78871From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, [10?] August 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th:J. will be obliged to Mr. Remsen to purchase two copies of Hutchins’s historical narrative of Louisiana and West-Florida immediately. They are for Mr. Short and Mr. Carmichael, to be paid for out of his contingent money. He will thank him for a 3d. copy which he will pay for himself. It is said they are to be had at Berry & Rogers’s. RC ( DLC photostat); dateline partly illegible. Not...
78872Memorandum Books, 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Jan. 4. The wines recd. from Dodge & Oxnard Dec. 14. & this day for myself for T.I.R. total vin rouge de Bergasse. 150
78873To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 18 August 1793 (Madison Papers)
My last was of the 11th. since which yours of the 5th. & 11th. are received. I am mortified at your not having your cypher. I now send the key of the numbers in mine of the 3d. This with my letter of the 11th. by post & another of the same date by Davy Randolph who will be at Monticello the last week of this month will put you in possession of the state of things to that date. The paper I now...
78874From Thomas Jefferson to Sir John Sinclair, 2 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I avail myself of the earliest moment possible after my return to thank you for the sketch of your last year’s journey which has come duly to hand. I send you through the medium of Count Sarsfeild a late publication on the connections between France and the United states which is said to be well written. I have not yet read it, and indeed I wonder how any body finds time to read any thing in...
78875From Thomas Jefferson to Va. Postmaster at Lynchburg, 29 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the Postmaster at Lynchburg, and having requested him in a note of yesterday to send by mail to this place a letter which he supposes to be lying in that office for him, he has now to pray he will send it by the bearer, being an earlier opportunity than he had expected would occur: & tenders him his salutations. Privately owned.
78876II. Jefferson’s Reply, 7 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieve with great satisfaction the visit you have been so kind as to make us at this place, and I thank the great spirit who has conducted you to us in health and safety. it is well that friends should sometimes meet, open their minds mutually, and renew the chain of affection. made by the same great spirit, and living in the same land with our brothers the red men, we consider ourselves as...
78877From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 25 November 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you a private letter on the 9th. inst. but the vessel was gone before it was ready. Therefore it goes now, and I have nothing to add on that subject, but that nothing more has past thereon. My last private letters before that were of Sep. 1. and Nov. 9. Tho it is long since I received your’s of Nov. 7. 1790. and Dec. 29. on the subject of our accounts, yet it is never till now that I...
78878From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Pinckney, 30 March 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 8th. was recieved on the 25th. and I proceed to state to you my views of the present state and prospect of foreign affairs under the confidence that you will use them for your own government and opinions only, and by no means let them get out as from me. with France we are in no immediate danger of war. her future views it is impossible to estimate. the immediate danger we...
78879From Thomas Jefferson to Mr. & Mrs. Nicholson, 27 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson requests the favour of Mr. & Mrs. Nicholson to dine with him on Monday the 3d. Mar. at half after three, or at whatever later hour the house may rise. The favour of an answer is asked. MoSHi : Bixby Collection.
78880From Thomas Jefferson to Sebastian Bauman, 26 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letter to mr Dupont, it is very important should be put safely into his hand, as he is near his departure for France. but as he had apprised me he might have a temporary absence from New York before his departure, I have thought it safest to commit them to your particular care, to be delivered to him if now at New York, or whenever he may return there, so that he may get the...