81William Cocke to Thomas Jefferson, 15 May 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your much esteem d favour of the 17 th of april Containing the fullest evidence that you still Recollect and appriceate my best endeavours to serve my Country has been Received with all that heart felt satisfaction which true friendship inspire. I may truly be call d the trenk of the times except that nothing Can ever change my Determination for a moment to be of all the service in my power to...
82Isaac A. Coles to Thomas Jefferson, 4 April 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of introducing to your Acquaintance Lieut Peyton of the 20 th Reg t who has just been ordered to recruit at Charlottesville —He is an amiable & deserving Young officer— The recent appointment of two Majors to our Reg t , now with the army at Niagara , will have the effect, I fear, of keeping me in the recruiting for some time to come— The appointment of Col: Randolph to the...
83Isaac A. Coles to Thomas Jefferson, 6 August 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be handed you by m r Gerry , the Son of your old Acquaintance & friend the Vice President — Being on a visit to his relations in Pittsylvania , & being desirous of taking Monticello in his route, I cannot resist the desire of introducing him to your acquaintance and civilitey civility— I have been for some weeks in daily expectation of an order to go on to Fort George
84John B. Colvin to Thomas Jefferson, 26 March 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg you to accept the accompanying volume of “ Historical Letters .” I confess I am ashamed of the typographical execution of the work, the badness of which is chiefly to be attributed to its being published to the South of the Potomac . It is a reproach to that part of the United States that so useful an art as that of printing, should be there so much neglected, in point of embellishment,...
85Lucy Cooley to Thomas Jefferson, 18 August 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Jabez Cooley Inform d me by letter that he had been to work for you and M r Randolph but was wa now in the service of the united States as A substitu t e for your
86Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 8 November 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I sent you about a twelve month ago, a copy of my edition of Justinian’s institutes , and another copy of my introductory lecture ; I presume you received them as I sent them if I do not mistake under M r Madison’s care. I write at present to say that I have at my disposal D r Priestley’s library and apparatus. The library consists of about 4400 Volumes of all descriptions, some of them very...
87William Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 24 November 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
At a time when our enemy has avowed his intention to prosecute the war with the utmost rigor against our towns, villages, and citizens , it becomes the duty of every American to aid his Government in repelling them. I shall not be deterred by one disaster from respectfully submitting a plan, which I shall, I trust, demonstrate would completely banish them from our waters. Indeed, I am about...
88Enclosure: William Cooper’s Drawing of a Floating Battery, [ca. 24 November 1813] (Jefferson Papers)
MS ( DLC : TJ Papers , 200:35536); entirely in Cooper’s hand; undated.
89José Corrêa da Serra to Thomas Jefferson, 6 September 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Together with this Letter i forward to you by the post office the book of Senator Fossombroni . The 1 st part of the book is wholly antiquarian, and though highly curious to Italian readers, is of Little interest to any other; the second part will give you an idea of that ingenious and experimented practice. If it was judged proper to familiarize the Americans with it then it would be...
90Englehart 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...