1Joseph Milligan to Thomas Jefferson, 6 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
This day I have Sent to the care of M r W. F Gray of Fredericksburg a Box of Books contents as ⅌ Enclosed Memorandum your account is also Enclosed I am preparing to republish the little treatise on Garddening published Some years ago by S. H: Smith . I would wish to make it as Extensively useful as I can possibly do it to sell at a dollar; least you should not have a copy of the book I...
2To John Jay from Noah Worcester, 6 February 1818 (Jay Papers)
I have received both your letters relating to mine of Jan 2nd. But prior to the arrival of either I was under a necessity of printing yours of Nov. 12, or of excluding it from No XI. The paragraph I had mentioned is printed; but on reading your letter again after I had written, I thought it would not be proper for me to publish Mr Lords opinion of the Editor of the Friend of Peace. I therefore...
3Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 6 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Jan. 23. is recieved with real affliction. I sincerely lament the loss of D r Wistar , whose health, altho not the best, had yet promised, as I hoped, a longer life. in his line he leaves no superior, and his science was among our principal ornaments. distant as is our position from the immediate scene of this calamity I percieve that, in effect, it may reach us heavily. the...
4Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 6 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved a letter of Dec. 28. from Francis to which I had deferred an answer until I could speak with more certainty of the prospects of our central college . he describes his situation as neither agreeable nor advantageous. Doct r Cooper had engaged with us as professor of the Physiological sciences, and had moreover offered to take charge of our classical school, until we can get for that...
5Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 6 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a letter from D r Cooper , considerably important to the first successes of our college. I will request you to return it to me. I inclose also the answer which I think should be given. if you think so likewise be so good as to seal & forward it. if not, return it, as I should be unwilling to take on myself alone so important a relinquishment. yet I think it right that we should...
6To James Madison from Samuel Dana, 6 February 1818 (Madison Papers)
I have lately read in a Gazette, that an Agricultural Society has been established in Virginia, & that you have consented to preside over its concerns. Masa. incorporated such a Society many years since—for a long period its usefulness was doubted—but lately is fully acknowledged. Their first publications were very meagre, & lean, their late reports appear to do honor to the Society who...
7Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Joseph Milligan, [ca. 6 February 1818] (Jefferson Papers)
Thomas Jefferson Esquire To Joseph Milligan 1815 Nov. 10 To Binding 5 Octavo Vol s calf gilt 5. 00 1 Nautical Almanac 1816.
8Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 6 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I now enclose you the Duplicate Patent of M r Des Essart ’s land, which I procured from the Land office, together with his letter to you , and the French copy of his Patent. I have retained a copy of his letter to you , of yours to me on the same subject, and of the Patent, which I shall put into the hands of M r Davisson , or some other member, for the purpose of procuring particular...
9Thomas Jefferson to Francis Eppes, 6 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have deferred acknoleging the reciept of your letter of Dec. 28. in the daily hope of being able to speak with more certainty of the time when our Central college will be opened. but that is still undecided and depending on an uncertainty which I have explained to your father . I do not wonder that you find the place where you are disagreeable. it’s character, while I lived in Washington was...
10From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 6 February 1818 (Adams Papers)
you ought to tell me the name of that animal, who “faced you down” against dates and Otis. he must have been an inveterate, indurated Old Tory , with an Iron heart, and a brazen face. or at least a Son, or Grandson of such an one, who has inherited all his Ancestors Envy, Malice, Hatred, mortified pride and demoniacal revenge. “James Otis had no Patriotism”!!! Had the adored Hutchinson...