80431Thomas Jefferson to Marc Antoine Jullien, 15 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I have safely recieved the very valuable present of your work on education, and I pray you to accept my thanks for this mark of your attention. I am now engaged in reading it, and have made sufficient progress to see it’s great merit, but the opportunity occurring at this moment of conveying to you my acknolegements, forbids me to delay them making them, as the intercourse between our two...
80432Notes on the Will of Jane Randolph Jefferson, [ca. February 1790] (Jefferson Papers)
Questions which will arise on the two residuary clauses of my mother’s will . MS ( MHi ); written entirely in TJ’s hand on a ragged scrap; undated; with calculations in TJ’s hand on verso. TJ’s Mother’s will , which contained perplexing ambiguities despite its brevity, reads as follows: “I Jane Jefferson of the County of Albemarle do make this my Last Will and Testament, in manner and form...
80433From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 12 August 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 22d. of June I sent by the Schooner Betsy Barrett, from Washington to Richmond 11. packages marked TI. and numbered from 1. to 11. and on the 21st. of July I sent by Capt Foyles from Washington to Richmond 7. packages marked & numbered from 1. to 7. and 8. boxes containing castings of iron, & other castings not in boxes, with 30. demijohns. of the parcel of June 22. I found No. 11....
80434From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Harrison, 22 November 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
Major Nelson, commanding officer of the three troops of cavalry belonging to this state but in continental service informs me on the part of his officers that they find the service extremely discouraging on account of the preference in command given to Continental officers of the same rank tho junior in their appointments, and pray that they may be placed on continental establishment without...
80435From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 14 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
On the day of your departure we recieved the packages of our groceries, towit from 1. to 7. and from 9. to 12. No. 8. is wanting being a barrel containing 15. loaves of sugar & 60. ℔ of coffee. the receipt given by the boatman expresses only 11. packages, which he delivered. I presume therefore the other one is still with you or has been delivered to some other boatman. it may be forwarded...
80436Note on Balloons, [ca. 9 January 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Blanchard tells me that it takes 3000 ℔ vitriolic acid } for a single person to ascend in a baloon. 2000 ℔ iron filings the vitriolic acid costs in London 4d. sterl. per ℔. the baloon he ascended in was 22. feet French in diam.
80437From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Payne, 4 April 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
As the time of my departure approaches and I hear nothing from you as to my commission of Jan. 28. nor what remained of the former, I take the liberty of reminding you of them and of desiring you to send without delay what you can procure and to forward me your account that I may have it paid. With respect to the books which cannot be immediately found I shall hope you will continue to look...
80438Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Lehré, 9 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of July 7. is recieved, with the papers inclosed. the testimonies they furnish of a favorable remembrance, by my fellow citizens, of my endeavors to serve them, are highly gratifying. you are so kind as to ask particularly after the habitual state of my health. it is generally as good as at my age (of 71.) ought to be expected, and not such as to threaten too long a protraction of...
80439From Thomas Jefferson to John Benson, 7 April 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
With this will be forwarded by the stage for me at Monticello (to which place I am this moment setting out) two boxes containing plants, on which I set the greatest value. they are not yet arrived here from Philadelphia but are expected to-day. the object of this letter is to pray you to pay particular attention to the forwarding them by the first stage, that they may be out of the ground as...
80440From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas T. Hewson, 20 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The renewed evidence of regard which I recieve through you from the American Philosophical society, calls for my grateful acknolegements. the suffrage of a body of men, of the first order of science, associated for the purposes of enlightening the mind of man, of multiplying his physical comforts improving his moral faculties, and enlarging the boundaries of his knowledge in general, is a...
80441Thomas Jefferson to DeWitt Clinton, 19 March 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Dear Sir, for the elegant pens you have been so kind as to send me; they perform their office admirably. I had formerly got such from Baltimore , but they were of steel, and their points rusted off immediately. I rejoice sincerely in the progress of your Canal, and envy your location in a state wise enough to see that the common interest is individual interest, and rich enough to...
80442Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 27 February 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
The library committee of Congress having concluded to take my library without further valuation, at the amount of your estimate, I shall on reciept of the catalogue proceed to review it, arrange and number all the books according as they stand in the catalogue. as on this review many will doubtless be found missing & irrecoverable, deductions proportioned to their size and number must of...
80443Thomas Jefferson to Davis Durrett, 24 December 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I was much obliged to you for letting the horse come for me to see and try him. but on the very first sight I saw that mr Carr had been quite mistaken in his being a match for mine. he is not in the least so, and it was only as a match that I wanted to buy. I therefore return him & should have done so yesterday but that my messenger was otherwise employed. I rode him yesterday with a bit &...
80444From Thomas Jefferson to United States House of Representatives, 18 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I now communicate to the House of Representatives the information desired by their resolutions of January 24, relative to the fortifications erected at the several ports and harbors of the United States, & their territories, and to the Navy and Navy-yards of the United States. DNA : RG 233—LRHR—Legislative Records of the House of Representatives.
80445From Thomas Jefferson to Antoine Charbonnet Duplaine, 3 October 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Authentic information being recieved that under colour of your office as Vice-Consul of the republic of France, you have with an armed force, opposed the course of the laws of the land, and rescued out of the hands of an officer of justice a vessel which he had arrested by authority of a precept from his court, the President of the United States has considered it as inconsistent with the...
80446Thomas Jefferson: Letter of Appointment to U of Va Faculty, ca. 26 Apr. 1824, 26 April 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
To of the county of & commwealth of Virginia. By virtue of the authority vested by law in the Rector & Visitors of the University of Virga they do by this letter appoint and constitute you the sd to be professor of the school of in the sd University with all the authorities , priviliges rights and emoluments to the sd professorship belonging. Witness Thomas Jefferson Rector of the sd...
80447To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Jefferson, 31 October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to in-close you sundry communications from the Minister of the U.S. at Paris, which relating to the Treasury department I can only offer myself for the conveyance of any instructions or authorities which it may be expedient to send him. I am with great respect Sir Your most obedt. humble servt. ALS , letterpress copy, Thomas Jefferson Papers, Library of Congress; LC , RG 59,...
80448Thomas Jefferson to William D. Taylor, 1 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
A friend informs me he has seen in the Enquirer a tract of land of mine in Rockbridge , of 157. acres including the Natural bridge advertized for sale for the taxes. I suppose this must have been in that paper of Mar. 21. which has failed to come to me and therefore not seen by myself. the lands being under lease I had relied on the tenant for the payment of the taxes. I must now ask the favor...
80449From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 15 February 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
We are here in a state of great quiet, having no public news to agitate us. I have never seen a Philadelphia paper since I left that place, nor learnt any thing of later date except some successes of the French the account of which seemed to have come by our vessel from Havre. It was said yesterday at our court that Genet was to be recalled: however nobody could tell how the information came....
80450From Thomas Jefferson to Daniel L. Hylton, 4 November 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letter to Mr. Eppes being of great consequence to me, and not knowing any other sure means of conveying it to him I take the liberty of inclosing it to you, and of begging the favor of you to send it by the first sure conveyance. I set out for Philadelphia three days hence. I hope Mrs. Hylton continues satisfied with our chaffer , and that she enjoys good health. Present my...
80451Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin B. Ford, 28 November 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
If I have ever heard of the name of Benj. B Bernard or of any machine by him invented or improved, it has entirely escaped my recollection. as your letter does not even intimate what was the name, nature or object of the machine, it is impossible for me to say whether I have thought or spoken of it favorably or unfavorably. I am Sir PoC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “M r Benj. B. Ford”; endorsed...
80452From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Priestley, Jr., 27 December 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 20th. came to hand last night and I shall recieve and read with great satisfaction the last work of your father as I have done whatever came from his pen. that he undertook the work at my request I have no objection to have known. my wish was confined to the suppression of the Syllabus I sent him, until the political passions which have been kindled against me shall be so far...
80453From Thomas Jefferson to James Hopkins, 17 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of July 16. was recd. about 10. days ago only. I have examined my papers, and am still in possession of a copy of the deed for the Hardware limestone lands , in your handwriting, which you were so kind as to send me before you sent the original. but the original itself I unquestionably delivered to the clerk, on a court day, at his table, where I presented it to be recorded. after...
80454Enclosure: Extracts of Letters concerning Gouverneur Morris and William Short, [20 February 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Pro memoriâ. Different extracts relative to the Minister Plen. of the U.S. in France. Letter from M. Le Brun Minister of foreign affairs to the Minister of France with the U.S. dated Sep. 13. 1792. ‘We have been as much astonished, as piqued at the forms , and tone assumed by the American Minister. We expected to find in him dispositions which would manifest the close union which should...
80455From Thomas Jefferson to Nicholas Lewis, 29 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of Dec. 19. 1786. I informed you that, as you had supposed in your’s of March 14. that the balance of bonds and profits of the estate to that time would pay all the debts then known to you except my sister Nancy’s, I was desirous of laying our shoulder seriously to the paiment of Farrell & Jones’s, and McCaul’s debts; that I should make propositions to them on that subject: I did...
80456From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 20 May 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I believe the law permits us to remove by military force intruders on the lands of the US. if so, should we not give the order to mr Bates, who will set out the moment he is commissioned, & go direct to St. Louis? should not the inclosed be communicated to the land committee? NHi : Papers of Albert Gallatin.
80457Thomas Jefferson to John Watts, 28 May 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I have lost no time in endeavoring to get my Treasury bills exchanged for bank bills, and having learnt that the merchants in Lynchburg who deal to the Northward would willing ly take treasury notes which served for remittances to other states in exchange for bank notes which would not be recieved there, I sent yesterday to mr Robertson to request him to procure me such an exchange. he...
80458From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 12 August 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 3d. is recieved on the subject of a pardon to the Poulsons & Shad. it has been an invariable rule with me never to pardon but on the recommendation of the judges who sat on the trial or of one of them & the Attorney of the district. from this I have never departed in a single instance; and were it to be departed from, it would let loose the power of pardon to be exercised...
80459Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 2 April 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 29 th ult. (the day appointed) we had a full meeting of the Visitors of the University . it consisted of 4. of the former members of the Central College , & 3. others. with this new composition of our board , some changes in our former views arose. the former board had determined to divert the funds of the institution as little as possible, for the present, from the object of providing...
80460From Thomas Jefferson to Gideon Granger, 20 May 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of the Postmaster general to send no letters for him to this place, after he recieves this, as he will be in Washington in the course of the ensuing week. PrC ( DLC ). Not recorded in SJL . TJ arrived in WASHINGTON on Sunday, 30 May ( MB James A. Bear, Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany,...