15091From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Bonnycastle, 8 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
With my sincere congratulations on your transition to that condition of society which nature has wisely made indispensable to the happiness of man, and my request that you will communicate the same on my part to your chosen companion, I inclose you a letter, recieved in your absence in one from mr Barlow, and one also to myself from mr King, containing an assurance from mr Canning, on the...
15092To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 8 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of 4th ins t has arrived, and has been read with the greatest interest by myself & the friends to whom I have shewn it. M r Garland’s scheme of 24 Colleges in my view is pregnant with mischief. The only way to defeat it, is to present to the house a better plan in lieu of it. My mind has been on the wing for some days, and a view of this most important subject has occurred to me,...
15093To Thomas Jefferson from John Patten Emmet, 8 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived here last Friday and should have been up to see you before this, were it not that, since my return I have been, and am now suffering from a very severe attack of Influenza accompanied with ague and pain in the side. These disorders have, indeed, been the cause of my delay in returning to the University. I took them upon the road and was compelled to keep my Bed both at Philadelphia...
15094To Thomas Jefferson from Patrick Gibson, 8 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I addressed a letter to you some time ago, to which I have received no reply—I have been doubtful to what cause I ought to attribute your silence, but on reflection I am induced to think either that it has not reached you or that owing to the multiplicity of your engagements it has been overlookd—The purport of that letter was to request a few lines from you to the Sec y of War in behalf of my...
15095From Thomas Jefferson to N. & S.S. Jocelyn, 8 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Dec. 6. did not come to hand until the 1 st inst. and with it I recieved the copy of your Atlas of the world, which I have examined with attention and great approbation. the combination of the Gazetteer with the map is a great convenience, and the substitution of figures for the names of such places as would have too much crouded the map or could not be got into it at all, adds...
15096To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Perkins, 8 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I have taken the liberty of enclosing to you some Specimens of my Ornamental Writing.—As you, Sir, have been very actively instrumental in establishing I may say the only Rational and Liberal Ins ti tution of Learning in our happy country, Viz. The University of Virginia, I take this opportunity of letting yourself and the Faculty of the University know my style of designing and engraving...
15097From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 8 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly rec d your affectionate letter of the 3 d and percieve there are greater doubts than I had apprehended whether the legislre will indulge me in my request to them. it is a part of my mortifin to percieve that I had so far overvalued myself as to have counted on it with too much confidence. I see in the failure of this hope a deadly blast of all peace of mind during my remaining days. you...
15098From Thomas Jefferson to John Quincy Adams, 8 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I know nothing of the facts in this petition, nor of the person on whose behalf they are stated, but I know most of those who subscribe it, and can certify that they are persons of the first degree of respectability in the county in which I reside and of unquestionable credit as to any thing which they affirm. Given under my hand this 8 th of February 1826. To the President of the United...
15099To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 10 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of 7 th inst has this moment been received. I was already sitting down to add to my last letter. I am distressed to inform you that leave was given on yesterday to bring in your bill by a majority of only 4. I was out among my friends last evening, and I learn from them that there is no doubt of its passage, but that the majority will be considerably less then as lately expected. I...
15100Virginia General Assembly: A Bill Authorizing Thomas Jefferson to Dispose of His Property by Lottery, 10 Feb. 1826, 10 … (Jefferson Papers)
Whereas it is made known to the General Assembly, that Thomas Jefferson, after more than Sixty Years of public service, during which his attention has been necessarily withdrawn, in a great degree, from the care of his private Estate, hath found himself indebted to a large amount, insomuch that the sale of a great proportion of his valuable property will be necessary to pay his debts; and...