221John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 30 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Before I proceed to the order of the day, which is the terrorism of a former day: I beg leave to correct an Idea, that Some readers may infer from an expression in one of your Letters. No Sentiment or expression in any of my Answers to Addresses were obtruded or insinuated by any Person about me. Every one of them was written with my own hand. I alone am responsable for all the Mistakes and...
222James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, 30 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
The President’s health is rather improved since my last to you. He had a bad night, but his fever is slighter than it has been at any time since his indisposition. The phisicians think him convalescent— in haste— respectfully & sincerely yrs. RC ( MHi ); dateline at foot of text; endorsed by TJ as received 2 July 1813 from Washington and so recorded in SJL .
223Account with Reuben Perry for Work on Barn at Monticello, 1 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
A Bill of work done for Tho s Jefferson Esqr Sq. feet. In $ . Cts 127. 57. 6 Framing @ 6/– 127. 57½ 19. 60. Sheeting & shingling @ 10/6 34.
224Thomas Voigt to Thomas Jefferson, 1 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I Rec d your favour of the 20 th on the 27 th and would have answered it sooner but I thought it best to delay it untill Such times as I Should hear of a Watch to answer the disscription which you mentioned in your Letter, In Concequence of the War, watches have taken a Verry Considerable Rise; and I find that I Can get no Good ones of that disscription, such as I Could Recommend, for less...
225John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, [ca. 3–5] July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Correspondences! The Letters of Bernard and Hutchinson , and Oliver and Paxton &c were detected and exposed before The Revolution. There are I doubt not, thousands of Letters, now in being, but Still concealed, from their Party to their Friends, which will, one day See the light. I have wondered for more than thirty years that So few have appeared: and have constantly expected that a Tory...
226Englehart Cruse to Thomas Jefferson, 3 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
hearing of the Repeated Barbarrities Committed by the Ship of the Enemy on of ower Defenceless towns, I felt sorely for the same, and tried My tallent whether I might not discover Some plan by which we might not Counteract those Savage Cruelteys, I Acordingly Invented the Inclosed plan; a faint drauft of which with a specification, I take the Libberty to transmit and Sub mit, to your Jud g...
227Enclosure: Englehart Cruse’s Drawing and Explanation of an Apparatus for Blowing Up Ships, [ca. 3 July 1813] (Jefferson Papers)
Explanation of the above drawing of an apperratus for Blowing up Enemys Ships, when attempting to Enter our harbo u rs with an hostile Intention, to wit, AAA. keggs of powder too thirds full, with a weight at one side to keep that side down, so that the Emty part of the keggs lies uppermost, which keggs must be made water tight. B.B a Rope that holds them together, c.c.c. gun locks, placed...
228John Barnes to Thomas Jefferson, 6 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your fav r 28 th Ult o I recd yesterday— The more I contemplate on the proposed plan of Remitting to Paris —viz Mess r G. W. & R & M —the more my doubts and dificulties encreases—
229Elbridge Gerry to Thomas Jefferson, 6 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your very friendly letter of the 19th of June has given me great pleasure. The preference you express for the office holden by me, to the first office of the Government, is correspondent with your veiw of the same subject, when you was elected at to the former place. The latter you then justly considered as a “station of splendid misery .” My opinion on both these points is perfectly...
230Elizabeth Trist to Thomas Jefferson, 7 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I shou’d have made my acknowledgements ere now for your kind favor accompanying The History of John Bull and Brother Jonathan, but I was on a visit to M rs Tucker in Pittsylvania when it arrived, and just as I got home M r Burwells carriage came to take me to Franklin , tho prevented from setting off for three days in consiquence of two days heavy rain swelling the water courses your letter...