11Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 21 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I found here your letter of the 2 d on my return from a three weeks visit to Bedford : and as I see by a resolution of Congress that they are to adjourn on the 23 d I shall direct the present to Eppington where it may meet you on your passage to Carolina . mr Thweatt is to let me know when I am to set out for
12Archibald Thweatt, with postscript by John Wayles Eppes to Thomas Jefferson, 7 May 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I did hope to have had your business ready before this.—I was to have attended Mr Ladd on the 29 th until and remained until the report was finished and ready for your revision—as it was your wish not to be delayed in Richmond — Unfortunately I was seized by a violent attack of the Rheumatism in my right hip; which has confined me to my bed.—altho’ in perfect health in all other respects, I...
13Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 10 May 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Thweatt’s letter with your P.S. came to hand late last night, and I shall dispatch Francis tomorrow morning in the care of one of the most trusty servants I have. it will take to-day to have Francis’s affairs ready for the road, & he will be obliged to make but two days of the journey to arrive at Eppington on the eve of your departure for Carolina . considering the shortness of the time...
14Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 16 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved in May last the inclosed letter from mr Thomas Wilson agent for Speirs & co. with two other papers the copy of which is now inclosed, the originals being returned to him at his request. I wrote in answer that your father had solely gone through the administration of mr Wayles’s estate, or had left so little to do that I expected you would do that, as the papers were in your hands,...
15John Wayles Eppes to Thomas Jefferson, 1 November 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
circumstances on which I shall not dwell have prevented my writing to you for some time—I have not however thought less of you and of others dear to my heart by whom you are surrounded. I have sold out my interest in the Eppington plantation & am now occupied in fixing a permanent residence here—It is a situation superior in climate soil & prospect to the other and of various houses which I am...
16Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes and William B. Giles, 12 November 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
You have heard of the suit brought by E. Livingston against me on the subject of the Batture . this has rendered it necessary for me to make a statement of the facts for the use of my Counsel; and the justification which these offer being derived from certain systems of foreign law in force at N. Orleans , which I have had more time to enquire into than they, I have been led into a full...
17Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 7 December 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Nov. 19. desiring me to send to Haden’s for Francis on the 29 th did not get to my hands till the evening of that day Wormeley set off the next morning and I was happy to find he was in time to recieve him. he got here to breakfast the morning after he parted with you. I did not write to you by Wormley because I supposed you would have passed on. on the 12 th of Nov. I had...
18John Wayles Eppes to Thomas Jefferson, 14 December 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter from Monticello of the 7 th instant was rec e ived yesterday—The one dated the 12. of November has never reached me— M r Giles received his enclosing the statement of the case of the
19John Wayles Eppes to Thomas Jefferson, 14 December 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my perusal of the batture case I have greatly regretted that you had not previous to the discussion given to some of your friends in whom you could rely such a view of that case as would have enabled them to do justice to the course pursued by you— There is another subject which will shortly be before us—The boundary of Louisiana —With this question I know you are perfectly conversant—...
20Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 5 January 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your two letters of Dec. 14. reached this place just after I had left it for Bedford . this has occasioned the delay of the answer. I now inclose you the paper you requested on the boundaries of Louisiana . it is a bad Polygraph copy; however it is legible. there is nothing secret in the paper and therefore may be freely used as you please, except that I would not have it printed, but with the...