183151To Thomas Jefferson from Armand Duplantier, 19 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
peu de tems apres La date de votre Lettre du 9 juillet, qui m’est parvenus dernierement, vous avez du reçevoir Celle que j ai eu L’honneur de vous écrire en reponse à la votre du 29. avril. je vous ai exposé dans cette Lettre La véritable situation ou je me trouve rélativement à La Collocation des terres de Mr. de La fayette. Convaincu que C’eut été mal servir ces interets, que de me hater de...
183152From Thomas Jefferson to Elizabeth Wayles Eppes, 19 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I expected mr Eppes would have passed this way on his return from the springs, or I should not have been thus long in expressing to you my sincere sympathies on the loss of our dear friend. your sorrows indeed must be of an higher order: but for no one living had I a more brotherly affection; and a renewal of intercourse with him yourself & family, was one of the objects which brightened most...
183153To Thomas Jefferson from James Philip Puglia, 19 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Impressed with the observation you were pleased to make in your esteemed Note to me of the 24th June last, supposing the Party of Anti-embargoists too numerous in the commercial Cities to suffer their uncivism to be blazoned on the Stage ; I immediately undertook to write the Double Disappointment anticipated at the End of the Embargo , the Copy of which I have now the honor to forward to you—...
183154To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Harrison Smith, 19 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeably to your instructions I have had 50 Copies of the Paper enclosed to be printed, wch. are forwarded by this day’s mail. You will excuse their not being pressed, there not having been time to have it done. I am with great and sincere Respect DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
183155From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Bruff, 20 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 14th. was recieved by our last post, and as I shall be in Washington within a week after your reciept of this, I would rather defer answering it until I am in a situation to do it on full consideration & advisement. wishing you sincerely success in both the enterprises stated in your letter I salute you with esteem & respect. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
183156To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Attwood Digges, 20 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg Your forgiveness for intruding on You the enclosed Letter to Mr Brodie, which I suppose of some consequence to Mr Brodie as comeing from His Family by the last British Packet. Should He not be at monticello be pleasd to return it back to me. The Fort progress’s towards its completion of its heavy wall work and begins to shew a handsome River front.—I have my dayly vexations about it as...
183157From Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 20 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 5th. mentioning that you should be at Eppington till the 14th. & then proceed to Cumberland did not get here till the 15th. it had either been put into the post-office at Richmond after the mail hour, or loitered there a week. I thank you for your attention to the purchase of a horse. I now send for him, & the bearer goes first to Cumberland, & if yourself or the horse...
183158From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 20 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of Sep. 10. & 14. were recieved yesterday, and my time being brief, my answer must be so. Brig Betsy, & the Aurora. the first having put back by stress of weather & inevitable necessity, ought, I think, to be permitted to sail again; but not so the Aurora which put back merely because the Captain was a fool. they have lost their chance by their own folly, and have no claim to be...
183159To Thomas Jefferson from George Jefferson, 20 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I am very sorry that I have not been able to meet with an opportunity of forwarding the 100 ℔s of muscovado sugar.—it has been held in readiness ever since the receipt of your letter. As the boats have now to land at the broken part of the canal, which is about a mile above the basin, I apprehended I might not have the Same chance of meeting with opportunities as formerly, and therefore...
183160From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 20 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 11th. was recieved on the 15th. but too much other business having made it impossible to answer by the return of that post, I avail myself of the first afterwards to say that as I propose to set out for Washington in a week I will defer concluding about fixing up the court room for the Senate till I see you in Washington. this will not occasion more than a week’s delay, and you...