I was so much occupied during my stop at Borden Town I could not answer your Letter therefore busy myself here having nothing to do with all the nonsense I can think of for pastime. You can easily conceive, the dreariness of my situation travelling alone with your father who though more of a than I can recollect since the earliest period of our marriage is still too much of a Statesman to be...
2To Thomas Jefferson from John Browne Cutting, 4 September 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Accept my grateful acknowledgments for your letter of Aug 27 th The documents that you have been so obliging as to cause to be, a second time transcribed, and to re–authenticate with your signature, will serve me essentially: and superadded to the copy of your favour of July 2 d , afford all the testimony that I could expect or desire. With a repetition of regret for having given you so much...
3To Thomas Jefferson from James Paxton, 4 September 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been directed by the executive of Virginia to have these public Buildings covered with Tin, and as a doubt exists respecting the Kind of Tin most preferable, wheather of double or single, I have taken the liberty of asking your advice having understood that many of the buildings of the university is covered with that Article.— If it is convenient for you I request that you answer these...
4From James Madison to Henry Lee, 4 September 1824 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. Sir your letter of Aug: with a copy of the Address reported by the Committee of a late Meeting at Fredericksburg, for which you will please to accept my thanks. I am not surprized at your purpose of adopting literature as your favorite object. It will always be found a source not only of rich enjoyment, but of public distinction & usefulness also where there is a union of...
5To James Madison from Le Ray de Chaumont, [4] September 1824 (Madison Papers)
Confiding in your good dispositions to promote the happiness and welfare of our country and presuming on your willingness to favour one like yourself President of an agricultural Society, I take the liberty to request your answer to the following questions 10 Have the agricultural societies in your vicinity and State proved useful to the community at large? 20 Have they excited emulation in...
6To Thomas Jefferson from David Gelston, 4 September 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
In a tour last summer I found a remarkable species of wheat a Gen t gave me four hands with the following account. that a Gen t in Vermont had imported a package of goods from China. opening it—he found from the straw he threw out, a single blade which he cultivated & which produced the wheat On the 15 Sep: last I planted the 4 grains about 6 inches from each other. they produced 62 stalks &...
7From Thomas Jefferson to William John Coffee, 4 September 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
We are in want of some ornaments (roses) for the soffite of the external entablatures of the Rotunda. composition will not stand the weather and lead is expensive. we conclude therefore in favor of the material of which you made those for us before; and hope you will be so kind as to furnish them, they are to be copied from the LX th plate of the IV th book of Palladio (being the 5 th of the...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Augustus Elias Brevoort Woodward, 4 September 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
The respects of the undersigned accompany a package addressed to President Jefferson. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
9To James Madison from David Gelston, 4 September 1824 (Madison Papers)
In a tour last summer I found a remarkable species of wheat, a Gentleman gave me four Kernels, with the following account, that a Gentleman in Vermont had imported a package of goods from China, after opening it he found from the straw threw out, a single blade which he cultivated and which produced the wheat. On the 15th September last I planted the 4 grains about 6 inches from each other,...