78711To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Cooper, 17 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Calling to day at Governor McKean’s, he was so good as to shew me part of letter from you respecting myself, couched in terms of higher approbation than I conceive myself to deserve: but praise from you will incite me to deserve it. Laudari à tam laudato viro , is too gratifying not to excite the wish for its continuance. The Governor told me that knowing my desire of remaining at...
78712Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 5 February 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have now the satisfaction to enclose you a copy of the Act concerning the University , which has this moment passed the Senate , and is now the Law of the Land. The vote on the passage of the Bill in the House of Delegates was 121–to 66. The vote in the Senate was 19 to 3. I hereby give my assent to the Loan authorized by this act. I shall get M r Johnson and M r
78713To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 13 January 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
By the Act of Congress passed the 21st April 1806 it is provided, that the whole number of able seamen ordinary seamen & boys, to be employed in the Navy, shall not exceed 925 We have at this time in actual service about 700. The Chesapeake requires 292 The Wasp 120 1112 Exceeding the limited number 187 1112
78714To Thomas Jefferson from George Taylor, Jr., 17 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just been informed by Mr. C. Burrall that he has reced. a letter from his Brother the Cashier, mentioning, among others, that Mr. Remsen upon application was appointed last Wednesday 1st. Teller to the Branch of the United States Bank, at New York, with a Salary of 1250 dollars. This being the case, you will probably soon have numerous applications for the Chief Clerkship of your...
78715Lafayette to Thomas Jefferson, 21 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I Have Been for a Long While Anxiously Expecting Answers to Several Letters of Mine Which I principaly Atribute to the distance from Monticelo to the Sea port places where opportunities are to Be found— But as the departure of M r Gallatin Cannot fail to Be known to You I Hope He May Be the Bearer of Your dispatches. the Situation of Europe is too Comprehensive, the Events of Last Year Have...
78716To Thomas Jefferson from Etienne Clavière, with Enclosure, 9 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ay l’honneur de vous envoyer les tableaux relatifs à l’extinction de la dette américaine en profitant de l’avantage des rentes viagéres. J’ai cru que si une telle affaire pouvoit avoir lieu ce ne seroit jamais que par un marché précis où toutes les chances douteuses seroient rendues certaines. C’est là proprement le métier de la Compagnie d’Assurance sur la vie. Je ne sai si vous jugeres que...
78717To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Huntington, 22 November 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
Philadelphia, 22 Nov. 1779 . Circular to the state executives enclosing resolves of Congress of 19 Nov. recommending the enacting of laws for “a general limitation of prices …, to commence in their operation from the first day of february next.” FC ( DLC : PCC , No. 14); 1 p. Enclosure: Resolves of Congress of 19 Nov. recommending limitation of prices and wages; copy ( Vi ), signed by Charles...
78718To Thomas Jefferson from Theodore Foster, 19 May 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Governor Fenner happened to be at the Post Office on Sunday Morning last, when the Mail was opened and recd. from thence the Letter, which you did me the Honor to write to me on the 9th Instant.—He delivered it to me a few minutes afterward at my House, when he shewed me the Letter which he wrote you respecting the Appointment of an Attorney for the United States, in the District of Rhode...
78719To Thomas Jefferson from Robert W. Cosbrough, 2 July 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I am compell’d from dire necessity once more to beg your interference with the heads of Departments for any situation, however subordinate, as Clerk—I had the honor of relating to you, some time back , my distress’d state, and mentioned my intimacy, with the Hon. DeWitt Clinton & family &c; You advis’d me to apply to Mr. Galatin, which I did, but he told me there was no Vacancy at present—I am...
78720To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Bryan, 4 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I much regret that a circumstance So painful as the loss of a most Sincere and affectionate friend Should be the cause of my present communication, but it is the common fate of all mankind to die and what is more to be lamented is, that with their bodies their Virtues sink into oblivion on the night of the 24th. Ultimo my friend & Brother in law Wm. Keais Esqr. Collector of the Port of...