1To John Adams from William Wirt, 12 January 1818 (Adams Papers)
I am just honored with your letter of the 5th. inst. and am truly gratified to learn that my...
2From William Wirt to John Quincy Adams, 6 June 1818 (Adams Papers)
The enclosed letter from Mr. Bache, the post-master at Philadelphia, ought, I think, to be...
3From William Wirt to John Quincy Adams, November 1825 (Adams Papers)
W. Wirt acknowledges the honor of Mr & Mrs. Adams polite invitation to dinner on the 15th. but...
4To James Madison from William Wirt, 26 April 1809 (Madison Papers)
I understand that Mr. Boyle has resigned the government of the Illinois territory, and that...
5To James Madison from William Wirt, 10 July 1809 (Madison Papers)
Alexander McRae lately and for several years a member of the privy council and lieutenant...
6To James Madison from William Wirt, 17 July 1812 (Madison Papers)
On passing through the county of Powhatan two days ago, I had the mortification to learn from a...
7To James Madison from William Wirt, 11 January 1813 (Madison Papers)
I understand that we have lost Judge Tyler and that his place is to be immediately filled, will...
8To James Madison from William Wirt, 29 August 1813 (Madison Papers)
I have been deliberating for six months whether I should or should not write you on the subject...
9To James Madison from William Wirt, 7 June 1815 (Madison Papers)
It is understood that the American consulate at Cadiz is vacant by the death of the late...
10To James Madison from William Wirt, 23 July 1815 (Madison Papers)
I thank you very sincerely for your letter of the 19th. inst. from Washington. The business of...
11To James Madison from William Wirt, 10 March 1816 (Madison Papers)
I understand that the office of attorney for the U.S. in the district of Virginia is vacant by...
12To James Madison from William Wirt, 17 March 1816 (Madison Papers)
I thank you for your favor of the thirteenth instant. I certainly had not thought of the Office...
13To James Madison from William Wirt, 23 March 1816 (Madison Papers)
As I intimated, in my last letter, a wish to make farther enquiries before I should answer...
14To James Madison from William Wirt, 21 June 1816 (Madison Papers)
*I presume it is not improper to address you, as filling the department which superintends the...
15To James Madison from William Wirt, 26 July 1827 (Madison Papers)
I beg leave to introduce to you Mr. Hoffman, Professor of law in the University of Maryland, who,...
16William Wirt to James Madison, 5 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
I thank for your letter of the 2nd. inst. and concur with you entirely as to the best mode of...
17William Wirt to James Madison, 11 July 1832 (Madison Papers)
Judge Glenn of this place, being about to pass through Orange, and having always been one of your...
18To Thomas Jefferson from William Wirt, with Jefferson’s Notes, 4 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Mrs. Gilmer directs me to enquire whether you can furnish her with 20,000. 6 penny nails 10,000....
19To Thomas Jefferson from William Wirt, with Jefferson’s Notes, 15 July 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
In a day or two I will come up and settle with you for the nails which were furnished us some...
20To Thomas Jefferson from William Wirt, 20 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just received yours of the 13th . and can only assure you of my constant attention to your...
21To Thomas Jefferson from William Wirt, 8 January 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I understand that the office of a judge for the Indiana Territory is vacant by the death of Mr....
22William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 10 July 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Alexander M c Rae esq r & Maj r John Clarke , two gentlemen, justly reputed for integrity and...
23William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 18 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
About four years ago you were so good as to state that if the life of Henry was not destined to...
24William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 24 May 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just recieved your favor of the 19 th and will, with very great pleasure, attend to its...
25William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 27 June 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your last favor was brought to me from the post-office, too late, by some accident, to be...
26William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 9 August 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I have perused, with equal pleasure and conviction, your view of the question touching the...
27Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on William Wirt’s Comments on the Batture Statement, [ca. 20 August 1810] (Jefferson Papers)
Obj. that Joutel’s journal may not be admitted as evidence of the Charter to Crozat . Ans. I...
28William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 10 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have your favors by the last mail and will attend to them with much pleasure. If any thing...
29William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 17 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 15 in reply to mine of the 10 th inst. has been brought to me from the office this...
30William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 19 May 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 3 rd covering a copy of your letter to Colo. D. arrived at a time when I was...
31William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 15 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have your favor by the last mail, covering an hundred dollars (a draft on Gibson & Jefferson )...
32William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 20 July 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just rec d yours of the 13 th and can only assure you of my constant attention to your...
33William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 27 July 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
The summer vacation of our courts, gives me an opportunity of taking up the materials which I...
34Enclosure: Patrick Henry’s Stamp Act Resolves, 30 May 1765 (Jefferson Papers)
Patrick Henry’s Resolutions copied from the Journal of the House of Burgesses in 1765. May 30 . 1...
35William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 15 March 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
The clerk of the court of chancery has, this day, for the first time put into my hands the fi:...
36William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 24 July 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Henry ’s resolutions , as given by Judge Marshall , were copied from Prior Documents . Your...
37William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 10 August 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I suppose it proceeds from the circumstances of my having lived in your neighbourhood, for...
38William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 24 August 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I accept, with gratitude, the terms on which you are willing to remark on my manuscript—and send...
39William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 10 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the remarks with which you have been so good as to accompany the return of the...
40William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 25 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
W m Wirt , with respectful compliments to M r Jefferson , sends a few more sheets of the...
41William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 2 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I sent you about three or four weeks ago a second, and by the last mail, a third parcel of my...
42William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 23 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I now submit to you the last sheets of my sketches of M r H. which I am sorry to find more...
43William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 9 September 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
The rev d John H. Rice , of this place, a gentleman of great erudition, is about to publish a...
44William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 28 December 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 10 th Ult o reached this place after I had set out for Baltimore on public...
45William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 6 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
The only court in this district which has original cognizance in matters testamentary is the...
46William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 23 September 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
A young gentleman of S t Mary’s county , in the state of Maryland , M r William Edelin , being...
47William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 9 March 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
The gentleman who hands you this is M r Albert Insinger , who has been introduced to me as Son to...
48To Thomas Jefferson from William Wirt, 20 July 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be handed to you by M r Benj. Lincoln Lear whom I had the pleasure, some time past, to...
49To Thomas Jefferson from William Wirt, 2 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
A letter from my friend, M r Thomas A. Emmet, of New York, informs me that his son, Doctor John...
50To Thomas Jefferson from William Wirt, 11 June 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Doct. Caldwell, of the University of Transylvania, being on his way homeward from a short...