14611Samuel S. Lewis to James Madison, 3 February 1829 (Madison Papers)
We have the honor to inform you that by an unanimous vote of the "Washington College Parthenon Society", You have been elected an honourary member of said Society. The object of the Parthenon is the promotion of useful knowledge; and knowing that You have ever zealously promoted whatever tends to that object, we have presumed to trespass upon your attention. Should it meet with your...
14612From James Madison to David Porter, 20 July 1819 (Madison Papers)
I have recd the specimen of carved work in the War Club from the Pacific Ocean, which you put into the hands of my son in law. And I tender my sincere thanks for this mark of your polite attention. Let me add that I shall be very happy in expressing them personally at Montpr. if your occasional rambles could furnish me with an oppy. It would double the gratification to Mrs M. & myself, if Mrs....
14613John Organ’s Survey Notes on Poplar Forest Roads, 28 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Coppy Courses and distances run the 28 th Novr. 1817. for roads. Begining at the house and Runing 1. S 66 E. 100 po. 2. N. 81 E 12 po. to a branch 3. S 80 E 22 po. 4. S 51 E. 13 po. 5. S 74 E 42 po. to a fork. thence 6. S 64 E 20 po.
14614To John Adams from Thomas Jefferson, 4 September 1823 (Adams Papers)
Your letter of Aug. 15. was recieved in due time, and with the welcome of every thing which comes from you. with it’s opinions on the difficulties of revolutions, from despotism to freedom, I very much concur. the generation which commences a revolution can rarely compleat it. habituated from their infancy to passive submission of body and mind to their kings and priests, they are not...
14615James Breckinridge to Thomas Jefferson, 4 September 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I returned return to you the notice for a special meeting of the Visitors of the University with my signature and am glad that our stated meeting is dispensed with for the reasons you assign. RC ( ViU: TJP ); endorsed by TJ as received 13 Sept. 1821 and so recorded in SJL . Enclosure: Call for Meeting of University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 15 Aug. 1821 .
14616To James Madison from Alexander Macomb, 18 June 1827 (Madison Papers)
Mr Thos. C. Levins, now of the city of new york, but formerly professor of mathematics & natural philosop[h]y in the College of Georgetown in this District, understanding that the present Professor of Mathematics in the University of Virginia was about to resign his situation, has requested me to mention him to you as a candidate to fill the place of professor of mathematics, when it shall...
14617Thomas Jefferson to Julius B. Dandridge, 31 August 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 19 th finds me at an occasional, but very distant residence from Monticello , and the delays of the cross post between the two places, have prevented my recieving it till yesterday evening. it was the same cause which delayed my reciept from mr Nicholas of his two notes for renewal which I endorsed and forwarded the next day after their reciept by the Lynchburg mail to...
14618Thomas Jefferson: Regulations on UVa Student Apparel, ca. 4-5 Mar. 1825?, 4 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Those who, by a vote of the faculty, shall have been deemed qualified to become candidates for Diplomas, at the examination which is to close the session of the year, may be permitted to wear gowns in ordinary during the year. he who fails to obtain the Diploma at a first trial, may wear his Candidate’s gown thro’ another session, at the judgment and discretion of the Faculty, but not after a...
14619Peter Poinsot to Thomas Jefferson, 2 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I avail myself to the opportunity by Cap n Edmund Q y Sheafe of the America Brig the Horizon , who is on the point of Sailing hence to New York , to return you my sincere thanks for your kindness in procuring me the information and Documents relative to my Lands, & for your favor accompanying them, dated 25 th Nov. last I hope that the letters which I had the honour of writing to you on the 12...
14620James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 23 June 1833 (Madison Papers)
You are aware of the loss the University is sustaining by the resignation of Doctr Dunglison, and must be equally so, of the difficulty of filling the vacancy. There is no prospect of doing it from the Faculty of Virga. I hope you will have turned your thoughts to the subject, and I must ask the favor of you to avail yourself of the opportunities you have, especially if you should visit...
14621To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 17 July 1817 (Madison Papers)
On my return from Geneva, I found your friendly letter of March last. Most sincerely do I congratulate you on the happy & honorable termination of your political labours. Few indeed have the good fortune, after such career as yours, to carry in their retirement, the entire approbation of their fellow citizens with that of their own conscience. Never was a country left in a more flourishing...
14622Thomas Jefferson to Fernagus De Gelone, 6 May 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Casting my eye again over your catalogue, I find two other books I should be glad to possess Architecture de Vitruve . 12 mo pa. 5. Cormon Dictionnaire François & Espagnol 2. v. 8 vo these may also come by the mail only sending them separately a volume at a time, and a week apart to avoid loading our weekly mail. send first, if you please, the Vol. of Cormon Span. & French. a note of the cost...
14623James Madison to Henry Colman, 26 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of July 24. was duly recd. accompanied by the little Treatise of Dr. Holyoke, and your biographical Sermon. They are separately entitled to my thanks and jointly the more so. Such a treatise at the age of the Author is remarkable and altho’ it may contain little new, on a subject little admitting it: it contains truths well deserving repetition, and made particularly impressive by...
14624Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Delaplaine, 30 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 14 th got to hand a few days ago only, and with it the 2 d number of the Repository. I now inclose you 12.D. for the 2. numbers recieved & for the next in advance, and will take care in future to keep always in advance. you ask my opinion again of this number. I find the style and execution entirely good. were I to indulge a criticism it would be that you extend to the living...
14625James Monroe to James Madison, 16 June 1828 (Madison Papers)
I received yours of the 3d. instt, a few days after our arrival here, and shall profit of the information you have given me, that the meeting of the Visitors takes place, on the 10th. & not the 15th. of next month, at the University, as I had supposed. It is my intention to depart hence, for Loudon, in time to enable me, to make arrangements for the harvest, & other concerns there, & to reach...
14626From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 2 May 1821 (Adams Papers)
Your letter dear Waterhouse, is a precious lecture in Piety Religion and morality according to our blessed Constitution; and I hope to be profited and edified by it, accordingly—But you have not given me the true cause of your buziness—It is that you have a second Wife, who fills the places of the first, enters into all your Literary pursuits and makes you too happy to write letters—If I were...
14627Craven Peyton to Thomas Jefferson, 26 March 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I was about Answaring Your favour of the 5 Inst. by Your boy , (Covaring a Draft On Capt. Peyton of Richm d for Seven hundred dollars—) but was informed he had started as soon As he sent in the lettar, in my last I inform,d You there was a ballance due of 1350.$ or about that Sum, My allusion was to the Money transactions , exclusive of that, on othar Accompts there is a ballance due me, of a...
14628To John Adams from Thomas Jefferson, 5 May 1817 (Adams Papers)
Absences and avocations had prevented my acknoleging your favor of Feb. 2. when that of Apr. 19. arrived. I had not the pleasure of recieving the former by the hands of mr Lyman. his business probably carried him in another direction; for I am far inland, & distant from the great line of communication between the trading cities. your recommendations are always welcome, for indeed the subjects...
14629To James Madison from George Washington Campbell, 18 June 1826 (Madison Papers)
This will be handed you by Mr. Cramer, a gentleman of respectable commercial connections in St. Petersburg; who is prosecuting his travels in this country. Having had some acquaintance with his family connections, while at that place, some years ago, he called on me here, and expressing a particular desire to pay his respects to you, I have, at his request, given him this note of introduction....
14630Ferdinand R. Hassler to James Madison, 9 January 1835 (Madison Papers)
The Kind interest which You have always taken in the Work of the Coast Survey, occasiones me to communicate to You herewith a Copy of the principal Documents relating to that work, which it has become necessary for me to print on account of the violent attack made upon me, and my character by the 4th Auditor under whose hands the transfer of the work to the Navy Department has brought the...
14631Bernard Peyton to Thomas Jefferson, 3 May 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I rec d some time since a small Box by M r T. E. Randolph ’s Boat Man Sye from you, addressed to R. Walsh J r Esq e Philadelphia , which I forwarded immediately, without waiting to hear from you, taking it for granted you wished me to do so. I now advise you of my having this day forwarded to Milton one Tierce of Rice from Co l
14632To James Madison from Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 8 July 1818 (Madison Papers)
I have not for a long time read any thing with so much delight and instruction, as I have received from the perusal of your address to the Agricultural society of Albermarle [ sic ]. The testimony of one, so very unimportant in litterature of any kind as I am, cannot be valuable, unless it be on account of its sincerity, & the high personal respect that accompanies it. And in the very remarks...
14633John H. Cocke to Thomas Jefferson, 20 July 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received yours of the 19 .—accompanied by a letter from M r Garrett with a list of the subscribers to the College . I rejoice with you at the liberality of the subscriptions. I will be at Monticello on Thursday next early enough to visit the site of the College on that day, and will accompany you the day following to M r Madisons if necessary.—
14634James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 5 May 1831 (Madison Papers)
I recd. yesterday your favour of the 2d. with its accompaniments. I thank you for the little treatise on mental* Physiology, which I reserve for perusal at the earliest leisure. From the reputed talents & tenets of the Author, something may be anticipated well written & out of the trodden circle. I thank you also for the rectified copy of "Distress for rent," and return the one formerly sent...
14635To James Madison from Mackay & Campbell, 4 September 1820 (Madison Papers)
Your favour 1st. inst. to our prior, covering your sett of exchange on Maury & Latham for £100 Sterlg. is before us. Seven weeks ago we Valued on these Gentlemen for £150 Stg. on account your 8 Hhd’s Tobacco & on account 8 Hhds of our own, Shipped per Scipio, Capt. Drummond, from Jas. River. Our Bill was made under the supposition that we were to Value for proceeds your Tobo. as well as our...
14636James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 1 December 1828 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Trist who now holds a place in the Department of State, will be so much gratified by an introduction to one towards whom he entertains the sentiments he does towards you, that I very cheerfully put a few lines into his hands for the purpose. You may not be ignorant of his relation by marriage to Mr. Jefferson, who had for him a particular esteem, his title to which, I am persuaded, will be...
14637Thomas Jefferson to Boissy d’Anglas, 26 December 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
It is long since I ought, if I had been able, to have acknoleged your obliging letter of April of the last year : but severe and continued ill health has long suspended in me the power of acknoleging the kind attentions of my friends generally as it has that with which you had honored me, accompanying it with a copy of your Memoirs of M. de Malesherbes . no better subject could have been...
14638From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Miller, 12 May 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter dated London Aug. 20. 1825 came to hand so long ago as Oct. 31. but considering impossible that a letter under that general address sent to such a city as London, should find you, I thought it useless to answer it. within a few days I learn that Gen l Taylor of Norfolk was your father’s agent, and the only person who could give you a state of his affairs and that he knows your...
14639To John Adams from Pseudonym: "Neptune", 22 July 1822 (Adams Papers)
A single volume from your Library for the above cause will be the means of giving us many hundreds if not Thousands—especially if you accompany it with your sentiments upon the utility of the plan .—we have within the last week presented to upwards of Twenty Ships 20 to 25 Vols. & they have been recd by the Crews with thanks and 9 Cheers!—the Bible Sir is an excellent volm. so are tracts but...
14640Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 10 June 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I know, my dear friend, that the title of American alone is a passport to your attentions and good offices. to inform you therefore who of them merit those kindnesses must be an act of charity to you as of justice to them. on the bearer mr Laurence they will be worthily placed. he is a citizen of distinction of the state of New York , correct and enlightened, and well qualified to put you into...