79071To Thomas Jefferson from Richard Price, 4 May 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Having been informed that you intended in the last month to sail for America, I am doubtful whether these lines will ever find you. Supposing it however possible that you may not yet have left Paris, I cannot help taking the opportunity now offer’d me to acknowledge the reception of the letter with which you honoured me February last and in which you have been so good as to give me an account...
79072To Thomas Jefferson from David Bushnell, [13] October 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
In the latter part of the year, one thousand seven hundred and eighty five, I received a letter from Colonel David Humphreys, and soon after, another from Doctor Ezra Stiles, President of Yale College, in Connecticut, informing me, that your Excellency desired an account of my submarine vessel, and the experiments which I had made. At the time I received those letters, I was seized with a...
79073To Thomas Jefferson from William Neilley, 27 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
At a meeting of a number of the citizens of Franklin and its vicinity in the county of Williamson, Major William Neilley in the chair, the following address and resolutions were unanimously adopted. At a moment like the present, when rumors prevail in the Atlantic states, calculated to excite suspicions of the fidelity of the western inhabitants to the general Union, the citizens of Franklin...
79074Lady Virginia Murray to Thomas Jefferson, [before 29 November 1815] (Jefferson Papers)
I am at a loss how to begin a Letter in the which I am desirous of stating claims that may long since have been forgotten—but which I think no time can really annihilate until fufilment has followed the promise—I imagine you must have heard that during my Father the late Earl of Dunmore’s residence in America —I was born— & that the Assembly then sitting at Williamsburg requested I might be...
79075To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, 30 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
The Hague, 30 May 1788 . Contents of TJ’s letter of 15 May and TJ’s personal recollection of Dumas are equally precious to him; has communicated what appeared proper to friends of America at The Hague, Amsterdam, and particularly Leiden, where he hopes the Gazette will show what good use he tried to make of it. Stadtholder and family set off yesterday for Cleves, where the king of Prussia will...
79076To Thomas Jefferson from Harrison Hall, 9 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of handing you above my account for the Port Folio for the last two years the account of which or such part thereafter as may be conveniently enclosed may be transmitted by Mail Should you think proper to make the advance for 1826 one note of $20 will answer the purpose.— I would be happy to supply you with a complete copy of the Port Folio since its commencement in 1800 for...
79077To Thomas Jefferson from David Humphreys, 30 November 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
As soon as my baggage was landed, I wrote a note to M. de Pinto, advising that I was charged with the delivery of a letter from you to him, and requesting the honor of being informed at what time it would be convenient for His Excellency to receive it. To this he gave an extremely polite answer, and fixed upon the 25th of this Month at his House in Junqueira. I accordingly waited on him, and,...
79078To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 15 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose the letter of the Agent of the U.S. in Louisiana announcing the decision of the Commissioners, Lucas’s reasons of dissent, and the Attorney general’s opinion. A legislative remedy is liable to the objection, that it seems to admit that the construction of the law was doubtful, and might be attacked by some as retrospective. Instructions covering the Atty. Gen.’s opinion may be...
79079Jonathan & Thomas Foster to Thomas Jefferson, 4 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
We have taken the liberty to send you one of the first papers of the Constellation, and cannot help expressing a wish, that you may so approbate it as to become its patron, Gen l John Smith , our representative, is one of our worthy patrons, & holds a Prospectus RC ( MHi ); adjacent to closing: “Thomas Jefferson Esq r ”; endorsed by TJ as received 17 Jan. 1810 and so recorded in SJL ....
79080To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 6 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor of writing to you on the 3d. ulto. from Madrid announcing to you my arrival there on the 1st. Since then M. Carmichael and myself have written to you a joint letter of the 19th. ulto. informing you of such circumstances as had then taken place concerning the business with which we are jointly charged—and particularly of the nomination of M. de Gardoqui to treat with us. We...