31From Thomas Jefferson to John Dickinson, 23 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of the 18th. Doctr. Vaughan’s character had been before known to me in a certain degree, & advantageously known as a friend to republican government. your letter in his favor strengthened my confidence in it. for your satisfaction as well as from a regard to truth I assure you that nothing could be more candid than his conduct here. it was at my request he...
32From Thomas Jefferson to James Dinsmore, 10 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 5th . is recieved this day. I wonder the Copper sheets had not got to hand, as it is very long since they left Philadelphia. the steps, or plinths for the dome must be got from Fluvanna. as there seems to be too little dependance on Reuben Perry to let the whole work of the housejoiner & plaisterer depend on him alone, I will pray you to engage some other person to go on with the...
33From Thomas Jefferson to James Dinsmore, 22 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just learned by letters from mr Traquair & mr Jefferson that mr Stewart is gone on, having arrived at Richmond the 17th. inst. so that I presume he is with you by this time. I am rendered uneasy by the account I have of the condition in which he was there. if it be habitual, he could not be trusted with the superintendance of the nailery. Mr. Traquair had once before got alarmed on the...
34From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Douglas, 28 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Immediately on the reciept of Dr. [ Waterhouse’s letter ] I [delivered it] together with the pamphlets & vaccine matter which accompanied it to Doctr. Gantt of this place, thinking it best not to risk it’s loss by sending it on to Virginia as he proposed. it proved in event that [it’s infection] was already lost, as not a single inoculation with it has succeeded. the letter is still in Doctr....
35From Thomas Jefferson to John Drayton, 17 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
On the receipt of your favor of May 21 I had [enquiries made] at the navy office on the subject of the French prisoners in your [state?]. you will perceive by the inclosed letter which is addressed to [you from] that office & the papers it covers that orders […] long [ago as] the 1st of March to […] Tombe the French consul for his order […] this order but that the French Consul had [failed to...
36From Thomas Jefferson to William Duane, 23 May 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of the 10th. and shall always be thankful for any information you will favor me with, interesting to our affairs, & particularly which may enable me to understand the differences of opinion & interest which seem to be springing up in Pensva., & to be subjects of uneasiness. if that state splits it will let us down into the abyss. I hope so much from the...
37From Thomas Jefferson to Enoch Edwards, 9 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 3d. is duly received. I have not suffered for want of the carriage: and even now mr Hanse may take his own time, for I shall shortly set out for Monticello where I shall pass the months of August & September. he may finish it off therefore at his leisure; and whenever it is ready a line from him or yourself notifying it to me will find me at Monticello, and will suffer but a...
38From Thomas Jefferson to Enoch Edwards, 11 May 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my last I have seen a carriage (Chariot) with oblong octagon lights in the hind quarters & behind; in the back, the long axis of the octagon was horizontal; in the quarters it was perpendicular. these give more air than the quandrantal lights in the quarters, and semicircular behind, and look very well. if you approve of it I should be willing to substitute them for the other but on this...
39From Thomas Jefferson to Enoch Edwards, 2 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of May 29. is duly recieved. I think with you the difference in price between Marocco & Cloth lining is very far beyond the difference in value, & therefore decline the Marocco. I thank you for your kind offer as to the getting a coachee from Germantown. tho’ I have no immediate prospect of such a want, yet if you will be so good, in [your first] letter, to [mention] what yours...
40From Thomas Jefferson to Enoch Edwards, 7 May 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Apr. 17. went on to Monticello, & arriving after I had left it, followed me to this place where I recieved it last night. in the mean time mine of Apr. 18. was on it’s way to you, & doubtless has safely reached you. bene fecisti, domine . you have done for me ten times better than I could have done myself: and have economized in price beyond my expectations. now to particulars. I...
41From Thomas Jefferson to Pierpont Edwards, 21 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved in due time your friendly favor of June 18 . and profited of the information it contained, as you will have seen by a certain paper inclosed to you from this place. I was glad the remonstrants of your state took the measure they did. their attack was on that class of removals which every reasonable man of whatsoever party has approved; I mean those which were made by a preceding...
42From Thomas Jefferson to Christopher Ellery, 6 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of May 28. was recieved yesterday, and gives me the opportunity of expressing my satisfaction at your appointment to the Senate of the US. this testimony of the confidence of your country, would of itself have given great weight to your recommendation of mr Robbins for the office of district attorney; but the commission had been made out for mr Howell so long before that I think he...
43From Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 17 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 12th . came to hand this morning, and brings me the always welcome tidings of your’s & Maria’s health. I sincerely wish she had gone to Monticello sooner: but as it is, you must not aim at more than 20. miles a day, nor to go much out of a walk, but in the safest road, for it is the oversetting or breaking down which is to be apprehended, and is less violent in proportion as...
44From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson Eppes, 28 May 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
An immense accumulation of business, my dear Maria, has prevented my writing to you since my arrival at this place. but it has not prevented my having you in my mind daily & hourly, and feeling much anxiety to hear from you, & to know that mr Eppes & yourself are in good health. I am in hopes you will not stay longer than harvest where you are, as the unhealthy season advances rapidly after...
45From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson Eppes, 24 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
According to contract , immediately on the reciept of mr Eppes’s letter of the 12th . I wrote him mine of the 17th. and having this moment recieved yours of June 18. I hasten to reply to that also. I am very anxious you should hasten your departure for Monticello, but go a snail’s pace when you set out. I shall certainly be with you the last week of July or first week of August. I have a...
46From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson Eppes, 16 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday mr Eppes’s letter of the 12th. informing me you had got safely to Eppington, & would set out tomorrow at furthest for Monticello. this letter therefore will, I hope, find you there. I now write to mr Craven to furnish you all the supplies of the table which his farm affords. mr Lilly had before recieved orders to do the same. liquors have been forwarded & have arrived with...
47From Thomas Jefferson to George W. Erving, 24 May 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Among the reforms in the economy of our government which we propose to make, is the discontinuance of the diplomatic missions to Berlin, the Hague & Portugal. Lisbon however being an important scene of commerce, and one where a public functionary may find occasions of rendering valuable services, it is necessary that we send thither a consul in whose talents, principles & prudence we have...
48From Thomas Jefferson to the Executive Directory of the Batavian Republic, 30 May 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The interests of the United States which were committed to the care of William Vans Murray, their Minister Resident near the Batavian Republic, admitting of his absence, we have yielded to his request to be permitted to return to America . He will accordingly take his leave of you, and will embrace that occasion to assure you of our friendship and sincere desire to preserve and strengthen the...
49From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur Fenner, 6 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved some time ago your friendly favor of May 16. and return you my thanks for your kind felicitations on my appointment to office. your recommendation of mr Howell to the place of district attorney was duly attended to. that gentleman had been formerly well known to myself & some members of the administration, & much to his advantage. I was therefore happy in placing the interests of my...
50From Thomas Jefferson to Theodore Foster, 9 May 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Apr. 28. has been duly recieved, and I sincerely rejoice with you in the regeneration of your state, and the evidence they have given of a return from the phrenzy of 98. I confidently hope the mass of our countrymen every where will be shortly united, with the exception of a few too far committed to retreat. I am sure the measures I mean to pursue are such as would in their...
51From Thomas Jefferson to Theodore Foster, 6 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the receipt of your favor of May 19. mr. Howell has been appointed to the office of district attorney. Jonathan Russell had been appointed agreeable to your recommendation long before as Collector of customs for Bristol, and tho’ the note made on the occasion & which is now before me has omitted the name of mr Phillips as Surveyor, yet my memory tells me he was appointed at...
52From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 17 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The act concerning duties &c where it says that ‘the President is authorised to establish such place at or near Michillimakinac to be the port of entry,’ might have been construed to leave it discretionary in him to do it or not, had it not been followed by the imperative words ‘a collector shall be appointed.’ this seems to remove the ambiguity of the former words, and to make it a duty to...
53From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 26 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I do not see sufficient reasons for preserving a revenue cutter at Charleston on a larger scale than elsewhere. I see no reason to expect pirates from St. Domingo, no instance of it having yet occurred. if there be any such danger, it is not peculiar to S. Carolina, but threatens all the Southern states more or less according to their situation. if such danger should become imminent it will...
54From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison and Albert Gallatin, 20 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The application of William Greetham for a Mediterranean pass for a vessel owned here, tho built abroad, being unauthorised by practice; tho’ perhaps not by law, and concerning the departments of both the State & Treasury, I ask the favor of mr Madison and mr Gallatin to give me their opinions thereon: at the same time I communicate to them what passed on the subject of passports under General...
55From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 3 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of mr & mrs Gallatin to dine with him today; and requests that while they are arranging matters at their new quarters they will dine with him every day. it may give them more time for other arrangements, and will be conferring a real favor on Th:J. RC ( NHi : Gallatin Papers); addressed: “Mr. Gallatin.”
56Enclosure: Note on Passports, 20 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
When the war broke out which is now raging in Europe, our treaties with France, and Holland required that we should furnish to the vessels ‘belonging to the citizens of the US.’ passports in the forms prescribed by the treaties. it was very early made a question whether they should be granted to all vessels belonging to citizens of the US. or only to those built as well as belonging here. the...
57From Thomas Jefferson to the General Assembly of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, 26 May 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I return my grateful thanks to the General assembly of the state of Rhode island & Providence plantations for the congratulations which, on behalf of themselves & their constituents, they have been pleased to express on my election to the chief magistracy of the United States: and I learn with pleasure their approbation of the principles declared by me on that occasion; principles which flowed...
58From Thomas Jefferson to Gibson & Jefferson, 1 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of May 26. & 28. are both recieved, and their contents duly noted. I this day draw on you in favor of Richard Richardson for 133.33 D to cover which mr Barnes makes you now a remittance of 200. Dol. and on this day week we shall remit you about 900. D. more to cover the purchase of the hams, J. W. Eppes’s draught on you in favor of Bell for 300. D. payable June 16. and some other...
59From Thomas Jefferson to Gideon Granger, 21 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I propose within about ten days to seek, for the months of August & September, a climate more congenial than that of the tide waters. I do myself therefore the previous pleasure of acknoleging [the] reciept of your favor of the 6th. & to thank you for it’s information & to hope you will continue it. my own opinion accords entirely with yours. the first removal in Connecticut will be justified...
60From Thomas Jefferson to Gideon Granger, 3 May 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you on the 29th. of March. yours of the 25th of that month with the address it covered had not reached this place on the 1st. of April when I set out on a short visit to my residence in Virginia where some arrangements were necessary previous to my settlement here. in fact your letter came to me at Monticello only the 24th. of April, two days before my departure from thence. this I...