13191From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Carstairs, 13 January 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
When we began our buildings at our University, we adopted it as a rule that we would be governed in all our prices by those established by long experience & due competn in Phila, and you were so bind as to procure & send me the printed book of Carpenter’s prices, in the other branches of work we have been able in different ways to learn your prices, except those of plaisterer ’s work, of these...
13192To Thomas Jefferson from Jared Sparks, 13 January 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope you will pardon me for the liberty I take in sending you the last number of the North American Review. I have thought you might be pleased to see an article, which I have there drawn up, on the subject of colonizing free blacks in Africa. The interest, which you formerly took in the subject, encourages me to this belief. In another part of the work, (p. 163) you will see I have made...
13193To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 14 January 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I return the letters from Doc r Cooper inclosed in yours of the 7 th It is truly to be lamented that at his stage of life and in the midst of his valuable labours, he should experience the persecutions which torment , and depress him. Should he finally wish to exchange his present birth for one in our University, and make the proposition without any advances on our part, there could be no...
13194To Thomas Jefferson from Patrick Kerr Rogers, 14 January 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of sending you a copy of a little work which I prepared for the use of one of my classes in W m & Mary. I intended to have sent it to you last year, but was induced to defer doing so from the expectation that I should before now, have found it convenient to get the diagrams engraved. The state of this institution, however, does not encourage me to incur the expense; and...
13195To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 15 January 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Sales of Sixty Barrels Flour by Bernard Peyton 1823 Rich d for a/c Thomas Jefferson Esq: 13 Jan y To Jn o & W m Gilliat in Store at 30 Days: 42 Blls Superfine flour at $4⅞ $204.75 18 do. Fine do. 〃 4½ 81. 60
13196To Thomas Jefferson from David Bailie Warden, 15 January 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter has given great pleasure to Dr. G. and his countrymen in Paris. I inclose his reply, and send you a packet from him containing Books to the care of Mr. Sheldon. Mssrs Lacepede, Humboldt and Thouin bid me express their thanks for your kind remembrance of them, and their ardent wishes for your health and long life. Mr. Debure informs me that he cannot have the Books ready before the...
13197To Thomas Jefferson from Elizabeth Chase, 17 January 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Elizabeth Chase with her respectful Compliments to M r Jefferson sends him the prospectus of a Book. which she has in Contemplation to Publish, and hopes she may be Excused for an Earnest desire to procure Names of the highest standing in America to patronize the Work— E. Chase acknowledges a polite Note from M r Jefferson last Summe, on receiving her humble Book published two years since, and...
13198From Thomas Jefferson to John Davis, 18 January 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Sir, for the copy you were so kind as to send me of the rev d mr Bancroft’s Unitarian sermons. I have read them with great satisfaction, and always rejoice in efforts to restore us to primitive Christianity, in all the simplicity in which it came from the lips of Jesus. had it never been sophisticated by the subtleties of Commentators, nor paraphrased into meanings totally foreign...
13199From Thomas Jefferson to William Hawkesworth, 18 January 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 6 th has been duly recieved and shall be laid before the Visitors of the University whenever they may proceed to the appointment of Professors, be pleased to accept my respectful salutns DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
13200From Thomas Jefferson to Job Palmer, 18 January 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the copy of the 1 st N o of the American magazine which you have been so kind as to send me. I have long withdrawn from the reading of newspapers, magazines & all periodical publicns. I read but a single newspaper. and I must pray you to excuse me from giving any opn as to the merits of the publicn: not as implying any disapprobn but that the giving an opn of books is what I...