81681To Thomas Jefferson from Craven Peyton, 29 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour came to hand Just as I was about starting for this place. My fealing were very much reld. indeed, to discovar that I was undar impropar fears. As well as I recollect you ask fer Benades Name to be sent. taken from one of his lettars, he is a Man of much respetability & influence, And has always been much attached to your Interest. If it woud not give you two much trouble, I shall...
81682To Thomas Jefferson from William Nelson, 2 February 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of mentioning to you for an appointment in the Army Mr. William O Allen, who, as far as I can judge, is well calculated to serve his Country in that line. He is very temperate, has a good person, a strong Constitution and quickness of mind. I beleive too he is acquainted with tactics in some measure, having been an active officer in a Company of light Infantry at this place....
81683To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 16 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I am again compelled to address you on the subject of Governor Sullivan’s certificates, which he continues, as I am informed from several quarters, pertinaciously to issue Whether he still sends duplicates to the Treasury I do not know, but from the new form which he has adopted, rather think that he does not. I write however to the principal clerks in my office to send to you along with this...
81684To Thomas Jefferson from Daniel Carroll Brent, 17 February 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
It is difficult to ascertain the quantity of stone that can be raised in a given time by a given number of hands—because the rock is buried in the earth from 6 to 16 feet, & it cannot be known whether it is good or will cut well, untill the earth is removed, the removeing of which constitutes a considerable portion of the labour in quarrying; & it not unfrequently happens that the rock either...
81685To Thomas Jefferson from Elizabeth Wayles Eppes, 10 October 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
The contents of your friendly letter gave me the highest satisfaction, and I long for the happy moment to call dear Maria my daughter, to say how much poor Betsy, and myself are disappoint’d at not being present requires a better pen than mine. We look forward with the utmost pleasure for a happy meeting, and hope you will be able to visit us this month, we will then talk of their settling,...
81686To Thomas Jefferson from John A. Hanna, 7 August 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Presuming that from the cession of Louisiana to the US: a number of offices will be in the gift of the Executive I take the liberty to mention my name—My Family is large and my means small when compared with the manner in which they have been educated—I was brought up to the Law, and would have practised still, had not imperious, (and I may say Republican) necessity forced me to stand a...
81687To Thomas Jefferson from Gideon Granger, 26 April 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 16th. was duly recd. this Evening. The proposed alteration in the Conveyance of the mail to Charlottesville shall receive my earliest attention. But I dare not make it without an examination of the connections at my Office. I yet think that Mr Langdon has at least an equal Chance for the Goverment in Newhampshire and I am so sanguine as not to doubt that State respecting the...
81688To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Galloway, 14 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland, 14 Mch. 1801 . He recommends Colonel Nathaniel Rochester, a 20-year resident of Hagerstown, whose prudence, abilities, and public conduct “have secured to him, the good Opinion, of all Descriptions, of his Fellow Citizens, within the Sphere of his Movements.” For “substantial Reasons” Rochester did not enter public life, although he was encouraged to do...
81689To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Van Rensselaer, 15 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to forward by mail to your address two copies of a Geol & Agr survey made under my direction which I beg you will do me the honor to accept one copy for your library & the other for the University of Virginia accept the assurance of my veneration for your character & the services render to our country DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
81690To Thomas Jefferson from Margaret Bonneville, 22 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Accordez à une mere tremblante pour le sort de ses enfans; une partie de ce tems si heuresement employé aux bonheur de vos concitoyens. La liberte qui a conte tans de larmes qui a moissonné tans de merite differents nous est enfin ravie. il est tems de detourner nos regards d’une prompe inutille. Je me range ainsi que mes enfans Sous votre protection generalle. Comme ils doivent un jour...
81691To Thomas Jefferson from St. George Tucker, 12 August 1775 (Jefferson Papers)
Were I certain that a Letter I addressed to you a few Weeks ago, by way of Virginia had been delivered to you, I should not have intruded on Business of greater Importance in which you may be at present engaged, a second Time. But lest any Accident should have happened thereto, I take the Liberty of enclosing you the Plan for continuing the Exports from America to foreign Markets, which I...
81692To Thomas Jefferson from George Jefferson, 20 January 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of the 10th. & 12th. both came to hand by last nights post—your draughts therein mentioned, in favor of Mr. Strange for £95.8., and Mr. Richard for $:1200—, are accepted. With respect to my having paid freight on your things up the river contrary to your direction; I have to observe—that I perfectly recollect your having given me such direction—and, as perfectly, that I have never...
81693To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, 18 November 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of suggesting the following remarks on the proposed outlines of the Militia Bill, In the Northern States it will be impracticable to muster for Military exersice in the winter months, and I doubt whether it would be advisable to muster oftener than six times a year in Companies, and once in Battalion or Regiment to continue 2 days. It may be proper to mention the...
81694I. Text as Received by Jefferson, 1790, 4 February 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 9th. of Jany. inclosing one of Sepr. last did not get to hand till a few days ago. The idea which the latter evolves is a great one, and suggests many interesting reflections to legislators; particularly when contracting and providing for public debts. Whether it can be received in the extent your reasonings give it, is a question which I ought to turn more in my thoughts...
81695To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Wooding, 1 June 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeable to Your Order You have Inclosed the State of the Militia of this County (as ⅌ Returns made to me by the Captains in April last) consisting of 20 Captains, 40 Lieutenants, 20 Ensigns and 1004 Rank and file, Eighty Eight of which are under 18 years of age. Of the Remaining part we have about 350 at this time in Actual Service in this State and Carolinia. I am Sorry to assure your...
81696From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 29 March 1802 (Madison Papers)
The Secretary of State, to whom has been referred by the President of the United States a Resolution of the House of Representatives of the 23d Inst., requesting the President to communicate to that House such information as he may have received relative to the Copper mines on the South side of Lake Superior, in pursuance of a Resolution of the 16th. April 1800, authorising the appointment of...
81697Swan’s Proposals for Supplying American Beef, &c. to the French Government, 19 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Paris, 19 July 1788 . “ Jam’s. Swan de Boston En faveur d’une association dans les Etats-Unis de l’Amérique ,” submits proposals for furnishing to the government of France a quantity of salt beef and pork, livestock, and butter from America for the troops and vessels of the king, in the colonies in America as well as in Europe as follows: Ten to forty, or fifty, thousand barrels of beef of a...
81698To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 23 April 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to enclose two accounts of certain contingent expences incurred by Governor Claiborne, which he has transmitted to this office. The only appropriation for contingencies in the territory of Orleans was made by the act of 3d March last and is in the following words “For incidental and contingent expences of the legislative council and of the secretary of the said territory, two...
81699William F. Gray to Thomas Jefferson, 25 November 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
By this day’s stage I send you a small Box that has been sent to my care from J. Milligan & Co of Geo. Town . Wishing it safe to hand RC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ as received 13 Dec. 1813 and so recorded in SJL .
81700[To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Coffyn, 24 December 1786] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Dunkirk, 24 Dec. 1786. Recorded in SJL as received 27 Dec. 1786. Not found, but it must have related to the report that Coffyn made to Crèvecoeur about the accessibility of the port of Honfleur to American trading vessels; see Brissot to TJ, 27 Dec. 1786 ; Ducrest to TJ, 27 Dec. 1786. ]
81701To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Biddle, 6 June 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you my grateful acknowledgments for your communication of the 30h. ultimo. Having lost a son in the Navy, Mrs. Biddle was extremely anxious about the one at Tripoli, which induced me to address you. her mind, and the family is much relieved by your Assurances of the confidence of the Government, in the measures taken for the relief of the Captives. I shall be attentive to your...
81702To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 28 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Muy Señor mio, y de mi Respecto con el qe devo me allo Obligado a Manifestar á V.E la Sensivilidad de mi gratitud por Repuesta a su apreciable de 26 del qe Acava disiendole qe desde los primeros Anuncios de su Eleccion di Noticias al Ministro de Estado de S.M.C en la Corte de Madrid, como de las favorables Circumstancias, pues que proporsionarian la Mejor Inteligencia á los dos Goviernos, qe...
81703To Thomas Jefferson from Mercy Otis Warren, 14 April 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
With respect and diffidence, the author asks his acceptance, and presents the two first Volumes of the History of the American Revolution, to the President of the United States. Perhaps the perusal of them may serve as an interlude in some leisure hours, when detached from the momentous avocations which occupy your important life. If the work should meet your approbation the author will feel...
81704To Thomas Jefferson from William Strickland, 28 May 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
As soon as it was in my power after my return to England I set about procuring the different kinds of Peas and Vetches which are cultivated in this country and which I promised to send you; as they were to be obtaind from different and distant parts of the Kingdom they were not to be collected together at an earlier period than the present, which indeed is as early as is requisite as they...
81705John M. Perry to Thomas Jefferson, 18 June 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
the Brick layers got here yesterday and will begin to lay Some time this evening— I Should be glad you Could make it Convenient to Come to the building to day— the dormetorries will be laid of f to day—the Circle next the Road is Staked of f So that you Can See how to fix on the level RC ( ViU: TJP ); addressed: “Thomas Jefferson Esquire Monticello ”; endorsed by TJ as received 18 June 1818.
81706To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 19 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 4th Septer. 1804, I transmitted to you certain affidavits respecting the recapture of the Eugenia. That vessel is now in Halifax & the Secy. of State has written to the owner that I would send him copies of those documents. If you have got them here, I will thank you to return them. With respectful attachment Your obedt. Svt. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
81707From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 18 March 1786 (Madison Papers)
Your two favours of the 1 & 20 Sepr. under the same cover by Mr. Fitzhugh did not come to hand till the 24th ult: and of course till it was too late for any Legislative interposition with regard to the Capitol. I have written to the Attorney on the subject. A letter which I have from him dated prior to his receipt of mine takes notice of the plan you had promised and makes no doubt that it...
81708To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Munroe, 24 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Indisposition has prevented an earlier attention to the claim of Mr. Ab: Ritchie, as administrator acting under the Will of the late Chas. Beatty, to a portion of land said to take in a part of the Presidents house. The letter of Mr Ritchie being the first direct notification of such a claim which has come to my knowledge, I submit to the Executive such information as I possess on the subject....
81709To Thomas Jefferson from William McIntosh, 15 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
At the special solicitation of the french Inhabitants of Vincennes I transmit you an attested Copy of an Answer which they made to Governor Harrison on the 20th. September last. and I am authorised and requested by them to acquaint you that his conduct at the Meeting which gave occasion to it, and at a Conference subsequent at which he endeavored to eradicate the impressions which his...
81710George Ticknor to Thomas Jefferson, 23 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Four days ago, I received your favor of Feb. 8. from which I am led to hope that I may soon receive from you another letter which you wrote Jan. 31. and which as it comes through France must probably be somewhat longer on the way. My own letters to you as well as to my friends generally have not been fortunate, and as my last con tained some facts, which it may be important for you to know, I...
81711To Thomas Jefferson from William Carmichael, 9 September 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I should have sooner thanked you for your favor of the 12th Ulto which I received on the 24th Had I not expected that the Courier who will bring you this would have set out sooner. I have no Official Letters from America, But by a packet from NY This Court has received despatches from Mr. Gardoqui to the 28th of July which announce the acceptation of the Constitution. Mr. Gardoqui writes me on...
81712To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Crowninshield, 30 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inclose you some ill-digested remarks on the anonymous communication which you sent me yesterday.— I acknowledge the practice alluded to is supposed to exist among our merchants, but I assure you it is more a subject of clamour with some interested people than any thing else. If it were really carried on to the extent, and in the manner described by the writer, and had...
81713To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 6 May 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sorry I can give you no other account of our public situation than that it continues equally perplexed and alarming as when I lately gave you a sketch of it. Our army has as yet been kept from starving and public measures from a total stagnation by draughts on the States for the unpaid requisitions. The great amount of these you may judge of from the share that has fallen to Virginia. The...
81714From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 15 January 1797 (Madison Papers)
The last mail brought me your favor of Jany. 1. inclosing an unsealed one for Mr. A. & submitting to my discretion the eligibility of delivering it. In exercising this delicate trust I have felt no small anxiety, arising by no means however from an apprehension that a free exercise of it could be in collision with your real purpose, but from a want of confidence in myself, & the importance of...
81715Thomas G. Watkins to Thomas Jefferson, 10 July 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeably to your commands I have made out your acc t for my medical services. The expences incident to a removal & reestablishment may have induced a belief, that early remuneration for my professional labours might be, necessarily, a desirable object—I assure you it is no way material—I have paid very little attention to collections with any—And so long as I may have the happiness to serve...
81716To Thomas Jefferson from Patrick Henry, 10 September 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
I was honor’d with yours in the Spring, by which you inform me Mr. Heudon intended to come over to see Genl. Washington in person, by Means of which he would be better enabled to take the Likeness desired. I should have written you on the Receipt of yours, but as Mr. Heudons Arrival here was to be expected about the Time I received the Letter, I thought it needless to write on the Subject. I...
81717To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Cooper, 23 November 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I sent you a short time ago two pamphlets, both as yet unpublished. That on the Tariff I printed to distribute among our members of the legislature & at Congress. The other I shall be compelled to disseminate with great caution if at all. I have drawn up the Physiological arguments against the common metaphysics. the logical notion of the double nature of the animal Man, but altho’ written...
81718To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Smith, 9 July 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
After having kept your letter for so long a while, I am almost ashamed to send it you; but remaining only a few days in Paris, I had not time to pay my respects to you, as it was my intention to do. I did not send it by the post, as I was in doubt whether or not it was a letter of introduction to your Excellency. My delay, I trust, has not been a matter of importance. I have the honour to be...
81719Peter B. Porter to Thomas Jefferson, 25 January 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed is a specimen of an inexhaustible bed of Gypsum, lately discovered in Camillus , county of Onondaga & state of N. York —within 8 miles of the great Salt -Springs, and adjoining the great line of Canal by which it is proposed to connect the Lakes with the Hudson . Doct. Mitchel has procured it to be analised in Paris , and it is found to correspond exactly with the Gypsum of
81720James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 11 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I rec d yesterday morning yours of the 8 th and return the several copies of letters enclosed in it. The letter to you from M r Cabell was returned by the mail before the last. I know not any course better to be taken in relation to D r Cooper , than your letters to him &
81721Isaac Briggs to Thomas Jefferson, 21 May 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 15 or 16 instant I wrote to thee from New York , informing thee that I had received an appointment from the Canal commissioners for employment in the mathematical department for making the grand Canal between the Western and Northern Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean . In that letter I expressed my decided opinion that if the Commissioners could avail the public of the talents and services,...
81722From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 24 April 1807 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of the 21. with the letters returned under the same cover was recd. last night. As you had not then recd. the last letters from Mr. G. & myself on the modified proposal to disuse B. Seamen, I shall wait the arrival of your next before I conclude on the instructions which are to go by the Wasp. I found by the accts. from Bermuda, that the mere difficulty which suspends the Treaty is...
81723George Runnels to Thomas Jefferson, 18 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Accompanying this you will find a letter from my Father—in which I am highly intere s ted —. I should be happy to know of its safe arrival—& pray you so far to condescend as to write me a few lines on the rect of it— please address— G Runnels —at Mrs Rey ’s— Bloomi n gdale Road — N York RC ( MHi ); endorsed by TJ as received 22 Oct. 1822 and so recorded in
81724To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 11 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose two letters from George Davis deputy surveyor under Mr Briggs, copy of my answer to the first, and a letter from Mr Briggs on the subject of Davis. The reason why Mr Briggs ordered the survey of the Mississippi has not been sufficiently explained. It is true that he has involved himself into some difficulties by becoming security for his brother in an undertaking to erect a steam...
81725To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 18 December 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I have abstained from acknowleging your favor of the 9 th ult o that I might not add to your already too heavy load of correspondence. Your letter however came most opportunely; for it was on the heels of a report which had just reached us the very night before, of your being very ill—Your information as to the imposthume explained the ground of this report, & your relief from it was a great...
81726Nicolas G. Dufief to Thomas Jefferson, 29 September 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Vous trouverez ci-Inclus, un avis au sujet d’un ouvrage Américain qui peut être repondrait à vos vues aussi-bien que celui pour lequel vous m’avez écrit il y a longtemps & qui je crois n’a jamais paru. Si cela était faites-moi l’honneur de me le mander afin que je vous l’adresse aussi-tôt qu’il Sera imprimé Je Suis, Monsieur, avec les sentimens qui vous Sont dus, You will find enclosed a...
81727To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Carrington, 24 April 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I was but a few days ago honoured with your favor of the 21. December. Having been absent on a trip to Virginia ever since the 1st. of Jany. I was alike cut off from it, and an opportunity of writing you. Massachusetts, Jersey, Pensylvania, Deleware, Connecticut and Georgia, have adopted the Constitution. New Hampshire has been in convention upon it, but finding that a Majority had assembled...
81728Bernard McMahon to Thomas Jefferson, 24 November 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
By this mail I send you a small box of Hyacinth roots, to be planted in the open ground, as soon as you shall have received them; they are of the first rate kinds, and nearly of as many varieties as roots: with due attention they will bring you into a stock of the best kinds. Accept Sir my most sincere thanks for your various kindnesses to me, and believe me to be Sir, RC ( DLC ); endorsed by...
81729To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 15 May 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
D’après les informations que j’ai prises des principaux negocians de cette ville, il parait certain qu’il ne partira point de Bâtimens pour France d’ici à un mois au moins—Et comme deux occasions se présentent à la fois pour Hambourg, j’ai cru qu’il vaudrait mieux profiter d’une des deux pour y envoyer la lettre que vous m’avez confiée que d’attendre peut-être inutilement pendant longtems—...
81730To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 27 May 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recd. yours of the 17th. accompanied by the Direct tax bill which I have not yet been able to run thro’. Every thing I perceive is carried as the war party chuse. They will of course be the more responsible for consequences. The disposition to continue the Session is a proof that the operation of the irritating proceedings here on those of France is expected to furnish fresh fuel...