Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 5 Dec. 1811 [Quote]
tell Johnny Hemings to finish off immediately the frame for the round table for this place that it may come by the waggon.
John Wayles Eppes to Unknown, [ca. 1812–1816]
I have the honour to transmit to you the enclosed letters—I have no personal acquaintance with the young gentleman in whose favour they are written. The gentlemen who have interested themselves for him are all men of reputation and worth. Mr Stephenson is Speaker of the Legislature of Virginia—Mr...
Martha Jefferson Randolph to James Leitch, [ca. 1812–1826]
Mr Leitch will be so good as to send 4 yds more of diaper only 8 was sent in stead of 12
Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Sully, 8 Jan. 1812 [Quote]
time, which withers the fancy, as the other faculties of the mind and body, presses on me with a heavy hand
Maria Sabina Ross to Elizabeth Trist, 20 Jan. 1812
How often have I exclaimed, Why my friend this long silence, to suppose You had forsaken me was too injurious to Yourself and painful to me, Sometimes I would say, I judge her by myself for my dearest friend has become indifferent to me, but Your kind, and affectionate favor has awaked every...
Extract from Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 21 Jan. 1812 [Quote]
I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus & Thucydides, for Newton & Euclid; & I find myself much the happier.
Extract from Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 21 Jan. 1812 [Quote]
here we do little in the fine way, but in coarse & midling goods a great deal. every family in the country is a manufactory within itself, and is very generally able to make within itself all the stouter and midling stuffs for it’s own cloathing & houshold use. we consider a sheep for...
Elizabeth Trist to Catharine Wistar Bache, 1 Feb. 1812
Your last favor My Dear friend was dated 13th October a long period to elapse without hearing from one who I never cease to think of with affection and respect, and in whoes happiness I feel the greatest interest If it was in my power not one trouble shou’d assail you, the current shou’d flow on...
Mary Trist Jones (Tournillon) to Catharine Wistar Bache, 25 June 1812
In my last letter I promised to give you an account of my affairs on the return of my Mother, but Alas, my health, which was then flattering, has prevented me, I have had a severe attack of my breast, which obliged me to submit to the opinion of my physician who had earnestly recommended bleeding...
Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Galloway, 2 Feb. 1812 [Quote]
I hope & firmly believe that the whole world will, sooner or later, feel benefit from the issue of our assertion of the rights of man.
Extract from Thomas Jefferson’s Batture Pamphlet, 25 Feb. 1812 [Quote]
The wise know their weakness too well to assume infallibility: and he who knows most, knows best how little he knows.
Extract from Thomas Jefferson to William Wirt, 12 Apr. 1812 [Quote]
mr Henry’s ravenous avarice, the only passion paramount to his love of popularity. the facts I have heard on that subject are not within my own knolege, & ought not to be hazarded but on better testimony than I possess.
Extract from Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Patrick Henry, [before 12 Apr. 1812] [Quote]
he said the strongest things in the finest language, but without logic.
Extract from Thomas Jefferson to James Maury, 25 Apr. 1812 [Quote]
I have withdrawn myself from all political intermedlings, to indulge the evening of my life with what have been the passions of every portion of it, books, science, my farms, my family and friends. to these every hour of the day is now devoted.
Elizabeth Trist to Catharine Wistar Bache, 3 May 1812
I take the earliest opportunity to acknowledge the receipt of your Welcome favor which was to have been forwarded by Harmer he has beheaved most shockingly to be sure, and when I see him I shall give him a good scolding I wrote to Mrs Thompson for some little things that I wanted or shou’d want...
Caroline House to Elizabeth Trist, 12 May 1812
Except my thanks dearest Aunt for your obliging favour, believe me to hear from you is one of the greatest pleasures I enjoy. I often peruse your letters with sentiments of affection mingled with respectful sympathy for your sorrows and admiration at your fortitude they likewise leave a sadness...
Nicholas P. Trist and Mary Trist Jones (Tournillon) to Elizabeth Trist, 14 May 1812
We have been very uneasy on account of not having received a letter from you for some time but I hope it does not proceed from indisposition. I am reading the 12 Ceasers to my Mother and Hume in my leisure hours. Grandmother Brown has been to town to try and sell the furniture but she has...
Thomas Mann Randolph to Peachy R. Gilmer, 30 May 1812
Your second favor of May 2d has just reached me. I received the first sometime in March and when I went next to Richmond communicated the contents to Mrs David Meade Randolph who as might be expected was greatly pleased and promised to have copies of the title papers ready against I came down...
Extract from Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 11 June 1812 [Quote]
before the revolution they were in the habit of coming often, & in great numbers to the seat of our government, where I was very much with them. I knew much the great Outassetè, the warrior and orator of the Cherokees. he was always the guest of my father, on his journies to & from...
Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 28 June 1812 [Quote]
my houshold manufactures are just getting into operation on the scale of a Carding machine ... which may be worked by a girle of 12. years old, a Spinning machine ... carrying 6. spindles for wool, to be worked by a girl also, another ... carrying 12. spindles for cotton, & a loom, with a...
Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 12 July 1812 [Quote]
I shall live in the hope that the day will come when an opportunity will be given you of finishing the Middle building in a style worthy of the two
wings, and worthy of the first temple dedicated to the sovereignty of the people; embellishing with Athenian taste the course...
Caroline House to Elizabeth Trist, 2 Sept. 1812
The day I sent my last letter to the office my dearest Aunt Uncle Isaac arrived accompanied by Mrs Course Cousin Charles and Elizabeth their second Daughter, they remained with us three weeks Uncle’s health was considerable improved when he departed but am sorry to say not restored, Doct Watkins...
Reuben Lindsay and others to Thomas Mann Randolph and others, 14 Sept. 1812
We the undersigned, appointed a committee by a meeting at Lindsays store, on Saturday the 12th Instant, and authorised to solicit the cooperation of Committees in other parts of the County, to receive such contributions as the Patriotism and Generosity of the Citizens of our County may suggest,...
Elizabeth Trist to Catharine Wistar Bache, 28 Sept. 1812
How truly welcome wou’d have been your kind favor of Augst 18th if it had not intimated your want of health your long silence induced me to think all was not as I wish’d with you, or that you had left the city on some excursion, that Idea, prevented my writing to appease my anxiety tho I felt...
Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Thomas C. Flournoy, 1 Oct. 1812 [Quote]
you probably do not know mr Madison personally, or at least intimately as I do. I have known him from 1779. when he first came into the public councils; and from three & thirty years trial, I can say conscientiously that...