211From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 30 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
It has not been in my power till yesterday to get a printed copy of the new edition of our statutes which was necessarily to accompany our Report to the literary fund. all go with the mail, which carries this I wish it were convenient to print these things in 8 vo that they might be bound together when printed send me a copy if you please and accept my friendly respectful salutns MHi .
212From Thomas Jefferson to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 30 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 16 th is just recieved, and your silence in it on the subject of your health makes me hope it is good. a dozen years older than you are, I have no right to expect as good. I have been now confined to the house 6. months, but latterly get better, insomuch as, for a few days past, to ride a little on horseback. I duly recieved the favor of mr Vreede’s book, & meant, in my first...
213From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Henry Lee, 29 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Sir, for the copy you have been so kind as to send me of the life of R. H. Lee. I shall read it with great pleasure for a dictum of Virgil’ s taught us long ago the truth that ‘ juvet renovare dolores .’ altho’ the times were trying, we look back to them with satisfaction. your grandfather was a great man , and acted a great part in those awful scenes, and he is fortunate in...
214From Thomas Jefferson to Rembrandt Peale, 29 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
We want at the University of Virginia a teacher of landscape painting of high qualifications in that line. he would be no otherwise connected with the institution but as a voluntary adjunct without salary, lodging or any thing else. his only emoluments would be what he should recieve from the Students who would engage with him, our present term is near it’s close, and the next begins on the 1...
215From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Worthington, 29 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
You will startle at the reciept of this letter as if it were from the dead; and indeed the ordinary form of man’s life says I ought to have been so some time. however, here I am as yet, not in very good health indeed, but as good perhaps as I ought to expect; and avail myself of a little circumstance to take occasion to recall myself to your recollection. I have pasted the text of my letter at...
216From Thomas Jefferson to Lewis M. Wiss, 27 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Disqualified by age and ill health from undertaking minute investigations, I find it will be easier for me to state to you my proposition of a lock.-dock, for laying up vessels, high and dry, than to investigate yours. you will then judge for yourself whether any part of mine has anticipated any part of yours. While I was at Washington, in the administration of the government, Congress was...
217From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 26 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letter has been written near a fortnight and has laid by me awaiting a pacotille which your Mama was making up of some things omitted to be sent to you with those so unfortunately lost. that is now made up and will be immediately forwarded to Richmond to the care of Col o Peyton. Privately owned.
218From Thomas Jefferson to Robley Dunglison, 26 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 18 th places me under great embarrasment. the fragment of life remaining to me is likely to be past in sickness and suffering. the young physicians in our neighborhood will probably be good ones in time. but time & experience as well as science are necessary to make a skilful physician, and Nature is preferable to an unskilful one. I had therefore made up my mind to trust to...
219From Thomas Jefferson to Robley Dunglison, 26 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Instead of asking yo u questions on the subject of a Dispensary as we had proposed, I have thought it better to embody the ideas you then gave me in the form of a statute, and then to submit it to your examination with a request that you will commit to paper such additions, corrections and amendments as you would approve, and to favor me with them, that I may incorporate them into the draught...
220From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 26 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I this day lodge with mr Raphael to be forwarded to your care a small box addressed to mr Joseph Coolidge jun r at Boston which I must pray you to forward to him and at the same time to remit him 60. D. on my account to replace so much which he will have advanced for me in the execution of particular commissions. MHi .