541From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 5 September 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of the 25 th ult. requesting permission to publish my letters of July 12. and Sep. 5. 1816. but to this I cannot consent. they were committed to your honor and confidence under express injunctions against their publication, and I am happy to learn that that confidence has not been misplaced. the reasons too, then opposed to it, have gained greater strength by...
542From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 1 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
$1000. Sixty days after date, I promise to pay t o Bernard Peyton or order, without offset, negotiable and payable at the Farmers Bank of Virginia , one thousand Dollars, — Cents. Value received. MHi .
543Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the Geographic Center of Virginia’s Population, [before 28 June 1818] (Jefferson Papers)
Counties on the Western waters. Brooke 5,511 Ohio 7,735 Monongalia 12,442 Wood 2,586 Harrison 9,499 Randolph 2,743
544Thomas Jefferson to David Easton, 14 January 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I am truly sorry it is not within my power to give you any information on the subject of the enquiries in your letter of the 9 th . during the revolutionary war Col o Harrison ’s services were employed in the army, mine chiefly in the cabinet and very much within my own state, so that I never had an opportunity of acquaintance with Col o Harrison . at the close of the war I was sent to Europe...
545Thomas Jefferson to Hutchins G. Burton, Thomas Cooper, and Samuel Brown, 28 September 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
The government of the U.S. at a very early period, when establishing it’s tariff on foreign importations, were very much guided in their selection of objects, by a desire to encourage manufactures within ourselves. Among other articles then selected were books, on the importation of which a duty of 15. per cent was imposed, which, by ordinary custom-house charges, amount to about 18 per cent,...
546From Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 19 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Raggi called on me yesterday and explained to me the contents of the two boxes of marble arrived at Philadelphia to my address from mr Appleton. the one containing a truncated column 32. I. high, 16 I. diam the other contains the base of the column. I have recieved no bill of lading from mr Appleton, nor other invoice but his general account which therefore I now inclose you. it is the upper...
547Thomas Jefferson to William D. Meriwether, [1 November 1819] (Jefferson Papers)
I recieve this on Monday the 1 st of November a quarter before 11. aclock A.M. and am too unwell to attend RC ( TxDaHCL: JDRC ); on verso of Meriwether to TJ, 30 Oct. 1819 ; partially dated. Not recorded in SJL .
548Thomas Jefferson’s Statement of Taxable Property in Albemarle County, 1 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
A list of the taxable property of the subscriber in Albemarle Feb. 1. 1818. 4896 ⅓ acres of land. 2. white tythes to wit E. Bacon and myself. 48. slaves of 16. and upwards. 7.
549From Thomas Jefferson to Dabney Carr, 13 June 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of troubling you with a small commission of enquiry to which I will not add that of a long preamble. Mess rs Dodge & Iznard of Marseilles, by a letter of Feb. 18. 26. advised me that they had shipped 2 casks of wine for me on board the ship Mandarin A. M. Norman Master, bound to the port of Baltimore, and consigned for me to the Collector of that port. that letter I recieved...
550Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 24 January 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
In a former letter I asked the favor of you to forward to me by waggon a box of books which I expected from N. York . but I presume they are ice-bound in James river . among a number of boxes of other things from Alexandria which I suppose are in Richmond and which must wait till the boats can run, there is a box of 50. ℔ raisins which I would gladly recieve by waggon also: the box is marked T...
551To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 30 September 1821 (Madison Papers)
Mr Brockenbrough has been closely engaged, since our last meeting in settling the cost of the buildings finished at the University, that we might obtain a more correct view of the state of our funds, and see whether a competency will remain for the Library. He has settled for 6. pavilions, 1. hotel, and 35. dormitories and will proceed with the rest; so that I hope, by our next meeting, the...
552Thomas Jefferson to John Laval, 30 September 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Aug. 23. was rec d on the 6 th inst, and I have so thus long waited to remit my balance, and of 13.97 endeavoring to get bills of the US. bank . it was not till the day before yesterday I could get them, for they are rarely seen in circulation in our country situation. I now inclose 15.D in that currency. should you meet with one of Planche ’s lexicons Gr. & Fr. remember me. I...
553Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 22 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
After writing the inclosed letter of yesterday your’s of the 18 th came to hand, informing me of the proposed curtailments of the US. bank . until I recieve your answer to the inclosed I cannot make a correct estimate of my funds & engagements. yet certainly to meet the suddenness of the curtailment I must avail myself of the discount which Col o Nicholas supposes can be had, and which will...
554From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Carrington Cabell, 19 January 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I percieve that to the bill concerning the University an amendmt is proposed for suspending interest a certain number of years. you are sensible we could not propose to persons in foreign countries to break up, and abandon their prospects there and come here on compensations of temporary continuance only, which at the expiration of the suspension of interest would leave them without resource...
555Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 8 July 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
It is now five and forty years since I have withdrawn from the practice of the law: I have but occasionally, within that period, read any thing on it’s subjects, have rarely reflected on them with any attention, or permitted myself to form opinions with any degree of confidence, still less to oppose these opinions to those of gentlemen now of that faculty, and in dayly familiarity with the...
556Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 23 May 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Our river has been up so that I could not ford it to visit the Shadwell mills till yesterday. I found that there was not a single boat up, but that some are expected to-day and the miller promised he would send off 2. boatloads of flour tomorrow, and that the rest should follow within a few days. there are between 250. & 300 Barrels still to go. as soon as I know that the 2. boat loads are...
557From Thomas Jefferson to Robley Dunglison, 31 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Not knowing who is the Chairman of the Faculty for the present year, I must return the inclosed catalogue to yourself from whom I recieved it, as it needs explanations to enable the board of Visitors to act on it. for example. Not one of us knowing the German Alphabet, we must ask those titles to be written in English characters to enable us to read & act on them. where titles are written in...
558Thomas Jefferson to Andrew Smith, 5 September 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly recieved your favor of Aug. 14 and can assure you, Sir, that I have never been unmindful of the debt to you which ought so long ago to have been paid, but the Catastrophe of the last year took no one by surprise more than myself. my expences of the preceding year had been on the usual scale, & such as the usual prices of produce would have fully met. I got but half price, say 3 ⅛ D....
559Thomas Jefferson to Burgess Allison, 29 November [1818] (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Sir , for the pamphlet you have been so kind as to send me on Naval architecture. retired from the business of the world, enfeebled in body by age & relaxed in mind I cease to interest pay attention wherever I can be excused from it. the improvement appears probable and beautiful, and I wish well to every thing which may better the condition of man, and to nothing more than what...
560Thomas Jefferson to Charles Clay, 12 July 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
This is the only fair day since you were here, & being to depart tomorrow, I must employ it otherwise than in paying the visit I had intended you. I shall be back however within 3. weeks and have time then to render the double. In the mean while as your Paul is desirous of laying up useful things in the storehouse of his mind, I send him a little bundle of canons of conduct which may merit a...
561Notice of University of Virginia’s opening, 25 May 1824, 25 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
The University of Virginia. The period for opening this institution being ultimately fixed to the 1 st day of Feb. next, some previous information respecting it may be acceptable to the public, and useful to individuals who may have views of availing themselves of it’s benefits. and our press being on the spot, as it were, it seems incumbent on us particularly to give that information, which...
562Thomas Jefferson to John F. Oliveira Fernandes, 28 May 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 19 th is this moment recieved, and I hasten by it’s acknolegement, to anticipate your departure. I learn with great pleasure that justice is at length done you in your native co un try by the restoration of your property. you will arrive there in an interesting time, and will no doubt benefit it by the obs erva tions you have been able to make on the organisation, the...
563To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 24 September 1824 (Madison Papers)
I have got thro’ my catalogue except the Alphabet and send you the result. The inclosed table shews the number, size, and cost of the whole and it’s parts. 6860. vols will cost 24.076 D. or 3½ D. a vol. on an average of all sizes. If we get our 50. M D and also if 10.000 would do for apparatus, there would remain 16.000. to invest in stock. This would give us 1000 D. a year for ever which...
564From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 13 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I requested you in a former letter to assure mr James Rawlings that as soon as I could get my tob o to market I would draw on you in his favor for a balance due the mutual assurance co. I have accdly drawn on you this day for a sum of about 89 or 90.D. I had formerly desired mr Ritchie to apply to you annually for my subscription to the Enquirer, and supposing it regularly paid, I had not even...
565Thomas Jefferson to Richard Rush, 22 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 1. has been duly recieved, and requires my thanks for the kind offer of your services in London . books are indeed with me a necessary of life; and since I ceded my library to Congress I have been annually importing from Paris . not but that I need some from London also, but that they have risen there to such enormous prices as cannot be looked at. England must lose her...
566From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 8 September 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
at the end of the 2 d paragraph, after the words, ‘the other half at their delivery of ship board’ interline ‘but if on their arrival at Leghorn, there be no ship in port bound as aforesd, the last half is to be paid on their delivery to the sd T. Appleton, deducting the transportation on ship board’. or to Tho s Appleton if on their arrival at Leghorn there be no ship in port bound as...
567From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Everett, 21 July 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the copies of your two public addresses inclosed in your favor of the 6 th inst. that of Concord, as a morsel of exact history, and of a most interesting event was peculiarly acceptable. I am sorry it is not in my power to give you any information on the subject of the Louisiana treaty. my memory is gone, and I have no papers on the subject. but surely the ‘Conjectural note’...
568From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 19 December 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letters from the President of the US. were addressed by him, under cover to Gov r Randolph while supposed to be at New-york. they reached that place after he had left it, were from thence addressed back to him, supposed to be here, hence they went to him being at Richmond on the legislature now setting, and are returned hither with a request that I would inclose them to you, to be...
569From Thomas Jefferson to John C. Calhoun, 5 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of dec. 29. covering the letter of mr Levins, expressing a willingness to undertake a professorship of Mathematics or Nat. Philosophy in our University and stating the names of Playfair, Leslie, Hope and Jamieson among those from whom he had himself recieved instruction. more respectable names could certainly not be quoted; and they sufficiently inspire a...
570From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 14 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The reasons assigned in your favor of the 7 th for preferring to retain Loudon instead of Albemarle are such as cannot be controverted. the society of our children is the sovereign balm of life, and the older we grow the more we need it, to fill up the void made by the daily losses of the companions and friends of our youth. nor ought we of this neighborhood to regret a preference so conducive...