56761From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 27 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
I recd. on monday evening your favor of Mar. 23. with the return of Armstrong’s & Monroe’s letters first sent you. I cannot entirely despair that Spain notwithstanding the support given by France to her claim to W. F. may yield to our propo<s>ed arrangement, partly from its intrinsic value to her, partly from an apprehension of the interference of G.B; and that this latter consider [ sic ]...
56762To Thomas Jefferson from Maria Hadfield Cosway, 10 October 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
It is very difficult to give up some friends, tho’ time goes apace with distance, we cannot forget those we have once highly esteem’d. It is so seldom I have an oportunity of enquiring whether I am forgoten tho’ the reasons are not the same to be rememberd. The Brother of a Lady who lives with me, Mr: Philippe is going to America and I have ask’d him to take this short letter not to be...
56763Petition from the Inhabitants of Kaskaskia, 4 May 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
Kaskaskias, 4 May 1781 . Humbly profess their loyalty and services to George Rogers Clark, against whom they have no complaint, though the paper money with which he paid them has been found valueless. But Col. John Montgomery, who succeeded him, was not satisfied with the 60,000 lbs. of flour furnished by the inhabitants for his 38 troops between the fall of 1779 and May 1780, ordered his men...
56764To Thomas Jefferson from the Rev. James Madison, 10 February 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your Favour of July last as well as the valuable Books you were so good as to send to the Care of Mr. Wythe. I cannot sufficiently express the obligations I feel myself under for these continued Marks of your Kindness. The Books were such as have afforded me the greatest Entertainment as well as Instruction. Fourcroy’s Chymistry was a great Acquisition to me, especially as he...
56765To Thomas Jefferson from Philip Mazzei, 15 December 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Appleton mi recò la sua dei 18 Luglio, anno corrente, che mi consolò, e maravigliò. I motivi della consolazione furon molti, ed Ella non ò bisogno che Le sien detti. La maraviglia nacque dal vedere un foglio da lettera dei più grande tutto pieno , riflettendo alla faraggine degli importantissimi affari, addossati a chi la scrisse. Le due ragioni da Lei addotte per ritirarsi quasi affatto...
56766To Thomas Jefferson from John Barnes, 7 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your esteemed favr. 28th. Ulto., recd the 1st Instant—with the several paymts. to be made at Norfolk, Alexandria and Philada. together—with the few remaining debits here, including the Necessary disbursemts. of Househd: &c. see—sketch . inclosed […] shall be pointedly Attended to. —of course, on a present View of my Finances, I find, it will be Absolutely Necessary for me—to defer my setting...
56767To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Pinckney, 10 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
This will convey to you the assurance of my sincere regret on being informed by your favor of the 8th. of November that you purpose relinquishing your situation at the head of the department of State. I truly lament the loss the public will suffer from your retirement but I must confess myself selfish enough to feel most sensibly the apprehension of the removal of those kind attentions and...
56768To Thomas Jefferson from William Davies, 8 March 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
I gave immediate orders to Captain Brown of the artillery, and he will instantly set out for Hood’s. By some mismanagement the orders for Captain Brown’s continuance at Richmond are now somewhere in that town, and he knew nothing of them till he came here. I am under obligations to your Excellency for your ready attention to my information on the complaint of Mattinly. The papers you have...
56769To Thomas Jefferson from Abigail Adams Smith, 11 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I received last week the enclosed Letter addressed to you under Cover to Mr. Smith, and from the Contents of Mr. Smiths Letter (of which I enclose you a Copy), I concluded to keep it till his return. But this Morning the Bill of which the enclosed is a Copy was presented by the House of Smith, Bright, and Gray, for acceptance, which induces me to forward your Excellencys Letter and Copies of...
56770To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Thompson, 2 May 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope your excellency will excuse my presumption in addressing you which I should not have done only an Idea occurred to me which I think will meet with your approbation it is the surveying of our coast for which congress made an appropriation last Session It occurred to me that if one of the small vessels lying at the navy yard in this city was fitted out and the officers who are not in...
56771To Thomas Jefferson from Jonathan Thompson, 17 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
By the mail of this day I rec d a check from the Cashier of the Bank of Virginia for six hundred & fifty eight Dollars & 32/100 being a remittance by request of the Proctor of the University of Virginia. & in full of the balance due me for duties & freight of marble. ViU : Thomas Jefferson Papers (Proctor’s Papers).
56772To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 31 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I take up my pen to thank you for the trouble you have taken in all my affairs and to assure you I am greatly obliged to you for the liberty I took in using your Name in the Power of Attorney I sent to you. In consiquence of the Great Distance you live from Williamsburg I have sent out a Power of Attorney to My Nephew Mr. Wm Ludwell Lee Mr. Ambler and Mr P. Harriss to Act for Me and to call in...
56773John Mantz to Thomas Jefferson, 28 May 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
My Son who now resides with M r Elijah Brown will hand you this and would be glad to know how you where pleased with the side Leather Tanned in wood I sent you in 1821 —and Should you want leather Upper Tanned in the Same Manner of a Supperior quality than the side sent you for your pl people please let me know and I will forward the Same to you by M r Brown s waggon at a Moderate price—and...
56774To Thomas Jefferson from Daniel Smith, 9 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
“ Southwestern Territory, At Mr. Cobbs,” 9 Dec. 1791 . In Blount’s absence, acknowledges receipt of TJ’s to him of 22 Aug. 1791, “which was so much delayed on its passage that it never came to hand ‘till 8th. Nov. last.”—The information requested about Davidson county claims amount to 407,780 acres, which includes all allowable under the law of North Carolina except a few remaining preemption...
56775To Thomas Jefferson from Barnabas Bidwell, 28 July 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your obliging letter of July 5th. has remained thus long unacknowledged from other causes than disrepsect or insensibility. It gave me pleasure to learn that information from London continues to furnish hopes of a favourable termination of our British negociations. A treaty seems to be generally expected. Many of our friends, in my opinion, have expected too much from it. I have taken the...
56776John P. Boyd to Thomas Jefferson, 7 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me the honour of soliciting your perusal of the enclosd Documents and Facts, relative to the Military conduct of an Officer, who proudly Acknowledges your former patronage. RC ( MHi ); endorsed by TJ as received 16 May 1816 and so recorded in SJL . RC ( MHi ); address cover only; with PoC of TJ to Charles Willson Peale, 17 Aug. 1816 , on verso; addressed: “Thomas Jefferson Esq...
56777To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 19 April 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The Mail of last evening brought me your favor of the 15th. with the papers sent back with it. I shall forbear using your Blank for an exequatur till I can again confer with Mr. Pichon who is at Baltimore. The sending on the intercepted presents to the Porte would certainly be a handsome & politic expression of respect for the Grand Seignor, who otherwise may be thrown by his displeasure into...
56778To Thomas Jefferson from Walter Ruding Deverell, 19 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
If the office of Librarian at the University be not yet appropriated, I beg to say that it would afford me very great pleasure to accept it. The emolument that may accrue is not the motive of my application for it; but the kind of employment is that for which I have ever had a peculiar predilection.—My knowledge of languages, and other qualifications, are I believe sufficient for the purpose:...
56779Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Thomas G. Watkins, [1822–23] (Jefferson Papers)
Th. Jefferson Esq r To T. G. Watkins 1822 to 1823. Visit reducing fractured arm & attendance for the cure & c old rule, £5.0.0 Equal to $ 16.67. MS ( DLC: TJ Papers , 225:40256); in Watkins’s hand and with his notation of “9.” in upper right corner; undated; docketed by Watkins: “
56780To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 4 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your much esteem d of the 30th: ulto: reach d me last evening, & I have this morning procured the Vinegar & Corks you order, which shall go by first Waggon, together with 5 Boxes of Books & aperatus, for the University, just to hand, from London, via New York— We have accounts of the sailing of the Competitor, on the 17 th of December, from Plymouth, for V a , so that she may be expected about...
56781Joseph Delaplaine and Murray, Draper, Fairman & Company to Thomas Jefferson, 25 February 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
We should derive peculiar gratification from receiving your name as a subscriber to our edition of Macklin’s Bible . Permit us to express our hopes that you will honor us with your name on this occasion. Joseph Delaplaine , & Murray, Draper, Fairman & C o RC ( DLC ); in Delaplaine’s hand and signed by him; addressed (clipped): “ Virginia ”; endorsed by TJ as received 3 Mar. 1813 and so...
56782To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Allyne Otis, 5 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeably to your request I return your message of 24th, having the permission of the V President & of the chairman of the committee to whom it was referred. You will have the goodness to return it to me when you have made such alteration as you may judge proper I have the honor to be very respectfully your most humble Sert DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
56783To Thomas Jefferson from James Currie, 9 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of troubling you with this line by Mr. Greenup just to remind you of (as soon as matters of more consequence will permit) my affair with Griffin, to have it if possible brought to a speedy and favorable issue, being much afraid that some Chicanery has, or will be, practised, to defraud me of justice ultimately I conceive Your particular enquiry […] which you was kind enough...
56784To Thomas Jefferson from Littleton Dennis Teackle, 12 June 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
You will probably have seen in the publick prints, that An association has been formed, to conduct a work on Political Œconomy, with intent to discover the causes which have Operated to retard the progress of our prosperity, & to endeavour to illustrate the proper measures of amelioration—The assistance of Many scientifick Gentlemen has been freely offered, & the Society will venture to hope...
56785From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 15 September 1784 (Madison Papers)
In pursuance of my intentions as explained in my last dated in Philada. I came to this City on saturday last. The information I have here recd. convinces me that I can not accomplish the whole route I had planned within the time to which I am limited, nor go from this to Boston in the mode which I had reckoned upon. I shall therefore decline this part of my plan, at least for the present, &...
56786To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Gantt, 11 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
You mentioned to Day that you had furnished Mr. Smith with Dr. Jenner’s Observations on the Origen of the Vaccine Virus. As Doctr. Mitchell requests in the inclosed, that You may be informed that the Virus may be obtained in this Country, I have sent you his Memorandum; which perhaps you may think a necessary Communication, to accompany what may be inserted in the Washington Intelligencer. I...
56787To Thomas Jefferson from the Commissioners of Accounts for the States, 13 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
We have to Request that we may be furnished with an authenticated Copy of the last enumeration in Conformity to the Sixth Section of the act of Congress pass’d the 5th: Augst: 1790, entitled An Act to provide more effectually for the settlement of the Accounts between the United States and the Individual States. We have the Honor to be sir Your Obedt: hble: servts RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); in a...
56788To Thomas Jefferson from Ahmad Qaramanli, 8 June 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Mi fa sperare il nuovo Console, che per li buoni offici, da lui praticati presso l’usurpatore del mio Regno di Tripoli, abbia o tten uto la promessa di restituirsi a me la mia Famiglia, eccettuando le fi glie maritate, siccome io lo avea prevenuto. Da così buon principio posso augurarmi, che si otterranno le altre dimande da me giu st amente avanzate, non solamente per avere qualche compenso...
56789Henry Dearborn to Thomas Jefferson, 31 August 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Knowing me so well as you do, you could not have contemplated my present situation, and especially at my time of life, no one better knows my deficiencies for my present situation than your self, the very perticular and flatering manner that my nomination, and notification of it was made, opperated as the strongest inducement for my accepting the appointment. it being intirely unsought and...
56790Martha A. C. Lewis Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, 6 August 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Some time has elapsed since we have been favoured with a line from you, or indeed any of our friends, except My Father , Feeling quite anxious to hear from you, And at the same time knowing it to be my duty to write to you as an Uncle I take the liberty of forwarding a few lines by My friend. Yea and a friend to Mankind M r Woods who has promised to deliver it himself I have written Cousin...