1Nathaniel Cutting to Thomas Jefferson, 18 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
If the name of so obscure an Individual as now presumes to address you, may be permitted to salute your friendly glance in the philosophic shades of Monticello , I hope you will at the same time feel a conviction that the Person who bears it still retains for you that sincere Esteem and profound Veneration with which a near view of your Virtues and Talents inspired him at a period more remote...
2John Wayles Eppes to Thomas Jefferson, 17 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Francis has been detained in consequence of the severe indisposition of two of my children—They are now however nearly restored to health. I received by the last Mail a letter from M r Baker at Richmond now in which he States that M r Wood had Just opened a School in that place and was very anxious to have Francis as one of his pupils— He has declined returning to Lynchburg .
3James Leitch to Thomas Jefferson, 17 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
The Bearer M r Logan a Watch & Clock Maker from Staunton (Who from every information I have is a first rate Workman) & having commenced Business at this place; & having known your wish for an establishment of that kind Induces me to take the liberty of introdu c ing him to You; thinking that at this time you might require Some of his Services which I have no doubt he would execute to your...
4John L. Sullivan to Thomas Jefferson, 17 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
At a period when the importance of internal improvements is peculiarly felt by the most respectable members of the community, it must be unnecessary to apologize for addressing to you a communication on the subject of canals and inland navigation. Having had some practice in this pursuit, my experience & improvements may possibly become of use in Virginia .— my Father the late James Sullivan...
5Thomas Jefferson to William Lee, 16 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved three days ago a letter from M. Martin 2 d Vice-president am and M. Parmantier Secretary of ‘the French agricultural & manufacturing society’ dated at Philadelphia the 5 th instant: it covered Resolutions proposing to apply to Congress
6James Ligon (for Patrick Gibson) to Thomas Jefferson, 16 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Inclosed I hand you inclosed Acc t Sales of 175 Bbls Flour nett proceeds $1571.75. with your Acc t Current to the 1 st In st Shewing Balance in my favor of $942.57 which I trust you will find correct I have this day disposed of the remainder of your Flour say 93 Bbls Superfine & 9 Bbls Fine to mr Jn o Leslie the f Superfine at 13¾$ & the Fine at 13¼$ on 60 days Credit—as I can readily get this...
7James Eastburn to Thomas Jefferson, 15 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Will you permit me to lay before you the plan of a course of publications which, if due encouragement is given I shall be proud to unde r take? It has met the decided approbation of a few literary Gentlemen here, but it requires the recommendation of all those who have filled, or are now filling, eminent stations in the country to make it successfull—If Sir on having perused the plan, you can...
8Louis C. Le Breton Deschapelles to Thomas Jefferson, 15 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
the kindeness you have Ever Shewn to the inhabitants of Louisiana during your administration induces me to inform you of the attempt made By M r Livingston to Exact from us Damages for having been Dispossessed of the Bature pursuance to a mandat of the president of the U.S. in Such Situation, We beg Leave to Claim your interference towards the Government for Supporting us in the Supreme Court...
9Thomas Jefferson to James Ligon (for Patrick Gibson), 15 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Understanding that mr Gibson is too unwell to attend to business, I take the liberty of addressing to yourself directly a request of my account from the last period to which it was rendered (Sep. 1 st ) to the end of the year, that I may make my arrangements accordingly. in my letter of Dec. 28. I mentioned that a purchase of corn would require me to draw about this time for between 500. &...
10Thomas Jefferson to Lancelot Minor, 14 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Nov. 25. came during an absence of 2. months in Bedford ; that of the 6 th inst. was recieved on the 10 th In my letter of Jan. 17 th of the last year I promised that in the spring of the present I would pay out of my own resources the debt to Col o Callis ’s estate . this shall assuredly be done as soon as my crop of flour is sold; which however I do not expect will take place...
11Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Thweatt, 14 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Our last mail brought me your favor of the 5 th and I hasten to answer by it’s first return. Jefferson Randolph is y not yet returned, so that I am without the benefit of any information thro’ him I inclose you a survey of the roads in question made by the county surveyor for the use of the court on the question of these roads; so I must beseech you to return it to me safely, and as soon as...
12Jerman Baker to Thomas Jefferson, 13 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have postponed a reply to yours of 14 Ult o addressed to M r Thweatt & myself untill the select Com ee to whom was refered the petition for a Turnpike Road from Rock fish Gap to Lewis’s ferry should have come to a decision thereon, which they have not yet done in consequence of the continued indisposition of M r T— Maury . however I think I may hazard the opinion that the Road will be Stoped...
13John Barnes to Thomas Jefferson, 13 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Notwithstand g what has been said, & done, Respecting your several powers—they have not had an Accomodating effect with the Comptroller —for Answer—He knows of None— but the Law —and cannot therefore be Admitted:—still in Order to save you the trouble—a Ride of many Miles to the Majestrate— M r Randolp h —your Witness—his Attest to it before me—will be Accepted Of — My first Attempt on the...
14Charles Thomson to Thomas Jefferson, [by 7 January 1817] (Jefferson Papers)
I received your letter of January last when I was under a paralytic stroke but not Sensible of it. I felt no acute pain, and my Sight was as usual. I could read without spectacles but could not comprehend what I read, nor its connextion with what preceded or followed. I read your letter and was pleased. I made sundry attempts to answer it but in vain, and what at last I sent as an answer , I...
15Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 12 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour of 1 st inst is now before me. With the nature & object of the petition you allude to, I was already acquainted from having received an explanatory letter from your grandson , covering a copy of the remonstrance. I had also conversed as well with him as with m r maury . I advised m r maury without delay to have an interview with his colleague , and to endeavor to obtain his...
16Isaac H. Tiffany to Thomas Jefferson, [received 12 January 1817] (Jefferson Papers)
If a sense of error can attone for the length of my last , it is fully acknowledged. With intent to do some good in the little circle of my exeri exertions , the enclosed scheme to awaken a spirit of enquiry & action, by enabling every man to become known & useful, is drawn up. And I have ventured to invite your perusal & correction of it, if you may think it worthy of a moment’s leisure. The...
17Enclosure: Isaac H. Tiffany’s Plan for an Institute in Schoharie County, New York, [before 12 January 1817] (Jefferson Papers)
The Institute of the County of Schoharie is composed of a President 2 Vice President s , Senate and five Committees Objects Committee of Religion and Morality N o of Ministers, Churches, and Religious Meetings, State of Social Intercourse— t T o promote Charity of Opinion—Obedience to Parents, reverence to Age and respect for the Laws, to direct taste in sports
18Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, 11 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I owe you, dear Madam, a thousand thanks for the letters communicated in your favor of Dec. 15. and now returned. they give me more information than I possessed before of the family of mr Tracy . but what is infinitely interesting is the scene of the exchange of Louis XVIII . for Bonaparte . what lessons of wisdom mr Adams must have read in that short space of time! more than fall to the lot...
19Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 11 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Forty three volumes read in one year, and 12. of them quartos! dear Sir, how I envy you! half a dozen 8 vos in that space of time are as much as I am allowed. I can read by candlelight only, and stealing long hours from my rest; nor would that time be allowed me indulged to me, could I, by that light, see to write. from sun-rise to one or two aclock, and often from dinner to dark, I am...
20Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas G. Dufief, 11 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of mr Dufief to inclose a copy of the Commentary on Montesquieu published by Duane in 1811. to mr Adams at Quincy Mass. charging it to Th:J . he salutes him with friendship & respect. PoC ( DLC ); on verso of a reused address cover from
21Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 10 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
It would seem mighty idle for me to inform you formally of the merits of Col o Trumbull as a painter or as a man. yet he asks my notice of him to my friends , as if his talents had not already distinguished him in their notice. on the continent of Europe his genius was placed much above West ’s. Baron Grimm , the arbiter of taste at Paris in my day, expressed to me often his decided & high...
22Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull, 10 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Our last mail brought me your favor of Dec. 26. the lapse of 28. years which you count since our first intimacies, has diminished in nothing my affection to for you. we learn, as we grow old, to value early friendships, because the new-made do not fit us so closely. it is an age since I have heard of mrs Church . yet her place, in my bosom, is as warm as ever; and so is Kitty ’s . I think I...
23James Barbour to Thomas Jefferson, 9 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Colonel Trumbul the celebrated painter is on a visit to this City—bringing with him Several specimens of historical paintings—The Subjects he has Selected are of a character which impart the highest interest to an American bosom—The wish of the Colo. is to be employed in his lime line in embellishing the Capitol with Some of those pieces executed on a Scale commensurate with the building—A...
24William 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...
25William Sampson to Thomas Jefferson, 9 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your favor of the 30 th Ult o And Am glad that the expression of “shortening the process by appealing to our own Opinions” came so apropos to sanction the part I had in the enclosed address to the people of the United States from the Society for promoting domestic manufactures I should be proud and happy if our Sentiments objects and proceedings should meet your approbation in...
26Enclosure: 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.
27John Barnes to Thomas Jefferson, 7 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed particulars & general statem t of Gen l Kosciusko ’s ℀ with me up to 26 Nov r last—together with my remarks—will I flatter my self, fully explain to you—(and thro you to the good Gen l ) the cause of the Balance being thus in my favor—$812. EE. — Owing to the perculiar Circumstances Attending the protested £200—as well the Accom o dation of the £234. remitted, in lieu...
28Nicolas G. Dufief to Thomas Jefferson, 7 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai déjà eu l’honneur de vous adresser le nautical almanach pour 1817, la connaissance des temps pour 1817 & 18, 2 vols. & un petit dictionnaire Italien & anglais qui vous Sera passé a 2.50. Je n’ai pu vous procurer un format entre celui-ci & l’en 4 to dont nous avons plusieurs exemplaires. Il m’a été impossible de trouver “ Enfield ’s history of Philosophy” ni une bible du format que vous...
29Francis Hall’s Account of a Visit to Monticello, [7–8 January 1817] (Jefferson Papers)
MONTICELLO . Having an introduction to Mr. Jefferson , I ascended his little mountain on a fine morning, which gave the situation its due effect. The whole of the sides and base are covered with forest, through which roads have been cut circularly, so that the winding may be shortened or prolonged at pleasure: the summit is an open lawn, near to the south side of which, the house is built,...
30Chapman Johnson to Thomas Jefferson, 7 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the pleasure of receiving this morning, your letter, of the 26 h Dec r addressed to me, at Staunton , and the duplicate thereof, addressed to this place— In your suit in chancery, with the Rivanna company you may count on my Services as counsel, and so, according to your request, you may expect me to appear for You as counsel, in any cause, in which You may be concerned, within the range...