1Address to the Senate, [4 March 1797] (Jefferson Papers)
Entering on the duties of the office to which I am called, I feel it incumbent on me to apologize...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Madame de Chastellux, 5 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I am at a loss my dear Sir to find words to express what I felt at the reception of your very...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Enoch Edwards, [6 March 1797] (Jefferson Papers)
I have received from our Freind Doctor Rush the Letter you did me the favor to write of the 22nd:...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Enoch Edwards, 9 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
The best Receipt for the Sausage—is to send you one which I wish you to take home and try. In the...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson, 11 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved with great pleasure your letter from Varina, and though I never had a moment’s doubt...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 11 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours has been duly recieved , and the clover seed goes tomorrow in the schooner Industry, Capt....
7From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 12 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved no letter from you since that which you wrote on your departure from Madrid ....
8From Thomas Jefferson to Sir John Sinclair, 12 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I take shame to myself at this late acknolegement of the receipt of so many of your favors: but...
9From Thomas Jefferson to William Strickland, 12 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been longer in acknoleging the reciept of your favor of May 28. 96. than I would have been...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Volney, 15 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
N’ayant pû avoir l’honneur de Vous revoir avant Votre depart, j’espère que Vous recevrez encore...
11To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Brown, 17 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I beleive I have obtained such information respecting the Freezing Cave as will enable you to...
12From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 23 March [1797] (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived at home on the 20th. inst. and found the cherry and peach trees in general blossom....
13To Thomas Jefferson from Peregrine Fitzhugh, 25 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeably to my promise I cover you as many Grains of the Cumberland Corn as can be conveniently...
14From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 26 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose a note for some more sashes to be made by Mr. Trump, as we have put up those he...
15To Thomas Jefferson from Timothy Pickering, 26 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inclose a copy of the President’s proclamation for convening the Congress of...
16To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 26 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Our Friends Mr. and Mrs. Church with their Family, are on the point of embarking for America...
17Enclosure: Bond to Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 26 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Know all men by these presents that I Thomas Jefferson of Monticello in the county of Albemarle...
18To Thomas Jefferson from Elbridge Gerry, 27 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me, with great sincerity, to congratulate you on your appointment to the office of...
19From Thomas Jefferson to William Vans Murray, 27 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
After congratulations on your appointment to represent us with the new Batavian republic, I take...
20From 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...
21From 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...
22From 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...
23To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 30 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
If I resume my pen once more to address you from this side of the Atlantic it is more that I may...
24To Thomas Jefferson from Martha Jefferson Randolph, 31 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
The first certain accounts we had of your arrival were conveyed by your letter to Mr. Randolph...
25To Thomas Jefferson from Willink, Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 31 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit us to congratulate you, on your election to the high and honorable Office of Vice...
26From 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...
27Enclosure 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...
28Enclosure 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....
29To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Paine, 1 April 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I left Paris about ten days ago and came to this place, intending to take passage in the Dublin...
30From 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...
31From 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...
32To Thomas Jefferson from Alexandre Giroud, [9 April 1797] (Jefferson Papers)
Au Citoyen Jefferson, Vice Président du Gouvernement des Etats unis. Giroud Ingénieur des Mines;...
33From 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...
34From 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...
35From Thomas Jefferson to Elizabeth House Trist, 9 April 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
We feel too much interested here in the dispositions you expressed to become our neighbor, not to...
36From Thomas Jefferson to Volney, 9 April 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 15. came to hand a few days ago. It has been among the greatest of my regrets...
37To Thomas Jefferson from Mann Page, 19 April 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Hugh Mercer, the posthumous Son of the late Genl. Mercer, will do me the honour of forwarding...
38To Thomas Jefferson from Jean François Paul Grand, 1 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Je n’oublierai jamais les relations que nôtre maison et moi particulierement avons eu le bonheur...
39To Thomas Jefferson from Pierre Auguste Adet, 4 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Agrées, mes remerciements pour Les choses obligeantes que renfermoit Le Billet que vous m’aves...
40To Thomas Jefferson from Elbridge Gerry, 4 May 17[97] (Jefferson Papers)
On the 27th of March I had the pleasure of addressing a letter to yourself, and on the 4th of...
41To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Rutledge, 4 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
My Nephew leaves me, in a few Hours, to take his Seat in Congress, and furnishes me with a direct...
42To 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....
43To Thomas Jefferson from “Monitor”, 7 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
A report has reached Virga. that since your V. Presidency you made in the City of Philadelphia a...
44From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 7 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Among the multiplicity of things I had to think of on my departure from home I omitted to speak...
45To Thomas Jefferson from Antonia Reynon Carmichael, 8 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Je profite de l’occasion de Monsieur Joseph Thompson pour vous faire parvenir ce petit paquets...
46To Thomas Jefferson from Horatio Gates, 9 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I have hitherto delayed acquainting You that Mr. Maddison had obliging forwarded my Letter Book ....
47From Thomas Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry, 13 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 4th. inst. came to hand yesterday. That of the 4th. of Apr. with the one for...
48To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Paine, 14 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to you by the Ship Dublin Packet—Capt. Clay, mentioning my intention to have returned to...
49To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Bee, 16 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
The President of the Agricultural Society of Charleston takes this opportunity of acknowledging...
50From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Smith Barton, 17 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his friendly compliments to Dr. Barton and his thanks for his note of...