67861[To Thomas Jefferson from Patrick St. Laurence, 6 February 1781] (Jefferson Papers)
Richmond, 6 Feb. 1781 . Having taken to the southward a quantity of iron and steel “purchased at Headquarters for the use of the public” at the cost of £31,141, and having, in the expectation of prompt payment of this sum by the state treasury, agreed to return with three wagonloads of dry goods for the troops, St. Laurence desires of TJ a special order to the treasury for payment of the...
67862John Wickham to Thomas Jefferson, 16 May 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Having been called on this day, unexpectedly and without any previous Intimation, to institute an action in the Federal Court against You in Behalf of M r Edward Livingston , and being specially instructed to have the process returnable to the next Term which commences on the 22 d Inst. , I have this Day put the process into the Hands of the marshal .— From motives of respect I should have...
67863Chapman Johnson to Thomas Jefferson, [5 August 1818?] (Jefferson Papers)
C. Johnson presents his respects to M r Jefferson , and asks the favor of him to drink tea with him this evening. RC ( DLC: TJ Papers , 213:38059); with Dft of TJ to Thomas Cooper, 7 Aug. 1818 , on verso; partially dated; addressed: “ M r Jefferson . Present.” This note was probably written during TJ’s brief stay at Staunton
67864To Thomas Jefferson from James Slaughter, 11 April 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
In consequence of your Letter to Colo. Barbour I have marched with the number of Militia you were pleased to order from Culpeper amounting to 350 rank and file, proper Offercered on my way to Williamsburg, where we were ordered to rendezvouse. I this day received instructions from General Weedon to change my rout to Sandy point on James River, and from thence to General Mughlenburgs...
67865To Thomas Jefferson from Maria M. Derieux, 30 June 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
As M r Lancaster my Son-in-Law & Administrator of M r Derieux decease’d. Is desirous to see all papers any way’s connected with those he left? Will you be so kind as to lend me for a few Day’s M r Mazzei Will? I’l copy it & return it safe. That Favour will greatly Oblige Sir Please to Derect to me to the Care of Mes s Lancaster & Denby Merchents Richmond MHi .
67866To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 20 October 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
The Inscription on my Friend Potclays Badge would be a most delightful Morsel for a Member of the Antiquarian Society, or a Member of the Society [of] Inscriptions and Belles Lettres; and had it not been too soon submitted to the Examination of the Connoiseurs of our Society might have been thereafter deposited in our Museum, and numbered amongst the most Precious of our Curiosities. For I...
67867To Thomas Jefferson from William Thomson, 10 July 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of transmitting to you, Sir, by this days mail, the first pages of a little work, which I have undertaken to write in the midst of professional labors & great bodily infirmity—In doing this I am well aware, that I should subject myself in the estimation of some, to the imputation of gratifying my own vanity, at the expence of your time & trouble in glancing over, this...
67868Joseph 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...
67869John Barnes to Thomas Jefferson, 24 May 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your very Acceptable fav r of the 8 th with its several inclosures, came safe to hand 21 Ins t viz The two Certificates of the 20 shares of P. B. Stock with power of Att y and duplicate thereof, as well yr letters to the Sect y of State & Treasury ,—sealed & presented yesterday—with Assurances that soon as the Momentous Crisis of
67870To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Hopkinson, 14 April 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Favour of the 23d. Dec. came to Hand yesterday. I have but just Time to notice the several Articles you mention in the order they stand. The first respects Madame Champes. I have suffered much uneasiness about the first Packet to her, which I delivered to a Gentleman of Bucks County, her near Neighbour, upon his Promise to procure me her Receipt for the Packet. This however hath never...
67871To Thomas Jefferson from James Wilkinson, 20 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Milligan the Express delivered me Your Letter of the 3rd. Ultmo. the Evening of the 14th. Inst:, which lifted from my Breast a load of anxeity, and I will confess furnished a sweet Solace to my poor heart depressed with cares & sorrows—your sympathy for my difficulties, your admonition for my Conduct, & your solicitude for my welfare, impress deeply my affections, and are received as the...
67872To Thomas Jefferson from Anonymous, 28 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
As Congress appear to want useful employment I beg leave to recommend the following subject to their consideration. America lost an immense Sum in the course of the last War by Spoliations, and if the System which I am about to recommend had been adopted, the principal part of these losses would have been saved & the Country benefited beyond calculation—The only thing which will make our...
67873To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Remsen, Jr., 9 September 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The letters [an]d gazettes have been regularly forwarded agreeably to your directions. Among those now sent is a letter from Judge Chipman , which, from it’s being under a kind of flying seal and the information I received from the bearer of it, Mr. Tichenor an intimate friend of Mr. Chipman, I took the liberty of opening. You will be surprised to find, Sir, that the duplicate commission you...
67874John Garnett to Thomas Jefferson, 17 December 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty to inclose a new method of reducing the “Moon’s distance” which I flatter myself is more simple and uniform than any hithe t r to used. Having conducted the American Edition of the Nautical Almanac from its beginning in 1803 at a considerable pecuniary loss, besides the great attention it necessarily takes, M r Patterson the Professor at Philadelphia has recommended it to...
67875To Thomas Jefferson from John Bondfield, 11 September 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
The fermentation has spread from the Capital to the Provinces who in return furnish fresh heat to animate the Capital. Our Parlement is translated to an inland Town, their Arets and resolves as also them of other Parlements are pointed to Capital reforms, this parlement attack directly the illegality and undue presumption in administration Issueing of Lettres de Cachets in any case whatever,...
67876Theodorus Bailey to Thomas Jefferson, 7 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
By the mail of this morning I had the honor of receiving your note under date of the 29. of March , covering a letter addressed to a M r Oliver Barrett , inventor of a spinning machine: when your former letter for the same person came to this office, one of my clerks observed, that he had lately distributed a letter addressed to M r Barrett at Schaghticoke
67877To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 13 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of 9th. Instant I received to day, and by the enclosed you will see that I have shiped two Polygraphs for you: No. 2 is Brunelle’s. The Brig is now in the stream, and will sail early tomorrow. The present appearance of the weather promises her a good wind, and I hope she will arrive before your departure for Monticello. The Captain promises me, that as soon as he reaches Alexandria, he...
67878To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Boylston, 11 November 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived here Tuesday Evening. I have not as yet informed my self what price, I shall be able to realize for my Oil, but as far as I have enquired, find it will not save me harmless at any rate, except the duties charged on it be remitted. Should the Marquis de Fiat and your assistance, for that purpose prove successfull it will answer. If the terms of receiving the Cash, without being...
67879To Thomas Jefferson from Fulwar Skipwith, 8 March 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I shall make no apology for addressing to you with this a paper which has lately been received by me through the post office, with a few lines from an anonymous hand, together with a copy of a Note which that paper has induced me to address to his Excelcy. the Minister of Exterior Relations.—I am ignorant whether this paper will not soon, or may not already have been Communicated to you in a...
67880Littell & Henry to Thomas Jefferson, 5 February 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
The accompanying paper is most respectfully transmitted to Mr Jefferson by the publishers. RC ( DLC ); in Eliakim Littell ’s hand; endorsed by TJ as received 9 Feb. 1820 and so recorded in SJL . Littell & Henry was a publishing firm formed in Philadelphia by Eliakim Littell (1797–1870) and Robert Norris Henry
67881Gibson & Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson, 9 October 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
We refer you to ours by last mail, and have at present merely to inform you that since then wheat & flour have been rising, the former is 10/. the latter 9½ Cash for Canal flour and 10$ asked by the millers on time. these prices may be expected to continue, provided no measures are adopted by Congress to put a stop to our present mode of export RC ( ViU : TJP-ER ); in Patrick Gibson’s hand; at...
67882To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Bishop, 27 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Having received a Commission as Collector of this district during the pleasure of the President, I possess my faculties sufficiently to feel grateful for the confidence reposed and for the conclusive manner in which my appointment was vindicated:—& I retain my hand writing sufficiently to express this gratitude. Being recovered from a long season of sickniss I shall endeavour to perform...
67883To Thomas Jefferson from Alexandre Maurice d’Hauterive, 10 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
New york Le 10. Sepre. 1793. L’an deux de la république française. J’ai Envoyé, Monsieur, votre Lettre au ministre plénipotentiaire de la république à qui elle auroit dû être adressée, car accredité auprès du Gouvernement de L’Etat de New york, je n’ai de relations officielles avec Le Gouvernement général que par la médiation du Gouvernement Local, ou par celui du Ministre plénipotentiaire de...
67884To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 10 March 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
My particular friends Colonel Campbell, (of the senate) with his Lady, & Major Campbell, of the Executive Council, have long promised themselves the pleasure of calling on you, in their excursions up & down the Country, thro’ your immediate neighbourhood, but have never found it entirely convenient to do so, until now, when they will hand you this— These Gentleman are already so well known to...
67885To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, 24 November 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of proposing for your approbation Israel P. Richardson, Jonah D Symonds and Samuel H Holley of Vermont, George P Peters of New Hampshire, Charles Inderwick and Ormond Marsh of New York & Erastus Roberts of Pennsylvania to be appointed Cadets in the Regiment of Artillerists in the service of the United States Accept Sir assurances of my high respect & consideration Dec. 1. 1807...
67886[To Thomas Jefferson from Commissary Benjamin Harrison, 20 February 1781] (Jefferson Papers)
[ South Branch of Potomac, 20 Feb. 1781 . Summary in CVSP Calendar of Virginia State Papers … Preserved in the Capitol at Richmond , i , 529: Is employed by Maj. William Harrison, under instructions from the executive, in purchasing provisions and building boats. The scarcity of beef on the western side of the “Allegania Mountain” has obliged him to come to this country to procure the...
67887To Thomas Jefferson from Andrew Jackson, 23 September 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I have deemed it a duty which My respect for your public and private character could not dispense with, to make known to you an act of Gel. J. Wilkinson, which in a measure is Supported and Sanctioned by your name. The following is a true extract of a letter written by Genl. J. Wilkinson to the commanding officer at New Orleans, dated the 31ist. of March 1805 “you will be pleased to signify to...
67888To Thomas Jefferson from Burrill Carnes, 23 January 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Nantes, 23 Jan. 1789 . As instructed in TJ’s letter of 15 Jan., has notified the merchants of Nantes of the arrêt of 7 Dec. 1788.—Some unexpected business may require his presence in America for a few months; asks “whether the honor of the Execution of your orders here, during that time, can not be intrusted to another person,” whose name he will mention before leaving. If he goes it will be...
67889To Thomas Jefferson from John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg, 20 August 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Since the Fall of 1805 when I had a paralitic stroke on my right side, my health has been gradually declining, & tho’ I am still able to perform the duties of my Office, The Physicians, as well as myself, are of opinion, that the Fall, or Spring will decide my fate, & that my Death may be sudden. In this state of uncertainty, & whilst I have time, and recollection left, I beg leave, with heart...
67890To Thomas Jefferson from the Virginia Delegates in Congress, [ca. 10] December 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
Philadelphia , [ ca. 10] Dec. 1780. Enclosing a resolution of Congress of 6 Dec. relating to the Convention troops and also “a copy of a letter from G. Anderson found among the dead letters in the post office and communicated to Congress by the Postmaster. If there should be occasion for the original of the latter it shall be transmitted on the first intimation.” Imprisonment of Henry Laurens...