5311Absalom H. Brooks to Thomas Jefferson, 25 July 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
you will please to Excuse me for wrighing to you also Excuse the many faults that will be in this letter as I have had only about three quorters Scooling. I was informed last fall that you Said that a tin roofe Could be put on for the same pric e „that a Joint Shingle roofe was done for„ which is $2„50 for Squaire„ I find it is likeley to keep me from getting the Covering of the buckenham...
5312Peter W. Sproat to Thomas Jefferson, 26 July 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I Enclose you by this days Mail a copy of the Savage Beauty a Novel recently written by me as a specimen of American Writing— Please Sir to accept of my great Respect and best wishes for your mental felicity in the serene evening of your days— RC ( MiU-C : Thomas Jefferson Collection); addressed: “To his Excellency Thomas Jefferson . Late President of the U.S. Montiello ”; franked; postmarked...
5313James Oldham to Thomas Jefferson, [by 29 July 1822] (Jefferson Papers)
I expect to se M r Mechick tomorrow or the day after, and if he has any Plank that will anser your memorandom I will get it brought in immediately and inform you of it. RC ( CSmH: JF ); undated, but probably composed prior to Oldham’s letter to TJ of 29 July 1822 ; addressed: “ Tho s Jefferson Esq r Monticello
5314James Oldham to Thomas Jefferson, 29 July 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I have examened the Lumber at the Mills of Jonethan Mechick , Jesse Garth , J. Owens and John Rodes , nether of these have any Lumber on hand that would sute your perpose, this day week being Court day will be an Opertunity to asertain if any can be gotten which I will be certain to attend to. RC ( CSmH: JF ); addressed (trimmed): “ Tho s Jefferson
5315“B.” to Thomas Jefferson, [by 1 August 1822] (Jefferson Papers)
The maker of the enclosed speech, accompanied Lewis & Clark , when he was an uneducated boy, over the Rocky mountains . The sentiments contained in it, are so much like your own, that a person unknown to you, is tempted to forward it to you, and it is without mr. S. knowledge. I ought perhaps to add, that he accompanied the party of Pryor with the Mandane chief up the
5316Absalom H. Brooks to Thomas Jefferson, 1 August 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your favor this day Stating that I informd you that I Can put on a Squaere Squaire a day. my Self and apprentic never did put on but verry little more than a Squaire in a day nor do I beleave any man can do it, so I must have said wee Could insted of my Self as to the price it was 5 d not 5.75 d as to the Simplisity of the work I beleve a Carefull tinplateworker will Save as mutch...
5317Samuel Garland to Thomas Jefferson, 1 August 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
For your conveniance I some time past inclosed your bond (to the late A Robertson & C o of this place)—to my friend M r W m Barret of Richmond , he advised me that you had proposed paying the amount in instalments at the end of every six months (if I am not mistaken) untill the whole was paid, M r B. has made me no remitance on that account for a long time— M r
5318Edmund Bacon to Thomas Jefferson, 2 August 1822, with Jefferson’s Note (Jefferson Papers)
I would be obliged to you to no what you are willing to take for the carriage. in a note last yeare you proposed to take what the carriage maker would think it worth of Charlottesville . I am intirely willing to allow you the value of the article but consider the carriage maker of Charlottesville an unfit person to fix the price on it. we all no that his work is more deare than at any other...
5319William A. Bartow to Thomas Jefferson, 3 August 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 26 th ult: has been duly received and is now before me; so far as I am informed there is no edition of the translated classics going on in England upon an extended scale, some new translations of individual authors or works have lately been given to the world, and occasionally a new edition of translations heretofore published— translations of, Aristotles rhetoric by Crimmin 1 vol...
5320Nicholas P. Trist to Thomas Jefferson, 3 August 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
If M rs Randolph had not fortunately mentioned that you had written to me, I should not probably, have had the pleasure of receiving your kind favor at all; owing to this, however, it has only been a few weeks longer in reaching me than if it had stopt at Donaldsonville . You had the kindness to furnish me with the list of Law-books, before I left Monticello : but as I knew it would be useless...
5321Bernard Peyton to Thomas Jefferson, 5 August 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I rec d some, days ago five Hh’ds your Bedford Tobacco, & finding the River so very low as to render it doubtful when the balance could reach here, tho’t it best to dispose of those, without waiting for the balance, as this is the shipping season, & not much time to be lost.—I have done so & enclose ℀ sales here with , which I hope will be satisfactory New Wheat 7/3 declining 〃 Flour $6 ¼
5322Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Bernard Peyton for Tobacco Sales, 2 August 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Sales 5 Hogsheads leaf Tobacco by Bernard Peyton for ℀ M r Tho s Jefferson 1822 Rich d 2 d August —To sundry persons for Cash 5 Hhds: Viz: N o 1=1900= 130= 1770
5323Samuel Williams to Thomas Jefferson, 6 August 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your Letter dated the 11 th of June , and from Col o Bernard Peyton , of Richmond , agreeably to your directions, a Remittance of £293.12.6– for the use of M r Thomas Appleton of Leghorn , to whom I have remitted the Net proceeds, at the Exchange of 48. d
5324Thomas Skidmore to Thomas Jefferson, 18 August 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
To know how to achieve the grandest object that the mind of man can contemplate, and not to have the means of achievement; to speculate on the sublimest spectacle as a mathematical certainty, & to want the aid that can make it a physical one, appreciable by the grosser senses of our race, as well as by those persons of refined intellect; such a situation is, surely, not to be envied, if,...
5325Berriman B. Breedin to Thomas Jefferson, 19 August 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
The interest, for the new College in Virg a ; which has been ascribed to you, induces me to take this liberty; and my anxiety for the education of a Son , who I have every desire to see at school in my native state , must be my appology So little is said in the news papers on the subject of that establishment, that we, in this Country, are in total ignorance as to the period at which a...
5326Bernard Peyton to Thomas Jefferson, 19 August 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
The balance of your Tobacco is now all here, say ten Hhds:, in addition to the five before advised of , & will be sold tomorrow—by the next mail you will receive the ℀ sales — The River is so extremely low, that Boats can scarcely pass, particularly up the Rivanna , this has prevented my sending earlier, the stone Ware left with, & p d for by me, to Rich d Randolph , for you, & will probably...
5327Edmund Bacon to Thomas Jefferson, 20 August 1822, with Jefferson’s Notes (Jefferson Papers)
The paper containing a settlement of accounts dated January 28 th 1821. saying all acc ts up to the first day of that month say Jan:y 1 st 1821. was settled and on that day was due me $634. 71. Jany 1 st your acceptance of
5328Joshua Dodge to Thomas Jefferson, 20 August 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the pleasure of rec g your esteemed letter of 19 ult mo & beg you to accept my sincere thanks for your kind attention to my wishes & I sincerely hope that I shall soon have the pleasure of thanking you in person. It was near seven years that I had been absent from my native Country & the pleasure I felt in revisiting it was indescribable; absence had served to impress more deeply in...
5329James Rawlings to Thomas Jefferson, 20 August 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Bearing in mind in the unpleasant occurrence caused by M r Kinsolving in 1820 and wishing to avoid in future a similar one, I have not placed in the hands of any Agent or collector the subsequent claims of the Mutual Assurance Society on you for the Insurance of your property, but have kept them back in this Office with a view to their collection directly here—. I now annex a statement of the...
5330Bernard Peyton to Thomas Jefferson, 22 August 1822 (1st letter) (Jefferson Papers)
I hand herewith ℀ sales your ten Hhds: Tobacco , at the best prices I could obtain, in presence of a large company of purchasers— Except N os 2. & 4. of the T.H. Tobacco, every Hhd: was too soft, & had a funky smell, the Tobacco was also short, with the above exception, & some of it poor, & deficient in substance— the B.C. ’s were by no means as well managed as the TH ’s, but neither as well...
5331Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Bernard Peyton for Tobacco Sales, 22 August 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Sales 10 Hogsheads Tobacco by Bernard Peyton for ℀ Thomas Jefferson Esq: 1822 Rich d 22 August , To sundry persons for cash 10 Hhds: Tobacco Viz: ℔s Leaf.— { T.J. T.H. N o
5332Bernard Peyton to Thomas Jefferson, 22 August 1822 (2d letter) (Jefferson Papers)
I Take leave to introduce to your acquaintance my particular friend Co l John Campbell of the Executive Council , who will hand you this, & who it is only necessary to know, to highly esteem. I solicit for him your civilities, and am, RC ( MHi ); dateline beneath signature; endorsed by TJ as received 8 Nov. (reworked from Oct.) 1822 and so recorded in SJL . RC ( ViW: TC-JP ); address cover...
5333Lewis D. Belair to Thomas Jefferson, 24 August 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me Through your Goodness to Inclose The Within Small Packege for your Friend Captain Philip Slaughter of Culpepper County Virginia , It is a Small Book “The Imitation of Christ ” ⅌ de Kempeeis Which M rs Slaughter Expressed a Desire to have, all Tho Scarce In English I have Procured it, and now Take The Liberty to Present it to her as a mark of my Great Esteem and Friendship, It been
5334James Oldham to Thomas Jefferson, 25 August 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I have receiv,d 700 feet of good flooreing plank for you, but it is not all in Lengths as you wanted, the 18 f t Lengths is not to be had except it is of the roughest kind of lumber. the Lengths I have got are 12, 14, 16. f t to Wit 31 bords of 12 f t 51 d o 14 f t 14 d o of 16 feet. to lay a floore with bords that are shorter than the length of the room requirs a little more labour in makeing...
5335Robert Mills to Thomas Jefferson, 28 August 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to enclose you my pamphlet on the Internal Improvement of South Carolina , with the expression of the sincerest esteem and the highest respect for your exalted character.—Should your leisure at any time admit of your perusing it, I shall be gratified, and I trust that I shall have written nothing but what will meet with your approbation—If I shall appear to be too sanguine, attribute...
5336George F. Hopkins to Thomas Jefferson, [received 29] August 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I submit to your candid examination the Observations which accompany this letter. They had for their basis the quotations from the Notes on Virginia which are prefixed to them. This valuable work I read many years since with delight and edification; and the estimation in which it is held among men of sense and letters, must insure to it a durable fame. Whatever may be the worth of the...
5337Henry Dearborn to Thomas Jefferson, 31 August 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Knowing me so well as you do, you could not have contemplated my present situation, and especially at my time of life, no one better knows my deficiencies for my present situation than your self, the very perticular and flatering manner that my nomination, and notification of it was made, opperated as the strongest inducement for my accepting the appointment. it being intirely unsought and...
5338James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, [August 1822?] (Jefferson Papers)
I intended in my late visit to albemarle to have communicated freely with you, and mr madison , on the subject of internal improvment, in reference to the power of the general gov t , especially as to the appropriation of the public money, but circumstances were unfavorable then, to such a communication. my object has been, rather to state, certain facts and considerations, which I was...
5339Frederick A. Mayo to Thomas Jefferson, 1 September 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this Day delivered the Books to Capt Peyton and sin c erely hope they may soone be received by your Honour;— The same time take the liberty of forwarding my Acount NB. I am realy sorrow that I have not yet been able to obtain the Dictionary before ordered , as it appairs to be out of print, the only chance will be, to get a Second hand Copie. RC ( MHi ); with enclosure between signature...
5340Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Frederick A. Mayo, [ca. 1 September 1822] (Jefferson Papers)
The Hono: Thomas Jefferson 182 2 to Frederick A Mayo Marc h 7. to binding in extra Calf 4 Vols Dion Cassius @ 75. $3 〃 April 12