28301To James Madison from Peter Carr, 29 January 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
29 January 1803, Richmond. Introduces William Brockenbrough, a member of the Virginia executive council, who is visiting Washington “for a few weeks.” He is a man “of real talents, and great worth.” RC ( DLC ). 1 p.
28302To Thomas Jefferson from Peter Carr, 1 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
My silence hitherto has proceeded from a supposition that you had little leisure to attend to any thing but the duties of your office and I learn from Colo. Monroe that this supposition has been well founded. My time since your departure has been employed principally in the study of the law following the course you marked out. The evenings have been divided between History, Philosophy, and...
28303Peter Carr to Thomas Jefferson, 2 February 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
My inexorable rheumatism still confines me, and has for the last three weeks bound me hand and foot. A violent ague and fever superadded, has reduced me to a state of debility never before experienced. I am beginning today to take the warm bath, from which I hope for beneficial effects. If I weather this storm , I must endeavour to spend the next winter, in some milder climate. my Phisician...
28304To Thomas Jefferson from Peter Carr, 24 October 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
My mother desires me to intimate to you, that there are several very pressing claims against her, which she has given assurances shall be discharged in january next. By something in one of your last letters, she hoped it would have been in your power, to furnish her with the means; if it should, a line upon the subject would be satisfactory to my mother. We all here wish you a good journey and...
28305To Thomas Jefferson from Peter Carr, 28 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you some time in December last, from Richmond, but am informed by Mrs. Randolph that the letter has not been received. I am sorry for this on one account principally. I wished to have your approbation to a measure, which I had in contemplation respecting some negroes, formerly claimed as my property under my Grandfather’s will. Your opinion with respect to the right I knowe—tis only...
28306To Thomas Jefferson from Peter Carr, 30 December 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
A Ship being about to sail for Paris: I embrace the oppertunity of informing you (by Her) of my situation, and progress in Literature, since I wrote you last.—I left the grammar school in April last; In consequence of a polite and Friendly invitation given me by Mr. Wythe, to go through a course of reading with him; And as He thought it improper to begin in the middle of a course of Lectures,...
28307To James Madison from Peter Carr, 13 July 1789 (Madison Papers)
You informed me some time ago, that there remained in your hands a balance of some money due Mr. Jefferson, and that you were willing it should be applied to the use of my brother and myself. Being disappointed in receiving money which I had expected here you will oblige me much, by advancing what is in Yr. hands. I am Sir Yr. very H Servt RC ( DLC ). Addressed by Carr. Docketed by JM. Perhaps...
28308To Thomas Jefferson from Peter Carr, 20 April 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
I am very sorry to tell you I have lost a great deal of time since you left Virginia. It has been sometimes for the want of horses and sometimes for the want of money, so that I have made but little progress. I am at this time reading Horace and Homer, and Mr. Maury, with whom I have been about a week, thinks I may go to the University about this time, twelvemonth, if I will exert myself, and...
28309To James Madison from Peter Carr, 17 March 1813 (Madison Papers)
The news-papers have informed us of the death of Mr. Barlow, late minister to France. We have not yet heard whether any successor has been nominated, but suppose, in the critical state of our affairs with that power, no unnecessary delay will take place in making the appointment. I do not know whether it has been usual to attach to the embassy a Secretary of Legation: I remember in one...
28310Peter Carr to Thomas Jefferson, [received 7 April 1814] (Jefferson Papers)
The young gentleman, who will hand you this, is a son of my particular friend D r John D Orr , of Jefferson County . He is at present, a student with M r Girardin , and is very anxious to see Monticello and it’s inhabitants. Permit me to ask y r attention to him RC ( ViU :