3001James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 6 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I rec d your favor of and now return the letter of Doc r Waterhouse , with the Newspapers sent with it. He appears to be a man of Ability & learning, and to have been rendered interesting to several distinguished friends to the Administration by the persecutions he has suffered from its Enemies. Like many others however I see at present no reward for him, but in his own virtues. The Treasury...
3002John Taggart to Thomas Jefferson, 6 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
With diffidence I take the liberty of addressing you again on a subject the most essential to my happiness, as it respects my son in whose behalf I wrote you on the 20 th of Nov r last, when he applied for a Midshipmans warrant in the United-States Navy , as he cannot content himself in any other employment,—He has since that time been applying himself to that part of education most suitable...
3003James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, 7 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
During the last session of Congress the current business pressed so heavily on me, and after its adjournment, the preparation of instructions for our ministers employed under the mediation of Russia , and in other duties connected with it, kept me so constantly engaged that I have scarcely had a moment of respite since I left you. I seize one to communicate some details, which it may be...
3004John L. E. W. Shecut to Thomas Jefferson, 8 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
A few Literary and Scientific Citizens of Charleston , having it in contemplation to form a Society to be called the “Antiquarian Society of charleston” Having for their objects primarily, the collection and preservation of articles and things of antiquity, rare useful & curious and Secondarily the promotion and encouragement of the arts and Sciences generally, including Natural and Moral...
3005John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 10 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
In your Letter to D r Priestley of March 21. 1801 , you ask “What an Effort, of Bigotry in politics and religion have We gone through! The barbarians really flattered themselves, they should be able to bring back the times of Vandalism, when ignorance put every thing into the hands of power and priestcraft. All Advances in Science were proscribed as innovations; they pretended to praise and...
3006Thomas Jefferson to Eli Alexander, 10 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Bacon had to buy 60. barrels of corn for me, and he understood that you had agreed at court to deliver that quantity. but n a note which he sent you for a waggon load this morning being returned to him without any other answer, seemed to imply a negative of the bargain. my people at Lego having been without bread yesterday, & to be so to-day till we could buy it, I was obliged to send off...
3007Chapman Johnson to Thomas Jefferson, 10 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknowledge your’s of the 4 th , received this morning, and to promise you my attention, to the case of David Michie against yourself, depending in the Albemarle circuit Court ,— I was apprised of the application for a certiorari, during the sitting of the last court, and on the authority of your former letter, would have contested the propriety of granting it, if the application had...
3008John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 11 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I rec d yesterday your favour of may 27 th . I lament with you the loss of Rush . I know of no Character living or dead, who has done more real good in America . Robert Treat Paine Still lives, at 83 or 84, alert drol and witty though deaf . Floyd I believe, yet remains, Paine must be very great; Philosopher and Christian; to live under the Afflictions of his Family. Sons and Daughters with...
3009Elbridge Gerry to Thomas Jefferson, 11 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Here I am, my dear Sir, by the partiality of my friends, & discomfiture of my political enemies; again in the vortex of national politicks. My line of duty is plain & easy, & I shall endeavour to adhere to it. But I must confess, that I am much disappointed in a very pleasing anticipation, an interveiw at the seat of government with my ancient & highly respected friend of Monticello ; for I am...
3010Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 12 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of May 29. with 150.D. inclosed was duly recieved as is that also of June 5. I should not be for recieving the paiment of the monies for mr Mazzei before they are due on any other discount than of legal interest, say ½ per cent per month. I inclose you a letter I have recieved from mr Edmund Randolph , by which you will see that he executed our joint deed to mr Taylor on the 22 d of May...
3011Richard Rush to Thomas Jefferson, 12 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I received, yesterday, your favor of the 31. of last month , and beg leave to return my warm thanks for your kind and obliging sympathy on the melancholy occasion of the death of my father . Few men, I believe, who have lived ever acted up more faithfully to what he took to be the line of rectitude and duty in all the actions of his laborious life; but in whatever lights he may have appeared...
3012Samuel Brown to Thomas Jefferson, 13 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope that the small package of Capsicum, which I sent you, a few weeks ago, has arrived in safety—You may even a month hence be very certain of obtaining Plants which, with a little care, can be preserved through the Winter & which will yeild fruit before the last of May—I now send you as much as you will be able to use until that time—The Spaniards generally use it in fine Powder & seldom...
3013Louis Philippe Gallot de Lormerie to Thomas Jefferson, 13 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
L’intérest que vous aves pris Si genereusement a mon Passage me fait un devoir presque indispensable de Vous informer que par un heureux Concours de Circonstançes Je suis Enfin parvenu a m’Embarquer Effectivement avec Lagrement de M.C. a bord du Brig de LEtat Sus mentionné ou Je suis maintenant nous n’attendons qu’un Vent favorable pour mettre a la voile tandis que LEscadre-Ennemie est occupée...
3014John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 14 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
In your Letter to D r Priestley of march 21. 1801 , you “tender him, the protection of those laws which were made for the wise and good, like him; and disclaim the legitimacy of that Libel on legislation , which, under the form of a Law, was for Sometime placed among them.” This Law, I presume was, the Alien Law, as it was called. As your name is Subscribed to that law, as Vice President, and...
3015Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 15 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you a letter on the 27 th of May , which probably would reach you about the 3 d inst. and on the 9 th I recieved yours of the 29 th of May . of Lindsay’s Memoirs I had never before heard, & scarcely indeed of himself. it could not therefore but be unexpected that two letters of mine should have any thing to do with his life. the name of his
3016Thomas Jefferson to Bernard McMahon, 15 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just recieved some Capsicum of the province of Techas , where it is indigenous as far Eastwardly as the Sabine river . it’s roots are perennial there, and it is believed it will stand our frosts with a little covering. it grows in great abundance there and the inhabitants are in the habit of using it as a seasoning for every thing as freely as salt, and ascribe much of their health to...
3017Bill of Complaint in Jefferson v. Michie, 16 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
To the worshipful the County Court of Albemarle Setting in Chancery, the bill of Complaint of Thomas Jefferson humbly sheweth—that Bennett Henderson late of the County of Albemarle being in his lifetime seized and possessed in fee simple of a tract of Land in the same County lying on the South side of the Rivanna river and around the town of Milton died intestate leaving a widow Elizabeth...
3018James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, 16 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
At the commencment of the war I was decidedly of your opinion, that the best disposition which could be made of our little navy, would be to keep it in a body in a safe port, from which it might sally only, on some important occasion, to render essential service. Its safety, in itself, appeard to be an important object, as while safe, it formed a check on the enemy in all its operations along...
3019Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah A. Goodman, 17 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
The unexpected difficulty of getting water to my saw mill and threshing machine has made it impossible for me to leave those works a day; and the harvest is now so near as not to leave me time for a visit to Poplar forest . I must therefore put it off till the harvest is over. as soon after that as I shall suppose you may have brushed over your tobacco, I will go; because I imagine you will be...
3020Thomas Jefferson to Richard Rush, 17 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 12 th came to hand yesterday and I thank you for the kind attention you are so good as to pay to it. the subject of my letters. my entire confidence in the family will render satisfactory to me your addressing any member of it you think proper on the subject of those letters. an occurrence since my letter to you has justified my anxiety to prevent their getting into...
3021Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 18 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 2 d is recieved, and a copy of Higgenbotham’s mortgage is now inclosed. the journey to Bedford which I proposed in my last, my engagements here have obliged me to postpone till after harvest which is now approaching; it is the most unpromising one I have seen. we have been some days in expectation of seeing M. Correa. if he is on the road, he has had some days of our very hottest...
3022Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 19 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the copy of mr Clarke’s Sketches of the naval history of the US. which you have been so kind as to send me. it is a convenient Repertory of the cases of that class, and has brought to my recollection a number of individual cases of the Revolutionary war which had escaped me. I recieved also one of mr Clarke’s circulars asking supplementory communications for a 2 d edition. but...
3023Thomas Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry, 19 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 11 th is just recieved, and I repeat the sincere pleasure it has given me to see you once more come forward on the stage of the nation. I have ever thought the post you now occupy the most agreeable one the nation can give, & very far preferable to that which it’s highest favor confers. and I have hoped that, within three days journey of one another, it would afford some occasion...
3024Thomas Jefferson to Tobias Lear, 19 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of May 31. is but recently recieved. I had learnt with pleasure your safe arrival in the US. since it had pleased the potent Dey to break with us, to his disadvantage, to ours, & whether to yours or not you can best judge. mrs Lear at least must be glad to be once more among friends. I suppose we can do little with the Dey till we have peace with England . but then I would, at any...
3025Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 19 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of the 7 th & 16 th are recieved, & I now return you the Memoir inclosed in the former. I am much gratified by it’s communication because, as the plan appeared in the newspapers soon after the new Secretary at War came into office, we had given him the credit of it. every line of it is replete with wisdom; and we might lament that our tardy enlistments prevented it’s execution,...
3026Thomas Jefferson to John Taggart, 19 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 6 th is duly recieved. considering that you had communicated to mr Jones my letter to mr Hamilton & mr Hamilton’s answer and after that had sent him my letter to you , I think (since you are pleased to refer it to my judgment) it would be better to avoid importuning him. I know the practice to be to put these applications on a file, and when a vacancy happens to take up the...
3027John Barnes to Thomas Jefferson, 20 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
since I had the pleasure of Answering your fav r of the 4 th Ins t M r Geo Williams of Balt o has fav rd me with answer to my 2 d letter to him—on the expected advices from G K
3028Thomas Jefferson to Regnault de Bécourt, 20 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the work you have sent me , & which I have no doubt I shall peruse with equal pleasure & instruction. I percieve by a glance of the eye over it that it brings into question both moral & physical doctrines of long & general standing. but we ought never to fear truth, nor hesitate to follow wherever she leads. I shall be glad to be a subscriber for a couple of copies of the...
3029Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Hunter, 20 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Having two clocks out of order which I would wish to have put to rights, and understanding from you that you would come to do it if you could get a horse, I send one by the bearer. he goes on to Scott’s ferry on other business and will leave the horse with you, if you can come. if you cannot, he will take it on with him and return from Scott’s ferry. you shall in like manner be furnished with...
3030Joseph Hunter to Thomas Jefferson, 20 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I have rec’d yours of the morning and have to informe you that it was & is my intention to wate on you in A few days if I can arrainge my business at home in A manner to justify it. I have sent the beast back by the barer as I have w i thin A few days past got a horse at my command. In ten or twelve days without some unforeseen accident I sh all be with you. I am Your much Obliged Humb l Serv...