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...
79731From Thomas Jefferson to William John Coffee, 10 April 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Jan. 11. did not reach me till the last of Feb. and as I then expected to have a meeting of the Visitors within a few days I deferred answering you till that should give me something more decisive to say, the month of Mar. however passed over without the expected meeting, and it did not take place till this week. we propose to take this summer & autumn for procuring professors...
79732From Thomas Jefferson to United States Senate, 30 March 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I now transmit to the Senate the information requested in their resolutions of the 28th. instant from the Secretaries of the Treasury and War. DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
79733Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Greenhow, 21 April 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I regret that I am obliged to withdraw from membership in the association of the mutual fire insuring company , by a change of practice extremely disagreeable as well as onerous: so much so as to make it preferable to withdraw from an institution which I think a good one. it has always been the practice, of courtesy at least, if not of law, for the agent to apply for my annual contribution...
79734Notes on St. Augustine, Florida, 27 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Feb. 27. 1806. Information from Vermonet. St. Augustine. The town & fort of St. Augustine contain about 3000. souls. the fort is a regular Tetragon, with 4. bastions, casemeted, walls of stone & high. it is at one end of the town & commands it. There is one regiment of 400. men belonging to that part of the province, of which about 150. to 200. are ge ne rally at St. Augustine, & the rest at...
79735Thomas Jefferson to George Logan, 19 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
It gives me the greatest pain, dear Sir, to make a serious complaint to you. from the letter which I wrote you on the 3 d of Oct. 1813. an extract was published, with my name, in the newspapers, conveying a very just, but certainly a very harsh censure on Bonaparte . this produced to me more complaints from my best friends, and called for more explanations than any transaction of my life had...
79736From Thomas Jefferson to James Barbour, 30 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of the 24 th inst. covering an invitation to some one of the Professors of the University of Virginia to attend the examination of the Cadets at West point on the first Monday in June next. in most of the Seminaries of the US. I believe there is a Summer vacation which may admit the attendance of such of their professors as are honored by a like invitation. but...
79737From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 3 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 30 th your advances for me have been unreasonably great and such as I must check. but no consideration on earth will permit me to let you suffer. Except our neighborly and current calls, every thing is in Jefferson hands. I sent for him this morning and have had a conference with him. he assures me he has had you in constant view and thinks himself...
79738From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 7 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I communicate to Congress an Extract of a letter from Governor Claiborne to the Secretary of state, with one which it covered, for their information as to the present state of the subject to which they relate. RC ( DNA : RG 46, LPPM , 8th Cong., 1st sess.); endorsed by a Senate clerk. RC ( DNA : RG 233, PM , 8th Cong., 1st sess.); endorsed by a House clerk. Recorded in SJL with notation...
79739From Thomas Jefferson to Abraham Bradley, Jr., 1 September 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Bradley and now returns him the papers of Judge Toulmin, mr Gaines Etc. not knowing where to direct to mr Granger, he asks the favor of mr Bradley to superscribe the proper direction on the inclosed letter & to forward it to him. DLC : Thomas Jefferson Collection.
79740From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Jacques Combes-Dounous, 29 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 14. 07. was duly recieved with the copy you were so kind as to send me of your excellent translation of Maximus of Tyre, for which I pray you to accept my thanks. peculiarly attached to the writings of the antients, and particularly their philosophical works, yet having little time to yield to that indulgence, I am under peculiar obligations to those who devote their time...
79741From Thomas Jefferson to Robert King, Sr., 7 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 5th. has been duly recieved, and I thank you for the statement of business to be done in the surveyor’s department of the city. you observe that you cannot continue in that office for less than 1000. D. pr. annum, nor unless your son Robert be employed. you have doubtless read the act of Congress suppressing the board of Commissioners and substituting a superintendant. in...
79742Thomas Jefferson to Lewis D. Belair, 10 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I lately recieved from mr Fernagus de Gelone the inclosed list of books which he desired me to forward to you after perusal. I see nothing on it which I would desire at this time, except Quenon Dictionn. Grec Francois 8 vo which if among the books he sends to you I should be glad to recieve, or if you can get him to send it to you. he says he is about forwarding to you a large parcel of...
79743To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 23 December 1791 (Washington Papers)
As the conditions of our commerce with the French and British Dominions, are important, and a moment seems to be approaching when it may be useful that both should be accurately understood, I have thrown a representation of them into the form of a table, shewing, at one view, how the principal articles interesting to our agriculture and navigation stand in the European and American Dominions...
79744From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mifflin, 20 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to acknolege the receipt of your favor of yesterday covering the letter of Mr. Serjeant in the case of ejectment Barclay v. Proctor, and have inclosed the letter to Mr. Pinckney with a recommendation to lend his aid to the sollicitations of the parties interested, whenever it shall be necessary for obtaining what is right. I have the honor to be with sentiments of the most...
79745Thomas Jefferson to James Hamilton, 25 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of May 4. I informed you of the reciept of yours of Apr. 16. just as I was setting out on a journey, immediately on my return from which I would look to the having paiment made of the subscriptions to mr Maclure assigned to you. I am proceeding in that business, and, without awaiting it’s entire accomplishment, think it best to communicate it’s present state as below. the...
79746From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 27 July 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
As it seems now tolerably probable that the British squadron in our bay have not in contemplation to commit any hostile act, other than the remaining there in defiance & bringing to the vessels which pass in & out, we are making all the arrangements preparatory to the possible state of war, that they may be going on, while we take our usual recess. in the course of three or four days a...
79747[Orders to James Markham, 20 October 1780] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Richmond, 20 Oct. 1780. Minute in the Journal of the Commissioner of the Navy (Vi) under this date: “Orders given to Capt. Markham to proceed to Hampton and wait on the Commodore for Directions, countersigned by His Excellency The Governor.” Not located.]
79748Thomas Jefferson to Joseph H. Nicholson, 21 May 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for making me acquainted with mr M c Culloch . he staid with me but part of a day. but that was sufficient to let me see that he was capable, well informed and modest. he left us on the 18 th for the Natural bridge , from whence he intended to return, and to postpone for a while his Western expedition. I recieve the kind expressions of your letter with sensibility & gratification,...
79749From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 12 April 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
At Marseilles they told me I should encounter the ricefeilds of Piedmont soon after crossing the Alps. Here they tell me there are none nearer than Vercelli and Novarra, which is carrying me almost to Milan. I fear that this circumstance will occasion me a greater delay than I had calculated on. However I am embarked in the project and shall go through with it. Tomorrow I set out on my passage...
79750From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 8 September 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
We were detained on the road by the rains so that we did not arrive here till yesterday about two oclock. As soon as horses could be got ready, we set out and rode till dark, examining chiefly the grounds newly laid open, which we found much superior to what we had imagined. We have passed this day in consultation with the Commissioners, who having deliberated on every article contained in our...