91From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 25 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
My Grandson Th:J.R. the bearer of this letter, on a journey to the North will probably make some short stay in his passage thro’ N. York. this in any case would have furnished me an occasion of expressing to you my great esteem. but a particular circumstance now makes his calling on you an imperious duty. I have learned and it is not long since, that mr Randolph my s. in law to whom I formerly...
92From Thomas Jefferson to DeWitt Clinton, 24 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
My grandson, Th: Jefferson Randolph, the bearer of this letter, on a journey to the North, will perhaps pass some few days in New York, in doing this he wishes the honor of presenting his respects to you. he truly and personally merits the permission, and, like other young people, will hereafter pride himself in being able to name, among those he has known, the characters who have deserved...
93From Thomas Jefferson to David Hosack, 24 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
My grandson Th: J.R. the bearer of this letter, on a Journey to the North will probably pass some few days in N. York. your former kindnesses have made it almost a duty in my connections to present their respects to you when passing thro’ your city . he is, in himself indeed personally and truly worthy of that honor, but the motive of permission on your part can only be that the tree we have...
94From Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Macon, 24 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
My grandson Th: Jefferson Randolph, the bearer of this letter on a journey to the North, will pass 2. or 3. days perhaps in Washington. I cannot permit him to do this without presenting him to a friend of so long standing, whom I consider as the strictest of our models of genuine republicanism. let him be able to say when you are gone but not forgotten that he had seen Nathan l Macon on whose...
95From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 24 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
My grandson Th: J. Randolph the bearer of this letter is too well known to you to need a letter of introduction. he is going Northwdly on the business which was the subject of your kind letter of the 4 th . my unskilful stewardship of Agricultural property, and the interception of attention to it by imperious and higher duties have, in a course of 60 years much involved my capital. in our...
96From Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 24 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
My grandson, Th: Jefferson Randolph, the bearer of this letter, on a journey to the North, will pass perhaps a few days in Philadelphia. I cannot permit him to do this without presenting him to you, a friend of another century, and to whom my affections are bound by so many kind offices. he goes on a business of which you have seen much mention in the public papers. age and ill health having...
97From Thomas Jefferson to John Quincy Adams, 23 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
My grandson, Th: Jefferson Randolph, bearer of this letter being on a journey to the North, I could not permit him to pass thro’ Washington, without enjoining on him the duty of paying his respects to you. I presume he will find you approaching the close of your winter’s campaign, a term as welcome to the civil as military officer. I am glad to avail myself at the same time of the occasion of...
98From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 19 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 8 th was recieved the day before yesterday, and as the season for engrafting is passing rapidly by I will not detain the apple-cuttings for mr Gray, until I may have other matter for writing a big letter to you. I send a dozen cuttings, as much as a letter can protect, by our 1 st mail, and wish they may retain their vitality until they reach him. they are called the...
99From Thomas Jefferson to P. Canfield, 18 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Your two favors of Feb. 25. and Mar. 11. have been recieved. age and ill health rendering me unequal to the care of my own affairs they have been for some time committed to the management of my grandson Thomas Jefferson Randolph. to him therefore the matter of the Lottery has been so entirely confided, that I am uninformed of the measures taken in it. he is now absent on a journey but is...
100From Thomas Jefferson to Robley Dunglison, 18 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you the rough draught for the Dispensary with the amendments formerly proposed by you, to recieve any others you may think proper to be added. I will then put it into form and lay it before the Visitors. You mentioned the other day that a catalogue had been delivered to me of the Periodicals which the Professors would wish to have procured annually. is the inclosed paper the one alluded...
101Thomas Jefferson’s List of Slave Vaccinations, 17 Mar. 1826, 17 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
1826. Mar. 17. Ursula’s Louisa Caroline Critta George Robert Edy’s Isabella William Daniel Fanny’s Indridge Bonnycastle MHi .
102Thomas Jefferson: Will and Codicil, 16-17 Mar. 1826, 16 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I Thomas Jefferson of Monticello in Albemarle, being of sound mind and in my ordinary state of health, make my last will and testament in manner and form as follows. I give to my grandson Francis Eppes, son of my dear deceased daughter Mary Eppes, in fee simple all that part of my lands at Poplar Forest lying West of the following lines, to wit, Beginning at Radford’s upper corner near the...
103From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 13 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
The interest you are so kind as to take in the measures proposed for relieving me from embarrasment brings on you the trouble of the letter I have recieved an application from persons in N.C a desirous of manifesting from their goodwill to me by contributions in money, if acceptable, and offering to dispose of a portion of tickets if the way of lottery is preferred. this renders it necessary...
104From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson Ward, 13 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
The manifestations of concern taken by my fellow citizens in the difficulties which have befallen me and of which your letter of Feb. 26. is an example give me unexpressible satisfaction. I have been an unskilful steward of my own affairs. but never thought of burthening others with them. a fair market for my property was all I wished, and, could it be obtained, would relieve me from all debt,...
105From Thomas Jefferson to John Brockenbrough, 12 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved in due time your favor of Mar. 1. covering one from mr Yates to mr Richardson in behalf of himself and mr M c intire, offering their services in the business of the lottery allowed me by a late law. age and ill health rendering me entirely unequal to the management of that undertaking myself, I have committed it wholly to my grandson Th: J. Randolph to whom I communicated these...
106From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Eppes, 9 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I rec d in due time your affect te lre of Feb. 25. and read it with the pleasure one must always feel on such evidence of the virtues of the heart in one so near and dear to us. the sacrifice you offer to my comfort is such as few would be capable of making and is the more deeply felt in proportion as it is more rare. I percieve that you have been led into error, as the public generally was,...
107From Thomas Jefferson to John Fellows, 9 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to mr Fellows for the copy to has been so kind as to send him of Paine’s theological works, that the author should in his day have encountered great abuse was a thing of course. a powerful mind like his, and zealously employed in whatever cause can never be an object of mere indifference to those to whom it is opposed. nor has the genus irrtabile vatum whom he...
108From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 8 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your two favors of Feb.23. and 27. and am truly sensible of the interest you so kindly take in my affair, and of the encoraging aspect of mr Gouverneur’s letter. all that is necessary for my relief is a succesful sale of our tickets, of which the public papers give good hope. if this is effected, at a reasonable value for what I shall sell, what will remain will leave me...
109From Thomas Jefferson to William Cabell Rives, 8 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
The approach of the semiannual meeting of the Visitors of the University renders it interesting to learn the probable fate of our application to Congress on the subject of the duties. and the more so, as we gave our bonds personally for the amount, on the presumption that before they should become due Congress would have had time to decide the question. I am well aware how uncontrolable the...
110From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 7 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Col o Peyton is requested to get mr May to obtain of the best window glass of the Boston manufactory the following articles 25 . panes 12. I. square 50. panes 12 by 18 I. ½ doz. panes 18. I. by 2. feet. also the following for print frames 2. panes or sheets 19½ I. by 15. I. for the 2. prints of Pantheon 1. 19½ I. by 14¼ for Comparative buildings 3 . d o 17
111From Thomas Jefferson to Rice W. Wood, 4 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of Feb. 23. my grandson had before informed me of the friendly part you had taken in forwarding the indulgence I had asked of the legislature. that it’s first impression on others might in many cases be unfavorable I had anticipated; while to myself there was nothing of novelty in it familiarised to it’s practice as we were before the revolution. that it had no...
112From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Walker Maury, 3 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to your enquiries in behalf of my antient and highly esteemed friend and classmate James Maury I need only say that I was born Apr. 2. 1743. and that consequently, allowing for change of style, I shall be 83. y. old on the 13 th of the ensuing month of April. I should not give you the trouble of saying this form me to my friend, but should do it for myself, were it not that dislocns...
113From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Mills, 3 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of Feb. 15. and with it your beautiful map of S. Carolina, which I place among the many other testimonies of your friendship and with the acceptableness they ever ensure. your general plan will constitute a valuable work even independantly of the statistical adjunct you propose: your idea of the Obelisk monument is a very fine one. I think small temples would...
114From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Shore, 2 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, kind Sir, for your very friendly letter of Feb. 22. it supposes in me claims on the attentions of my country to which I have no pretentions. I happened to be born in times which required from all it’s citizens, every service they could render, and gave full value to even the smallest service which any could render. those within the reach of my faculties have been fully remunerated...
115From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 28 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor covering one from a Lottery office offering it’s services for the management of that lately permitted to me. I have for some years been obliged by age and ill health to resign the care of all my affairs to my grandson Th: J. R. who accdly acts for me with full powers in all cases. that of the lottery particularly has been entirely left to him so that I know...
116From Thomas Jefferson to William Logan Fisher, 24 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has duly recieved mr Fisher’s favor of the 7 th and with it his pamphlet on the subject of mr Owen’s establishment. so far as the experiment at Lanare has gone, his faith goes also, & no farther. that it is an excellent scheme for the maintenance and reformation of an establishment of paupers, so long as an Owen can be found to superintend it, the proof is satisfactory; but that...
117From Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 22 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 8 th has been rec d as was in due season. the former one to which you observe you had rec d no reply, the fact was that I had worn out the knees of my pantaloons in the humiliating posture of an eternal suppliant at the feet of the govmt begging favors for others. I became tired of it, and thought ought at length to pay some respect to my own character and to rise from the...
118From Thomas Jefferson to William Gordon, 22 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 17 th is rec d and I cannot sffly express to you my sense of the kindness with which my friends have exerted themselves in my behalf—a majority of one only even for leave to bring in the bill, and that too in the legislature of my native state was of appalling aspect. it was a certificate of character to other states and countries which could not but be painfully felt—the...
119From Thomas Jefferson to George Loyall, 22 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the rec t of your favor of the 14 th and still more especially to acknolege the kindness with which you lent your aid to a late measure of extreme importance to me and to my family. the 1 st vote indeed was very appalling, and made me fear I had made a very improper proposition which could be rejected off hand by so great a proportion of the house. the practice of selling...
120From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 22 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 13 th was recieved yesterday. your use of my letter with the alterations subsequently proposed, needs no apology. and it will be a gratification to me if it can be of any service to you. I learn with sincere affliction the difficulties with which you have still to struggle—mine are considerable—but the single permission given me by the legislature of such a mode of sale as...