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Box 4

 Container

Contains 8 Results:

1784-1803

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 28
Identifier: id161401
Scope and Contents

Papers in the handwriting of Thomas Jefferson

Dates: 1784-1863

Memorandum, Spring of 1784

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 28
Identifier: id161402
Scope and Contents

Memorandum, apparently written in the spring of 1784, containing a key to a cipher and comments showing Jefferson's attitude towards his proposed mission to Europe. The memorandum is not addressed but seems to have been intended for someone who thought of accompanying him. WMQ, 11W(2)242-243.

Dates: Spring of 1784

Memorandum for William Short, 1790

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 28
Identifier: id161404
Scope and Contents

Memorandum, evidently written in 1790, for William Short, giving instructions for the purchase of certain books and household furnishings and for the packing and shipping of Jefferson's furniture from France to America. Including diagram of a clock.

Dates: 1790

Extract of a letter from James Brown, at Richmond, to Thomas Jefferson, 15 April 1793

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 28
Identifier: id161405
Scope and Contents

WMQ, 11W(2)291-294.

Dates: 15 April 1793

Decipherment of a letter from Thomas Jefferson, at Monticello, to Thomas Newton, 17 Oct. 1799

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 28
Identifier: id161406
Scope and Contents

Decipherment of a letter from Thomas Jefferson, at Monticello, to Thomas Newton, regarding land in Norfolk County, Virginia, ownded by William Short.

Dates: 17 Oct. 1799

Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Colonel Thomas Newton

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 28
Identifier: id161407
Scope and Contents

Mutilated. Date and part of signature lacking.

Dates: 1784-1863

Syllabus of an estimate of the doctrines of Jesus compared with those of others, ? April 1803

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 28
Identifier: id161408
Scope and Contents

See Box 2, Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 21 April 1803. See also Jefferson's Extracts from the Gospels (Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series), p. 332-336.

Dates: ? April 1803