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On the 6 th day of Feb. mr Gelston of N. York shipped for me at that place a supply of wines from Marseilles on board the schooner Brilliant , Cap t Black , belonging to Richmond , addressing them to mess rs Gibson & Jefferson
Your favor of Feb. 19. is just now received covering a paper on the subject of crimes and punishments. this is certainly among the most difficult subjects for which government has to provide. capital punishments for every thing, as in England , is revolting to human nature, a violation of human rights, & ineffectual, as is there proved . labor, in their own society is pernicious, as you...
I have just recieved your favor of Feb. 20. in which you observe that mr Wirt , in pa. 47. of his Life of Patrick Henry , quotes me as saying that ‘ mr Henry certainly gave the first impulse to the ball of revolution.’ I well recollect to have used some such expression in a letter to him; and am tolerably certain that, our own state being the subject under contemplation, I must have used it...
I recieved in due time your favor of Jan. 23. and the work of Asserius also by mail. Hutton & Guicciardini will doubtless arrive ere long. the amount of these is stated at 17.75 D and I now inclose you 25.D. in bank bills of the US. presuming to request you to pay to mr Dobson my subscription for the 2. volumes of the American register, which he, I believe has printed. I will thank you for a...
Your favor of Feb. 23. is just recieved, informing me of the arrival of 2. boxes of wine for me, and that the amount of duties and office fees is 22.D. which sum I therefore now inclose, and have to ask the favor of you to send them by the first safe vessel bound to Richmond to the address of Mess rs Gibson & Jefferson of that place who will pay freight & other costs and forward them to me. I...
Your two favors of the 20. & 22. came to hand last night. I congratulate you sincerely on having something begun on the subject of education. whatever be it’s faults, they will lead to correction. you seem to doubt whether mr Madison would serve if named a Commissioner for the location E t c of the University? but there can be no doubt that he would, & it is most important that he should. as...
In April 1787. I passed some days at Nice where I had the pleasure of becoming personally acquainted with your father , an opportunity of estimating the worth of his character, and the benefit of recieving many civilities from him. he has now left us, and it is therefore too late for his gratification, but not so for mine, to prove my sense of his kindnesses by rendering a service to his son....
I am the more indebted for your friendly letter of Feb. 13. mentioning the charges against Cathalan , because a long, an intimate and personal acquaintance with him interest my wishes for his welfare, so far as justice permits; while I certainly should not be his advocate if guilty of serious delinquencies of office. but I observe that all these complaints have originated since mr Fitch began...
your favor of Jan. 24. was duly recieved, and I now inclose you the supplements for the three hiatuses in your MS. all your references were found satisfactorily except that of March 9 th to the words ‘bush, which is a beautiful evergreen, & may be cut into any shape.’ I found no such words under that date in the folio MS. and therefore had the whole of that day copied. it is the only instance...
Your letter of Jan. 19. came to hand on the 15 th inst. only. the experience of two wars has proved that the making of salt within ourselves is as important as the manufacture of gunpowder and arms; and I sincerely wish well to your undertaking. but I have so long withdrawn from all attention to things of that kind, and have particularly been so little acquainted with the construction of salt...
Your favor of the 11 th is just recieved. mr Wayles was certainly interested in Byrd ’s lottery, but chiefly I believe in partnership with others. you remember to have seen in Skelton ’s account a charge for tickets in partnership with him. but I never heard him or any other speak of having any prizes. had any been drawn by him & B. Skelton , it would surely have been ferreted out by...
Your favor of Jan. 27. was duly recieved, and I now inclose you Tracy ’s tract on the certainty of the operations of the human understanding. he rests them on our sensations, of which we are very certain, and on this basis erects demonstrations irresistably cogent, I think, against Scepticism, a disease of the mind so uncomfortable that it is charity to exhibit it’s cure, if there exists one....
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to D r Ewell and his thanks for the elegant copy of Hume ’s essays which he has been so kind as to send him thro’ mr Millegan . he is happy to believe that the American taste is likely to do justice to the publication of these able essays, and considers D r Ewell as meriting their gratitude by furnishing them with so useful a publication. PoC ( DLC ); on...
Our late cold and snowy weather has prevented me for some days from riding as far as my mills, but I take for granted Johnson has now on board his boats, which are on their way down, about 100 Bar. of flour, which with a remnant of 20. or 30. Barrels still to go makes up the last years crop of this place of about 320. Barrels. from Bedford there will not be more than 30. Barrels, the fly...
Your kind intervention in the passage of books between mr Millegan and myself is too great a convenience to me not to entitle you to my best thanks which I give you with a just sense of the favor. I lately recieved thro’ you a box in good order, and this day send another for him addressed to your care. his bindings are so much superior to any thing which can be done in America , even by the...
I recieved some time ago from M. Thouin , Director of the Botanical or King’s garden at Paris , a box containing an assortment of seeds, Non-American, and therefore presumably acceptable to the American botanist. finding it more and more necessary to abridge the catalogue of my cares, this is among that which I have struck from it. I have therefore this day sent t he box to Richmond to the...
I have recieved the box of books lately sent me, in good condition and well bound, and I this day send you another of 10. or 12. vols, which I will pray you to bind and return with all the dispatch the solidity of the work will admit , . the Tacitus I particularly want. I rec d also the vols of Grimm from mr Walsh , the 2. vols of Cook for mr Carr which are delivered to him, & the
Your favor of Jan. 15. is recieved, and I am indebted to you for others; but the torpitude of increasing years, added to a stiffening wrist making writing a slow & painful operation, makes me also a slow correspondent. I promised you a plough so long ago that I dare say you have forgot it: but I have this day sent it to Richmond to be forwarded to you. I claim nothing in it but the mould board...
I have taken the liberty of addressing to your care by mr Carr ’s boats a plough to be forwarded to mr Peale in Philadelphia , and a box of seeds to be forwarded by water to D r Hosack of N. York , for the botanical garden there, being the articles I formerly mentioned to you that I should be likely to trouble you with. I am glad of every occasion of assuring you of my friendship & respect....
I have to acknolege the receipt of your favors of Jan. 22. & Feb. 12. with expressions of my deep felt grief at the deplorable loss of D r Wistar . altho Philadelphia possesses a large stock of worth and science, yet such a loss would make a sensible void in any city whatever. the continuation of his weekly assemblages of the science of the place is well worthy of your attention. after a dilig...
It being now high time to try the experiment of burning our stubble fields as a means of destroying the brood of the fly deposited in them, and ready the first warm spell to come out and lay their eggs in the new wheat, I take up my pen to state to you the method as going into practice here. you take a still day, and burn a margin all round the field sufficient to secure the fences. then the...
A resolution which I saw in the papers for the adjournment of the legislature the day before yesterday prevented my writing to you in the belief it could would not find you in Richmond . M r Summers now tells me he thinks you will set into the next week. the obj after acknoleging the reciept, since
I take the liberty of putting under the protection of your cover a letter to Cardinal Dugnani at Rome , in the hope that thro’ the Nuncio resident at Paris it may find a sure conveyance to him. in return for this trouble I wish I could give you any news which would interest you. but, withdrawn entirely from all attention to public affairs I neither know nor enquire what Congress are doing. you...
I am indebted to you for your letter of Jan. 28. and the information you are so kind as to give me from his Eminence the Cardinal Dugnani . my residence at Paris while he was there as Nuncio from the Pope, procured me the benefit of his acquaintance, and taught me to value his pure and sincere heart, his correct & dignified deportment and a most amiable modesty, rare endowments in his high...
I have to acknolege the reciept of your favor of Jan. 23. informing me that the Am. Philosophical society have done me the honor of naming me one of the Counsellors of that institution. if, at this distance, I can be useful to the society in any form, I ask nothing but the occasion of proving to them my readiness and zeal: and I beg the favor of you, Sir, to be the channel of conveying to them...
In March 1815. I took the liberty of addressing a letter to you by Doctor Barton , a member of our Philosophical society , distinguished for his science, who visited Europe for his health, and expected to go as far as Rome . I was happy in the opportunity he furnished me of presenting myself to your recollection and of renewing to you the assurances of the sentiments of friendship and respect...
A letter recieved from the Cardinal Dugnani at Rome giving me occasion to write to him, I have thought it possible my letter might be got there before mr Tickner , your son, will have left that place, and that it might be useful to him to deliver it. it will ensure him every friendly office the Cardinal can render him, and may place under his observation a circle of society which perhaps he...
Your letter of Jan. 31. did not come to hand till yesterday evening. I think it was in 1799. or 1800. that the government ordered enquiries after the Copper mines of Lake Superior , with a view to the working them themselves, and particularly for guns for the Navy . I came to the administration the year following, and the order not having been proceeded on I suppressed it , from a confidence...
Some plane irons Sand-paper isinglass. glue brush to be chosen by the bearer John Hemings . RC ( TxDaHCL ); written on a small scrap; dateline beneath signature; at foot of text: “M r James Leitch .” Not recorded in SJL . plane irons are the cutting blades of planes ( OED
Your favor of Jan. 7. has been some time at hand. age, which lethargises all our movements, makes me a slow correspondent also, and revolts me strongly from the labors of the writing table. reading when I can be indulged in it, is the elysium of my present life. You suppose I may possess essays and scraps, on various subjects, committed to paper, and lying buried in my desk. No, Sir; I have...