1783-1815

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry A.S. Dearborn re: ordering marble capitals for University of Virginia

GLC07832

2 March 1793

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Printed document signed

Title: [Four acts passed by the United States Congress on 5 November 1792]

Four acts on one sheet, signed by Secretary of State Jefferson. Includes: "An Act making an appropriation to defray the expense of a treaty with the Indians north west of the Ohio," "An Act providing for the payment of the First Installment due on a Loan made of the Bank of the United States," "An Act for the relief of Elijah Bostwick," and "An Act making addition to the Compensation of certain Public Officers."

GLC07704

February 23, 1808

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Document signed

Title: [Appointment of William Swann to Captain in the first regiment infantry].

Countersigned by Secretary of War Henry Dearborn.

GLC06418.02

8 May 1814

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Monroe

Attempting to relieve financial distress of General Tadeusz Kosciuszko, who was living in Paris, Jefferson notes that "all his funds are in our monied institution" and other problems with paying him interest. Asks if Monroe, then secretary of state, can have his department remit Kosciuszko's annual funds.

GLC06407

25 July 1780

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Wood

Discusses the complex arrangements between Virginia and the national government to provision the Continental Army, written several months before the British invasion of Virginia. Asserts that "it has been always necessary for the state & Continent to lend interchangeably such articles as the one has & the other wants & to repay them in kind." Advises Wood, if the thinks it appropriate, to order leather for Colonel Joseph Crockett (who was raising a detachment of frontier troops). Gives permission for any officer in ill health, mentioning a Mr. Mooney, to go to the springs.…

GLC06673

circa 1785-1789

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Written to a French official. Requests that a packet of pictures be sent to his deputy in New York before forwarding them on to Charleston. Date based on Jefferson's being in Paris.

GLC06674

circa 1815

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph note

Title: [Description of a rain-gauge]

A scientific note on the design of a rain gauge. Includes 18 lines on the measurement (volume and weight) of rain, written on the verso of a fragmentary address leaf to John Gads[incomplete]. "The area of the funnel is 10. square inches. The fall of an inch of rain then delivers 10. cubic inches into the funnel." He notes the weight of a cubic inch which was used to mark, successively, each point on the gage and concludes that this system "renders unnecessary all attention to the ratio of the area of the funnel and measuring tube, or to the inequalities of the caliber of the measuring tube…

GLC06572

6 November 1813

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Thomas Law

Response to a letter and memorial from Maryland and District of Columbia attorney Law, a supporter of monetary reform. Supports Law's proposal for the issuance of treasury notes bearing interest. These "would soon be withdrawn from the circulation and locked up in vaults and private hoards. I would put it in the power of every man to lend his 100 or 1000D." Opposes a national bank because "Congress has not that power, (altho' I sincerely wish they had it exclusively)." With incomplete address leaf on verso.

GLC06478

1812

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Book

Title: A Manual of Parliamentary Practice [with rules of Senate and House]

For use in U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, signed by John Floyd of Virginia. Second edition. One of Jefferson's scarcer works, published shortly after he took office as president. The Virginia polymath sets forth rules of order and procedure - probably more dictating to the legislature than would be tolerated these days. Jefferson's rules are still in use today. (188 pp.) Shaw & Shoemaker 25741, 27126. Sabin 35887. Bound with: the U.S. Constitution (43 pp.), Rules for Conducting Business in the Senate (13 pp.), Rules... in the House (25 pp.).

GLC06990

6 December 1790

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Document signed

Title: [Act of Congress granting lands to heads of families in Vincennes and the Illinois Country]

Approved by George Washington and signed by Jefferson on 3 March 1791. Docketed 25 March 1791 by Timothy Matlack, Clerk of the Senate.

GLC05567

1800

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Pamphlet

Title: An Appendix to the Notes on Virginia Relative to the Murder of Logan's Family

Printed by Samuel H. Smith. Jefferson's separately printed appendix to his Notes on Virginia, containing the evidence upon which he charged Capt. Cresap with the murder of Logan's family and other peaceful Indians. The appendix was printed to respond to the charge that Jefferson had invented the narrative that appeared in the "Notes" to cover for a speech made by Logan. The account stands as a famous appeal for fairness to the Indians. The map is a rather sparse representation of Pittsburgh and the region west to the Ohio River. Howes J74 ("aa"). Sabin 35880. Evans 37700. Field 774 (note).

GLC05706

23 November 1780

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robert Lawson

Written by Jefferson as Governor of Virginia to Brigadier General Lawson of the Virginia Militia concerning a possible raid. Expects the raid to be south and says General Nathanael Greene would like troops sent in that direction. Reports that Baron Friedrich von Steuben is in Richmond and hopes to receive support from Lawson. Says von Steuben would like to meet and confer about supplies if it is possible. Wants Lawson to call at his house and von Steuben will be sent for. Was addressed to Lawson in Petersburg, Virginia.

GLC05272

13 June 1795

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: [Extract of a letter from J. Blair to Thomas Jefferson]

Original letter from Williamsburg, Virginia, and dated 13 June 1795. Jefferson records the details of a complicated stock trade in Philadelphia.

GLC05273

February 28, 1803

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Broadside

Title: [Two acts of Congress which offer protection of seamen and a partial ban on imported slaves]

The first act is titled: "An Act supplementary to the "Act concerning Consuls and Vice-Consuls, and for the further protection of American Seamen." The second act is titled: "An Act to prevent the importation of certain Persons into certain States, where, by the laws thereof, their admission is prohibited." Names printed on the bottom of these acts are Nathaniel Macon as Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aaron Burr, Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate, and Thomas Jefferson as President of the United States.

GLC05198

1802

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Pamphlet

Title: Speech of...on his inauguration...[with his response to New Haven remonstrance]

Title: "Speech of...on his inauguration as President of the United States. Together with his reply to the celebrated New-Haven Remonstrance, and his message to both houses of Congress, of December 8, 1801, &c" Printed by John Barber. (Purchased for TJ's response to the New Haven remonstrance concerning his dismissal of office holders.) With crude wood-cut of Jefferson based on Edward Savage facing the titlepage. Not mentioned in Cunningham's study of Jefferson portraits. Not listed in Shaw & Shoemaker. Not in Sabin. Cunningham, The Image of Jefferson in the Public Eye, pp.11­21.

GLC05481

9 April 1781

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Endorsement signed

Title: [Endorsement refusing to honor a bill of exchange for supplies to militia at Fort Clark]

Refuses payment on account the bill's author not having the authority to draw bills of exchange. The bill, written and signed by John Montgomery and George Clark on 7 August 1780, requests $235.60 for "Sundries furnished the Troops Belonging to the State of Virginia. A detailed bill, signed by Montgomery, appears on the verso. Jefferson signed as the Governor of Virginia. Collateral stamp indicating this was in the "Collection of Roy G. Fitzgerald" included. 1 black and white bust engraving of George Rogers Clark included.

GLC05602

19 July 1790

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Letter signed

Title: to unknown

Sends copies of "the act for establishing the...permanent seat of the government of the United States" in Washington, D.C. and an act providing for the payment of invalid pensioners (the actual copies are not included). The text of this letter is exactly the same as GLC04886, which is addressed to the President of New Hampshire Josiah Bartlett.

GLC07668

January 15, 1792

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Pierre C. L'Enfant

Requests a meeting to go over some papers Jefferson received from President Washington, so that the relationship between the commissioners superintending the building of Washington, D.C. and L'Enfant could be "entirely understood." L'Enfant designed the city of Washington. At the time of this meeting he was experiencing a falling out with the commissioners, and was dismissed from the project following month.

GLC07669

2 May 1817

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Tristam Dalton

Thanks him for the copy of Agriculture Magazine he sent. Regarding cattle feed, he states that instead of the widely used crops of carrots, potatoes, and beets, he recommends Jerusalem artichoke and succory (chicory). He describes the merits of these two crops. Shares his method for plowing hillsides horizontally, which he states his son-in-law (Thomas Mann Randolph) has been doing for years with great success because it prevents rainfall from carrying the soil away. Discusses a modified plow which works well on uneven land. Ends by saying that horizontal, deep plowing, "beginning to be…

GLC07670.01

1806

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Pamphlet

Title: Message from the President... respecting new principles [neutrality]

Disbound. Printed by Duane & Son. Report on neutral rights, reprinting the decree of Gen. Louis Ferraud.

GLC08858

August 12, 1790

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Document signed

Title: An Act making Provision for the Reduction of the Public Debt.

Official act of Congress, signed by Jefferson as Secretary of State. Enacts provisions made by the second session of Congress on 4 January 1790 for deceasing the national debt of the United States. Printed names of Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Adams, Vice-President of the United States and President of the Senate, and George Washington as President of the United States.

GLC00003

May 5, 1805

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Thomas M. Randolph

A business letter concerning the management of Monticello while Jefferson served as president. Jefferson writes that he cannot increase an employee's wages from 60 pounds to 100, and asks Randolph to find a replacement. Thomas Randolph and Jefferson's daughter Martha married in 1790.

GLC00032

September 22, 1819

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Nathaniel F. Moore.

Jefferson responds to Moore's pamphlet on ascertaining the pronunciation of ancient Greek and describes his own efforts in trying to answer the same question. He describes his efforts while in Paris, and even earlier, to find the most accurate pronunciation from modern Greek, but decided to follow the system of the early humanist Erasmus. Jefferson concludes "I am glad... to see the question stirred here; because it may excite among our young countrymen a spirit of enquiry and criticism, and lead them to more attention to this most beautiful of all languages." Moore taught classical languages…

GLC00020

November 03, 1806

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Document signed

Title: [Passport for the brigantine "Alert" of Newburyport, commanded by Samuel Herrick]

Countersigned by Secretary of State Madison and Collector for the port of Newburyport Ralph Cross. The ship weighed 148 tons, had no mounted guns, and was navigated by an eight man crew. Printed on vellum and numbered 19. Signed as President.

GLC00058

August 22, 1809

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Charles Willson Peale [painter] re: thanks for educating grandson

Thomas Jefferson Randolph was Jefferson's favorite grandson and eventual executor of his estate. Jefferson writes to thank the artist Peale for educating his grandson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph in the natural sciences. Randolph attended lectures at the University of Pennsylvania and studied natural history at Peale's museum. Malone comments that TJR's course of study came nearer to a pre-medical curriculum than anything else. Malone, Jefferson the President: Second Term, pp. 612-613. Written in Monticello

GLC00074