75871From Thomas Jefferson to Levi Lincoln, 11 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 15th. came to hand on the 25th. of June, and conveyed a great deal of that information which I am anxious to recieve. the consolidation of our fellow citizens in general is the great object we ought to keep in view, and that being once obtained, while we associate with us in affairs to a certain degree the federal sect of republicans, we must strip of all the means of...
75872From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 21 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
The pleasure which I recieved from the information of your letters of the 12 th & 13 th announcing your arrival in N. York was much abated by the state of health in which they represented you to be. fevers are rarely of long continuance, and I hope yours will not be so. you do not mention at what port our Professors will arrive. I am in hopes it will be at Richmond, and I this day write to Col...
75873From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Rush, 23 April 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Your friendly letter of Mar. 12. was recieved in due time and with a due sense of it’s value. I shall with confidence avail myself of it’s general prescription, and of the special should the state of my health alter for the worse. at present it wears a promising aspect. At length I send you a letter, long due, and even now but a sketch of what I wished to make it. but your candour will find my...
75874From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 5 April 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Randolph’s letter of Mar. 26. informs me you are all well at Belmont. my last news from Eppington was of Mar. 20. when all were well there. I have myself had remarkeably good health through the winter, since the cold which I took on my way here. the advance of the season makes me long to get home. the first shad we had here was Mar. 16. and Mar. 28. was the first day we could observe a...
75875From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 1 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of Aug. 15. was recieved yesterday. I regret extremely that the estimate of the blocks at N. York should place them above our appropriation. the data of calculation should be above all question to justify suspending the operation. but, if they are to cost a million, altho’ I should be for it, yet Congress should be consulted. I inclose you a letter from George Mosley wishing to be a...
75876From Thomas Jefferson to Aaron Burr, 17 June 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
The newspapers give so minutely what is passing in Congress that nothing of detail can be wanting for your information. Perhaps however some general view of our situation and prospects since you left us may not be unacceptable. At any rate it will give me an opportunity of recalling myself to your memory, and of evidencing my esteem for you. You well know how strong a character of division had...
75877From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 18 September 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns to mr Gallatin Gurley’s letter: no further intelligence being now expected on the subject of our affairs with Spain and some measures growing out of them requiring the earliest consideration possible, he asks the favor of mr Gallatin to attend if possible a cabinet meeting at Washington on the 4th. of October at 12. oclock. he presents him affectionate salutations. NHi :...
75878From Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 7 February 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of Jan. 20. & 24. are duly recieved. in the former you mention the reciept of £40. for me, and Maria’s of the next day says that mr Eppes expected to recieve £30. more for me at the ensuing Cumberland court. not having heard from mr Randolph on the subject of the hire of your negroes, I was in the moment of recieving your letter, just about to inclose you a draught on George Jefferson...
75879Statement of William Short’s Tenements, 26 May 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Since writing the preceding I have settled with Richard Shackleford. his lands have been tended as follows as. ps. 1800 1801 1802 No. 1. 7–49. oats rest corn 2 6–72 corn wheat rest 3 85 new tobo. corn
75880From Thomas Jefferson to the Persons Appointed to Purchase Horses under the Resolution of July 14th, 1780, 6 September … (Jefferson Papers)
As we have reason to believe the number of horses desired is not yet purchased, we think it necessary to extend the time of delivery further to the 15th of October, only desiring you to forward what you have and praying your greatest exertions to make up the number desired as they are extremely wanted to the southward. I am, sir, Your very humble servant, FC ( Vi , photostat from Brit. Mus.:...
75881From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 9 April 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote yesterday to Genl. Dearborne on the subject of intruders on the public lands in Louisiana, inclosing a note to each of the heads of department asking them to give me their opinions thereon separately. I did this by way of beginning the practice of separate consultation, which a host of considerations satisfy me is a very salutary & useful one to be resorted to occasionally. the...
75882From Thomas Jefferson to John Griscom, 16 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you, by this mail, Russell’s book with many thanks for the use of it. indeed it has been of much use to me, as the state and course of education in Great Britain was not well known to me. a bookseller of Philadelphia undertook to import for me a copy, and to have it here by April last. on enquiring of him some time after that period, he informed me his correspondent in London assured...
75883Thomas Jefferson to Virginia Delegates, 10 May 1781 (Madison Papers)
RC ( NA : PCC , No. 71, II, 109–10). Written by a clerk and signed by Jefferson. Directed to “The Honble The Virga. Delegates in Congress.” Docketed, “Letter from Govr Jefferson May 10 1781 Read 29 Referred to the board of War.” The file copy is in the Virginia State Library and a transcript in LC : Jefferson Papers. A small Affair has taken Place between the British commanding Officer in this...
75884To Thomas Jefferson from William Blount, 27 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
[“ Territory of the United States of America South of the River Ohio ”], 27 July 1791 . Enclosing all information he has on Territorial boundaries and private claims to be excepted from right of Congress to dispose of lands ceded by North Carolina. The bearer, Major Mountflorence, a Nashville lawyer, is well informed, conversant with laws of his state, and would be happy to serve TJ. [P.S.]...
75885From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Smith, 2 April 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. John Perry informs me he is indebted to you about one hundred & thirty pounds by bond now due, and that you would be willing to give him time on obtaining security. I am willing to be his security and to make the paiment for him in the first week of January next; if that shall be sufficient inducement to you to give him that time. this present letter shall bind me accordingly if you chuse...
75886From Thomas Jefferson to Adam Lindsay, 27 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I was in hopes to have recieved from you before this some white backs . I should have sent for them, but understood you would chuse to deliver them here. I am ready to take all you kill at the price paid by Gadsden in Alexandria; or if you will twice a week bring or send me half a dozen pair at the same price, I will pay you two dollars additional each time for bringing or sending them; or if...
75887From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Huntington, 3 October 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you the within copies of letters transmitted me by Genl. Gates, according to his desire expressed in the one addressed to me. I shall endeavor as far as shall be in my power to have his several desires complied with. I have the honor to be very respectfully Your Excellency’s Most obedient & most humble servt., RC ( DLC : PCC , No. 71, i ); endorsed by Charles Thomson: “Letter from...
75888From Thomas Jefferson to Irenée Amelot De Lacroix, 3 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved in due time your favor of Dec. 28. covering the tragedy of the unfortunate Louis XVI. and I am sure you are too reasonable not to have ascribed the delay of answer which has intervened to it’s true cause, the never-ceasing pressure of business which cannot be deferred. I have read the piece with great satisfaction. I recognise in Louis that purity of virtue, & sincere patriotism...
75889Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Statement on Wilson Cary Nicholas’s Administrators v. James Morrison and Thomas Deye … (Jefferson Papers)
The case of the exrs of W. C. Nicholas with Morrison , and of the same with Owings . George Nicholas of Kentucky was, in his lifetime, indebted to Wilson Cary Nicholas between 9. & 10,000.£. Kentucky currency, for so much cash advanced for him; to secure which he promised, in writing, to mortgage certain property. he was also, with Willis Green as his security, indebted to John Read
75890From Thomas Jefferson to United States Congress, 3 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
At a moment when the nations of Europe are in commotion & arming against each other, when those with whom we have principal intercourse are engaged in the general contest, & when the countenance of some of them towards our peaceable country, threatens that even that may not be unaffected by what is passing on the general theatre, a meeting of the representatives of the Nation in both houses of...
75891IV. Instructions for Meriwether Lewis, 20 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
To Meriwether Lewis esquire, Captain of the 1st Regiment of infantry of the United States of America. Your situation as Secretary of the President of the United States has made you acquainted with the objects of my confidential message of Jan. 18. 1803. to the legislature: you have seen the act they passed, which, tho’ expressed in general terms, was meant to sanction those objects, and you...
75892From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 5 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In the letter which I had the honor of writing you on the 15th. of May, in answer to your several memorials of the 8th. of that month, I mentioned that the President reserved, for further consideration, a part of the one which related to the equipment of two privateers in the port of Charleston. The part alluded to, was that wherein you express your confidence that the Executive Government of...
75893From Thomas Jefferson to Madame Plumard de Bellanger, 4 April 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
It is with great pleasure I am able to inform you that the short residence I have made at my own house in Virginia has made me witness to the universal esteem in which your nephew is held. His goodness, his prudence, his industry and regularity have made him the favorite of all his neighbors, to whom your liberalities to him have rendered your name as dear almost as it is to himself. The money...
75894From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Newton, 8 December 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the pleasure now to inclose you a copy of the act of assembly which you desired. it could not be authenticated in any way: but I send you mr Carr’s letter, which assures me that it is an accurate copy. Accept assurances of my esteem & great respect. PrC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “Colo Thomas Newton”; endorsed by TJ in ink on verso. Enclosures: (1) Dabney Carr to TJ, 30 Nov., recorded in...
75895Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 8 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
It is with much concern I inform you that the Senate has negatived your appointment. we thought it best to keep back the nomination to the close of the session, that the mission might remain secret as long as possible, which you know was our purpose from the beginning. it was then sent in with an explanation of it’s object & motives. we took for granted, if any hesitation should arise, that...
75896From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 4 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of Mar. 10. I informed you that I wrote that day for the certificate of Bellini’s death. I now inclose it. I also mentioned that on the journey I was then taking to Monticello I should get information from your attorney mr Carr & probably be able to recieve & make you the remittance for Colle . I inclose you his letter by which you will see we shall be delayed till the fall. I got...
75897From Thomas Jefferson to Robley Dunglison, 18 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you the rough draught for the Dispensary with the amendments formerly proposed by you, to recieve any others you may think proper to be added. I will then put it into form and lay it before the Visitors. You mentioned the other day that a catalogue had been delivered to me of the Periodicals which the Professors would wish to have procured annually. is the inclosed paper the one alluded...
75898From Thomas Jefferson to Matthew Anderson, 31 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved through the channel of mr Eppes a piece of silk which mrs Anderson has been so good as to present me, raised and manufactured in your own family. this sample of domestic skills is evidence that you possess the most pleasing of all human spectacles, a well ordered houshold, usefully employed. if my principles have pointed me out as worthy of this attention from mrs Anderson, it...
75899From Thomas Jefferson to John Griscom, 6 October 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The object of the present letter will, in the eye of a son of science, excuse, I trust, the liberty a stranger takes in addressing it to you. we are engaged, in this state, in establishing an University on a scale of some extent, and we are in hopes it may get into operation in the course of the ensuing year. we have yet to form our code of regulations for the administration and discipline of...
75900From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 4 December 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
The advance of the cold season has now determined that my walls are not to be finished this year, and consequently not to be covered in. I shall have no occasion therefore to order any more sashes till the next spring. Those already made, to wit, 12. sets of trebles and 6. pair of doubles I shall be obliged to you to forward to Richmond to the care of Mr. Johnston, retaining the boxes of glass...