841Christopher Clark to Thomas Jefferson, [4 April 1810] (Jefferson Papers)
your favor of this instant is just now delivered by mr Griffin I have been compeled for a fortnight past by the necessary attention to a sick family to neglect all other business this same cause has kept me from Campbell Superior Court I think to dey M rs C is a little mended if in this I shall be happily not deceved and She continues to improv it will be in my power to attend to your request...
842Thomas Jefferson to Jones & Howell, 7 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I remitted you some time ago 200.D. through Gibson & Jefferson and I take measures through by the present mail from this quarter to remit through them another sum of 100.D. until I could pay up one of the two quarters of supply due, I preferred letting my nailery be without employ. this is their present state. I must therefore now pray you, with as little delay as possible to send me on a...
843Thomas Jefferson to John Hollins, 8 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved your favor just as I was setting out on a journey to this place, & learnt at the same time, the arrival of the plaister at Richmond . by this post I desire mess rs Gibson & Jefferson of Richmond to remit you the amount, 80.40 D with which be pleased to accept my thanks for this & other favors. On my way here I passed a day with mr Nicholas , Warren being on my road hither. he still...
844Thomas Jefferson to Samuel J. Harrison, 9 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Harrison and incloses him two bonds for the 2 d & 3 d paiments for the lands , filled up with the name of the security he proposed to him. he has ex p repared & executed a deed, which yet however wants more witnesses.
845John Adlum to Thomas Jefferson, 10 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
About the middle of last month I send sent on to you a number of the cuttings, of the Grape Vines you requested. As I have not heard, that you have received them, I am fearful they may have been lost on the way. If so? and you will send me word: I will forward on to you a smaller number of cuttings, and see that they are put in the mail, so that there can be no question of their getting safe...
846Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours to Thomas Jefferson, 10 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai cru vous devoir, et aussi à votre Pays, des Rèflexions et des Observations assez étendues Sur le parti que prennent votre Gouvernement et vos Concitoyens d’élever, S’ils le peuvent, assez de manufactures pour Se rendre entierement indépendans de l’Europe ; et Sur le changement total qui doit en resulter dans le Systême de vos Finances Je n’ai pu encore terminer ce travail. Je Suis accablé...
847C. & A. Conrad & Company to Thomas Jefferson, [received 15 April 1810] (Jefferson Papers)
We take leave to hand you the above account supposing it more agreeable to you that we should do so than to suffer it to remain on our books Permit us Sir to use this oppertunity to thank you again for the interest you were pleased to take in the publicn of the late Gov Lewis & Gen l Clarkes book and the trouble you gave yourself in addressing two letters to us on the subject. We have now the...
848Thomas Jefferson to Robert Fulton, 16 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday on my return from a journey your favor of Mar. 28. and have to thank you for the drawing of your self-moving belier hydraulique, which a first reading shews to be simple & ingenious, & I have no doubt will answer. it shall have my early attention. the object of this prompt reply to your letter is the offer you so kindly make of lending me your Dynamometer. it will be the...
849Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 16 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return from Bedford I found in our post office your favor of the 2 d inst. as also the inclosed letter from mr Martin , formerly of N.C. recommended to us by mr Blackledge . I dare say you will recollect more of him than I do. I remember that his being a native French man, educated I believe to the law there, very long a resident of this country and become a respectable lawyer with us,...
850Thomas Jefferson to Wilson Cary Nicholas, 16 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
On enquiry of mr Randolph I find his process for rolling his seed corn in plaister varies a little from what I told you. he first dilutes the tar with water stirred into it to such a consistency as will make the plaister adhere. corn is then put into a trough & diluted tar poured on it & stirred till the whole of the grains are perfectly coated. there must be no surplus of the tar more than...
851Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 16 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
We are out of sallad-oil, and you know it is a necessary of life here. can any be had in Richmond ? I must get you to enquire, and to be particular as to it’s quality. if fine I would be glad to have half a dozen quarts. if midling 2. or 3. bottles will do. if absolutely not good get a single bottle only to serve till I can get some from Philadelphia . we all mr Jefferson will be so good as to...
852Thomas Jefferson to Henry Skipwith, 17 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Overhauling my seeds reminded me that I was to send you some Millet seed. it is now inclosed. put it into drills 3. or 4.f. apart so that you may conveniently plough it, and the stalks at 6.I. distance in the drill. it is planted immediately after cornplanting, say in May. it is to be used for the table as homony, boiled or fried, needs neither husking nor beating, & boils in about two hours....
853Thomas Jefferson to Lydia R. Bailey, 18 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved the favor of your letter of Mar. 22. in which I think there must be some mistake in ascribing to me a subscription for ten copies of mr Freneau’s poems. certainly if I ever had subscribed for that number from any one, from principles of great esteem, it was as likely to be him as any one, for whom I have a very high esteem, of which I hope he can never entertain a doubt. but as...
854Thomas Jefferson to Gilbert C. Russell, 18 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the reciept of your favors of Jan. 4. & 31. the last of which did not reach me till two days ago; and with my own, to express the thankfulness of all the friends of the late unfortunate governor Lewis for your kind attentions to him. we have all to lament that a fame so dearly earned was clouded finally by such an act of desperation. he was much afflicted & habitually so...
855Thomas Jefferson to William W. Woodward, 18 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 30. is recieved, & from the account you give of the size of the 5 th vol. of Scott’s bible I would prefer it’s being divided into two volumes in boards. the balance of 1.75 D shall be included in the first remittance I have occasion to make to any other person in Philadelphia , as I have no particular agent there. the books will come safest if put on board some vessel bound...
856William Lambert to Thomas Jefferson, 19 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose two copies of the report of a select commit tee of Congress , and of several papers relating to the establishment of a first meridian for the United States , one for your own use, the other for the American philosophical Society at Philadelphia , of which you a re President. Several errors and omissions have been corrected with the pen, which may be avoided, should another edition be...
857Thomas Jefferson to John Adlum, 20 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of Feb. 15. & Mar. 13. were recieved in due time, but were not acknoleged because I was daily in expectation of the cuttings which should have accompanied the latter. on the 15 th inst. I recieved yours of the 10 th & concluding the bundle of cuttings had been rejected at some post office as too large to pass thro’ that line, I had yesterday, in despair, written my acknolegements...
858Thomas Jefferson to William O. Allen, 20 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of Feb. 9. with the copy of the publication called Love & Madness which it inclosed, & beg leave to return you my thanks for this mark of your attention. when I collected the proofs of the genuineness of Logan’s speech I did not know of this publication containing it. I afterwards recieved it from a friend. but that which you send me is of an edition older by...
859Thomas Jefferson to William Dickson, 20 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Feb. 20. came safely to hand together with the miniature of Governor Lewis & watch string. I immediately sent them to his mother , not doubting that the person who of all others possessed the greatest portion of his affection was the one for whom his wishes would have destined it. the deplorable accident which has placed her in the deepest affliction, is a great loss to the world...
860Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 21 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I found here your letter of the 2 d on my return from a three weeks visit to Bedford : and as I see by a resolution of Congress that they are to adjourn on the 23 d I shall direct the present to Eppington where it may meet you on your passage to Carolina . mr Thweatt is to let me know when I am to set out for
861John Hollins to Thomas Jefferson, 22 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your respects of the 8 th Ins from Poplar Forest , came in course to hand, inform g of the arrival of the plaister at Richmond , also that Mess s Gibson & Jefferson woud remit me the amount, say $80:40, which they have done, & is at your credit, it will be satisfactory to learn at a future day, that the plaister answer’d the purpose I am really sorry to find our friends Mess s
862Thomas Jefferson to Jonathan Shoemaker, 22 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
A little before my departure for Bedford I informed you that the pressures on me for money for corn & other objects would oblige me to rely on you for a very considerable sum of money, of which no delay could be admitted. on my return it was some days before I went to the mill to call on you, & then learned for the first time that you were gone to the Northward & would not be back till June, &...
863Archibald Fisher to Thomas Jefferson, 23 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Tho’ it may seem impertinent for a Stranger placed in an inferior rank in Life, thus to address a person of such distinguished Eminence, yet presuming on that philanthropic Character you hold with all unprejudiced minds, I thus venture obtrusively to solicit a hearing. I am a poor alien,—a Child of misfortune, thrown, by a train of untoward Events, on these shores.—I have been here a...
864James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 23 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 16 th has been rec d . It is not improbable that there will be an early occasion to send for public purposes, a ship to G.B. & France; & that Norfolk will be the port of Departure. I recommend therefore that your plow be lodged there as soon as may be, with the proper instructions to your Agent. It may not be amiss to include in them a discretion to forward the plow to any other...
865Thomas Jefferson to Richard Barry, 27 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
In your letter of Jan. 29. you were so kind as to inform me that mr Latrobe would do me the favor to spare me some window glass. having never heard further of it, I am afraid it has miscarried or lodged by the way. being much in want of it I trouble you with the request to make any necessary enquiries after it, & to be so good as to inform me, so that I may take measures to get it. Accept the...
866John Harvie to Thomas Jefferson, 27 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
My excursion to the westward being somewhat hastened by the prospect of comrades and being on the point of starting I take the liberty of requesting you to inform my friend M r Geo Gilmer who will hand you this letter whether the deed of relinquishment to the four hundred and ninety acre entry has been made and acknowledged on your part. He is authorised in that event to hand you an order on...
867William Plumer to Thomas Jefferson, 27 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
When I had the honor of communicating to you, at the city of Washington , my intention of compiling the history of our country from its discovery by Columbus to the present time, you was pleased to assure me that after your Presidential term should expire, you would transmit me a number of manuscript & other documents in your possession, in relation to the great events in which you have been...
868William W. Woodward to Thomas Jefferson, 27 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I have sent to the care of Mess rs Gibson & Jefferson , as you requested the last part of Scotts Bible. Should you have it full bound, the binder will find the General Preface in the first volume of N Testament which will be put in the first Vol. of the Old Testament when bound. The bundle is on board Capt. Lewis schooner Liberty —sails on Sabbath next. RC ( MoSHi
869Littleton W. Tazewell to Thomas Jefferson, 29 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I came to this place with a view of finally settling the account of Robert Cary & C o with M r Benj n Waller , the late agent of that firm, who from his ill health is no longer able to continue his agency—In the adjustment of this account, some difficulty has arisen, relative to the several payments made by you, on the different bonds given by you to M r Welch , as the surviving partner of...
870William Pinkney to Thomas Jefferson, 30 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
It was only a few Days ago that I had the Honour to receive your letter of the 5 th of August last by M r M c Rae .—I need not say that I shall be happy to shew that Gentleman every attention, and to do him every Service in my Power.— I cannot express to you how sensibly I feel the Kindness of the last paragraph of your Letter.—If any thing could have given give new Strength to the...