75931Thomas Jefferson to Abraham Lange, 24 January 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to M r Lange and his thanks for the two parcels of beans he has been so kind as to send him. they are safely recieved, and are quite sufficient in quantity to put him promptly into stock and with his acknolegements for the favor, he salutes M. Lange with esteem & respect. PoC ( DLC ); on verso of a reused address cover from TJ to Francis Eppes ; dateline...
75932Notes on the Giles Resolutions, 2 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Mar. 2. 1793. See the papers of this date, Mr. Giles’s resolutions. He and one or two others were sanguine enough to believe that the palpableness of these resolutions rendered it impossible the house could reject them. Those who knew the composition of the house 1. of bank directors. 2. holders of bank stock. 3. stock jobbers. 4 blind devotees. 5 ignorant persons who did not comprehend them....
75933From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 3 April 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of 26. March is recieved and I learn with real concern the danger that a temporary loan may be necessary, because we know how it will be perverted to throw dust in the eyes of the people. however if no other expedient can be used we must meet it—I have no expectation that Monroe will be able to get any acknolegement of boundary which we can admit. the next best measure will be to...
75934Thomas Jefferson: an essay or introductory lecture...dialects of the English language, 1825, 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
An Essay or Introductory Lecture towards facilitating instruction in the Anglo-Saxon and Modern dialects of the English Language. for the use of the University of Virginia Printed by order of the Board of Visitors The importance of the Anglo-Saxon dialect towards a perfect understanding of the English language seems not to have been duly estimated by those charged with the education of youth;...
75935Thomas Jefferson to Henry Jackson, 5 July 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Ticknor , a young gentleman of Massachusets , left this country for Europe in March or April last, destined first for London , and, after some stay there, for Paris . having occasion to write him a letter on a subject very interesting to myself, and uncertain at which place it would find him, I have thought it safest to do it by duplicates for both places. that for Paris I have taken the...
75936From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 21 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just received your two favors of Octob. 23. and that of Nov. 10. I am much obliged to you for your hints in the Danish business. They are the only information I have on that subject except the resolution of Congress, and warn me of a rock on which I should most certainly have split. The vote plainly points out an Agent, only leaving it to my discretion to substitute another. My judgment...
75937From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Fry, 21 May 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
When I had the pleasure of seeing you at your own house you expressed a wish to see Priestly’s corruptions of Christianity. finding them in a bookstore here on my return I was happy in the opportunity of gratifying your wish. I meant on my late journey here to have had the pleasure of asking personally your acceptance of them. but the morning I passed you was so rainy, and the necessity so...
75938From Thomas Jefferson to George Caines, 21 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The desire you express to prefix my name to the work you are about to publish is gratifying to me as an additional testimonial of that approbation of my fellow citizens which is so consoling to me. the matter of your work possesses too much self importance to need any adventitious aid from external circumstances. it cannot fail to recommend itself to a very general attention. I ask the favor...
75939From Thomas Jefferson to William Branch Giles, 27 April 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 16th. came to hand by the last post. I have to thank you for the trouble you were so kind as to take in my demand on Mr. Bannister’s estate. Mr. Shippen by letter promised me paiment out of the first proceeds of a sale then making at Hatcher’s run on a twelve-month’s credit. I sincerely congratulate you on the great prosperities of our two first allies, the French and Dutch....
75940III. To Napoleon Bonaparte, 18 April 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Circumstances rendering it expedient that Robert R. Livingston who has for some time past resided with you as our Minister Plenipotentiary should be in a situation to render other services to his Country, we have authorized him to take his leave of you, embracing that occasion to assure you of our friendship and sincere desire to preserve and strengthen the harmony and good understanding...
75941To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 20 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
I return you all your papers except Irvine’s which I have not yet entirely read. As far as I have gone they abate much of the hopes which Montgomery’s letter might have excited. It is true that Irvine’s Erving’s opinions must be influenced by the French versions at Madrid, & Montgomery’s by the popular rumors always afloat in such scenes. No answer surely shd. be given to Bollman, nor should...
75942From Thomas Jefferson to the Governor of Virginia, 11 July [1785] (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Houdon’s long and desperate illness has retarded till now his departure for Virginia. We had hoped from our first conversations with him that it would be easy to make our terms, and that the cost of the statue and expence of sending him would be but about a thousand guineas. But when we came to settle this precisely, he thought himself obliged to ask vastly more. Insomuch that at one...
75943From Thomas Jefferson to William Harris Crawford, 23 August 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer of this is Doct r Watkins an esteemed neighbor of mine, and our family physician. proposing to make a visit to Washington, he is desirous of being presented to you, and altho he has heretofore had that honor, he is apprehensive that in the crowd of those who necessarily wait on you , he may not be recollected, and therefore asks this letter. I give it with the mores satisfaction as...
75944From Thomas Jefferson to David Ross, 29 January 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
As it will be necessary that every Proposition relating to the trading Department should in future be referred to you, I take the Liberty of inclosing the within extract to you. I am to desire with Respect to this as well as every other one to be sent you hereafter that you will not consider our Transmission of them as ever amounting to a Recommendation to enter into Treaty on them. If you...
75945From Thomas Jefferson to Carlos Martínez de Irujo, 9 December 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved, my dear Sir, your note of yesterday, and am sensible of the friendly spirit which dictated it. but you must pardon me for repeating my request to inform me of the price of the wine. this is such a transaction of meum & tuum as must follow the same rules between us as between others. it is sufficient obligation to me to spare me so excellent a supply, and if not done on the usual &...
75946From Thomas Jefferson to Gideon Granger, 23 July 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
In your letter of the 19th. you ask my advice as to the measures to be taken to carry into effect the law for the transmission of a mail to New Orleans by the lower route. I do not see that in the present state of our information any correct decision can be formed. whenever we hear from Abrams his report with mr Wheatly’s will inform us of the difficulties thro’ the whole route, & we may then...
75947Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 28 June 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Soon after the date of my letter of the 21 st I recieved Bridgman ’s Index safely, and had taken for granted M c Mahon was coming with it. but as it did not come, I presume it has either been forgotten or is lodged by the way. in either case I ask your information & attention to it; and further that you will be so kind as to inform me whether a copy of Baron Grimm ’s memoirs (16. vols 8 vo )...
75948From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 4 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of Apr. 24. came to hand some days since, and I now return you the calculation of interest & paiments therein inclosed. the principles of this are understood & approved, and altho my occupations have not permitted me to investigate the calculations in detail, yet I have no doubt of their correctness. I have therefore inclosed you an acknolegement of the balance due Feb. 12. with a...
75949From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 1 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate the following persons to office, as respectively stated. David Latimore of the Missisipi territory to be a member of the legislative council thereof, in the place of Adam Bingaman who declined qualifying; the said David Latimer being one of two persons nominated by the House of Representatives of the sd territory for appointment in the place of the said Adam Bingaman. John Taylor of...
75950From Thomas Jefferson to Schweighauser & Dobrée, 16 February 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your favor of Jan. 29 . Having sent a sample of the muskets to the commissioners of the treasury and asked their instructions relative thereto, and having reason to expect these very soon, it would be improper in me to consent to any previous disposal of them. Mr. Carnes wrote me on the 15th. of January that he had sent off, the day before, the papers relative to your...
75951Thomas Jefferson to Dabney Carr, 8 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I found here on my late return from Bedford , your favor of Sep. 24. and am very thankful for the information it conveys. I recieved in the summer, a pamphlet and a letter under the name of H. Tompkinson . I knew no such person; but the pamphlet was sensibly & temperately written, on the subject of a convention, and as my sentiments on it were sollicited, and I thought such a writer might make...
75952From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Jared Ingersoll, 16 October 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the pamphlet you were so kind as to send me by mr Harris, which I have read with great satisfaction. the views of government which it presents are sound, and well worthy the consideration of those who conduct it. but governments never improve otherwise than by revolution. While I acknolege I am far, very far, from being able to write answers of acknowledgement for the many...
75953Notes 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.
75954From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 24 November 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I certainly had not the most distant thought of bearing on any controverted question, when, in my letter to mr Campbell, I used the unweighed expression of ‘papers belonging to the records of the council.’ but my meaning will be best explained by stating the practice of the time to which that letter referred. all letters and official papers on Executive business were regularly addressed to...
75955From 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.
75956From 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...
75957To 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...
75958From 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...
75959From 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...
75960Notes 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