541Albert Gallatin to Thomas Jefferson, 7 June 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your’s of 16 th ult o , and, from Dufief , the work of M r Tracy , for La Fayette . I had become acquainted with M
542Thomas 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...
543Elisha Ticknor to Thomas Jefferson, 16 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
A few days ago I forwarded to you a second letter from my Son , and now have the pleasure to inclose to you another copy of the Invoice of your Books as received from him, with the amount of freight and duties, paid by me in this port, viz. D c Homerus 8 8vo th. 20,16/ =15. 50 Juvenalis 2 8vo 〃 6,04. 4. 50 Virgilius 4 8vo 〃
544Enclosure: John Barnes’s Account with Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 26 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Genl. Thad s Kosciusko in a/c. with John Barnes for Sale of Treasury notes bearing 5⅔ pr. ct. Int. and payable 21 st April, 1816 . March 21 1816 . To C. Smith , Esqr.
545Thomas Jefferson to John Meer, 19 July 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday only your favor of June 18. which I mention as an explanation of the delay of this answer, and regret that, late as it is, it cannot be more satisfactory. but I am entirely unqualified to judge of the merit of your engraving , & consequently to undertake it’s recommendation. the art of the engraver is one I have never attended to. I know it’s effects only as an object of...
546Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 12 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of Aug. 10. & Oct. 3. are now before me. the difficulties you find in transferring the stock of Gen l Kosciuzko standing in my name to his own, puzzle me exceedingly, because I do not understand them. it is a business I am not familiar with. both the General’s wish and mine is that the stock should stand in his own name to avoid difficulties in case of my death, but that the powers...
547William Duane to Thomas Jefferson, 9 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
There is a small sum of 60$ money paid by me for the translating of the continuation of Tracy ’s ideology; the pressure of the present times alone could induce me to trespass upon you, as the young man the Bookseller at George Town to Whom you proposed giving the work to be printed, intimated something like dissatisfaction or disapprobation on your part towards me. As I was wholly ignorant of...
548Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 21 July 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
In your letter of June 4. you informed me you would be ab le to begin Tracy ’s work by the 4 th of July. my responsibility to m r Tracy makes me expect with anxiety the Prospectus & proof sheets. I hope soon to begin to recieve them. they shall meet no delay from me. will you be so good as to send me the Miniature editions of Homer ’s
549Thomas Jefferson to William W. Hening, 12 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the 3. first volumes of your statutes which are safely recieved, as I shall also do for succeeding ones as they come out. with respect to the MS. volume in your hands, as it belongs to Congress , it will be best when you are done with it, to forward it by the stage to Washington , addressed to mr George Watterston , librarian of Congress . you would oblige me at the same time...
550Enclosure: Hottinguer & Compagnie’s Bill for Carriage of a Box of Books, 1 July 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Charges and Disbursements on 1. Package sundry Goods, marked and numbered as in the Margin, received by H ottinguer & C o from M r Bure — at Paris and shipt on Board the United States Captain Destebecho
551Hezekiah Niles to Thomas Jefferson, 23 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
you may have observed a proposition of a correspondent , publïshed in the Weekly Register of the 23rd ult. as to a collection of Speeches, &c. belonging to the period of our revolution. I have reason to believe it comes from one of the first men of our country, & it has excited no little attention. Be pleased to refer to it. The collection being So loudly called for, I shall attempt to make...
552Thomas Jefferson to Charles Willson Peale, 24 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved in October a letter from mr M c Ilhenny whom you were so kind as to recommend as a watchmaker, informing me he would come on to establish himself at Charlottesville as soon as he could hear from me. I was just about setting out on a journey to Bedford , and answered him therefore by advising him to postpone his coming till my return. he did so, and arrived in Charlottesville by the...
553Thomas 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...
554John Preston to Thomas Jefferson, 18 August 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
With much pains and trouble mingled with anxiety I have compiled a Lancastrian Spelling book and caused the same to be printed: I have also written an Introduction to Arithmeti c on a similar plan as you will perceive by the manuscript accompanying this note. The embarrasments I have brought on myself by this assiduous task, the flattering recommendations given by some of our first American...
555Thomas 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...
556David Gelston to Thomas Jefferson, 20 August 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this day received in Store one case, said to contain thirty bottles red wine shipped by M r Cathalen from Marseilles —this with the preceding I shall Ship by the first good opportunity for Richmond agreeably to the request in your letter of the 3 d instant— RC ( MHi ); endorsed by TJ as received 26 Aug. 1816 and so recorded in SJL , which has the additional notation: “30. b. red wine...
557Martha Jefferson Randolph to Thomas Jefferson, 20 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
We recieved your letters last night only, and the necessary preparations for the boy’s Journey would take up so much of the day that we determined not to send them till to morrow morning 21 st Wormley will see to every thing but the bulbous roots. the kinds you mention are all growing at present and could not be moved with out destroying them but I have sent you a number of off sets of tulips...
558Thomas Jefferson to Margaret Bayard Smith, 6 August 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
D I have recieved, dear Madam, your very friendly letter of July 21. and Assure you that I feel with deep sensibility it’s kind expressions towards myself, and the more as from a person than whom no other’s could be more in sympathy with my own affections. I often call to mind the occasions of knowing your worth, which the societies of Washington furnished; and none more than those derived...
559Extract of Cornelia J. Randolph to Virginia J. Randolph (Trist), 25 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
As sister Ellen is writing to mama my Dear Virginia , I will write also by this opportunity, to you, for I suppose you will expect a letter in return for the one you favour’d me with when you were here . we arriv’d here in safety after a journey pleasant enough, for the weather was very fine except being rather cold, mornings & evenings, but we were well wrapt up, having a cloak apiece of...
560Isaac H. Tiffany to Thomas Jefferson, 8 August 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Will you be so good as to assist me from a doubt. Mr Gillies , historiographer to the king for Scotland has translated Aristotle ’s works into english. I have not seen the original, nor a translation into any other language than the beforementioned; but from the introductions to the Several books “on polities,” & the notes, remarks & conclusions, altogether foreign from the text, of the great...