14641To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Coolidge, 5 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
After ascertaining the name of the best clock-maker in this place, I called upon him with the memorandum you had given me; he asked a few days to make his calculations, and then answered that a first-rate time-keeper, warranted to perform satisfactorily, and of the size wanted for the Rotunda, would cost eight hundred dollars: for this sum he engages to make “as good a clock as can be found in...
14642From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 5 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved, the day before yesterday, Judge Dade’s final answer declining our law-chair, and yesterday I gave the information to the Visitors. I informed them at the same time that your health was so far restored as to give me hopes you might now accept it, and I referred to them to determine whether they would chuse to have a meeting to make a choice, or, recurring at once to their first...
14643From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin A. Gould, 5 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I am much indebted to you, Sir, for your present of the bust of my friend mr Adams. without knowing exactly the precise period at which it was taken, I think it a good likeness of what he was a little after he had past the middle age of life. it recieved a little injury by fracture, but the parts are preserved, and, being on the back part, can be repaired without disfiguring it. I place it...
14644To Thomas Jefferson from William F. Gray, 5 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The last evenings mail from the west brought me the 47 th and 48 th nos. of the North American Review, which I had heretofore sent to you; and also your letter explaining the cause of your returning them. I understood your letter of 16 th March as interdicting my sending you the Edinburg Review, alone, and not as applying to the North American Review, otherwise I should not have taken the...
14645To Thomas Jefferson from George Hancock, 5 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
A large portion of the last five years I have devoted to the collection of Minerals particularly those to be found in the western part of Virginia and The States of Tennessee and Ky. the collection consists of about 600 specimens many of them rare, and among them a large collection of Organic remains, I have also a very pretty collection of Shells probably the most perfect in this state— I had...
14646To Thomas Jefferson from John Neal, 5 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours (with no date), arrived yesterday. Allow me to thank you, for your kindness, in replying so fully. It has enabled me to communicate with mr Rey, in a very satisfactory shape. He was much afraid that his letter, or mine, had miscarried. But I knew your habits—the multitude of your engagements, and attributed the delay, partly to those engagements, and partly to your having no such news to...
14647From Thomas Jefferson to John Henry Sherburne, 5 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns thanks to mr Sherburne for the copy of the life of the Cheval r J. P. Jones which he has recieved (he presumes) from him. he does not doubt he shall find in it many pleasing reminiscences of this his friend, and worthy patriot and souldier. NjMoHP : Smith Collection.
14648To Thomas Jefferson from William Jones, 6 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to interrupt your repose so far as to make some enquiry respecting your seminary of Education at Charlottesville in the Vicinity of your Residence. I have a Son now at Oxford whose Intelect is Judged to be promising, having a very slender Education myself such only as a common country school would afford 35 years past I am not capable of Judging the boys capacity with that accuteness...
14649From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Moore, 6 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of 2 d proposing to our University the purchase of a mineralogical collection. we do not propose to go in that line further than mere utility, and have already by donations such a collection as we can well proceed on. others are expected, and particularly we count on the future efforts of our own eleves to make the collection what it should be, and enable us to...
14650From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Vidua, 6 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved, dear Sir, your favor of July 24, and congratulate you on your safe return to our Eastern border. I hope you found in the Nat. bridge a compensn for the labor of the visit to it. and the valley thence back to Harper’s ferry will have presented you an interesting country. In answer to your kind enquiries after my health, it continues much as it was when you were here. I...