91Thomas Jefferson’s Account with and Receipt from William J. Miller, 22 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
William Miller In A/c with T. Jefferson 1817 Jan y 1 st To Joel Yancey £1 – 0 – 3 〃 May. 10 th
92Thomas Jefferson’s Statement of Taxable Property in Albemarle County, 1 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
A list of the taxable property of the subscriber in Albemarle Feb. 1. 1818. 4896 ⅓ acres of land. 2. white tythes to wit E. Bacon and myself. 48. slaves of 16. and upwards. 7.
93Thomas Jefferson to Harrison Hall, 3 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Hall , acknoleges the reciept of his letter of Mar. 24. & assures him he has never had an idea of publishing a new edition of the Notes on Virginia . he has occasionally made some little memorandums and perhaps may continue to do so, which he may leave to be added should it be thought worthy of a posthumous edition . He prays mr Hall to remind him...
94Thomas Jefferson to Francis Adrian Van der Kemp, 25 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of M r Vanderkemp to make his thanks acceptable, if occasion should offer to the worthy lady, miss Halshoff who has been so kind as through him to send him her interesting Republican Manuel. it is replete with the soundest principles of human independance, and I commiserate her sufferings in so holy a cause. gloomy however as is the present appearance of it’s...
95Jedidiah Morse to Thomas Jefferson, 24 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
In behalf of the Compiler of the enclosed Work, I transmit to you a copy of it for your acceptance, with a request, that you would do him & me the favor, to give your opinion of its merits as a school book. He is a young man of taste, without property, has completed a course of Law studies, & is now a student in Theology. Your patronage of the work, if, on examining the work it, you shall see...
96Joseph Milligan to Thomas Jefferson, 6 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
This day I have Sent to the care of M r W. F Gray of Fredericksburg a Box of Books contents as ⅌ Enclosed Memorandum your account is also Enclosed I am preparing to republish the little treatise on Garddening published Some years ago by S. H: Smith . I would wish to make it as Extensively useful as I can possibly do it to sell at a dollar; least you should not have a copy of the book I...
97John M. Perry to Thomas Jefferson, 5 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
My Son Thomas will not set off to Lynchburg untill Tuesday morning. it will therefore be Wednessday evening before he gets there—he will certainly be then there then which I hope will be in time RC ( CSmH: JF ); addressed: “ Thomas Jefferson Esquire Monticello ”; endorsed by TJ as received 5 Oct. 1817 and so recorded in
98Thomas Jefferson to John Brockenbrough, 27 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return after a long absence, I found here your favor of Dec. 10 . I never owned but one piece of ground in Richmond which was conveyed to me by Charles Carter as trustee for Col o Byrd , and sold and conveyed again by me to David Higginbotham , to whom I delivered all the papers I had concerning it. a copy of the deed which I retained enables me to quote it’s description, to wit,...
99Fernagus De Gelone to Thomas Jefferson, 28 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty to Send you for you and your friends Some copies of my plan of business hereafter with America . I hope You will find it good, plain and honest. I enclose herein a list of books I have for Sale here. I Shall feel very happy to hear that the choice and prices please you. When You have read this list over, I Shall be much obliged to you to have it Sent to M r Lewis D. Belair ,...
100Peter S. Du Ponceau to Thomas Jefferson, 11 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
In the last letter which I had the honor of writing to you, I omitted to return you thanks in the name of the Historical Committee for the very interesting MSS. which you had the goodness to forward to them on the Subject of opening the Isthmus of Darien . They are fully Sensible of its value & importance, & beg leave to tender you their thanks, with the assurance that your injunction on the...
101John Martin Baker to Thomas Jefferson, 18 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I pray your Goodness to forgive, my being importune; M r Lee , having particularly recommended me, to apply to The President , by letter, for the Consulate of Tunis , which he informed me was vacant; I had the Honor to address The President , on the thirtieth ultimo: Copy of which letter, I take the liberty Sir, to enclose: with the Copy of a letter, written me by Commodore John Shaw , (now in...
102Thomas Jefferson to William F. Gray, 18 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your kind intervention in the passage of books between mr Millegan and myself is too great a convenience to me not to entitle you to my best thanks which I give you with a just sense of the favor. I lately recieved thro’ you a box in good order, and this day send another for him addressed to your care. his bindings are so much superior to any thing which can be done in America , even by the...
103Thomas Jefferson to Richard Bache, 17 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just recieved your favor of the 3 d and not doubting the value of a paper which shall be edited by you, I should willingly subscribe to that you propose to edit. but there is a time for every thing, & that for withdrawing from all new engagements is come for me. I have long since excused myself from new papers, & got rid of all the old except one of my own state & one out of it ; & of...
104Enclosure: Hugh Steel’s Reflections on the Western Country, 12 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Reflections on the Western Country . No. 1. To a superficial observer, or one too indolent for reflection, it might seem that the Western Country was coevial with the eastern, or in other words, that on rising out of the confused mass of chaos, which we will, here, suppose to be the original state of the universe, that the coaptation of particles were simultanious. As no ill can result from...
105Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
Following the chartering of Central College early in 1816, the purchase the next summer of land just west of Charlottesville , and an ongoing subscription campaign to raise funds for the educational institution, construction began in the summer of 1817. Rather than building one large edifice, Jefferson designed an “academical village” with two rows of pavilions and student dormitories flanking...
106George P. Stevenson to Thomas Jefferson, 16 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have made arrangements to visit Havana and remain several years, with very considerable commercial views,—and am desirous of being appointed Commercial-agent (that being the only grade of representative allowed in the Spanish colonies)— ,Twill be of great service to me, and I flatter myself that my consistency of political principles and conduct, added to my readiness whenever occasion has...
107Peter S. Du Ponceau to Thomas Jefferson, 5 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I do myself at present the honor merely to acknowledge the receipt of your Letter of the 30 th ult o . The Committee are highly Sensible of the value of your Correspondence & of the important aid you have been pleased to give them Since their institution. They have expressed their S Grateful Sense of it in a report to the Society , which will be presented at their meeting on Friday next,...
108Bernard Peyton to Thomas Jefferson, 16 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I shipped on saturday last by M r Johnston ’s Boat one Box only of your Wine in consequence of his not being with it himself, at the next trip if he comes the whole shall go— it is directed to the care of M r Tho s J. Randolph of Milton — N.B. Your Box of Books from Philadelphia have never yet been received— RC ( MHi
109Central College Board of Visitors to James P. Preston, 6 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
The late Governor of the Commonwealth having thought proper to confide to us the office of Visitors of the Central College near Charlottesville , under an act of the legislature , establishing as it’s patron, the Governor for the time being, we deem it our duty to report to you our proceedings under that appointment, with the progress & prospects of that institution. The want of a seminary of...
110Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 20 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 16 th and am thankful for your attention to my wants. I saw William Johnson the evening before his boat started last. he told me that he should not go down himself, but that his brother would, and he would be answerable for every thing trusted to him as if to himself. I was on horseback and at the river side, so could not give him a written order, but...
111Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 17 September 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
my letter to you respecting Williamsburgh was put in the post before I rec d yours . The Professorship which you do me the honour to propose is yet in the distance. I long to be settled somewhere, almost any where, provided I move to pecuniary advantage; for having the common motive of a family to provide for, I must act on that motive. I have written to Varro at Frankfort . When I am prepared...
112Sloan & Wise to Thomas Jefferson, 18 September 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Contrary to our wishes, but in justification, of our private reputations , we feel it an imperious duty to write you on a subject, that we are almost certain, must be unpleasant, to you. We have been made the instruments, (from present appearances, An imposition) of giving publicity to a “ letter from Virginia ” in which it is said that the “chief of the elevated groupe” at Monticello...
113John L. E. W. Shecut to Thomas Jefferson, 11 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I cannot deny myself the pleasure of renewing to you the assurances of the high sense I entertain of your exalted character, your unbounded esteem for the Arts and Sciences and your Fostering regard for the Infant Literature of our happy Country. It has impell’d me to seek you in retirement, to lay before you an Essay on the late awful disease with which our City has been visited. Feeble as...
114Enclosure: Richard Bache’s Prospectus for the Franklin Gazette, [ca. 3 January 1818] (Jefferson Papers)
PROPOSALS FOR PUBLISHING A DAILY MORNING NEWSPAPER, IN THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, TO BE CALLED THE FRANKLIN GAZETTE , BY RICHARD BACHE . PROSPECTUS . THE Lively interest taken by the American people, both in general and local politics; the extensive diffusion of information, which renders them a reading community; and the rapid augmentation of the population of the country, encourage a belief,...
115Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 1 February 1818 (second letter) (Jefferson Papers)
Since I last wrote you the enclosed substitutes to for M r Scott ’s, or the Committee’s bill, have been offered in the House of Delegates . M r Taylor of Chesterfield , a member of good talents and standing in that House
116Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Silliman, 11 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
The unlucky displacement of your letter of Mar. 3 . has been the cause of delay in my answer. altho’ I have very generally withdrawn from subscribing to or reading periodical publications from the love of rest which age produces, yet I willingly subscribe to your the journal you propose from a confidence that the talent with which it will be edited will entitle it to the attention among the...
117Valentine W. Southall to Thomas Jefferson, 22 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
A necessary duty calls me to Washington the first of December , from which I’ve some thought to extend the trip as far as Baltimore , Philadelphia & New York . Tis, therefore, I have, tho’ with Some fear that I am trespassing on your goodness, presumed to ask of you a few letters of introduction to the three latter places. I must beg, however, if it should be in the least repugnant to your...
118John Barnes to Thomas Jefferson, 10 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
On receipt of your fav r 5 th with inclosiers to the Sect y of the Treasury and Att y Gen l —I yesterday presented to the former at his Office— not knowing where to meet with M r Wert I inquired of
119Enclosure: Circular from Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 30 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
IN resigning my office as Surveyor of the Capitol , I publickly assigned those reasons whi c h were personal. It was my intention to lay those that regarded the public interests, before the proper authorities: but a severe illness, which confined me immediately after my removal from the city , and especially the consideration of the thanklessness, and general uselessness of every attempt of an...
120Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Appleton, 4 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of Dec. 20. was recieved on the 13 th Ult. & covered the acceptable letter of Madame Pini , which gave me infinit e satisfaction, as it rendered legitimate a delay which is of much con v enience to me, and shall not injure her. be so good as to present to her & to M. Pini my acknolegements for this indulgence, & the assurance that their trust shall not be abused, that the interest shall...