1John Mackey to Thomas Jefferson, 1 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 18 th day of last month, I addressed a packet to you, containing desultory views of education: and my motive for addressing those views to you was manifested in the concluding paragraph. If now you are not disposed to employ your influence and authority for promoting a circulation of those views in print, be pleased to send the Manuscript to me, at N o 42, Union Street, Philadelphia . I...
2Joseph Bringhurst to Thomas Jefferson, 2 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
The Wife of our mutual friend Isaac Briggs called on me yesterday to consult me respecting thy favour of the 17 th ultimo to her husband . She dessired me to informed inform thee of the absence of her husband as an apology for the delay of a reply . Isaac has been obliged to attend Congress the greater part of the session for the purpose of obtaining a law for the settlement of his publick...
3John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 3 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours Ap. 8 has long Since been rec d J. “Would you agree to live your 80 Years over again”? A. “ Aye! And Sanse Phrases .” J. “Would you agree to live your Eighty Years over again forever”? A. I once heard our Acquaintance, Chew , of Philadelphia Say, “He Should like to go back to 25, to all Eternity”: but I own my Soul would Start and Shrink back on itself, at the Prospect of an endless...
4Thomas Jefferson to William Wingate, 4 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday yours of Apr. 8. accompanied by a Manuscript volume of your interpretation of the Revelations, & their application to Napoleon Bonaparte . you request me to read it, to take minutes from it, to converse on it with Joseph Bonaparte , and to write to you the result. I am 400. miles from that gentleman , never was, and probably never shall be nearer to him. and my occupations...
5Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 5 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return, the day before yesterday, I found here your favor of Apr. 23. and answer without delay the remaining question on your affair with with mr Carter . the last payment I made him for you was by a draught of Aug. 2 3. 1795 . for 524.83 D the exact balance for the lands after the ascertainment of their contents by actual survey. consequently, in this was included the overpayment now to...
6John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 6 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Neither Eyes Fingers or Paper held out, to dispatch all the Trifles I wished to write in my last Letter . In your favour of April 8 th You “wonder for what good End the Sensations of Grief could be intended”? You “ wish the Pathologists would tell Us, what the Use of Grief, in Our Œconomy, and of what good it is the Cause proximate or remote.” When I appro a ch Such questions as this, I...
7Marcus Dyson to Thomas Jefferson, 6 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope you will pardon the liberty I have taken in addressing you, I have no other apology to offer except total unacquaintance with any person who could give me the information I desire, the eminent rank you hold in this Country, your acquaintance in Europe , & great reading, led me to hope you could, my enquiry is this, whether oxygen gas can be pressed with same facility as atmospheric air,...
8Enclosure: Marcus Dyson’s Drawing and Description of a Device for Breathing Underwater, [ca. 6 May 1816] (Jefferson Papers)
EXPLANATION A . The reservoir made of copper in form of an half oval (flat Side next the body) capacity 4 Quarts, with an half inch opening B The stop cock, inserted in the reservoir, which by turning the handle will emit air in any quanty quantity wanted, C A tube half inch diameter leading from the Stop cock into the half Globe D D In form of a half Globe capacity 1 pint which closely covers...
9John P. Boyd to Thomas Jefferson, 7 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me the honour of soliciting your perusal of the enclosd Documents and Facts, relative to the Military conduct of an Officer, who proudly Acknowledges your former patronage. RC ( MHi ); endorsed by TJ as received 16 May 1816 and so recorded in SJL . RC ( MHi ); address cover only; with PoC of TJ to Charles Willson Peale, 17 Aug. 1816 , on verso; addressed: “Thomas Jefferson Esq...
10Isaac Briggs to Thomas Jefferson, 7 May 1816, with Postscript by Mary B. Briggs (Jefferson Papers)
Thy kind favor, of Apr 17. 16 , had been forwarded from Brookeville to this place, my present residence, during a second journey I have made to Washington City . I returned yesterday. While in the Metropolis, I conceived an expectation, which is not still exists, of an employment s either in the survey of the line between the United States and the British possessions, from the source of S t
11Thomas Jefferson to Peter Cottom, 7 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved some time ago a letter from mess rs Brooks and Ashley assignees of Bradford & Inskeep an application for the cost of the Portfolio for the year 1814. and lately one from Thomas de Silur as proprietor for the year 1815. percieving however that you are agent in Richmond for that publication, and there being difficulty in remitting small sums to other states, I prefer making the...
12Thomas Jefferson to John F. Dumoulin, 7 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Apr. 12. is just recieved, and with it the two copies of your treatise on Naturalization and Allegiance: the one of which has been delivered, as you requested, to Col o Randolph ; and for the other be pleased to accept my thanks. from a cursory view, I promise myself great pleasure in reading it, as well from it’s logic as it’s learni ng . on these subjects we cannot but think...
13Thomas Jefferson to Levin Gale, 7 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 30. came during an absence from home of considerable length, and the box of vine cuttings arrived soon after, in excellent order, and were immediately planted. I hope they will do well, as, from judging from a sample of wine made from this grape and sent to me formerly by Maj r Adlam , I expect to be gratified with the great desideratum of making at home a good wine. his was...
14William Short to Thomas Jefferson, 7 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
In consequence of an understanding between M r H : & myself, that I would inclose to you his bond & mortgage, when the payment was completed, I now take the liberty of inclosing his last bond & the mortgage — I have been informed by M r Gibson that he has recieved for me from the agent of M r H. at Richmond
15Jean David to Thomas Jefferson, 8 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Je prends la liberté de vous adresser quelques ecrits que j’ai faits depuis que je Suis dans les Etats unis d’amerique ils Sont relatifs a La prosperité de ce pays . Je les crois basés Sur les vrais principes de l’economie politique et de la justice. S’ils Sont tels ils peuvent être utiles à votre patrie. vous êtes mieux à même que tout autre de juger de leur merite. c’est ce qui m’a porté a...
16Enclosure: Jean David’s Memorandum on Treaties of Commerce, December 1815, first enclosure in Jean David to Thomas … (Jefferson Papers)
Sur les traités de commerce—fait en Decembre 1815— un traité de commerce entre deux peuples ne m’a jamais paru être qu’un traité de Guerre, je veux dire un Sujet une occasion de Guerre attendu qu’un des deux peuples y est toujours la dupe de l’autre Pourquoi donc faire un parait traité qui ne Sert qu’a nous donner des entraves. restons toujours les maitres de changer a notre gré nos droits de...
17Enclosure: Jean David’s First Memorandum on American Banks, October 1815, second enclosure in Jean David to Thomas … (Jefferson Papers)
Sur les Banques des Etats unis d’Amerique —N o 1— 8 bre 1815 Lorsqu’une fois on a commencé à manquer à Ses obligations et par consequent à S’ecarter de la justice, il n’est aucune sorte d’abus qui ne puissent naitre de cette premiére faute. C’est ce qui est resulté de l’acte illegal par lequel presque toutes les Banques des Etats Unis ont decidé de ne plus payer leurs bills en espéces, ainsi...
18Enclosure: Jean David’s Second Memorandum on American Banks, April 1816, third enclosure in Jean David to Thomas … (Jefferson Papers)
Sur les Banques des Etats unis —N o 2—avril 1816. — Le Congrés vient de décréter l’etablissement d’une Banque nationale , cette mesure etoit indispensable pour detruire l’agiotage scandaleux qui existe Sur les bills des differentes Banques. Mais remediera-t-elle au discredit du change avec l’etranger? J’oserois presque assurer qu’elle n’y apportera aucun changement, et que le mal ira toujours...
19Thomas Jefferson to Charles Willson Peale, 8 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I am indebted to you for two letters yet unacknolegged unacknoledged , to wit of June 18. and Dec. 23. 15. I pay three or four visits a year to a very distant possession I have in Bedford , where, being comfortably fixed, I pass a month or two at a time, so that it is almost a second home. it is in the finest part of our state for soil & climate, and near to Lynchburg ; now the 2
20Thomas Jefferson to John Mackey, 9 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your letter of May 2. on the 3 d an anonymous writing had come to hand which bearing the date of Apr. 18 as now mentioned by you, is I presume the paper called for. being anonymous I knew not to whom to return it. this is now done on the presumption it is yours. I do not meddle in printing any thin g. my time of life requires rest of body and mind and that I should...
21Thomas Jefferson to Eusebio Valli, 9 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I am much indebted to the much esteemed Seignior Botta for furnishing me the occasion of addressing to you my salutations on your arrival in the United states , and of tendering my portion of the obligations all owe you for the dangers you voluntarily encounter to lessen theirs. while we are striving how best to preserve our own health, you immolate yours as the victim of safety for us. the...
22Theodorus Bailey to Thomas Jefferson, 10 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been duly favored with your Note covering a letter for M r Van der Kemp —and in obedience to your wishes have forwarded the same by Post. Olden Barnevelt is in the Town of Trenton in the County of Oneida , about twelve miles from Rome . I beg leave to add that I shall always take great pleasure in executing your commands in this City ; and in rendering you any service in my power— RC ( MHi
23Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 10 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have not had the pleasure of hearing from you since my letter of the 27 th Ult o advising you of the sale of your flour— Your note in bank becoming due on the 24 th Ins t I now inclose you a blank for your signature— I hand you inclosed the Acco t
24Enclosure: Patrick Gibson’s Account with Thomas Jefferson for Tobacco and Flour Sales, 30 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Sales of 10 Hhds Tob o Made on Account Thomas Jefferson Esq r 1816 March 15 th to Peter F Smith sh o 1660. 152. 1290
25Joseph Delaplaine to Thomas Jefferson, 11 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honour of duly receiving your obliging favour of the 9 th of February last . You have been pleased to correspond with me much on the subject of your portrait. Being very desirous to obtain it, and fearing that M r Stuart will never be prevailed upon to give up yours, I avail myself of your kind offer to receive in your house, any Artist I might send to further my Work. Accordingly I...
26William Lee to Thomas Jefferson, 11 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg leave to inclose you a letter from Mr. Gard , professor at the Deaf and Dumb College in this city . He is considered in this country as a phenomenon for though deaf and dumb he is familiar with every branch of Science and literature—he wrote the inclosed himself, and brought it to me to correct but I thought it best to make no alteration in it. There is no one Sir who can appreciate his...
27José Corrêa da Serra to Thomas Jefferson, 12 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Letter from Poplar forest reached my hands Last week, and with it i am enabled to follow with more cognizance the research of Capt. Lewis ’s papers. The only part which i had recovered i had forwarded to you by your excellent grand daughter when she was here. Colonel Jones of the Guards who is going to Kentucky to dispose of his lands there, will present this to you. He wishes to have the...
28Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours to Thomas Jefferson, 12 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai reçu avec une extrême reconnaissance votre lettre de Poplar-Forest . Ne croyez pas que j’aie la plus legere intention d’appliquer aux Etats-Unis aucune des idées que je devais employer pour la République Française ; et que je crois bonnes à proposer à des Républiques naissantes, qui n’ont encore rien d’arrêté, Sont dans un Etat de matiere premiere , et ont demandé mon avis pour en Sortir....
29Wilson Cary Nicholas’s Circular to the County Courts, 12 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
The “ Act to provide an accurate Chart of each County and a general Map of the Territory of this Commonwealth,” directs the Executive “to cause such surveys to be made of the exterior boundaries of the Commonwealth, as may be necessary to ensure greater accuracy in the details of the preceding Charts where they present the boundaries of adjacent States, and to cause such surveys to be made of...
30William Canby to Thomas Jefferson, [ca. 13] May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
it was with concern I heard (think in the 2 nd Year after I Rec d thy answer & Remarks on my Note ) that they were published in a Wilmington News paper, for tho’ it was far from my intention, yet I think my weaknes might make Room for som to do it—as I have not for som Years kept a key, or done much busines, Yet using som handicraft industry—yet often feel the Want of Natural Ability or...
31John Steele to Thomas Jefferson, 14 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Stephen Cathalan Esq r , Commercial & Navy Agent Marseilles , has consigned to me two Cases, one containing wine & the other Macarony for with instructions to forward them to you by the first favourable opportunity You will please to advise me , to what place and to whose care the Cases will be sent, & they will be forwarded accordingly I am very respectfully, RC ( ViU: TJP-ER ); endorsed by...
32Thomas Appleton to Thomas Jefferson, 15 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
My last respects were in date of the 15 th of april , conveying to you at the same time, the legal Attestation of the death of m r mazzei ; an attested copy of his will ; together with a letter from the guardian of his daughter , as to the disposal of the property in your hands; all of which, were transmitted by the Brig Sphynx Capt: macomb
33John Martin Baker to Thomas Jefferson, 15 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the Honor with due Respect to address you: and take the liberty to remit you, per the American Brig, General Ward , to the care of, D. Gelston , Esquire.— Newyork , a Case of Barsac white Wine, growth of the Estate, called Darancour , it is genuine, and ten years old, I have Seen it drawn and bottled in my presence, while there, I hope it may meet your approbation. Permit me Sir, to...
34Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 15 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return from Bedford on the 3 d inst. I found here your favor of Apr. 27. and that of the 10 th int inst . is now recieved, inclosing an accout account of sales of my flour. I am glad it is so well sold, as I had begun to apprehend worse. while in Bedford
35Charles Thomson to Thomas Jefferson, 16 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 9 of January last which did not reach me till the latter end of April was to me indeed a cordial. It recalled to mind the trying Scenes through which we passed with undessembled confidence, but in a particular manner rejoiced me as it informed me of the firm state of your health and the full enjoyment you have of your faculties both of body and mind and more especially of...
36John R. F. Corbin to Thomas Jefferson, 17 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
It is with Some degree of difidence I undertake to address you ; : I hope however you will not consider it impertinent in me, because I have not had the pleasure of an acquaintence with you.— My object is to learn of you , ( if in your power to instruct) any thing or some thing concerning the title, or claim, or interest in property generally known and call’d Bird s Lottery , in which my Grand...
37Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas G. Dufief, 17 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 7 th Ult. I inclosed you an order on mr Vaughan for 24. D 68 C the balance of my former account which I hope you recieved. I have just recieved from M. de la Fayette a request to send him two copies of the Review of Montesquieu published by Duane in 1811. in 8 vo which I must ask the favor of you to procure and send for me. mr
38Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 17 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved, my dear friend, yesterday evening only your letter of Jan. 21. and this day I write to a bookseller in Philadelphia to send immediately, for you, two copies of the Anonymous Review of Montesquieu , under cover to mr Gallatin , if he be not gone. in a letter to him lately, I begged of him to say to yourself and mr T. that I had not the courage to write to either of you, until I...
39Thomas Jefferson to David Bailie Warden, 17 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of Feb. 20. and hasten to acknolege it by return of mail, in the hope it may be in time to reach mr Gallatin before his departure. I should have associated you myself with mr Ticknor in requesting the friendly office of purchasing some books for me, but at the time he left this country your letters had given me reason to believe you might be on a return to it....
40Thomas Jefferson’s Addition to Note for Destutt de Tracy’s Treatise on Political Economy, [ca. 18 May 1816] (Jefferson Papers)
To this a single observation shall yet be added. Whether property alone, and the whole of what each citizen possesses, shall be subject to contribution, or only it’s surplus after satisfying his first wants, or whether the faculties of body and mind shall contribute also from their annual earnings, is a question to be decided. but, when decided, and the principle settled, it is to be equally...
41Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 18 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just recieved a request from M. de la Fayette to send him two copies of the Review of Montesquieu , published in Philadelphia about 4. or 5. years ago, and have written to Dufief to forward them under cover to you, wherever you may be, which he will know better than I can. I pray you to be the bearer of them, with the letter for him now inclosed; and, if you have never read the work,...
42Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 18 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 7 th Ult. I wrote to you and forwarded at the same time the corrected translation of mr Tracy ’s book, with a request that you would forward to me for correction the proof sheets as they are struck off, and as we have three mails a week now from Washington , you will always recieve the sheet on the 5 th day after it comes from your hands, perhaps sometimes on the 7 th . having as yet...
43Thomas Jefferson to John Steele, 18 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
A letter just recieved from mr Cathalan of Marseilles informs me he has sent me a case of Hermitage wine and a box of Maccaroni by the Pilot , Cap t Dixon , and I learn by the public papers that that vessel is arrived at Philadelphia . I inclose you the bill of lading, and have copied on the back of it from mr Cathalan ’s invoice the quantity & cost of the articles. I have to ask the favor of...
44Thomas Jefferson to Marcus Dyson, 19 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 6 th is r ecieved, and I am sorry to say I am not able to answer your chemical enquiries with satisfaction. the antient chemistry was in possession of the schools when I was a student in them, and when that was reformed by the nomenclature of Morveau , and the theories of Lavoisier , I had become too much engaged in public affairs and the practical business of life, to...
45Thomas Jefferson to George Logan, 19 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
It gives me the greatest pain, dear Sir, to make a serious complaint to you. from the letter which I wrote you on the 3 d of Oct. 1813. an extract was published, with my name, in the newspapers, conveying a very just, but certainly a very harsh censure on Bonaparte . this produced to me more complaints from my best friends, and called for more explanations than any transaction of my life had...
46Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Delaplaine, 20 May [1816] (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 11 th is just recieved, and with it the head of Columbus for which accept my thanks. it has been evidently taken at an earlier period of his life than that of the Florentine gallery, which I think you will deem worthy of taking additionally. I shall be happy to recieve mr Otis here, and yourself also should you conclude to come as intimated. I wish it may not be later than the 1...
47Thomas Jefferson to William Thornton, 20 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Delaplaine of Philadelphia , being en g aged in a work of engravings of American characters, has engaged an artist to come on here, and perhaps will accompany him himself, to copy my Columbus , Vespucius , Cortez E t c. and he wishes to copy that also of myself by
48Thomas Jefferson to Francis Eppes, 21 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you, my dear Francis , a Greek grammar , the best I know for the use of schools. it is the one now most generally used in the United States . I expect you will begin it soon after your arrival at the New London academy . you might, while at home, amuse yourself with learning the letters, and spelling and reading the Greek words, so that you may not be stopped by that when mr Mitchell...
49Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 21 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I informed mr Darnell that nothing on account of the misfortunes of the last year, scarcely any thing made for market there or here, immense purchases of corn for bread here and some there, and unexampled taxes, I could not pay his wages till another crop should come in. he said he should be particularly in want of 50.D. which therefore I promised to send him. I have also to pay John Depriest...
50Thomas Jefferson to Peter Minor, 22 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Will you do us the favor to take peas & punch with us to-day? we did not know till last night that we should have either. RC (photocopy in ViU: TJP ); dateline at foot of text. Not recorded in SJL .