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A Sample of tobacco—such as has been sold recently in the Baltimore Market at $35. per Cwt: with the best respects of your obedt Sert. RC ( DLC ). Addressed by Skinner to JM “late President U.S. Orange Court House,” and franked. Docketed by JM: “Skinner, J. S.” On a slip of paper adhered to the middle of Skinner’s letter is an undated draft of JM’s reply, the RC of which is printed at 20 July...
I have fallen short about 60 sheets of Tin of the quantity wanting, if you will be so good as to loan me that quantity I will return it, as Soon as I can get a box from Richmond , by leting in it come in your cart that comes for the cuting machine you will oblige Sir your ob t Sev t RC ( CSmH: JF ); dateline at foot of text; addressed: “ J Thomas Jefferson
Knowing you take a lively interest in all that is goeing forward in the United States , marking the improvements, and their progress towards independence of other countries, for whatever is necessary or usefull, I have taken the liberty of sending you a copy of my latest specimen of Printing type thinking it will suffer nothing from a comparison with any thing of the kind; perhaps I view it...
By M r Harlow ’s boats you will receive, 4 Blls. herrings, 2 Bundles 20 d nail rods 2 do. 8 d & 3 6 Bundles of the sizes between making in all 10 Bundles— if delivered in good order pay frght: as customary— B Peyton By  N. N. Wilkinson P.S. I could find no Shad but those with heads on, I therefore bought none— Notes by TJ on verso:
I recd. some time ago a letter from Mr. H. G. Spafford at Ballston Spa N.Y. in which he says “I wish your Booksellers would encourage me to write a Gazetteer of Virga. I could travel all over the State, collect materials, & prepare the work for the press, in about 2 years on a salary of $1000 a year, & a few copies of the work.” I answered that I could not undertake to judge how far a...
Your favor of the 15 th of June is recieved, and I am very thankful for the kindness of it’s expressions respecting myself. but it ascribes to me merits which I do not claim. I was one only of a band devoted to the cause of independance, all of whom exerted equally their best endeavors for it’s success, and have a common right to the merits of it’s acquisition. so also in the civil revolution...
Your favor of June 24. is recieved. age, debility and the manual pai difficulty and pain of writing, have obliged me to withdraw from every thing possible which requires writing, and especially from every thing political; on which subject I read nothing, but leave the future to the generation which it concerns. they are to feel the good and the evil of measures, and therefore have alone the...
July 2. after I had sent my duplicate of June 11. with a P.S. of yesterday to the Post office, I recieved a letter of June 24. from mr Vaughan informing me he had that day remitted you by duplicates mr Girard ’s bill for 960. franks: that my original to you of June 11. was
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to mr Lambert for the paper he has been so kind as to inclose to him for the University of Virginia , which shall be taken care of for that Institution. as to himself he has long since withdrawn his mind from all attention to difficult subjects, finding that lighter reading is more congenial with the quiet & repose which age and debility now render his summum...
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to mr M c Kenny for the kind expressions of his note of June 26. but age, debility and for his attention in sending him a copy of his Prospectus . but age, debility and an aversion to politics have for some time withdrawn him from every thing of that character. he reads but one newspaper , and that of his own state , and for the sake of the advertisements...