80731From Thomas Jefferson to Steuben, 12 January 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
I was honored with yours of yesterday by Colo. Loyauté. General Weedon to whom the care of the works at Fredericksburg had been committed being now at Hanover Court-house I have referred Colo. Loyauté to him, and given them authority to make use of the brass canon Howitzers or Mortars at New Castle if they can use them, for they are unmounted. I heard in the same instant that 744 riflemen...
80732To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 1 February 1801 (Madison Papers)
I have not written to you since the letter by mrs. B. Your’s of Jan. 10. is recieved, and your own wishes are entirely acquiesced in as to time. Clermont has refused. I think to adopt your idea at Baltimore. I dare not through the channel of the post hazard a word to you on the subject of the election. Indeed the interception & publication of my letters exposes the republican cause as well as...
80733From Thomas Jefferson to De Blome, 18 August 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Dr. Franklin, during his residence at this court, was instructed by Congress to apply to the court of Denmark for a compensation for certain vessels and cargoes taken from the English during the late war by the American squadron under the command of Commodore Paul Jones, carried into a port of Denmark, and, by order of the court of Denmark, redelivered to the English. Dr. Franklin made this...
80734From Thomas Jefferson to William Maddox, 26 July 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 26th. of March I wrote you a letter informing you that after our settlement of Sep. 7. making a balance due you of 254–7–11 I had paid an order of your’s in favor of John Craven for £16–8–9 . that I went on remitting you money from time to time, and in taking an account at the last remittance, which was Feb. 8. 1803. I omitted to note this order of Craven’s, and remitted 98. D. which...
80735From Thomas Jefferson to John McDowell, 21 March 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return home I take the liberty of troubling you on the subject of any monies proceeding from the sale of nails for me, which I will pray you to remit by mr Coalter or any other person who may be coming to our District courts. should no conveyance offer then, I will send a person [ex]press. in the mean time it will be satisfactory to receive a line from you informing me what sum I may...
80736Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 27 March 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Not knowing the exact date of my note in the bank of Virginia I inclose a blank supposing the time of renewal must be at hand. supposing too the curtail to be of 80.D. the sum must be somewhere between 1000. and 1100.D. I have therefore left the odd numbers blank. on the 4 th of Feb. mr Colclaser informs me he sent you a quarter’s rent of 50. Barrels of flour. another quarter is due within 3....
80737From Thomas Jefferson to John Page, 19 January 1764 (Jefferson Papers)
The contents of your letter have not a little alarmed me: and really upon seriously weighing them with what has formerly passed between αδνιλεβ and myself I am somewhat at a loss what to conclude. Your ‘semper saltat, semper ridet, semper loquitur, semper solicitat’ &c. appear a little suspicious, but good god! it is impossible! I told you our confab in the Apollo: but I beleive I never told...
80738Thomas Jefferson to Wilson J. Cary, 4 May 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Doct r Cooper , himself probably the best classical scholar in the US. had from the first proposition of our college recommended a mr Stack as the best classical teacher in America , and worthy of our professorship. it having been found that the University could not be opened for some time yet, I thought it desirable to get a classical school opened immediately in Charlottesville as a nursery...
80739Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah A. Goodman, 20 July 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
with respect to the girl Sally , the fair thing is to consider the bargain as annulled, and for me to repay you the sum allowed for her, 150.D. with interest till repaid: but I cannot undertake the repayment but in all May 1819. I had as live pay in May 18. as in Aug. 18. but I could not do this conveniently, this with the repayment of her clothing comes to something more than you propose. I...
80740From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 26 September 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed Copy of a letter from Ld. Cornwallis to Colo. Balfour was sent me by Govr. Rutledge: lest you should not have seen it I do myself the pleasure of transmitting it, with a letter from Genl. Harrington to Genl. Gates giving information of some late movements of the Enemy. I was honored yesterday with your favor of the 5th. inst. on the subject of prisoners and particularly Lt. Govr....
80741Thomas Jefferson to Francisco Solano Constancio, 29 December 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I congratulate you Sir on your safe arrival in the US. and hope your passage has been as agreeable as the elements to which you were committed of wind and water could make it. I congratulate you also & especially on the regenern of your govmt and the prospect it exhibits of going thro’ it soberly and wisely. I must still do justice to it’s former form however th by saying it is a debt which I...
80742Thomas Jefferson to Jerman Baker, 23 December 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
My grandson Jefferson tells me he wrote to sollicit your patronage of the petition of Cap t Joseph Miller now before the legislature praying the confirmation of the will of Tho s Reed his half-brother, under which he claims his property. that letter, with the petition will have fully possessed you of the facts and principles on which his claim is founded, and I add my sollicitations that you...
80743From Thomas Jefferson to Bernstorff, 19 June 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honour of addressing Your Excellency by Admiral Paul Jones on the 21st. of January, on the subject of the prizes taken under his command during the late war, and sent into Bergen. I communicated at the same time a copy of the powers which the Congress of the United states of America had been pleased to confide to me therein, having previously shewn the original to the Baron de Blome...
80744From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Smith, 13 July 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I should be much better pleased to see a due proportion of candidates for the place of midshipmen from the North. they ought not to expect to reap that whereon they have bestowed no labour, nor where others have laboured that they should reap the fruits. I am sorry they are not disposed to make the sacrifice of time & money necessary by which our young midshipmen qualify themselves for...
80745Thomas Jefferson to Destutt de Tracy, 26 December 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Long ill health, dear Sir, has brought me much into default with my corresponding friends, and it’s sufferings have been augmented by the remorse resulting from this default. I learnt with pleasure from your last letter , and from a later one of M. de la Fayette , that you were mending in health, and particularly that your eye-sight was sensibly improved. I have to thank you for the copy of...
80746From Thomas Jefferson to Ferdinand Grand, [10 October 1788] (Jefferson Papers)
Be pleased to pay to M. le C. de L. 2750 livres in full for all rent due or to become due for the house I hold of him till the determination of our lease which is to be on the 16th. of Apr. next according to our agreement of this day, of all which this order and his receipt will be witness. Dft ( DLC : Short Papers); on scrap of paper bearing this notation at bottom and upside down: “so as...
80747From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Durival, 7 November 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honored with your letter of the 1st. inst. inclosing enquiries on the subject of the coins of the United States. Some time during the last year Congress decided that the Spanish milled Dollar should be their money unit, and that their coins should be in a decimal progression above and below that. Some intermediate coins will also be doubtless made for convenience and indeed they...
80748Thomas Jefferson to William Beach Lawrence, 10 June 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, dear Sir, for your kind offer of services in Europe but time has nearly dissolved all my connections with that hemisphere. 10. years of the Guillotine, 20. of war, and 32 of the sweepings of the scythe of death have left not a human being alive in France with whom I was acquainted, the Marquis Fayette excepted. the title of American is always an introduction to his attentions. yet...
80749From Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 16 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you the copy of a letter received from Mr. Barclay dated Cadiz May 23. by which you will perceive he was still on this side the Mediterranean. Has Mr. Lamb written to you? I hear nothing from him nor of him, since Mr. Carmichael’s information of his arrival in Spain. Mr. Randall gave reason to expect that himself would come on. Yet neither himself nor any letters from him arrive....
80750From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 28 June 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a Mercantile Advertiser for the sake of the extraordinary fabrication in it’s Postscript by an arrival from Cork with London dates to the 9th. of May. the arrival of the Osage in England (which had been detained in France by Armstrong himself) furnishes the occasion of amusing that nation with the forgeries of fact which I have included in an inked line in the margin, within...
80751From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 13 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
The Attorney Genl. having considered and decided that the prescription, in the law for establishing a bank, that the officers in the subordinate offices of discount & deposit shall be appointed ‘on the same terms and in the same manner practised in the principal bank’ does not extend to them the principle of rotation established by the legislature in the body of Directors in the principal...
80752Thomas Jefferson to Charles F. Kupfer, 25 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
My letter of June 15. informed you that having written to mess rs Smith and Riddle for a supply of window glass before I heard of their failure, & not hearing from them, I apprehended their connection with the manufactory might have ceased, and I therefore requested the supply from you. I yesterday recieved a letter from mr Smith informing me he had delivered the glass to Cap t Peyton for me,...
80753Thomas Jefferson to John B. Magruder, 28 February 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just been informed that you have red clover seed for sale. if you will be so good as to inform me if it be so, and the price, if the latter suits, I will take 10. bushels.— mr Randolph also wants, but I do not know how much. if on learning the price I conclude to take, I will send for the seed tomorrow or Monday, and at the same time will send you an order on Gibson and Jefferson of...
80754From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 7 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I was in the act of beginning this letter when I recieved your’s of the 2d. inst. covering your account, balance in my favor £19.17.6. not having time at this moment even to cast an eye over it, I proceed to my object of inclosing you fifteen hundred dollars, in bank bills, to wit 14. of 100. D. each, 1. of 50. 1. of 20. & 3. of 10. D. each. these, for greater security, I have cut in two, and...
80755From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 28 March 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived here on the 21st. inst. after as laborious a journey of a fortnight from Richmond as I ever went through; resting only one day at Alexandria and another at Baltimore. I found my carriage and horses at Alexandria, but a snow of 18. inches deep falling the same night, I saw the impossibility of getting on in my own carriage, so left it there to be sent to me by water, and had my horses...
80756From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
My last was of the 25th. Since that I have received yours of the 20th. and Colo. M’s of the 21st. Nothing further has passed with Mr. Genet, but one of his Consuls has committed a pretty serious deed at Boston, by going with an armed force taken from a French frigate in the harbour, and rescuing a vessel out of the hands of the marshal who had arrested her by process from a court of justice....
80757Thomas Jefferson to Wilson Cary Nicholas, 29 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 16 th I received yesterday your favor of the 16 th inst. informing me that the General assembly had been pleased to appoint me one of the Directors of the board of public works recently instituted by them. the spirit with which they have entered on the great works of improvement and public instruction will form an honorable epoch in the history of our country, and I sincerely...
80758From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 4 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof, Mr. Dobbyns, a native of Ireland, having it in contemplation to dispose of his estate in that country, and to remove with his tenants to America, I have advised him, before he carries the measure into entire execution, to go thither himself, to fix on the part of the country which from climate, soil, and other circumstances would best suit his views, and even to provide a...
80759From Thomas Jefferson to Christopher Ellery, 6 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of May 28. was recieved yesterday, and gives me the opportunity of expressing my satisfaction at your appointment to the Senate of the US. this testimony of the confidence of your country, would of itself have given great weight to your recommendation of mr Robbins for the office of district attorney; but the commission had been made out for mr Howell so long before that I think he...
80760From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 12 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respectful compliments to Mr. Hammond, and seeing that the Governor of Vermont himself has moved in the business on which Mr. Hammond has written, he will write this afternoon more particularly to the governor. Th:J. leaves town tomorrow afternoon. If possible he will have the honor of waiting on Mr. Hammond, being very desirous of speaking with him on Pagan’s...