931From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 5 January 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I rec d yesterday your favor of the 1 st it is truly mortifying that whilst I was trespassing on you to such an amount, I should have had flour lying for 5. months in our way in the mill off t to have protected you from a single Dollar’s advances, could we have gotten it down. the drought of the season was one obstacle, but the faithlessness of the boatmen as great a one, my overseer is now...
932From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 4 January 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
In compliance with the request of Col o Bowyer, conveyed through you, to furnish a list of the books proper to prepare his son for the bar, I inclose you copies of two letters, written formerly, and on occasions which called on me for full and mature consideration of the subject. these will not only specify the books to be read, but also the reasons for their preference, and the course of...
933From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 2 January 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearers mr Ralston of Philadelphia, and Cap t Chapman, travellers of great respectability, who will call to see the University, are recommended to the attentions of mr Brockenbrough by ViU : Thomas Jefferson Papers (Proctor’s Papers).
934From Thomas Jefferson to John Hollins, 1 January 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday evening your favor of Dec. 23. and have this morning turned to my letter book in which I have preserved press-copies of everything which went from my own pen. I found at once the message of Dec. 21. 1803, which referred to one of Jan. 11. 1803. on the same subject. I inclose you copies of both, of which make what use you please. of the documents mentioned in that of Dec....
935From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Rush, 1822 to 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
your fav r of Oct. 9. was rec d in due time, and the last envoi of books ment d in it from Lackington came safely to hand. having occn for another call of that kind, to save you trouble I address it to him . directly so as to require from you only the having the lrs put into his hands but I leave it open, lest any thing should have intervened to render any other address more eligible. and for...
936Memorandum Books, 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Jan. 1. Charity to Indians 1.D. 5. Hhd. xp. .50 Ned sewers 1.D. hhd. xp. .25. 10. Assumed Edm. Meek’s order to G. W. Nicholas for 31.72 due Jan. 8. Charity 1.D. Huntington books 1.D. 11. Hhd. xp. .50. 17. Promised to be security for John Gorman for 200 D. payable in 12. months. 18.
937Thomas Jefferson: Form of bond, 1823, 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
To all whom this present Declaration of trust, indented & sealed, may concern, Thomas Jefferson Randolph of Albemarle sendeth greeting. Know Ye that Thomas Jefferson of Monticello in the same county for a debt of 20. M .D. due from the late W. C. Nicholas, for which the sd Th:J. R. is joint security (but on express covenant that he the sd Th:J. shall indemnify the sd Th:J. R. & save him from...
938Thomas Jefferson: Binder’s directions, with fragmentary table of contents for Live of Jesus, 1823?, 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
leather back Roscoe Penal jurispr. This slip was in the work of which the above is the title, viz the direction to the binder, written by Tho s Jefferson, for the lettering on the back.— See over Luke .1–7.(1.) 21.(1.) 39.40.42–48.(2.) 51.52.48. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
939Thomas Jefferson: Memorandum, Estimate of Funds for Rotunda, 31 Dec. 1823, 31 December 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
1823 $ 1823 Dec 31 st Fund in hand or due by Bursars acc t } 44.295.09½ Dec r Debts by Proctors acc t 3. 6 71.11½ Off Annuity of 1824 15.000 estimate of work to be done 1.800.
940University of Virginia: State of the Funds of the University, 31 Dec. 1823, 31 December 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Annual income of the University D The Annuity 15,000. Rent of 6. Hotels @ 150.D. each 900. of 100. dormitories @ 16.D 1,600. of 9. d o smaller @ 12.D 108. University rent on 218.D. @ 12.D. each 2,616 20,224. Annual expences D Bursar’s commission on 20,244.D. 202.24 Proctor’s salary
941University of Virginia: Application of the Funds of the University of Va., ca. 31 Dec. 1823?, 31 December 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Application of the funds. 1820. D Funds of the University Apr. Debts 10,000 Apr. 1. 1 st loan 40,000 Dec. 31. To compleat the 7. Pavilions & 31. Domitories first built 18,000 Oct. d o 20,000 Caps & bases of 60 Tuscan & 6. Doric columns 766.
942Thomas Jefferson: Application of the Funds of the University of Va., ca. 31 Dec. 1823?, 31 December 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Funds of the University. Application of the Funds. Balance on hand at the close of every year D D 1820. Apr. 1 st loan 40,000 1820. Apr. Debts 10,000 Oct. d o 20,000 1821. Jan. 1.
943From Thomas Jefferson to William Matthews, 30 December 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved some time ago a letter from mrs Dougherty, wife of Joseph Dougherty, both formerly in my service while I lived in Washington. she states that she is in great want and asks some aid from me, and wishes it to be so conveyed as to be unknown to her husband, who she fears would be offended at the idea of being supposed in a state of mendicity. they were both good and faithful servants,...
944From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 28 December 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I think we should hire as many hands for the next as we did for the current year. there is a great deal of work to be done yet on the grounds. frdly salutns ViU : Thomas Jefferson Papers (Proctor’s Papers).
945From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 28 December 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been long silent because ashamed to write. my whole crop of flour has been lying in the mill ever since harvest for want of transportn. there has been but 3. tides in our river since harvest. Jefferson agreed with a mr Lane to attend with 3. boats at the first tide. but happening to be in Bedford at the 1 st & 2 d Lane disapp. in both . and he failed again at the 3 d so that we lost the...
946From Thomas Jefferson to David Hoffman, 21 December 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns thanks to mr Hoffman for the copy of his introductory lecture which he has been so kind as to send him. the Canvas prepared is large and scientific, and the Introduction leads us to expect it will be ably and usefully filled up. with his thanks and best wishes for the success of his laudable endeavors he prays him to accept the assurances of his great esteem & respect. MHi .
947From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas J. Rogers, 20 December 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to thank you Sir for the copy of your biographical Dictionar which you have been so kind as to send me. I think with you that compendious works of history might be advantageously put into the hands of children when at the reading school. nothing would interest them more than such works as Cornelius Repos, something of the same kind for modern history, ⅌ that of England and of our own...
948From Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, 20 December 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to Doctor Van Rensslaer for the copy of his instructive Essay on Salt, which he has been so kind as to send him. he has read it with satisfaction and much information beyond what he had before obtained, of the stores of that article existing so generally in the bowels of the earth. with his thanks, he prays him to recieve his respectful salutations. NHi :...
949From Thomas Jefferson to Louis Hue Girardin, 19 December 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 6 th came but lately to hand. I cheerfully comply with the request it conveyed of writing to the President on the subject of the Librarian’s office. I accordingly inclose a letter to him, stating truths to which I bear witness ever with pleasure; & I shall be the happier if the position should befriend the publication of the rest of your history. Our University is going on...
950From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 19 December 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Girardin, president of the college of Baltimore understanding that the office of librarian to Congress is expected to become vacant by resignn, and desirous of being placed in it, has requestd me to state to you what I know of his qualifns. he lived at Milton in this nbhood 2 or 3. y. while writing his hist. of Virga, and was during that time in great intercourse and intimacy, with my...
951From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 19 December 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letters from the President of the US. were addressed by him, under cover to Gov r Randolph while supposed to be at New-york. they reached that place after he had left it, were from thence addressed back to him, supposed to be here, hence they went to him being at Richmond on the legislature now setting, and are returned hither with a request that I would inclose them to you, to be...
952From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Harrison Smith, 19 December 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Do not for the world, my dear Sir, suffer my letter of Aug. 2 d to get before the public, nor to go out of your own hands, or to be copied. I am always averse to the publication of my letters, because I wish to be at rest, retired, & unnoticed: but most especially this letter. I never meant to meddle in a Presidential election; and in a letter to a person in N. York written after the date of...
953From Thomas Jefferson to Andrew Jackson, 18 December 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The apology in your letter of the 8 th inst. for not calling on me in your passage thro’ our nbhood was quite unnecessary. the motions of a traveller are always controuled by so many circumstances and so imperious that wishes and courtesies must yield to their sway. it was reported among us, on I know not what authority, that you would be in Charlsv e on the 1 st inst. on your way to Congress....
954From Thomas Jefferson to Peachy Ridgeway Gilmer, 16 December 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Nov. 5. if it were not a mistake for Dec. 5. has been strangely delayed, as it did not reach me till yesterday. you could not have applied to a worse hand for an inscription on the tomb-stone of our friend. I have no imagination. and an epitaph is among the most difficult of things. it requires brevity, point and pith. were such a task enjoined on me, as an imposition on a...
955From Thomas Jefferson to William B. Philips, 16 December 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer mr Philips has executed much of the bricklaying at the University, and of the best work done there. I can truly recommend him for the excellence of his work and correctness of his conduct. Th: Jefferson Dec. 16. 23. ViU : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
956From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 11 December 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly rec d your favor of the 23 d Ult. as also the 2 pamphlets you were so kind as to send me. that on the tariff I observed was soon reprinted in Ritchie’s Enquirer: I was only sorry he did not postpone it to the meeting of Congress when it would have got into the hands of all the members and could not fail to have great effect, perhaps a decisive one. it is really an extraordinary...
957From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Willis White, 11 December 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to your letter of Nov. 29. I can say no more than I did to that of Jan. 26. 20. I know no book particularly interesting to us to be reprinted here but Baxter’s history of England which I then mentioned. it’s principles were too republican for the meridian of London, and it therefore has never been reprinted there as far as I have been able to learn . it would make 3. or 4. vols 8 vo...
958From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn, 9 December 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
My letter to mr Adams, of Oct. 12. which is the subject of your’s of the 23 d ult. does not claim the encomiums you are so kind as to bestow on it. it was simply the expression of such sentiments as ought to arise under the circumstances of the case, past & present; & such as I am sure would have arisen had the persons been interchanged. With respect to your request to publish it, I must say...
959From Thomas Jefferson to John Laval, 7 December 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The 1 st vol. of Aristotle is recieved as the 2 d I doubt not will soon be. I shall be glad to recieve the 4. additional vol s of Las Casas, 12 mo in boards. if a French copy of Mad e Campon’s, memoirs is to be had, be so good as to send it to me, and to let that come first, as the sending by successive mails is always to be observed. I am afraid I shall trespass too much on your kindness in...
960From Thomas Jefferson to William Carver, 4 December 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Sir, for the inedited letter of Tho s Paine which you have been so kind as to send me. I recognise in it the strong pen & dauntless mind of Common sense, which, among the numerous pamphlets written on the same occasion, so preeminently united us in our revolutionary opposition. I return the two numbers of the periodical paper, as they appear to make part of a regular file. the...
961From Thomas Jefferson to John Fry, 2 December 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
You have sent me, Dear Sir, a noble animal, legitimated by superior force as Monarch of the Forest, and he has incurred the death which his brother legitimates have so much more merited . like them , in death, he becomes food for a nobler race, he for man , they for the worms that will revel on them. but he dies innocent, and with death all his fears & pains are at an end, they die loaded with...
962From Thomas Jefferson to Frederick Beasley, 25 November 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to the rev d mr Beasley for the copy he has been so kind as to send him of his ‘search of truth in the science of the human mind.’ at the age of 80. the mind shrinks from all laborious speculations, and wants really the acuteness required by those of a Metaphysical character. yet in the table of contents are observed some chapters so interesting as to invite...
963From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 25 November 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The belief is now become so general that the legislature will at the ensuing session dispose of the debt of the University so as to liberate it’s funds and bring it into action, that I think it a duty to be taking such measures to save time as may be provisionally taken without injury if we should be dis appointed . The Visitors have from the beginning determined to employ no professor but of...
964From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 25 November 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
You have made me a magnificent present in the newly found work of Cicero; and the more precious, as the like is not to be had in the US. the partial terms in which it is conveyed, I duly ascribe to the friendship from which they flow. to the extended views into futurity which these present I have no pretensions. If the rancourous vituperations of enemies, made so, but bitterly so, by the...
965From Thomas Jefferson to Clement P. McKennie, 25 November 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The case of Cap t Oldham is this, he charges the Proctor of the University with malpractices in his office. the board of Visitors, who employ the Proctor, is the tribunal having authority to enquire into this. they authorised their Exve commee (Gen l Cocke & myself) to do this. I gave notice in a lre to Cap t Oldham in April last that we would proceed to the enquiry whenever he should be ready...
966From Thomas Jefferson to E.D. Withers, 25 November 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 19 th inst. I wish certainly to be continued as a subscriber to the Edinbg Review. it would be more convenient for me to take it from the agent in Richmond, because that is my market and the depository of all my funds, and Col o B. Peyton, my correspdt there would pay the sbscrption annually on the call of that agent. if however it will be convenient for...
967From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Appleton, 22 November 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The original letters of Oct. 8. and 9. of which those inclosed are Duplicates were committed to Michael Raggi, who about that time left this place for New York where he expected to embark for some port of Italy. we soon learnt that at N. York his funds fell short so that he could not get a passage; we therefore did not then make the remittance of 4000 D. as mentioned in my letter of the 8 th...
968From Thomas Jefferson to Theodorus Bailey, 22 November 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your kind favor of the 11 th inst. M r Raggi had assured me that he was promised a passage in the Cyane capt Creighton to sail for Gibralter about the 20 th of Oct. but as he had not sailed at the date of your letter, I must consider his getting a passage as too uncertain to be waited for. I must therefore request you to withdraw from him my letter to mr Appleton, and to...
969From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 22 November 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Be pleased to place in the hands of Col o Bernard Peyton the sum of four thousand dollars to be invested by him in a bill of exchange to be remitted to mr Appleton of Leghorn on account for the Capitals & bases of the columns of the Rotunda. ViU : Thomas Jefferson Papers (Proctor’s Papers).
970From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 22 November 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
You will recieve from either M r Garrett or mr Brockenbrough a check for 4000. D. to be invested in a bill of exchange payable on account of Tho s Appleton to mr Samuel Williams N o 13. Finsbury square London, to whom you are requested to remit it, and with that to send the inclosed letter to mr Williams. The bag of coffee which came to us was marked S. H. Peyton 120.℔ we had used from it some...
971From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Williams, 22 November 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Appleton our Consul at Leghorn being engaged in the execution of certain commissions for the University of Virginia had desired me to address our remittances & communications to him through yourself which I have accdly heretofore done . Col o Peyton therefore our correspdt in Richm d is now enabled and instructed to procure a bill of excha. on London for 4000. D. payable to you and to be...
972From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 20 November 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you Oldham’s letter. the settlement of his and Nielson’s acc ts I leave to yourself entirely, you are so much a better judge than myself. I always fear settlements left to workmen however honest; because on that subject they have a special code of morality of their own: however I do not say this of all, and leave that to your judgment, recommending that you have a settlement in some...
973From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Walker Lewis, 18 November 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his friendly respects to mrs Lewis asks her acceptance of some wine which he hopes may be serviceable for her stomach. the Muscat is thought remarkably so, but not knowing whether she would prefer that or Madeira he has sent both. he is so forgetful of attentions to his friends that he omitted to express to mr & mrs Martin the pleasure it would give him if they would come...
974From Thomas Jefferson to Hugh Chisholm, 17 November 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson in acc t , with Hugh Chisolm. 1810. Nov. 17 Balance due H. Chisolm by settlem t 136. 61 1811. building bridge over Canal 10. 1812. laying 7000. bricks in temple @ 4. D. 28. 1813. alterations in Stone house 10 184. 1815. Sep. 27
975To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 15 November 1823 (Madison Papers)
I return your letter to the President, and that of mr. Rush to you, with thanks for the communication. The matters which mr. Rush states as under consideration with the British government are very interesting. But that about the navigation of the St. Laurence and the Missisipi, I would rather they would let alone. The navigation of the former, since the N.Y. canal, is of too little interest to...
976From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 15 November 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I return your letter to the President, and that of mr Rush to you, with thanks for the communication. the matters which mr Rush states as under consideration with the British government are very interesting. but that about the navigation of the S t Laurence and the Missisipi, I would rather they would let alone. the navigation of the former, since the N.Y. canal, is of too little interest to...
977From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Carrington Cabell, 13 November 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I rec d with real regret your’s of Oct. 27. the necessity of looking out for a substitute obliged me to act immediately. I consulted mr Madison, but it is of great importance to see you. pray therefore call on me as you go down. affectionate salutations ViU .
978From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Beale Ewell, 13 November 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to D r Ewell for the copy of his eloquent oration of the 4 th of July last, which he has been so kind as to send him. he recognises in it the true spirit of 76. and rejoices always to see the ardor of those days still fostered in the bosoms of his f. c. and with his thanks he prays D r . E. to accept the assur es of his constant attamts and best wishes for his...
979From Thomas Jefferson to Bayard & Co. LeRoy, 13 November 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved a letter from Mess rs N. & J. Van Staphorst (if I rightly read the initials of their signature) informing me that their connections in business with you are discontinued, and their agency transferred to mr Gul. Ludlow. I had assured you that I would pay you the balance I owe them in the months of May & June next, and so most certainly I should have done; but in their letter...
980From Thomas Jefferson to Gulian Ludlow, 13 November 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Mess rs N. & J. Vanstaphorst (if I rightly read the initials of their signature) by a lre dated Amstdm Sep.8. inform me that their agency in this country is transferred from Mess rs Leroy & Bayard to yourself, and authorise me to pay to you the balance remaining due them from me . I had assured mess rs Leroy & B. that this balance should be paid in the ensuing months of May and June and I...