2151Thomas Jefferson to Jerman Baker, 14 May 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Wayles and Francis are now here and will enter with mr Stack who opens his school three days from this time in Charlottesville , for Latin, Greek and French. he is recommended to me by D r Cooper as the best classical scholar he has ever met with in the US. and my conversations with him satisfy me that his method is solidly good. he is a very modest & correct man in his conduct. his tuition...
2152Thomas Jefferson to John Martin Baker, 8 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Baker and his acknolegements for the instructive volume on the trade of the Mediterranean just recieved. not being able to send in paper the exact subscription price, he incloses a 5. Dollar bill which he prays mr Baker to let lie in account in the event of his asking any other copies of the work, and he salutes him with friendship & respect. PoC (...
2153Thomas Jefferson to John Martin Baker, 14 September 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
your favor of Aug. 29. is delivered to me here, within 4. or 5 days of my departure for Monticello . by a letter from the President I have reason to expect to find him then at his seat in my neighborhood, and consequently sooner than a letter addressed to him and sent to you, as you have desired, could possibly get to his hands. I reserve myself therefore for a personal application, more early...
2154Thomas Jefferson to John Martin Baker, 9 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Feb. 18. found me suffering under an attack of rheumatism which has but just now left me at sufficient ease to attend to letters recieved. this rendered it impossible to have made in time the application you requested to the President, even could it have been made properly. but after the considerations I had urged on him when here, and the dispositions he expressed I could not...
2155Thomas Jefferson to John Martin Baker, 12 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
The President arrived at his residence soon after my return to Monticello , and recieving a visit from mr Madison at the same time, we jointly spoke with the President on your subject. he has every possible disposition to befriend you, and if he should find obstacles to your present wish, he will still retain his disposition to do justice to your merit on some other occasion. as the Secretary...
2156Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Baker, 19 January 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of Dec. 8. came safely to hand and I was glad to learn you were seated at Columbia . that institution will have sustained a great loss in mr Elliot ; but I still think you will be better there than any where else that I know of. with respect to your pursuits I cannot advise them with precision; because I do not know whether you are so far advanced in classic science as that you may...
2157From James Madison to Henry Baldwin, ca. 13 February 1821 (letter not found) (Madison Papers)
¶ To Henry Baldwin. Letter not found. Ca. 13 February 1821 . Printed facsimile of RC cover sheet, addressed and franked by JM; postmarked 13 Feb. 1821 at Orange Court House. Offered for sale in Robert F. Batchelder Catalog 64 [1988], item 32. Henry Baldwin (1780–1844), a Connecticut-born, Yale-educated, Pittsburgh lawyer, was half-brother to Abraham Baldwin and Ruth Baldwin Barlow. Baldwin...
2158Thomas Jefferson to Henry Baldwin, 15 February 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to mr Baldwin for the able report on the Tariff he has been so kind as to send him. questions on Political economy are certainly among the most complicated of any within the scope of the human mind. that the public should have differed therefore so much on that which is the subject of this report, is not to be wondered at. it will end, it is to be hoped in a...
2159Thomas Jefferson to Roger Sherman Baldwin, 9 March 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your letter of Feb. 24 . and am sorry it is in my power to furnish no other materials for the biography of your very respectable grandfather, mr Roger Sherman than such as are very generally known. I served with him in the Old Congress in the years 1775. & 1776. he was a very able and logical debater in that body, steady in the principles of the revolution, always at the...
2160From John Adams to Aaron Bancroft, 21 January 1823 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your kind Letter of Decr. 30 and above all for the gift of a precious vol—It is a chain of diamonds set in links of Gold—I have never heard or read a volume of sermons better calculated or adapted to the age and country in which it was written—How different from the sermons I heard and read in the town of Worcester from the year 1755 to 1758 As my destiny in life has been some...
2161From John Adams to Aaron Bancroft, 24 January 1823 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your kind letter of December 13th. And above all for the gift of a precious volume. It is a chain of diamonds set in links of Gold I have never read, nor heard read, a volume of Sermons better calculated and adapted to the age and country in which it was written. How different from the Sermons I heard, and read, in the Town and County of Worcester; from the years, one thousand...
2162James Madison to George Bancroft, 13 April 1836 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. with your letter of the 8th. the first Vol: of Genl: Armstrong’s "notices of the War of 1812" and offer my thanks for the politeness to which I owe it. It cannot but be agreeable to know that you were pleased with your short visit at Montpellier, where the impression it left will always ensure you a sincere welcome. Mrs Madison is very thankful for your kind sentiments addressed...
2163From Thomas Jefferson to Edward D. Bangs, 4 September 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns thanks to mr Bangs for the copy of his oration on the 4 th of July which he has been so kind as to send him. his acknolegement of it’s reciept has been rendered tardy by an illness from which he is just recovered. he recieves with heart felt satisfaction every proof of the continuance of genuine revolutionary principles in all their vigor; and with the particular thanks...
2164From Thomas Jefferson Randolph to Bank of the United States, 15 January 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
We are about to make arrangements for the discharge of the debt of W. C. Nicholas, dec d to your Bank for $20,000 accrued by Th Jefferson and Th. J. Randolph. in the following manner. viz. and amt exceeding one fourth of the principal to be paid in a few days, a sum not less than two fourth more to be paid in December 1823. The remaining fourth to be discharged in december 1824. The interest...
2165From James Madison to Henry Banks, 18 December 1827 (Madison Papers)
I recd tho’ at a late day your letter of Ocr. 27; on the subject of which I am not able to furnish any information. I was not acquainted with your brother, and being absent from the State of Virginia, during the period in question, was not in the way of being acquainted with his transactions. With friendly respects Draft ( DLC ).
2166Thomas Jefferson to Linn Banks and Edward Watts, 20 November 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
The Commissioners appointed under the act of the last General assembly for appropriating a part of the revenue of the literary fund, and for other purposes, met according to law, at the Rockfish gap , on the 1 st day of August last , and having continued their session by adjournments until the 4 th day of that month , agreed to a Report , which being signed in Duplicates, individually and...
2167From John Jay to Maria Jay Banyer, 13 May 1823 (Jay Papers)
I have recieved your two Letters of the 9 th . Inst—and one from Peter of the same date. Such was the weather on the Day you left us, that we feared your Ride would be very uncomfortable—and are glad to find that you did not suffer from it. It was kind in aunt to send you and your Brother to New York in her Carriage— I hope the ensuing Season will prove beneficial to her Health, and that she...
2168Thomas Jefferson to René Anacharsis Barba, 23 October [1821] (Jefferson Papers)
I recieve at an occnal residence very distant from Monticello your favor of the 11 th and shall recieve that of my friend Lafayette when it comes to hand, with the pleasure which every thing from him gives me. No country on earth perhaps is so overstocked is so overstocked with Physicians as that to which you have happened to chuse for the exercise of your profession. in Medecine too there is...
2169From James Madison to François Barbé-Marbois, [ca. 17 February 1820] (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd. the volume relating to the Equestrian State [ sic ] of Henry 4th. with one of the medals to which it gave rise for both which I offer you my thanks. The volume is not only a valuable present to Artists, but is enriched with articles of information, which make it interesting to the curious who are not artists. I observe that it justly records your essential agency in this...
2170From Thomas Jefferson to Jonathan Barber, 12 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 6 th is recieved. the visitors of our University at their last session concluding to open it at the commencement of the next year, found it necessary to take immediate measures for procuring Professors. they wished than to be of the 1 st order of science in their respective lines, and doubting whether such could be found in the unemployed portion of science in the US. they...
2171From James Madison to James Barbour, 13 October 1826 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd. a letter from Majr Byrd C Willis, of Tallahassee well known to you reminding me that I was the medium of an application for a Cadet Warrant in behalf of his son George, and requesting me to intimate that he has still the same object in view: and that as his son, “is no longer a Citizen of Virga., but hails from Florada,” the former difficulty that the claim of Virginia had no...
2172From James Madison to James Barbour, 13 April 1825 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd. a letter from Mr. Byrd Willis manifesting great anxiety to obtain a Cadet appt. for his son George, who he says has long been on the list of Candidates. The father derives encouragement from the descent of consanguinity of the son, connecting him with the Military merit of the revolution. Notwithstanding my general forbearance to intermeddle in such cases, I cannot well...
2173From James Madison to James Barbour, 10 February 1826 (Madison Papers)
Col: McKenney supposing that the favorable opinion I formed of him during my long residence in Washington may corroborate the confidence & friendly dispositions he flatters himself you have derived from a more temporary acquaintance, I can not refuse him the justice of saying that I always regarded him as a very intelligent upright & patriotic Citizen: and that his official conduct was...
2174From James Madison to James Barbour, 15 December 1825 (Madison Papers)
The inclosed speaks for itself. Should there be an opening at West Point, the pretensions of young Lewis are certainly very respectable, and, as you know, respectably vouched. I do not trouble the President, because your communication as far as the occasion may require will be sufficient. Health & prosperity RC (owned by Henry N . Flynt, Greenwich, Conn., 1961); draft ( DLC ). RC addressed by...
2175James Madison to James Barbour, 18 December 1828 (Madison Papers)
I had the pleasure of duly receiving your interesting favor of Sepr. 29. The agricultural scenery which charmed you so much has had the same effect on other strangers surveying it with an equal taste for such improvements. I wish you may have as much reason to be pleased with the countenance of the Cabinet when your objects are presented to it. We think here it is high time for a...
2176James Madison to James Barbour, 11 June 1828 (Madison Papers)
It has been much the wish of Mrs. Madison & myself to give a call at Barboursville whilst you remain there: but find it will not be in our power. We trust it will be in yours, if not before, to make a stage & pass a day at least with Mrs. Barbour and your family, at Montpellier, on the way to the port of your departures; to whom with yourself, we offer our joint and best salutations. RC ( ViHi...
2177From Thomas Jefferson to James Barbour, 30 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of the 24 th inst. covering an invitation to some one of the Professors of the University of Virginia to attend the examination of the Cadets at West point on the first Monday in June next. in most of the Seminaries of the US. I believe there is a Summer vacation which may admit the attendance of such of their professors as are honored by a like invitation. but...
2178From Thomas Jefferson to James Barbour, 20 January 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
It is in vain that I determine never to intermeddle with the proceedings of the govmt, political or personal, and especially that I will not permit myself to be the channel of tormenting them with sollicitns for office. cases will arise sometimes of suffering worth to which the human heart cannot be insensible. one of these presents itself in the situation of mr James Leander Cathcart. he was...
2179From James Madison to James Barbour, 11 February 1824 (Madison Papers)
We are not to forget that our arrangt. with the Bank at Fredg. will require renewal at the close of the present month. I allude to it thus early, as I rely again on the preparatory Step on your part wch. you were so good as to take in the first instance. On receiving the two notes with your signatures I will add mine, and send both to Fredg: providing in the mean time, the small sum there due...
2180From James Madison to James Barbour, 16 April 1818 (Madison Papers)
⟨The las⟩t mail bro⟨ught⟩ me your favor of ⟨the⟩ 11th. and in ⟨than⟩king you ⟨for it?⟩ I do the same for the documents on ⟨f?⟩orn: affairs previously sent me. Your speech has taken a more correct view of the principle on which the colonial monopoly rests, than has been generally taken of it; and your statistical illustrations have an important bearing on ⟨the⟩ question depending. I entirely...
2181James Madison to James Barbour, 6 February 1829 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your favour of Novr 13. covering the Seals, for your attention to which I return you many thanks. They fully answer my wishes. I am glad to find that the Duke of Wellington, understood to be the mainspring of the Cabinet policy, and more than his predecessor a manager of the public will, holds a language so friendly towards this Country. The longer a practice corresponding with it...
2182James Madison to James Barbour, 7 February 1829 (Madison Papers)
With your favr. of Novr. 13. acknd. yesterday, I recd that of the same date, in which you communicated the steps you had taken & had in view, in relation to a Successor to Professor Long. The Visitors I am sure will all be thankful for your attentions to that important object. Altho’ it appears that Dr. Harrison discharges well his temporary trusts yet besides the uncertainty of his permanent...
2183From Thomas Jefferson to James Barbour, 16 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Pray, Dear Sir, expedite by every means in your power the dispatch of our 50. M .D. our Agent who is to proceed to Europe for the purchase of the library, awaits only for the money. in like manner the orders for apparatus of every kind await the same thing. we wish to have all in before winter. I ask this favor of you not as belonging to your deptmt but as a Virginian and friend to the...
2184From James Madison to James Barbour, 7 May 1824 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your favor of the 2d. and thank you for the trouble you have taken in preparing the papers it inclosed: which I have signed and forwardd to Mr. Allen & Mr. Roberts. I had expected to hear from some quarter on the subject of my note to the Bank renewable with yours some time ago; and know not whether the discount be still due or may have been pd. out of tolls accruing on all the...
2185Thomas Jefferson to James Barbour, 11 May 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return from Bedford I find here your favor of Apr. 30. I have no reciept for brewing, & I much doubt if the operations of malting & brewing could be succesfull y performed from a reciept. if it could, Combrune ’s book on th e subject would teach the best processes: and perhaps might guide to ultimate success with the sacrifice of 2. or 3. trials . a cap t Miller now of Norfolk
2186From James Madison to James Barbour, 14 February 1820 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of the l0th. has but just come to hand. It states that there is a decided majy. in one House agst. an unrestricted admission of Missouri, and in both for applying the restriction to all Territories West of the Mississippi: but that in a spirit of Compromise Missouri will be admitted without restriction, and the restriction as to Territories confined to the Space N. & W. of Missouri,...
2187James Madison to James Barbour, September 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have long desired to obtain a simple seal engraved with the initials of my name, encircled by the motto veritas non verba magistri. The material prefered, is a stone of no very costly sort, and as the price of one in silver cannot be great, I should be glad of a duplicate in that metal. The size of the seal, I would wish to be rather small than large. Shd. you succeed in getting this little...
2188From Thomas Jefferson to James Barbour, 2 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you mr Cathcart’s letter, and to his, I join sincerely my own thanks for what you have obtained for him. you could never have served nor the government take into it’s employ a man of stricter integrity. while consul on the Barbary coast, where immense sums past thro’ his hands to be disposed of without a voucher, he might have made himself, as some colleagues did, as rich as he...
2189From Thomas Jefferson to James Barbour, 26 December 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
You know the situation of our claim on Congress for the donation of 50. M .D. and I am very anxious to obtain it from them, and not to harrow up again the displeasure of our legislature, by saying any thing to them on the subject. I have therefore recommended to our friends at Richm d to be silent there, in the hope we may get it from Congress. I must pray you therefore to press it vigorously,...
2190From James Madison to James Barbour, 5 December 1823 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of the 2d. was duly recd. the evening before the last. I thank you for it, and return, as desired, the pamphlet of Cunningham. Your remark on it appears very just. You ask my views of a Resolution to be proposed to the Senate advising a Treaty of co-operation with G. Britain agst. an interference of the Allied Powers for resubjugating S. America. You will take them for what they are...
2191From Thomas Jefferson to James Barbour, 15 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
My colleagues Visitors of the University now in Richmond have sent me the inclosed pamphlet as containing documents which may be useful to you in urging our claim on Congress. they join me also in pressing you to force it to a decision. we did not think it advisable to ask any thing from our legislre, and our Instn will be deeply distressed should we fail in obtaining from Congress the portion...
2192From James Madison to James Barbour, 25 November 1820 (Madison Papers)
Altho’ I know not that any occasion will arise making it pertinent to bring the political career of Mr. T. Coxe to your attention, I can not in justice to my recollections of it refuse my testimony as to the credit to which he is entitled. I am not unaware that he may have political & perhaps personal enemies who do not speak, as I think, of him. But facts cannot be impaired by opinions. Mr....
2193James Madison to James Barbour, 22 September 1828 (Madison Papers)
I need not remind you of the vacancy produced in the professorship of Ancient Languages in the University of Virginia, nor remark on the importance of providing a Successor worthy of it. The anxiety of the Visitors on this subject led them to offer the Chair for the term of one year to M<r.> Gesner Harrison, a distinguished pupil of Mr. Long, who has accepted it with that limitation;...
2194From Thomas Jefferson to James Barbour, 31 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sure you have found, ere this that the being in a position to bestow offices, is not a very pleasant circumstance and you had before experience enough that the sollicitation of them is not more so. I have therefore made it a general rule not to trouble the government with such sollicitations. yet there are now and then cases which oblige one to disregard rule. I dare say you must well...
2195From Thomas Jefferson to James Barbour, 12 May 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
For 20. years past Mons r Thruin superintendant of the National garden of France, has sent me annually a box of seeds assorted to our climate. this having been intermitted for the last two years, I suspected his death. m r Madison now informs me that he has been so for some time, and that his successor now addressg such a box to him as President of the Agricultural society of Albemarle, that...
2196James Madison to John S. Barbour, 15 March 1830 (Madison Papers)
I recd a few days ago yours of the 9th. & shd. have answerd it immediately but for the expectation of learning that the subject of it wd. have explained itself, on the spot. The Mail due today not havg brought me any information, I proceed to mention that on the 2 or 3d. of Mar. I enclosed yr. note to Col. P. P. Barbour requesting him to recover the money from you or Bank as might happen, &...
2197From James Madison to John S. Barbour, 3 January 1824 (Madison Papers)
I have just reced your letter of Decr. 28. Relying only on a payment from yourself of the mony so long in your hands, I can only express an earnest hope, that you will not fail to fulfil your promise and with as little delay as possible. With friendly respects. Draft ( DLC ). In Dolley Madison’s hand; docketed by JM . Letter not found.
2198From James Madison to John S. Barbour, 21 April 1820 (Madison Papers)
I recd. in due time your favr. of Jany. 27. apprizing me of the rents due by Mr. Ward, & of the oppy. you expected, of ascertaining the real extent of the land embraced by the Mortgage of Mr. Strode. I did not advert then to an expression since observed in your letter, which may imply that your prosecution & exposé of the case, might depend on my intimating a desire to that effect. Shd. this...
2199From James Madison to Philip P. Barbour, 1 December 1822 (Madison Papers)
The enclosed letter not having come to hand before your departure for Washington, I cannot so well comply with the request of the writer as by forwarding it for your perusal. Should you think his object a reasonable one, or entitled to a fair consideration, a word of explanation from you to the Secy. of war & the Attorney General, if proper at all, may be more so from you than from me and can...
2200From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Pendleton Barbour, 12 October 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I now inclose you the case of my grandson, Francis Eppes and will request your opinion at your first convenience after your return home. without knowing what is the fee for an opinion I inclose 10.D. subject to correction if not a sufficient one. I salute you with friendship & respect MHi .