1George Ticknor to Thomas Jefferson, 14 August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour of June 6 reached me July 29 and contained—what I had long desired—the very welcome intelligence, that the Books Mr. Warden shipped from Havre and those I sent from Hamburg had reached you in good condition and met your approbation. Yesterday your duplicate of the same letter arrived, together with your order to the Messrs. De Bure . In this order I made but two alterations— one...
2George Ticknor to Thomas Jefferson, 10 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your very kind letter inclosing an introduction to mr. Erving reached me in Italy just as I was beginning my journey to this country and I should have answered it immediately on my arrival here if I had not at that moment heard you had forwarded through my father another for Cardinal Cardinal Dugnani of which I also wished to give you news. For this, however, I have waited in vain, and after...
3George Ticknor to Thomas Jefferson, 13 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I received a few days since in London your letter of Oct. 25 , with some later from my friends in Massachusetts , which relieved me from the apprehensions respecting your health with which I had been filled by one of the publick papers. A letter from General Lafayette noticing one received from yourself which you wrote subsequently to your illness has confirmed me in the belief, that I may, if...
4George Ticknor to Thomas Jefferson, 27 May 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
As I again approach my native country, I cannot choose but recollect all the kindness you have shown me during my long and dreary absence from it, and as it comes up before me, I grow doubly anxious to do something which shall show you, that I am not insensible to it, though I cannot hope to return it. Your last letters to me have informed me, how deeply you are interested in the extensive...
5George Ticknor to Thomas Jefferson, 10 February 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Your very kind letter of Dec. 26 did not reach me, from some inexplicable accident, until a full month after its date;—but, still, notwithstanding this, I should have sent you my acknowledgements for it much sooner, if I had not been prevented by an indisposition, which has for some time been troubling me, and which, at last, I have been obliged to respect so far as to diminish my occupations....
6George Ticknor to Thomas Jefferson, 1 September 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
It is so long since I have had the pleasure of hearing directly from yourself, that I should hardly venture now to address you, unless I had business of some consequence, as an apology for my intrusion. The present occasion, however, and the instances of some of my friends seem to justify me in again coming before you; and, I trust, I need not say, that I am happy in having an opportunity that...
7George Ticknor to Thomas Jefferson, 8 December 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour’s of Sep. 28 th with an enclosure and Oct. 24 , introducing two young gentlemen, came in due season. The latter, I have acknowledged in the way you desired, by offering the persons you presented me such assistance as they needed, & having found them lodgings they liked and suitable instructers, they are, I believe, as well off as their friends could have reasonably anticipated, and...
8To Thomas Jefferson from George Ticknor, 16 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
It is very rarely that I venture to address a letter to you; because I am quite aware how constantly you are exposed to the solicitations of correspondence and, how they must, in a situation like your’s, resemble persecution. But, I wish now to send you a copy of the Syllabus I have prepared for my course of Lectures on Spanish Literary History & Criticism, and should be sorry to have it go...
9To Thomas Jefferson from George Ticknor, 25 December 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been hoping every week since I received your very kind and valuable letter last summer, that I should be able to answer it in a manner, that would at the same time gratify you and be pleasant to myself;—but, I have, until within a few days, been constantly disappointed, I refer now entirely to your requests for a copy or account of the regulations for the management of our College. Ever...
10To Thomas Jefferson from George Ticknor, 27 March 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Allow me to ask your kindness and hospitality for Joseph Coolidge Esq. He is a young gentleman of Education & Fortune a native of this town, who is well known to all of us for his amiable & excellent character; and who, by a residence of several years in Europe, has recently completed the course of instruction, he had so well begun at home I think, you will be pleased to show him the kindness...
11To Thomas Jefferson from George Ticknor, 28 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Ever since my return from the South, I have borne in mind your desire to have a list of the principal German works in literary History and of the best of their belles-lettres writers. The lists were easily made out; but there was some difficulty in obtaining the prices of each. This difficulty, however, I have at last overcome, & I now inclose the two lists, with, I believe, the exact cost of...
12To Thomas Jefferson from George Ticknor, 4 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty to commend to your kindness Mr. B. A. Gould of this city. He has been for ten years at the head of our publick latin school, & has made it the most valuable means for promoting the Knowledge of ancient literature, that yet exists in N. England. But in doing this, he has impaired his health and is now at the South seeking its restoration. One object will much attract his...
13To Thomas Jefferson from George Ticknor, 10 May 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Samuel H. Walley, who signs the instrument of May seventh, as security to the Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia, in conjunction with William Hilliard, Bookseller, is well known to us as a Merchant of this city and we deem his security for fifteen thousand dollars as therein set forth, to be good & sufficient. CSmH .
14To Thomas Jefferson from George Ticknor, 21 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of sending you with this a copy of a pamphlet, I have recently had occasion to publish on the changes undertaken in the college with which I am connected. I commend it to your kindness as a little work written, at least, in no illiberal spirit, and with views in relation to education, which I hope you will not disapprove— Mrs. Ticknor desires to be respectfully remembered to...
15To Thomas Jefferson from George Ticknor, 7 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the pleasure to send you with this a copy of the Baron de Stael’s Letters upon England, which I recently received from him with a request, that I would present it to you in his name, with the expression of his entire respect. It gives me great satisfaction to do so; and, I hope I am not mistaken in sending to you through the Post, under the impression, that your Frank will entirely...