11From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 27 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to Mr. Randolph two or three days ago, but I imagine he will recieve the letter at Richmond on his way up: for we expect he will of course come up this week. He has a more dangerous competitor in Billy Wood than had arisen before. But I hear little about it. I arrived in good health at home this day sennight. The mountain had then been in bloom ten days. I find that the natural...
12From Thomas Jefferson to Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 27 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
My last to you was of Apr. 24. 96. since which I have recieved your favors of the same year of Jan. 5. and 27. Apr. 11. May 21. and Oct. 21. For that of May 21. I am particularly to thank you, as well as for it’s effects which came in due time to answer my object. I recieved the sum of two thousand dollars from Harrison & Sterett in the months of October and November, for which I gave them two...
13From Thomas Jefferson to Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 28 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
In a letter of yesterday’s date I acknoleged the reciept of all yours which have come to hand since my last of Apr. 24. This is intended to answer yours of Oct. 10. 95. which never got to hand till Sep. 16. 96. Our legislature being then shortly to convene, I made timely applications to them, and obtained their act making you citizens of this state, which act duly authenticated I now inclose...
14From Thomas Jefferson to James Wood, 31 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 3d. inst. did not get to Philadelphia till I had left it, and therefore came to hand here only this day week. I have bestowed on it’s subject the earliest attention I could. When on a former occasion the Executive were pleased to apply to me (being then in France) for a plan of a Capitol, they at the same time desired one of a prison. An architect of Lyons had in 1761...
15Enclosure I: Notes on Plan of a Prison, 31 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Notes and Explanations Fig. 1. The Ground plat of the building, which is an octagonal periphery of barracks, two stories high, within a single order, having before them a piazza, or arcade every arch of which corresponds to a lower and upper cell, which recieve their light and air through the arch and their own grated door. The cells are 8 f. wide, 10 f. long and 9. f. high in the clear, as...
16Enclosure II: Table of Estimates, 31 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Estimate on the scale of 200. cells and 340. f. diam. of area on the scale of 144. cells & 245. f. diam. of Area. Quantity Dollars Quantity Dollars Bricks. Arcade 1120. feet running measure (for an internal area of 340. f. diam.) 386,000. 278,208 106. cross arches, of half a brick thick. 10,600 7,800 108. vaults at mid height of the Piazza, half a brick thick. 38,016 27,360 200. vaults of...
17From Thomas Jefferson to John Brown, 5 April 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Tho’ you thought you had made such progress in your plan that it could not be altered, yet I send you the one I mentioned, as you may perhaps draw some hints from it for the improvement of yours. The method of building houses 2, 3, or 4 stories high, first adopted in cities [where] ground is scarce, and thence without reason copied in the country where ground abounds, has for these 20. or 30....
18From Thomas Jefferson to Peregrine Fitzhugh, 9 April 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 25. came safely to hand with the grains of [corn it covered] for which accept my thanks. A nephew of mine, Mr. S. Carr who married a daughter of the Mr. Carr near Georgetown, setting out this day for that place, I have sent him some of the peas you [desired] which he will inclose under cover to you, and lodge in the care of Mr. John Thompson Mason. This letter goes...
19From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 9 April 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yours my dear Martha, of Mar. 31. four days ago. The inoculation at Richmond having stopped that post I send this by the way of Fredsbg. I entirely approve of your resolution to have the children inoculated. I had before been so much convinced of the expediency of the measure that I had taken it for granted before your letter informed me of it. I am called to Philadelphia to a...
20From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 9 April 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of Mar. 31. did not come to hand till the 5th. inst. It is a pity it had not been recieved before the election , as it gave much uneasiness and embarrasment to your friends to be unable to give any account of you. It made a serious impression even on the zealous; and I have this day written a circular letter , with the apologies your letter furnished, addressed to every militia captain...