3301To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas S. Towler, 21 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I am anxious to have some information respecting the University of Virginia; and not being acquainted, with iether of the Professors of that Department (viz medical) of which I wish to have a more particular knowledge; I Shall be very much obliged, if you will be pleased, to answer the following questions.— Who are its professors & from what parts of the World are they? On what branches, of...
3302To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Worthington, 21 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honour to enclose you a letter on the Subject of the large cucumbers. The writer M r Case is a member of the ohio Legislature of Known Truth & integrity so that I have no doubt of the truth of the facts as stated. In my next I hope to have the pleasure to send you some of the seeds CSmH .
3303To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 20 January 1826 (Madison Papers)
Circular It is with the sincerest regret I inform you that we are likely to be again at default for our Professor of law. Mr. Gilmer’s situation is become decidedly pulmonary and hopeless. He has not yet been made sensible of the real character of his case and therefore only notifies me in a letter that it is certain he shall not be in health for the commencement of the term, and suggests the...
3304From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Carrington Cabell, 20 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Under a different cover I send a Circular on the subject of our Law Professor; and to save writing, which is laborious to me, I must pray my Colleagues on the Assembly to consider the single copy as addressed equally to all My grandson Tho s J. Randolph attends the legislature on a subject of ultimate importance to my future happiness. My own debts were considerable, and a loss was added to...
3305From Thomas Jefferson to University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 20 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Circular It is with the sincerest regret I inform you that we are likely to be again at default for our Professor of law. M r Gilmer’s situation is become decidedly pulmonary and hopeless. he has not yet been made sensible of the real character of his case and therefore only notifies me in a letter that it is certain he shall not be in health for the commencement of the term, and suggests the...
3306Thomas Jefferson’s Thoughts on Lotteries, ca. 20 Jan. 1826, 20 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Thoughts on Lotteries, and that on particularly which is now asked It is a common idea that games of chance are immoral. but what is Chance? nothing happens in this world without a cause. if we know the cause , we do not call it chance; but if we do not know it we say it was produced by Chance. if we see a lo a ded die turn it’s lightest side up, we know the cause and that it is not an effect...
3307To John Adams from Ward Nicholas Boylston, 19 January 1826 (Adams Papers)
It has been a great mortification to me, that in every attempt in every direction I have sought, I did not untill yesterday, succeed, in procureing the two Barrels of Cyder now sent—its declared to me, to be three years old, its perfectly clear & fit for immediate use. I wish you to taste it, & let me know if the quality that suits your palate—I have also sent half a Dozen pints of the same...
3308To James Madison from Thomas W. Cobb, 19 January 1826 (Madison Papers)
The States of Georgia and Alabama are about to run the boundary line between them, according to the articles of agreement and cession concluded between the United States and Georgia in 1802. One of the persons appointed by the State of Georgia has written to me, suggesting certain difficulties, and requesting me to apply to you and Mr Gallatin, (the only surviving Commissioners who made the...
3309From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 18 January 1826 (Adams Papers)
I have received your letter inclosing the letters from Mr Basset and Mr. Custis Congress had resolved, but I believe not passed int o a law, to erect a monument to President Washington; but they passed resolutions requesting the then President to write a letter to Mrs. Washington soliciting her consent to have her remains removed, to be entombed with those of her Husband in the City of...
3310From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 18 January 1826 (Adams Papers)
I have received your letter inclosing the letters from Mr Basset and Mr. Custis Congress had resolved,—but I believe not passed int a law, to erect a monument to President Washington,—but they passed resolutions requesting the then President to write a letter to Mrs. Washington, soliciting her consent to have her remains removed, to be entombed with those of her Husband in the City of...
3311From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas J. Rogers, 18 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to mr Rogers for the copy of his 3 d edition of his Biographical Dictionary which he has been so kind as to send him. he sees with pleasure so many worthy names rescued from oblivion, and he hopes that a ready demand for them will continue to call for renewed and enlarged editions. he salutes mr Rogers with esteem & respect. MHi .
3312From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 18 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 11 th is recieved. those of Nov. 2. and Dec. 14. had been so in due time. I suppose I had not acknoleged them specifically from being perhaps too lazy to recur to them while writing mine of the 3 d I thank you for your information from mr Boyé and shall desire the instruments to remain in their present position until I can find a safe and gentle conveyance and give an order for...
3313To James Madison from Peter S. Du Ponceau, 17 January 1826 (Madison Papers)
I have received the Letter you have done me the honor to write to me, with the pamphlet containing your Report of 1798 for Genl. Lafayette, which I shall not fail to transmit to him by the first opportunity, & for which I know he will be very thankful; for he has made repeated applications to me to procure it for him, until, at last, in despair of otherwise Succeeding, I took the liberty of...
3314To Thomas Jefferson from Francis B. Dyer, 17 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
The Subscription for building the Episcopal Church in this place, has been transferred to one of my clients, of which you appear to be indebted one third of y r subscription the 1 st ult.—He is much in want of the money, and if convenient would be thankful to you for the amt. say $66:66— Be pleased to accept a good Rock Fish, which my servant carries MHi .
3315To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Tornquist, 17 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
The vessel which was to bring the other half of the Cabinet, being now only arrived at Boston, it is the cause why the Lines you honoured me with on the 8 th Decb r have not been answered sooner.— I take herewith the liberty of handing you an other Catalogue, with the prices annexed to it: The Instruments being Superior in workmanship, & finish, as those made for mere school use, Some articles...
3316Francis Tornquist to UNKNOWN, 17 Jan. 1826, 17 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Electrical apparatus in New York N o 1 $ s 500 〃 6 〃 300 〃 7 〃 175 〃 60 〃 11 〃
3317From James Madison to Thomas J. Rogers, 16 January 1826 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your favour of the 5th. inst; with a copy of the 3d. Edition of your Biographical Remembrancer. I observe that you have increased its value by lengthening the Roll of deceased Worthies selected for its pages. You justly regard such a task as saving from oblivion merits & memories to which posterity ought to be enabled to do justice. It is indeed from such materials that some of...
3318To Thomas Jefferson from Mann A. Page, 16 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
It being my wish to return to the University the next session—and my circumstances being allmost too limited to allow my doing so without some assistance independent of my friends. I have determined to become an applicant for the place of Librarian to our University—a residence at the University as a student at the last session—has impressed upon me the many advantages resulting to me—from a...
3319To John Adams from Charles Francis Adams, 15 January 1826 (Adams Papers)
An unaccountable fit of dullness and inability to do any thing, prevented my writing to you on last Sunday, the weather is of such a nature as to create languor to an astonishing degree. It is very warm and humid which produces colds almost universally. Our family has not escaped for my brother and Elizabeth have both been affected and I although free from cold, have not been in a State to...
3320To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 15 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
The communication which you made to me when last at your house, of the correspondence between you & M r Giles, in reference to a communication made to you by Mr Adams, pending the embargo, of certain combinations which menacd the union, & producd its repeal, has engaged my attention since, as far as the urgent business in which I have been engaged would permit. I have reflected more on it,...
3321To Thomas Jefferson from John Taliaferro, 15 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor of waiting upon you, some short time since as a Candidate for the office of Librarian. and being informed that certificates of my character and qualifications would be necessary. I intended to have gone down, for the purpose of obtaining them, but in consequence of business which called me over to Staunton, and which detained me there some time. I have been compelled to write...
3322From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 14 January 1826 (Adams Papers)
Permit me to introduce to your acquaintance, a young Lawyer by the name of Josiah Quincy, and with the title of Coll. being an Aid to our Governor. The name of Coll. Quincy has never I believe been extinct for two hundred years. He is a Son of our excellent Mayor of the City of Boston and possesses a character unstained and irreproachable. I applaud his ambition to visit Monticello and its...
3323To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 14 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to introduce to your acquaintance, a young Lawyer by the name of Josiah Quincy, and with the title of Col l being an Aid to our Governor. The name of Col l Quincy has never I believe been extinct for two hundred years. He is a son of our excellent Mayor of the City of Boston and possesses a character unstained and irreproachable. I applaud his ambition to visit Monticello and its...
3324To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Walker Gilmer, 14 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I have delayed perhaps longer than I ought informing you, that the state of my health renders it impossible I should join the university by February. For my own part, I have been so long sick, & growing worse, that I have little hope of ever being good for any thing again. I know the delicacy which the interests of the university requires. There will be a considerable law class concevened...
3325To Thomas Jefferson from Isaac Harby, 14 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
The honour of a Letter from M r Jefferson was beyond my most pleasing anticipations. A copy of the “discourse” was naturally addressed to that man whose great object during a long and glorious life, has ever been the improvement and happiness of his fellow creatures. You, Sir, stand as a pillar of light directing the march of our country through the darkness of political bondage, into the...
3326To Thomas Jefferson from Nathaniel Macon, 14 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to introduce to your acquaintance & attention, my much esteemed friend and relation Judge Henry Seawell of Raleigh, who will hand you this, he is a worthy man of the old republican school in politics, & will I am sure recieve your kind civilities which will add another to the many obligations already conferred: He will take a son with him, who he is anxious to place in the Virginia...
3327To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 14 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I have executed an important, but painful duty with mr Goodwyn, & am on the point of setting out for Loudon. I should have called to bid you farewell, but the weather is so unfavorable, & I am press’d so earnestly by letters from Loudon to hurry back there, that I have not a moment to spare, especially as you will make a just allowance for the omission. For your health and welfare, you have my...
3328To Thomas Jefferson from James Pleasants, 14 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I trust to your goodness to excuse the liberty I take in addressing this letter to you, the object of which is to ask the favour of you to address a note to the proper authority of the University, to secure a place for the ensuing session in one of the dormitories for my son Hugh Rose Pleasants; his location at an hotel also if it can with propriety be engaged & will not impose too much on...
3329From Thomas Jefferson to Opie Norris, 13 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Age and ill health having since rendered me unequal to the management , of my affairs, it is some years since I have committed them entirely to the direction of my gr-son Th: J. R. who, as my atty in fact, has full and entire authority over them. to him therefore I have sent your letter of yesterday, and beg leave to refer you to him, as whatever he will do on the subject of the letter is the...
3330From James Madison to Ebenezer Bancroft Williston, 12 January 1826 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of Decr. 30 has been duly recd. Whatever pleasure I might feel in aiding you in the object which it communicates, I know not that I should be justified, especially from recollections after such a lapse of time, in pronouncing on the comparative merits of Congressional Speeches during the period to which you refer. The best I can do is to comply as far as I can with your other...
3331To Thomas Jefferson from Jonathan Thompson, 12 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received by the Brig Clarice, Cap t Oxnard from Mess rs Dodge & Oxnard. Marseilles. a letter for you, with a bill of lading and invoice of eleven cases of wine, oil, anchovies, and macaroni, which I have caused to be entered, and have paid the duty thereon. a particular account of which is herewith transmitted. I also enclose the letter & invoice received. together with a bill of lading...
3332To Thomas Jefferson from Herman Boye, 11 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
M r William Short of this City, called on me this morning, in relation to those instruments which you had the kindness to lend me. I regret exceedingly that you should have had the smallest degree of trouble on account of their not been returned before this time. It was my intention, as soon as I had completed the Map of Virginia, to have returned them in person, or to have delivered them to...
3333To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 11 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 3 d inst. was received here the day before yesterday. It was not until today that I was able to find Mr Boyé—Here is what I learned from him. Being desirous to return the instruments to you in person he deposited them in a place of perfect safety when he left Richmond for the North, to await his return—He feels great regret at having thus detained them from you after they...
3334To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 10 January 1826 (Adams Papers)
The enclosed papers numbered 1. and 2. are copies 1 Of a Letter from Mr Bassett, Chairman of a Committee of the House of Representatives of the United States to me. 2 Of a Letter from Mr G. W. P. Custis to him, enclosed by him in his own Letter to me, and referred to in it. I am to request you to have the goodness to state, whether your recollection coincides with that of Mr Custis, with...
3335From James Madison to Peter S. Du Ponceau, 10 January 1826 (Madison Papers)
On the receipt of yours of the 4th. I made search on my Book Shelves, for a copy of the printed Document to which you refer; but without success. And I know not that one is to be procured in this neighbourhood. From a late notice in a Newspaper of Richmond, where it was originally published, it is questionable whether a copy be attainable even there. That you may not be altogether...
3336From Thomas Jefferson to Powhatan Ellis, 10 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I pray you to be assured I should not have been so late in answering your favor of Dec. 22. had it depended on myself alone. but letters on the subject of yours are so numerous that to answer them severally would be to me impossible, and it was not till yesterday that I was able to get from our printer a printed form. I now enclose one of these which will answer all the enquiries of your...
3337From Thomas Jefferson to R.H. Gardiner, 10 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the copy of the Laws of the Gardiner Museum which you have been so kind as to send me. the experiment is interesting, and a knolege of it’s success desirable. we propose a small attempt only at trusting the Students with self-govmt; but we have not yet entered on it. our youths have some objns to it, which I think we shall remove, I know it has succeeded well on the continent...
3338To Thomas Jefferson from Harrison Hall, 10 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 3 rd instant reached me a day or two since. Your wishes in regard to the Port Folio shall be complied with tho I regret the cause of the erasure of your name from our list of subscribers— I yesterday received $20 from Col Bernard Peyton, of which he desired me to give you information—I should be glad to have for the Port Folio a drawing of the College at Charlotteville...
3339From Thomas Jefferson to John Mclean, 10 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you many thanks for your kind attention to the request of my letter of the 30 th Ult. the arrangement you have made will fully answer our purposes, and I would not on any consideration have wished you to infringe any rule of your office. equal justice to all is the polar star which keeps the public man always safe in his course, and blameless. and the measure you have taken for us...
3340To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 10 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I regret that it will not be in my power to dine with you to day—Judge Nelson is with me & I cannot leave him. I will be with you as soon as in my power, and certainly as much as the urgent state of my affairs will permit. I hope that you were not injurd, by your ride, on yesterday. MHi .
3341From Thomas Jefferson to Edward A. Turpin, 10 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Dec. 14. came to hand yesterday, and I now inclose you a copy of the laws and construction of our University with a notice of the terms of board, tuition E t c. the general plan of the buildings is too large and heavy for the mail, and no special drawings exist. our family recollects your visit with great pleasure, and were disappointed in not seeing you on your return in the...
3342From Thomas Jefferson to Claiborne W. Gooch, 9 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of Dec. 31. and fear with you all the evils which the present lowering aspect of our political horison so ominously portends. that, at some future day, which I hoped to be very distant, the free principles of our government might change, with the change of circumstances, was to be expected. but I certainly did not expect that they would not over-live the...
3343From Thomas Boylston Adams to John Bailey, 8 January 1826 (Adams Papers)
You was kind enough to send me a Copy of the Message, for which I thank you. By an arrangement made with my Nephew, Mr J Adams, I receive the documents and Mr Hobart has forwarded a set to my Father. I do not remember ever to have read abler state papers from each department. As you are well acquainted with the forms of Office, I wish to call your attention to an application I made to the...
3344To Thomas Jefferson from Jefferson Neilson, 8 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Desirous of entering the Senior Class of Centre College, I am Induced to write these few lines for the purpose of ascertaining what attainments are requisite, and when the next Session commences, also the necessary expenses for the Sessions and the number of Students that are now in College, and whether the Students are permitted to board in private houses. By answering these questions you...
3345From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 8 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I have for some time entertained the hope that your affairs being once wound up, your mind would cease to look back on them, and resume the calm so necessary to your own happiness, and that of your family and friends; and especially that you would return again to their society. I hope there remains no reason now to delay this longer, and that you will rejoin our table and fireside as...
3346From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 7 January 1826 (Madison Papers)
I return Dr. Emmet’s letter as requested. Wall’s qualifications as a Drawing Master, are sufficiently authenticated to make his connection with the University very desirable. But there seems little ground for hope, that he will exchange for it his present advantages in New York. The only material attraction, beyond the fees, is that of a Pavilion, rent free; of which his tenure would be of...
3347To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 7 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I return D r Emmet’s letter as requested. Wall’s qualifications as a Drawing Master, are sufficiently authenticated to make his connection with the University very desirable. But there seems little ground for hope, that he will exchange for it his present advantages in New York. The only material attraction, beyond the fees, is that of a Pavilion. rent free; of which his tenure would be of...
3348To Thomas Jefferson from William Cabell Rives, 7 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of 30 th ult. was duly received & I availed myself of the earliest opportunity of conferring with the Postmaster-General, in relation to the subject of it. He suggested some objections to the establishment of a post-office at the University, & in lieu of it, proposed an arrangement which, if it should take effect, it is hoped, will attain all the ends you had in view—that is, to...
3349To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Worthington, 7 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I did not receive your letter of the 29 th Nov untill yesterday. You had directed it to Cincinnati from when ce it was returned to me here which has occasioned the delay. I cannot very well express the pleasure its receipt has given me. I believe Sir you were Sensible of the Sincere respect and affection I entertained for you whilst you were in office. My continuation in the Senate under the...
3350From Thomas Jefferson to Isaac Harby, 6 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to thank you for the copy you have been so kind as to send me of your discourse before the reformed society of Israelites. I am little acquainted with the Liturgy of the Jews or their mode of worship but the reformation proposed and explained in the discourse appears entirely reasonable. nothing is wiser than that all our institutions should keep pace with the advance of time and be...