11William Short to Thomas Jefferson, 21 October 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I had last the pleasure of writing to you on the 14 th of August , from Ballston Spa , my usual summer residence. The cause of my troubling you at present, you will find inclosed— a letter from our old & worthy friend de la Motte , which he sent to me with a request that I would forward it to you. I had remained several years without hearing from him; & I learn now with real pain, that the...
12William Short to Thomas Jefferson, 1 December 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your kind, friendly & most instructive favor of Oct: 31. has been constantly under my eyes, & often read over, although I have until now postponed acknowleging & thanking you for it. I cannot tell you how much you have delighted me by making me so much better acquainted than I was, with the great & virtuous Philosopher of whom I have long considered myself, though unworthy, a disciple. Like...
13William Short to Thomas Jefferson, 27 March 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
It has been a long time indeed since I have had the pleasure of hearing from you, or of your health. Since my last of Dec: 1. I have remained betwixt the desire of writing to you & the fear of giving you trouble; knowing how much of this, the correspondence of your friends imposes on you. I remember well how independent you formerly kept yourself of an amanuensis. At present an aid of this...
14William Short to Thomas Jefferson, 2 May 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the very sincere pleasure of recieving some days ago your kind favor of the 13 th ul to covering the syllabus. It has been a source to me of much gratification & instruction also. the subject has been always one on which I have postponed to aim at information, because I felt in limine the conviction that it was impossible to attain such a degree of certainty as would be satisfactory to...
15William Short to Thomas Jefferson, 29 June 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the pleasure of thanking you in part in my letter of May 2. for your most invaluable favor contained in yours of April . I say in part; for it would take more than one letter to contain the whole of my gratitude for this most acceptable mark of your friendship. I have read it over & over again; always with delight & instruction, & a renewed sense of my obligation to your amiable...
16William Short to Thomas Jefferson, 25 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I could hardly have thought it possible that a letter from you could have remained in my hands unacknowleged so long, as I find your last to be, which I have now before me. It is of the 4 th of August last , but was not recieved by me until the 23 d . I was then on the sea shore, whither I had fled from the heats of Philadelphia , in pursuit of cool air—As this is a retired part of the state...
17William Short to Thomas Jefferson, 12 November 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
If I knew any other way less troublesome to you, of hearing of you & the state of your health, I would not intrude this letter on you, knowing, as I do, how much you are oppressed by correspondence. Since my return from a summer excursion of more than three months, I have enquired at different times of such of your friends here as were in the way of hearing from you, but there is not one that...
18William Short to Thomas Jefferson, 5 December 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you a thousand thanks for your kind & friendly letter of the 24 th ult o . The details as to the state of your health I had been long wishing for—they are now doubly gratifying to me, as they inform me that you have so perfectly recovered from the only inroad I had ever known on your constitution. And this attack I percieve was brought on by an inattention to the sound maxim— il n’y a...
19William Short to Thomas Jefferson, 2 July 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
It has been a long time since I have had this pleasure. It was on the 5 th of Dec r in acknowlegement of your kind & friendly favor of the 24 th Nov r . I there agreeably to your request gave you some account of your old friend Charles Thompson . I have accidentally within a few days spoken with a gentleman who went to pass a day with him, & I availed myself of this to make further enquiry for...
20To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 12 November 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my return from my Canada expedition I have had the very sincere & great Pleasure of recieving your kind & friendly letter of the 19 th ul to I cannot express to you all the gratification it afforded me to learn from you that your health was perfectly re-established. I still bear a grudge against those waters & that noble bath to which I was before so partial. They made the first serious...