79031From Thomas Jefferson to William C. C. Claiborne, 7 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I ask the favor of you to deliver the inclosed letters to the President of the Council & Speaker of the H. of Representatives of the Missisipi territory. they contain answers to the resolutions they were pleased to forward to me. I am gratified by their testimony to the world that I have done right in refusing to continue Governor Sargeant. as to his statement of the conversation between him...
79032From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Rush, 24 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the reciept of your friendly favor of the 12th and the pleasing sensations produced in my mind by it’s affectionate contents. I am made very happy by learning that the sentiments expressed in my inaugural address give general satisfaction, and hold out a ground on which our fellow citizens can once more unite. I am the more pleased, because these sentiments have been long &...
79033From Thomas Jefferson to George Sullivan, 8 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your letter of the 2d. desiring permission to have a machine for spinning wool, cotton & flax, invented in Paris, brought in the public vessel now about to sail from New York for France. in consideration of the public utility of introducing such a machine, the Secretary of the Treasury will give notice to the captain at New York that he is permitted to bring it. as the...
79034Thomas Jefferson to Francis W. Gilmer, 28 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sorry it is not in my power to furnish you any documents on the subject of the Louisiana boundary. all these went with my library. soon after the acquisition of that country, I investigated it’s history & boundaries minutely, made out a Chronological series of it’s historical events, and formed a memoir establishing it’s boundaries from Perdido to the Rio Bravo . these were sent to our...
79035From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 22 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose a letter from Jefferson to Ellen which I presume will inform the family of his health. I sent for your perusal last week a letter from Dr. Wistar strongly urging his attendance on the chemical lectures. we had supposed, you know, that it would be best for him to confine himself, while at Philadelphia, to those branches of science for which that place has peculiar advantages, that is...
79036From Thomas Jefferson to Caleb Bickham, 22 October 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your letter on the subject of the tides. my partiality for subjects of that kind in preference to all others, endangering a neglect of duties of a higher order, and which occupy me without intermission, I have been obliged to lay it down as a law for myself to decline corresponding on philosophical subjects generally. the generality of this rule must be my apology in any...
79037From Thomas Jefferson to United States Congress, 10 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Documents to shew that the settlement of Bayou Pierre on the Red river, at which a principal aggression took place, was originally made by France while possessing Louisiana, and came to the possession of Spain only by the general delivery of Louisiana to her, and as a part of it. DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
79038From Thomas Jefferson to William W. Bibb, 28 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved duly your favor of July 1. covering an offer from mr MacDonald of an iron mine to the public, & I thank you for taking the trouble of making the communication, as it might have it’s utility. But having always observed that public works are much less advantageously managed than the same are by private hands, I have thought it better for the public to go to market for whatever it...
79039Thomas Jefferson to Gerard E. Stack, 29 August 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
A severe spell of rheumatism has rendered me unable to answer letters with punctuality: this has been the less important as to your’s of the 13 th because the question it proposes of better encouragement is one to which I am not competent to answer. this depends on the visitors who will meet in the beginning of October. they have fixed the tuition fees for the University at 30.D. and whether...
79040Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the Likeness of Christopher Columbus, [ca. 28 August 1814] (Jefferson Papers)
Note by Th:J. The 1 st vol. of Debry was printed in 1590. & the 2 d to which the preface is here given, was printed in 1595. it was between these two dates then that the copy [exemplar] of the portrait which had been taken by order of the king & Queen , and of which his son made the miniature here exhibited, was given by his friend who recieved it from the painter himself [i.e. the copyist.]...