1To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Beale Ewell, 13 July 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Several days since I returned by mail to your Excellency, Mr. Adets work,—stating that ere long I hoped to present a copy of my discourses on chemistry. These discourses being written, and more than one thousand subscribers being annexed to my lists, in consequence of your letter in my prospectus, it is incumbent on me to have them printed as early as possible. I delay the commencement only...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Beale Ewell, 7 November 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose to the venerable & almost adored Patron of my youth the Copy of an oration the sentiments of which I hope he will be pleased with MHi .
3To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Beale Ewell, 19 February 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg good Sir, that you would not be displeased at my troubling you again—as my excuse is, nearly my all is at stake—and my hope is, I shall trouble you no more. Since the conversation with which you last favored me—I have been informed that without fail Doctr. Bullus, is to leave Washington in a short while. It is scarcely necessary to remind yr. Excellency, that the office the Doctor now...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Beale Ewell, 5 May 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Since I last took the liberty to address you I received a certificate from Dr. Rush. The certificate I have sent to Mr. Smith; and here send for your consideration a true copy of it. With the highest respect I have the honor to be yr. ob. Servt. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
5To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Beale Ewell, 17 May 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Shortly after your Excellency left Washington, the Secretary of the navy informed me that I was appointed to supply the place of Doctr. Bullers at the Garrison. Since then he told me that in consequence of late intelligence received, Dr. Bullers would continue to hold the place he now occupies & that of course I could not be stationed in the city. Altho my expectations be thus disappointed, my...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Beale Ewell, 10 September 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
The letter of the 30th ulto with which you honored me, came duly to hand. I submitted it to the perusal of my father. His heart swell’d with grateful feelings, on reading the generous mention you made of him—while your condescension served to encrease his exalted opinion of your worth, as well as to excite the warmest emotions of friendship. I will not pretend to convey my feelings on the...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Beale Ewell, 12 December 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
From your report—I perceive that in the University you have had establish’d at Charlotte’s ville—it is intended to employ our Citizens to fill those offices not already given to foreigners. When my father died—which was before he educated me as he intended—he left an offspring numerous & dependent. At that time you caused my employment in the Navy; which afforded me a competency; but it not...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Beale Ewell, 9 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Were I not sensible that great men, like the authors of their existence, derive pleasure from befriending, relieving & raising the young to respectability and to usefulness,—it would have been with the strongist aversion, that I should ever have troubled you. But having obtruded myself upon your notice, and now feeling conscious, that I owe more to you, than I owe to any other man in...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Beale Ewell, 23 August 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
When I determined to inclose for you the first fruits of my medical education, I was fully sensible of the superiority of that philosophic mind to which it was to be offered & consequently, of the greater certainty of the detection of my errors. In not confining it then, to a sphere, where the faint rays of respectability are eclipsed by the splendid appearance of great men, I was influenced...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Beale Ewell, 16 June 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The letter I have just been favored with, from you, is like all the treatment I have experienced at your hands—which has been uniformly kind and benevolent. To my very soul I am mortified at giving you so much trouble; and may eternal curses crush me, if I prove unprincipled & ungrateful. Indeed Mr. Jefferson my views of other characters become jaundiced—after seeing so much of that liberality...