551Thomas Jefferson to Quinette de Rochemont, 30 September 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
After an absence of six weeks I find, on my return to this place, the three pamphlets you were so kind as to send me. the letter accompanying them had been forwarded to me at Poplar forest near Lynchburg where I then was. I have read these pamphlets with great satisfaction. that of Pradt gives a detail of facts as interesting as they are authentic. it is rare that we get a peep behind the...
552Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 29 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
The calculation in my former letter of the time when Johnny Hemings would be done, was made on a guess of his own. by what he has since done I can estimate the time it will take him more exactly, and I find the cart need not leave Monticello till Thursday the 11 th of December, on which day therefore I wish it to be dispatched. I have been two days engaged from sunrise to sunset with a...
553Thomas Jefferson to James Leitch, 12 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Some plane irons Sand-paper isinglass. glue brush to be chosen by the bearer John Hemings . RC ( TxDaHCL ); written on a small scrap; dateline beneath signature; at foot of text: “M r James Leitch .” Not recorded in SJL . plane irons are the cutting blades of planes ( OED
554Robert Walsh to Thomas Jefferson, 20 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
As there is now no likelihood of the resurrection of the American Register, & as I am about to return with my family to Philadelphia , I think it proper to restore to you at once the valuable manuscript of M r de Tracy . It certainly deserves to be well translated, & published among us; but I doubt the sale would defray the expence of printing. The taste for Such profound speculations is...
555William Clough to Thomas Jefferson, 4 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Hoping that this intrusion upon your notice may be viewed in its proper light, I have , though unknown to you, have deemed it necessary to beg the favour of a little information, from you, respecting the College , which is erecting, or about to be erected in this State. I have, under my instruction, several young gentlemen, who will, probably, enter this College as soon as it shall commence...
556James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, 13 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose you a commission for M r Sasserno , as consul for Nice , with a memo: from the dep t of State , relating to its transmission to him, respecting which, we shall be happy to forward your views. I enclose you also an extract from a letter of Gall M r Gallatin , relating to M
557Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 27 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to you on the 9 th Ins t with a /Sales and Acco t Curr t to the 1 st Ins t and have now to advise you the receipt of 43 bls: of your flour, of which 6 are fine— and to inclose you a note for your signature to renew the one due at the US. bank on the 12
558John Organ’s Survey Notes on Poplar Forest Roads, 28 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Coppy Courses and distances run the 28 th Novr. 1817. for roads. Begining at the house and Runing 1. S 66 E. 100 po. 2. N. 81 E 12 po. to a branch 3. S 80 E 22 po. 4. S 51 E. 13 po. 5. S 74 E 42 po. to a fork. thence 6. S 64 E 20 po.
559Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Delaplaine, 30 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 14 th got to hand a few days ago only, and with it the 2 d number of the Repository. I now inclose you 12.D. for the 2. numbers recieved & for the next in advance, and will take care in future to keep always in advance. you ask my opinion again of this number. I find the style and execution entirely good. were I to indulge a criticism it would be that you extend to the living...
560Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 11 March [1818] (Jefferson Papers)
I have just arrived here on my way home, having left my wife in the lower country till the roads get better. My plan is to stay at home about a week, and to call on you either in going or coming. When I get to Gen l Cocke ’s this evening, I shall be informed whether there is any necessity for my calling on my way up; sh d there not be, as I have great occasion to see to my domestic concerns, I...
561Thomas Jefferson to John Martin Baker, 12 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
The President arrived at his residence soon after my return to Monticello , and recieving a visit from mr Madison at the same time, we jointly spoke with the President on your subject. he has every possible disposition to befriend you, and if he should find obstacles to your present wish, he will still retain his disposition to do justice to your merit on some other occasion. as the Secretary...
562Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 2 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Expecting daily an answer from the President authorising me to sign the within for him I had rather not take on myself a 3 d and therefore send it to you. I have adopted your amendments and made some other small ones. to economise writing I make one letter do for the other gentlemen, joining you with them, altho’ it contains no more than I had before written to you . after signing yourself be...
563Robert Walsh to Thomas Jefferson, 12 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your acceptable letter of the 19 th Ulto : and the tract of M r Tracy were received in due season. Owing to the attention which I found myself impelled by curiosity to give to the debates of Congress and the arguments of the Supreme Court , I did not find get leisure to Cast my eye over the work of Tracy , until yesterday.
564Hezekiah Niles to Thomas Jefferson, 2 September 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I thankfully acknowledge your letter of the 22nd . enclosing 5$ in payment for the Register to Sept 1818. I have hopes that this work will survive the fate of most things of the sort. The present prospect is cheering. I find an interest for its welfare that I hardly dared to hope for, & think it will prosper by the arrangement lately adopted. “ From the fullness of the heart the mouth speaketh...
565Enclosure: William Thackara to Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 22 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 27 ult was duly received and the only apology I can offer for the delay of this letter is that I have been useing every exertion in my power for to obtain the Book you wrote for but I am sorry to add without success as there is an express rule of the Carpenter’s Company that the book is not to be seen out of the pale of their Church Si r it was with no small emotion of surprise...
566Alden Partridge to Thomas Jefferson, 20 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
In examining—a few days ago— the Calculations of the heights I last sent you , I found I had a mistake in the elevations of Connecticutt river at Windsor and Orford-Bridges above tide-Water, and which consequently led to some other Errors. Whether this mistake arose from an inaccuracy in the table of logarithms I then used, or from an error committed by myself in making the Calculations which...
567Giovanni Battista Fancelli to Thomas Jefferson, 11 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Ho l’Onore di parteciparli di averle tratto in questo giorno 635 Pezi duri di Spagna, e 48 Centimi a 10/ giorni Vista in favore del Sig re Tommaso Appleton Console di America, che avrà la bontà di accoglere, essendo tal Somma il Bilancio dovuto ⅌ l’Eredità del Sig re Bellini , come essendo da lei autorizato nella lettera al detto Sig re Appleton Si compiaccia di accettare i dovuti...
568Edward Graham to Thomas Jefferson, 24 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
In compliance with the request of your letter of the 8th Ins t I send you a copy of my field notes taken in surveying your N. Bridge tract of land. No doubt, I think, need be entertained that we found the Right corners until we came to the end of the third line. The true corner there I am well convinced is gone. The two “Black oaks” are upwards of 3 poles too far to the left, and here of...
569Thomas Jefferson to José Corrêa da Serra, 10 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I set out tomorrow for Bedford , to return the first week in May. I note this to you because I have been flattered with your visit in May, and D r Cooper promised me he would accept your kind offer of a seat in your carriage. I wish you could be here some days before the 11 th of May , because on that day our Visitors meet and yourself and D r Cooper may, I am sure suggest to me so
570Jared Sparks to Thomas Jefferson, 12 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
In addressing you I am not certain that I do not take an inexcusable liberty, but it is one, which I am prompted to take, by the interest I feel in the subject respecting which I am about to make some inquiries. I observe in your Life of Capt. Lewis , prefixed to Lewis & Clarke ’s Travels, a short notice of our unfortunate countryman, Ledyard . I have always been an ardent admirer of this...
571Benjamin W. Crowninshield to Thomas Jefferson, 12 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
In acknowledging the receipt of your favour , on the subject of the Consulate at Marseilles , I beg leave to explain, that I had no intention of urging the resignation of M r Cathalan , or of pressing you to interfere in its accomplishment;— the object is to keep M r Dodge ’s claims in view, as the Successor, when M r Cathalan shall think proper to retire; and my enquiry of you was intended to...
572Exchange of Henderson Land by Eli Alexander and Thomas Jefferson, 28 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
This Indenture tripartite of exchange, bargain and sale made on the 28 th day of March 1818 between Eli Alexander of the one part and Thomas Jefferson of the other, both of the County of Albemarle Witnesseth, that wherein the said Eli hath become seised and possessed by lawful conveyances in fee simple of certain portions of land in the said County of Albemarle , near or adjacent to the town...
573James Smith (of Baltimore) to Thomas Jefferson, 28 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope your well known philanthropy will find an excuse for a Citizen Who wishes to present you with one of the first Copies of his Plan to render Vaccination more universal and better understood in the United States . I beg you will do me the honor to peruse it, and if approved I will be much gratified to record your Name on the Books of this Institution as one of its first Founders. Any...
574Alexander Garrett and Valentine W. Southall to Thomas Jefferson, 30 September 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 23 has been received. The abscence of each of us from town with other circumstances is the apology for this delay in our Reply: but it affords us now infinite satisfaction to be enabled to acquaint you, in behalf of our brethren, that, on second thought, it has been concluded to dispense with a small part of the ceremony and to undertake the laying of the corner-stone of the...
575Matthew Brown to Thomas Jefferson, 20 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have two objection to a Referance to the Lynchburg prices for Brickwork 1st as I have Some Influanc as to the price & wishh to avoid Suspicion 2 ndly Dislike the mode of doing buisiness on that account I submit to It with Reluctance but am Satisfied the prices Should be no higher than those of Lynchburg I would not be bound that Knight shou’d Do the front work but would Say that the Franklin...
576John Martin Baker to Thomas Jefferson, 1 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I am Honored with your Respected letter of the fourteenth ultimo , and beg leave to return you my most grateful thanks for your friendly and kind intentions in my favor, which Sentiment I hope, trust and confide to continue worthy ever to merit. I labour under the disadvantage Sir, of not being particularly acquainted with the present Secretary of State, The Honorable John Quincy Adams . my...
577Edmund Bacon to Thomas Jefferson, 24 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I now send You a few lines upon an important subjec to me. I have long been advised by my brothers to moove to the missourie Country . I acknowledge that I have all desire to do the best I can for my family but am really sorry to leave the part of the world whare I was raised to go to a part that is unknown to me my brothers too of them has came in and says they Came with intention to go with...
578Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 22 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
The University Bill has passed very in the form of the enclosed, with one small exception. The appointment of the Commissioners is now a subject of infinite importance to us. The Executive, I think, will do us justice. But you will observe that vacancies are to be filled by the President & Directors of the Literary fund . Three out of five of these of the five come from beyond the mountain ....
579Peter S. Du Ponceau to Thomas Jefferson, 5 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
The two letters which you have done me the honor to write to me, dated the 6 th & 7 th ultimo , have been laid by me before the Historical Committee of the Philosophical Society , together with the valuable Manuscripts which accompanied them. They have directed me to return you their warm thanks for these fresh instances of your enlightened & unwearied Zeal in the Cause of Science &...
580Thomas Jefferson to Antonio Dugnani, 14 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
In March 1815. I took the liberty of addressing a letter to you by Doctor Barton , a member of our Philosophical society , distinguished for his science, who visited Europe for his health, and expected to go as far as Rome . I was happy in the opportunity he furnished me of presenting myself to your recollection and of renewing to you the assurances of the sentiments of friendship and respect...
581Benjamin Henry Latrobe to Thomas Jefferson, 28 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for your letter of the , & am much gratified by the approbation you express of my drawings. I hope you will do me the favor to let me know which of the pavilions you approve for your first work of next spring; with a sketch of its dimensions and its plan, that I may send you the working drawings & the details a t large. Some months ago, I sent to Jefferson & Gibson of Richmond a...
582Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Poplar Forest Survey, 9 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
✓ 1817. Dec. 9. Beg g in the S. 50. E. line at 12 ½ po. from the fore & aft. white oak, and 111 ½ po. from the corner near the N. London road. ✓ N. 70. E. at 54. po. the spring is 1. po. on N. side; at 68. po. his corner in the field as suppos d in all 110.88 po. to
583Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 30 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your’s of the 27 th and now return a renewed note for the bank of the US. but I am uneasy about that in the bank of Virginia , as I do not find on my memm book any later reme renewal than for Aug. 8 . would it not be better for me always to renew both together to lessen your trouble of applying to me. I would now do it but I understood from you that it must be on stamped...
584de Bure Frères to Thomas Jefferson, 23 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Nous avons reçu en Son temps la Lettre que vous nous avez fait L’honneur de nous ecrire, datée du 6 de juin . Nous avons été bien flattés d’apprendre que les Livres que M Warden nous avoit demandés L’année derniere etoient pour vous, et plus encore, Monsieur de savoir que vous en aviez été Content. Nous esperons que vous ne le serez pas moins de ceux de cette année, Nous avons mis le Meme soin...