3851Mathew Carey & Son to Thomas Jefferson, 16 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
By this day’s mail we forward Virgil , & by in a few days we will forward V. Romæ & M c Mahon — We rec d yesterday a few Law Books from London , among which were nine of Bridgman , one of which we have this day forwarded to care of
3852William H. Fitzhugh to Thomas Jefferson, 18 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
At the request of some of my neighbors, I have undertaken to ask your opinion and such information, as your own experience will enable you to give, as to the most direct line of communication between the City of Washington , and that section of the country in which you reside. From the former place a turnpike road, designed to intersect the Little River turnpike between the six & seven...
3853Peter Poinsot to Thomas Jefferson, 18 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
À la recommandation de mon digne & vertueux ami le Genéral Kosciuzko Je me permis de vous écrire le 25 Juin dernier , & vous envoyai une de ses lettres par la voye de M r Barnett mon ami, votre Consul Genéral a Paris , & le duplicata le 15 Juillet Suivant par Bordeaux , N’ayant pas été favorisé de vos nouvelles. Je viens Solliciter de vôtre bienveillance, pour vous prier de vous interesser...
3854Daniel Brent to Thomas Jefferson, 15 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just had the Honor to receive your note of the 12th , enclosing an open Letter for m r Gallatin at Paris , which I immediately sealed, and one for m r Beasley at Havre , and requesting that I would give these Letters a Conveyance, with the public Despatches. I have the satisfaction to inform you that they will forthwith be sent to the
3855Bennett H. Henderson to Thomas Jefferson, 15 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Some years ago I made a deed to James L Henderson for my my interest in Some land lying around the town of Milton I took a bond for the Conveyance of a tract of land in this Country to which he never had a title when this deed was made I was an infant but that Circumstance I Should never have taken an advantage of had I not been deceiv,d my brother is dead leaving no indemnity for the...
3856James Rawlings to Thomas Jefferson, 14 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour of the 10 Ins t with a Draft on Patrick Gibson of this place came to hand by yesterday’s mail—The draft has been paid, and I now enclose you a Receipt for the quotas of the years 1814, 1815, 1816 1817 & 1818 being all of the demands of the M A. Sy for Insurance of y r buildings at Monticello up to the end of this year—. James Rawlings P Ag
3857Enclosure: Receipt from the Mutual Assurance Society to Thomas Jefferson, 14 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Thomas Jefferson To the Mutual Assurance Society against Fire on Buildings of the State of Virginia , Dr. To Quota s of the year s 1814 1815 1816 1817 & 1818 on Buildings in Albemarle insured by Declaration No. 389. $12 84 100 each year $64.20. Interest
3858John Vaughan to Thomas Jefferson, 14 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Not being able to negociate the Dft I prevailed upon one of the Banks here to take it on Deposit & purchased of M r Stephen Girard the following Dfts on James Laffite & C o Paris to my order dated 12 May at 60 Days S t the fourths of which I now enclose to you having Sent on the firsts to new York to be forwarded & the seconds will go by next opportunity viz N o 382 for 2415
3859Thomas Jordan to Thomas Jefferson, 13 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I took the liberty of applying to you for the above am t by Letter dated some weeks back, requesting you would have the kindness to remit me the am t to the care of Doctor May of this City, but as I have not had the pleasure of hearing from you, I presume it must have escaped your recollection, therefore beg leave to remind you, which hope you’ll pardon Having received all the Subscriptions...
3860John Gardiner to Thomas Jefferson, 12 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I pray you accept the enclosed Map, as a mark of the respect of RC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “Thomas Jefferson Esq r Virginia”; endorsed by TJ as received 18 May 1818 and so recorded in SJL . Enclosure: Gardiner, Map of the late Surveys in the Southern District of the Alabama Territory (Philadelphia, [ca. 1817]).
3861David Bailie Warden to Thomas Jefferson, 12 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the pleasure of sending you by Captain Corran bound to newyork , a small parcel containing some pamphlets, catalogues of Books, and a file of a french newspaper—the annales des Politiques —If you will send me a list of the Books which you wish to have, I think that I could procure them for you a great deal cheaper than if furnished by any Bookseller, especially if you can allow some...
3862Joseph Milligan to Thomas Jefferson, 11 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have sent a box of Books for you to the care of W m F Gray of Fredericksburg it contains Tacitus 8 vols and two other Octavo volumes also a folio volume which is either yours or Miss Randolph s it was left with me by M rs Madison — at the time it was left I had nothing of that kind to bind and when I was binding for you last year it was forgotten I have put into the box four Books for M r Carr
3863William Short to Thomas Jefferson, 11 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Knowing your present aversion to writing, & knowing also how much you are accablé by inevitable correspondence, I have abstained for some time from adding to this load. If I break in upon you at this moment it is because I am in search of information that I know not where to look for otherwise, & indeed which I can have no certainty of finding from you—If you recollect, among the articles...
3864Francis Adrian Van der Kemp to Thomas Jefferson, 11 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I take again the liberty of Sending you a few lines—and this without any further apologÿ, as I take it for granted that you do me the justice, that I can not wish, to intrude on your more Serious occupations, or importune you, for making a Sacrifice of your precious time, in answering these:—what value I may place on one of your lines—I do not desire these at that rate—and on this footing I do...
3865William F. Gray to Thomas Jefferson, 8 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
By the next stage that leaves this place for Charlotesville , I will forward to you a Box which has been addressed to my care,— I presume by Mr Milligan . It gives me much pleasure to be thus able to serve you. RC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ as received 11 May 1818 and so recorded in SJL . RC ( MHi ); address cover only; with PoC of TJ to Charles Simms, 30 July 1818
3866Mordecai M. Noah to Thomas Jefferson, 7 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
You will pardon the liberty I take, in transmitting to you a Discourse , delivered at the consecration of a Jewish Synagogue in this City, which I trust may have sufficient novelty, if not interest to induce you to peruse. Nothing I am persuaded can be more gratifying to you, than to See the Jews in this Country in the full enjoyment of civil and religious rights, to know that they possess...
3867John Vaughan to Thomas Jefferson, 7 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of 8 April desiring me to remit to Europe 1000$ which M r Patrick Gibson of Richmond was to remit to me on your ℀—& also his of 4 May Informing he could not procure a Dft & desiring me to Draw—are both this moment received—I shall negociate the Dft as speedily as may be—& procure the Dfts on Paris
3868Benjamin O. Tyler to Thomas Jefferson, 6 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your very interesting letter of the 26 th of March 4 days after date, for which I return you my most grateful thanks. At the request of several of your particular friends in this place I have taken the liberty to publish it, for whatever emanates from on a National subject, from the pen of Columbia’s Illustrious Statesman and Patriot will ever excite the attention of his fellow...
3869Beverly Waugh to Thomas Jefferson, 5 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty to inclose a short treatise on the “evidence and authority of the Christian Revelation,” by the Rev d Tho s Chalmers . In doing so, I trust my mind is influenced by pure motives. I need not remark to you Sir, that truth is an important object, worthy of our most vigorous, and continued pursuit. Of this, you must be deeply sensible. Can you, then have the smallest objection,...
3870Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 4 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Not having received the order from M r Tho s J Randolph as I expected by last mail, I obtained permission of the Cashier to draw the money, engaging to furnish him with the order in a few days—and have been endeavouring in vain to procure a check, or dft to remit to M r Vaughan , I have therefore written to that Gentleman on the subject, requesting him to draw upon me for $1000. on your...
3871Enclosure: Stephen Cathalan’s Invoice of Items Shipped to Thomas Jefferson, 28 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Invoice of Sundries Shipped by order for the account & risk of Thom s Jefferson Esq r at Monticello Virg a on board the american Ship Fair Trader of Alexend a Geor g Fletcher
3872Stephen Cathalan to Thomas Jefferson, 2 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Confirming you my here inclosed letter of the 25 th April ult o ; this is to remit you herewith the invoice of 8 Boxes containing together 192 Bottl s old red wine of Bergasse & one Basket Macaroni, I have Shipped on the Ship Fair Trader, G ge Fletcher master, for Alexd a to be forwarded to you by the
3873Thomas Appleton to Thomas Jefferson, 29 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
The unexpected departure of the Brig. Free Ocean Capt: Bartholomew , this day for Phil a together with many avocations for the Squadron of Com o Stewart now here, allows me only the time to say, that I have shipp’d on board the above mention’d vessel, two Cases cont’g 84 bottles of montepulciano wine, which exactly balances, what you term the “ atom ,” after paying mad me mazzei .— It is...
3874Stephen Cathalan to Thomas Jefferson, 25 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
your most honored Favor of the 18 th January , Inclosing a Copy of the Letter your So Long Continued Friendship for me dictated to the H ble B. W. Crowninshield Sec ry of the navy, with one of his answer to you (which you was So Good, as to take the Trouble to transmit me, with & by your Good Friendly Hand) Reached me on the 21 st Ins t by an american Vessel arived on that Day, from new york
3875Gamaliel H. Ward to Thomas Jefferson, 22 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote You on the 20 th January from Wilmington N o C . by the advice of my friends there, and as the subject and my plan seem’d to excite a deal of interest & anxiety, perhaps the letter might have been intercepted, I therefore take the liberty to enclose a copy and to crave your reference thereto. But as I desired an answer to care of Robert Cochran Esq re Collector of that place and left...
3876John Rhea to Thomas Jefferson, 23 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
John Rhea , presents the assurance of his respect and Esteem, with the enclosed copy of a Circular letter to Thomas Jefferson Esq r late President of the United States — RC ( MHi ); endorsed by TJ as received 6 May 1818 and so recorded in SJL . Enclosure: Rhea to his constituents, Washington , 3 Apr. 1818, highlighting the uniqueness of the American republic, the symbiotic relationship between...
3877Henry Dearborn to Thomas Jefferson, 22 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Being persuaded that you have more letters to notice than can be perfectly convenient or agreable, I have refrained for some time from adding to the list, we may not always be sure of what the governing motive for our actions may be, but as far as I am capable of deciding in the present case, my motive for writing is principally, that of saying, that neither time or space, has in any degree...
3878John Wood to Thomas Jefferson, 22 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Understanding that there will be soon a meeting of the Trustees of the Central College , I beg leave to acquaint you; that in the event of the Trustees not having procured a mathematical Professor , that I should be happy to have the professorship. I regret extremely that I was not more explicit in my answer to your letter last summer on the subject of the classical Professorship. My...
3879From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 20 April 1818 (Madison Papers)
I take the opportunity by Judge Holmes of sending my first Instalment for the Central College, which I beg the favor of you to have put into the proper hands. The only subscription to the lists I distributed is the inclosed one from Gen A. T. Mason. Is it worth while to avail ourselves of his solitary liberality in that distant quarter, which connects him so little with an institution as yet a...
3880John Cook to Thomas Jefferson, 20 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed Publication which I have the honour to present to you I received very Lately from the Author, now in England , a very near acquaintance and intimate Friend of many Years standing. Permit me to observe Sir, that this is the only one of a series of numbers which commenced some Years ago and are published annually in England , which has appeared in Amer i ca . Having published some...
3881Ferdinando Fairfax to Thomas Jefferson, 20 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I know that you must be very much plagued with Letters & communications of all descriptions: it is a Tax upon your celebrity; which makes most of your fellow Citizens solicitous of your approbation. This accompanies a little production that appeared to me adapted to the present posture of affairs: but I do not solicit of you an answer to this, unless both leisure and inclination should render...
3882Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 20 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I had dated and prepared to put in your note on Wednesday the 22 nd but by the advice of Col l Nicholas did not offer it until yesterday, when it was discounted, I cannot however make use of the proceeds, not having yet received the necessary check from M r T. J. Randolph , it will fall due on the 21 /24 th June . Our flour market continues to decline, the present prices are 8
3883Thomas Jordan to Thomas Jefferson, 20 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Being empowered by the above Gentlemen to collect all sums due to them, I beg leave to annex your Small acc t , which I shall thank you to send me the am t of to the care of Doctor May of this City. your sending the amount by Return of Post will oblige Sir Tho s Jefferson Esq r & c To Kimber & Richardson Philadelphia
3884James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 20 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the opportunity by Judge Holmes of sending my first Instalment for the Central College , which I beg the favor of you to have pai put into the proper hands. The only subscription to the lists I distributed is the inclosed one from Gen A. T. Mason . Is it worth while to avail ourselves of his solitary liberality in that distant quarter , which connects him so little with an institution...
3885Robert Walsh to Thomas Jefferson, 20 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
As there is now no likelihood of the resurrection of the American Register, & as I am about to return with my family to Philadelphia , I think it proper to restore to you at once the valuable manuscript of M r de Tracy . It certainly deserves to be well translated, & published among us; but I doubt the sale would defray the expence of printing. The taste for Such profound speculations is...
3886Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 19 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your letter yesterday. For the present I am bound here. The friends who exert themselves in endeavouring to promote my interest, require of me that the pains they have taken shall not be rendered nugatory. If D r Dorsey be elected in the room of D r Wistar , which is likely: if D r Coxe be elected in the room of D r Dorsey , which also is likely but by no means void of doubt, it...
3887Wilson Cary Nicholas to Thomas Jefferson, 19 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I am about to take a liberty with you, that I hope you will pardon. Before I do, I beg you to understand, it is sincerely my wish, that you shou’d not comply with the request, I am ab o ut to make, if it shou’d be either inconvenient or unpleasant to you, in any respect. I want the use of a sum of money for a short time, I can obtain it from one of the Banks, but to do so, I Must have an...
3888“Laban Stringfellow” to Thomas Jefferson, [by 19 April 1818] (Jefferson Papers)
This circular which I take the Liberty of addressing to you is the effusion of an old fellow who has like your Honour retired from the world to repose on the Bosom of Literature, and tho: my “ Circular ” will not give me place with Campbell and Tom Moore I dare swear your excellency will agree it is equal to the subject. Before I take my leave allow me in the fullness of my heart to seize upon...
3889Mathew Carey & Son to Thomas Jefferson, 18 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour of the 8 th we have duly Rec d The Books in question have been regularly forwarded according to order—& we have no doubt will shortly reach your hands. They were forwarded to care of in a box to F. A. Mayo , Richmond , Jan 13. on which day, Capt Peyton was advised that such a parcel was addressed to his care.—
3890James Leitch to Thomas Jefferson, 18 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this Day Changed a Subscription paper to the Central College , making it payable in three Annual Installments have presented it to three persons two have Subscribed $175—my zeal for the Institution have Induced me to act in this (unauthorised) Should this Course meet your approbation I am of Opinion a Considerable Subscription may Still be obtained, & if an Idea Could with propriety be...
3891William King (of South Carolina) to Thomas Jefferson, 17 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
the subject on which on I venture to address a few lines to you I hope will not be disagreable. With becoming modesty I venture to say I have discovered a Method for finding the Longitude at Sea, exceedingly plain & easy. The President of the So. Carolina Colege has examied it, & has writen on it that he has not seen any thing similar to it in any Author. By this Method, both the Lattitude &...
3892John G. Robert (for Patrick Gibson) to Thomas Jefferson, 17 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have sent by Ja s Johnson s boat to you Eleven cases wine & one of macaroni in good order— You will pay toll for passing the locks at Columbia — I wo d wish M r T. E. Randolph to be more explicit hereafter in sending your flour down as a great deal of trouble has been unnecessarily incurred by the boatman Eye’s not knowing where to deliver it— it has in consequence remained sometime in a...
3893Peter S. Du Ponceau to Thomas Jefferson, 14 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the Satisfaction to inform you that the Historical Committee has received from M r Biddle , the MSS. of Lewis & Clarke . I enclose a Copy of the Letter with which he accompanied them, with some Memoranda by M r Vaughan at foot. This enclosure dispenses me from the necessity of stating further particulars. The Society & its Committees go on with Zeal & Spirit.
3894Benjamin Henry Latrobe to Thomas Jefferson, 14 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my retirement from the public service I no longer here hear from You, in answer to the letters I have written transmitting the information you requested, and in the only manner in which I could, myself, obtain it. This is the only bad consequence which has resulted to me from my resignation, and the displeasure of the President US. I enclose you, I hope without offence, as a statement...
3895Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 13 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your favor of the 10 th Ins t inclosing a letter for M r Vaughan and your dft on the US: bank for the proceeds of a note of $3000.— Col o Nicholas sent me a few days ago, your note for that sum in favor of Tho
3896Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Patrick Gibson for Flour Sales, 13 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Sales of Flour made on acc t Tho s Jefferson Esq r 1818 Feb y 6 th to A & J Otis 60 d /– 50
3897Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Patrick Gibson, 13 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Tho s Jefferson Esq r In Acc t /curr t with Patrick Gibson D r 1818 Jan 5 To cash p d
3898Hugh Steel to Thomas Jefferson, 12 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I fear the impertinent intrusion of a stranger will not be verry acceptable to one, who no doubt, is too often pestered with similar communications: But considering you as president of the Phylosophical Philosophical Society , I could not resist the desire I had of communicating the enclosed sheet , through you, to that body. It is intended as the commencement of a series of essays, on the...
3899Mathew Carey & Son to Thomas Jefferson, 11 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Having just rec d some copies of the small Bible ordered by you, some time since, we now forward one, & remain resp y RC ( MHi ); in the hand of a representative of Mathew Carey & Son ; between dateline and salutation: “ Tho s Jefferson Esq”; endorsed by TJ as a letter from the elder Carey
3900Destutt de Tracy to Thomas Jefferson, 11 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
C’est le 13 9 bre dernier que M r Lyman m’a remis la très aimable lettre que vous m’aviez fait l’honneur de m’ecrire le 15 Mai precedent. J’y ai Vu avec un bien grand plaisir que vous aviez reçu mes deux dernières lettres des 4 fevrier et 24 X bre 1816 . ainsi que tous les petits envois de livres ou de manuscrits que je vous avais fait precedemen t & que vous Conserviez toujours la même...