51From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 13 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
In the year 21. there were inserted in your paper three series of essays on the case of Cohen, subscribed by Algernon Sidney, Fletcher of Saltown & Somers, which compleatly pulverised the opinion of the Federal court in that case. had these been published in the papers of the other states, they would have left no doubters on that subject. I have an oppy of putting them into the hands of a...
52From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Beale Ewell, 5 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Dec. 12. was not rec d until the 25 th which must acc t for so much of the delay of my answer. there is no vacancy in our Univ y all the Professorships being filled, and we wait, to open it, the arrival only of three Professors embarked as we expect in Nov. from Lond. for Norfolk. the moment their arrival is known the day of opening the instn will be announced, among those daily...
53Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Appleton, 16 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be handed you by mr William C. Preston , son of Gen l Francis Preston of this state, who in the course of his travels in Europe , may probably find occasion to call on you. he is not personally known to me, but I am assured of his worth by and distinguished talents by those who know him and command my entire confidence. his standing in this state is high, and I believe I render you...
54Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 6 August 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
If you have on hand any more of the Reports of the Comm rs of Rockfish gap on the subject of the Univ ty I will thank you for half a dozen. repeated applicns to me from other states for the scheme of educn proposed for our Univ ty I generally answer by a copy of that. I take for granted you present your acc t for these things with that of the Enquirer to Col
55Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Eston Randolph, 12 September 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I have some debts here which press very sorely on me; for the paym t of which my only resource is the my cash balance at y e mill . and my return to Bedford moreover depending on their payment I am obliged to trouble you with the subject. mr C. Peyton to whom I have ab t 600.D to pay wrote me 2. days ago that you would accept my ord. in his favor which would suit him. I did not chuse...
56Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Statement on Wilson Cary Nicholas’s Administrators v. James Morrison and Thomas Deye … (Jefferson Papers)
The case of the exrs of W. C. Nicholas with Morrison , and of the same with Owings . George Nicholas of Kentucky was, in his lifetime, indebted to Wilson Cary Nicholas between 9. & 10,000.£. Kentucky currency, for so much cash advanced for him; to secure which he promised, in writing, to mortgage certain property. he was also, with Willis Green as his security, indebted to John Read
57From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 24 November 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I certainly had not the most distant thought of bearing on any controverted question, when, in my letter to mr Campbell, I used the unweighed expression of ‘papers belonging to the records of the council.’ but my meaning will be best explained by stating the practice of the time to which that letter referred. all letters and official papers on Executive business were regularly addressed to...
58From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Magruder, 26 February 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sorry to inform you that the time of opening the Univ ty is still uncertain. on the 3. loans which the legisl re authorised to erect the buildings, we are paying annually an interest of 10,800. D. absorbing our whole annuity to within 4,200. D. which after the necessary care of the buildings leaves little surplus. we take for granted however that the legislre will remit the whole debt. if...
59Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Whittemore, 5 June 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Sir, for the pamphlets you have been so kind as to send me, and am happy to learn that the doctrine of Jesus , that there is but one God, is advancing prosperously among our fellow-citizens. had his doctrines, pure as they came from himself, been never sophisticated for unworthy purposes, the whole civilised world would at this day have formed but a single sect. you ask my opinion...
60Thomas 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...
61From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson Smith, 21 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
This letter will, to you be as one from the dead, the writer will be in the grave before you can weigh it’s counsels. your affectionate and excellent father has requested that I would address to you something which might possibly have a favorable influence on the course of life you have to run, and I too, as a namesake, feel an interest in that course. few words will be necessary with good...
62Thomas Jefferson to Thomas M. Hall, 12 April 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of the 1 st and shall place that with those which it covered for the future attentio n of the Visitors of the University . but we are far, very far as yet from the appointment of professors. our buildings may be finished within two or three years, but our funds will then be left burthened with a debt which they will not discharge in many years. the Legislature...
63Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 27 August 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 21. and am glad to learn that you will return to Columbia by land; in which case I hope you will take this in your way, and to prevent disappointment I must state to you my movements. Sep. 6. I shall set out to Poplar Forest . 24. I shall be at home.
64From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 30 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sorry to learn by your letter of the 6 th that the genus irritabile vatum revive their persecutions against you in a state on whose liberal opinions I had believed that fanaticism had no hold. I still hope you will be safe under the wing of the legislature which has given such eminent proofs of their sense of your value to them. the question you ask with respect to this place is one which...
65Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, [29] August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
You have sometimes made favorable mention of our Central college , and Gen l Cocke , one of our visitors, gave me reason to believe you would still do so occasionally. many, supposing that a brief account of our views, if laid before the public, might have good effect, I have, in compliance with their requests, prepared the within, disguised however as to it’s source, because I am unwilling to...
66Thomas Jefferson to Thomas B. Parker, 30 January 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I am indebted to you for your favor of the 16 th and for information of the two amendments to your constitution therein noticed, and on which you ask my opinion. in a former letter to you I expressed my entire retirement from every thing political, and my unwillingness to commit myself to controversy or offence, even by expressing opinions: and on the same grounds I must request to be excused...
67From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Leiper, 3 April 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I am really done, my friend, with Politics, notwthstg the doubts you express in your favor of Mar. 16. there is a time for every thing, for acting in this world, and for getting ready to leave it . the last is now come upon me. you, I hope, will hold out as long as you can, because what you do, I know will always be done for the good of our fellow-man. with respect to the European combinns...
68From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 22 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
It has not been in my power to forward to the Gov r the Report & documents of the Visitors of the University till this day. there were 2. blanks in the Report which our Collector never enabled me to fill till yesterday. I now forward those papers to the Gov r but there will still be a letter to accompany them which is to give him such informn subsequent to the date of the Report as may be...
69Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Perkins, 5 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 3. is recieved with the bill of Exchange of Sign r Fancelli , endorsed by mr Appleton & yourself. the bill is good. the sum for which drawn was recovered by me for mr Bellini ’s representatives, & deposited by the Attorney recieving it in the Richmond bank of Virginia on the 14 th of Feb. 1816. where it has lain unprofitably ever since.
70Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 3 February 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Jan. 31. is this moment rec d and without loss of time I have filled up the dates of the bond as required, reacknoleged it before witnesses & now inclosed inclose it. I have dated it on the 6 th to remove ambiguity as to the commcemt of interest, because before you recieve it that date will have occurred. all here are well, and I am myself as ever affly yours Dft ( DLC
71Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 14 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson will be obliged to mr Ritchie for the acts of assembly of the sessions of 1816–17 and of 1817–18 to be forwarded by mail and to be considered as a regular subscriber for them hereafter . if placed in account with his newspapers mr Gibson will always pay for them at the same time. he salutes mr Ritchie with frdshp & respect Dft ( MHi
72Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Eston Randolph, 15 January 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday an alarming account of the of danger there is of the mill floors being crushed down by the weight with which they are now loaded. I went to day to examine into it, and indeed I found it most imminent, and every moment to be expected. on the garrett floor is about 150,000 ℔ and on the ground floor about 120,000 ℔, making a whole of 270,000. weight and the danger is proved...
73Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ewell, 28 August 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 7 th came to hand on the 14 th and I kept up the one I it inclosed until I could have a favorable opportunity of presenting it to the President. on delivering it, I took occasion to go into such explanations as I thought might do you justice, and manifest my own views and wishes. I found him in the best dispositions towards yourself; but cautious, as was proper, not to...
74From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Appleton, 17 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
My last to you was of Nov. 22. since which I have recieved yours of Dec. 24. and Feb. 8. in consequence of the information given in the last that the first quality of marble squares for paving the Portico of our Rotunda, polished and accurately squared ready to be laid down, of one foot square, will cost at Leghorn 221/12D. the hundred’ I am now to desire you to send us 1200 squares of one...
75Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 17 March 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be handed you by mr Coffee , an English gentleman of eminence in the arts of sculpture and painting. he has been for some time an inmate with us at Monticello , having been engaged in making the busts in plaister of myself and all the grown members of our family. he has done the same at mr Madison ’s and some other families of my neighborhood, and much in Richmond and to very general...
76Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Eston Randolph, 2 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of yesterday was recieved last night. you need take no trouble about the flour balance, till you have it of your own; and as to the damaged 27. barrels I mean to bear my own part of that misfortune, so that you have nothing to make up on that account. I set out tomorrow for Bedford & shall be back by the 20 th . mr Bacon will be starting about that time for Missouri , and will want some...
77Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 15 March 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Do not give up the bonds to Morrison . your right to them is sound. Col o Nicholas covenanted to assign certain bonds to Morrison . until actual assignment the legal property remained in Col o N. and on his death that legal property vested in his execrs, & in yourself as one. he was indebted to you and the law allows an exr to pay himself. Morrison can get no hold of these bonds at law. he...
78Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 10 June 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to return you infinite thanks for the kind interest you have taken in the late denunciation against me by a Pseudo- native of Virginia , and particularly for the proofs of it furnished thro’ the hands of my grandson . it has been a rule of my life, steadily observed to take no notice of anonymous defamations. but I know that money imputations are more apt than others to excite...
79Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 11 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of June 21 . is recieved, and I have exhibited the different designs for our seal to such friends as had taste for such things. we all preferred the attitude of Minervas Minerva in one of mr Otis ’s designs as being more beautiful, but not the shield & spear. the emblems of another of his figures, the olive branch & cornucopiæ, peace & plenty, are more conformable to the idea...
80From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Walker Maury, 3 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to your enquiries in behalf of my antient and highly esteemed friend and classmate James Maury I need only say that I was born Apr. 2. 1743. and that consequently, allowing for change of style, I shall be 83. y. old on the 13 th of the ensuing month of April. I should not give you the trouble of saying this form me to my friend, but should do it for myself, were it not that dislocns...
81Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Brown, 10 November 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the copy of your Medical electricity which you have been so kind as to send me . I concur entirely in the opinion expressed by D r Mitchell in his letter to you that ‘facts are the foundation of all useful knolege in Physics,’ and those you have collected will doubtless bring into notice the process they recommend. these merit our thanks, & every thing has my good wishes which...
82From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Appleton, 8 October 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
My last letter to you was of May 17, since which I have recieved your’s of Apr. 1. May 1. and June 10. I had desired my correspondent in Richmond, Col o Bernard Peyton to procure a bill of excha. on London which will nett there 500.D. clear of exchange payable to mr Sam l Williams on your account to whom I have written to remit the same to you. I just now recieve his information that is done,...
83Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Jordan, 21 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return home after an absence of 3. weeks, I found here your letter of Apr. 20. and it was not till yesterday that I could procure an US. 10.D. bill; and just in that moment recieved your 2 d favor of May 13. I now therefore inclose 10.50 D to the care of D r Stewart as you desired. the perplexity of keeping the numerous little accounts for periodical publications had occasioned it to...
84From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Appleton, 22 November 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The original letters of Oct. 8. and 9. of which those inclosed are Duplicates were committed to Michael Raggi, who about that time left this place for New York where he expected to embark for some port of Italy. we soon learnt that at N. York his funds fell short so that he could not get a passage; we therefore did not then make the remittance of 4000 D. as mentioned in my letter of the 8 th...
85Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Thomas Cooper and the University of Virginia, [ca. 3 October 1820] (Jefferson Papers)
Extract from a letter of Sep. 19. 1817. from D r Cooper to Th: Jefferson ‘I calculate that in a course of Philosophical & Chemical lectures at Philadelphia the expences would be 300.D. for articles quæ ipso usu consumantur . it would cost about 100.D. in Charlottesville .’ Extract from the
86From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Appleton, 9 October 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
My letter of yesterday was public. this is to cover one to M. and M e Pini, which, as you are acquainted with the subject I leave open for your perusal, and will pray you to seal it before delivery. I formerly asked of you what would be the price of plain marble slabs, which would be generally from 4. to 5. feet long and from 6. to 8 inches wide and 1. I. thick. they are intended for the plain...
87From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Earle, 24 September 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Aug. 28 with the pamphlet accompanying it was not recieved until the 8 th instant. That our creator made the earth for the use of the living and not of the dead; that those who exist not, can have no use nor right in it, no authority or power over it; that one generation of men cannot foreclose or burthen it’s use to another, which comes to it in it’s own right, and by the same...
88From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Leiper, 22 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 14 th was rec d yesterday Your son in law, the son of D r Patterson the elder and D r Patterson the son himself have a right to every service I can render them. I have not hesitated then to write to the President on the subject of your lre and to add my testimony to your’s in favor of your friend and connection. there was one point unknown to myself and on which your lre was...
89Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Sully, 5 April 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson forwards to mr Sully three letters which came under cover to him yesterday evening and salutes him with friendly respect RC ( MHi ); dateline at foot of text; with Robert Gilmor ’s signed notation on verso: “Note from Ex-President Jefferson to M r Sully the Artist, sent me by the latter in 1830,” and his additional notation: “Signer of the Declaration of Independance.” Not...
90Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Perkins, 2 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Appleton informs me he has drawn in your favor on mr Hollins of Baltimore for 444.41 D and in favor of Capt Concklin for 280.D. on account of the University of Virginia . our Proctor happening to be in Richmond at this moment, I have immediately
91Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 10 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Our legislature has appropriated 15,000 D. a year for an University, & taken measures for fixing it’s site, which I am confident will result in adopting that of the Central College . our Visitors meet here on the 11 th of May , and I therefore press M r Correa to make his visit a few days before that, because in yours of Feb. 20.
92From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Willis White, 15 August 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I must beg to be excused from writing the prospectus for your edn of Thomas’s Co Littleton. I have made it a point never to be the recommender of books to the public. it would be presumption in any case but especially in that of a book addressed to a learned profession as that of the law so entirely capable of judging for themselves . I suggested, at your request, this book as one the ability...
93Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Leiper, 27 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I am subject to a Corvée of a very painful nature which I resist whenever it is possible, but in some cases cannot avoid. it is to sollicit offices for others, who through themselves or their friends, have some hold on me of friendship or of duty. it is understood that application is made for the establishment of a branch of the bank of the US. in the town of Fredericksburg ; and a mr Bernard...
94Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Eston Randolph, 28 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 20 th has been a week getting to my hands. I am sorry that mr Colclaser , after the pointed assurances I gave him, should still have doubts about the work at the mill. I will not suppose he doubts my intention and he could not have doubted the means had he calculated. for what is to be done? the lower broadside of the house is to be secured by from coming further out from...
95From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 4 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 31 st was recieved yesterday and gave me a fine night’s rest which I had not had before since you left us, as the failure to hear from you by the preceding mail had filled me with fearful forebodings. I am pleased with the train you are proceeding in, and particularly with the appointment of valuers. under all circumstances I think I may expect a liberal valuation, an...
96Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Herttell, 22 November 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to mr Herttell for the copy he has been so kind as to send him of his Exposé on the subject of intemperate drinking. he is highly gratified by every effort to repress a vice by which health, fortune and character are so fatally prostrated. having long feared that moral considerations would not ultimately prove sufficient, he has looked for a final and effectual...
97Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 12 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letters of Aug. 26. Sep. 1. 2. 3. were recieved yesterday evening. I returned from the warm springs a few days ago , in prostrated health, from the use of the waters. their effect, and the journey back reduced me to the last stage of exhaustion; but I am recovering. we shall all be happy to recieve here mrs Cooper , yourself & M. Correa , and expect that according to former request you...
98From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Calloway, 28 July 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
D r Dunglison’s letter herein inclosed will sufficiently explain it’s object. the University of Virga in which he is Professor of anatomy and medicine being a new instn, as yet unprovided with what is necessary for it, he has supposed he could so far rely on your frdshp as to engage you to procure for it the Anatomical articles of which he gives a list in the inclosed letter. joining him in...
99Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 24 March 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 13 th inst. I gave to mr Coffee a letter of introduction to you . a few days after his departure the inclosed came to my hands, with which I can do nothing better than give it the protection of your cover as he will probably be with you when it gets to your hand. affectionately yours PoC ( ViU: TJP ); on portion of a reused address cover to TJ, the other half of which was reused for PoC...
100Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Leiper, 3 November 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be handed you by mr Watson a student of medecine of this neighborhood who goes to Philada to compleat his studies in that line . having no acquantance there he naturally wishes to be known to somebody that his standing & character in his own state may be known to somebody there , and being the eleve of my family physician , & having under him attended me kindly & assiduously thro’ a...