80131From Thomas Jefferson to Anne Cary Randolph, 1 November 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I wish to learn from you how the Tuberoses Etc. do, & particularly to have a list from you of the roots & seeds you have saved that I may know what supplies to ask from McMahon for the next spring. when Davy comes I shall send some Alpine strawberry roots, and some tussocks of a grass, of a perfume equal to Vanilla, called the Sweet-scented Vernal grass, or Anthoxanthum odoratum. these I must...
80132From Thomas Jefferson to Charlotte Sophia, 12 May 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I have named James Monroe and William Pinkney , Commissioners Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary of the United States of America to your Royal Consort. My knowledge of their good qualities gives me full confidence that they will so conduct themselves as to merit your esteem. I pray, therefore, that you yield entire Credence to the assurances which they will bear to you of our friendship; And...
80133From Thomas Jefferson to John Marshall, 28 January [1797] (Jefferson Papers)
[In a letter of the 14th. inst. I] recieved [from the governor a resolution of the general assembly appointing a body of which I am named one, to correspond with certain Maryland Commissioners] on the dividing bounda[ries of the] two states. The periodical and long absences from the state which I must [incur, with the habitual state of my health] obliging me to avoid journies as much as...
80134From Thomas Jefferson to Antonio Garcia Herreros, 18 August 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
The discovery which your letter of the 9th. announced of a method of curing Yellow fever is certainly highly interesting to those countries wherein it has occasionally prevailed. in the distribution of the powers of government however, made by our general & state constitutions, no other encoragement for useful discoveries has been confided to the general government but that of securing to...
80135From Thomas Jefferson to [James Buchanan?], 30 June 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer waits on you with a small cart for one of the casks of wine you have been so kind as to receive for me. I shall send him a second time for the other. I am Sir Your most obedt. servt., RC (The Dumfries Burgh Museum Observatory, Dumfries, Scotland, A. E. Truckell, Curator, 1954; MS at present on loan at ViU ); recipient unidentified, but possibly he was Buchanan, with whom TJ traded...
80136Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 10 January 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
By the post succeeding my last letter to you , I recieved one from my counsel in Livingston’s case requesting me to prepare a statement of all the facts which will be to be proved in that case to be forwarded with commissions to N. Orleans to have the depositions regularly taken. this it is not in my power to do without the aid of the statement of the case sent to mr Giles & yourself, of which...
80137From Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull, 27 March 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you a line just as I was taking wing from Paris for this place. I expected to have staid here a week, and have been here three already, and know not yet the term of my stay. I hope however to get away in three or four days. I intend to make my return somewhat circuitous, in order to see what I have not yet seen. This renders the moment of my arrival at Paris incertain. In the mean...
80138Thomas Jefferson to Philip I. Barziza, 8 February 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 2 d and should be very glad to bear witness to any truth which might establish your just claim to the property of your grandmother in this country. but I know nothing of any visit of your grandfather to it before the revolution, and unless you have very positive proof I should doubt it, because I was much in Williamsburg about that time. I should still...
80139Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 7 January 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 31 st Ult. I asked the favor of you to inclose me by mail 100.D. which I presume to be now on the way. in the mean time another call has come on me which obliges me to draw on you in favor of my grandson Th: J. Randolph for 120.D. I shall have one more of about the same amount in the course of this month which will I believe close my wants until the spring by which time my flour & tob o...
80140From Thomas Jefferson to François Baudin, 20 September 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received the letter of Aug. 31. which you did me the honour to write me. The power of appointing Consuls for the United states of America rests with Congress alone. As yet they have made but one appointment in France, which was that of Mr. Barclay. Perhaps it may yet be some time before any such appointments are made, as the convention for defining the Consular powers is not yet...