2281Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 10 December 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the reciept of your favor of Nov. 23. the banks, bankrupt law, manufactures, Spanish treaty are nothing. these are th occurrences which like waves in a storm will pass under the ship. but the Missouri question is a breaker on which we lose the Missouri country by revolt, & what more, God only knows. from the battle of Bunker’s hill to the treaty of
2282Thomas Jefferson to Clarkson Crolius, 10 December 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Th Jefferson returns his respectful thanks to the President & members of the Tammany society for the favor of their address on the subjects of economy and manufactures. he has read it with pleasure and finds in it much to approve, little to doubt, and less to add. perhaps he should have added the suppression of Drawbacks among the remedies for the disease of over-trading ourselves. it is...
2283Thomas Jefferson to Claude Victoire Herard (Leuba), 10 December 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Th:J presents his respects to Miss Gabrielle Valtin , & is truly sensible of the painful situation of herself & her father as described in her letter of the 8 th this moment recieved. he regrets equally his own inability to administer any relief to them, the difficulties of the times, which she cannot but know having fallen with oppressive weight on himself. not having the pleasure of any...
2284Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on University of Virginia Pavilions, 7 December 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
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2285Thomas Jefferson to de Bure Frères, 4 December 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Sep. 11. , original and duplicate, was recieved a few days ago, and I have notice that the books arrived at New York with the letters. I propose, the ensuing year to employ the annual sum I devote to these objects in an importation from London of some English books which I have long wanted; and therefore shall intermit the application of that year to you. as I very much desire...
2286Thomas Jefferson to David Gelston, 4 December 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of Nov. 24. and am very thankful for your kind attention to forward my books to Richmond promptly and without waiting my answer. the advance of the season which renders them more liable to loss or injury makes this dispatch interesting. I return you mr Beasley’s letter, and inclose also Debure’s letter & invoice of the cost of the books. as soon therefore as...
2287Thomas Jefferson to Francis W. Gilmer, 4 December 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of Nov. 29. the suit of mr Wayles ’s exrs. v. Byrd ’s representatives, I knew nothing of, having been brought while I was in Europe by my co-executor Francis Eppes dec d whose executor and son in law Archibald Thweatt finishes the business of mr Eppes . be so good therefore as to pay into his hands any sum which may come to your’s from
2288Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 4 December 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your’s of Nov. 29 . you have rightly under stood the expression in my letter of ‘the place under him’ assuredly meaning the principal office in Richmond under the PM.G. Jefferson ’s sollicitations were warmly for yourself. he never had an idea of that or any thing else of the kind for himself. his views are fixed on the earth & his own industry only. I intend this year to...
2289Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 4 December 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Having got my endorsem e nt for mr Nicholas arranged with the bank of the US. all to the recording of the deed , which I have promised them to have done, I inclose it to you for this purpose; and wishing to be punctual with them I will pray you to get it done immediately by the clerk and send me his certificate that I may forward it to them. they have given 2. 3. & 4. years for the payment of...
2290Thomas Jefferson to James P. Preston, 1 December 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
In obedience to the law establishing the University of Virginia the Visitors of that institution , at their last meeting of Oct. 4. agreed to a Report on the disbursements, funds and condition of the University , which they instructed me to authenticate, and transmit, with the documents therein referred to, to the President and Directors of the Literary fund . this duty I now perform. Since...
2291To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 30 November 1819 (Madison Papers)
A visit of the ladies of our family to mrs. Madison gives me an opportunity of sending you our correspondence with Dr. Cooper & of recieving it back again safely. It is necessary to observe that our first letter & his first crossed each other on the road, so that each party had expressed their mind before knowing that of the other. On the whole this embarrassed transaction ends well enough,...
2292Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 30 November 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
A visit of the ladies of our family to mrs Madison gives me an opportunity of sending you our correspondence with D r Cooper & of recieving it back again safely. it is neces sar y to observe that our first letter & his first crossed each other on the road, so that each party had expressed their mind before knowing that of the other. on the whole this embarrassed transaction ends well enough,...
2293Thomas Jefferson to John Nicholas, 28 November 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 25 th is recieved. I have in vain endeavored to rack my memory for the recollection of the fact of Arnold ’s letter to you, but am unable to recover a single trace of it. but altho’ this state of my memory cannot attest the fact, yet neither does it impeach it. many transactions of greater mark, even where they were my own, are so entirely obliterate d from it by time and decay,...
2294Thomas Jefferson to William C. Rives, 28 November 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
The distresses of our country, produced first by the flood, then by the ebb of bank paper are such as cannot fail to engage the interposition of the legislature . many propositions will of course be offered, from all of which something may probably be culled to make a good whole. I explained to you my project, when I had the pleasure of possessing you here; and I now send it’s outline in...
2295Thomas Jefferson to John Hemmings, 27 November 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter by Henry is recieved, and I am very glad indeed that the cause of the leak is discovered— miss no opportunity of every possible further search whenever rain falls, because if the cause can be unquestionably ascertained, we can remedy i t. I would have you first hang the blinds which are finished, that is the 7–sets which you say are done. then finish and hang the remaining 5. which...
2296Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 27 November 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Henry delivered your letter and all the articles entrusted to him safely on Tuesday night. I now inclose you a list of the cloathing to be given to every one of the people according to their ages, also of the blankets and beds to be given this year, which you will find in the columns headed 1819. I have given the columns of the last and next year, to shew those who recieved the last year &...
2297Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 26 November 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 11 th came to hand yesterday only. how it could have slumbered 15. days on the road is inexplicable but by great default. it happens in this case to produce no ill because on the day of the date of yours I had forwarded to you the notes desired, which you probably recieved a day or two after. I am really miserable at the state of our river , and the continuance of the most...
2298Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 26 November 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 11 th did not come to hand till last night. to have been a fortnight on the way proves great negligence on the way, which was not at the post office here, as I well know. you say you feel great embarrasment at asking my sollicitations for you at the seat of government . feel none, my dear Sir; there is nothing within my power which I am not ready to do for you, and I should be...
2299Thomas Jefferson to Andrew Stevenson, 26 November 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your kind favor of the 11 th was recieved last night only. why it should have been a fortnight on the way is unaccountable. mr Dandridge by a letter of the 10 th had informed me of the resolution of the Directors of the bank of the US. mentioned in your letter , but I did not before know to whom I was indebted for the attention. you have rendered me a great service, dear Sir, in procuring this...
2300Thomas Jefferson to Gerard E. Stack, 25 November 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
To your letter of Sunday last , explaining your propensities for retirement, I will answer in the words of Cicero , which an experience of three or four years at one period of my life, proved to be full of wisdom. ‘ Te ad coenas itare desisse , molesté fero. magnâ enim te delectatione et voluptate privasti. et me hercule moneo te, quod pertinere ad beate vivendum arbitror, ut cum viris bonis,...
2301Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Recommendation of Gerard E. Stack, [ca. 25 November 1819] (Jefferson Papers)
Believing that it would be advantageous to have a school established in the neighborhood of the University , where the classical languages should be accurately taught, and subjects might be competently prepared for entering that institution as soon as it should be opened, mr Stack of Philada , subscriber to the preceding advertisement was invited to come & establish such a school . he was...
2302Thomas Jefferson’s Plan for Reducing the Circulating Medium, [23 November 1819] (Jefferson Papers)
The plethory of circulating medium which raised the prices of every thing to several times their ordinary and standard value in which state of things many and heavy debts were contracted; and the sudden withdrawing too great a proportion of that medium, & reduction of prices far below that standard, constitute the disease under which we are now laboring, and which must end in a general...
2303Thomas Jefferson to John Brazer, 22 November 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I am favored with your letter of Oct. 18. and much indebted for it’s kind and respectful expressions towards myself. the esteem of the good and wise is the balm of age and retirement. you ask consent to the publication of my letter on the advantages of classical learning . this, you know is a question which has been debated for ages, and still divides the world, the learned, at least, from the...
2304Thomas Jefferson to Emmanuel, marquis de Grouchy, 22 November 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson , with his respects to Marshal Grouchy returns him thanks for the copy he has been so kind as to send him of his Observations on the publication of General Gourgaud which he had recieved some time before. he has read the observations with much gratification, and equal conviction of the errors they so effectually correct. the suspicion which these excite that equal errors may have...
2305Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Herttell, 22 November 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to mr Herttell for the copy he has been so kind as to send him of his Exposé on the subject of intemperate drinking. he is highly gratified by every effort to repress a vice by which health, fortune and character are so fatally prostrated. having long feared that moral considerations would not ultimately prove sufficient, he has looked for a final and effectual...
2306Thomas Jefferson to Andrew Jackson, 22 November [1819] (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to General Jackson for the copy he has been so good as to send him of the Vindication of the proceedings in the Seminole war. if doubts on these proceedings have existed in candid minds this able vindication can scarcely fail to remove them. in addition to what had before been laid before the public, it brings forward some new views, and new facts also, of...
2307Thomas Jefferson to John Armstrong, 19 November 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 6 th was recieved yesterday. the will of Gen l Kosciuzko was proved in our circuit court of May. soon af ter that I recieved a repetition of mr Zeltner ’s claim, and one als o from a
2308Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Mathew Carey & Son [ca. 19 November 1819] (Jefferson Papers)
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2309Thomas Jefferson to Peter Stephen Chazotte, 19 November 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I am indebted to you, Sir, for the copy you have been so kind as to send me of your preliminary lecture on the philosophy of language; and still more for the flattering sentiments expressed in the dedication . the bloodless revolution of 1801. in the principles of the administration of our government, restored them to what cost much blood in 1776. and subsequently. but you ascribe to me more...
2310Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 19 November 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Oct. 25. was recieved here on the 4 th inst. my colle a gue of superintendance lives but 30. miles from me: but it is across the country, & by zig-zag cross posts which have retarded the reciept of his answer till yesterday. your letter was communicated to him and he concurs with me in accepting all it’s proposition which you may therefore consider as established, as we do your...