79941From Thomas Jefferson to Theodorus Bailey, 28 June 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his friendly salutations to General Bailey asks the favor of him to give a passage to the inclosed letter by one of the packets to London. ViU .
79942Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 4 December 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your’s of Nov. 29 . you have rightly under stood the expression in my letter of ‘the place under him’ assuredly meaning the principal office in Richmond under the PM.G. Jefferson ’s sollicitations were warmly for yourself. he never had an idea of that or any thing else of the kind for himself. his views are fixed on the earth & his own industry only. I intend this year to...
79943From Thomas Jefferson to Eleuthère Irenée Du Pont, 17 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Mr. Dupont & sends him Dr. Brown’s paper on the Salt peter caves & rocks of Kentucky, which he asks the return of to himself when he shall have read it. DeGH .
79944From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 25 November 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Lindsay Coleman called on me yesterday on the transaction which has been the subject of our two last letters. He says it was a matter of Mr. Wayles’s, and that the note in question was given by Mr. Eppes and myself as executors. I cannot recall to my mind one tittle of what he mentions, and the transaction not relating to my private affairs is the reason I made no entry in my books. I have...
79945Thomas Jefferson to Philip Thornton, 10 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
On a visit to the Natural bridge the last summer I learnt that you had, for some time, suspended the manufacture of shot at that place. supposing therefore you might wish to get rid of the lease, I wrote you from Poplar Forest on the 17 th of Aug. that, if you chose it to surrender it, it might be considered as having ended on whatever day you had shut up the manufacture. having recieved no...
79946From Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Lord, 14 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to mr Lord for the pamphlet he has been so kind as to send him, presenting a view of all those who have been honoured by the favorable notice of Harvard college. it is a work which, while gratifying to those particularly named, cannot fail to excite an useful emulation in the minds of those who may wish to be enrolled in it. he thanks mr Lord for the mark of...
79947Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 24 November 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 16 th was recieved on the 19 th and I thank you for the trouble you have taken with my catalogue, and I have no doubt your enumeration is right, mine having been estimated by counting a few pages & taking them for an average. I am contented also with your estimate of price, if the committee should be so, or that they should send on valuers, fixing on your estimate as a...
79948From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas T. Hewson, 29 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to thank you for the communication of Cointeraux’s two pamphlets which I now return you. at the moment of my recieving them I knew that mr Fulton was building a wall of Pisé in the former manner, & therefore sent them to him. he has made some moëlons in the new method, & pronounces it infinitely superior to the former. but it may be questioned whether it is sensibly cheaper than stone,...
79949Annual Message to Congress, 17 October 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
In calling you together , fellow citizens, at an earlier day than was contemplated by the act of the last session of Congress, I have not been insensible to the personal inconveniencies necessarily resulting from an unexpected change in your arrangements. but matters of great public concernment have rendered this call necessary; and the interest you feel in these will supercede in your minds...
79950From Thomas Jefferson to Hugh Henry Brackenridge, 18 December 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I received while at home the letter you were so kind as to write me. the employments of the country have such irresistable attractions for me, that while I am at home, I am very unpunctual in acknoleging the letters of my friends. having no refuge here from my room & writing table, it is my regular season for fetching up the lee way of my correspondence. Before you receive this you will have...