81David Michie to Thomas Jefferson, 23 April 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 20 h Ins t has been received. I am perfectly willing to have the depositions of Judge Carr & M r Price taken at any time when the Judge may be in this neighbourhood. It will likewise give me pleasure in accomidating you in taking any others you may think necessary Tr ( ViU : TJP-LBJM ); in
82Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Brown, 24 April 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you a few days ago in answer to your favor accompanying the seeds of the Guinea grass and Capsicum. the object of the present is to sollicit the protection of your cover for the inclosed letter to ensure it’s safety as far as Natches , and then your kind aid in committing it to the proper channel of conveyance. I have been told there is a post direct from Natchez to Washita . if not, I...
83Thomas Jefferson to Rodolphus Dickinson, 24 April 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Be pleased to accept my thanks for your ‘View of Massachusets proper.’ a volume of facts is worth more than whole libraries of speculations and fermentations of the brain; and those respecting Massachusets will continue to be interesting whether she continues an American state, or becomes a British province. a mind which in youth takes the useful direction of facts, promises much to our real...
84Robert Patterson to Thomas Jefferson, 24 April 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your esteemed favour of the 8 th . Your time-piece, agreeably to your desire, I have had set up at my own house, & shall with great pleasure make experiments on its going with the rod-pendulum. This pendulum is at present suspended by a few inches of watch-spring attached to the upper end, as in common pendulums: But M r Adrain , an able mathematician, in...
85Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 24 April 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 19 th finds me just setting out on a journey which will occasion an absence of three weeks from home. at any time after my return from that I shall be ready to dispatch any certificates or other papers you may be pleased to send me for signature with respect to the volumes of astronomical observations from Pisa , whether intended for myself personally or for the society, I...
86Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 25 April 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I set out tomorrow for Bedford and shall be absent 3. or 4. weeks. I have between 4. and 500. barrels of flour caught at Richmond by the blockade, not a barrel of it sold. my hope is that the enemy will prefer withdrawing out of the capes and cruising on the coast to catch something rather than lie where they do & catch nothing. the moment any movement of theirs gives a chance for our vessels...
87Thomas Jefferson to John Brown, 25 April 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
On recieving from you mr Walker’s bill of prices (which I now inclose) I examined your account, which I had not done before, and soon found that mr Walker’s bill related only to grist mills. I therefore sent a messenger to him and asked him to state the prices of saw mill work, which he did. on comparing these with yours I found them very materially different. my original agreement for...
88Thomas Jefferson to Richard Fitzhugh, 25 April 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I have unluckily got out of the Ravensworth pea , which I value so highly as to wish to recover it. I am in hopes you are able to supply me with a little. a few peas quilted into a peice of cloth, f so as to lie flat, of the size and form of a letter, and inclosed in a paper cover and directed to me as a letter by mail will be sufficient to put me in seed by another year. I inclose you the...
89Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 25 April 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Feb. 16. remains still I believe to be acknoleged. as I did not go to the court succeeding it’s reciept myself, I delivered your deed to mr Higginbotham and his mortgage to you, to himself on his way to court to have both recorded, which cannot fail to have been done; but shall be the subject of more special enquiry, mr Carter’s negligence having taught me to take nothing for...
90Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 26 April 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
We are just now packing your Commode & two presses. strange as it may seem, altho’ it required but 4. or 500 feet of plank to make the packing boxes, yet so difficult is that article here, and that I never have been able to command that quantity bef beyond my own constant & pressing wants till I got a saw mill of my own to work. this has enabled me now to pack them and my boat will be sent off...