75871Notes on Appointments, 20 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Stevens distr. Atty Maryld ^ Nathanl. Smith of R.I. to be Naval officer for the port of Providence ^ Simeon Theus of S.C. to be Collector of the district of Charleston ^ Cowles Mead of Georgia to be Secretary of the territory of Missisipi.
75872From Thomas Jefferson to United States House of Representatives, 31 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I now communicate to the House of Representatives all the information which the Executive offices furnish on the subject of their resolution of the 23d. instant respecting the States indebted to the United States. DNA : RG 233—LRHR—Legislative Records of the House of Representatives.
75873From Thomas Jefferson to Sir Peyton Skipwith, 24 December 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just recieved your favor of the 9th. and am sorry it is not in my power to do any thing in the business mentioned in it. I have been authorised by Mr. Short only to have a part of his stock sold and invested in Canal-shares and some lands; but not at all to settle, pay or meddle with any debt. I retain your account however and will inclose a copy of it in my first letter and do whatever...
75874To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 17 February 1826 (Madison Papers)
My Circular was answered by Genl. Breckenridge, approving, as we had done, of the immediate appointment of Terril to the chair of Law, but our 4. colleagues, who were together in Richmond, concluded not to appoint until our meeting in April. In the meantime the term of the present lamented incumbent draws near to a close. About 150. students have already entered, many of those who engaged for...
75875From Thomas Jefferson to Steuben, 13 February 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
That the reformation of the troops of the Continent and State now on hand may be complete, I beg leave to inclose you a return of Col. Taylors regiment of guards. They are enlisted most of them to serve only during the continuance of the Saratoga troops in Albemarle. Their numbers being two hundred thirty eight, non-commission’d and private, I suppose they should be reduced to four companies...
75876From Thomas Jefferson to Andrew Ramsay, 2 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just recieved, in a letter from Mrs. Adams, the pleasing information of the safe arrival of my daughter in London; and by the same letter and others accompanying it, that it is to you I am indebted for the care of her. Her distress at parting with you is a proof how good you have been to her. I pray you to accept my sincere thanks for your attentions to her, and assurances that I should...
75877Notes on Personal Finance, 4 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
1805. June 4 . in bank 56 .69 Salary for May 2083 .33 borrow bk US. 1979 . borrow bk Columb. 1484 .25 5608
75878From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Willson Peale, 22 November 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved your letter of July 2. in due time, & soon after that the apparatus for making the inkpots in mr Hawkins’s polygraph moveable, so as to render the dip easy. but in the mean time I had thought of a contrivance which I had executed at Monticello, and which a three months use has proved to be as perfect as it is simple. each inkpot is set in a square saucer of very thin brass, ¼ I....
75879From Thomas Jefferson to William Hilliard, 16 September 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
your’s of the 2 d is recieved, and to the question respecting Barrow’s works and Bruce as to size and price I will give this general answer for this & all such cases that we shall prefer 8 vo editions altho’ considerably dearer, because of the superior symmetry of their arrangement on our shelves, because generally they will be later and improved editions, and are so much more handy for use....
75880From Thomas Jefferson to Timothy Pickering (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Pickering and sends him an office copy of Crozat’s grant, prepared to be sent by mr Bearing, of which he will therefore ask the return. RC ( MHi : Pickering Papers). Not recorded in SJL . Enclosure: copy of 1714 charter to Antoine Crozat (see TJ to Pickering, 15 Jan. ).
75881From Thomas Jefferson to Hugh Lennox, 13 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I must intreat your pardon for troubling you with a small private commission which I do not possess the means of getting otherwise executed. The difficulty of being supplied with fresh fruit at this place, and still more at Monticello where I pass the warm season, has led to the habitual use of it’s best substitute, called Syrop of punch, or sometimes Center, which I believe is merely a...
75882Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 13 March 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I must ask the favor of you to send me by mail 2. copies of the Nautical Almanacs for the present year, and 2. also of the next year if already to be had. the English editions are best printed, but if none on hand, Blount ’s edition of N. York will do. I formerly wrote to you for S r John Sinclair ’s book of Agriculture; but I observe that mr Skinner of Baltimore is about publishing an...
75883From Thomas Jefferson to United States Congress, 7 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Having recently recieved from our late Minister Plenipotentiary at the court of London a duplicate of dispatches, the original of which has been sent by the Revenge schooner not yet arrived, I hasten to lay them before both houses of Congress. they contain the whole of what has passed between the two governments on the subject of the outrage committed by the British ship Leopard on the frigate...
75884From Thomas Jefferson to George Muter, 2 March 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
The Board has considered your request that they should make an Enquiry into your Conduct as Commissioner of the War Office. No Complaint having been lodged with them on the Subject, No Prosecutor offering himself, no Witnesses pointed out, nor even Charges specifyed, they do not know that they can with either propriety or practicability enter on such an enquiry; the more especially as they...
75885From Thomas Jefferson to William Lambert, 22 December 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you the inclosed paper with thanks for the communication of it. I have taken the liberty of copying the result, to wit, the longitude of our place. the method of finding the longitude by observing the occultation of a star has the merit of precision in the moments of immersion & emersion in proportion to the sensibility of the eye of the observer. but the calculations are lengthy and...
75886From Thomas Jefferson to Abiel Holmes, 26 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 15th. with the book, has been safely recieved. the Memoires de l’Amerique were packed in a box & sent from Monticello in May last: but owing to the extraordinary fall of the river & the drought which continued till Winter the vessel on board which they were was stopped about midway to Richmond, & the books were left there till November when for the first time the navigation...
75887XIII. Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 10 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor of addressing you on the 2d. inst. which I presume would overtake you at Richmond. The present I imagine will not overtake you till you get to Wilmington. Since my last I have been honoured with your two letters of March 31. and two others of Apr. 4. one of which was circular. A copy of this I sent to the Vice president, and as Colo. Hamilton has asked a consultation on a...
75888Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 21 January 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Jan. 13. is recieved and a statement of my account to the 1 st inst. when I percieve a balance against me (exclusive of that of the bank) of 301. D 90 C M r Randolph was to have paid for me the 1 st Inst. thro’ his agent mr Norris something upwards
75889From Thomas Jefferson to Sheldon Clark, 5 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the pamphlets you have been so kind as to send me; but I cannot comply with your request to give my opinion of them. against this I have been obliged to protest in every case. I should otherwise, for the last 20. years, have been constantly employed in the trade of a Reviewer of books, for which I have neither taste, talent nor time; and instead of reading according to my own...
75890Notes on a Cabinet Meeting, 18 February 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
1804. Feb. 18. Present the 4. Secs. & Atty Genl. it is agreed we shall consider the settlements on the Misipi from Iberville up to our line, as our territory, as to importations and exportations thro’ the Misipi, making Baton rouge a port of delivery. so also as to what shall come thro’ Ponchartrain that the militia of Colour shall be confirmed in their posts, and treated favorably, till a...
75891Thomas Jefferson to William W. Hening, 13 June 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of May 14. was a fortnight on it’s passage to me. the volumes of Manuscripts I described to you shall be at your service whenever you enter on your the additional volume you propose. p of State-papers, papers of the proceedings of public bodies and periodical publications, I now possess nothing. I had a tolerably compleat collection of Virginia newspapers from 1741. to 1783. and...
75892From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 8 August 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 4th. is recieved. I think the course which has been taken for sending MelliMeni home is the best: & I concur with you in the expediency of giving no answer to Turreau. indeed his letter does not seem to call for one. in the present state of our affairs it will certainly be better not to appoint a Consul at St. Thomas’s. we must not risk great things for small. a Consul merely to...
75893From Thomas Jefferson to William Hawkesworth, 16 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
your favor of the 11 th is just recieved. our University will be opened on the 1 st day of February next. the qualifications for reception in the schools of Mathematics & Nat. Philosophy will be a good acquaintance with numerical arithmetic as far as Fractions & extractions of the roots, and in the classical school for Latin to be able to read the higher authors, with facility paying strict...
75894I. To William Short, 13 April 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to you on the 26th. of Mar. by a conveyance which occurred suddenly, merely to inform you that I should soon forward you a full state of your affairs. I then also explained the circumstances which prevented my writing to you the last year. I have to acknolege the receipt of your’s from Jagouville Aug. 6. 98. & from Paris Aug. 24. & Oct. 9. 98. on the general subjects of business, and...
75895Thomas Jefferson’s Bill for Establishing a System of Public Education, [ca. 24 October 1817] (Jefferson Papers)
N o 1. A Bill for establishing a system of public education. 1. For establishing schools at which the children of all the citizens of this Commonwealth may recieve a primary grade of education at the common expense, Be it enacted by the General assembly of Virginia as follows. At the first session of the Superior court in every county within this Commonwealth , next ensuing the passage of this...
75896From Thomas Jefferson to John Breckinridge, 13 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of the Attorney General to meet him with the heads of department tomorrow at 1. aclock to consult on Tunisian & Tripolitan affairs & to do him the favor to dine with him. DLC : Breckinridge Family Papers.
75897From Thomas Jefferson to Stephen Willis, 3 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I received yesterday yours of Feb. 13. I had ascribed the delay of an answer to a supposed miscarriage of my letter to you, otherwise I should have written again to inform you of what I shall now do. I have been prevailed on, contrary to what I thought possible, to remain here somewhat longer. How long I do not know, but sufficiently long to carry me so late into the season for brickwork that...
75898From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Price, 12 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
The delay of my Congé permits me still the pleasure of continuing to communicate the principal things which pass here. I have already informed you that the proceedings of the states general were tied up by the difficulty which arose as to the manner of voting, whether it should be by persons or orders. The Tiers at length gave an ultimate invitation to the other two orders to come and join...
75899From Thomas Jefferson to André Limozin, 22 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor now to acknolege the receipt of your favors of the 18th. and 19th. of November and two of the 18th. of the present month. I did not write to you immediately on receipt of the two first, because the observations they contained were to be acted on here. I was much obliged to you for them, as I have been frequently before for others, and you will find that I have profited by them...
75900Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 13 July 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for Maine ’s recipe for preparing the haw, inclosed in your favor of the 4 th . I really thought it lost with him, and that the publication of it would be a public benefit. I do not know that his hedgethorn is to be found wild but in the neighborhood of Washington . he chose it, I think, for it’s beauty. I have extensive hedges of it, which I have too much neglected. the parts well...