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Washington: no publisher, 1803. Autograph. Good+ condition. Unbound. Signed by Author(s). Quarto (4to). One page letter, folded several times, with breaks in the folds, and heavy ink staining. Attractively framed with a small black-and-white portrait of the President. The letter, listed in Vol. 41 of "The Papers of Thomas Jefferson" (PTJ) reads "Washington July 18, 1803; Dear Sir; This will be delivered to you by Mr Barnes who being personally unknown to you, has asked of me a letter of introduction, as he proposes before I return to the seat of government, to visit Philadelphia, with a view to his re-moval there. He has been so long an inhabitant of that place that he can hardly live elsewhere. As he has been the subject of two former letters, I will add only that he is one of those grateful + correct men for whom one never regrets of having done any thing. Accept my friendly salutations and great esteem. [signed] Th. Jefferson. [addressee's name on the bottom edge] Gen'l…
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("Th. Jefferson") in black ink on watermarked paper "J. Honig", Paris, September 10, 1789. 7 1/8" x 9 1/4"; 1 page (recto only); very good, fresh. Jefferson writes this letter to Mr. Cutting to arrange passage to America after his tenure as Ambassador to France. In part: ".I am honored with your favor of the 3d and thank you for the information it contained. None of the vessels mentioned in it will suit me, unless that of Mr. Taylor of Norfolk should be longer receiving its orders than we ought to expect. However this sometimes happens and I do not therefore give up the possibility that she may be here late enough to carry me. Indeed I begin to be anxious now to know of a ship, because the time approaches at which I wish to get off, and because I learn there is no vessel at Bordeaux, & have no expectation of there being any at Nantes or Lorient, so that my reliance is almost entirely on Havre, and therefore I shall look for your letters with more & more inquietude daily. My baggage left this on Sunday last on board the Diligence d'eau for Havre, here I may expect it to arrive about the 14th or 15th instant. I took the liberty of addressing it to you. It consists of 38 boxes, hampers & bales, & I will beg the favor of you to have them stored in a good warehouse, convenient to the post. I must also beg the favor of you to advance for me the transportation etc. which I will pay here to your order on sight, or will pay to yourself on sight in Havre.". No Binding. Very Good.
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Letter handwritten and signed by Thomas Jefferson while President.
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Autograph Letter Signed from President Thomas Jefferson to Virginia Governor William Henry Cabell
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(Monticello, Virginia), 1807. Very Good. One quarto sheet. Monticello: September 26, 1807. Third person Autograph Letter Signed by Jefferson in the body of the letter and again on the verso above the address: "free. Th. Jefferson Pr. US.", authorizing free postal delivery. Old light fold lines, one slight separation along a horizontal fold, one small tear from where the original wax seal was opened, very good. A fine handwritten letter dating from Jefferson's second term as president, sent to "His Excellency Governor Cabell, Richmond." Cabell, a Jeffersonian Republican, was a presidential elector for Thomas Jefferson in 1800 and 1804, and served the legal maximum of three consecutive one-year terms as governor of Virginia, from 1805 to 1808. In the letter, written by Jefferson in the third person as was his custom for this type of formal correspondence, Jefferson refers to an enclosed "letter on the subject of Col. Larkin Smith" (not present) and authorizes Cabell "to put the letter under his cover…
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[AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM THOMAS JEFFERSON TO JAMES L. EDWARDS OF BOSTON, REFUSING DEMANDS FOR PAYMENT FROM A NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER]
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Monticello, September 5, [1811].. [1 1/2]pp. on a single leaf, with separate leaf folded as cover, addressed and franked with Jefferson's signature. Pen and ink on paper. Quarto. Clean, partial split along one fold, old 1/16-inch archival repairs to three corners, else fine. Cover leaf with modest soiling, traces of seal. In a blue half morocco and cloth slipcase. An interesting Jefferson letter in which he rebuffs a request for payment of a thousand dollars by the editor of the SAVANNAH REPUBLICAN newspaper. He stridently objects to the payment demand, and seeks to defend his honor and reputation in setting his correspondent straight. Jefferson subscribed to a number of newspapers while he was president, including the SAVANNAH REPUBLICAN. He cancelled almost all of these subscriptions, including that for the SAVANNAH REPUBLICAN, when he left office at the beginning of 1809, taking care to pay all his outstanding bills. It appears from this letter that Norman McLean, one-time editor of the SAVANNAH…
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Autograph Letter, signed, from Thomas Jefferson to Secretary of War Henry Dearborn
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Washington, D.C., 1804. 1 page plus integral address leaf. 4to, on a folded folio sheet. Old fold lines. Minor wear and soiling. Strip of later paper on left edge verso, where letter had been tipped into an album. Very good. In a brown half morocco clamshell box, spine gilt. 1 page plus integral address leaf. 4to, on a folded folio sheet. President Thomas Jefferson Swears "On my sacred honor...." A remarkable letter written by President Thomas Jefferson to his Secretary of War, Henry Dearborn, in which Jefferson swears "on my sacred honour" that he gives no credence to slanderous gossip circulating relating to Gideon Granger, Samuel Hunt, and the Payne sisters (i.e. including Dolley Madison). Dearborn (1751-1829), a soldier and politician, was appointed by Jefferson to the post of Secretary of War in 1801, a position he held throughout Jefferson's terms in office. He was moderately successful in most of his life's endeavors, excepting his command during the War of 1812, in which he lost Detroit…
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Manuscript Letter Signed, from Thomas Jefferson to English merchants Farrell and Jones, regarding the settlement of the estate of his father-in-law, John Wayles, part of the debt coming from the consignment of a large number of slaves
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Charles City, Va, 1773. [4] pp. manuscript letter, signed by Jefferson and with internal address in his hand. Plus an additional manuscript note Signed by Jefferson, with thirteen lines of text, titled in Jefferson's hand. Expertly repaired at fold separations, affecting about than ten words of text. Very good. In a half morocco and cloth folding case, spine gilt. [4] pp. manuscript letter, signed by Jefferson and with internal address in his hand. Plus an additional manuscript note Signed by Jefferson, with thirteen lines of text, titled in Jefferson's hand. Jefferson Seeks to Settle His Father-in-Law's Estate, Including the Sale of Hundreds of Slaves: An Early and Important Letter. An outstanding, early, and lengthy Thomas Jefferson letter, written in the immediate aftermath of the death of his wife's father, John Wayles, and seeking to settle the outstanding debts of the Wayles estate. Jefferson's early experience with indebtedness, and specifically with the inherited debt of the Wayles…
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Autograph Letter Signed to Wilson Cary Nicholas
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Montecello: 2 pages (one leaf), 9" x 71⁄2", plus integral blank leaf, 23 November 1794. . AN EXCELLENT LETTER SHOWING JEFFERSON’S OBSESSION WITH NATIONAL EDUCATION ADVANCING AN EDUCATIONAL PROPOSAL "FOR THE GOOD OF OUR COUNTRY...& THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE AS AN INSTRUMENT TOWARDS THAT" The letter demonstrates Jefferson's lifelong interest in promoting education in Virginia. Believing education vital to the preservation of republican government, Jefferson supported various proposals for improving learning, ranging from his own plan for a statewide public school system, suggested while a member of the House of Delegates in 1778, to the founding of the University of Virginia, in which he played a critical role in the last decade of his life. At this date, Jefferson was in a brief period of retirement from public office, having resigned as Secretary of State in December 1793. Although generally avoiding involvement in public affairs, he was so intrigued by the idea of transplanting the Academy of…
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[AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM THOMAS JEFFERSON TO FRANÇOIS-JEAN DE CHASTELLUX, COMMUNICATING THE OFFICIAL RATIFICATION OF THE TREATY OF PARIS, THE CURRENT STATE OF THE NEW NATION, AND THE FORTHCOMING PUBLICATION OF HIS Notes on the State of Virginia]
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Annapolis, January 16, 1784.. [2]pp. on a single folded folio sheet. Old faint fold lines, upper and lower edges gilt. Blind stamp of the Chastellux Archives in upper right corner of first leaf. Fine. In a half blue morocco box and chemise, spine gilt. An outstanding letter written by Thomas Jefferson to François-Jean de Chastellux, shortly after the ratification of the definitive Treaty of Paris by the United States Congress of the Confederation, noting its recent approval and the imminent dispatch of an official copy to Paris. The letter continues to discuss at length the condition of the newly independent United States, refuting the rumors of potential anarchy being circulated in Europe, but lamenting the lack of available hard currency in the country. "This letter is reminiscent of others written by [Jefferson] at the opening of the Revolution in which he endeavored by private communications to influence opinion of America abroad" - Founders Online. Jefferson goes on to discuss the potential…
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