2221Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 12 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letter, my dear friend, is too long for me to copy, and yet I wish you to know it’s contents. when therefore you have read it, be so good as to stick a wafer in it & have it delivered. perhaps indeed it would not be amiss for you to call with it yourself, as mr Poletika might wish to make some enquiry of you. as the French quotation from Gen l Kosciuzko ’s last letter to me is an...
2222Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 7 April 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of Mar. 26. is duly recieved and I am truly thankful to you for your kind attention to the busts, which I have no doubt I shall safely recieve through the hands of Col o Peyton . I learn with pleasure the continuance of your health. that bodily activity should decline with age is a law of nature. I am very little able to walk, but I ride daily and without fatigue, and otherwise enjoy a...
2223From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 30 November 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 22 d is but just recieved, and I am able to answer myself your very kind enquiries after my health, the fracture I met with was as slight a case of the kind as could happen. how fortunate, for example, that it was neither a leg nor a thigh: that it was not my right arm: that, of my left, it was the smallest bone, and that a skilful Surgeon attended promptly. you see...
2224Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 21 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Believing you knew Martin Wanscher , to whom the inclosed letter is addressed, my letter to you was so short as to be unintelligible. he was a plaisterer living in Alexandria , and was the one I employed to come on and plaister my house, which he did about 10. years ago, and returned to Alexandria . he was a German, and I suppose from his acquaintance with me, instructed his friends in Germ a...
2225Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 25 September 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieve this day your favor of the 18 th which gives me the welcome information of the continuance of your good health. I have recieved a letter from mr Lear , admr of Gen l Kosciuzko , requesting me to transmit to him the original certificates of stock which constitute the property of the General which was in our hands. I do so in the letter now inclosed, which I leave open for your perusal...
2226Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 16 October 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I this moment and at this place recieve your favor of the 5 th with mr Lear’s reciept for the original certificates of Gen l Kosciusko of which I think it a duty to give you immediate notice to place you at ease, & to assure you as ever of my constant and aff te frdshp & respect Dft ( MHi ); on verso of RC of Barnes to TJ, 5 Oct. 1821
2227Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 11 November 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I take up my pen merely to answer the kind anxiety you are so good as to express in yours of the 17 th Oct. respecting my health. I am recovering steadily but have not yet got out of doors; but I think within a very few days I shall be able to get on my horse, to me the most sovereign of all Doctors. Affectionately Adieu. PoC ( MHi ); on verso of reused address cover of John H. Hall to TJ, 15...
2228From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 4 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
The book you were so kind as to have sent to me came safe. so rarely are US. bk. bills to be seen here that my correspdt in Charlottesville was not able to find for me a 10. D. bill of that kind till yesterday. I now inclose it with 2. D. in silver to make up the 12. D. you have been so kind as to pay for me. with my thanks for this accept assurances of my constant esteem & respect. MHi .
2229Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 28 June 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I know not from whom or what quarter the inclosed letter to Wanscher comes, nor whether he is still living. I suppose it is from Germany , and invoke your charity to dispose of it according to circumstances. I do it with the more pleasure as it gives me new occasion to repeat to you the assurances of my constant friendship and respect. PoC ( MHi ); on verso of reused address cover of William...
2230From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 5 February 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to pay to Col o Jon Trumbull the sum of 65.25 & have been expecting to hear of his arrival at Wash n which he informed me he should visit this winter. not hearing of it however & not knowing where else to place it at his command, I have thought you would do me the favor to recieve it and hold it subject to his order. I have therefore this day desired Col o Bernard Peyton, my correspdt...
2231From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 3 June 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your habitual kindness to me occasions me to trouble you oftner than I ought to do . a gentleman now here informs me he saw a book in the bookstore of a mr Thomson in Wash n so recently published in England that I did not expect a copy had got to America. it is Jones Greek and English Lexicon, costing in England 30.ƒ. sterl. or 6.67 for which however he says mr T. asked 12.D. an advance of 80....
2232Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 17 May 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 12 th is received a nd I am happy to find that the General ’s distresses have been so happily relieved. I am in hopes the regular course of commerce now will enable us to prevent any such recurrence of want to him. I am equally gratified by the prospect of seeing you here once more: and as I pass much of the temperate seasons at Poplar Forest , to prevent the danger of my losing...
2233Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 7 December 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Nov. 31 (for Dec. 1. I suppose) came to hand last night, and your communication of my letter to mr Adams is entirely approved, as our friendly sentiments are fully reciprocal. no one can sympathise with him on his late loss more sincerely than I do. I am withdrawing from newspapers, and therefore write the inclosed for the editors of the National Intelligencer, which I leave open...
2234Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 23 March [1820] (Jefferson Papers)
Your kind letter of Feb. 19. has been some time at h and , but my health and the injunctions of my physician make me slow & short in answers. I thank you for taking up my letter to mr Binns , and now inclose the 10.D. you were so kind as to pay for me. the best way of forwarding me the print of the Decln of Independance, will be to roll it on a light roller of wood, and wrap it in strong...
2235Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 21 December 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, dear Sir, for your settlement with Gales and Seaton for me, and I now inclose you 7. Dollars reimbursement in Richmond bills, which I hope may be readily disposed of with you. I find myself quite restored in health and strength and feel much indebted to my friends for the their solicitudes and enquiries on the occasion. to yourself I tender assurances of my constant friendship &...
2236Enclosure: Joseph Milligan to John Barnes, 18 June 1817, with John Barnes’s Note to Thomas Jefferson, 11 July [1817] (Jefferson Papers)
I received the Box of Books from M r Jefferson that he Sent to be bound they are now in the hands of one of my young men and will be finished in ten days also the book of tables which you brought will be bound in the Same time I will Send them all to Fredericksburg about the 6th or 7th of July that they may meet M r Jefferson on his return to Monticello July. 11 th yesterday M r Milligan...
2237Thomas Jefferson to William Barraclough, 13 May 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved, Sir, the little book of poems you have been so kind as to send me , and thank you for it as a mark of respect: but at the age of 77. our passion for poetry is gone, and the imagination become too torpid to taste it’s beauties, or to criticise it’s merits. I have no doubt that younger readers will do justice to yours; and, with my wishes that your poems may find abundance of...
2238From Thomas Jefferson to William Barret, 30 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
At the date of my letter of the last month I thought I could not be surer of any thing than that I could within a few days remit you 750.D. I had the flour waiting in my mill for a shower only to enable boats to go down. yet so obstinate has been the drought that it was not till the day before yesterday that a fortunate rain enabled me to send off some boat loads, the sale of which will enable...
2239Thomas Jefferson to William Barret, 12 February 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday evening your favor of the 5 th inst. I am one of those who during the flood of bank-currency which deluged us, unwarily contracted debts, which had the times continued the same, would have given me no trouble; but by the sudden reduction of that, and the fall of produce from tha t cause and the failure of market, I am left in the lurch, these debts being now fully trebled....
2240From Thomas Jefferson to William Barret, 4 August 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 7 th of July I rec d from mr Sam l Garland a letter dated Lynchbg July 3. stating that he had withdrawn my bond to Millar from yourself and that he insisted on payment of it’s balance during the current year. I had considered this as deciding that the must be paid within the course of the current year. myself and my grandson Th:J. R. (into whose hands I had committed all my affairs with...
2241Thomas Jefferson to William Barret, 5 September 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I failed wholly in the payment to mr Miller which I should have made in March last, from circumstances it was not in my power to controul. that due this day shall be made within a very few days , by an order for 750.D. on Col o Bernard Peyton . I have no reason to doubt that I shall be able to make good the succeeding payments as stipulated; except that the next, due in March next, cannot be...
2242Thomas Jefferson to William Barret, 5 March 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
According to promise in mine of Feb. 12. I am now enabled to state specifically the instalments by which I shall be enabled able to discharge my debt to mr Miller . that is to say, I can pay immediately 750.D. and the same sum every 6. months until the whole is discharged, which I hope will be acceptable to you. I am sure you are sensible that the farmer getting less than 2.D. a barrel clear...
2243Thomas Jefferson to William Barret, 17 August 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you Alexander Garrett ’s order on Mess rs Eustace and M c Namara in fav r of V. W. Southall for 500.D. which be pleased to recieve in part of the 750.D. I ought soon to pay to the credit of my bond to mr B. Miller . the balance shall follow as promptly as in my power. Accept the assurances of my great esteem & respect PoC (
2244From James Madison to William T. Barry, 30 December 1826 (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd the copy of your Eulogy on Adams Jefferson & Shelby; and I can not return you my thanks without alluding to the particular value given to it by facts which it records; as well as to the additional interest it derives from the glowing patriotism which pervades it. May I remark at the same time that it has not escaped circumstancial errors which will probably be corrected by a...
2245From James Madison to William T. Barry, 4 August 1822 (Madison Papers)
I recd. some days ago your letter of June 30, and the printed Circular to which it refers. The liberal appropriations made by the Legislature of Kentucky for a general System of Education can not be too much applauded. A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or perhaps both. Knowlege will for ever govern...
2246From John Adams to William Taylor Barry, 21 July 1822 (Adams Papers)
I know not that I ever received a letter with more pleasure than yours of the 30 June last except the circular from your committee which I received some days before. The wisdom & liberality generosity of your Legislature in making a liberal appropriation of money for the benefit of schools Academies colleges & the university is an equal honor to them & their constituents—a proof of their...
2247Thomas Jefferson to William T. Barry, 2 July 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 15 th of June is recieved, and I am very thankful for the kindness of it’s expressions respecting myself. but it ascribes to me merits which I do not claim. I was one only of a band devoted to the cause of independance, all of whom exerted equally their best endeavors for it’s success, and have a common right to the merits of it’s acquisition. so also in the civil revolution...
2248From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Bartlett, 16 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your fav r of the 4 th inst. has been rec d I am too much enfeebled by age to write letters, and am obliged therefore to withdraw from that labor. I return you the letters of mr Adams & mr Gherry which you would doubtless desire to keep, and with every wish for your health & well-being pray you to accept my best respects DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
2249From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Bartlett, 9 February 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I rec d some days since your favor of Jan. 7. and with it a copy of your Aphorisms for which accept my thanks. the patronage you quote of the mr Adamses, Hancock & Gerry is a sufficient voucher that your course has been meritorious, and doubtless those who have been witnesses of it will take an interest in it’s being closed in comfort. the testimony of the Psalmist is encoraging to the good....
2250From James Madison to Ira Barton, 5 September 1822 (Madison Papers)
J.M. with his respects to Mr. Barton returns the thanks for his Oration, which are due as well to its merits, as to the Politeness of Mr. B. in forwarding a Copy. Draft ( DLC ). Ira Barton, An Oration, Delivered at Oxford, on the Forty-Sixth Anniversary of American Independence (Cambridge, Mass., 1822; Shoemaker 7968). Ira Barton (1796–1867) graduated from Brown University in 1819 and...