1From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 7 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 3d. came to hand yesterday morning. I shall be happy to hear of the arrival of the groceries &c. in Richmond, as we are much in want of them: so also of the glass when shipped from Philadelphia—a mr Andrews , who lives near the former post office in Washington & works on ornaments for architecture, was to make for me some Doric ornaments, which should be ready before this time. he...
2From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 12 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 7th came to hand on the 10th. by the delay of your journey to Philadelphia I am afraid my arrearages are inconvenient to you. I write to Gibson & Jefferson by this day’s post to forward you a thousand dollars instantly. they will recieve my letter on the same day you recieve this, and if they can procure good paper immediately, it may be with you by the time you originally...
3From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 6 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be handed you by mr David Higginbotham, a merchant of Milton, who with a mr Watson of the same place, having acted heretofore as chief factors for the houses of Brown Reeves & co. and McLure Brydie & co. are now about to set up themselves. they are both men of extraordinary attention to business, prudent, honest, & in great esteem, and will undoubtedly carry into their own concern...
4From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 14 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 10th. came to hand in the morning of the 13th. I shall be glad if the plaisterers arrive soon. it would be too late to engage others, as I should wish the work done under my eye. if they are not set out, and will come off immediately, they may still accomplish the work. or even if one will come we might get him an aid. the plaister of Paris arrived two days ago, and all the...
5From Thomas Jefferson to William Barton, 12 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of Oct. 30. and the honour of your proposition to address to me your treatise on the law of nations. this proof of respect cannot but be flattering to one who entertains a sincere esteem for your person and character. the subject is important, involved in errors & contradictions, which, for the peace of the world, it is very desireable to see rectified. but the...
6From Thomas Jefferson to John Beckley, [22 October 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
I have this moment been called on by mr Saml. Hanson of Samuel of this place to write to you on the following subject. you have probably heard of the famous suit brought against him by Forrest for calling him a swindler, whereon the latter recovered one cent damage. but the bank of Columbia whose Cashier Hanson was, have removed him. there is not a worthier man on earth, nor one of more...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Napoleon Bonaparte, 12 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have made choice of Robert R. Livingston, one of our distinguished citizens, to reside near the French Republic in quality of Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America. He is well apprized of the friendship which we bear to your Republic, and of our desire to cultivate the harmony and good correspondence so happily subsisting between us. From a knowledge of his fidelity,...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Aaron Burr, 19 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of yesterday I forgot to put the inclosed and to ask the favor of you to address it to the proper place. it is in answer to one I received three months ago , dated in Dumfries, but the gentleman was there only as a traveller and did not advise me where to address the answer. I inclosed it to mr Gallatin having heard him speak of the writer. but he returned it to me two months ago,...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Aaron Burr, 18 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 10th . has been recieved, as have been those also of Sep. 4. & 23. in due time. these letters all relating to office, fall within the general rule which even the very first week of my being engaged in the administration obliged me to establish, to wit, that of not answering letters on office specifically, but leaving the answer to be found in what is done or not done on them....
10From Thomas Jefferson to Pierce Butler, 26 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 14th . came to hand on the 20th. I thank you for the information it contained. it is of that kind which I am anxious to recieve. after so long and complete an exclusion from office as republicans have suffered insomuch that every place is filled with their opponents justice as well as principle requires that they should have some participation. I believe they will be...
11From Thomas Jefferson to John Carroll, 3 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved at this place the application signed by yourself and several respectable inhabitants of Washington on the purchase of a site for a Roman Catholic church from the Commissioners. as the regulation of price rests very much with them, I have referred the paper to them, recommending to them all the favor which the object of the purchase would urge, the advantages of every kind which...
12From Thomas Jefferson to Peter Carr, 25 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I promised you one of the inclosed volumes, and one also for mr Peter Johnston for whom you requested the perusal of my Parliamentary Commonplace. the inclosed contains every thing useful from that, debarrassed of it’s rubbish.—we have recieved the first Consul’s ratification of our Convention. it is with a ‘ bien entendu toujours that the objects of the article suppressed are abandoned by...
13From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Chas, 3 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have safely recieved the copy of your history of the American revolution, of your smaller work on the Premier Consul of France, & of the Synonimes of Dalembert, Diderot & Jaucourt which you have been pleased to send me, and for which accept my respectful thanks, & the assurances of my sensibility at this mark of attention. it is a happy circumstance for our country that it’s fortunes...
14From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Claxton, 4 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Aug. 27. came to hand yesterday. I am sensible the settees could not be here till long after I shall have left this place, & that it will be better they should await your going to Philadelphia. the mattrasses were intended to be single, and to have a decent furniture cover. I shall be at Washington on or before the last day of this month, barring sickness & accidents on the road....
15From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Claxton, 22 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor informing me of your disappointment as to the grates. I think with you we had better get common cheap ones made here for this winter & perhaps order from England proper ones for the next year. six will do for the house for this winter. the one for the kitchen you will be pleased to get either in Philadelphia or here as you think best. accept my best wishes &...
16From Thomas Jefferson to John Coalter, 8 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved your favor of Sep. 25. informing me you have obtained a judgment against mr Clarke on my behalf. this I presume is a lien on his moveable property and renders me secure, if there be not others on similiar ground beyond the amount of that property. I therefore do not wish to distress mr Clarke, or by prematurely pressing the sale of his property to lessen his resources. I will...
17From Thomas Jefferson to Michael Fry and Nathan Coleman, 22 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved on the 20th. your favor of the 17th. and this morning arrived the quarter you were so kind as to send me of the Mammoth-veal. tho’ so far advanced as to be condemned for the table, yet it retained all the beauty of it’s appearance, it’s fatness & enormous size. a repetition of such successful examples of enlarging the animal volume will do more towards correcting the erroneous...
18From Thomas Jefferson to Robert S. Coleman, 23 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 20. the last letter I have from Lewis Littlepage is dated at Altona Jan. 17. 1801. expressing his intention of coming to this country early the then ensuing spring. of this I gave notice to his brother mr Carter Littlepage . the latter further informed me that if any accident should happen to him he had deposited a will in England of which he had made Ld....
19From Thomas Jefferson to Cornelius Coningham, 12 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
If the laws had permitted the application of the public money by way of loan to individuals suffering by unfortunate occurrences, I should have had great pleasure in administering relief against the untoward circumstances which render it desireable to yourself. but not a dollar can be applied but in conformity with an appropriation previously made by law, and rigourously exacted by the...
20From Thomas Jefferson to Connecticut Officers and Soldiers of the 12th Regiment, 28 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I accept with many thanks the kind expressions of the twelfth regiment of the militia of Connecticut towards myself personally, and with still greater satisfaction their declarations of attachment to our constitution. the principles you profess of peace abroad, tranquility at home, a faithful administration of the government, on it’s genuine principles of republicanism, and arms for it’s...
21From Thomas Jefferson to James Currie, 19 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved your favor accompanying the award of the Arbitrators in the case between mr Ross & myself, only on the eve of my departure from Monticello when it was impossible for me to take time even to read the papers. I have taken the first moment in my power, (after getting through the mass of business [accumulated] here) to examine the papers. I am perfectly satisfied with the correctness of...
22From Thomas Jefferson to James Currie, 30 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my arrival at home I have two or three times recieved Vaccine matter from Dr. Waterhouse at Boston & through him from Dr. Jenner of London, which has been inoculated directly or by succession 1 into 30. or 40. of my family, & 20. or 30. of mr Randolph’s with perfect success. many of them are through the disease. a few had slight fevers, and one only a bad arm, produced by too deep an...
23From Thomas Jefferson to John Davis, 11 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of Aug. 31. and am sensible of the honor you do me in proposing to dedicate to me the work you are about to publish. such a testimony of respect from an enlightened fellow citizen cannot but be flattering to me, and I have only to lament that the choice of the patron will be little likely to give circulation to the work. it’s own merit however will supply this...
24From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 12 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of the 14th. of August I inclosed you a note respecting some abuses said to have been committed in the works at Newport. tho’ I am since informed that the facts are possibly or even probably true, yet I find they were sent to me under a forged name. this may render circumspection necessary, as it certainly lessens the probability of the truth of the information. I thought it...
25From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 5 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose for your consideration a paper addressed to me from Lieutt. Landais of the Artillery, to consider & decide whether any thing & what should be done in consequence of it.—I formerly referred to your consideration the petition of John Rowe , confined in jail for having counselled or procured a souldier to desert. he was sentenced to 3. months imprisonmt. & to paiment of costs . his 3....
26From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 21 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I think I once before sent you an application from the same person from whom the inclosed is, with some notes on the subject of his application to me before the 4th. of March. his recollection of a promise on my word & honour , is a proof that he recollects too much with those who know me. a much greater occasion would have been requisite to draw such a pledge from me. I do not recollect the...
27From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 14 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a letter from a mr Quarrier of this state asking a military commission. I know little of him, but that he is young, and ought to expect to be merely a commissioned officer. those who recommend him are persons of the first respectability. the abuses in the military & naval departments seem to have been so great, that it will doubtless be indispensable that we bring them in some...
28From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Digges, 19 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
My memory is so unfaithful that I am always afraid to affirm any thing on it’s authority. but I believe I am not decieved in saying that a little before I went out of office in 1793, I did recieve from you the specimens of coins you describe, with an account of the falsifications going on in England, and that I published in the news papers what related to the latter in order to guard the...
29From Thomas Jefferson to the District of Columbia Commissioners, 29 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 24th. is duly recieved. I consider the erection of the Representatives chamber, and the making a good gravel road from the New bridge on Rock creek along the Pensylva & Jersey avenues to the Eastern branch as the most important objects for ensuring the destinies of the city which can be undertaken. all others appear to me entirely subordinate and to rest on considerations...
30From Thomas Jefferson to the District of Columbia Commissioners, 24 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 17th. came to hand on the 20th. but as it’s contents required greater consideration and time than the stay of the post and pressure of other business permitted I have been obliged to take another post for it’s answer. the questions indeed which it proposes are so much blended with law that I should have been glad to have had the opinion of the Attorney general for my...