80111From Thomas Jefferson to David Ross, 26 May 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
I am exceedingly at a Loss to judge whether it be better to try the Method of Application to the new Commanding Officer for a Passport and run the Risk of losing another Month or two, or to pursue the former plan of applying immediately to Charlestown. With Respect to myself however I can more easily determine that the sending to Charlestown having had the Approbation of Council and having a...
80112Thomas Jefferson to José Corrêa da Serra, 5 June 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I had determined, my dear Sir, to have withdrawn at the close of this year to have withdrawn from all subscriptions to newspapers, and never to read another. but the National Intelligencer of the 1 st inst. has given me so much pleasure that I shall defer for a year longer my resolution. it announced your appointment from your new king , to be his minister to this country. if this is...
80113From Thomas Jefferson to John Shee, 14 January 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 16th. Ult. was duly recieved, conveying a tender, by the Philadelphia republican militia legion, of their voluntary services against either foreign or domestic foes—the pressure of business usual at this season has prevented it’s earlier acknolegement, & the return of my thanks, on the public behalf, for this example of patriotic spirit. always a friend to peace, & believing...
80114From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 18 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
You will receive herewith a commission appointing Mr. Carmichael and yourself joint Commissioners plenipotentiary for treating on the subjects therein expressed with the court of Madrid, to which place it is necessary of course that you repair. The instructions and other papers accompanying the commission (and of which no duplicate is hazarded) leave nothing to be added here but to express the...
80115Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 24 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 16 th experienced great delay on the road and to avoid that of another mail I must answer very briefly. My letter to Peter Carr contains all I ever wrote on the subject of the College, a plan for the institution being the only thing the trustees asked or expected from me. were it to go into execution, I should certainly interest myself further & strongly in procuring proper...
80116From Thomas Jefferson to William Watkins, 11 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
At an earlier period of life I should willingly have undertaken to go into particular answers to the queries of your letter of June 28. they are numerous, would require much research and more labor than I am now equal to; and this would be the greater as the decline of my memory , lessens the aid from that. all the papers respecting mr Wayles’s estate too were placed in the hands of the late...
80117From Thomas Jefferson to St. John de Crèvecoeur, 8 December 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Having this moment finished reading the New York papers, I send them to you. As soon as you are done with them I shall be glad to receive them again, as Mr. Short has not read them. Mr. and Mrs. Marmontel come to take a dinner with me the day after tomorrow. (Sunday.) I wish the good Countess D’Houdetot may be disengaged for that day and would be so friendly as to come also. We dine at three...
80118To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 15 December 1789 (Washington Papers)
I have received at this place the honour of your letters of Oct. 13 and Nov. 30 and am truly flattered by your nomination of me to the very dignified office of Secretary of state: for which permit me here to return you my humble thanks. Could any circumstance seduce me to overlook the disproportion between it’s duties & my talents it would be the encouragement of your choice. but when I...
80119From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Hiltzheimer, 19 January 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Convenience obliged me to detain the within till the beginning of this month, but the subsequent delay has entirely proceeded from the circumstance of your account’s having escaped my eye, and my mind being totally occupied by other objects which have for some time forbidden me to think of any thing private. Accept this apology for the delay and assurances of the esteem with which I am Sir...
80120From Thomas Jefferson to William Peachy, 4 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Since the reciept of your favor of Dec. 7. I have been endeavoring to recollect the transactions which were the subject of your letter: but this is rendered impracticable by the lapse of time, the variety of events which have since passed thro’ the mind, a six years absence and total abstraction from my private transactions, and my present separation from my letters, memorandums and accounts...