1José Corrêa da Serra to Thomas Jefferson, 16 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
In the mountains of New Jersey i read in the Newspapers that your Legislature had decided that the central college of your University was to be at Charlottesville . Immediately on my return in Philadelphia i have witnessed the injustice done to M r Cooper , by preferring to him a man poor in science , and unfit to increase his capital. I congratulate you for both these events which contribute...
2José Corrêa da Serra to Thomas Jefferson, 12 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Letter from Poplar forest reached my hands Last week, and with it i am enabled to follow with more cognizance the research of Capt. Lewis ’s papers. The only part which i had recovered i had forwarded to you by your excellent grand daughter when she was here. Colonel Jones of the Guards who is going to Kentucky to dispose of his lands there, will present this to you. He wishes to have the...
3José Corrêa da Serra to Thomas Jefferson, 12 July 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your very kind and esteemed Letter of the 14 th of Last month was directed to Washington , which place i had left the 3 d of that month for Philadelphia , and after a short stay had Left that city also to ramble through parts of the country which i had not yet visited. At Last it has reached my hands, and i hasten to thank you for all your friendly dispositions towards me which i duly prize....
4José Corrêa da Serra to Thomas Jefferson, 28 December 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have Lately received from you the report about the University of Virginia for which i give you my best thanks. Though you had been so kind to communicate it to me at Monticello , and the Leading ideas had remained in my mind, still a repeated and reflected perusal of it has still more impressed me with the soundness and fitness of the contents in all its parties . May your Legislature adopt...
5José Corrêa da Serra to Thomas Jefferson, 22 February 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Derby a well known gentleman of Boston , has told me how he desired to pay a visit to Virginia , and to have the honor of being presented to you. Though his known caracter be a competent passport every where, still he is persuaded that decency requires that he be presented by some one of your acquaintances, and wishes me to perform this function. I am very glad to have this occasion of...
6José Corrêa da Serra to Thomas Jefferson, [ca. 22 March 1819] (Jefferson Papers)
You see by the enclosed Letter that i do not forget your recommendations. I hope in it goes in time, and perhaps in the form of an unasked Letter will operate better than if it had the appearance of an answer to a question on that delicate point. RC ( MHi ); undated; endorsed by TJ as an undated letter received 30 Mar. 1819 from “ Correa Joseph ” and so recorded in SJL . Enclosure: Corrêa da...
7José Corrêa da Serra to Thomas Jefferson, 10 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
As i shall most probably very soon take a northern direction, which is pointed to me by what i have to do, i will in consequence be deprived of the pleasure i promised to myself of paying you in May the annual tribute of my personal respects; my pilgrimage to Monticello i must transfer to the autumnal months. But the American born Marrons would lose the season of being sown, and i have the...
8José Corrêa da Serra to Thomas Jefferson, 22 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I was very glad of what i knew, about your perfect convalescence and about the progress of the Virginian university , but it has been to me a great additional pleasure, to read it in your handwriting. Your health i am confident will with proper attention continue strong and i hope and wish, for a pretty Long period too. Serus in cælum redeas diuque Lætus intersis — My anxiety about the...
9José Corrêa da Serra to Thomas Jefferson, 11 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I cannot Let go Judge Cooper to Monticello , without once more before i Leave your country expressing to you my strong attachment to you, of which you shall have constant proofs as Long as i Live. He will inform you of the things, which i promised to write to you—as he is thorougly informed of them. I respect your person and your repose too highly, to wish to meddle you in the Least in this...
10José Corrêa da Serra to Thomas Jefferson, 6 March 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
When i Left Europe two months ago, several of your correspondents and friends in that part of the world favoured me with Letters of recommendation to you, knowing how ardently i wished the honour of your acquaintance. M r Thouin gave me also his Last publication on grafting, that i might present to you on his part. Not having the advantage of finding you in this place as i was Led to believe...
11José Corrêa da Serra to Thomas Jefferson, 10 April 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Short tells me that you intend to give me an invitation to visit you at Monticello ; for which i give you my sincere thanks, because no moments of Life can i consider more precious than those i would pass in your company. In the summer or in the fall i will attempt to profit of your Kindness. In the mean time as i am determined to visit Kentucky and the Ohio , an excursion which i presume...
12José Corrêa da Serra’s Memorandum to Thomas Jefferson on Religious Education, [after 30 September 1814] (Jefferson Papers)
I have read with attention and ruminated your plan of school , and as you are above compliments i will only tell you that i would have been proud of having planned it, so much i find it proportionate to the actual degree of improvement of human mind, and to the present state of your nation. differ nevertheless in one point from you, which is the Theological branch, not for the reasons of D r...
13José Corrêa da Serra to Thomas Jefferson, 6 September 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Together with this Letter i forward to you by the post office the book of Senator Fossombroni . The 1 st part of the book is wholly antiquarian, and though highly curious to Italian readers, is of Little interest to any other; the second part will give you an idea of that ingenious and experimented practice. If it was judged proper to familiarize the Americans with it then it would be...
14José Corrêa da Serra to Thomas Jefferson, 31 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
You must not be offended if your central college is in some measure become one of my hobby horses. The prospect of seeing a seminary for the American youth unshackled from the trammels of clerical influence and direction, and where really useful sciences may be induced into young minds is a vision so congenial to my feelings, that i cannot abstain from frequently reminding it, and taking a...
15José Corrêa da Serra to Thomas Jefferson, 20 September 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
After having visited your western states, and attempted in vain to pass through the mountains directly from Lexington (Ky) to Monticello , i have been obliged to come back to Pittsburgh and to this place, from whence as soon as i receive an answer from Philadelphia , that is to say in two or three days i will proceed to pay my respects to you. In the mean time i address to you these few Lines,...
16José Corrêa da Serra to Thomas Jefferson, 2 October 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I am unluckily forced to differ my pilgrimage to Monticello , till the beginning of November, when i will pay my respects to you before i shut myself in Washington for the winter. In the present circumstances it would be highly imprudent in my situation to quit the sea shore and to go far from this city , New york and Boston , the three doors by which communications and orders can reach me. By...
17José Corrêa da Serra to Thomas Jefferson, 16 June 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your kind Letter of the 5 of this month reached me in due time, and i must entreat your forgiveness for not answering it sooner, neither my health, nor the hurry to finish the botanical course in which i was engaged without defrauding my heare r s of any of the promised Lectures have given me a moment’s rest. Under severe rhumatic pains, i have Lectured almost every day in the afternoon, and...
18José Corrêa da Serra to Thomas Jefferson, 20 September 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
According to the wishes you expressed in your Letter of June Last , i have invited M r Gilmer to come with me to Monticello and to keep himself ready by the end of this month, in order to Leave Winchester , when i should pass by. He writes to me that the courts are sitting there almost all October, and that he will be in the impossibility of quitting the town till November. He seems to be...
19José Corrêa da Serra to Thomas Jefferson, 9 December 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I am in Philadelphia returned again to my old train of Life, that is reading and walking. From the inclosed you will see that i have not forgotten the cement for your cisterns. That alone would have occasioned this Letter, but i have matter of much more importance to communicate to you. The Last arrivals have brought english and french papers, pamphlets and Letters which i wish i could put...
20José Corrêa da Serra to Thomas Jefferson, 12 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have found at my return in Philadelphia near a month ago, your kind letter for which i would have immediately returned my most grateful thanks, if it did not contain two articles to which it was my duty to answer, viz. the cements for cisterns, and the papers of Captain Lewis . As to the first, the books containing the prescriptions were not at hand, and i could attain them with some...
21José Corrêa da Serra to Thomas Jefferson, 29 March 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
At Last M rs Barton has sent me a Little morocco bound volume , part of Capt. Lewis journal containing his observations from April 9 of 1805 to February 17 1806 , and the meteorológical observ. for July August Sp September . 1805, together with the drawing of a quadruped which he calls the Fisher . As the chaos of His Library begins to clear, by the separation of printed books which are sold...