48361From Thomas Jefferson to Sampson Crosby, 15 September 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of July 28 . came duly to hand, and since that I have recieved the box containing Dunlap’s and Bache’s volumes for 1794. and the two volumes of Genl. Washington’s letters . As I am anxious to continue to recieve those newspapers at the end of the year, bound up, perhaps it would be better to bespeak them now for the present year, to be laid by till the close of the year in the...
48362To James Madison from William Willis, 11 October 1804 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 11 October 1804. Described in Daniel Brent to Willis, 23 Oct. 1804 (DNA: RG 59, DL, vol. 14), as inquiring into the status of Willis’s accounts. Brent told Willis that his account had been adjusted at the Treasury and that a draft for the $214.81 balance due would be transmitted to him in Boston.
48363To Thomas Jefferson from George Jefferson, 15 March 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly received your favor of the 5th. inclosing 1000$, with which I have taken up your dft in favor of Craven Peyton for that sum. the box you mention after the most shameful neglect was sent to Norfolk to be forwarded on to Washington. I hope it has before this arrived there. The iron from Phila. has arrived. the Wine from Baltimore has not. I am Dear Sir Yr. Very humble servt. RC ( MHi );...
48364To James Madison from William Pope, 31 October 1808 (Madison Papers)
As you are now very busily employed in your official duties; which increases as Congress approaches, it is the duty of your friends; who have more leasure to give you the State of parties (if I may use the term) Since you left Virginia; which I trust will not be unacceptable to you, particularly when you hear, that the Madisonian Ticket is all the Ton with us, as it is throughout the...
48365To Benjamin Franklin from John Paradise and William Jones, 1 June 1779 (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society Mr. Paradise and Mr. Jones present their best respects to Dr. Franklin. Being informed that the King’s passport was absolutely necessary for them to go out of France, they sent to Versailles for that purpose, and have just received the enclosed answer. May they trouble his Excellency to insert in his passport what they seem to want namely, that Mr. Paradise...
48366To Thomas Jefferson from George Jefferson & Company, 25 January 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 14th. instant enclosing a note of Mr. Barnes’s for $500. to be taken up by Mr. Hopkins, came to hand by last post. Mr. H. is out of Town, and the note is therefore not accepted; but that will make no difference, as it will be paid in the same manner as if it had. The draught you mention shall be duly attended to. We have heard nothing yet of the Anvil Vice & beak Iron,...
48367Adam Hodgson’s Account of a Visit to Monticello, [17 June 1820] (Jefferson Papers)
———. I fear , however, that I am leaving no room for an account of my very interesting visit to Monticello . I went nearly 25 miles out of my way to obtain a letter of introduction to Mr. Jefferson , from his friend, Judge ——, of Staunton , to whom I was recommended by the late amiable and very popular Governor of the State of Mississippi . On the 18th instant , I left Hayes’s tavern , at the...
48368From Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Banks, 30 November 1783 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : British Library; press copy of ALS : Harvard University Library I did myself the honour of writing to you the Beginning of last Week, and I sent you by the Courier, M. Faujas’s Book upon the Balloons, which I hope you have receiv’d. I did hope to have given you to day an Account of Mr Charles’s grand Balloon, which was to have gone up yesterday; but the filling it with inflammable Air...
48369To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 30 January 1821 (Madison Papers)
The inclosed letter to mr. Cabell so fully explains it’s object, and the grounds on which your signature to the paper is proposed if approved, that I will spare my stiffening & aching wrist the pain of adding more than the assurance of my constant & affectte. friendship. We the subscribers, visitors of the University of Virginia being of opinion that it will be to the interest of that...
48370To Thomas Jefferson from Elbridge Gerry and Others, 23 August 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
We have the honor of addressing this by our worthy friend, the honorable Mr. Sayre, who was formerly Sheriff of London. The active part, which at the commencement of the revolution, he took in favor of America, is, we presume, too well known to you, to require a relation: and the loss he sustained, in consequence of his opposition to the british ministry, is not less a matter of general...
48371From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Carroll, 4 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Brown having agreed to settle our balance at £21. 16s. 9d. sterling principal and interest, I have acceded in order to be done with it. Since you have been so good as to be privy to this whole matter, I take the liberty of sending my last letter on the subject, open, through your hands, that you may see that I have been grounded in my belief that I owed nothing, a belief that is still...
48372Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah A. Goodman, 11 March 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
The blockade of the Chesapeak having sunk the price of flour to 7. Bar Dollars , for which I am not disposed to sacrifice mine, and being desirous that my debts in your neighborhood therefore should not be put off for that sale, I have this day written to mr Harrison of Lynchburg to pay you 250.D. on the 7 th of April , and I have countermanded the directions
48373To Benjamin Franklin from Louis-Pierre Dufourny de Villiers, 8 December 1779 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Une Personne que je désirerois obliger, m’a consulté sur l’employ qu’elle pourroit faire de Papiers-monnoye des Etats-unis d’Amérique dont elle a pour une somme considérable. En faisant une grande diminution elle a trouvé un acquéreur: mais celuy cy veut s’assurer que les Papiers proposes ne sont pas contrefaits et sur ce qu’on luy a dit que l’Etalon (ou...
48374Thomas Jefferson to Charles Willson Peale, 18 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Jan. 15. is recieved, and I am indebted to you for others; but the torpitude of increasing years, added to a stiffening wrist making writing a slow & painful operation, makes me also a slow correspondent. I promised you a plough so long ago that I dare say you have forgot it: but I have this day sent it to Richmond to be forwarded to you. I claim nothing in it but the mould board...
48375From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 31 October 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
The rent we proposed for the Indiana lead mine was 2/10 of 3. years’ produce = 6/10 of 1. years produce for 5. years’ occupation: and 1/10 of 5. years produce = 5/10 of 1. year’s produce for 5. year’s occupation is the option you propose. there can be but one objection to it, that is, the effect which a rent of 1/10 annually might have in lowering the future rents permanently. from the...
48376To John Jay from Benjamin Vaughan, 12 October 1789 (Jay Papers)
Inclosed I trouble you with a bill of lading for some goods for Yale College, ordered by D r . Price, & intended I believe to be consigned to a Col. Broome; but the clerk who has the directions being suddenly taken ill, & this opportunity going sooner than I was made to expect, I have no remedy but that adopted. Particulars will go by the next ship to the proper parties.— If my brother should...
48377From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Coombe, Jr., 22 July 1774 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Yale University Library; draft: American Philosophical Society I received with great Pleasure you[rs of] May 15. as it inform’d me of your Hea[lth, and Hap]piness. I thank you for your Sermons [which I] read with Satisfaction: I am glad that [of my good] Bishop’s pleas’d you. I enclose a Speech [of his,] on the same Subject. It is deem’d here a [Master-piece] of Eloquence. I send also...
48378From Thomas Jefferson to the Virginia Delegates in Congress, 7 February 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
The Courier d’Europe a vessel from Penet & Coy. [Company] having on board military stores for this state was chased into Boston by the enemy in the Summer of 1779. They were principally Artillery Stores, too bulky and heavy for us to think of bringing them on by land. By the loss of our papers we are unable to furnish an invoice of them but they are in the hands of a Mr. J. Bradford in Boston...
48379Thomas Jefferson to John Tyler, 26 May 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your friendly letter of the 12 th has been duly recieved. altho I have laid it down as a law to myself, never to embarras the President with my sollicitations, and have not till now broken thro’ it, yet I have made a part of your letter the subject of one to him, and have done it with all my heart, and in the full belief that I serve him and the public in urging that appointment. we have long...
48380To George Washington from Brigadier General John Paterson, 28 October 1778 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency has been informed that my Brigade, have had a larger & better supply of cloathing, than any of the other Massachusetts Brigades —The Regiments in my Brigade, have not had more cloaths than the Others. Last spring they had a supply of cloathing, at the same time with the other Brigades, which is the only time they have had any, since they have been in service, all the Westcoats...
48381From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 18 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
Pay to the Director of the Mint the within sum of sixteen hundred dollars—and also the further sum of one thousand dollars for the purposes of that establishment. LB , DLC:GW . An asterisk at this point refers to the following copy of an account from David Rittenhouse of 17 March, which appears at the bottom of this letter. Expenses of the Mint for the present quarter, ending Mar. 31. 1794. ...
48382Election Results in Philadelphia County, 1764 [1–3 October 1764] (Franklin Papers)
AD : American Philosophical Society The county elections for members of the Assembly and for local officers took place on Monday, Oct. 1, 1764, and those for representatives from the city on the following day. Both parties put up full tickets for election to the Assembly. The “Old Ticket” (representing what was often called the Quaker Party) supported for county representatives Isaac Norris,...
48383[Diary entry: 13 June 1771] (Washington Papers)
13. At the same place as yesterday & on the same business till Dinner. Colo. Fairfax & Lady dined here.
48384From James Madison to Albert Gallatin (Abstract), 1 February 1805 (Madison Papers)
1 February 1805, Department of State . “I request you to be pleased to issue a warrant for three hundred dollars on the appropriation for the contingent expenses of the Indiana Territory in favor of Wm. Whann, the holder of the enclosed bill drawn upon me by W. H. Harrison on the 14th. of Decr. last for the same sum: Govr. Harrison to be charged with the same & held accountable.” Letterbook...
48385From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Quincy Adams, 3 August 1806 (Adams Papers)
I arrived here yesterday after a very fatiguing journey but find my health tolerably good Your Sister is in charming health and spirits and I think looks better than I ever saw her Capt Hull on his arrival here recieved new orders and is uncertain about going on to Newport however as Mrs Smith insists on our staying here untill after Commencement I hope we shall if he should not proceed be...
48386To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Dougherty, 16 August 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I Recd. your second Letter yesterday morn. the preceding evening the box containing the other articles went on in the stage. The present not which is here inclosed is not described so as Mrs. Andrews can understand it so well as to do the work She wishes me to return it to you to describe more plain the number of feet &c. The family here is all well the flesh and beauty of your riding horse is...
48387To George Washington from Robert Morris, 29 August 1782 (Washington Papers)
I am to request your Excellency that out of the Sums which may come to your Hands in the Manner already mentioned, You will endeavour after making the Payments of which I informed you in a former Letter, to transmit three thousand Dollars more to Mr Duer at Albany. I am Sir with great Respect, Your Excellency’s Most Obedient & Humble Servant DLC : Papers of George Washington.
48388From Benjamin Franklin to Félix Vicq d’Azyr, 1 March 1784 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Académie Nationale de Médecine, Paris I should be very happy to be present at the Reading of your Eloges of Messrs Sanchez & Hunter; but my Indisposition, the Stone, makes it extreamly inconvenient to me to use a Carriage on the Pavement, or to be confined long in a Room, so that I cannot have the Pleasure you propose to me so kindly of meeting the Society whom I highly respect, on...
48389To James Madison from Matthew Walton, 11 September 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
11 September 1812 , “ Prince Edwd .” Expresses his opinion that William Hull’s name should be “wiped off the records Except so far as to shew his Cawardese.” Believes that Hull would have surrendered even if given more troops, but “less than 15000 Men aught not to invade upper Cannedy & not less than 25 or 30 aught to invade Lower Kannedy & those men aught be well supplied with every thing...
48390To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 24 August 1803 (Madison Papers)
Your two favors of the 18th. & 20th. were recieved on the 21st. The letters of Livingston & Monroe are sent to mr. Gallatin as you proposed. That of Simpson to mr. Smith for the purpose of execution. All of them will be returned. Thornton’s, Clarke’s, Charles Pinckney’s, Graham’s, Appleton’s, Davis’s, Mitchell’s, Newton’s, & Derieux’ letters are now inclosed. With respect to the impressment of...