¶ From an Unidentified Correspondent. Letter not found. 1824. Offered for sale in the American Art Association Catalogue (9 Jan. 1924), item 855. Presumably this letter covered the gift of a copy of Strictures Addressed to James Madison on the Celebrated Report of William H. Crawford, Recommending the Intermarriage of Americans with the Indian Tribes. Ascribed to Judge Cooper, and Originally...
2Memorandum Books, 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Jan. 1. Hhd. exp. 1.D. 4. Do. .50. 4. On settlement of E. Meeks’s acct. the balance due him Dec. 1. 23 when he quitted me was 15.D. which is the sum due to G. W. Nicholas on my assumpsit ante Nov. 3. The state of my notes in the banks was thus. Dec. 4. F.’s bk. 3200. qu. omission of 1400. to F. B.
God Bless you my Dear Son and send you many many happy years to enjoy life and do honour to your Parents and Society is the fervent wish offered by your Mother whose prayers for your welfare are so pure they will be received and granted at the throne of mercy as long as you continue to merit them— We have entered on probably the most stormy year of our lives on which hang great and momentous...
4To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, 1 January 1824 (Madison Papers)
After wishing you the usual Compliments of this day, permit a Stranger to address you on as important a subject as ever can come before the Councills of our Country, and which is soon to come under the consideration of Congress. I refer to a national Bankrupt Act. Let me intreat your Interest in its favour. My feeble abellities to add arguments to Vindicate the measure are small indeed, but my...
5To James Madison from Henry Wheaton, 1 January 1824 (Madison Papers)
I was extremely obliged by your letter of October 15th, & by the kind offer of the use of the letters of Mr. Pinkney. Singular as it may seem, there is not among the Papers of that gentleman confided by his family to me, a single copy of a letter from him to you. Whether he kept any copies, or not, I have been unable to learn. May I therefore ask of you to entrust the whole of his letters to...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Sarah Grotjan, 1 January 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
This being the second and perhaps the last time in the course of our mutual lives, that I shall have any occasion to address you personally, I feel it incumbent on me, before I enter on the subject of my present request—to refresh your memory, relative to our former correspondence.—In the month of February 1813, having become acquainted with the misfortunes and difficult situation of a M rs...
7From Thomas Jefferson to John Hollins, 1 January 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday evening your favor of Dec. 23. and have this morning turned to my letter book in which I have preserved press-copies of everything which went from my own pen. I found at once the message of Dec. 21. 1803, which referred to one of Jan. 11. 1803. on the same subject. I inclose you copies of both, of which make what use you please. of the documents mentioned in that of Dec....
8To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 1 January 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I hand herewith your quarterly a/c, to 31st: ulto:, shewing a balance against you of $2066.48,—You will observe the balance due me on last a/c rend d , to 6 Oct r , is stated at $1334.78, it should have been $1334.98, as you will see, by an error of addition, of 20¢, in that a/c— Your favor of the 28 ulto:, together with the enclosures, are rec d , & I have this day p d your dft:, for $200,...