Source: From Thomas Jefferson to New Jersey Legislature, 10 December 1807, Founders Online, National Archives,…
Source: Gordon Lloyd and Margie Lloyd, eds., The Essential Bill of Rights (Lanham, Maryland: University…
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia ([1781-82]; London: John Stockdale, 1787), 270-75. Query…
My Dear Friend, Your letter of Oct. 26. 1795. is just received and gives me…
Dear Sir I recieved with great pleasure your favor of June 4. and am much…
I have duly received your favor of the 18th and am thankful to you for…
Declaration of Independence IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united…
For the particular geography of our mountains I must refer to Fry and Jefferson’s map…
DEAR SIR, — Our correspondence is of that accommodating character, which admits of suspension at…
Dear Sir I wrote you a letter yesterday of which you will be free to…
Dear Sir I received on the 2d. inst the letter of Aug. 23. which you did…
Dear Sir I have determined to make the subject of a letter, what, for some…
The idea of separating the executive business of the confederacy from Congress, as the judiciary…
Source: To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 27 December 1787 (Founders Online), https://goo.gl/ZaJfSg. For ease…
A resolution was moved and agreed to in the following words: Whereas, it is the…
DEAR SIR, My last to you was of the 31st. of July: since which I…
My Dear Sir, Your favor of Nov. 12 was safely delivered to me by Mr.…
I now inclose you Mr. Martin’s patent. A patent had actually been made out on…
DEAR SIR, I am to make you my acknowledgments for your favor of Jan. 10,…
The constn as agreed to till a fortnight before the convention rose was such a…
Dear Sir, — Your letter of February 17th found me suffering under an attack of…
Dear Peter, — I have received your two letters of Decemb 30 and April 18,…
My Head, My Heart In the spring of 1786, while serving as the US minister to…
THE EARTH BELONGS TO THE LIVING DEAR SIR, — I sit down to write to…
DEAR SIR, — Your favors of Jan. 10 & Feb. 10, came to hand on…
Sir,-In answer to your inquiry as to the merits of Gillies’ translation of the Politics…
DEAR SIR,— Your favor of the 3d was delivered me at court; but we were…
DEAR SIR,—I had read in the Enquirer, and with great approbation, the pieces signed Hampden,…
TO HIS EXCELLENCY GOVERNOR. JAMES BARBOUR DEAR SIR, — Your favor of the 14th has…
TO GOVERNOR WILLIAM H. CABELL. WASHINGTON, July 8, 1807.SIR,—You will have received from the Secretary…
SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN DEAR SIR,– I learnt some time ago that you were…
I. Whereas Almighty God hath created the mind free; that all attempts to influence it…
[B] Bill for Abolition of Entails, 11-12 August 1776On the 12th, I obtained leave to…
Source: From Thomas Jefferson to the New Haven Merchants, 12 July 1801, Founders Online, National…
Source: Thomas Jefferson to John B. Colvin, 20 September 1810, Founders Online, National Archives, https://goo.gl/RkC7ak.…
DEAR SIR, The enclosed letter, tho’ directed to you, was intended to me also, and…
DEAR SIR–Since your favor of July 10. mine have been of July 17. 23 and…
Dear Sir I was happy to find by the letter of Aug. 1. 1786. which…
DEAR SIR– I received duly your friendly letter of November the 12th. By this time,…
Notes on the State of Virginia Query VI …Near the eastern foot of the North…
Dear Sir,—The copy of your Second Thoughts on Instinctive Impulses, with the letter accompanying it,…
Dear Sir-According to the reservation between us, of taking up one of the subjects of…
The Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: It would have been a…
The Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: Circumstances, fellow citizens, which seriously…
The Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: It would have given me,…
The Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: At a moment when the…
The Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: To a people, fellow citizens,…
To the Senate and House of Representatives: When we assemble together, fellow citizens, to consider…
Fellow Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: It is a circumstance of sincere…
QUERY XVII The different religions received into that state? The first settlers in this country…
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