31Thomas Jefferson to Lancelot Minor, 26 May 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Apr. 23. came here just as I had set out for Bedford , so that I recieved it only on my return from that place, which must apologise for the delay of the answer. that of Jan. 20. had been recieved in due time, and your order in favor of Capt Tomkins for the survey was paid. in mine of Oct. 29. I had promised, as soon as my wheat should be groun d and disposed of, that I would...
32Thomas 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...
33Thomas 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 I like well your idea of issuing treasury notes bearing interest, because I am persuaded they would soon be withdrawn from the circulation and locked up in vaults & private hoards.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...
34Thomas 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...
35Thomas Jefferson’s Conveyance of Slaves to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 26 March 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Know all men by these presents that I Thomas Jefferson of Monticello in the county of Albemarle in consideration of my affection to my grandson Thomas Jefferson Randolph of the same place & county have given to my said grandson four negro slaves to wit Thruston the son of Isabel , Bec daughter of Mine r va , Lewis
36Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 23 August 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been prevented setting out to Bedford as early as I had counted. I depart tomorrow. in the mean time I have consulted with as many as I could of the leading men of our county on the subject of the Principal assessor, as I proposed to yourself in my letter of the 15 th . of those consulted who are known to yourself were mr Divers , the mr Carrs , mr Randolph , Bankhead E t c. one...
37Bill of Complaint in Jefferson v. Michie, 16 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
To the worshipful the County Court of Albemarle Setting in Chancery, the bill of Complaint of Thomas Jefferson humbly sheweth—that Bennett Henderson late of the County of Albemarle being in his lifetime seized and possessed in fee simple of a tract of Land in the same County lying on the South side of the Rivanna river and around the town of Milton died intestate leaving a widow Elizabeth...
38Thomas Jefferson to William Cocke, 17 April 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved, my good old friend, your favor of Feb. 24. and rejoice to find you can still undertake distant military expeditions. it does not want much of 40. years since we were first together in the Virginia legislature. you are approaching therefore, what I have attained, the limits of the Psalmist , who says ‘the days of our years are three score years and ten.’ yet I hope it will be...
39Thomas 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...
40Thomas Jefferson to Richard Fitzhugh, 27 May 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 9 th has been safely recieved, together with the packet of Ravensworth peas . these are now in the ground, & will abundantly supply me with seed for the next year. I will not therefore give to yourself or mr Eppes the trouble of adding to my supply. I cannot promise myself ever taking a journey so far Northwardly again, but were it to happen, I should certainly take your...
41Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Pleasants, 11 August 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I will trouble you to send me by stage the following books: Junius , the new edition with fac similes. Franklin’s works . Duane’s edition. Pike’s journey thro’ Mexico & Techas . The Book . [concerning the Princess of Wales
42Thomas Jefferson to John Graham, 29 May 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your preceding kindnesses in forwarding my foreign letters encourages encourage me to send you the inclosed. Madame de Stael desired it should be put under cover to our Consul at Stockholm , but I do not know who that is. this obliges me to ask the favor of you to put it under such a cover. the letter is such an one as I should be sorry should get either into French or English hands. I will...
43Thomas Jefferson to Isaac McPherson, 13 August 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Aug. 3. asking information on the subject of mr Oliver Evans’s exclusive right to the use of what he calls his Elevators, Conveyers, and Hopper-boys , has been duly recieved. my wish to see new inventions encouraged, and old ones brought again into useful notice, has made me regret the circumstances which have followed the expiration of his first patent. I did not expect the...
44Thomas Jefferson to Robert Richardson, 1 August 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of July 2. came to hand a few days ago and I am thankful to yourself as well as to mr Ross for the indulgence therein expressed as to the paiment for the castings which I should have made before. I counted on making it from the resource of my flour which I have usually sold in March. but the blockade has prevented & still prevents the sale. in the mean time another resource...
45Thomas Jefferson to John L.E.W. Shecut, 29 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I am very sensible of the honor done me by the Antiquarian Society of Charleston , in the Rule for the organisation of their society which you have been so good as to communicate , and I pray you to do me the favor of presenting to them my thanks. age and my inland and retired situation make it scarcely probable that I shall be able to render them any services. but should any occasion occur...
46Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 15 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you a letter on the 27 th of May , which probably would reach you about the 3 d inst. and on the 9 th I recieved yours of the 29 th of May . of Lindsay’s Memoirs I had never before heard, & scarcely indeed of himself. it could not therefore but be unexpected that two letters of mine should have any thing to do with his life. the name of his
47Thomas Jefferson to Samuel H. Smith, 23 August 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Sam l H. Smith , & his thanks for the oration he has been so kind as to send him. he has read it with great pleasure, and sympathises in all it’s sentiments sincerely, one excepted, respecting the exhausting our resources on a navy. our strength is on the land, & weakness on the water. our enemies’ strength is on the water, at land nothing. and...
48Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah A. Goodman, 17 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
The unexpected difficulty of getting water to my saw mill and threshing machine has made it impossible for me to leave those works a day; and the harvest is now so near as not to leave me time for a visit to Poplar forest . I must therefore put it off till the harvest is over. as soon after that as I shall suppose you may have brushed over your tobacco, I will go; because I imagine you will be...
49Thomas Jefferson to William DuVal, 20 April 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I have occasion for the agency of a friend in the neighborhood of Shelbyville Kentucky , in a case which gives me considerable trouble and inquietude; and I do not know that I have either a friend or acquaintance in that neighborhood. I have learnt however that you have a son there, a practitioner of law, and I have believed that from our acquaintance and friendship, of now half a century, I...
50Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 20 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
My last was of the 14 th . your’s of the same date was received two days after. the Frenchman who laid in the claim with mr Taylor , must have been mr Peter Derieux who married the daughter of mr Mazzei’s wife , long since dead. they live in N. Carolina , and were long
51Thomas Jefferson to Lewis Brown, 11 March 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Feb. 25. never got to my hands till last night. the purchase of the horse from you by mr Darnell was on my account, and the debt as much acknoleged as if a bond had been given. I had desired my merchant in Richmond , as soon as he could sell my flour from the Poplar Forest (which got down but lately) to remit a sum of money to mr Goodman , sufficient to pay your’s and other...
52Thomas 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...
53Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Delaplaine, 30 May 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 23 d is recieved, in which you enquire whether there is an approved portrait of myself, by whom painted, & in whose possession? mr Stuart has drawn two portraits of me, at different sittings, of which he prefers the last. both are in his possession. he also drew a third in water colours, a profile in the medallion stile , which is in my possession. mr Rembrandt Peale also...
54Thomas Jefferson to William Wirt, 1 August 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his friendly respects to mr Wirt , and incloses him an order on Gibson & Jefferson for 50.D. for the kindness of his services in the suit of Scott against him. he is anxious it should be forced on at the first calling that he may be rid of the obligation which the purchaser required of him. he salutes mr Wirt with friendship & respect. PoC ( MHi ); dateline at foot of...
55Thomas 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...
56Thomas 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...
57Thomas Jefferson to Louis H. Girardin, 31 March 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Gerardin Girardin & is sorry he cannot furnish him the Early York cabbage seed. he has ceased to cultivate it because the seed cannot be raised in this country. he sends him some green curled Savoy cabbage, the only kind he has. he sends him also some Malta Kale which he recieved from that island and finds preferable to t either the Scotch or...
58Thomas Jefferson to Augustus B. Woodward, 24 August 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 16 th is put into my hand in the moment I was getting into my carriage to set out on a journey, on which I shall be absent 3. or 4. weeks. I stop a moment merely to mention this fact, lest the pleasure of your visit should be lost to me and the trouble of it to yourself. should your stay in Washington be so long as I shall be very happy to see you on my return. the...
59Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 18 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 2 d is recieved, and a copy of Higgenbotham’s mortgage is now inclosed. the journey to Bedford which I proposed in my last, my engagements here have obliged me to postpone till after harvest which is now approaching; it is the most unpromising one I have seen. we have been some days in expectation of seeing M. Correa. if he is on the road, he has had some days of our very hottest...
60Thomas Jefferson to Elizabeth Trist, 10 May 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I brought the inclosed book to this place, the last fall, intending to forward it to you; but having a neighbor here who loves to laugh, I lent it to him to read; he lent it to another, and so it went the rounds of the neighborhood and is returned to me at my Spring visit to this place. I now forward it, and if it diverts you for an hour or two, I shall be gratified by it. I was myself amused...