1From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Beale Ewell, 5 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Dec. 12. was not rec d until the 25 th which must acc t for so much of the delay of my answer. there is no vacancy in our Univ y all the Professorships being filled, and we wait, to open it, the arrival only of three Professors embarked as we expect in Nov. from Lond. for Norfolk. the moment their arrival is known the day of opening the instn will be announced, among those daily...
2To 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...
3From 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...
4To 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 .
5To 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...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Beale Ewell, 15 June 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
No ruin hanging over me could make me again trouble you with a communication, if I alone was to feel the ruin. But my growing family will more keenly suffer; and it is this Good Sir urging me on to solicit the protection of a president—too just to sanction the undeserved disgrace of the lowest officer & too benevolent to withold his kind 2 from the man he had raised—’in the moments of...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Beale Ewell, 15 June 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I see with real concern the situation in which you are placed, and fear you do not form a true judgment of it yourself. you are charged by certain persons with improper acts. the Secretary of the Navy is in duty bound to have the charge investigated. you decline attending that investigation. the consequence will be that innocent things may be made appear otherwise, merely for want of...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Beale Ewell, 9 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Doctor Ewell offers his respects to the President: Having lately purchased a most valuable work of the Surgeon, of whose writings Mr. Jefferson has expressed favorable sentiments—he takes the liberty to send it for inspection. He does this the more readily, as the work is not only admitted to be the best of its kind, but contains (particularly the 2d. vol.) important doctrines—an acquaintance...
9To 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...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Beale Ewell, 6 February 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
since I had the honor to converse with you, I have received intelligence of the intention of Doctr. Bullus to resign his appointment at the Navy Yard. No doubt you recollect the kindness with which last summer you determined that I should succeed to this office, on the Doctor’s resignation. In consequence of repeated assurances received from the Hon. Rt smith—that I should have the...