78881From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Huntington, 26 March 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
The appointment of Commissioner to the War Office of this State having lately become vacant, the Executive are desirous to place Colo. William Davies of the Virga. Continentals in that office. This Gentleman however declines undertaking it unless his rank in the army, half pay for life, land and allowance for depreciation of pay can be reserved to him; observing with justice that these...
78882From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 23 April 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Will you be so good as to peruse the inclosed and have some conversation with me on it to-day? RC ( PHi : Daniel Parker Papers); endorsed by Dearborn. Not recorded in SJL . Enclosure not identified.
78883Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas G. Dufief, 16 August 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you on the 14 th from Montpelier (the President ’s) requesting you to send on La Croix ’s Course of mathematics, and to procure for me a particular edition of Ovid ’s metamorphoses, which I am now satisfied is Minellius ’s. I have now to request that you will add to these Adams ’s geometrical & graphical essays in 2. v. 8 vo
78884From Thomas Jefferson to John Nicholson, 19 September 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the information contained in your letter of the 6th. inst. which merits attention the more as it coincides with information recieved from other quarters. it is certainly very interesting that we keep our eye on the proceedings of the persons who are the subject of your letter; and should you be able to obtain any further information respecting them or their measures, besides...
78885To John Adams from Thomas Jefferson, 23 June 1786 (Adams Papers)
I hear of a conveyance which allows me but a moment to write to you. I inclose a copy of a letter from mr̃ Lamb. I have written both to him & mr̃ Randall agreeable to what we had jointly thought best. the Courier de l’Europe gives us strange news of armies marching from the U.S. to take the posts from the English. I have received no public letters & not above one or two private ones from...
78886Thomas Jefferson to Thomas A. Digges, 15 June 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
a letter from the shadows of 41. to 43. (for these I suppose are the years of our births) is like one of those written from the banks of the Styx , it is so long since we have exchanged salutations, that I had almost been afraid to hazard mine to you without inclosing in it an Obolus as postage for Charon . I wish too that your letter had given a better account of your health and situation. to...
78887II. Memorandum on Justices of the Peace for the District of Columbia, [on or before 16 March 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
reduced the number from about 20. to 15. for each county adding to 11. of those named by mr Adams for Alexandria county, the 4. others marked with an * in the following list, & to 14. of those named by mr Adams for Washington county, 1 other have been added. a commission is consequently made out as follows. for Washington county for Alexandria county Thomas Sim Lee George Gilpin Daniel...
78888From Thomas Jefferson to Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, 9 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Sep. 24. is recieved, and I thank you for the seeds it covered. too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity. the pamphlets therein mentioned will probably come by subsequent mails, tho’ those mentioned in your letter of Feb. 2. did not come. the preference given to letters sometimes occasion the Postmasters to omit printed papers. you mention...
78889From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 17 September 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 9th. came to hand yesterday only so that it has missed a post somewhere. I thought that in my letter of Aug. 20. answering your’s of Aug. 17. that I had answered every point distinctly; but I find on recurring to it that the recommendations of messrs. Langdon & Whipple for Hopley Yeaton to be master and Benjamin Gunnison 1st. mate of the revenue cutter in Newhampshire, tho’...
78890List of Groceries for Gamble & Temple, [6 August 1795?] (Jefferson Papers)
75. ℔ of coffee, as old as you can. (not green) 125. ℔ brown sugar. clean and dry. 50. ℔ white sugar. single refined. [10.] ℔ chocolate 50. ℔ rice. 25 ℔ of water biscuit. what they call crackers. [10.] ℔ of raisins 10. ℔ of bitter almonds 3. ℔ black pepper 1. ℔ allspice ¼ ℔ nutmeg ¼ ℔ cloves ¼ ℔ cinnamon ¼ ℔ ginger 5. ℔ sago a keg of cod’s tongues and sounds. 50. ℔ myrtle...
78891From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 5 March 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of Feb 28 I informed you I had drawn on you in favor of Craven Peyton for a thousand dollars payable the 10th. instant, and that that sum should be remitted you from hence on this day. accordingly I now inclose you 18. bills of 50. D cash, and one of 100. making the sum of 1000. D branch bank of this place. About the beginning of October, I left a box of at Monticello to be...
78892From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 8 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President a letter from the Commissioners of Washington. Also begs leave to add to the list of candidates for the light house of Cape Henry, the name of John Waller Johnson, who has hitherto served in the Customs under Colo. Heath. He is recommended as a person of worth by a Mr. Waller Lewis of Spotsylvania, who is himself a man of worth. He has...
78893From Thomas Jefferson to Peter Lyons, 26 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
An old account between mr Wayles’s & Bathurst Skelton’s estate is shortly to be settled between the parties interested. in that account is the following item. ‘1792. July 3. To my assumpsit to pay your bond (i.e. B. Skelton’s bond) to Thos. Moore assigned to Saml. Farmer who assigned to Peter Lyons £20. To interest on do. from 17[67. Nov. 3.-?]’ at a meeting with Meriwether Skelton & Jerman...
78894From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Wagner, 9 August 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments & thanks to mr Wagner for the translation of the German letter, which as is usual, turns out not worth the trouble. he now returns papers recieved partly from mr Madison partly from mr Wagner he desires a Commission may be issued to James Holmes of Georgia to be Collector of Sunbury in Georgia v. George Foster, resigned. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
78895From Thomas Jefferson to John Page, 9 July 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of June 22. was recieved in due time. since that the Postmaster General has returned to this place, and I desired him to inform me what were the emoluments of the P.M.’s place at Richmond. he says those of the last year, ending Apr. 1. were 2098 D. 54C out of which the Postmaster pays Clerk’s hire, office rent Etc. this is not so much as I had expected, and possibly is not as good as...
78896From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 26 October 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I see with great concern that unavoidable delays are likely still to procrastinate your negociations beyond what had been expected: & I sincerely regret the particular circumstance to which this is owing, the illness, probably the death of mr Fox. his sound judgment saw that political interest could never be separated in the long run from moral right, & his frank & great mind would have made a...
78897From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin A. Gould, 5 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I am much indebted to you, Sir, for your present of the bust of my friend mr Adams. without knowing exactly the precise period at which it was taken, I think it a good likeness of what he was a little after he had past the middle age of life. it recieved a little injury by fracture, but the parts are preserved, and, being on the back part, can be repaired without disfiguring it. I place it...
78898Thomas Jefferson to Louis H. Girardin, 8 July 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I am uncertain whether you know that you have been anticipated in the translation of Botta . the first information I had of it was the reciept of the 1 st vol. three days ago from the translater mr Geo. A. Otis . it is to be in 3. v. 8 vo and the 2 d & 3 d are promised as fast as they can be printed. should you consider this as a release from that labor, I should hope you would give the time...
78899Thomas Jefferson to Virginia Delegates in Congress, 31 August 1780 (Madison Papers)
FC (Photostat in Virginia State Library of copy in British Museum: Addington MSS 38,650). We agree to employ mr. Dunlap according to his proposals inclosed in your Letter of the 15th instant except that we must adhere to our requisition that a complete sheet of his weekly paper shall be kept clear of advertisements, and reserved for intelligence, essays, &c., except that advertisements from...
78900Thomas Jefferson to William Duane, 4 April 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Feb. 14. has been duly recieved, and the MS of the Commentary on Montesquieu is also safe at hand. I now forward to you the work of Tracy , which you will find a valuable supplement and corrective to those we already possess on political economy. it is a little unlucky that it’s outset is of a metaphysical character, which may damp the ardor of perusal in some readers. he has...
78901From Thomas Jefferson to William H. Sargeant, 8 July 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been honoured with your favor of June 15. inclosing a letter to young Mr. Bannister, which I have forwarded to him at Bourdeaux where he is at present. My last letter from him is dated June 5. He said his health was then incertain, sometimes tolerably well, at others less so. I wrote his father on the 6th. of May last, and shall take care to inform him as often as I can of the state of...
78902From Thomas Jefferson to —— Cabot, 24 July 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
I deliver to Mr. Tracy to be returned to you the copy of Don Quixot which you were so obliging as to lend me: for which I return you many thanks. The winds have been so propitious as to let me get through one volume only: yet this has so far done away the difficulties of the language as that I shall be able to pursue it on shore with pleasure. I have found it a very advantageous disposal of...
78903From Thomas Jefferson to James Pleasants, 24 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
The Report of the Rector & Visitors of the University of Virga which accompanies this letter, expressing a doubt, from the informn then possessed , whether our Agent would be able to effect the purposes of his mission to Europe at as early a day as we had expected, observed that ‘of this more would be known in time for it’s communication by the Rector with the Report’. I have to give the...
78904Thomas Jefferson to Eli Alexander, 25 January 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Having some heavy sums to pay at our March & April courts I should be glad if in the disposal of your crops you could have an eye to those periods so far as respects the rent now due. as the prices of wheat & flour are now good, and the earliest sales of tob o will undoubtedly be the best, I trust no loss can arise from early sales. being to set out for Bedford tomorrow or next day & to be...
78905To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Jefferson, 8 May 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I had wished to have kept back the issuing passports for sea vessels, till the question should be decided whether the treaty with France should be declared void, lest the issuing the Passport prescribed by that treaty might be considered as prejudging the question. The importunities however of the owners obliging me to give out a few, I had them printed in the Dutch form only. Not then having...
78906From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Appleton, 30 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you on the 29th. of Apr. & 26. Oct. 1806. your last which has been recieved was of Nov. 18. 1805. in mine of Apr. 29. I asked the favor of you to ship for me in Sep. or early in Oct. 400. bottles of Montepulciano, of the vineyards of the Antient Jesuits, the 473. bottles of that growth which you had sent me before being the best I had ever recieved, & having kept the best. having heard...
78907From Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 28 September 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your favors by Mr. Cutting, and thank you sincerely for the copy of your book. The departure of a packet-boat, which always gives me full emploiment for some time before, has only permitted me to look into it a little. I judge of it from the first volume which I thought formed to do a great deal of good. The first principle of a good government is certainly a distribution of it’s...
78908From Thomas Jefferson to David Shepherd, 18 June 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
You are desired to give notice to such recruits under the act of Assembly passed last winter as may not yet have marched from your county, to hold themselves in readiness to assemble at your courthouse at a moment’s warning from you. An officer will be immediately appointed, from whom you will receive notice of the day on which he will attend at your courthouse to receive them; and the...
78909From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Massie, 26 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I will be glad to take of you the present year about 9 or 100. gall s of cyder, which I hope you will chuse for me of your very best. p. be pleased to accept my best wishes and respects MHi .
78910From Thomas Jefferson to Bey of Tunis Hammuda Pasha, 28 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I learned with great concern that the Commander of our squadron in the Mediterranean, Commodore Rogers, deeming it his duty to ask explanations of menaces understood to have been signified towards the US. had done this in a manner not consisting with the respect due to your Excellency’s character, nor with the friendship which I bear you. In this, be assured that he was not governed by his...