1From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Eston Randolph, 24 September 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Under the idea that you thought of engaging a partner in the lease of the Mill I had suspended the proposing to sign the agreement between us. but understanding that the prospect of such an engagement is more uncertain, I now inclose you the paper which was prepared for the last lease, but omitted to be signed from mutual neglect or confidence; it is a copy of the articles with Shoemaker;...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Eston Randolph, 24 September 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 18 th recieved on the 21 st shews that our recollections differ very considerably; but it proves also that we do not agree on the conditions of leasing the mill I offer it on the terms expressed in the lease, according to my understanding of them, and according to the understanding and practice on them by all the tenants heretofore. you will not consent to them but on a...
3From Thomas Jefferson to B. B. Breedin, 25 September 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Aug. 19. was recieved on the 20 th instant. I am sorry it is not in my power to inform you at what point of time our university may be opened. all our buildings are compleated except one, and when that will be done depends on the disposition of our state legislature to furnish the means. the general belief is that the last elections to that body have been favorable to the...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Justin Pierre Plumard Derieux, 25 September 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 10 th was not recieved till the instant, and I regret that it is not in my power to send you the Egyptian wheat which is the subject of your letter. I recieved it while I lived in Washington, and having no means of taking care of such things there, I generally sent them to some one of my careful neighbors. I do not recollect to whom of them I sent this particular article, but...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Mills, 25 September 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Aug. 8. has been duly recieved, and I thank you for the pamphlet inclosed on the subject of canals. the plan it proposes is great, and I sincerely wish it may be prosecuted with success. I hope these states will prove to the world how much more it will contribute to it’s happiness to lay out the contributions of the people in opening canals for communication and irrigation,...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Chiles Terrell, 25 September 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved on the 20 th your letter of the 13 th on the question what is an East and West line? which you say has been a subject of discussion in the newspapers. I presume however it must have been a mere question of definition, and that the parties have differed only in applying the same appellation to different things. the one defines an East and West line to be on a great circle of the...
7From Thomas Jefferson to William John Coffee, 26 September 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 8 th was recieved on the 20 th and that to mr Brockenbrough was delivered and will doubtless be answered by himself. I understood from him that those who built the houses would claim the putting on the ornaments on their own work. my occupations here rendering it impossible for me to go to Bedford till December, you need run no yellow fever risks to hasten the shipment of...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Eston Randolph, 26 September 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 24 th was recieved yesterday. the clause of arbitration in the lease was a sufficient provision between Shoemaker and my self because we understood every part of it in the same way. so it was with mr Randolph & M c Kinney. but you and myself differ so materially and in so many points that to enter into a contract with opposite meanings & to propose to go thro’ it by arbitrations...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 27 September 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 14 th is now recieved. the letter I wrote to the President, altho’ it proposed to get your son entered as a midshipman, was in it’s general terms such as to prepare the mind of the President for that or any equivalent favor, and to assure him of the gratification it would be to me: and I think it would be best for yourself or your son, in a letter to him referring to mine to...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 27 September 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Raphael could furnish the 1000. D by piecemeal only. he furnished to-day 300. D. requiring however a draught for it to go by tomorrow’s mail, which I gave him and will consequently be upon you 2. or 3. days earlier than I had expected. he will furnish another sum 3. days hence and the balance in the course of a week. my further draughts will be made accordingly. affect ly yours MHi .
11From Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 30 September 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday the inclosed letter from the President removing further suspense as to the application for your son, and inclose it to you with sincere pleasure and the assurance of my great esteem and respect. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
12From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 1 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
$1000. Sixty days after date, I promise to pay t o Bernard Peyton or order, without offset, negotiable and payable at the Farmers Bank of Virginia , one thousand Dollars, — Cents. Value received. MHi .
13From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 7 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of the 3 d in expectation that the note would be discounted I had already drawn on you for 300 + 200 + 100 + 50D. say 650.D. I shall stop at that and settle Bacon’s balance otherwise. our river rose 1. foot with the late rains and we got off Wood’s boats with flour; but I learnt yesterday that the water failed before they got out of the river, and that they are...
14Meeting Minutes of University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 7 Oct. 1822, 7 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
At a meeting of the Visitors of the University of Virginia at the said University on Monday the 7 th of Oct 1822. Present Thomas Jefferson Rector, James Breckenridge, Joseph C. Cabell, John H. Cocke and James Madison. Resolved that the Proctor be instructed to enter into conferences with such skilful and responsible undertakers as he would approve, for the building of the Library, on the plan...
15From Thomas Jefferson to James Cutbush, 9 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has recieved from D r Cutbush the communication of the prospectus of his system of Pyrotechny. writing is become so slow and painful to him, that he can only make his acknolegements for this mark of attention, express his wishes for it’s success, and assure D r Cutbush of his great esteem and respect. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
16From Thomas Jefferson to James Dana, 9 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to D r Dana for his two pamphlets on the disease of cattle in a particular district and on the new invention of a waterburner. age having long withdrawn him from the pursuits of agriculture, he cannot better dispose of the former than by presenting it to a very able agricultural society of this section of country, whereof mr Madison is President. with his...
17Thomas Jefferson, Order in Case of TJ vs. John Hudson & Charles Hudson, 9 Oct. 1822, 9 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Thomas Jefferson Plt } upon a writ of Right against John Hudson & Charles Hudson Deft ns & Christopher Hudson Plt } upon a writ of Right against John Hudson & Charles Hudson Deft ns By Consent of the parties by their attornies, leave is given either party to examine and take the affidavits of Benjamin Lacy and Ann Copeland which affidavits so taken is to be read in chief on the trial of these...
18From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 9 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
In mine of the 7 th I mentioned that the sheriffs of Albemarle and Bedford would soon be on us for our taxes. the former at court on the same day presented my bill for 130.90 for which I shall be obliged to draw on you. I am in hopes he may not go down till late in the month. John Wood told me but one of his boats got down and I do not know whether that was for Jefferson or myself. not a drop...
19From Thomas Jefferson to Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, 9 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Sep. 24. is recieved, and I thank you for the seeds it covered. too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity. the pamphlets therein mentioned will probably come by subsequent mails, tho’ those mentioned in your letter of Feb. 2. did not come. the preference given to letters sometimes occasion the Postmasters to omit printed papers. you mention...
20From Thomas Jefferson to Johann Friedrich Daniel Lobstein, 10 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has recieved from Doct r Lobstein his letter of Sep. 6. on the subject of his topography of Philadelphia, and of some other works in German. of these last however he cannot avail himself, not understanding the German language. writing is become so slow and painful to him, that he can only make his acknolegement for this mark of attention, express his wishes for their success and...
21From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 11 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I transcribe for your information a resolution of the Visitors of the University entered into at their late meeting, to which they recommend your early attention. also a copy of an advertisement to be published in the Enquirer and Central gazette. accept the assurance of my friendship and respect. ViU .
22From Thomas Jefferson to William Gough, 12 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
My business here has rendered it impossible for me to visit Poplar Forest as yet; in the mean time my taxes are becoming due in Bedford, and not knowing their amount, to prevent difficulty I inclose an order on Col o Bernard Peyton of Richmond in favor of the Sheriff of Bedford, naming one hundred Dollars but leaving a blank after the hundred for you to fill up with the additional odd dollars...
23From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Waterhouse, 15 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I am much indebted to the rainy morning at Newport for your acceptable letter of Sep. 14. it gives me information of the state of religion in Boston and Cambridge of which I had not a just idea. I could not have concieved that a Congregationalist, after the pollution of his pulpit by the prayers of an Unitarian, would have again officiated in it, without lustrations, purifications & exorcisms...
24From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 19 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I have waited for a frost to announce to me your return to winter quarters; and altho’ we have as yet had none here, I presume they must have reached you, in their advance towards us, by this time, and that I may now acknolege your letter written on your departure for Canada. altho’ that trip disappointed us of the expected visit to your native state, yet I hold on to the promise, as a thing...
25From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 20 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my last which was of the 9 th yours of the 7 th and 10 th have been recieved. the things sent by Wood’s boats are arrived at Milton. on learning the fate of my note I settled otherwise the balance due to Bacon and for which I had not yet drawn on you. but I was obliged to draw on you, as mentioned in mine of the 9 th in favor of the sheriffs of Albemarle & Bedford for my taxes. in the...
26From Thomas Jefferson to James Rawlings, 20 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved in due time your favor of Aug. 20. informing me I was indebted to the insurance company 84.40 D I am only waiting for the return of rains to render our river boatable, to get down flour now waiting in my mill for tides, so as to place some funds in Richmond, on which you may rely for a draught as soon as they can be got there. accept the assurance of my great respect MHi .
27From Thomas Jefferson to Cornelius C. Blatchly, 21 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I return thanks for the pamphlet you have been so kind as to send me on the subject of Commonwealths. it’s moral principles merit entire approbation, it’s philanthropy especially, and it’s views of the equal rights of man. that, on the principle of a communion of property, small societies may exist in habits of virtue, order industry and peace, and consequently in a state of as much happiness...
28From Thomas Jefferson to John Quincy Adams, 23 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to mr Adams for the copy of the Ghent Documents which he has been so kind as to send him. so far as concerns mr Adams personally, the respect and esteem of the public for him was too firmly and justly fixed, to need this appeal to them. but the volume is a valuable gift to his fellow citizens generally, and especially to the future historian whom it will enable...
29From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Willson Peale, 23 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I could never be a day without thinking of you, were it only for my daily labors at the Polygraph for which I am indebted to you. it is indeed an excellent one, and after 12. or 14. years of hard service it has failed in nothing except the spiral springs of silver wire which suspend the pen-frame. these are all but disabled, and my fingers are too clumsy to venture to rectify them, were they...
30From Thomas Jefferson to Stackelberg, 23 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved a letter from a mr Runnels of Saint Bartholomew’s asking from me some attention to the wish of his son, now in New York, to be appointed Consul or Agent of the US. to the islands of S t Vincent’s, S t Lucia, Trinidad or S t Kitt’s. the style of the letter itself sufficiently indicates the high respectability of the writer, but, being personally unknown to me, he requests me to...