2251From John Adams to Robert Mayo, 18 March 1823 (Adams Papers)
I have received and procured to be read to me your pamphlet—The very title of a Juvenile Company Liberary Company sounds delightfully in the ears of an old Man who wishes well to posterity—The vivacity intelligence ingenuity and elegance of the address has given me great pleasure, And the whole plan appears to me to be judicious and meritorious—To reccommed Books of merit to your adoption...
2252From James Madison to Robert Mayo and William A. Bartow, 31 March 1823 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. the copy of an Address in behalf of the Juvenile Library Company of Richmond which you have been pleased to forward to me. Knowledge of the useful kinds, is so conducive to individual & social happiness: and so essential to the form of govt. most friendly to both, that all the means of diffusing it have their merit. Among these means, libraries adapted to the early period of life,...
2253From Thomas Jefferson to Philip I. Barziza, 21 March 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sorry to learn by your fav r of the 10 th that the issue of your claims on the property of your grand mother has been unfavble, and has obliged you to look for subsistence to the barren, & unpromising resources of the govmt. I have almost universally declined becoming a sollicitor before them for appmts to office. it is embarrassing to them and to myself unspeakably unpleasant. but it...
2254Thomas Jefferson to Philip I. Barziza, 8 February 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 2 d and should be very glad to bear witness to any truth which might establish your just claim to the property of your grandmother in this country. but I know nothing of any visit of your grandfather to it before the revolution, and unless you have very positive proof I should doubt it, because I was much in Williamsburg about that time. I should still...
2255From James Madison to Henry B. Bascom, 27 March 1827 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 19th. inst. saying that the Trustees of the College recently established in Union Town have been pleased to call it by my name. Regarding every new Institution for the wholsome instruction of youth as a gain to the cause of national improvement and to the stability and prosperity of our free System of Government, I feel that my name is greatly honoured by such...
2256From James Madison to Henry B. Bascom, 10 November 1827 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of Ocr. 19. was recd. in due time. The acknowledgment of it has been delayed by a wish to accompany it with a Copy as requested of the Enactments of our University, which I did not obtain till two days ago. I congratulate you on the encouraging prospect which dawns on the Infant Establishment under your presiding care. A temporary deficiency in the articles of Apparatus & Library,...
2257From James Madison to Henry B. Bascom, 21 July 1827 (Madison Papers)
Your favour of June 26. inclosing a copy of the Charter of the College, having arrived during an absence from which I am just returned, I could not sooner acknowledge it. It gives me pleasure to find that the Trustees are about to attach to the Institution, an Agricultural Department, an improvement well meriting a place among the practical ones, which the lights of the age, and the genius of...
2258James Madison to George W. Bassett, 30 April 1833 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 25th. inst: which requests my Company at the laying of the Corner Stone of the proposed monument to the memory of the Mother of Washington I feel much regret that my very advanced age, to which is added a continued indisposition, will not permit me to be present; on an occasion commemorative of the mother of him who was the father of his own Country, and has...
2259James Madison to Stephen Bates, 24 January 1832 (Madison Papers)
I received long ago your interesting favor on the 31st of Oct with a pamphlet referred to, and I owe an apology for not sooner acknowledging it. I hope it will be a satisfactory one that the state of my health crippled by a severe Rheumatism, restricted my attention to what seemed to have immediate claims upon it, and in that light I did not view the Subject of your communication, ignorant as...
2260From Joseph Baxter to James Baxter, 12 May 1823 (Adams Papers)
Know all men by these presents , That I Joseph Baxter of Quincy in the County of Norfolk Gentleman in Consideration of Ten Dollars paid by James Baxter of Said Quincy Yeoman the Receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, do hereby give, grant, sell and convey unto the said James Baxter a certain piece or tract of Land, situate partly in Quincy and partly in Braintree as the Town line now runs,...
2261From John Jay to Samuel Bayard, 20 July 1823 (Jay Papers)
The Book, on the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, which (as appears from a Note on the first Page) you had the Goodness to send for me on the 11 th . January last, did not come to my Hands until the 15 th of this Month, when I received it from the post master of ^in^ this Town. I mention this Circumstance to account for my not having sooner presented to you my Thanks for that mark of friendly...
2262From John Adams to William Bayard, 29 December 1823 (Adams Papers)
I have received your circular of the 12 inst & I thank you for the honour you have done me in addressing it to me. Be assured my heart beats in unison with yours and with those of your constituents & I presume with all the really civilized part of mankind in sympathy with the Greek suffering as they are in the great cause of liberty & humanity The gentlemen of Boston have taken measures to...
2263From Thomas Jefferson to Frederick Beasley, 25 November 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to the rev d mr Beasley for the copy he has been so kind as to send him of his ‘search of truth in the science of the human mind.’ at the age of 80. the mind shrinks from all laborious speculations, and wants really the acuteness required by those of a Metaphysical character. yet in the table of contents are observed some chapters so interesting as to invite...
2264From James Madison to Frederick Beasley, 22 December 1824 (Madison Papers)
I have just received your letter of the 13th. on its return from Charlottesville, and wish I could gratify you with all the information it asks. In place of it I can only observe that the System of Polity for the University of Virginia, being not yet finally digested & adopted, I can not venture to say what it will be in its precise form & details. It is probable that instead of a President or...
2265From James Madison to Frederick Beasley, 20 November 1825 (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd. the copy of your little tract on the proofs of the Being & Attributes of God. To do full justice to it, would require not only a more critical attention than I have been able to bestow on it, but a resort to the celebrated work of Dr. Clarke, which I read fifty years ago only, and to that of Dr. Waterland also which I never read. The reasoning that could satisfy such a mind...
2266From James Madison to Frederick Beasley, 24 November 1823 (Madison Papers)
I received a few days ago a copy of “A search of truth in the science of the human mind,” for which I perceive I am indebted to your politeness. Other engagements not permitting me at present to read it with the necessary attention, and it being uncertain how long the obstacles to that pleasure may continue, I do not delay the thanks which are due. From the manner in which the work has been...
2267James Madison to Frederick Beasley, 22 March 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 17th. and have dropped a few lines to Mr. Clay on the subject of it. I have done so however, more in compliance with your current request, than from a calculation that any thing I could say would add to the weight of communications going from Mr. Southard & Mr. Dickerson, both better acquainted with you, than I could be presumed to be. I thank you, Sir, for your...
2268Thomas Jefferson to Reuben G. Beasley, 8 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Sep. 29. came safely to hand, as did also the Case of books from Mess rs De Bure which you were so kind as to forward. your position at a seaport town, the threshold, as it were, of Paris , must expose you to much trouble from the numerous correspondents with that place. I am afraid I shall once in every year be obliged to ask your intermediary office between myself and my...
2269Thomas Jefferson to Baker Beaven, 2 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
We have employed 4. hands 3. days in searching for slate, and came to what is of a proper thickness and fine color, but not in sheets of any size. I have no doubt we could obtain these, if we had now time to pursue it. but as other things press, and it seems very uncertain at what depth we can obtain such as ought to be used, we postpone it to the winter. I will send you a sample of what we...
2270From Thomas Jefferson to Lewis E. Beck, 16 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Sir, for your pamphlet on the climate of the West, and have read it with great satisfaction. altho’ it does not yet establish a satisfactory theory, it is an additional step towards it. mine was perhaps the first attempt, not to form a theory, but to bring together the few facts then known and suggest them to public attention. they were written between 40. & 50. years ago, before...
2271James Madison to Thomas Bee, 20 June 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. Sir, your letter requesting information as to a particular feature in the University of Virginia. The inclosed copy of its Enactments will furnish that & whatever else relating to the polity of the Institution may be acceptable. In reminding me of your father with whom I was a cotempory member of the Revolutionary Congress, I have an oppy. of expressing as I do wth. pleasure the...
2272Thomas Jefferson to Lewis D. Belair, 9 December 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Nov. 26. is recieved and enables me to ascertain the amount of the cost of the books I have rec d and those I wish now to be forwarded, and I accordingly inclose you 90. Dollars in bills of the bank of the US. in Philadelphia . I shall subjoin the list of the books, and the prices as I read them in your several letters. you will observe that I desire a 2 d copy of Planche ’s...
2273Thomas Jefferson to Lewis D. Belair, 27 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Among the books on the catalogue you were so kind as to send me I have noted the underwritten which I should be willing to procure at suitable prices. will you be so good as to drop me a line stating their prices and formats. in the mean time, & without waiting a further order, be so good as to send me the Dictionary Gr. & Fr. of Planche , and Cortez’s correspondence . the former being but an...
2274Thomas Jefferson to Lewis D. Belair, 21 September 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments and thanks to mr Belair for the pamphlet he has been so kind as to send him on the Coalition and France . he sees with infinite pleasure that finest of all countries rising from her afflictions, and especially her acquisition of the freest and purest of all the European constitutions, which with her physical advantages cannot fail to enlarge and...
2275Thomas Jefferson to Lewis D. Belair, 18 December [1819] (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 7 th is duly recieved. having been long confined at home by ill health, so as rarely to see any body, I have no opportunity of doing any thing with the subscription paper for mr Lobstein ’s book, but to give my own signature which I have done with pleasure, and with my best wishes for it’s success to add my respectful salutations. PoC ( DLC: TJ Papers , 216:38643); on verso...
2276Thomas Jefferson to Lewis D. Belair, 10 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I lately recieved from mr Fernagus de Gelone the inclosed list of books which he desired me to forward to you after perusal. I see nothing on it which I would desire at this time, except Quenon Dictionn. Grec Francois 8 vo which if among the books he sends to you I should be glad to recieve, or if you can get him to send it to you. he says he is about forwarding to you a large parcel of...
2277Thomas Jefferson to Lewis D. Belair, 28 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Sir, for your attention in sending me your catalogue which I now return. I do not find any thing in it of which I am in immediate want. indeed the total stagnation in all money transactions prevailing at present renders it prudent for every one to suspend all new engagements until we see business get again into motion, and indicate it’s future course I should otherwise have been...
2278Thomas Jefferson to Lewis D. Belair, 16 November 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have safely recieved Planche ’s Dict y Cortès & the Log. of la Land , and your letter of the 6 th inst. is this moment recieved. I decide at once to take Ducange , Cabanis , Saluste
2279Thomas Jefferson to Lewis D. Belair, 31 January 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieve with due sensibility the mark of attention which the benevolent institution , in whose name your letter of the 21 st is written, has been pleased to manifest, by proposing me as an honorary member of their institution. aged, & distant as I am little benefit to the society can result from my services: but such as they may be will be at their command. of this Sir, be pleased to assure...
2280Thomas Jefferson to Lewis D. Belair, 23 November 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just recieved from M r Redory the information asked as to the rest of the books named in my letters of Oct. 27. & 31. and I request you to lay by for me the Pliny Fr. & Lat. the Dictionnaire Bibliographe, and Denis d’Halicarnasse . I presume I may expect in a very few days answers to the enquiries of my letter of Nov. 16.
2281From James Madison to Benjamin Bell, 22 April 1823 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of Mar: 22. I am very sorry that any difficulties shd. have arisen in the case of the land sold to you by Mrs. Willis & myself. All that I had learnt relating to it, had left me under the impression, that no interfering claims existed that could invalidate our conveyance: and I trust that such will be found to be the case. You will of course take the proper steps for...
2282From James Madison to Benjamin Bell and William Tapscott, 19 January 1823 (Madison Papers)
It is so very long since payments were due from both particularly one of you for the land purchased of Mrs. Willis & myself without our having recd. even a line on the subject from either, that you cannot be surprized at being now reminded of your obligations, and called to discharge them. I am not unaware of the circumstances which may have embarrass[ed] pecuniary transactions, but they...
2283From James Madison to Benjamin Bell, 22 December 1817 (Madison Papers)
I have but just recd. your letter of the 1st. inst. My niece is disposed to part with the land in question; and I shall acquiesce in the sale on the terms to which you refer. It remains with you therefore to come down & close the bargain. Accept my respects Draft (owned by Mike Minor, Kaufman, Tex., 1981). Letter not found. Benjamin Bell and William Tapscott of Jefferson County, Virginia (now...
2284From Thomas Jefferson to J.C. Beltrami, 4 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Th Jefferson returns his thanks to M r Beltrami for his work on the sources, courses and topography of the Missisipi and other Western rivers, from the perusal of which he has no doubt of recieving instruction and satisfn on those interesting articles. going rarely from home and seeing little of society he can hardly flatter himself with oppties of be g serviceable to mr Beltrami in procuring...
2285From Thomas Jefferson to J.C. Beltrami, 24 July 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 19 th inst. is rec d as had been in due time that which accompanied the volume you were so kind as to send me: that it was not acknoleged at the time I can assure you did not proceed from any want of respect, or of due thankfulness for this mark of attention but from the physical disabilit y of age and infirmities. I have at this time been confined to the house by painful...
2286From John Adams Smith to Jeremy Bentham, 1 December 1817 (Adams Papers)
I am so frequently importuned for particular information respecting the United States, which is comprised in the little volume, you have in your possession—That I am reluctantly obliged to ask the favor of you to send it to me—If you should wish to see it again I will return it to you or endeavour to have sent to me a copy of it from America to present you with— I was most happy to see Gov...
2287From John Adams Smith to Jeremy Bentham, 11 December 1817 (Adams Papers)
The last letter of only two I have from Mr Adams is of 8 Octr. at Washington, he took upon him the duties of his new office 22 Sepr. & tells me that for the present he is so much engaged that probably he would not have time to write me again, for some time. But Sir while Mr. A. has not time to write to me, I believe he will not cease to think of you, & never neglect to make your great...
2288From John Adams Smith to Jeremy Bentham, 1 August 1821 (Adams Papers)
I pray you to accept my best thanks for the tracts you have sent me. There is something in the American Character—I feel it—that makes us as much interested in “Spanish and Portuguese Affairs” approaching to freedom as in our own affairs. I will say almost as much interested—for sake of the Sceptics under despotic governments & Monarchies—who believe it not possible that a town, a country, a...
2289From John Adams Smith to Jeremy Bentham, 20 August 1817 (Adams Papers)
It is with much pleasure that I am able to furnish you with a statement of the number of officers & the amount of Salaries of the several Departments of the Government of the United States. I hope you are enjoying your health, & I pray you to make my remembrance to Mr Mill— I am Sir with / much Respect your / obedient Servant GBLUc : Jeremy Bentham Papers.
2290From John Adams Smith to Jeremy Bentham, 3 September 1817 (Adams Papers)
Mr Adams in a letter of 7 Aug: at New York, safe arrived & well, mentions his having received the packet you sent me, after his departure. He recd it the day he arriv’d at N York. I pray you to accept an incomplete set, of Niles Weekly Register, although incomplete, I doubt not, but, that you will find in it, much to interest & amuse you— Very Respectfully / sir / I am your humbl Set. GBLUc :...
2291From John Adams Smith to Jeremy Bentham, 21 January 1822 (Adams Papers)
I enclose the Amended Constitution of the State of New York which if you have not before received I beg of you to accept—If you already have a copy, I will request you to have the goodness to send this back to me, as I have not yet got another. I am very / sincerely & faithfully / yr obt Servt. GBLUc : Jeremy Bentham Papers.
2292From John Adams Smith to Jeremy Bentham, 14 May 1822 (Adams Papers)
I will be with you, at the potatoes & water, on Thursday at the Hermitage table— Yours very sincerely GBLUc : Jeremy Bentham Papers.
2293From John Adams Smith to Jeremy Bentham, 18 August 1818 (Adams Papers)
Mr Smith regrets that he cannot be with Mr Bentham to day. I have written the letter to my friend in new York & the better to insure attention to it, enclosed a copy of Codification—the last edition— GBLUc : Jeremy Bentham Papers.
2294From John Adams Smith to Jeremy Bentham, 9 February 1822 (Adams Papers)
I beg to enclose you the letter, for Mr Laurence, to Mr Appleton at Rio Janeiro—hoping still to have the pleasure of seeing Mr Laurence before his departure I am very truly / yr obt Servt GBLUc : Jeremy Bentham Papers.
2295From John Adams Smith to Jeremy Bentham, 30 May 1823 (Adams Papers)
Our Consul Hunter would gladly join in the repast of potatoes & water to which your kind note invites him on Thursday—& I should be glad of his having a tête á tête, at the empyreum board of good principles & free government—I am no tweedler —nor do I speak to deceive or listen to betray—but he leaves town on Saturday for Cowes— I am ever Yours GBLUc : Jeremy Bentham Papers.
2296From John Adams Smith to Jeremy Bentham, 9 April 1821 (Adams Papers)
I have read with infinite satisfaction, your observations on the restrictive & prohibitory Commercial system, and thank you kindly for having sent me the pamphlet; and I could wish, that it were possible to open the eyes of the blind, to heal the sick, and relieve the oppressed, under your liberal and generous ideas—With much esteem very Respectfully I am / yr: ob: Servt GBLUc : Jeremy Bentham...
2297From John Adams Smith to Jeremy Bentham, 6 February 1822 (Adams Papers)
I beg leave to enclose you the letter for Mr Laurence from Mr Rush to Mr Appleton at Rio—I would gladly add others but neither Mr Rush nor myself have any other acquaintance at Rio— I am yours Dr Sir / very Sincerely GBLUc : Jeremy Bentham Papers.
2298Thomas Jefferson to John Bent, 17 January 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just recieved your letter of Dec. 24. and am sorry it is not in my power to give you the information you request as to the steps you must pursue to get your bounty in land. but retired as I am from all public business and scarcely ever going from home, I have paid no attention to the subject on which you ask my advice, and am entirely ignorant of it. but the best thing you can do is to...
2299From John Adams to William Bentley, 18 August 1819 (Adams Papers)
Thanks for your favour of the 14th. I expect with patience the History of the Mecklinboug Resolves. But the Testimony must be Strong to convince me that a blazing brand can be thrust into a Magazine of Powder without producing a Leyden explosion. But “Majora Canamus.” La Fayette and Religious and phylosophical liberty have arrested my Attention. Oh! that I lived near You, Modern publications I...
2300From John Adams to William Bentley, 28 July 1819 (Adams Papers)
The Essex Register, its Editors, and Printers are not only Innocent but meritorious for Publishing the pretended Meclengburg Resolutions—I have transmitted to Mr Jefferson the National Register, for his Satisfaction.—Such impostures, which our Polished English friends call Hoaxes, and boares—I am unpolite enough to think; ought to be called forgery’s, and Villany’s, and the Authers of them...