5061From Thomas Jefferson to Nicholas B. Pryor, 16 October 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 1 st inst. is recieved. if your tin covering has failed, it must have been from unskilfulness. perhaps it has been put on in whole sheets, or plain like shingles, which will not do. altho the opern is so simple that any person of common sense may learn it in 3. hours as well as 3. years, it would take sheets of writing to give all it’s details and might still be defective...
5062From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas G. Watkins, 16 October 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved in due time your letter from Lexington—where it mentioned you had been for some weeks, and should still be for some time attending a lawsuit. the uncertainty when it might find you prevented an acknolegement at the time. that of Sep. 27. now lets us know you are at Jonesborough. that you should have met with enemies and backbiters is the lot of all men, and of talents especially....
5063To James Madison from John D. Hunter, 15 October 1824 (Madison Papers)
I was in Virginia during the latter part of the summer; I had such engagements that I could not call on you. I had business through Richmond; and left Orange County to the left hand. I regretted not to call to see you. My publisher in this country treated me with much injury. I directed a number of names of persons to whom copies of my book were to be sent. I was gone to Europe and did not...
5064To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 15 October 1824 (Madison Papers)
I wished to have communicated to you my letter to Gilmer before I sent it off. But the danger of it’s not getting there before his departure induced me to dispatch it by mail for the packet from N. York, as soon as written. My rough draught being illegible, I have taken time to make a legible copy, now inclosed for your perusal. I think there is nothing in it which does not accord with the...
5065From 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...
5066From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 15 October 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I wished to have communicated to you my letter to Gilmer before I sent it off. but the danger of it’s not getting there before his departure induced me to dispatch it by mail for the packet from N. York, as soon as written. my rough draught being illegible, I have taken time to make a legible copy, now inclosed for your perusal. I think there is nothing in it which does not accord with the...
5067To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 14 October 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
It is very lucky that Gilmer was so soon able to relieve us from the alarm he had excited. He does not say whether his Mathematician is an Astronomer also; or does he look for one in a professor of Nat: Philo y ? If so, his remaining task will be greater than might be wished. His good spirits however authorize ours. CSmH : Emmet Collection.
5068To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 14 October 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your much esteem d of the 9 th and 10 th inst s have been rec d —I have deliv d to Mr. Scott the letter you enclosed to his address, & will take pleasure in delivering, in person, to Gen l La-Fayette, the letter you enclose for him.—I leave here in the morning’s stage, to meet him at Mount Vernon in Alexd a , & conduct him to York, as the first Aid-deCamp of the Governor of V a , and in all...
5069To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Ritchie, 14 October 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
May I once more encroach upon your kindness, by asking a transmission, as soon as convenient, of the University Report?—You sent it, last Year, to the Governor—from whom I recived it, for the purpose of printing it for the Use of the Legislature. The same course may now be adopted.—The act of 1822–3 on the subject of laying the public Document’s upon the table of the House on the 1 st day of...
5070From John Quincy Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 13 October 1824 (Adams Papers)
In fulfilment of my promise on parting from you, I have the pleasure to inform you of our safe arrival here; my own health being good; and that of Mrs. Adams, I hope, improved by her excursion. Elizabeth Adams stopped, and remains for some days at Baltimore. I overtook General La Fayette at Philadelphia, and spent four days there, much in company with him. I met him again at Frenchtown, and...