1Thomas Jefferson to Edward Everett, 2 March 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I am thankful to you, Sir, for the very edifying View of Europe which you have been so kind as to send me . tossed at random by the newspapers on an ocean of uncertainties and falsehoods, it is joyful at times to catch the glimmering of a beacon which shews us truly where we are. de Pradt ’s Europe had some effect in this way; but the less as the author was less known in character. the views...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Everett, 24 February 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have read with much satisfaction the reply of mr Everett your brother to the criticisms on his work on the state of Europe, and concur with him generally in the doctrines of the reply. certainly provisions are not allowed, by the consent of nations, to be contraband but where every thing is so, as in the case of a blockaded town with which all intercourse is forbidden. On the question...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Everett, 27 March 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to thank you for your Greek reader, which, for the use of schools, is evidently preferable to the Collectanea Graeca. these have not arranged their selections so well in gradation from the easier to the more difficult styles. On the subject of the Greek ablative, I dare say that your historical explanation is the true one. in the early stage of languages the distinctions of Cases may...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Everett, 15 October 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I have yet to thank you for your Q.C.N. oration delivered in presence of Gen l La Fayette. it is all excellent, much of it sublimely so, well worthy of it’s author and his subject, of whom we may truly say, as was said of Germanicus, ‘ fruitur famâ sui .’ Your letter of Sep. 10. gave me the first information that mine to Maj r Cartwright had got into the newspapers; and the first notice indeed...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Everett, 21 July 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the copies of your two public addresses inclosed in your favor of the 6 th inst. that of Concord, as a morsel of exact history, and of a most interesting event was peculiarly acceptable. I am sorry it is not in my power to give you any information on the subject of the Louisiana treaty. my memory is gone, and I have no papers on the subject. but surely the ‘Conjectural note’...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Everett, 21 July 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I am very thankful to the Bunkerhill monument association for the honor they have done me in electing me an honorary member of that institution. the occasion, which has given birth to it, forms an epoch in the history of mankind, well worthy of the splendid ceremonies with which it’s first stone was lately laid and consecrated. the coincidence of circumstances too, was truly fortunate, which...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Everett, 8 April 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the very able and eloquent speech you have been so kind as to send me on the Amendment of the Constitution proposed by mr M c Duffie. I have read it with pleasure and edification, & concur with much of it’s contents. on the question of the lawfulness of slavery, that is, of the right of one man to appropriate to himself the faculties of another without his consent, I certainly...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Everett, 10 April 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I suspect I was mistaken in my letter of the 8 th in supposing the Report mentioned in your favor had not been recieved. I find one, said to be of mr Crownenshield on the Panama mission Mar. 25. 1826. in 13. pages which I suppose is the one alluded to. if so, be pleased to pardon the error and to accept my renewed assurances of esteem & consideration. MHi : Edward Everett Papers.