1To George Washington from Thomas Attwood Digges, 28 April 1791 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Thomas Attwood Digges, c.28 April 1791. On 28 April Digges introduced William Pearce to Thomas Jefferson and wrote: “I have so little time before the Vessel sails to address The President and yourself. . . , that I hope You will escuse haste & inaccuracys” ( Jefferson Papers, Julian P. Boyd et al., eds. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson . 41 vols. to date. Princeton, N.J.,...
2To George Washington from Thomas Attwood Digges, 1 July 1791 (Washington Papers)
As I am writing to Mr Fitzgerald I take the liberty under a Cover to Him to inclose Your Excellency a description of Messrs McCabe & Pearce’s new invented double Loom for weaving two peices at the same time, & which description is annexd to the Report of a Committee of the Irish House of Commons upon the utility & benefit of such a Loom. Since Mr Wm Pearces embarkation hence to New York in May...
3To George Washington from Thomas Attwood Digges, 12 November 1791 (Washington Papers)
I hope Your Excellency will forgive my intrusion upon Your more important concerns when my purpose is solely to serve the Infant Manufactures of Our Country, and once more to mention a few words about Mr Wm Pearce the loom & machinery artist whom I inducd to go out to America last spring & took the liberty to introduce to You. He has I find met with the encouragement & patronage which He...
4To George Washington from Thomas Attwood Digges, 10 April 1798 (Washington Papers)
Mr Digges presents His respectful complements and best wishes to General Washington and sends this in a small box of seeds, which accompanies a few Potatoes of a remarkably approved kind & productive Growth, which Mr Rhd Edmonds Seedsman No. 96 Grace Church Street London handsomely offerd to and pressd Mr D. to present in His name to General Washington. Mr Chs Pye, who has also purchasd some...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Attwood Digges, 30 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I am much obligd in many instances by Your kind attentions, and particularly so for the present of Quarantine Corn, which I have carefully sown in good soil & put in according to Your instructions. The grain appears to me exactly that round, red- & yellow kind which the Spaniards & Portuguese with success (tho’ in but small quantities comparatively to their wants) cultivated while I resided...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Attwood Digges, 25 September 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I am obligd to yield up what I had very much at heart, (a visit to Monticello) to my other riding avocations, and to the extreme heat for the last ten days, as well as the still continued severe & afflicting drought. The Eves of my old House has not dropt five minutes at a time since the 3d July—not a sprig of green grass, and scarcely any vegitation in the Tobacco: of which hereabouts we have...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Attwood Digges, 23 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
My friend and old acquaintance Dr. Hamilton, of very respectable connections at Waterford Ireland, and of late a neighbouring Phisician to me but about to fix in Baltimore, having intimated a desire to wait upon You, I most cheerfully give Him this Introductory line with a solicitation for Your usual kind attentions and civility. I knew Dr. Hamilton a practitioner in London, for some years...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Attwood Digges, 20 February 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
A long confinement to my chamber (with a Rhumatic and Pluracy complaint) will I hope plead my excuse for troubling You to read a letter in lieu of giving an ansr. by personal enquiry. I have a very favourable opportunity & mean shortly to send a relative of mine (a Lad of abot 15 yrs. old) to Spain .—there to fix him for 6 or 8 yrs. in order to attain the Language and merchantile advantages of...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Attwood Digges, 11 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
My old acquaintance & neighbour Doctor Rhd. H. Courts who is now with me, & who has a plaint to make to You, (which from my confinement I cannot personally attend Him in,) will wait upon you with this. The Doctor served faithfully & for several years in our Revolutionary War, has been ever a firm & uniform Republican (even in the worst of times), a constant supporter of the present...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Attwood Digges, 29 July 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
In compliance with your request I hastend all in my power to obtain an accurate survey & plot made of that part of my Warburton Farm where its extreme point (a high promontary) at the narrowest part of Potomack hereabouts, and where the channel makes an angular bending close in with the shore, forms a seemingly favourable position for a Fort on its heights as well as a battery near the shore....