168351Peter Derieux to Thomas Jefferson, 27 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Depuis la Lettre dont vous avés eu la bonté de m’honorer le 31. Juillet , J’en ai recu de mes parents en France , qui me croyent toujours dans L’espoir de la fortune de m r mazzei ; J’en ay appris aussi que depuis le retour du Roi, Le neveu du C te de Jaucourt mon beau pere, avoit eté nommé Ministre de La Marine , et comme ce fut principalement en consideration de mon alliance a cette famille que
168352William H. Crawford to Thomas Jefferson, 28 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter recommending M r Armistead for an appointment in the war department has been duly Rec d by the mail. Several vacancies exist in the Accountants office, but owing to the unfortunate death of Col o Lear will Not be filled until that office is filled. M r Armistead
168353Joseph Delaplaine to Thomas Jefferson, 28 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have already written to you by this mail , & at the same time sent you a pamphlet. I now send your n o of the Repository.— I hope it will be convenient & agreeable to you to give me, if it is only a dozen lines, your opinion of the paper, typography, engravings & plan & importance of the Repository.— I have already mentioned that your opinion with that of M r Madison & others, are to appear...
168354Christopher Clark to Thomas Jefferson, 29 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
mr Jeffersons Reasoning in the case of the wittnessth against Robertson for perjury is strong and Conclusive for the defendant if he is Right in his premisses, and even if it Shall be found erroneous in matter of law the length of time which has pased away since his attention was particularly caled to legal inquiry and the absence of books will be an ap ample apology for a Sketch proceeding...
168355Thomas Jefferson to William D. Meriwether, 30 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieve this instant, and at this place your letter of the 17 th the property of the three younger children of Bennet Henderson dec d sold to me by their guardians , paid for while they were under age, and of which I am possessed, I am ready to give up, in consequence of their refusing confirmation; and I left directions accordingly with my grandson on leaving home. I will also pay any...
168356Edwin Stark to Thomas Jefferson, 30 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return last evening to this place I found your letter of the 10 th Inst I have the pleasure to inform you the box shipt by M r Banger of Phil a to my care was on the day of its arrival here forwarded to M r Richard Thweatt of Petersburg with a particular request that he would send it on with as little delay as possible RC (
168357Noah Worcester to Thomas Jefferson, 31 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
As, in pursuing the cause of peace, I make a free use of your name And your writings, it is but just that I should Submit to your inspection what I publish to your inspection. For this reason I put into the post office directed to you No’s 4 And 5 of the Friend of Peace, And shall now Send No. 6. It is my Aim to be impartial, but I Am liable to misapprehend. If in Any thing I have mistaken...
168358George Logan to Thomas Jefferson, 1 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Knowing your anxiety to promote the agriculture of your country, as the most stable support of the best interests of civil society I herewith send you a specimen of dressed flax, which I lately received from my friend Sir John Sinclair He says nothing respecting the mode of its preparation; but I am informed it is accomplished by beating and friction, without its being previously rotted. When...
168359Elisha Ticknor to Thomas Jefferson, 1 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a letter and an Invoice of a parcel of Books, received yesterday from my son, in the Ship Cordelia from Hamburg . On receiving the Books, which will probably be in the course of eight or ten days, I will as soon as possible reship them to Messrs Gibson and Jefferson , your Correspondents in Richmond . As soon as I can get at the amount of duties, freight &c. I will forward it to...
168360Francis Adrian Van der Kemp to Thomas Jefferson, 1 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Reperusing your interesting Syllabus I have recalled in my mind a train of thoughts—which I brought in writing about twenty years past and Send then—for his criticisms—to my old friend Joshua Toulmin of Taunton —father of the judge in the Missisippi Territory —which treatise has been irrecoverably lost on its passage to England . Having hurted my right leg—in my garden—by carelessness—which...
168361Enclosure: Francis Adrian Van der Kemp’s Synopsis of a Proposed Book, [ca. 1 November 1816] (Jefferson Papers)
Memoirs respecting the person and doctrine of J.C. compiled from S.S. Outlines Part. i Præliminarÿ discussions Developement of the general principles of nat: Religion. Inquirÿ in the authenticity of the S.S.—of the Jewish Religion writings — the lxx
168362John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 4 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Letter of Oct. 14 has greatly obliged me. Tracy s A a n alysis, I have read once; and wish to read it a Second time. It Shall be returned to you. But I wish to be informed whether this Gentleman is of that Family of Tracy s with which the Marquis La Fayette is connected by intermariages.? I have read, not only the Analysis, but Eight Volumes out of 12 of The origine de tous les Cultes,...
168363Benjamin Henry Latrobe to Thomas Jefferson, 5 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
When your letter of the 27 t of Aug t arrived, I was confined to my bed by a bilious fever. After my recovery two long absences from the city, and as much occupation as filled all my time, prevented my acknowledging the favor you have done me in communicating to me the very simple, & valuable invention it discribes . But what renders your letter more valuable, is the assurance it gives me of...
168364John Burke to Thomas Jefferson, 7 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Having suspended the publication of the “Virginia Argus” it becomes necessary for me, to call upon those indebted to the Establishment, for payment. Accompanying this, you have your account stated—Being desirous to close my business, you will much oblige me by remitting the amount by mail, or if more convenient, by some private conveyance. RC ( MHi ); printed circular, with portions filled in...
168365James Maury to Thomas Jefferson, 7 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
My last letter was of the 9 th Sep r 15. A State of war, for about twenty five years, appears to have so disqualified us for the sober habits of peace as to have occasioned great reverses in the affairs of many classes of persons in this country:—much so, even with the owners of the Soil; but, particularly, with merchants & Bankers, the failures of which last, I consider almost u n...
168366Thomas Jefferson’s Calculations of Latitude of Poplar Forest, 8 November–3 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Nov. 8. ° ′ ″ Nov. 9. ° ′ ″ Nov. 12. ° ′ ″ Nov. 13. ° ′ ″ Nov. 15.
168367Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge) to Martha Jefferson Randolph, [ca. 10 November 1816] (Jefferson Papers)
We were a good deal disappointed at not recieving letters from some of the family in the large pacquet which came to Grandpapa from Monticello ; one of the girls might have written to let us know that you were all well— Grandpapa We expect to be with you the last of the Month and in the mean time are making very good use of our time; I have got through the Syntax, & have finished Corderi ....
168368Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 10 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
We are all well here, my dear Martha , and thinking of our return home which will be about the 30 th or perhaps a day or two sooner. it is necessary therefore that the boys, Johnny & Randall shoul with the mules should set off from Monticello on the 19 th or 20 th to take the cart and baggage. I must pray you to desire mr Bacon
168369Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 11 [November] 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieve here (where I pass a good deal of my time) your favor of Oct. 22. covering a Prospectus of a new edition of your Olive branch : I subscribe to it with pleasure, because I believe it has done & will do much good, in holding up the mirror to both parties, and exhibiting to both their political errors. that I have had my share of them, I am not vain enough to doubt, and some indeed I...
168370Thomas Jefferson to William H. Crawford, 11 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieve here, where I pass much of my time, your favor of Oct. 28. and thank you for it’s kindness. the object of my adding this to the mass of your labors in letter-reading, is lest I should have been misunderstood in my application on behalf of mr Minor I proposed him as successor to Tho s J. Randolph , our collector who has resigned, or will immediately, and not as successor to mr...
168371Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Delaplaine, 11 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieve here your favor of Oct. 26. the half volume of the Repository is probably recieved at Monticello where it will await my return. the objections to your work appear to be perfectly answered in the pamphlet you have been so kind as to inclose me. you had a right certainly to chuse your own scale of biography more or less extended, and the shorter as merely an Appendix to your main...
168372Thomas Jefferson to Maximilian Godefroy, 11 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieve here your favor of Oct. 12. written from the Natural bridge , and am not at all surprised at the sensations expressed by you as produced by that great object, and the attachment excited. as a place of retirement and contemplation I know none in the world which would be so delightful, were not it’s solitude so incessantly interrupted by the curiosity of the world, and constant...
168373Thomas Jefferson to John Steele, 11 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved at this place (100. miles S.W. from Monticello ) your favor of Oct. 26. informing of the reciept of arti a cask of wine and a box from mr Cathalan , and of having forwarded them to Richmond , for which accept my thanks. I now inclose a 10.D. note of the bank of Virginia at Richmond which I understand pass at Philadelphia , to replace the duty and charges. the fraction need not be...
168374Thomas Jefferson to George Logan, 12 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved your favor of Oct. 16. at this place, where I pass much of my time, very distant from Monticello . I am quite astonished at the idea which seems to have got abroad; that I propose publishing something on the subject of religion. and this is said to have arisen from a letter of mine to my friend Charles Thompson , in which certainly there is no trace of such an idea. when we see...
168375Thomas Jefferson to William Wirt, 12 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of Oct. 23. was recieved here on the 31 st with the last sheets of your work. they found me engaged in a business which could not be postponed and have therefore been detained longer than I wished. on the subject of our antient aristocracy, I believe I have said nothing which all who knew them will not confirm, and which their reasonable descendants may not learn from every quarter. it...
168376Joseph Delaplaine to Thomas Jefferson, 13 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Upwards of a week ago your R N o of the Repository was sent by the Mail. I shall be glad to hear, if it is not giving you too much trouble, whether You have received it in a perfect state of preservation .— I am happy to inform you that the President has given me his opinion of the work. He also has done me the honour to send, in his own hand writing, the facts of his life .— My work is not,...
168377Thomas Jefferson to Wilson Cary Nicholas, 13 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to the Secretary of State on the subject of mr Arm i stead , and have recieved his assurance that if there is a vacancy, or should be one in any of the departments, he will exert himself to procure it. I wrote to him of preference, because more intimate with him than with any other of the heads of departments, and for a reason still more interesting, which I will explain to you as I...
168378Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture to Thomas Jefferson, 13 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
AT a Special Meeting of “ The Philadelphia Society for promoting Agriculture ,” held October (10th mo.) 30th, 1816, It was resolved, unanimously, T hat the Curators, with the assistance of the Secretary and Assistant Secretary, and any other Member or Members of the Society, who will procure and give information, collect facts relating to Agriculture and Horticulture, and of all circumstances...
168379Richard Rush to Thomas Jefferson, 13 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to offer many apologies for detaining so long the letters you were kind enough to put into my hands , and which I now return. When I got back from my short, though most pleasant and gratifying excursion as far as Monticello , I sent them on to Philadelphia . Intending to go there in the course of the autumn, I did not ask that they should be transmitted back to me, preferring to bring...
168380James Freeman to Thomas Jefferson, 14 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have lately returned to Boston , where I had the pleasure of finding the note of October the 10th , which you did me the honour to address to me. I still regret, as do all my friends here, that I had not the opportunity of hearing you speak. But I shall always remember with gratitude the hospitality of those members of your family, whom I had the satisfaction of seeing; and I rejoice in...
168381William Short to Thomas Jefferson, 16 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your kind letter of Octob: 14. was recieved here the 19 th the very day you fixed as that of your departure for Bedford to remain there until the 1 st of Dec:—I did not therefore attempt to answer it at the moment, as it would have remained at Monticello , until your return—And this I count will get there some time before you & recieve you at your debotter . I write thus early because I am...
168382Elisha Ticknor to Thomas Jefferson, 16 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
A few days ago I forwarded to you a second letter from my Son , and now have the pleasure to inclose to you another copy of the Invoice of your Books as received from him, with the amount of freight and duties, paid by me in this port, viz. D c Homerus 8 8vo th. 20,16/ =15. 50 Juvenalis 2 8vo 〃 6,04. 4. 50 Virgilius 4 8vo 〃
168383John Prout to Thomas Jefferson, 17 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Memoir. On a new invention for fertilizing the various products of the soil. Inscribed to the Honorable Thomas Jefferson , Imitate the Gods: say the priests of all nations. Imitate Nature: say the Enlightened, not interested in deceiving, nor disposed to live on the labor of others further than their services may merit. As a few precepts faithfully instilled by the Moral Teacher into the minds...
168384Joseph Delaplaine to Thomas Jefferson, 20 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this moment had the honour of receiving your obliging favour of the 11 instant dated at Poplar Forrest . I am much gratified to find you take so much interest in my work. No work that has ever been published in America , has been so much reviewed & criticised upon, so much censured & praised as the Repository. The Aurora & every other Newspaper in this City, and in different parts of...
168385Martha Jefferson Randolph to Thomas Jefferson, 20 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
We recieved your letters last night only, and the necessary preparations for the boy’s Journey would take up so much of the day that we determined not to send them till to morrow morning 21 st Wormley will see to every thing but the bulbous roots. the kinds you mention are all growing at present and could not be moved with out destroying them but I have sent you a number of off sets of tulips...
168386Thomas Jefferson to John Burke, 22 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Oct. 19. is just now recieved, and at this place. I have always had a standing request with mr Gibson to pay for the gazettes and Reviews recieved at Richmond , annually, as the accounts should be presented. under this arrangement the Argus has been paid for ever since I was a subscriber , and if you will have the goodness to present your bill to mr Gibson he will be so kind as...
168387Thomas Jefferson to Peter Derieux, 22 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I received last night only, and at this place, where I have been a month, your favor of Oct. 27. I return to Monticello in a few days, where I will avail myself of the first moments of leisure to send you a copy of mr Mazzei ’s will , praying you to accept in the mean time the assurances of my respect and esteem. PoC ( DLC ); on verso of reused address cover of Isaac H. Tiffany to TJ, 8 Aug....
168388Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 22 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been here about a month and shall now within a day or two set out on my return to Monticello . on winding up my here I find my debts amount to 222.D. which sum I recieve from mr Robertson , and draw for the same on you in his favor. I found on my arrival here that mr Yancey had preferred employing the teams in getting in the new crop sown, rather than in carrying the old to Lynchburg :...
168389Thomas Jefferson to Richard N. Thweatt, 22 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I received yesterday, and at this place, a letter from mr Edwin Starke of Norfolk of Oct. 30. when he had but just rec d one from me of Oct. 10. in which he informs me he had forwarded a box recieved for me from Europe to yourself at Petersburg to be forwarded to Monticello . I regret this terrible mistake of mr Starke in the geography of Monticello
168390Joseph Delaplaine to Thomas Jefferson, 23 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have already had the honour of answering Your obliging favour dated at Poplar Forrest Forest . The Biographer , under my inspection, is busily engaged in preparing a sketch of your life for my National work. As soon as circumstances will permit, I shall be happy to receive your candid opinion of the Repository. I beg you not to be scrupulous or delicate. I desire to profit by your remarks &...
168391John Melish to Thomas Jefferson, 23 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the pleasure of presenting You with a Copy of my new map and Description of the United States and Contiguous Countries, which I respectfully Submit to Your attention. As it is the first map that professes to give a display of all that is known of Louisiana , in Connection with the United States , it will probably be gratifying to You who Contributed so much towards procuring that very...
168392Horatio G. Spafford to Thomas Jefferson, 23 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
After a long delay, occasioned by adverse events, I Send thee, by this day’s mail , another No. of the American Magazine. The Essay, partially read by thee, concerning the establishing a New School at Washington , & new modeling the Patent system of the United States , is in type, & will be published in a few days. I am in hopes this Paper will engage the attention of the Administration. In 3...
168393Thomas Jefferson to Elizabeth Trist, 23 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Oct. 10. travelled to Monticello , thence to Richmond , thence to Lynchburg , and came to me here on the same day with one of the same date from Gen l Clarke at S t Louis . this must apologise for a late answer, as it’s finding me in the act of packing up for my return must for a short one. as far as I am acquainted with the colleges and academies of the
168394Thomas Jefferson to DeWitt Clinton, 24 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the copy of your discourse which you have been so kind as to send me, and have read with pleasure the luminous view you have presented of the value of the Fine arts in human society. the example of Athens which you adduce, is certainly a weighty one, shewing the splendor to which they raised so small a territory & within so short a period of time. I rejoice to see the spirit of...
168395Thomas Jefferson to George Logan, 24 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieve your favor of Nov. 1. here, as I am about setting out on my return to Monticello for the winter. the specimen of flax from S r John Sinclair is exquisite. we have learned from the newspapers that a new method of preparing flax has been discovered in England . I presume this is an example. about 25. years ago S r John Sinclair sent me a specimen of
168396Thomas Jefferson to Francis Adrian Van der Kemp, 24 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieve your favor of Nov. 1. at this place at which I make occasionally a temporary residence; and I have perused with great satisfaction the magnificent skeleton you inclose me of what would indeed be a compleat Encyclopedia of Christian philosophy. it’s execution would require a Newton in physics a Locke in metaphysics, and one who to a possession of all history, adds a judgment and...
168397Charles Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 24 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have always conceived it my duty when in the legislature , to give You all the information I could & Should have written to You, before now, but Seeing Stenographers Admited within the Bar of our house I thought it useless as You Could be More fully informed by the papers. I expect from the present temper of our house , Some more Banks, to the west, will be Chartered. we have upwards of 100...
168398Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 25 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieve here, dear Sir, your favor of the 4 th just as I am preparing my return to Monticello for winter quarters; and I hasten to answer to some of your enquiries. the Tracy I mentioned to you is the one connected by marriage with La Fayette ’s family. the mail which brought your letter brought one also from him . he writes me that he is become blind & so infirm that he is no longer able to...
168399Joseph Dougherty to Thomas Jefferson, 25 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
While in Washington you received excellent cider from virginia —from Whom—or, from what part of the State I do not now recollect. as I am in the habit of bottling, and Selling the best of liquors—it would be an adva n tage to me to have such as you formerly had while President of the U.S. You will sir (in addition to numberless other favours) much oblige me by giving me the names, and...
168400George Flower’s Account of a Visit to Poplar Forest and Natural Bridge, [25–28 November 1816] (Jefferson Papers)
Monday 24 25 Nov. 1816 Took a parting glass of Toddy with my travelling companions and rode to Poplar Forest F M r Jefferson was at home and two Miss Randolphs his grand’ trs Tuesday 23 25 —