76181To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 18 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
When I wrote last, the 10th. Ult., the head of a Common Ox then before me was so imperfect as to lead me into an error about the width of the horns—since I have procured a head from a Butcher, who did not brake the Scull, which cleaned and free’d from the horns, I find the measurement from pith to pith of the Horns is Inches. I also observe that the difference of form between this head and...
76182Destutt de Tracy to Thomas Jefferson, 21 October 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
je ne vous dissimulerai pas que j’attendois une reponse de vous a ma lettre du 12 juin 1809. , avec une impatience extreme et une inquietude proportionnée au prix infini que j’attache a l’honneur de votre Suffrage. vos bontés ont passé toutes mes esperances. M r Warden , a Son arrivée ici, a remis de votre part a M r le G al la fayette un exemplaire de la traduction du commentaire Sur...
76183To Thomas Jefferson from Edmund Randolph, 15 November 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
E. Randolph informs his friend Mr. Jefferson, that he shall by the mail of tuesday next, put into his hands such documents, as have been promised by him respecting Mr. Short’s affair. RC ( DLC : Short Papers); endorsed by TJ as received 13 Dec. 1797 and so recorded in SJL . Letters from Randolph to TJ of 12 July and 6 Aug. 1797, recorded in SJL as received 14 July and 7 Aug. 1797,...
76184To Thomas Jefferson from George Jefferson, 23 June 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
I have made enquiry respecting the price of flour at the time you mention & find that the highest current price was 6.½$: for fine & 7$: for supr. fine—Johnston sold a few barrels of S.F. to the bakers in Janr. 98 at 7.½$: but he does not conceive that to be the price by which you should be governed. we also sold a small quantity in the same way at the same price—10 barrels at a time was the...
76185To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Lewis, 11 May 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor of addressing you the 9th. Instant by this conveyance but the Packet being detained two days longer than the time announced for sailing furnishes me with the opportunity of executing your Commission by shipping a Pipe of Madeira Wine (Eight years old) cased, and directed for his Excellency Thomas Jefferson Esqr. Plenipo. at Paris , and by the recommendation of our friend, Mr....
76186To Thomas Jefferson from Nathaniel Ellicott, 5 July 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I have frequently Understood that you had an Idea of a Road from Washington Southwesterly to Cross Rappk. at or About Normond ford, that you had personlly Examined the Present different Crossing Places on Bull Run without being able to discover Any Very Eligible Situations for a great Public Road—(It is True I am much Interested in making; this my Situation as Public as Possible, it being a...
76187To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Skidmore, 6 June 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The occasion of this letter to you from a youth who is totally unacquainted with your person may indeed excite your astonishment. I fear that I may incur the epithet of presumtion by thus making known to your Excellency the motives which prompt me thus to address you. But I trust you will do me the justice to believe that what I allege as the motives for thus intruding myself into your notice,...
76188John Quincy Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 24 May 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer of this Letter, M r Cardelli , is a Sculptor by profession, a Republican by principle, and a Roman by birth—He is ambitious of the honour of taking your life bust from the life, and I believe him to be by his talent worthy of it—Thinking with one of his illustrious countrymen of a former age “ non intercedendum imaginibus, quae marmore aut aere finguntur ,” I wish him success to his...
76189To Thomas Jefferson from John Langdon, 19 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you the 14th. Ult. in answer to your’s of the 5th. of the same month in which, Agreably to your Request, I named John Goddard Esqr. and John McClintock merchants, Henry S. Langdon, and Charles Cutts, Esqrs. Lawyers, all of this Town, for Commissioners of Bankruptcy, as there has no appointment yet taken place, I am fearful my letter, miscarried; have therefore taken the liberty to...
76190John Patterson to Thomas Jefferson, 11 August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Knox has retired with a competency from the business of instructing youth, & now occupies a small establishment, which he purchased, in the immediate vicinity of this place —His character as a teacher is high among those who are acquainted with him, & he is much esteemed as a man of good morals, & correct habits— He is however said to be a man of violent temper, & has, I learn, had a...
76191From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Jefferson, 15 January 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Major Rochefontaine has presented at the Treasury an authenticated copy of a Register Certificate in his favour, from which it appears, that the original has been deposited with Mr Delamotte, vice consul of the united States at Havre in France. It being necessary, that the Treasury should be in possession of the original certificate, I have in the enclosed letter desired Major Rochefontaine to...
76192From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 15 January 1792 (Washington Papers)
The enclosed came to my hands yesterday afternoon. The documents respecting the dispute between Majr L’Enfant an Dan. Carroll of D. have been sent for the Attorney Genl to form his opinion upon the case. The whole are sent for Mr J.s perusal previous to the conversation he proposed to have with Majr L’E. The President has not read the Papers—nor is he in any hurry to do it. AL , DLC : Thomas...
76193To Thomas Jefferson from William C. C. Claiborne, 1 May 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor to receive yours of the 18th. of March, covering the complaint of M. Baudin , whose goods were siezed in execution at the suit of M. Labie; and I pray you to accept my thanks for this additional proof of the confidence which you are pleased to repose in me. I have already announced to the Department of State the establishment of a Court for the dispatch of Judicial business in...
76194To Thomas Jefferson from Simon Bérard, 16 February 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I am very happy in the opportunity you Give me of being of some utility to you. I shall write by to morrow’s Post to my brother at l’orient and recommend the Plants may be sent to you by the first diligence. I am with much Respect Sir Your most obedient and Humble Servant, RC ( DLC ); endorsed. Not recorded in SJL .
76195To Thomas Jefferson from Isaac Wilbour, 2 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the Honour, pursuant to a Resolution of the General Assembly, of transmitting to you the inclosed address, and of being, with sentiments of perfect respect, Your obt. and very humble Servt. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
76196To Thomas Jefferson from Captain Armstrong, 20 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
aftur my kind respects to you I must Inform you that we have every anscious desire to obtain our deed for the thirteen sections which was granted to us by the united States as soon as possible We therefore have taken this opportunity of leting you know our humble request, hopeing that your honor will prescribe some way for us to obtain the title for our land which was granted to us as I before...
76197To Thomas Jefferson from M. A. F. P. Engrand, before 25 September 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
En apprenant que Votre génie avoit conçu, Et que Vous alliez mettre a exécution une Expédition de recherches sur les bords de L’océan pacifique, jai saisi une Lueur d’espérance de rentrer dans une carrière ou La passion des voyages Et Le Désir d’acquérir de L’instruction m’avoient Engagé, Et D’ou Les revers les plus déplorables m’ont arraché pour me plonger dans une inaction qui m’est Encore...
76198To Thomas Jefferson from Justus Erich Bollmann, 22 November 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I have not heard from Your Excellency and this Silence causes me very serious Pain and Embarrassment. Your friendly Intentions on my Subject have agreably relieved me during the most gloomy Period of my Existence and excited Sentiments of Gratitude which even Time will not obliterate. The Apprehension therefore of having perhaps incurred Your Displeasure is distressing. I know myself guilty of...
76199[To Thomas Jefferson from Josiah Parker, before 9 June 1781] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Place unknown, before 9 June 1781 . Extract of a letter from Josiah Parker to the Speaker of the House of Delegates, “Carters Meades Mills,” 9 June 1781 (Vi): “A few days since I wrote Mr. Jefferson respecting my peculiar situation being in the field with a few men from Isle of Wight and Nancemond and from a request of the Marquiss de la Fayette to embody as many of the Militia as I could...
76200To Thomas Jefferson from Nathaniel Macon, 11 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
A gentleman of North Carolina is now engaged, in writing its history, he is very desirous to obtain information about its first settlement, & affairs, until the revolution; It has occurred to me that it was possible, that you could furnish much information, which no other person now living could, under this belief, I take the liberty, to request you to favor me, with such as you may think...
76201To Thomas Jefferson from John Jay, 15 December 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
New York, 15 Dec. 1788. Introduces the bearer, “Mr. Johnston, a citizen of this state, and a Member of a worthy and respectable Family in it,” who is sailing to Lisbon, “and ‘tho not determined to go on from thence to France, thinks it probable that he may visit it before his Return. My Respect for his Family, and good opinion with which his Character has impressed me, induce me to recommend...
76202To Thomas Jefferson from William H. Cabell, 7 August 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose for your perusal the only letters I have received from Norfolk since those forwarded to you by Mr. Coles—My letter by him was written in very great haste, and amidst much interruption, and since reflecting more maturely on the subject, I find that Mr. Tazewell has not, in his construction of my letters on the subject of intercourse, differed so widely from what was intended, as I at...
76203To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 9 June 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received with great pleasure the enclosed as it has confirmed me in my favourable dispositions with respect to the young gentleman therein mentioned. I have made accordingly the necessary arrangements about his Rank so far as it could be done consistently with fixed principles. What I have done will, I am confident, be to him perfectly satisfactory. I may have Occasion to remain here...
76204To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 16 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr LeMair has no inventory of the furniture of the President’s house, but he informs me that Mr Claxton’s is perfect excepting as to some articles of Plate made at Richmond. Under the circumstances of the case, if Mr Madison does me the honor to confide the future expenditure to me, it would be necessary for me to possess the inventory as soon as possible, or otherwise to refer the Member of...
76205To Thomas Jefferson from Lister Asquith, 5 December 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
St. Pol de Léon, 5 Dec. 1785 . Acknowledges TJ’s “kind and most exceptionable Letter.” He is relieved to know TJ has received the necessary papers and finds only two errors in TJ’s statement of his case: “1st. The Register which was taken out by Capt. Charles Harrison (when I was sick) unknown to me for 21 Tons (as he inform’d me, to save port charges), but he did not own any part of her. 2nd....
76206To Thomas Jefferson from David Howell, 12 June 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
The Senators for this State were appointed yesterday and have engaged to proceed for N. York in the course of a week. The Antifederal Interest has prevailed as was to be expected; but I presume the Gentlemen appointed will prove candid, useful members of the Senate. I did intend to have written to other Gentlemen on the Subject hinted at in my last Letter; but on mature reflexion and...
76207To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 20 September 1783 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 31 ult: came to hand yesterday. As the reason which chiefly urged my departure for Virga. has ceased I have been led to protract my attendance on Congress by the interest I felt in some measures on foot, and the particular interest which my Constituents have in them. Two of these were the territorial cession and the permanent seat of Congress. The former was a few days ago...
76208[To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 16 April 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Richmond, 16 Apr. 1784. Noted in SJL as received 23 Apr. 1784. Not found.]
76209To Thomas Jefferson from the Committee of Congress at Headquarters, 25 May 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
Morristown, 25 May 1780. Circular to the state executives enclosing copy of Gen. Washington’s letter of same date to Committee. Signed by Schuyler, Mathews, and Peabody. FC ( DLC : PCC , No. 11); 1 p.; at head of text: “Circular, No. 2.” Enclosure: Washington to Committee, 25 May 1780, approving recommendations in the Committee’s first circular letter (preceding) and urging filling up the...
76210John MacGowty to Thomas Jefferson, 25 April 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
here is a number of high Federal Characters that wish to misrepresent the causes of our difficulties, with the other Nations and say that the french Nation was the first that did take our shipping and Property, Both in their Ports and at sea, therefore Sir I have said to a number of these Characters that the french did not take any of our vessles and Cargoes, that was true american property...
76211George Alexander Otis to Thomas Jefferson, 15 July 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I hasten to return my acknowledgements for the letter with which you have honoured me under date of 8th July, in which the character of Botta ’s work is traced with so much force and elegance , that M r Walsh has persuaded me it would be an injustice to the Historian as well as to the people of this Union, as yet unacquainted with him his merit, to withhold it from the world, I have...
76212To Thomas Jefferson from David Humphreys, 30 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Mafra, Portugal. 30 Apr. 1791 . On 13th Samuel Harrison, at instance of Jacob Dohrman, sent messenger from Lisbon to inform Humphreys that Dominick Joyce, merchant of Philadelphia, had written his brother Edward Joyce on 25 Feb.: “A Minister is appointed to your Court; Colo. Humphreys is the person.” This and three others from Philadelphia received in extraordinary manner. An American...
76213William Duane to Thomas Jefferson, 11 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
The translation has been completed several months but business of every kind has been thrown into new channels, and of the Six presses which were formerly employed for my benefit only one which prints the Aurora is now employed—There was not work to pay wages, and the Mss. remains on hand. Unless a change of Some kind takes place I see no prospect of doing any thing for I am too low in purse...
76214To Thomas Jefferson from Peter Kuhn, Jr., 28 May 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to confirm to your Excellency my last respects of the 25 April advising of my having procured as per your Excellency orders and forwarded to Leghorn for a conveyance to the U.S. five Boxes containing 200 Bottles of Nebiole wine addressed to your Excellency I have been informed by Consul Appleton that on the arrival of said wine with him it proved to have been so new that most...
76215To Thomas Jefferson from Lewis Littlepage, 12 July 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Having recieved no intelligence from Virginia respecting the affair which Governor Henry entrusted to me, the result of which I had the honor to communicate to your Excellency in Paris, I cannot conceal my uneasiness upon that point, and must entreat you to inform me whether it has as yet been settled to your satisfaction. I at the same time repeat my former offers upon that subject and will...
76216To Thomas Jefferson from Elbridge Gerry, 4 May 17[97] (Jefferson Papers)
On the 27th of March I had the pleasure of addressing a letter to yourself, and on the 4th of april another to Mr. Monroe, to your care; but having no information of their being received, and having reason to apprehend that some of our post officers are guilty of mal practice and not to be trusted, I wish to be informed whether the letters have arrived, by a line directed to me at New York,...
76217To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Bancroft, 13 February 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I some months since took the Liberty of writing you a Letter respecting the situation Mr. Paradise and a Claim of his on the State of Virginia: I was at that time apprehensive, that any partial favour or justice could not properly be shewn to him, or any individual; and yet my feelings were then so much affected by what I knew, and by what he had just represented to me of his difficulties,...
76218James W. Wallace to Thomas Jefferson, 8 February 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Hoping it may be serviceable I enclose M c Mahons Catalogue to You—I shall remain here untill the 4 th of March —if my services can any way be of use to You I hope You will command them. As my object here is entirely professional, tis not in my power to communicate any thing of interest to You— Your old acquaintance D r Rush is well, and much in Statu quo. If convenient You will much oblige me...
76219James Barbour to Thomas Jefferson, 18 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
On my leaving Washington , I cheerfully, at the request of M r Macon , took charge of a box; as also of a letter addressed to you—I was informed of the contents of each—If the wine Sent you, by M r Macon , equal his hopes, Justified as they are by the Specimens furnished our mess, this winter, by the politeness of D r Hall , it will be to him peculiarly gratifying—For to the pleasure of...
76220Joseph Dougherty to Thomas Jefferson, 4 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I now solicit you on a cause of great importance to me, and one too in which you can make more interest for me than I can Suppose, M r Mathers , the Door keeper for the Senate th was buried the other day, and no doubt but there will be one hundred applicants for his place, my friends advise me to try for it, Now Sir, you best know what will be the best mode to pursue, would a few lines from...
76221To Thomas Jefferson from William Wirt, 14 January 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I fear you have forgotten my disposition, since you seem to think that your favor of the 10th. might require an apology. It is to me obliging and grateful, beyond expression. I cannot, better, deserve your good opinion, than by answering your proposition in the same spirit of frankness, in which it is made. My desire to go into the army proceeded from no dislike to my profession: it arose from...
76222Tadeusz Kosciuszko to Thomas Jefferson, 3 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Comme vous vous réposéz tranquilement sur vos l’Auriers si justement acquis et sur la Réputation Générale et tant chérie encore par vos Concytoyens. Il ne faut pas pour cela oublier vos Amis en Europe , qui vous aiment tout autant que vos Compatriotes. Vous me dévez deux ou trois lettres. Apresat il s’agit de rendre un service éssentiel à une personne de mes Connoissances M r Poinsot démeurant...
76223John W. Campbell to Thomas Jefferson, 29 July 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I avail myself of this method of making a proposition to you, respecting the publication of a complete Edition of your different writings, as far as they may be designed for the public; including the, “Notes on Virginia .” The work should be executed in Philadelphia , by the best publisher in the city, & in a stile, not inferiour to any prose work yet published in our country. Should the...
76224To Thomas Jefferson from Philippe de Létombe, 28 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Rien n’a pu retarder mon empressement de répondré à la confiance dont vous m’honorez. Aussitot après avoir reçu votre lettre, je me suis mis à la recherche de ce que vous desirez et je viens de trouver précisément ce qui vous convient. Ç’est un homme de 42 ans; probe; sédentaire; d’une humeur toujours égale; parlant le francais et l’anglais; uniquement attaché à ses devoirs; s’occupant sans...
76225To Thomas Jefferson from José de Jaudenes and José Ignacio de Viar, 25 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
We have just before us your favor of this day, in reply to which permit us to observe, that its contents appear to us, as if it was the Meaning of the United States to Negotiate only upon the Subject of the Navigation of the Mississipi &ca. but that being not the intention either of the King (our Master) nor of Don Joseph de Jaudenes, when he had the honor to communicate to you the good...
76226To Thomas Jefferson from Imbert de la Platière, [April 1788] (Jefferson Papers)
Paris [ Apr. 1788 ]. Is sending TJ the first volume of “ L’histoire Générale des femmes des nations les plus inconnues ” which follows naturally “ la Galerie universelle des hommes Célèbres ” for which TJ had subscribed. If, after reading this first number, TJ approves of it, he hopes he will be allowed to send the successive issues as they appear each month. RC ( DLC ); 2 p.; in French;...
76227To Thomas Jefferson from the Board of Trade, 2 July 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
[ Williamsburg ] 2 July 1779 . Making up the quantity of tobacco to 3,000 hhds. is probably all the state can afford at this time, although this quantity may not be sufficient. Signed by Whiting and Ambler. Counter-signed: “In council 2. July 1779. Approved Th: Jefferson.” RC ( CSmH ). Appears on the same page as TJ’s letter to Board of Trade, 1 July 1779.
76228To Thomas Jefferson from Richard O’Brien, 3 July 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The misfortune of The loss of one of my Children necesiated me to leave washington more Sudden then I had Calculated on and did not leave me The Oppertunity Of personally Thanking you for all your friendship and protection to me dureing my agency in Barbary, I have Closed my accounts with The department of State—excepting A small one which Mr. Madison informed me he Should Consult the...
76229To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 11 September 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
On my Return from Holland on the Sixth instant I found your Favours of the 8. and 13. Aug. On my Arrival at the Hague The Exchange of Ratifications was made on the 8. of August with The Baron De Thulemeier, and I had it Printed. It is only in French. Copies shall be Sent you as soon as I can find an Opportunity. We were present at Utrecht at the August Ceremony of Swearing in their new...
76230To Thomas Jefferson from Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond, 12 August 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Vos recherches su l’éléphant à dents molaires protuberantes, du voisinage de lhoio, ainsi que Celles sur le megalonix , m’ont fourni des objets Comparatifs trés instructifs, sur les restes fossiles des mêmes animaux qu’on trouve sur divers points du globe. J’ai reuni dans un essai de geologie , les materiaux les plus importants a Ce sujet, pour servir de Base a une theorie de la terre; j’ose...