631Julius B. Dandridge to Thomas Jefferson, 25 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I am instructed by a resolution of the Board of Directors of this Office , to notify you, that a curtailment of at least 12 1-2 per cent. to take effect from the first Wednesday in August next, and to continue for at least eighteen weeks, has been determined on. You will therefore please be prepared to pay up at least 12 1-2 per cent. on your notes as they become due for the period above...
632Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 27 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I received this morning your favor of the 20 th Ins t returning the two notes signed, but on the one payable to Tho s J. Randolph you have failed to obtain his signature, and as his power of Att y to me does not authorize my indorsing a note in his name, I send it you inclosed . On the 18 th I gave in charge to James Johnson (boatman) 2 cases of Wine and the small box of seeds, which I am...
633Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 27 July [1818] (Jefferson Papers)
Since writing you of this date I have received the above notice , You will therefore be pleased to fill up the note for $2625.— I fear this unexpected resolution will occasion much distress, as it will without doubt oblige the State banks to curtail, so as to meet the demand, which this ma y produce upon them (to the am t of $700.000) and which they are not in a situation to do without...
634Edmund Bacon to Thomas Jefferson, 29 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
upon a close look at my ploughs I find the wood work of one requires to be made intirely new and I shall want it next week I want to set my ploughs agoing at any rate before I leave home I want to so a field of rye in August. I informed M r Randolph that I had a demand on him for money considering it best to give him time if his money was not ready his answer stron g ly insinueates that it...
635Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 30 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you by my brother William , the signatures of the majority of the subscribers to the funds of the Central College in Nelson County to the deed of conveyance of the property of the College to the Commonwealth on the condition of the location of the University at the Scite of the College . I have met with the ready assent of every subscriber to whom I have yet presented the paper; & I am...
636James Le Ray de Chaumont to Thomas Jefferson, 31 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
An Absence from home has prevented me from having the honor to answer sooner the letter you favored me with. I am extremely grateful to M rs Morris to have procured me such a great gratification as has been bestowed on me by your most kind and benevolent letter . Indeed I did not feel bold enough to send you my feeble pro-duction and trespass in such a manner upon your precious moments. I was...
637Richard N. Thweatt to Thomas Jefferson, 31 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 6 th inst. I have just received. The wine you speak of, Co l Burton procured and sent to Mr Johnson , a merchant of this town. Mr Johnson informs me that in a few days after he received it, he met with Mr Eppes , and after telling him that he had a cask of wine for you, requested to know what he should do with it,— Mr E. told him he had better send it to
638Robert Walsh to Thomas Jefferson, 1 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you another N o of the Analectic magazine ;—not, however, as to a subscriber. It was by no means my intention to subject you to a double tax. That of even looking thro’ such light matter is enough, and, perhaps, the more onerous of the two in your estimation. I have no pecuniary interest in the circulation of this journal. There is no branch of “internal improvement” in which I feel so...
639Francis Eppes to Thomas Jefferson, 2 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I found on my arrival here the day that we parted that the Trustees were assembling for the trial of Watts , after Spending most of the day in warm debate he was Suspended untill he should beg Mr Dashiel s pardon; and promise good behaviour in future, and this in the presence of the whole school , to my great surprise he agreed to these humiliating conditions and was admitted, all goes on now...
640Julius T. Ducatel to Thomas Jefferson, 3 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
My friend D r G. Troost has recommended to my care a small box addressed to you, containing I believe a work of M r Faujas . Not knowing exactly how to have it forwarded, I thought that confiding it to the politeness of Cap n Fergusson of the Norfolk packet who in his return turn