31Thomas Jefferson to Francis W. Gilmer, 14 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return from Poplar Forest Sep. 11. I found here your favor of Aug. 18. already near a month old, and I deferred answering it in the hope I should have the pleasure of seeing you here with mr Correa , then daily expected. he and mr Walsh left us two days ago, after a stay of two days only. M r Dupont ’s treatise is well worth publishing; for altho’ not a practicable plan itself, it...
32John H. Cocke to Thomas Jefferson, 4 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
It is my opinion that Doctor Cooper had better be engaged upon the terms he offers. Taking it for granted, after your notice in the Enquirer , that all persons holding subscription pap ers wou’d forward them to you at the time desired, I have taken no step in the business since—but in compliance with your request , will obtain all the subscription papers which I sent out, & will transmit them...
33Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 14 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 5 th has been recieved. I prefer sending the flour to Richmond . it is more convenient to concentrate all my funds in one hand; and it also increases confidence in my correspondent , so that if at any time I have occasion to overdraw, he knows himself sure of recieving the funds. Lynchburg too is no wheat market. while they were offering 9/ there it was & is 13/6 and 14/ at...
34Thomas Jefferson’s Bill for Establishing Elementary Schools, [ca. 9 September 1817] (Jefferson Papers)
Notes An Act for establishing Elementary Schools §.1. Ministers of the gospel are excluded to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public education committed to the ministers of a particular one; & with more reason than in the case of their exclusion from the legislative and executive functions. 1. Be it enacted by the General assembly of Virginia that, at the first session of the...
35Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 10 September 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I omitted in my letter of yesterday to return Barrois ’ catalogue with thanks for the use of it. I omitted also to observe that it would be better that the bill for the elementary schools should not be known as coming from me. not knowing the present pulse of the public, should there be any thing unpalatable in it, it may injure our college as coming from one of it’s visitors. I wish it to be...
36Thomas Jefferson to Francis W. Gilmer, 10 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the letter of mr Ticknor which I have thought myself justified in communicating to his friends here on account of the pleasure it would give them, and that, I am sure, will give you pleasure. I trust you did not a moment seriously think of putting yourself behind the door of W. & M. College . a more compleat Cul de sac could not be proposed to you. no, dear Sir, you are...
37Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 15 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Johnson having called on me the morning he was loading and assuring me he should load two boats occasioned my letter of the 3 d . I learnt afterwards that one of his boats got broke into in two , which occasioned the disappointment. his boat is returned and is now at the mill and will take in a load for me tomorrow morning. I set out for Bedford in the morning to be absent 2. or 3. weeks. I...
38Thomas Jefferson to David Gelston, 28 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I am much obliged by the communication in your favors of the 21 st & 22 d of the arrival of my wines at New York , and still more by your kindness in undertaking to send them on to Richmond at once, without waiting my directions. that being my only port on tidewaters, and one from whence we have water carriage to my own landing, is of course the one to which every thing must come to me; & mess...
39Enclosure: Nicholas Biddle to William Tilghman, 6 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the pleasure of depositing with the Historical committee , the papers & books which accompany this letter, in compliance with the request of Governor Clark in his letter to me of the 10 th of Oct 1816, transmitted by M r Jefferson — It may perhaps be usefull to add such notices of other objects connected with them, as may enable the committee to extend its researches— It was in the...
40Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 15 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
The messenger who carried mine of yesterday brought me in return your’s of the 5 th . I shall be anxious to hear from you after our report of the 6 th shall have been laid before the legislature , & to learn what impression it makes. because that shews how near we are to the accomplishment of a good College, one that cannot but be thought of some value to the state, and the urgency of their...
41George Washington Jeffreys to Thomas Jefferson, 30 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of March the 3 rd 1817 which you were So good as to write me on horizontal ploughing has proved has of great value to this section of our state—and I hope you will hear with the same pleasure which I feel in communicating the beneficial effects which have resulted from your communication to me on this subject. I received your letter in time last spring to lay off my fields...
42Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 31 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I forgot to leave with you, as I intended, a little book, called the Oxford & Cambridge Guide. It may be acceptable to you at the present Crisis. I will thank you for the return of it, when I come up in May, as I shall wish to look over it in the summer. I send it by the stage Driver. RC ( ViU: TJP-PC ); endorsed by TJ as received 1 Apr. 1818 and so recorded in SJL .
43Brightberry Brown to Thomas Jefferson, 2 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Having Receivd your lines together with the order of Court Made in consequence of your petition Relative to Roads feel every possible disposition to oblige you personally together with a sense of duty to my Self & Neighbourhood expect to attend agreably to your appointment RC ( MHi ); addressed: “M r Thomas Jefferson Es q ,” delivered “By y r
44James Leitch to Thomas Jefferson, 25 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Enclosed is a Copy of the Subscription papers which I held— Dabny Minor has returned his to me it being only a Copy of mine with a few Original subscribers which are Included in the Copy now sent I have retained it with the others Those I have seen that were willing to engage in forming a Company to establish a Stocking-Weaver here on the terms proposed by M r Lee consider the proposals made...
45Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, with Postscript by John G. Robert (for Gibson), 23 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I this morning received your favor of the 18 th Ins t and have as you direct remitted to M r Jos h Milligan of Geo:town $100 I have also remitted to M r David Gelston of
46Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Garrett, 5 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
As I was from home when y your’s and mr Southall ’s letter came, it was not opened, and the bearer of it could not explain it’s object so as to be understood. if you can let me know how many of our cups you will want they shall be sent to you tomorrow forenoon. as we have and shall have a great deal of company to-day, they will be wanting here for the service of the day. mr Madison and mr...
47Thomas Jefferson’s Advertisement for Brickwork, [by 7 December 1817] (Jefferson Papers)
The Subscriber is authorised by the Visitors of the Central College near Charlottesville to contract for the making & laying there about 400,000. bricks, the Undertaker finding every thing, & the work to be equal to the best brickwork in Lynchburg ; one half to be done by the 1 st of July , & the whole by the 1 st of October . the lime quarries are about 10. miles & sand about 2. miles distant...
48Thomas Jefferson to Elisha Ticknor, 14 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
A letter recieved from the Cardinal Dugnani at Rome giving me occasion to write to him, I have thought it possible my letter might be got there before mr Tickner , your son, will have left that place, and that it might be useful to him to deliver it. it will ensure him every friendly office the Cardinal can render him, and may place under his observation a circle of society which perhaps he...
49Edmund Bacon to Thomas Jefferson, 10 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
John sets off in the morning agreable to Your request Pearticulally examined his cart and have Put it in good condition and haveing no oats out gave him 2 bus ls corn for his mules.— after waiting untill the 7 day of this month say three days ago before I Purchased Corn at last had to give 14/. and should not have got at that Price but that the man was obliged to moove in a short time and he...
50Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 16 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
A resolution which I saw in the papers for the adjournment of the legislature the day before yesterday prevented my writing to you in the belief it could would not find you in Richmond . M r Summers now tells me he thinks you will set into the next week. the obj after acknoleging the reciept, since
51Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on a Meeting with Thomas Whittington, 16 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Dec. 16. Tho s Whittington , well acquainted with the lines, attends and searches them with us whereupon the following material corrections & discoveries are made. the supposed corner beyond the N. Lond. road from which we begun the S. 50. E. line is not our corner nor in our course. he shews a plain marked tree in the course much further beyond the N.L. road and says the corner is farther...
52John Martin Baker to Thomas Jefferson, 31 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I am Honored with your much Respected Letter of the twelfth instant ; myself and all my family, Sir, will ever bear in grateful remembrance your feeling consideration in your goodness and favorable mention of myself, family and Situation to The President of the United States: whom I have had the Honor to call upon, on the fourth day after his late return, His Excellency, was pleased to receive...
53Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Carstairs, 1 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
After a separation of near 20. years I avail myself of the occasion of recalling myself to your recollection which is furnished by the necessity of asking information from you in the line of your business, and which I trust you will have the goodness to give me. we are here engaged in the erection of a college called the Central college . we have agreed to give our Carpenters & housejoiners...
54Jonas Keller to Thomas Jefferson, 15 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
j’ai appris par votre très honnoree du 8 c t que Les Conditions que je vous proposais ne pouvais convenir pour L’enseignement du jeune homme que vous m’aviez addressé e ma demande est du plus juste, et Surtout Lorsqu’il S’agit d’un jeune homme d’en faire un fabricant, et de donner Son état dans L’espace d’un année, j’ai Sacrifié 6 Semaines Les plus penibles, et Les plus desastreuse pour...
55Thomas Jefferson to Samuel J. Harrison, 18 September 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
As you expressed a wish to have a note of the wines I mentioned to you yesterday, I make one on the back hereof. I can assure you that they are esteemed on the continent of Europe among the best wines of Europe , and, with Champagne, Burgundy Tokay are used at the best tables there. I think Roussill on of Rivesalt is that which will be most used in this country, because strength & flavor are...
56David Gelston to Thomas Jefferson, 14 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this day received your letter of the 9 th instant — the unusually severe weather that commenced very soon after the departure of Cap t Block , and which continued for nearly three weeks, gave me great uneasiness, not only on account of your wines, but for the Safety of the vessel & crew, and my Anxiety has been encreasing until two days ago, when I read in one of our papers under...
57Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 14 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved two days ago your favor of the 5 th and shall be very happy to see Marshal Grouchy here. I have never considered him as a personal Bonapartiste; or as an approver of the crimes or of the usurped power of Bonaparte . like many other good men, their country after a long sufferance under the most afflicting calamities having settled down into a certain order, they were unwilling to...
58Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 5 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I will not trouble you with vain condolances, & expressions of regret on the death of our mutual friend Gen l Kosciuzko , which we see announced in the papers in too credible form & which we both lament. besides the power of Attorney left with me & under which we have acted, he left in my hands a Will , all written in his own hand, making a charitable disposition of his property here, of which...
59Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 15 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 11 th came to hand last night only, and we have no mail setting out for Richmond until the 17 th . I am sorry for this lapse, and had I known that unstamped paper (as that you inclose) would do, I would have prevented it. I now return you the two notes signed, and as I shall go to Bedford the 2 d week of April and not be back till the first week in May, I inclosed inclose a...
60Thomas Jefferson to Eleuthere I. du Pont de Nemours, 9 September 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 11 th of Aug. after a long detention at Monticello , is recieved at this place, where I have now been upwards of a month. I had seen in the publick papers the unwelcome event it announced, & also the obituary notice to which your letter refers. it was but a modest sketch of the worth of M. Dupont : for of no man who has lived could more good have been said with more truth. I...