1501John Barnes to Thomas Jefferson, 3 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
My last respects to you, 14 th Jan y in Answer, to your esteemed fav r 10 th still leaves me in doubt, respecting my last Years remittance of £200 sterling to Gen l Kosciusko —thro you, via Gen l Armstrong . I have to regret
1502Thomas Jefferson to Richard Barry, 3 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you on the 18 th of March , since that I begin to get the produce of the year to market, and now inclose you of the first proceeds one hundred dollars. within a few days I shall direct mr Jefferson to forward you another hundred. the balance which will be about 75. shall come in towards the close of the season, when all is at market. wishing you every happiness I shall feel a...
1503Thomas Jefferson to John Hollins, 3 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Accept my thanks for your kindness in procuring & forwarding the Plaister. by the present post I desire Mess rs Gibson & Jefferson to forward you the amount, 86. Dollars from Richmond where alone Baltimore bills can be had. your friends at Carrsbrook & Warren were all well yesterday. this morning mr & mrs Patterson
1504Thomas Jefferson to Jones & Howell, 3 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I believe our account stands thus. D 1809. May 2. due of course Aug. 2. 304.36 Sep. 21. due Dec. 21. 303.93 1810. Mar. 25. Interest on 304.36 to this day (8. mo.)
1505Peter Minor to Thomas Jefferson, 3 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I think you mentioned that you would recieve & store any corn for the Rivanna Company that they would have ground in your Mill . Under this impression I have contracted to have some delivered there in the course of a day or two, & other parcels hereafter, & I have taken the liberty to mention it to you in this way, in order that you may instruct your Miller or whoever is to receive it in case...
1506James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, 3 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
An unexpected change has taken place in my situation since I had last the pleasure to see you. an invitation from the President to enter into the department of State will take me to Washington . Having accepted the office, I set out to morrow in the stage to commence its duties. this appointment subjected me, in the first intimation, to great concern, from a doubt of the propriety of resigning...
1507Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 4 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
By the present post I desire mess rs Gibson & Jefferson to remit you 360.D. for Gen l Kosciusko , being the interest on his money in my hands for the last year. I am labouring & employing all the resources I can spare to wipe out my Washington debt paid for me by the bank of Richmond . the crop now going to market reduces it so that the one now preparing will clear it off entirely. this done,...
1508Thomas Jefferson to William Chamberlayne, 4 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Feb. 6. was duly recieved. I am now beginning to get my crop to market where ( Richmond ) it will be deposited in the hands of Mess rs Gibson & Jefferson for sale, and as soon as the proceeds shall be recieved I will send you an order for the amount of the negro hire as stated below. I have given credit for the time that Tom Buck worked as if he had been a sound hand, and charged...
1509Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Darmsdatt, 4 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have gone much beyond my stipulated term for remitting you the balance due for the supply of fish. a farmer’s resources come in but once a year, which is at this season. I had provided an intermediate resource which I had a just right to count on for the paiment to you. it has failed unworthily & forced me into the failure to you. I avail myself of my first produce getting to market to...
1510Thomas Jefferson to Henry Foxall, 4 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have long waited & waited in the expectation that I might have occasion to make some larger remittance to Washington in which the 13.40 D due you might be included, as being a fractional sum. but finding none such arrive, I have concluded to remit it in our bank bills. I accordingly inclose 25. 25 D. of which 12. are due to Conrad & co. booksellers on the Capitol hill , which I must pray you...
1511Thomas Jefferson to Gordon, Trokes & Company, 4 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I am at length enabled to have paiment made to you of the balance for which I have been so long in arrear. you know that a farmer’s resources come in but once a year, which is at this season. but in order to provide an intermediate resource for the purchase of my groceries, I had reserved the rent of a valuable manufacturing mill to be paid quarterly. unfortunately I fell into the hands of an...
1512Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 4 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I presume you have recieved the sum of 1333 ⅓ D from mr Samuel J. Harrison which he assured me should be punctually paid on the 1 st inst. at your counting house. this makes no part of the purchase of my tobacco crop, which is not yet due, & is destined to meet the following demands Washington. John Barnes 360.D
1513Théodore Pahlen to Thomas Jefferson, 4 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Depuis mon arrivée aux Etats Unis je n’ai pas discontinué de projeter une course en Virginie , sans avoir pu la réaliser jusqu’aprésent, mais enfin je me vois à même de pouvoir quitter Washington pour venir vous présenter mes respects en personne et je prends la liberté de m’adresser aujourd’hui à vous, Monsieur, pour apprendre si entre le 15 et le 20 de ce mois je pourrais avoir l’honneur de...
1514John G. Jackson to Thomas Jefferson, 5 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Judge Nelson who was assigned to this Circuit has resigned his Office, & my friends have procured my consent to become a Candidate for it. The Law requires that his successor shall reside within the Circuit & there is not any person here to dispute my pretentions. I presume the Executive will not deem it good policy to send strangers to us to fill our local offices, for the reason that it...
1515Benjamin Henry Latrobe to Thomas Jefferson, 5 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
The high respect & attachment which I have always professed and very sincerely felt for you has not been proved by the frequency of my letters to you. But knowing how much your time & mind are occupied by correspondence of infinitely more importance, I have never had the vanity to believe that I am entitled to intrude upon you with t special occasion.—Another reason,—the reason indeed which...
1516Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 5 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of Jan. 27. I informed you I was just setting out for Bedford to see about getting my crop of wheat there ground & brought to market, out of which I should be enabled to make you a paiment. I found it in a disagreeable situation. it had been delivered to be ground at a mill, the dam of which had recently given way. I endeavored to withdraw it but the miller refused, engaging to...
1517David Bailie Warden to Thomas Jefferson, 6 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of informing you, that I received, from General Bailey , the note you were pleased to write to me, inclosing a letter for mr Tracey : this day, I have received your letter of the 28th of last month , inclosing letters for Madame de Tessé , General La Fayette , and mr Walsh . I have already taken the liberty of informing you, that my departure, for France
1518Peter Carr to Thomas Jefferson, 7 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Since I left Monticello , I have spoken to two of the gentlemen, counted on, to aid us in Duane’s affair. M r Divers says he is averse to it on principle, and Bramham seems entirely unwilling to indorse for us at Bank. Indeed, he evaded the promise even to give any thing. These things are disheartening; and I begin to fear we may fall through, especially as I shall not have an opportunity, of...
1519Thomas Jefferson to Kemp Catlett, 7 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
When you mentioned that your supplies of butter might stand in discharge of my order for bran, & that tho’ it had hitherto been your resource for groceries, you would make some other shift, it did not strike me at the time: but after you were gone it occurred to me that the diverting the usual resource for your groceries might deprive the family of them. if this be the case, be so good as to...
1520Gibson & Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson, 7 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
We hand you annex’d your Acco t Current balanced by $6264.72 in our favor—We also inclose you a note for your signature to renew the one in bank due the 3 d May —we leave the amount blank to be fill’d up as you may direct— We received a few days since fifty six barrels of your flour all Sfine, sales were made on Monday at 9½ $, but in consequence of a large quantity coming down at once the...
1521Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 7 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of Mar. 18. and Apr. 1. have been duly recieved. the extract from Armstrong’s letter of July 28. 08. which you desire is in these words. ‘my poor friend Warden writes to you, & asks from you the appointment of Consul for this place. I could not promise to do more than send his letter. he is an honest and amiable man, with as much Greek & Latin, & chemistry & theology, as would do...
1522George W. Varnum to Thomas Jefferson, 7 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Not having time to obtain information from the Secretary of State , so soon as required, I have been advised to ask the information from you; and you will please excuse the liberty, there being no official documents from which the required information can be obtained in this County . It has been publicly asserted in this County that great waste has been made in the public money during the...
1523Thomas Jefferson to Bernard McMahon, 8 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been long wishing for an opportunity, by someone going to Philadelphia in the stage, to take charge of a packet of seeds for you. it is too large to trespass on the post-mail. I recieved them from my old friend Thouin , director of the National garden of France . but the advance of the season obliges me to confide them to a gentleman going no further than Washington , there to look out...
1524Thomas Jefferson to Littleton W. Tazewell, George Hay, and William Wirt, 9 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
In a former letter I promised a list of the books quoted & possessed by me, & of those quoted but not possessed, that these last might be sought for in time, as far as necessary.that list is now inclosed with explanatory notes. such of them as it will be necessary for me to send, shall be sent to Richmond whenever desired. the communications by water between Richmond & Norfolk are so frequent,...
1525Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s List of Authorities cited in Statement on the Batture Case, [ca. 9 April 1811] (Jefferson Papers)
Books quoted & possessed by me. Books quoted but not possessed by me. Civil law. Ferriere Valin Pothier Guyot . Repertoire Universelle Denizart Renusson Julien Prevot de la Janné Partidas Curia Philippica
1526William Coghlan to Thomas Jefferson, 10 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
You will perhaps be somewhat surprized at being addressed by a person entirely unknown to your Excel cy , At such a distance, & on such a subject as you will not perhaps, expect I need not say (such a subject) as fame errs or you have been often addressed on the same subject & much to the satisfaction of the applicants. But that I may not intrude on your Excellencys time & patience I shall...
1527William 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 could be done for Colo. D. here, it would be by shewing the copy of your letter to him. I shall retain it for another mail that I may recieve your directions as to making use of it or not. You may rely upon it that D.’s name has no magic in it here: he is considered as the foe of M r Madison . And the...
1528Joseph Darmsdatt to Thomas Jefferson, 11 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I rec’d yours of the 4 h Ins t & observt the Contents which will be Sattisfactory & If you Should want any fish this season—you may hav it—as i well Know the payment of farmers & only pay once a year—i Generaly P Charge a Littel more for the articul my fish will arive next mont they are of Good Quallity pleas Infor me how many you want & i can Sent them from time to time flour 9.25 Brisk hemp—...
1529Gibson & Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson, 11 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
We received yesterday your favors of the 1 st and 4 th Ins t and have made the several remittances and payments directed as p r Mem m annex’d amounting to $1240.26— we have also paid M r D a Warwick on account of
1530Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Morris & Dunnington, [ca. 10 April 1811] (Jefferson Papers)
Dr Thomas Jefferson Esq r In account with Morris & Dunnington Cr 1811 March 25 th To Balance due M&D £277. 4.6½ 〃 Interest on £263.17 from
1531Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 11 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
It is with real reluctance I trouble you with small commissions, which I know ought not to be done. I do it therefore only in cases of urgency, & for articles not to be had here. we are in immediate want of 29 32. yards of Cotton diaper or Cotton damask (I know not which it is called) of about 9 or 10. quarters wide for tablecloths, which I am told is to be had at Richmond . will you be so...
1532Thomas Law to Thomas Jefferson, 13 April [1811] (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to request your name as a Subscriber to a work which will be of essential service to which M r Gallatin , M r Paul Hamilton & others have subscribed & which M r Gallatin has promised to aid by correcting the Statistical account—should you be dissatisfied I will take it— The translator is a very worthy man, whom I esteem, & whom I assist as much as lays in my power for the rising...
1533Henry Dearborn to Thomas Jefferson, 14 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Domestic affliction will, I hope, be admitted as an apology for my not having written to you for so long a time. I mention an apology, because I feel guilty of a negle c t, whenever I allow several months to pass without giving you some indication of my friendship & gratitude. the recollection of having enjoyed a share of your friendship will I trust never cease to Afford me peculiar...
1534Thomas Jefferson to Alexander von Humboldt, 14 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
The interruption of our intercourse with France , for some time past, has prevented my writing to you. a conveyance now occurs, by mr Barlow or mr Warden , both of them going in a public capacity. it is the first safe opportunity offered of acknoleging your favor of Sep. 23. and the reciept at different times of the III d part of your valuable work , 2 d 3 d 4 th
1535Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 14 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I feel much concern that suggestions stated in your letter of the 5 th inst. should, at this distance of time, be the subject of uneasiness to you, and I regret it the more as they make appeals to memory, a faculty never strong in me, & now too sensibly impaired to be relied on. it retains no trace of the particular conversations alluded to, nor enables me to say that they are, or are not,...
1536David Bailie Warden to Thomas Jefferson, 14 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I am induced, by a sense of duty, to inclose for your perusal, a copy of my defence with regard to the insinuation made against me, before my appointment, by a secret enemy, and to which, I understand, General armstrong has lately referred—as he has not furnished his objections to my consular appointment, I trust that the President will soon allow me to embark. The suspension of my departure...
1537John Barnes to Thomas Jefferson, 15 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have now the pleasure to inclose you, sett of ex. 1 t 2 d & 3 d — Mess rs Bowie & Kurtz . dated 13 th Ins t a 60 days sight on M r W m
1538Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 15 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the reciept of your letters of Jan. 20. & Sep. 14. 1810. and, with the latter, your Observations on the subject of taxes. they bear the stamps of logic & eloquence which mark every thing coming from you, & place the doctrines of the Economists in their strongest points of view. my present retirement & unmeddling disposition make of this une question oiseuse pour moi . but...
1539Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 15 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you the note signed, and filled up with the former sum supposing it not best not to change it till the next renewal, by which time mr Harrison’s note for the tob o will be in hand and due. Griffin wrote me on the 5 th that he had then delivered 24. hhds to mr Harrison , and that 6. more were ready & would be opened in a few days, when
1540Thomas Jefferson to François André Michaux, 15 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of Aug. 10. and, with it, your beautiful account of the pines & firs of our country, for which be pleased to accept my thanks. I sincerely wish the work may be prosecuted, & that the citizens of the US. may not be wanting in due encouragement to it. nothing should be spared which I could do to befriend it. accept my best wishes that you may enjoy health to...
1541Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Paganel, 15 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved through mr Warden the copy of your valuable work on the French revolution, for which I pray you to accept my thanks. that it’s sale should have been suppressed is no matter of wonder with me. the friend of liberty is too feelingly manifested, not to give umbrage to it’s enemies. we read in it, and weep over, the fatal errors which have lost to nations the present hope of liberty,...
1542Thomas Jefferson to Théodore Pahlen, 15 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 4 th did not arrive here till yesterday, owing to the late rains which have rendered the waters and roads nearly impassable for the mail. I hasten to acknolege it’s reciept, and to express a due sense of the honor of the visit you give me the hope of recieving here, and the value I set on the double gratification it will afford of manifesting to the representative of the...
1543Thomas Jefferson to William Wirt, 15 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 10 th was recieved yesterday. I should be unwilling that any use should be made of my letter which would shew my interference in the case in question, because I know how gladly the dogs of federalism would turn from Duane upon me and tranquility is now become the summum bonum with me. should Duane push his state-partyism against mr Gallatin to an opposition to the President ,...
1544Théodore Pahlen’s Account of a Visit to Monticello, [between 15 April and 15 May 1811] (Jefferson Papers)
Depuis peu je suis revenu d’une tournée en Virginie & quoique ce voyage n’ait rien de commun avec les affaires, j’ai cependant cru que Votre Excellence ne serait pas fachée d’en apprendre la relation, ne l’ayant entrepris que pour présenter mes respects à M r Jefferson . La campagne qu’il habite se trouve en Virginie à peu près à 200. werstes au Sud de Washington . Après être parvenu à...
1545Thomas Jefferson to Joel Barlow, 16 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I felicitate you sincerely on your destination to Paris , because I believe it will contribute both to your happiness and the public good. yet it is not unmixed with regret. what is to become of the history of the our Post-revolutionary history ? of the antidotes of truth to the misrepresentations of Marshal ? this example proves the wisdom of the maxim never to put off to tomorrow what can be...
1546Thomas Jefferson to Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 16 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
My last letter to you was of the 26 th of February of the last year. knowing of no particular conveyance, I confided it to the department of State, to be put under the cover of their public despatches to Gen l Armstrong or mr Warden . not having been able to learn whether it ever got to hand, I now inclose a duplicate. knowing your affections to this country, and the interest you take in...
1547James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, 16 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
The minister of Russia , Count Pahlen & his brother , having intimated their intention to make you a visit at Monticello , I have taken the liberty to give them this introduction. The publick character of these respectable foreigners, would, I well know, secure them your kind reception, & friendly attention, but you will be gratified to know that they have high claims from personal merit. RC (...
1548John Hollins to Thomas Jefferson, 17 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
A few days ago I had the pleasure to receive your esteemed lines of the 3 d Ins t — Mess s Gibson & Jefferson have as you desired, remitted me the eighty six dollars in payment for the plaister last sent you, which settles that transaction All our friends, that I have had an opportunity of conversing with, have expressed their regret at the late changes, & doings at Washington , indeed they do...
1549Skelton Jones to Thomas Jefferson, 17 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
In consequence of my temporary residence in this place, during the present spring, and approaching fall, summer, in order to superintend the printing of the History of Virginia , which in no long time will go to press, I did not receive your polite and liberal answer, to my letter of the 15 th of Jan y until within a few days. I return you my sincere thanks for the frank and friendly manner,...
1550Thomas Jefferson’s Survey of Boundary between Lego and Pantops, 17 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
1811. Apr. 17. a survey of the line between Lego & Pantops from the stump of the old line tree near the river up to the clearing on the mountain, called Pantops , with a view to mark the line accurately from the river to the public road. every line tree now standing is herein marked, as far as we went. Beginning at the old fore & aft a little way from the river, the stump of which is still...