12971From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 26 December 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a long letter from mr Cabell and a long answer from my self, not much work reading, but that it is well you should know every thing. no letter from Gilmer since my last. but he is believed to be now in Richmond. Long and Blaettermann are here located in their pavilions as drawn by lot. the former is a fine young man and well qualified. the latter rather a rough looking German,...
12972Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 16 March 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I send this by mr Coffee , who going on to Columbia in S.C . passes by Lynchburg , and proposes to call at Poplar Forest . he is an eminent artist in statuary & painting and a very estimable man, and will call at P.F. to see the house and if he should find it convenient to make a stage of it, or a short resting place, I should be glad that Hanah should accomodate him there the best she can, &...
12973To Thomas Jefferson from William Baxter, 4 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
With diffidence and awe, I beg leave to present to your worthy consideration, and your opinion would likewise conduce much to my own satisfaction—in knowing whether such an undertaking would be any benefit to our present rising republic. Knowing that your Excellency has always been a friend and patron to every thing which may conduce to the welfare of that Republic, which your venerable Self...
12974To James Madison from Benjamin Joy, 23 May 1822 (Madison Papers)
On my return, yesterday, from the interior of the state of NYork I had the Honor of receiving your letter of the 18th March and that of the 6th Inst. with copy of the former; for which be pleased to receive my thanks. I very much regret that by my absence you did not receive a reply to your favor of the 18th March which would have prevented you the trouble of again writing, tho’ it lays me...
12975John Adams, List of items Bought at Auction of Estate by Daniel Greenleaf, 27 September 1826 (Adams Papers)
1 pair Candlesticks 1 Do Branch $27.50 2 Wine Glass Cooler & bottle Do 23.00 5 flour pots 2.00 Straw Carpeting 1.20 General Washington smal 0.70 $54.40 Recd. pay for J Adams MHi : Greenleaf Family Deposit.
12976From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Quincy Adams, 30 August 1822 (Adams Papers)
After closing my Letter yesterday Mr G. Harrison called on us and sat with us near an hour—He is a singular being and has a very energetic style of conversation thickly beset with ornaments now nearly exploded—There is however something odd in his manner—Speaking of the Post Master here—He said that he was a defaulter to a large amount and that he believed it was only for the sake of his Wife...
12977To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 7 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The Corks you write for shall be forwarded by first conveyance to Charlottesville, care Jacobs & Raphael. I am truly delighted to hear you are able to resume your former healthful exercise on Horseback, & sincerely trust it will be long before you are again deprived of it. M r Monroe is seriously talked of as our next Governor, & it is said with his approbation—M r Giles, Pleasants, & Henry...
12978Samuel Smith (of Maryland) to Thomas Jefferson, 16 June 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the pleasure to recieve your kind letter of the 10 th Ins t yesterday— M r George Hebb is personally known to me. he is a good Democrat, of fair Character, and respectable. he is however One of those would be Politicians, to whom I would advise your Answer to be in the general, and referring to the Enquirer, he might wish by publishing to show a Correspondence with you, he is a political...
12979From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 31 December 1817 (Adams Papers)
Your favour of the 21 has excited my Sympathies, visible and irascible. I never had the Shadow of a Shade of doubt that you was my legigtimate Son. But if I had been afflicted with Jealousy, the frank confession in your Letter of your impatience with Barrel would have cured me. For never were two Peas parching in the Same fire more alike. This however is no laughing Matter. If there is any...
12980From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Patterson, 17 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
The Baron de Ferrusac of Paris (not otherwise known to me) has sent me the inclosed letter and pamphlet, proposing to extend to this country a correspondence established with other parts of the world for the purposes therein explained. age and retirement unfit and disqualify me f rom undertaking such a correspondence. I have supposed it possible however that the Philosophical society might...
12981From 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...
12982From John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 13 October 1823 (Adams Papers)
A man encumbered with my indispensable duties and occupations must have some apology for the allowance even of a few hours to the composition of Poetry—After perusing the three new Cantos of Don Juan, which you lent me, on board the Steam-boat, on our late journey, it occurred to me to make the experiment of writing a few Stanza’s in the same measure, with a view to ascertain whether it was a...
12983From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Tornquist, 30 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 23 d is just now rec d that of Dec. 27 th was laid before the Visitors at their meeting in March, with other similar offers. they determined that having a compleat apparatus to buy it would be neither convenient nor advantageous to depend on occasional offers from particular individuals. that this would multiply transactions and trouble, accumulate duplicates, give them often...
12984From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Carrington Cabell, 14 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Your two favors of the 8 th and 10 th were recieved yesterday, and I will endeavor to get this into the mail which is to be closed this evening. if they have not cheered me in all things they greatly do it in the prospect they hold up of succeeding in our intermediate plan of schools. but I am sorry you waited a moment to consult me, on the subject, and the more so as it finds me under a...
12985From Thomas Jefferson to Henry V. Somerville, 15 August 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
It is impossible, Sir, you could have appealed to a worse chronicle than my memory for an answer to the enquiries of your letter of the 5 th inst. it is all but a blank. yet I will endeavor to give you the best of it’s efforts. mr John Q. Adams was a member of the Senate during a part of the term I served as V. President in that body. about the middle of the term (I think) he went Minister to...
12986William D. Simms to Thomas Jefferson, 8 October 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Appleton United States Consul at Leghorn , has consigned to the late Collector of this Port , a box of wine and two small Bundles of seeds, addressed to you—No opportunity, having occurred of sending them direct to Richmond , I have thought it best, (to avoid any further delay;) to ship them to Norfolk , to the particular care of the Coll r there, who I have no doubt, will take the...
12987To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 13 August 1820 (Madison Papers)
I recieved yesterday the inclosed Letter proposing to me an interposition which my situation renders impracticable. The gentlemen of my family have manifested at times some opposition to mr. Nelson’s elections: which has produced an intermission of intercourse between the families: and altho’ I never took the smallest part in it, and nothing but what is respectful has ever passed between mr....
12988Thomas Jefferson to William King (of South Carolina), 2 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of June 4. is received as the former one had been in due time. it was not answered because the effects of age oblige me to withdraw from all correspondence which is not of absolute necessity, and especially on subjects of the difficulty of that your letter presents. I am afraid, you are not aware of all it’s difficulties. there are 3. persons, known to myself, capable of deciding...
12989To Thomas Jefferson from Elbridge Gerry, 26 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
The warm interest which you have always manifested, in the advancement of literature, has induced me to intrude upon your valuable time, & to solicit your attention for a moment, to a subject, connected in its nature, with the history of our country. M r Sanderson of Philadelphia, having with laudable zeal, commenced publishing a biography, of the signers of American Independence, to enlighten...
12990From John Quincy Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 8 March 1825 (Adams Papers)
Rec’d of Ward Nicholas Boylston Esqr. by the hand of Jno L Bolyston—Eighteen Dollars for articles furnish’d &c at the Inauguration of President Adams 4 March 1825 — $18 MHi : Boylston Family Papers.
12991To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Appleton, 12 July 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
You will find in the inclos’d letter, my account current for the Capitals & c & c balance due me, Dollars 362.77—which Sum, with the balance due me, on your private account Dollars 178.50. as transmitted to you in my letter of 22 nd of June, forming together, Dollars 541.27—which you will please remit, as hertofore to Samuel Williams of London, or if more convenient to you, to Tho s Perkins...
12992Thomas Jefferson to James Pleasants, 26 December 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I learn with real regret, from your favor of the 10 th the several circumstances which have deprived me of the pleasure of seeing, either here or at Poplar Forest , a relation whom I have long been taught to esteem, altho I have not the advantage of his personal acquaintance. I must find my consolation in the French adage that ‘ tout ce qui est differé n’est pas perdu ,’ assuring you that no...
12993Thomas Jefferson to David Gelston, 18 December 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 10 th came to hand last night. the former one of the 24 th of Nov. was recieved on the 3 d of Dec. and on the 4 th I inclosed you mr Beasly ’s letter, and Debure’s invoice of the books which had come by the same mail. their amount 575–65 ƒ .
12994George L. Montgomery to Thomas Jefferson, 18 July 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Wishing to become a Student of your preparatory school , and being unacquainted with its situation, I presume on the liberty of addressing you on the subgect, to inform me of the course of study pursued, the annual expences, and when your next session commence s , will be doing me a kindness that will greatly oblige— RC ( CSmH: JF ); between dateline and salutation: “ Mr Jefferson ”; endorsed...
12995To James Madison from Mackay & Campbell, 16 May 1821 (Madison Papers)
Some days ago we received Bill of lading from Mr. Cazenove for the goods you mention, which have not got to hand. When they come shall retain them for your own waggon unless otherwise directed. In the course of the week shall remit $243.36 to Mr. Cazenove as you request, which will probably place us about that Sum in advance for you, & which will do to be replaced in the receipt of the remnant...
12996To Thomas Jefferson from John Laval, 5 February 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been prevented, to this day, by indisposition, from informing you that, agreeably to your desires, I have ordered from London, on the 20 th of December Ult o . Gerard’s Plan of education in the Marischal College & university of Aberdeen, with the reasons of it printed by Chalurers of Aberdeen; also Baxter’s history of England, the 8 vo edition, if any has been printed, if not & then...
12997Charles Collins (of New York) to Thomas Jefferson, 25 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have for sometime past thought of writing to thee and now take the liberty to take up a little of thy attention to a subject that has interested me. The crouded situation of the Chinese and the plenty of room we have in this favoured land of America . Might not the Tea plant be cultivated to advantage in the Southern or Western States. I have understood that it now grows wild in the fields...
12998James Madison to David Hosack, 28 May 1829 (Madison Papers)
The copy of your "Memoir of De Witt Clinton" which I owe to your politeness, found me under the influence of an oppressive indisposition, from which I apprehend a slow recovery. In this feeble state of my health, at my advanced Age, and with arrears of pressing claims on my attention, it is uncertain at least when I shall be able to give the memoir such a perusal as would be agreeable to me....
12999To James Madison from James Monroe, 29 August 1823 (Madison Papers)
We came here on thursday last, with intention to proceed on to Albemarle, on Monday next, but such is the state of Mrs. Monroe’s health, that I do not know that it will be possible for her to undertake the journey. The trip here has derangd her whole system, & particularly her nervous system, & head. If she cannot accompany me, I must take her back to Washington, which will be decided in a day...
13000Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 21 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Since writing to you on the 24 th Ult o I have received three loads of flour on your acco t say 156 bls: of which 132 are S: fine 10 fine and 14 condemned—the S: fine & fine I have sold to R. K. Jones at 8 ¼ & 8 ¾ $ on 60 d /—. the 14 bls: having been made out of smutted wheat, and consequently both dark and bitter, I have found it hitherto impossible to dispose of at any price, the bakers...