15171From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 30 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
It has not been in my power till yesterday to get a printed copy of the new edition of our statutes which was necessarily to accompany our Report to the literary fund. all go with the mail, which carries this I wish it were convenient to print these things in 8 vo that they might be bound together when printed send me a copy if you please and accept my friendly respectful salutns MHi .
15172To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Van Rensselaer, 15 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to forward by mail to your address two copies of a Geol & Agr survey made under my direction which I beg you will do me the honor to accept one copy for your library & the other for the University of Virginia accept the assurance of my veneration for your character & the services render to our country DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
15173Thomas Jefferson to Elijah Griffiths, 5 January 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Dec. 11. has been recieved, and certainly no one would more gladly be useful to you than myself. but from the time of my retiring from office, so multitudinous were the applications to me to sollicit appointments from government that I should have had to submit to a total prostration of all self respect, or to refuse decline interfering generally. I have done so rigor o usly, but...
15174James Madison to Daniel Newell, 1 December 1835 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of Novr. 17. having been directed to Petersburg which is very distant from me, was not recd. till yesterday. I am sorry that I cannot give to it the answer that would be most agreeable. Unwilling as I am to obtrude my private affairs on others, the occasion requires me to say that for a number of years past the drafts of various denominations on my resources, have so far exceeded...
15175James Madison to George Tucker, 17 October 1831 (Madison Papers)
I understand that the correspondence between Judge Pendleton & Richard H. Lee has been deposited by the grandson of the latter in the University of Virga. and I find among the letters of the former to me, one in wch. he incloses a copy of remarks on the original Judicial bill, then depending in Congs. which had been sent to him by R. H. Lee then a member of the Senate, with a request of his...
15176From Thomas Jefferson to John Henry Sherburne, 4 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
It is not in my power to give you any certain information of the issue of Commodore Jones’s claim on Denmark. my impression is that that government persevered in refusing the claim. I salute you with respect DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
15177From John Adams to John Farmer, 26 June 1819 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your favour of the 12th. but I have not received the memoir.— The Brackets and Tompsons were among the early Settlers of Mount-Waliston out of which the Town of Braintree was fabracated. Tompson, after Wheelright, was one of the first Ministers, but his name is extinct—the Brackettss are still mumerous and wealthy—that either of those families Emigrated to Billerica I know...
15178John M. Perry to Thomas Jefferson, 18 June 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
the Brick layers got here yesterday and will begin to lay Some time this evening— I Should be glad you Could make it Convenient to Come to the building to day— the dormetorries will be laid of f to day—the Circle next the Road is Staked of f So that you Can See how to fix on the level RC ( ViU: TJP ); addressed: “Thomas Jefferson Esquire Monticello ”; endorsed by TJ as received 18 June 1818.
15179From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 11 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I transcribe for your information a resolution of the Visitors of the University entered into at their late meeting, to which they recommend your early attention. also a copy of an advertisement to be published in the Enquirer and Central gazette. accept the assurance of my friendship and respect. ViU .
15180To James Madison from Alexander Scott, 10 September 1825 (Madison Papers)
I take the liberty to enclose you a copy of a letter which I received from Col Monroe in relation to a small claim which I mean to present to the Dept. of State, and also an extract of my letter of instruction to which Mr. Monroe refers. Mr. Monroe, as you will perceive, has a very indistinct recollection of the particulars of the transaction in question; he has however afforded his evidence...