1Ferdinand R. Hassler to Thomas Jefferson, 10 December 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Informed that the Institution of Learning to be established in Virginia , in the Conduction of which Your Excellency has a share, will soon come into activity; I take the Liberty to address myself to You with the offer, to take upon me the Branch of Mathematics, or that of natural Philosophy, if any one of them should not yet be filled. I have heretofore tought Mathematics at the military...
2Ferdinand R. Hassler to Thomas Jefferson, 5 January 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
The favorable Recollection which Your Excellency is so kind to honor me with, in his letter of the 25 th ult o ; is an Object of the greatest Satisfaction to me, I am sorry that the Circumstances deprive me yet of the opportunity to shew actively how much I am, in all Situations, disposed to every exertion, towards deserving the approbation of men, who will be so kind to cast an indulgent...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler, 14 June 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Some years ago I have taken the Liberty to offer to Your Excellency my services for the University of Virginia, establishing under your auspices, and you did me the honor to answer, that the state of forwardness of the Institution was not yet such as to allow an answer of a deciding nature; upon the information that the University will soon begin operations I take the Liberty herewith to renew...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler, 24 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The confidence with which You have honored me in time by the truth You placed in me for the execution of the intended Survey of the Coast of the Un. St: prompts me to take the Liberty to present You here with a Copy of the papers which have been occasioned by it, in the short time I was allowed to work in this Your interesting Project. since 1819. they had remained in the obscurity of the...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler, 23 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
As upon an advertisement of the University of North Carolina to get a Professor of Mathematics I have tendered my services for that place; I took the Liberty to make Use of the Kindness which You have allways pleased to shew me by referring to Your testimony upon me, it is my duty to inform You of the Liberty which I have taken, and to recomand me merely in the continuance of Your Kind...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler, 1 May 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Circumstances induce me to attempt the publication of the courses of analytical trigonometry which I had planed in 1806 and used at the Military Academy of West point, and adapted peculiarly to the habitual mode and order of studying elementary mathematics in this country. Supposing the Knowledge of the most elementary Books of Euclid, and the simplest Algebra, till quadratic equations...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler, 16 May 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 5 th inst t has again highly obliged me by the kind interest you always take in what concerns me and Your subscription to my trigonometry if I can bring it to light in which the book sellers here are not very liberal in lending a hand, so that perhaps I may have to send it to a friend in London for publication. Upon Your account of the Professors of Virginia University and...
8Ferdinand R. Hassler to James Madison, 8 September 1828 (Madison Papers)
With the present I take the Liberty to present to You two Copies of my Elements of Geometry which I wrote during my short stay at Richmond since I had the pleasure to communicate to You my former work on astronomical subjects. I should be very happy to see my now several elementary works of Mathematic introduced in Virginia, they appear to be much approved generally, and particularly by the...
9Ferdinand R. Hassler to James Madison, 14 June 1830 (Madison Papers)
Permit me with the present to present to You a Copy of my logarithmic and trigonometric Tables, which just now appear in the public, to which I made the Introduction in, 5 languages, as the intermediate titles shew, that they may acquire more general course; the numbers being the same for all, this extension appeared to me proper, so that each of the 4 living languages might have the book in...
10Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler to James Madison, 6 February 1833 (Madison Papers)
In taking the Liberty to address to You herewith Copies of my Reports upon Weights and measures, I again make use of the priviledge, which I have often assumed to continue to give You some account of my employment of my time. The object of the present is most likely not without some Interest for You, the manner in which I have treated the subject is in many respects new, and I hope however...
11Ferdinand R. Hassler to James Madison, 9 January 1835 (Madison Papers)
The Kind interest which You have always taken in the Work of the Coast Survey, occasiones me to communicate to You herewith a Copy of the principal Documents relating to that work, which it has become necessary for me to print on account of the violent attack made upon me, and my character by the 4th Auditor under whose hands the transfer of the work to the Navy Department has brought the...
12Ferdinand R. Hassler to James Madison, 27 July 1835 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of the 2d. inst gave me great satisfaction, I thank to you very much for your kindness of recommending me for the Professorship vacant at the Virginia University. I have since written to Mr: Joseph C: Cabell, Rector of it, in more detail, as by the Prospectus the place is to be filled by the 1.st Septr. I delayed troubling you again upon it, to try if possible to save from...