79141To John Adams from Thomas Jefferson, 8 March 1801 (Adams Papers)
Th. Jefferson presents his respects to Mr. Adams and incloses him a letter which came to his hands last night; on reading what is written within the cover, he concluded it to be a private letter, and without opening a single paper within it he folded it up & now has the honor to inclose it to Mr Adams, with the homage of his high consideration and respect. MHi : Adams Papers.
79142From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Waterhouse, 21 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the pleasure of informing you on the 14th. inst. that I supposed the inoculation of the kine pox to have taken effect in two subjects. these were from the matter you were kind enough to send July 24. that of July 26. succeeded with 2. others. that of Aug. 1. with 4. on the 16th. inst. we inoculated from the 2. first subjects 15. others, 14. of whom very evidently have the infection, so...
79143From Thomas Jefferson to Rayneval, 17 April 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
As the moment of my departure approaches, I take the liberty of recalling to your mind the order I have sollicited for the delivery of our arms and stores at Nantes, arrested there by Schweighauser & Dobrée. I am very anxious to be enabled to give final orders on that subject before I go, and therefore am obliged to be troublesome to you about it.—I have the honor to be with sentiments of the...
79144From Thomas Jefferson to James Maxwell, 28 February 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
I am to ask the Favor of you to proceed immediately to Hampton to procure a number of the best and most trusty river and Bay Pilots. If you cannot otherwise get them you must force them into the Service. Immediately on your arrival at Hampton wait on the Commanding Officer of his most Christian Majesty’s Fleet to know the Number of Pilots wanting, and to receive and forward by express to me...
79145From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 12 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Brockenbrough was before desired to remit to Gen l Dearborn Collector of Boston on the marble capitels arrived there Freight from Leghorn to Boston 795.30 Expenses in Boston 17.50 Insurance 72.28 885.08 [note in Brockenbrough’s hand?] : Nov 9 ’25 Voucher rec d he is now desired to remit to Jonathan Thompson, Collector of New York on the bases & pavement arrived there Duties on 31. cases. @...
79146Thomas Jefferson to Theodosius Hansford, 7 April 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of Mar. 15. with the books stated in the catalogue it covered, and the natural substances accompanying them, and on behalf of the Visitors and of the University I return you thanks for this kind donation. they shall be carefully preserved, and faithfully delivered to that institution so soon as it opens. I hope it will become worthy of the favors of which you...
79147Report on Petition of Charles Colvill, 14 November 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary of State, to whom was referred, by the House of Representatives, the Petition of Charles Colvill, praying to be paid the Amount of his Ransom from the Algerines, and of his Travelling Expenses, and that Measures be taken for procuring the Ransom of his late Fellow-Captives, with Instructions to examine the same, and report his Opinion thereon, has had the same under Examination,...
79148Thomas Jefferson to William W. Hening, 11 March 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Congress having concluded to replace by my library the one which they lost by British Vandalism, it is now become their property, and of course my duty to collect and put in place whatever belongs to it. this obliges me to request of you the return of the V th vol. of my Collection of the Virginia laws, being that in which the Sessions acts were bound together. should there be in the volume...
79149From Thomas Jefferson to Madame de Corny, 18 October 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I have now the honor, Madam, to send you the Memoire of M. de Calonne . Do not injure yourself by hurrying it’s perusal. Only, when you shall have read it at your ease, be so good as to send it back, that it may be returned to the Duke of Dorset. You will read it with pleasure. It has carried comfort to my heart, because it must do the same to the king and the nation. Tho’ it does not prove M....
79150From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Crowninshield, 21 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his friendly salutations to mr Crownenshield & incloses him the six dollars for the dumb fish he was so kind as to send him: he returns him his thanks for the trouble he has taken, and is encouraged hereafter to make use of his friendly offices in the same way. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
79151Thomas Jefferson to Henry Sheaff, 26 October 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 16 th is recieved, and I regret that I troubled you with an application so improsed improper . it had been long since I had had correspondence with you, and I was led to suppose your continuance in business by the Philadelphia Directory in f which I found your name, as a still a wine-merchant, and at the old stand. I still learn with more regret the bodily affliction under...
79152Thomas Jefferson to Henry Meigs, 5 April 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his thanks to the honorable mr Meigs for the copy of his speech of Feb. 25 . on the Missouri question, his wishes that it may never again be revived, his congratulations in that event, and, under all events, the assurance of his high respect. PoC ( DLC ); on verso of reused address cover to TJ; dateline at foot of text; endorsed by TJ as a letter to Meigs “of Congress.”...
79153Thomas Jefferson to Henry Middleton, 8 January 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Nov. 25 . was a month on it’s passage to me. I recieved with great pleasure this mark of your recollection, heightened by the assurance that the part I have acted in public life has met your approbation. having seen all other the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars & prodigalities of their rulers, I have cherished their opposites, peace, economy, &...
79154To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, March 1809 (Madison Papers)
Information having been recieved in October last that many intruders had settled on the lands of the Cherokees & Chickasaws; the letter from Genl. Dearborn to Colo. Meigs was written to have them ordered off, & to inform them they would be removed by military force in the spring if still on the lands. These orders remain still to be given, & they should go to the officer commanding at...
79155Thomas Jefferson to Henry Guegan, 4 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
The box of books came to hand yesterday, safely and in good order, and I shall immediately write to Cap t Bernard Peyton , my correspondent in Richmond , to remit you the sum of 43 D–50 C, as in this inland situation we have no course of Exchange but thro’ Richmond . I was gratified by the Catalogue of classical books, as it makes known to me some editions which I had not before known of. I...
79156Thomas Jefferson to Clifton Garland, 7 August 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I have examined the account of the Mutual insurance co. which you put into my hands. so much of it as respects the houses at Monticello is right: but the account for what the mill house which was the property of the Hendersons , I have nothing to do with, having never purchased nor owned it. it was excepted out of all my deeds. but indeed that account lies against nobody; for on their being...
79157Jefferson’s Advertisement for Sale of Elk Hill, [after 10 January 1790] (Jefferson Papers)
For Sale in Virginia The lands called Elk-hill on James river and the Byrd creek, adjacent to Elk-island, in Goochland, containing 669 acres, in two parcels, separated from each other about 50 rod, through which interval a public road passes. The one parcel contains 307. acres, of which there are between 50. and 60. of the best James river lowgrounds, about 200 acres of highland of rich red...
79158[From Thomas Jefferson to the Rev. James Madison, 8 May 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Annapolis, 8 May 1784 . Entry in SJL reads: “Jas. Madison. Wms.bg. Diary of weather enclosed. Tender of service to College—valedictory.” Letter and enclosure not found.]
79159To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 17 October 1793 (Washington Papers)
I was the day before yesterday honored with your favor of the 7th inst. by post and yesterday I received that of the 11th by express from Colo. Carrington. I will take care to be at Germantown by the 1st of the month. as the ploughing thro the roads of the month of January would be disagreeable with my own horses, I shall send them back from Fredericksburg, for which place I will set out...
79160From Thomas Jefferson to George W. Erving, 16 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Congress have appropriated a sum of money to the procuring books for their use. about one half of it was laid out in London the last year, but at such prices as forbid an application to the same bookseller. mr Duane is employed this year to make the importation, partly from Paris, partly from London, & to execute the details. but, as I am anxious to have it known that the public money must be...
79161From Thomas Jefferson to James Lackington, 12 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I received last night your catalogue, and the post being to set out this morning I send you, on the next leaf , a list of those I wish to take. The warning being too short to procure a bill of exchange and send it by this post, it shall follow by the next which leaves this place four days hence. In the mean time be so good as to pack the books in a light box, and after four days from your...
79162Declaration of Trust with Craven Peyton, 25 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
This indenture made between Thomas Jefferson of Monticello in Albemarle and Craven Peyton of the same county witnesseth that whereas the said Craven hath purchased from John R. Kerr & Sarah his wife, James L. Henderson , Isham Henderson & Charles Henderson (which said Sarah, James L. Isham and Charles are children & co-heirs with six others to Bennet Henderson late of Albemarle aforesd) their...
79163From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Griffin, James Southall, and Robert Anderson, 17 March 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
A number of Horses having been impressed for the use of the army collecting before Portsmouth and having been valued in the ordinary way to such prices as no State could pay nor should any man wish to receive, the General Assembly have come to the resolution now inclosed. The Executive for the Purpose of carrying it into Execution beg the favor of you or any two of you to undertake the...
79164From Thomas Jefferson to the Commissioners of the Treasury, 5 August 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
In my last of June 17. 1787. I had the honor of communicating to you the information I had received from Mr. Grand that your funds here were out, and he considerably in advance. I took occasion to mention to him the paragraph in your letter of Feb. 17. wherein you were so kind as to say your attention should be immediately turned to the making a remittance. However I understood soon after that...
79165From Thomas Jefferson to George Hay, 26 May 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
We are this moment informed by a person who left Richmond since the 22d. that the prosecution of Burr had begun under very inauspicious symptoms by the challenging & rejecting two members of the grandjury as far above all exception as any two persons in the US. I suppose our informant is inaccurate in his terms, & has mistaken an objection by the criminal & voluntary retirement of the...
79166From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 28 February 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 23d. was recieved last night and I have this day desired mr Barnes to get a bushel and a half of clover seed for mr Craven to be forwarded to you from this place or Philadelphia without delay. although the 400. bushels of coal desired from you would last through the summer, yet I would rather recieve from you double that quantity than be obliged to buy here, where indeed it is not...
79167Thomas Jefferson’s Estimate of Material Needed for Shadwell Milldam, [ca. 5 July 1822] (Jefferson Papers)
Estimate. for milldam stretchers. 10. of 40 f. each reach across the river 8. tier of them (4. on each side) 80. trees tiers 50. to each course × 4 courses 200. tiers each of the 80 stretchers will give 1. 80 120. more
79168Thomas Jefferson to George Watterston, 20 June 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have formerly mentioned, either in some letter written to you, or in a note in the MS. catalogue, that I had cut the print of Americus Vespucius out of the book containing his life, & lent it to mr Delaplane to be copied. it is just now returned to me, very much sullied: but as it is the original, it should be pasted again into the work, for which purpose I now inclose it . you will readily...
79169From Thomas Jefferson to United States Congress, 22 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I transmit to both houses of Congress a letter from the Envoy of his Britannic Majesty at this place to the Secretary of state on the subject of certain British claims to lands in the territory of Missisipi, relative to which several acts have been heretofore passed by the legislature. DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
79170I. Draft of the Annual Message, 25 October 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Aggressions in the W. Indies & in our harbours. To a people, fellow citizens, who sincerely desire the happiness and prosperity of other nations, to those who justly calculate that their own prosperity is advanced by that of the nations with which they have intercourse, it will be a satisfaction to observe that the war which was lighted up in Europe a little before our last meeting, has not...