181From Thomas Jefferson to William Branch Giles, 26 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you a letter yesterday of which you will be free to make what use you please. this will contain matters not intended for the public eye. I see as you do, and with the deepest affliction, the rapid strides with which the federal branch of our government is advancing towards the usurpation of all the rights reserved to the states, and the consolidation in itself of all powers foreign and...
182From Thomas Jefferson to William Branch Giles, 25 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 15 th was recieved 4. days ago. it found me engaged in what I could not lay aside till this day. Far advanced in my 83 d year, worn down with infirmities which have confined me almost entirely to the house for 7. or 8. months past, it afflicts me much to recieve appeals to my memory for transactions so far back as that which is the subject of your letter. my memory is indeed...
183To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 24 December 1825 (Madison Papers)
I have for some time considered the question of Internal improvemt as desparate. The torrent of general opinion sets so strongly in favor of it as to be irresistable. And I suppose that even the opposition in Congress will hereafter be merely formal, unless something can be done which may give a gleam of encoragement to our friends, or alarm their opponents in their fancied security. I learn...
184From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 24 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have for some time considered the question of Internal improvemt as desparate. the torrent of general opinion sets so strongly in favor of it as to be irresistable. and I suppose that even the opposition in Congress will hereafter be merely formal, unless something can be done which may give a gleam of encoragement to our friends, or alarm their opponents in their fancied security. I learn...
185Thomas Jefferson: Solemn declaration and protect of the Commonwealth of VA..., 24 Dec. 1825, 24 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
We the General assembly of Virginia, on behalf, and in the name, of the people thereof do declare as follows. The states in N. America which confederated to establish their independance on the government of Great Britain, of which Virginia was one, became, on that acquisition, free and independant states, and as such authorised to constitute governments, each for itself, in such form as it...
186Thomas Jefferson: Memo of arrival and departure of mail stages, 22 Dec. 1825, 22 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
office. Dec r 22. 1825 Arrival. Departure. Fredericksburg Monday } 7½ A.M. Tuesday } 2. P.M. Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Richmond Thursday } 6. P.M.
187From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 19 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Will you be so good as to set down a Dormitory engagement for the next season for Paul Clay son of Editha Clay of Bedford, and another for mr Bolivar nephew of Gen l Bolivar, Christ n name not known to me I observe by an error of the press in the University advertising the rent is set down at 28.D. instead of 23.D. pray have it corrected before the next paper comes out, and if it is so in the...
188To John Adams from Thomas Jefferson, 18 December 1825 (Adams Papers)
Your letters are always welcome, the last more than all others, it’s subject being one of the dearest to my heart. to my granddaughter your commendations cannot fail to be an object of high ambition, as a certain passport to the good opinion of the world. if she does not cultivate them with assiduity and affection, she will illy fulfill my parting injunctions. I trust she will merit a...
189From Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 18 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letters are always welcome, the last more than all others, it’s subject being one of the dearest to my heart. to my granddaughter your commendations cannot fail to be an object of high ambition, as a certain passport to the good opinion of the world. if she does not cultivate them with assiduity and affection she will illy fulfill my parting injunctions. I trust she will merit a...
190From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 17 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
You have truly judged that your letter of the 12 th was not correctly understood, as you intended it, by the attending Visitors. we are desirous to relieve the Professors, strangers as they mostly are, from the disagreeable office of collecting their tuition fees, and that this should be done for them without any diminution of emolument; and the Proctor being the reciever of monies in all...
191From Thomas Jefferson to George F. Hopkins, 16 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Sir, for the pamphlet you have been so kind as to send me with your favor of the 5 th inst. it’s subjects are equally curious and interesting. but age and infirmities have withdrawn me from all such speculations. to my thanks on this mark of your notice I can therefore only add assurances of my great respect. MHi .
192From Thomas Jefferson to Rembrandt Peale, 16 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I am very thankful to you for your letter of the 7 th for the candid account you are so kind as to give me of mr De Breet, and my rescue from the unworthy Bool, who, unknown himself, was willing to make me a tool to injure a public institution for the sake of an individual friend. your offer would indeed be a splendid one for us. the association of your name with our infant, and as yet untried...
193From Thomas Jefferson to William Harris Jones, 15 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 2 d was reserved to be laid before the Visitors at the meeting expected on the 12 th but there was no board three members only attending. I communicated it to them and altho’ no appointment could be made, yet it was observed in conversation that, altho’ where proper persons could not be found at home to fill the offices of the University, it would be for the benefit of the...
194From Thomas Jefferson to John B. Richeson, 14 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The Visitors did not form a board yesterday, three members only attending, I communicated to them your letter of the 10 th proposing to establish in the University a reading room for the amusement of the Students at their leisure hours, to be furnished with the best polilitical, agricultural and periodical papers of the US. The course of education to be pursued at the University is prescribed...
195From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 13 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The Visitors did not form a board yesterday, three members only attending. I communicated to them your letter of that date, but no formal decision could take place on the subjects of the letter. I will state to you however the general sentiments expressed in conversation. 1. they will approve of your borrowing from the library fund the monies necessary for the Professors. 2. the Hotel E . was...
196From Thomas Jefferson to William Harris Jones, 11 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to mr Jones for the handsome compliment proposed to him of the drawing of the Rotunda. he will ask permission to exhibit it to his friends and visitors at Monticello for some time as a favble specimen of mr Jones’s talent in that line but must insist on then returning it to him to serve the same purpose in his own hands with those to whom it might be useful to...
197From Thomas Jefferson to John Bankhead Magruder, 11 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to your question of yesterday, so far as respects tuition and board, it must be a matter of compromise between yourself and the Professors and Hotel keepers. their taking you for half a year would not at all lessen the number of those engaging with them for the whole year. but as to University rent the question would be whether it would be for the interest of the institution to rent...
198From Thomas Jefferson to William John Coffee, 10 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 1 st , has been duly recieved. a drawing master, Music master E t c, are wanting at the University, the latter for the violin, flute and clarinet; the former for landscape. but the selection of the teachers is left to the Professors; the visitors having nothing to do with it. I have had little conversation with the Faculty on the subject, and am unable therefore to say...
199From Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 9 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you, Dear Sir, a thousand thanks for your kind present of Cabbages—they are the more acceptable as I had despaired of getting any in this part of the neighborhood. but it was the farthest of all things from my thoughts to have broken in upon your private stock at all. the negroes being the only cabbage dealers here I thought they might be so also in your neighborhood where the low...
200From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 7 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Whitwell the Architect employed to direct mr Owen’s works at Harmony & Cap t Macdonald of the Royal Engineers have come from Washington on purpose to see our modes of building. mr Owen wished them particularly to see our tin roofs, & our guttured flat roof. be so good if you please to shew them everything they wish to see. friendly salutations InHi .
201From Thomas Jefferson to Pleasants & Jones, 6 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
On turning to your subscription files you will find that my letter in answer to the application to me to become a subscriber stated that I would subscribe for one year as an encoragement at it’s first commencement, but that it was to be discontinued at the end of the 1 st year without further notice, for the reason that I allowed myself to read but a single paper, which was that to which I had...
202From Thomas Jefferson to Sheldon Clark, 5 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the pamphlets you have been so kind as to send me; but I cannot comply with your request to give my opinion of them. against this I have been obliged to protest in every case. I should otherwise, for the last 20. years, have been constantly employed in the trade of a Reviewer of books, for which I have neither taste, talent nor time; and instead of reading according to my own...
203From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Tornquist, 5 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the printed Catalogues of your philosophical apparatus. I believe however that the course we adopted was best for us. as for a sum of 6300.D. we shall get exactly every thing we think material without paying for any thing we think not so. I do not know whether we might not have taken some particular articles of yours , (which you say might be done) were the price affixed to...
204From Thomas Jefferson to Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler, 3 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Nov. 24. is just now recieved, with the papers on the survey of the coast which you have been so kind as to send me. for these be pleased to accept my very particular thanks. in the last volume of the transactions of the A. Phil Society I had especially remarked these papers and the processes so peculiarly accurate and ingenious by which you had proposed to execute the survey of...
205From Thomas Jefferson to William Cabell Rives, 3 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to the enquiries in your favor of Nov. 30. I have to say that no other application to Congress is proposed but that explained in my letter to you, thro’ our delegates in both houses, with respect to the 305. D 68 paid on the former importation, I did not mean to ask a refunding of it directly. but I thought, that if, as I expected, the duties should be remitted as well on what was...
206From Thomas Jefferson to Mr. Callis, 2 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been informed by some of our neighbors that you have been fortunate enough to make turnips to spare & for sale. if so, I shall be very glad to become a purchaser of 10. or 15. bushels. will you be so good as to let me know if you can spare that much or how much and the price. if you have them I will send a cart in 2. or 3. days with the money, and be thankful for the supply. MHi .
207From Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 2 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
We have failed entirely in our cabbages this year. and I understand this has been universally the case in the red lands, insomuch that there is not a single one to be bought above this. your kindness in sending us some heretofore induces me to expect that the low grounds in your neighborhood may be able to furnish us our winter’s stock. the favor then I am about to ask of you is to become our...
208From Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 2 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
It is more than a fortnight since I recieved your favor of Nov. 11. stating the balance due from me 11. D 59 C for duties on my cases of marble, and I have been that long endeavoring to get US. bank bills to remit it to you. but a single 10.D. bill of that bank is all I have been able to get in our uncommercial place. I add therefore a 5.D. Virginia note, which I presume is passable at it’s...
209From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Willson Peale, 1 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Heiskill delivered my Polygraph safe and in good condition, and when I consider how much time and labor it has saved me since his return I look back with regret to that which I have lost by the want of it a year or two. the gold pens write charmingly as free pens, and I use them for my common writing in preference to the quill. but when applied to the polygraph I find that they make the...
210From Thomas Jefferson to James Pleasants, 30 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have now the honor to inclose to the President & Directors of the Literary fund (to be laid before the legislature at their next succeeding meeting) the Report of the disbursements, the funds on hand and a general statement of the condition of the University of Virginia, agreed to by the Rector and Visitors at their last meeting on the 7 th of October, together with the documents to which it...