1804/11/28

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph note signed

Title: to [Charles Wilson] re: postscript on polygraph modifications [fragment]

A postscript signed with initials

GLC06468

1792/05/31

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Mease re: thanks for Mease's dissertation on canine madness

ALS in the third person, written horizontally and signed in text at the beginning. Thanking Mease for his "very learned and ingenious dissertation on canine madness" and discussing insanity. Jefferson mentions a cure by mercury of an American captive in Algiers, a cure mentioned in Mease's book. He suggests an experiment with animals, infecting them with madness and then attempting the cures. Docketed, with loss at the upper right corner of the address leaf.

GLC06510

1814/06/29

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Mease re: origins of the Taliaferro apple, its quality, cyder

Responding to a letter about Hughes's crab apple. (Spelling Mease's name "Maese.") He tells the origins of the Taliaferro apple by Major Taliaferro about 60 years before, near Williamsburg, and which he called the Robertson apple. When Taliferro "made a cask of cyder [it was]... the finest they had ever seen." Jefferson compares the Hughes crab apple to the Taliaferro and finds the latter "has more body, is less acid, and comes nearer to the silky Champaigne than any other." Written in Monticello

GLC06511

1814/11/28

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Pamphlet

Title: Report of the Joint Committee... for the Library of Mr. Jefferson

Report of members of Congress concerning the library of Thomas Jefferson, which the retired president had offered to the country to replace that destroyed by the British when they burned the capitol in 1814. Jefferson's library became the core of the Library of Congress. Printed by Weightman.

GLC06792

1807/04/21

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Dearborn re: recommending W.Duncanson for Librarian of Congress

Jefferson, writing to his Secretary of War, discusses nominations for various posts, particularly W. Duncanson for Librarian of Congress, because of his distressed condition. "He was in the worst days of terror, one of the 4 or 5 who alone stood their ground as republicans in Washington and Georgetown. [....] He is warm in temper, and on account of some communications with Col. Smith in Miranda's affair and perhaps some acquaintance with Burr, might, I fear be rather unpopular with the members [of Congress]; but my confidence is that he vowed to be, & has been, an honest man in all his…

GLC06826

1799/05/29

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: George Wythe.

Letter of thanks.

GLC07949

Various

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Header Record

Title: to Various

1. 3 pgs + docket. 25x19 cm. 27 January 1804. re: negotiating with Barbary pirates. Jefferson promises that he holds the friendship of the Prince Bey of Tunis in high regard and does not intend to be misunderstood, but regrets to be forced to decline his request for a frigate of 30 guns to be used in the defence against pirates. 2. 3 pgs + docket. 23x19 cm. From United States Ship Constitution Off Tripoli. Marked on docket "Copy of my letter to Monsieur Beaussier." 12 June 1804. From Commodore Edward Preble to Monsieur Beaussier. Commodore Preble enlists Beaussier's help in…

GLC07903

1801/11/01

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Edward Livingston, Esq.

Discussing his opinions on the Sedition act. In part: "...My text of explanation would be this. The President is to heave the laws executed. He may order an offense then to be prosecuted. If he sees a prosecution put into a train which is not lawful, he may order it to be discontinued and put into the legal train. I found a prosecution going on against Duane for an offense against the Senate, founded on the Sedition act. I affirm that act to be no law, because in opposition to the Constitution; and I shall treat it as a nullity whenever it comes in the way of my functions.."

GLC07869

1817/10/24 ca.

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph document

Title: A Bill for Establishing a System of Public Education

GLC07841

1801/10/31

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John F. Mercer re: postponing visit with Madison to Mercer's estate

GLC07854

1784/03/01

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: The Virginia Cession of Territory Northwest of the Ohio

GLC07839.01

1783/03/15

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Ebenezer Hazard re: transmitting Virginia Cession

GLC07839.02

1804/08/08

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Benjamin Rush re: Rush's son, "Philosophy of Jesus"

Written in Monticello

GLC07840

1794/12/26

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: The hiring of four slaves

"Having occasion to hire for the ensuing year four very able intelligent negro-men, I hereby authorize Mr. Peter Derieux to act for me therein, and oblige myself to pay whatever hire he may stipulate for me..."

GLC07936