2221To John Adams from Caesar Augustus Rodney, 7 October 1818 (Adams Papers)
Your much esteemed favor of the 26th. ulto. was received, a few days since, when I was occupied at court. My stock of letters & papers, left me, by my father & c uncle, is very large; and it constitutes my principal inheritance, which I prize, beyond any estate, preserved from the wreck of the revolution. The patriotism of that period was without alloy. The perusal of the productions of those...
2222Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 7 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
It is very long, my dear friend, since I have written to you. the fact is that I have was scarcely at home at all from May to September, and from that time I have been severely indisposed and not yet recovered so far as to sit up to write, but in pain. having been subject to troublesome attacks of rheumatism for some winters past, and being called by other business into the neighborhood of our...
2223Thomas Jefferson to Anthony Finley, 7 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
A long absence from home, and long indisposition since my return, and present feeble condition must apologise for this late and short acknolegement of your favor of Aug. 3 . I have abandoned all attention to the editions of the Notes on Virginia since the first Paris & Lon d on editions. both of those were very correct; but I have but a single copy of each which I could not spare; nor would my...
2224Thomas Jefferson to William F. Gray, 7 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
A long indisposition since I returned home must apologise for this late acknolegement of your favor of Aug. 3. and altho on the recovery, I am not yet able to sit at the writing table but in pain. if the University should be established here, a first object for it’s visitors will be to invite a bookseller from Amsterdam to establish a book store at the University for classical & foreign books....
2225Thomas Jefferson to Caesar A. Rodney, 7 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
A long absence from home, my dear friend, and long indisposition since my return, must apologise for this late and short acknolegement of your favor of Aug. 8 . I am on the recovery, but not yet able to set up to write but in pain. I can therefore only return you thanks for the communications of your letter, which strengthen my hopes that our Southern brethren may be able to do as we have...
2226Thomas Jefferson to Robert B. Stark, 7 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
A long absence from home & a longer indisposition since my return, from which I am not yet recovered must apologise for this late acknolegement of your favor of Aug. 20. and the of the offer of the MSS. of the late D r Greenway . his character as a botanist had long been known to me, and a hope entertained that he would have published himself the result of his labors. age has withdrawn me from...
2227From John Jay to Rufus King, 8 October 1818 (Jay Papers)
On Friday last M rs . Hamilton favored us with a Visit.— Speaking of Doct r . Mason, she observed that the State of his Health not permitting him to write the Life of General Hamilton, she had received from him the Papers which had been put into his hands for that purpose.— She expressed her Desire to have the Life written, and remarked in Substance, that she knew of no Person who was both so...
2228Thomas Jefferson to DeWitt Clinton, 8 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Gov r Clinton and his thanks for his memoir on the antiquities of our country. if all those which are spread over the face of the Continent were described with the care which distinguishes this memoir, and brought together, they might elicit some general hypothesis on the nations which preceded us here. if among their remains, any of the hard metals...
2229Thomas Jefferson to Charles G. Haines, 8 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Haines and his thanks for his interesting pamphlet on the great Western canal. he rejoices in the hope that the money which the old world has wasted in eternal wars, and which might have made a garden of the whole globe, if so applied, is likely, by the US . to be employed not for the destruction of man, but for his happiness. he salutes him with...
2230James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, [ca. 8 October 1818] (Jefferson Papers)
I was much gratified in learning from the President that you were so well recovering from the attack your health suffered beyond the mountains. I wish I could join you at the meeting of the visitors on monday, & attend also that of the Agricultural Society . But circumstances do not allow me that pleasure. RC ( ViU: TJP ); undated fragment; with a later attached slip in an unidentified hand...