmond it ought to have reached me on Tuesday...
145Thomas Law to Thomas Jefferson, 1 October 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Enclosed I submit to your perusal, what I trust will be deem’d worth the trouble— If after a Year, these Treasury notes (become due), were rec d as Cash in paym t of Subs n to the loan, it would give them full credit & enable Gov t to issue more—The loan would also be obtain’d on more advantageous terms, as these note holders would encrease the number of competitors for the loan— RC ( DLC : TJ...
146John Wayles Eppes to Thomas Jefferson, 25 May 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I received in due time the letter forwarded from Floods — I regret that my letter contained any thing which could induce you to suppose me either unreasonable in my proposals or diffident of your attatchment to my child —Being incapable of expressing either directly or indirectly any sentiment calculated to wound your feelings I have no hesitation in solemnly disclaiming any expression not in...
147Harry Innes to Thomas Jefferson, 9 August 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Since your return from Europe I have heard it repeatedly stated that you had imported the genuine Shepherds dog & occasionally distributed them among your friends. Such an acquisition to this State will be of immense importance, as the people are turning their attention to the raising of Sheep & are rapidly progressing in the merino breeds. If my information is correct & you still possess that...
148Charles Clay to Thomas Jefferson, 1 May 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
by boy Will I Recieved your present of Tacitus for Cyrus , your friendly attentions to the proper & useful Education of Cyrus is highly appreciated by us both, & I hope the impression will never be lessened.— I yesteday heard of your being up, & intended visiting you this day with a mess of Asparagus, which grows upon us with a threating Aspect, we shall trust to your frequent Aid in keeping...
149Hugh Holmes to Thomas Jefferson, 29 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I delayed the acknowledgement of the receipt of the wool for the purpose of ascertaining the time when you might expect the Cloth—I am still without this information, but not without apprehensions that much of our patience will be required on the part of the manufacturer—soon after the arrival of the wool the Foreman of the Factory being a militia draft and called upon to march deserted and is...
150Thomas Paine McMahon to Thomas Jefferson, 24 March 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of addressing you on a request which I hope you will be kind enough to comply with. I am the son of Bernard M c Mahon of this city and Wish to get an appointment in the Navy or Army of the United States . K Knowing that you were good enough to corresspond With my father , I thought you would be so good as to give me a few lines of reccommendation to the secratary of the...