771From Thomas Jefferson to P.P.F. Degrand, 24 June 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter written under that of mr Copeland of June 14. is recieved with the Boston Patriot of June 12. therein inclosed. the date of the letter of mr Adams after which you enquire was of Sep. 18. mr Elwin, grandson of Gov r Langdon happened to be with me at the reciept of your letter, and I asked him to assist me in comparing the printed copy in the Boston patriot with the MS. in my hands....
772From Thomas Jefferson to Stephen T. Mitchell, 24 June 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I have for several years past declined subscribing for new publications, from the uncertainty of my living to recieve them, and an unwillingness to leave my family subject to multiplied calls. I break through my rule however by subscribing to that you propose, and now return your paper with my name and best wishes for it’s success, and assurances of my respects. NNGL .
773From Thomas Jefferson to William Mullins, 24 June 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 15 th is recieved. I remember well your father Anthony Mullins, or little Anthony as he was called, his Italian name being Antonio Molini; but I do not remember that he particularly became a souldier in the Revolution war. I only recollect the general fact that Mazzei’s undertaking to make wine at Colle was broken up by several of his people engaging in the army. my almost...
774From Thomas Jefferson to Levi Woodbury, 24 June 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Sir, for the copies of the Review of mr Adams’s oration, and of your message to your legislature, which you have been so kind as to send me. I remember well mr Josiah Bartlett and Gen l W m Whipple, two of the members of your state who signed the Declaration of Independance. from the latter I recieved many attentions and civilities, during a visit I made to Portsmouth in 1784. I...
775From Thomas Jefferson to Jerman Baker, 22 June 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Other engagements have prevented my earlier attention to the enquiries of your’s of the 3 d as to the title of the late Col o Skipwith to the lands at Indian Camp. that title is unquestionable. the part of the tract , called Indian Camp was originally 2,400. a s (if I recollect the quantity correctly) the property of Francis Eppes of the Hundred, who had a son, Col o Rich d Eppes (father of)...
776From Thomas Jefferson to Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler, 22 June 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 14 th has been duly recieved. the Visitors of the University, at their meeting in April last, having been able to fix on a day, (the 1 st of Feb next) for opening that institution, proceeded to consider the subject of Professors for the different schools, of which you will see the number and titles in the paper inclosed. I laid before them the applications which had been...
777From Thomas Jefferson to William P. Smith, 22 June 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
your favor of the 8 th has been duly recieved. I inclose you a printed notice respecting our University in which you will find stated the titles of the schools proposed to be established in that institution, and the distribn of the sciences among them. you will observe that the teaching of the English language will belong to the two professors of antient & modern languages. geography antient...
778From Thomas Jefferson to Littleton Dennis Teackle, 22 June 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
No one is more sensible than myself of the importance to every country, of the science of political economy, of the defect of it in our own country, or of the danger of undertaking to direct it’s industry without a clear sighted view of all it’s bearings, and of it’s complicated entanglements foreign and domestic. in this science, as in Medecine, it is best to leave nature to her own agency...
779From Thomas Jefferson to Gulian C. Verplanck, 7 June 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Sir, for the copy of the beautiful Address to the American academy of the Fine arts, which you have been so kind as to send me. I have great pleasure in seeing them so engagingly inculcated, and in observing, by the catalogue of articles exhibited, that so many specimens are possessed capable of exercising the eye in the study of these fascinating arts. they furnish a valuable...
780From Thomas Jefferson to Joshua Dodge, 6 June 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Nov. 12. of the last year, with the wines & other articles, as by your acc t of the same date, were rec d by the Collector of Phila in January. immediately on his transmission of your letter to me, I wrote to mess rs Degrand and Copeland of Boston to ascertain to which the remittance of the am t should be made. their answer of Feb. 13. that mr Copeland would recieve it came to...
781From Thomas Jefferson to John Cartwright, 5 June 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I am much indebted for your kind letter of Feb. 29. and for your valuable volume on the English constitution. I have read this with pleasure, and much approbation, and think it has deduced the constitution of the English nation from it’s rightful root, the Anglo-Saxon. it is really wonderful that so many able and learned men should have failed in their attempts to define it with correctness....
782From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 5 June 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
The printer having disappointed me in getting ready, in time to send to you before your departure, the original report of the plan of our University, I now inclose you half a dozen copies, one for D r Stuart, the others to be disposed of as you please. I am sorry to inform you that we fail in getting the contingent donation of 50. M .D. made to us by our last legislature. so we have nothing...
783From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Rush, 5 June 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Taking for granted this will reach you while mr Gilmer is still in England, I take the liberty of putting a letter for him, under the protection of your cover, to ensure it’s safe reciept by him. should it however, by any accident, loiter on the way until he should be on his return, I will request of you to open the letter to him, and to take out, and have delivered to Maj r Cartwright, one it...
784From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 3 June 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your habitual kindness to me occasions me to trouble you oftner than I ought to do . a gentleman now here informs me he saw a book in the bookstore of a mr Thomson in Wash n so recently published in England that I did not expect a copy had got to America. it is Jones Greek and English Lexicon, costing in England 30.ƒ. sterl. or 6.67 for which however he says mr T. asked 12.D. an advance of 80....
785From Thomas Jefferson to William John Coffee, 31 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I am thankful to you for the transmission of the Albion papers and the kind offer of continuing to do so regularly but I will not give you that trouble. I read but a single paper our Enquirer, which gives as much as I wish to know of what is going on. it is time for me to resign to a younger generation the direction of their concerns, and I do it chearfully—a friend in England sends me the...
786From Thomas Jefferson to William Duane, 31 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved, a few days ago, a pamphlet on the subject of America, England and the Holy alliance, and read it with unusual interest and concurrence of opinion. it furnished a simple and satisfactory key for the solution of all the riddles of British conduct & policy. while considering and conjecturing who could be it’s author, I happened to cast my eye on the few words of superscription, and...
787From Thomas Jefferson to Clement P. McKennie, 25 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
If mr M c Kenny thinks the information on the preceding leaf may be as interesting as other matter provided for his next paper, he is free to use it; if he should not have room in his first paper Th: Jefferson asks it’s return to be forwarded to the enquirer. ViU .
788Notice 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...
789From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Eston Randolph, 22 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
The distress in which I am to meet debts of the most pressing urgency obliges me to remind you of the arrearages due to me on the mill account. according to the account rendered by yourself to the 1 st of last July there was then a balance acknoleged due of 650.09D my acc t made it more. this difference was left to Jefferson to settle with you, and it was agreed between you to arbitrate it as...
790From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Swift, 22 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Feb. 15. was not answered because we were in daily expectation of the vote of a donation, by our legislature, to enable us to purchase books and apparatus for our University. the vote was afterwards past but rested on a contingency, the failure of which was not made known to me until since the reciept of your favor of the 8 th inst. inclosing a catalogue of one of the libraries...
791Thomas Jefferson: A General Gardening Calendar, 21 May 1824, 21 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
A GENERAL GARDENING CALENDAR, Being a copy of one in use by an Illustrious Philosopher and cultivator of literature and the peaceful arts, not far from Charlottesville in Virginia. Feb. 1. Hophills —manure and dress them. Asparagus —dress and replant. 15. Sow Frame-Peas , the first open weather. Sow Lettuce and Radishes . Spinage —sow. Celery
792From Thomas Jefferson to Theodorus Bailey, 20 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I have found my letters for Europe to which I have taken the liberty of asking your attention get always to their destination with so much certainty, that I am tempted to abuse your goodness by often asking the same favor. the communicns with Leghorn, which the wants of our university will still for a while continue, are so necessary to that instn as to render their safe transmission greatly...
793From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Williams, 20 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
The construction of the University of Virginia, in which we have been some time engaged, having occasioned us to charge mr Appleton of Leghorn with several successive commissions for articles we want, I have been indebted to him for the advantage of passing our remittances and letters thro’ you. and I have found the passages you have been so good as to give them so safe and expeditious that I...
794From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Appleton, 18 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
private In your letter of Feb. 8., in answer to my enquiries on the subject, you inform me of the price of best plain, polished marble slabs, proper for the fascia of architraves for fire places, I can reduce the fire places in my house to 2. sizes, and I must request you to furnish me marble fascia for 3. larger & 5. smaller ones as follows all plain without any moulding 6. plinths 9 inches...
795Thomas Jefferson: Expenses for house repairs, 18 May 1824, 18 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
sq. I for these 5. rooms then order + 10. plinths 6¼ by 7. I. 1240 10. side fascia 5½ I. wide 31¼ high } 3093 5. horizont fascia 5½ I. wide 50. I. long + for the Hall use the 2. cast-off plinths of the Parlour 4333 = + 30. sq 144 NjP : DeCoppet Collection.
796From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Appleton, 17 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
My last to you was of Nov. 22. since which I have recieved yours of Dec. 24. and Feb. 8. in consequence of the information given in the last that the first quality of marble squares for paving the Portico of our Rotunda, polished and accurately squared ready to be laid down, of one foot square, will cost at Leghorn 221/12D. the hundred’ I am now to desire you to send us 1200 squares of one...
797From Thomas Jefferson to Franklin Bache, 17 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to thank you, dear Sir, for the volume of chemistry which you have been so kind as to send me. the attention which prevails through the whole work to apply it’s science to the utilities of life gives it that high merit for which your illustrious ancestor was so distinguished. he seemed to pursue no discoveries but with a view to the uses of man. I have to apologise for the qui pro quo...
798From Thomas Jefferson to Felix Pascalis Ouviere, 17 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I am very thankful Gentlemen for your kind recollections on the approach of the Anniversary of the great father of Natural history. it would certainly be a great enjoyment to be present and to participate with his worthy disciples of the Society of N. York. at their celebration of his birth. as that prospect however recedes from my view, another advances with steady and not distant steps, that...
799From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Patterson, 17 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
The Baron de Ferrusac of Paris (not otherwise known to me) has sent me the inclosed letter and pamphlet, proposing to extend to this country a correspondence established with other parts of the world for the purposes therein explained. age and retirement unfit and disqualify me f rom undertaking such a correspondence. I have supposed it possible however that the Philosophical society might...
800From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 17 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 10 th instant. as soon as the vote of invitation to M. de la Fayette had passed one house, and was likely to pass the other, I wrote to the President, and to a member or two of Congress, expressing my confidence that they could not mean merely to invite him to come and dine; suggesting the scantiness of his means of meeting expence, and the necessity of a...