2201From John Adams to Alden Bradford, 4 October 1818 (Adams Papers)
I have received with pleasure your favour of the 30th. of September; and can express nothing but the most respectful Approbation of the Proposal to publish in a Volume the Speeches of the Governors of Massachusetts from 1765 to 1775. with the Answers. and if a Pamphlet of the Town of Boston within the Same Period, the last Effort of Mr Otis could be added it would enhance its Value.— These...
2202From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 4 October 1818 (Adams Papers)
After a most fatiguing journey in which I suffered grievously we arrived at half past nine o’clock last evening beaten and bruised and scarcely able to go through the additional trouble of undressing to go to bed—Not a single event has occurred worth detailing and I can only write you a short Letter as my shoulders are too stiff to admit of my saying any thing more than that we are alive and...
2203To James Madison from Benjamin Fry, 4 October 1818 (Madison Papers)
Unwilling as I am to trespass on your retirement, I am nevertheless constrained to solicit your friendly advice, and to ask your recurrence to the facts of my claim for property captured by a Vessel of the French Government in the month of December 1800 (after the Signing of the Convention with France, which provided for restitution[)]. Anticipating your desire to withdraw wholly from the...
2204Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 4 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Before answering the queries stated in your letter of this yester day, I must premise that whatever I say, will be founded on the hypothesis that our legislature shall adopt the Central College as the site for the University of Virginia , which of course entitles it to the funds appropriated to that object. 1. my letter to you of Oct. 10. approved by the Visitors
2205To John Adams from Stephen Miller, 5 October 1818 (Adams Papers)
The Office of Navy Agent of this place having become vacant by the death of the late incumbent I am about to apply for the appointment: my brother who is in the Marine Corps & station’d at Washington will ask it of the President for me, but he has suggested to me that a word in my favor from your Son the Secretary of State would have much influence, would it be asking too much Sir, to request...
2206To James Madison from James Monroe, 5 October 1818 (Madison Papers)
I had the pleasure to receive your letter of the 2d. yesterday. We shall set out to morrow & be with you the day after. I am much pushd by many important concerns to get to Washington as soon as possible, but will certainly remain a day with you. Mr Crowninshield has resignd, & that dept., suffers, most essentially in some interesting circumstances. I have thoughts of offering it to Mr Snider...
2207Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 5 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Amant Spreafico , of Nice , to be Consul of that place instead of Victor Adolphus Sasserno deceased. The above is the name of the person at Nice who wishes to be our Consul. he is a very respectable merchant of the place, was connected in the commerce of Sasserno the father , was left guardian of Sasserno the son , the late Consul, and still I believe continues in the same firm & business....
2208From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 6 October 1818 (Adams Papers)
As Mr. & Mrs. Johnson intend leaving us this evening I write you a few lines to assure you of our health and that of the charming family with whom we now are. Caroline and her children are quite well and happy and gave us the cheering welcome of an old and affectionate friend— The situation of Mrs. de Wirts house is beautiful but you have heard too much of it to need any description from me....
2209From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 6 October 1818 (Adams Papers)
6 October Rose early and crossed in the Team Boat to Mrs. de Fish Kiln Landing Mr. de Wint having come over in his Carriage for us—found Caroline at the door who received us in the most affectionate manner and was very much astonished at seeing Mr. & Mrs. Johnson who they did not at all expect I was introduced to Mrs. de Wint a very fine Woman who gave us a kind and warm reception The Verplank...
2210Thomas Jefferson to William Alston, 6 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
While I had the pleasure of being with you at the Warm springs , I took the liberty of recommending to you some wines of France & Italy , with a note of their prices & of the channels thro’ which they may be got. but instead of calling for them on my recommendation only, I have thought it better that you should have samples to direct your choice. for in nothing have the habits of the palate...
2211Thomas Jefferson to James Breckinridge, 6 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
You have had a right to suppose me very unmindful of my promise to furnish you with drawings for your Courthouse . yet the fact is not so. a few days after I parted with you, the use of the waters of the warm spring began to affect me sensibly & unfavorably, and at length produced serious imposthume & eruption, with fever, colliquative sweats, & extreme debility. these sufferings aggravated by...
2212Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 6 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Sep. 21. reached me on the 28. and the book which is the subject of it had come to hand by the preceding mail. both found me recovering from a long indisposition, and not yet able to set up to write, but in pain. the reading a 4 to volume of close print is an undertaking which my ordinary occupations and habits of life would not permit me to encounter: nor under any...
2213Thomas Jefferson to William J. Coffee, 6 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of Sep. 26 . the boxes which were the subject of it had been sent off about 3. weeks to the care of Capt Peyton of Richmond to be forwarded to you. until that date the state of the river had been such as that no boat could pass down it. hoping you will have recieved them safely before this gets to hand, I pray you to accept the assurance of my great esteem &...
2214Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 6 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I was a little surprized yesterday, when M. Correa congratulated me on having agreed to come to Charlottesville . This is one of the mistakes so often arising from making a contract, matter of conversation, instead of writing. Therefore, I take the opportunity of the first post-town, to set it right. I was tempted to say, that if the permanent salary were 1500 in lieu of 1000 dollars, I would...
2215Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Dougherty, 6 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I sincerely congratul ate you on the appointment mentioned in your favor of Se p. 21. an d if my testimony in your behalf has contributed to procu re it, it is an additional pleasure. I am just recovering from a long indisposition, and being still unable to set up to write, but in pain, I must place here the assurance of my friendship & best wishes. PoC ( DLC ); on verso of reused address...
2216Thomas Jefferson to Honoré Julien, 6 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, my good friend, for the favors of the cheese & seeds mentioned in your letter of Sep. 11. to have been forwarded to me. if by water, they will probably still come safely to hand: but if by the stage, they h a ve probably stopped at Fredericksburg or at some other stage house by the way. uncertain by what route they have been forwarded, I have been unable to enquire for them. but...
2217Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 6 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night a letter from Cathalan of Aug. 13. informing me he had just recieved some boxes of wine for me from Sasserno , who, of course was then living: but he had not yet recieved his Consular commission. it will be better therefore to await further information, and the rather as, if he be dead, I shall be sure to hear it from Cathalan or Spreafico . perhaps indeed it might be...
2218Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 6 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of Sep. 26. with the inclosed for mr Correa . he & D r Cooper had left us in the morning, & going direct to Philadelphia , I cannot dispose of it better than by returning it to you. I rec d also last night a letter from mr Cathalan , acknoleging the remittance of 2205.ƒ = 420.D.
2219From John Adams to Joseph Wheaton, 7 October 1818 (Adams Papers)
I have not Sooner answered your Letter of the 11th of July because I really knew not what to say to it.— You and I have grievances: but I have no better Advice to give you or myself, than my Friend Otis gave to Molineux, “to put the List in our Pocketts, least the World should laugh at us”— The History of Your Life written by yourself would be as curious and for what I know, as instructive as...
2220To John Adams from Thomas Jefferson, 7 October 1818 (Adams Papers)
It is very long, my dear friend, since I have written to you. the fact is that I have was scarcely at home at all from May to September, and from that time I have been severely indisposed and not yet recovered so far as to sit up to write, but in pain. having been subject to troublesome attacks of rheumatism for some winters past, and being called by other business into the neighborhood of our...
2221To John Adams from Caesar Augustus Rodney, 7 October 1818 (Adams Papers)
Your much esteemed favor of the 26th. ulto. was received, a few days since, when I was occupied at court. My stock of letters & papers, left me, by my father & c uncle, is very large; and it constitutes my principal inheritance, which I prize, beyond any estate, preserved from the wreck of the revolution. The patriotism of that period was without alloy. The perusal of the productions of those...
2222Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 7 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
It is very long, my dear friend, since I have written to you. the fact is that I have was scarcely at home at all from May to September, and from that time I have been severely indisposed and not yet recovered so far as to sit up to write, but in pain. having been subject to troublesome attacks of rheumatism for some winters past, and being called by other business into the neighborhood of our...
2223Thomas Jefferson to Anthony Finley, 7 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
A long absence from home, and long indisposition since my return, and present feeble condition must apologise for this late and short acknolegement of your favor of Aug. 3 . I have abandoned all attention to the editions of the Notes on Virginia since the first Paris & Lon d on editions. both of those were very correct; but I have but a single copy of each which I could not spare; nor would my...
2224Thomas Jefferson to William F. Gray, 7 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
A long indisposition since I returned home must apologise for this late acknolegement of your favor of Aug. 3. and altho on the recovery, I am not yet able to sit at the writing table but in pain. if the University should be established here, a first object for it’s visitors will be to invite a bookseller from Amsterdam to establish a book store at the University for classical & foreign books....
2225Thomas Jefferson to Caesar A. Rodney, 7 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
A long absence from home, my dear friend, and long indisposition since my return, must apologise for this late and short acknolegement of your favor of Aug. 8 . I am on the recovery, but not yet able to set up to write but in pain. I can therefore only return you thanks for the communications of your letter, which strengthen my hopes that our Southern brethren may be able to do as we have...
2226Thomas Jefferson to Robert B. Stark, 7 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
A long absence from home & a longer indisposition since my return, from which I am not yet recovered must apologise for this late acknolegement of your favor of Aug. 20. and the of the offer of the MSS. of the late D r Greenway . his character as a botanist had long been known to me, and a hope entertained that he would have published himself the result of his labors. age has withdrawn me from...
2227From John Jay to Rufus King, 8 October 1818 (Jay Papers)
On Friday last M rs . Hamilton favored us with a Visit.— Speaking of Doct r . Mason, she observed that the State of his Health not permitting him to write the Life of General Hamilton, she had received from him the Papers which had been put into his hands for that purpose.— She expressed her Desire to have the Life written, and remarked in Substance, that she knew of no Person who was both so...
2228Thomas Jefferson to DeWitt Clinton, 8 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Gov r Clinton and his thanks for his memoir on the antiquities of our country. if all those which are spread over the face of the Continent were described with the care which distinguishes this memoir, and brought together, they might elicit some general hypothesis on the nations which preceded us here. if among their remains, any of the hard metals...
2229Thomas Jefferson to Charles G. Haines, 8 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Haines and his thanks for his interesting pamphlet on the great Western canal. he rejoices in the hope that the money which the old world has wasted in eternal wars, and which might have made a garden of the whole globe, if so applied, is likely, by the US . to be employed not for the destruction of man, but for his happiness. he salutes him with...
2230James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, [ca. 8 October 1818] (Jefferson Papers)
I was much gratified in learning from the President that you were so well recovering from the attack your health suffered beyond the mountains. I wish I could join you at the meeting of the visitors on monday, & attend also that of the Agricultural Society . But circumstances do not allow me that pleasure. RC ( ViU: TJP ); undated fragment; with a later attached slip in an unidentified hand...
2231From John Adams to William Mumford, 9 October 1818 (Adams Papers)
Though I have no intercourse with government, and very little to do with this world; I might have transmitted your letter of July 7th. to the President, if I had thought that either of the Floridas was ours. But knowing the fact to be otherwise, it would have been trifling to solicit a Secretaryship or Judgeship in such a territory. You might with more propriety apply to the Hyper honourable...
2232Lewis D. Belair to Thomas Jefferson, 9 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I Have the Honour to here Inclose a Consise Catalogue of a valuable Collection of Books Just Rec d : I shall be Highly Honourd to Receive your order. RC ( MHi ); endorsed by TJ as received 22 Oct. 1818 and so recorded in SJL . RC ( DLC ); address cover only; with PoC of TJ to Joseph Jones, 15 Jan. 1819 , on verso; addressed: “Thomas Jefferson Esq e Montecelo Milton V a
2233To John Adams from Hezekiah Niles, 10 October 1818 (Adams Papers)
I have the pleasure to return to my dear friend Rodney’s letter, with a copy of your interesting correspondence, published in this day’s Register: Permit me to tender you my thanks for the favor conferred in sending it to me. Your 14th vol & the Genl. Index I expect have reached Boston before this time. I thank you for the copies of Dr. Mayhew’s sermons. I Shall publish some extracts from to...
2234From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 10 October 1818 (Adams Papers)
Exoterick and Esoterick Doctrine. See the American Encyclopedia Tit. Exoterick: the French, Title Exoterique; the Dictionaire de Trêvoux, the Same Title, Stephens’s Thesaurus Tit. Exotericus, Gesners Dictionary Tit. Exotericus, and Acroaticus, Fabers Thesaurus Tit. Exotericus. See Also Herodotus Diadorus Siculus, Pausanias Strabo, Plutarch, Aetius , Aristotle Cicero and Aulus Gellius. See also...
2235From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, [ca. 10 October] 1818 (Madison Papers)
I was much gratified in learning from the President that you were so well recovering from the attack your health suffered beyond the mountains. I wish I could join you at the meeting of the Visitors on Monday, & attend also that of the Agricultural Society. But circumstances do not allow me that pleasure. RC ( ViU ). 1 p. Fragment. Undated. Unsigned. Conjectural date assigned on the basis of...
2236From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 11 October 1818 (Adams Papers)
I am really grieved at your Misfortune, if it were only on the Principle of Rochefaucault and Swift, that “In all Misfortunes of our Friends We first Consult our private Ends.” I lost a long expected and desired Visit. But when I reflect that your head might have been precipitated into the magnificent Entrance into the Domicil of a Woodchuck, I am Seized with horror. A late Experiment in...
2237From John Adams to Peter Paul Francis Degrand, 12 October 1818 (Adams Papers)
I can express my Feelings on the Recipt of your favour of the 5th of this month, only by my Thanks for your Politeness in Sending me from your own Stores a case of your excellent Hermitage Wine. I have long since taken a final Leave of my old and dear Friend Wine— Could I obtain the Common Wine of Burgundy, which I have heretofore purchased for two Louis a Burrique, or the Bino de Pais which I...
2238Josiah Meigs to Thomas Jefferson, 12 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honour to present, with this, two Copies of Abstracts of Calculations to ascertain the Longitude of the Capitol .—and I take the liberty to express a wish that further efforts may be made to effect this object— A private Citizen, of the illustrious character of M r Jefferson , can give to every useful object an impulse which multitudes could not effect. RC ( DLC ); at foot of text:...
2239Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 13 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
The rain now falling will I think enable Johnson ’s boats to go down. I send him therefore a box of wine for Col o Allston of Charleston which I have taken the liberty of addressing to your care to be forwarded. I think you formerly advertised spun cotton for sale; I must request you to send me 150. ℔ of what runs 5. yds to the ℔. if you have it not yourself, you will do me the favor to get...
2240From James Madison to Benjamin Fry, 14 October 1818 (Madison Papers)
I should very readily offer you any information or advice which might be useful in the pursuit of your claim for the loss referred to in your letter of the 4th. inst: but the great lapse of time has effaced from my memory, if it ever possessed, any circumstances which are not preserved in the Department of State, or can be furnished by yourself: and with respect to the course now remaining to...
2241Honoré Julien to Thomas Jefferson, 14 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
jais eu Lhoneur de Recevoir votre Letre en Date du 6 —justant qui maprend que vous navez pas Recut qui Contient Le fromagé et Les graines que je vous Envoie .…. et en voila La Cause Cest que jesperois vous La faire parvenir par La Ligne des Stages—mais Les Stage najant pas voulut Sen Chargé Cest Ce qui a Causé Le Retard—jais prié une personne qui Etoit a washington et qui Demeure a Richmond de...
2242Victor Adolphus Sasserno to Thomas Jefferson, 14 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
The letter i had the honour of writing to you last August 18. made you Know that i had sent you, through M r Cathalan , Six chests holding 300 bottles Bellet’s wine; these, i am told by M r Cathalan have been stoped in Marseilles till now for want of ships Sailing for your ports. ’tis very unpleasant, however, i hope, this delay will not hinder their arriving at their destination before the...
2243To John Adams from William John Coffee, 16 October 1818 (Adams Papers)
The Subject of which I write I believ you are Acquainted with by the Honorabl Thos Jefferson & lines he wrote to me relates to my being Employed—to take a Small Bust of you Head—I have being Employed by Mr J. Madison & his Excellence Mr Munro & many others of celebrity—in June last at Monticelo Mr Jefferson Inform’d me he had wrote to you on the Subject and of you willingness to admit me to...
In Joke while I was in Boston you one day said you would lend your Books to your Uncle Tom in New Orleans I then laughed at the idea but on arriving here he I found a Letter from him in which he requests such a loan from your father and as I know that in that way it would be difficult to procure them you would be rendering me a most essential service if you send a box of them to him which he...
2245Mathew Carey to Thomas Jefferson, 16 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour of the 6 th which I duly rec d is before me. I feel the justice and propriety of the objection you make to comply with my request on the subject of Baines , which was manifestly incorrect, and which I hope you will have the goodness to excuse. I was induced to make it at the urgent instances of Rev. M r Weems , contrary in truth to my own opinion of right. It is not the first, by...
2246Anonymous Republicans in Charleston, South Carolina, to Thomas Jefferson, 16 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Knowing it will give you great pleasure to hear that your old and valued friend M r Charles Pinckney has after much intreating, complied very reluctantly with the wishes of his Republican friends— to become a Candidate in order to keep a very able and popular Federalist General Huger from Representing Charleston in Congress, we have the pleasure to inform you that after the warmest contest...
2247John Barnes to Thomas Jefferson, 17 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I am under great concern indeed on hearing your present indispo si tion hath deprived you of enjoying your accustomed exercise on horseback—may we hope you will soon partake of so beneficial a restorer of health:—do I pray you afford me the consolation wished for.— Respecting the late General Kosciusko ’s affairs, presume nothing particular has occured.— I have often thought and wished, you...
2248Enclosure: John Barnes’s Account with Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 17 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Gen l Thad s Kosciusko in account with John Barnes . 1816 Nov r 26 To amount of balance due J.B. as per a/c rendered
2249John Wayles Eppes to Thomas Jefferson, 17 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
The various rumours which have reached us as to the state of your health have been such as to excite serious apprehension and alarm on the part of your friends—All the recent accounts concur in representing you as entirely well or so far recovered as no longer to cause anxiety on the part of your friends—accept my congratulations on an event which I am certain no human being can hale with more...
2250Joseph Milligan to Thomas Jefferson, 17 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have sent you by this days mail a full Copy of the political Economy If you think there should be an Index or table of Contents please send it by mail as soon as you can as that is all that will now delay the publication RC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ as received 22 Oct. 1818 and so recorded in SJL . RC ( DLC ); address cover only; with PoC of TJ to Milligan, 12 Jan. 1819 , on verso; addressed:...