79721From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Moore, 6 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of 2 d proposing to our University the purchase of a mineralogical collection. we do not propose to go in that line further than mere utility, and have already by donations such a collection as we can well proceed on. others are expected, and particularly we count on the future efforts of our own eleves to make the collection what it should be, and enable us to...
79722Thomas Jefferson to Louis H. Girardin, 13 December 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson must apologise to mr Girardin for not sending an answer to his note of the day before yesterday , which was occasioned by his servant’s departure while he was writing it. he now sends him Jones ’s MS. and Mellish ’s travells. the copy of the British spy which he possesses belongs to his petit format library in Bedford , where it now is. he will with pleas has made a few...
79723From Thomas Jefferson to John van Heukelom & Son, 10 September 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
The purpose of the present is to acknowlege the receipt of your letter of March 1786. and to assure you that it never came to my hands till last night. You will probably have thought me guilty of a neglect of which I beg you to be assured I am incapable towards you.—Probably by this time you have arranged your matter with Mr. Barclay. He is gone to America with the express view of selling his...
79724Thomas Jefferson to James Semple, 2 October 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
When I had the pleasure of seeing you for a moment in Charlottesville , I understood you were on your way to mr Carr’s to engage him to accept a professorship in the college of W m & Mary . concluding thence that you take an interest in the success of that institution I take the liberty of communicating to you that President Meigs late of the University of Georgia is desirous of coming farther...
79725From Thomas Jefferson to United States Congress, 23 November 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeably to the assurance given in my message at the opening of the present session of Congress, I now lay before you a copy of the proceedings & of the evidence exhibited on the arraignment of Aaron Burr & others before the Circuit Court of the United States held in Virginia in the course of the present year, in as authentic form as their several parts have admitted. NNFoM .
79726From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 17 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson will be obliged to mr Barnes if he can furnish him two sums of 50. D. each in bank bills of the US. tomorrow morning. this will be instead of the further remittance to mr Jefferson. RC ( ViU : Edgehill-Randolph Papers); endorsed by Barnes; endorsed by TJ. Not recorded in SJL . On this day TJ received from Barnes $100 and sent to John and Reuben Perry each $50 in bank bills ( MB...
79727From Thomas Jefferson to the District of Columbia Commissioners, 29 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 24th. is duly recieved. I consider the erection of the Representatives chamber, and the making a good gravel road from the New bridge on Rock creek along the Pensylva & Jersey avenues to the Eastern branch as the most important objects for ensuring the destinies of the city which can be undertaken. all others appear to me entirely subordinate and to rest on considerations...
79728From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Smith, 9 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The letters of Trenchard, Williamson & Leonard, which I recieved from you the last week, I forwarded to mr Gallatin for his information, & desired him to return them to you. that of a person of Boston whose name I cannot decypher is reserved for a similar purpose. I inclose you a letter to mr Gallatin covering some others, which I will ask the favor of you to read & hand on to him with such...
79729Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Leiper, 27 April 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 19 th is recieved, and I percieve I have been taken in, and it is not for the first time by strangers pretending to be the sons of my friends. in this case the statement by the applicant calling himself your son was that in passing thro the neighboring county of Orange , in the night, & embarrassed in deep roads, his trunk was cut from behind his gig, that he was on his way...
79730From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 17 July 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you the petitions of the inhabitants of Sag-harbor and of the Keeper of the Light house there. the claims of the parties depend on the Indian right of soil, on the legal effect of the Indian conveyances & contracts, & the degree of patronage or guardianship exercised over them by the government of N. York. the rule of decision being the lex loci, the science & authority of the State...