3051To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 30 December 1817 (Madison Papers)
I returned from Bedford a week ago, after an absence of 6. weeks, and found here the Palladio, with your two favors of Nov. 29. & Dec. 1 & with 3. from Dr. Cooper, written before he had received one from me of Nov. 25. from Poplar Forest. It was agreed, you know, that we should make a report of our proceedings & prospects to the Govr. as our patron to be laid before the legislature. Being...
3052Thomas Jefferson to Peter S. Du Ponceau, 30 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
An absence of 6. weeks has occasioned your letters of the 5 th & 11 th inst to lie thus long unacknoleged. after I had sent off the two other Westover MSS. I recieved a 3 d of the same journal. on perusing it, I am not sensible, by memory, of any thing not contained in the former, except 8. pages of a preliminary account of the abridgment of our limits by successive charters to other colonies....
3053Thomas Jefferson’s Estimate of Funds and Expenditures for Central College, [by 30 December 1817] (Jefferson Papers)
D C Albemarle Glebe lands. 3,195 .86 Subscriptions 27,610 . Fluvanna . 2,590 Nelson 2,052 Lynchburg 900 Richmond 820 Williamsbg
3054Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 30 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I returned from Bedford a week ago, after an absence of 6. weeks, and found here the Palladio , with your two favors of Nov. 29. & Dec. 1 & with 3. from D r Cooper , written before he had recieved
3055Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 29 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
The catalogue you were so kind as to send me has come safe to hand. we are not yet so far advanced in our Collegiate institution as to be able to commence the establishment of a library: but I see on the catalogue some books which I will ask the favor of you to send me. they are noted below . the Worral & miniature bible will come safer & quicker by mail if well wrapped in strong paper. the...
3056Thomas Jefferson to Peter Stephen Chazotte, 29 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to mr Chazotte for the copy he has been so kind as to send him of his Essay on the best method of teaching languages, and he sees with pleasure the great attention now shewn to facilitate the communication of instruction to youth. besides the good which each method offers in itself, it adds that of inducing others to improve on it, and the result must be happy...
3057Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Garrett, 29 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Inclosed is the draught of a report which the Visitors desired me to prepare, to be sent to the Gov r as our patron, and by him to be laid before the legislature , in the hope they may either adopt us, or help us. the inhabitants of Charlottesville and it’s neighborhood have taken so liberal an interest in this institution that I wish them always to possess correct information of the measures...
3058Thomas Jefferson to John L. E. W. Shecut, 29 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns thanks to D r Shecut for the pa mphlet on Yellow fever which he has been so kind as to send him . he remarks with satisfaction the distinction observed between the fever which has always existed in ce rtain situations of our country & has been known by the name of the Strangers’ fever , because affecting them alone, and that known latterly by the name of the Yellow fever,...
3059Thomas Jefferson to John Brockenbrough, 27 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return after a long absence, I found here your favor of Dec. 10 . I never owned but one piece of ground in Richmond which was conveyed to me by Charles Carter as trustee for Col o Byrd , and sold and conveyed again by me to David Higginbotham , to whom I delivered all the papers I had concerning it. a copy of the deed which I retained enables me to quote it’s description, to wit,...
3060Thomas Jefferson to Samuel J. Harrison, 27 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return I found here the inclosed letter from Cap t Jones , president of the bank of the US. which had been lying here a month. it is an explanation of the grounds on which that bank conducts itself; and as it may be satisfactory to yourself & others interested in the late application, to understand these, and may enable you to judge of what may be expected, I inclose it for your and...
3061Thomas Jefferson to William Jones, 27 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return to this place after an absence of 6. weeks, I find here your favor of Nov. 8 . I thank you for your attention to the Lynchburg application. my recommendation of it was meant to place it’s claims fairly before you, not doubting it would be decided on the general rules established by the board. the explanation you have been so kind as to give me is perfectly satisfactory, and leaves...
3062Thomas Jefferson to Jared Sparks, 27 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sorry it is not in my power to give any information of value on the subject of mr Ledyard . he was several times at Paris while I resided there, made considerable stays, and was almost an inmate of my house while there. thro’ the intervention of Baron Grimm , private agent of the empress Catharine , I obtained permission from her for his going to Kamschatka & thence to the Western coast...
3063Thomas Jefferson to John Quincy Adams, 26 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return to this place after an absence of 6 weeks I find here your favor of Nov. 29 . when I proposed to the President the appointment of mr Sasserno to be Consul at Nice , I was not possessed of his Christian name. I therefore took measures immediately to obtain it, and found also, on my return here, the answers to my enquiries. his name is Victor Adolphus Sasserno . I was intimately...
3064Thomas Jefferson to Anthony Charles Cazenove, 25 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson acknoleges the reciept of b a paper bundle of books from mr Vanderkemp thro’ the kindness of mr Cazenove , to whom he begs leave to return his thanks and to salute him with esteem & respect. He is in duty bound to add that an absence of 6. weeks has prevented an earlier acknolegement of mr Cazenove ’s favor . PoC ( MHi ); on verso of reused address cover to TJ; dateline above...
3065Thomas Jefferson to Honoré Julien, 25 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
While I sincerely lament the unfortunate fate of poor Le Maire whom I never suspected of gloom enough to bring himself to so tragical an end, I thank you my good friend for having informed me of it. it proves that I still live in your recollection, and that our former relations have left friendly impressions on your mind towards me, as I assure you they have in mine towards yourself, and that,...
3066Thomas Jefferson to Charles K. Mallory, 25 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return to this place, after an absence of 6. weeks at a very distant possession at which I pass a third of my time, I find here your favor of Nov. 26 . I thank you much for your kindness in having rec e ived my articles from Marseilles , and forwarded them without awaiting my particular directions to Mess rs Gibson & Jefferson of Richm d who I am sure have paid, and will always pay all...
3067Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Marx, 25 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his thanks to mr Mark Marx for the trouble he has been so kind as to take in forwarding to him the cloth from mr Flower . it is safely at hand and it’s highest value is placed in the motives of the giver, whose great personal worth was consideration sufficient for any services it was in the power of Th:J. to render him. he salutes mr Marx with esteem & respect. PoC ( DLC...
3068Thomas Jefferson to Robert Patton, 25 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return hither after an absence of 6. weeks I find your favor of the 4 th informing me of the arrival of a case of books for me from Paris . I have as yet recieved no account or invoice of them from Mess rs Desbures freres from whom they come, nor know otherwise their cost than from a paragraph in mr Beaseley ’s letter of Sep. 29. in these words. ‘ by the ship Atlas Cap t
3069Thomas Jefferson to Francis Adrian Van der Kemp, 25 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of M r Vanderkemp to make his thanks acceptable, if occasion should offer to the worthy lady, miss Halshoff who has been so kind as through him to send him her interesting Republican Manuel. it is replete with the soundest principles of human independance, and I commiserate her sufferings in so holy a cause. gloomy however as is the present appearance of it’s...
3070Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 24 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Just now returned from Bedford I find here your favor of Dec. 11. and without a moment’s loss of time I return you my renewed notes for the banks, and repeat the assurances of my great esteem & respect PoC ( DLC: TJ Papers , ser. 10); on verso of reused address cover to TJ; at foot of text: “ M r Gibson ”; endorsement by TJ chipped. Enclosures not found. On this date TJ recorded renewing the...
3071Thomas Jefferson’s Memorandum on Poplar Forest Boundaries, [ca. 17–20 December 1817], document 11 in a group of … (Jefferson Papers)
Form of Certificate of the Surveyor for the vacant lands. ‘Beginning at a red oak pointer corner in the Poplar Forest tract, and along the line of that tract [ S. 38. E. po. ] passing 2. marked chesnuts [ poles to a ] corner of the newer patent lands of the sd Thomas Jefferson in the P.F. side line. thence along the line of the sd
3072Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 19 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to you yesterday morning & put the letter myself into the Post office of Lynchburg to which place I went to endeavor to engage bricklayers for our work the next season. I could not do it. they asked 15.D. a thousand for place brick & sand-stock brick work and the double for the oil-stock brick. they rose from 12.D. to 15.D. on the extraordinary price of corn a year or two past, and...
3073Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 18 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been detained a month by my affairs here, but shall depart in three days & eat my Christmas dinner at Monticello . I expect to find there the returns of our subscription papers , and I hope, the donation of the Cincinnati . these will enable me to make the report to the Governor which our board determined on. it will have to go the rounds of their residences for their amendments &...
3074Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Poplar Forest Survey, 12 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Begun at Clarke & Cobb ’s red oak corner N. 62. E 72. po. along a full marked line to his & my corner chesnut in Cobb ’s side line from this Chesnut the f. & a. post oak bears S. 52. E. 23. po. which makes that line 148. po. in all from the pointers to the chesnut then sa. co. contin
3075Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Poplar Forest Survey, 17 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
1817. Dec. 17. field notes of this day, settling Cobb ’s lines Begun at the red oak on Cobb ’s path near the Western gate which Whittington affirms to be one of the corner pointers of the Poplar forest po. S. 75. W. passing a hiccory side line to a chesnut side line 10. 88 sa. co. to Cobb ’s fence 27. po 27. sa. co. to the old spring-poplar marked as a side line on the lower side
3076Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on a Meeting with Thomas Whittington, 16 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Dec. 16. Tho s Whittington , well acquainted with the lines, attends and searches them with us whereupon the following material corrections & discoveries are made. the supposed corner beyond the N. Lond. road from which we begun the S. 50. E. line is not our corner nor in our course. he shews a plain marked tree in the course much further beyond the N.L. road and says the corner is farther...
3077Thomas Jefferson to Matthew Pate, 16 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
About two years ago I inclosed you a land warrant for 50. acres with a request to locate it on vacant lands adjoining my lands here. I have had the greatest difficulties in tracing the lines for the survey, a neighbor, long since deceased, having cut down compleatly 2. lines & the corners between us, and cleared over upon my lands. the land lines being now tolerably ascertain ed I must pray...
3078Thomas Jefferson’s Plats of Poplar Forest Boundaries, 14 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
scale 50. po. to the inch. platted Dec. 14 17. Course pursued in making this plat. Dec. 14 17. Began at the white (or Span. o. as sometimes called) corner S. 88. W. 85. po. a marked line N. 52. W. 148. po. a marked line to Clarke ’s ∠ chesnut. then from the Chesnut, platted his full marked line N. 62. E that line continued to the Poplar Forest is mine & the same, stopping at Cobb
3079Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Plats of Poplar Forest Boundaries, 14 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
1817. Dec. 14. Observations on the lines in this plat. Beginning at a corner white oak, sometimes called a Spanish oak, well known on Callaway ’s road. S. 88. W. 85. po. fully marked to pointers, & so found by Maj r Organ Nov. 27. 1817 . N. 52. W. 125. po. full marked to a post oak fore & aft found by Maj r Organ . 23. po. more without another marked tree terminates it at Clarke
3080Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 13 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Our Visitors determined to make a report to the Governor as their patron, of the progress and prospects of our College , with a view to place it before the legislature for their aid or adoption. I have this moment, and at this place prepared such a report, but as it will be some time before it can go the rounds of all the visitors for their signatures, your greater distance requires the...
3081Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Poplar Forest Survey, 9 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
✓ 1817. Dec. 9. Beg g in the S. 50. E. line at 12 ½ po. from the fore & aft. white oak, and 111 ½ po. from the corner near the N. London road. ✓ N. 70. E. at 54. po. the spring is 1. po. on N. side; at 68. po. his corner in the field as suppos d in all 110.88 po. to
3082Thomas Jefferson’s Advertisement for Brickwork, [by 7 December 1817] (Jefferson Papers)
The Subscriber is authorised by the Visitors of the Central College near Charlottesville to contract for the making & laying there about 400,000. bricks, the Undertaker finding every thing, & the work to be equal to the best brickwork in Lynchburg ; one half to be done by the 1 st of July , & the whole by the 1 st of October . the lime quarries are about 10. miles & sand about 2. miles distant...
3083Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Poplar Forest Survey, 6 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Beg g at the ∠ over New London road. ✓ S. 52. E. S. 40. E. S. 50 E . 99. po to w.o. stump in Cobb’s field near his yard fore & aft. ✓ S. 50. E. 22 ¼ to w.o. stump in y
3084Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 29 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I find that the cart need not leave Monticello till Thursday the 11 th of December, on the morning of which I wish it to be dispatched. I send Bedford Billy down to be put to work with the Coopers under Barnaby , and Thrimston to leave Barnaby and work with the carpenters. I hope you will keep them all to their duty. Billy is found too ungovernable for Johnny Hemings
3085Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 29 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
The calculation in my former letter of the time when Johnny Hemings would be done, was made on a guess of his own. by what he has since done I can estimate the time it will take him more exactly, and I find the cart need not leave Monticello till Thursday the 11 th of December, on which day therefore I wish it to be dispatched. I have been two days engaged from sunrise to sunset with a...
3086Thomas Jefferson to John Wood, 26 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved your favor of the 10 th as I was preparing to set out for this place, which will explain the delay, as well as the place, of it’s acknolegement. the suggestion in my letter of the last summer (for I cannot here quote it’s date) was from myself purely, and intended to enable me to say to the Visitors of the Central college , whether you would be willing to accept of the Classical...
3087Thomas Jefferson to Noah Worcester, 26 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feelings to be in favor of the abolition of war. of my disposition to maintain peace until it’s condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself, the world has had proofs, and more perhaps than it has approved. I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind & morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of it’s...
3088Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 25 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
My long and frequent visits to this place make me a very inexact correspondent. your letter of Oct. 24. was 11. days on it’s passage, instead of 5. or 6. the ordinary time, and it found me on the eve of my departure from Monticello . It is impossible for me to regret the prospects you have of being satisfactorily fixed at Philadelphia , because I sincerely wish you whatever you think best...
3089Thomas Jefferson to José Corrêa da Serra, 25 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I am highly gratified by the interest you take in our Central college , and the more so as it may possibly become an inducement to pass more of your time with us. it is even said you had thought of engaging a house in it’s neighborhood. but why another house? is not one enough? and especially one whose inhabitants are made so happy by your becoming their inmate? when you shall have a wife and...
3090Thomas Jefferson to George W. Erving, 25 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be delivered to you by mr George Ticknor a young gentleman of high respectability and connexions from Massachusets & among the first in our country in point of erudition. he has been in Europe several years, first at Gottingen to fill up the measure of his education, thence he has travelled thro’ France , is now probably in Italy , & expects to be at Madrid , with the same constant...
3091Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Roads to Poplar Forest, 25 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
1817. Nov. 25 from the house to the bridge at the meadow 1100 yds along the branch to 1 st x g place 137 along d o to 2 d d o 173 Strait line to ∠
3092Thomas Jefferson to Elisha Ticknor, 25 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have lately recieved from your much valued son, a letter of Aug. 14. dated from Paris , in which he asks me for one of introduction to mr Erving , our Minister at Madrid . bound in duty, as well as inclination to render him every service in my power, I inclose to him such a letter as will ensure him every good office mr Erving can render: and by his particular direction, I put it under cover...
3093Thomas Jefferson to George Ticknor, 25 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Aug. 14. was delivered to me as I was setting out for the distant possession, from which I now write, & to which I pay frequent & long visits. on my arrival here I make it my first duty to write the letter you request to mr Erving , and to inclose it in this under cover to your father, that you may get it in time. my letters are always letters of thanks because you are always...
3094Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 22 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I find I shall be able to get from here from Saturday this day fortnight to Saturday this three weeks. it is necessary therefore that Cretia ’s Johnny should set off with the cart on Thursday morning the 3 d of December
3095Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 22 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived here, my dear daughter after a disagreeable journey, one day shut up at Warren by steady rain, the next travelling thro a good deal of drizzle & rain, and the last excessive cold, the road being full of ice. but all well in the end. Johnny Hemings had made great progress in his work. his calculation is that he may possibly finish by this day fortnight, but possibly & almost probably...
3096To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 15 November 1817 (Madison Papers)
We are sadly at a loss here for a Palladio. I had three different editions, but they are at Washington, and nobody in this part of the country has one unless you have. If you have you will greatly aid us by letting us have the use of it for a year to come. It will come safely by the stage, and may be left at the stage office of either Milton or Charlottesville, & either postmaster will pay the...
3097Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, [15 November 1817] (Jefferson Papers)
I have made it a point thro’ life never to recieve or pay compound interest nor any thing more than what is legal. nor do I think compound interest just, because had the law intended to permit it, it would have been fixed at 3. per cent or 3 ½ which is as much as men in general make of their money in the ordinary & honest vocations of life. more may be made, by possibility, at the gaming table...
3098Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 15 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Johnson having called on me the morning he was loading and assuring me he should load two boats occasioned my letter of the 3 d . I learnt afterwards that one of his boats got broke into in two , which occasioned the disappointment. his boat is returned and is now at the mill and will take in a load for me tomorrow morning. I set out for Bedford in the morning to be absent 2. or 3. weeks. I...
3099Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 15 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
We are sadly at a loss here for a Palladio . I had three different editions, but they are at Washington , and nobody in this part of the country has one unless you have. if you have you will greatly aid us by letting us have the use of it for a year to come. it will come safely by the stage, and may be left at the stage office of either Milton or Charlottesville , & either postmaster will pay...
3100Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 15 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 10 th is recieved, & Johnson ’s boat is expected to-day, by which I shall recieve the coffee. I observe you have cotton yarn for sale. will you be so good as to send me 80. ℔s of N o 5. Johnson ’s boat returns to Richmond immediately & is the safest to send it by. Gilmer when with his boat is also safe. PoC ( MHi ); on verso of reused address cover of José Corrêa da Serra to TJ,...