6601Thomas Jefferson to Stephen Cathalan, [before 6 June 1817] (Jefferson Papers)
My last to you was of Feb. 1. 16. since which I have recieved your several favors of Feb. 15. Mar. 19. June 1. 4. 19. & July 12. & the several parcels of wine & Maccaroni, came safe to hand. all of them were good; but those particularly esteemed for daily use are the Nice, Ledanon & Roussillon. the Nice de Bellet is superlatively fine, for which I am particularly obliged to
6602John Cook to Thomas Jefferson, 20 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed Publication which I have the honour to present to you I received very Lately from the Author, now in England , a very near acquaintance and intimate Friend of many Years standing. Permit me to observe Sir, that this is the only one of a series of numbers which commenced some Years ago and are published annually in England , which has appeared in Amer i ca . Having published some...
6603John Love to Thomas Jefferson, 16 July 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
At an early period of the summer, the President passed on this road, when I had the pleasure of seeing him: He was then satisfyed from the different appearances of the common wheats, and the kind here called the Lawler that the latter was uninjured by the Hessian fly, and engaged from me 200 bush ls for himself, and 200 for you, to Whom He mentioned his intention to write on the subject—I have...
6604Wilson Cary Nicholas to Thomas Jefferson, 28 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just heard that M r Arthur Brockenborough , is willing to engage with you to do the carpenter’s work at the University & wou’d undertake the superintendence of all your work of every sort at that place. M r Brockenborough is the brother of the Doctor & the Judge , & like them is a man of excellent character. He is a compleat workman himself and is moreover said to be more scientific...
6605Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 26 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have procured from Leschot for mrs Eppes a very elegant watc h and of the very best construction being of the kind called à cylindre horizontal ; the only inconvenience of which is that they require being touched with oil a little oftener than the others. he had no watch of the common construction which was proper for a lady. he required 40.D. boot, allowing only 30.D. for the gold of the...
6606From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 19 April 1817 (Adams Papers)
My loving and beloved Friend, Pickering, has been pleased to inform the World that I have “few Friends.” I wanted to whip the rogue, and I had it in my Power, if it had been in my Will to do it, till the blood came. But all my real Friends as I thought them, with Dexter and Gray at their Head insisted “that I Should not Say a Word.” “That nothing that Such a Person could write would do me the...
6607Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s List of Books Recommended for Reading Law, [ca. 9 April 1822] (Jefferson Papers)
Bracton . English Brooke ’s abridgment. 4 to edn. Thomas ’s Coke Littleton 3. v. 8 vo Coke ’s 2 d 3 d and 4 th
6608To Thomas Jefferson from Adamantios Coray, 28 December 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Je vous suis on ne peut plus reconnaissant pour la réponse, que vous avez eu la complaisance de me faire, et qui me fut remise avant hier par M. Warden. Trop longue pour votre respectable âge, elle m’a paru trop courte pour le désir que j’avais de recevoir des leçons: d’un tel maître. Je tâcherai d’en profiter, et de les tourner, s’il est possible, au profit de ma nation; qui a montré jusqu’à...
6609From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 8 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I returned the 1 st vol. of Hall by a mail of a week ago and by this shall return the 2 d we have kept them long; but every member of the family wished to read his book, in which case you know it had a long guantlet to run. It is impossible to read thoroughly such writings as those of Harper and Otis, who take a page to say what requires but a sentence, or rather who give you whole pages of...
6610Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 22 December 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Jery arriverd here last Evening about 4 oClock, with one of his Mules very lame and complains much about badness of Roads, I had e very thing ready, and shoud have loaded wednesday night, had Jery came, but they now will be a day later than you expected, I hope to get them off this morning by sun rise, the pork turn, d out very well, and has been destributed as you derected, the 23 hogs picked...
6611Francis Adrian Van der Kemp to Thomas Jefferson, 5 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
was I to answer a letter—So gratifying to my feelings, as interesting in itself, dated 9 Febr —to another man as mr. Jefferson , who honoured me with his courtesy—and So kindly condescended, to give me proof upon proof of his confidential regards, I should feel myself obliged, to make an apology for my long Silence. Now I am dispensed of this task, and communite communicate to you my Sincere...
6612To Thomas Jefferson from Edmund Bacon, 4 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
It is with pleasure I send you a few lines informing you that myself and family are injoying a reasonable Potion of helth. I very sincerely hope that you are well and also the family. I wish to inform you that I have received the hundred dollars from Dabney Terrill of Louisville of this state on the 15 th of April last month. I live about 200 miles distant from Louisville and made an...
6613Thomas Jefferson to Peter S. Du Ponceau, 30 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
An absence of 6. weeks has occasioned your letters of the 5 th & 11 th inst to lie thus long unacknoleged. after I had sent off the two other Westover MSS. I recieved a 3 d of the same journal. on perusing it, I am not sensible, by memory, of any thing not contained in the former, except 8. pages of a preliminary account of the abridgment of our limits by successive charters to other colonies....
6614Thomas Jefferson to Robert Anderson, 13 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of May 22. has been duly recieved. mine to miss Mary Stith has informed of the you of her title to an undivided sixth of 400. a s of land in this county thro’ which a the vein of limestone passes which traverses this state parallel with it’s first ridge of mountains, and which constitutes what value it has, the land being worthless and about a third or half of it claimed & by two...
6615Ezra Stiles Ely to Thomas Jefferson, 14 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit a young Philosopher, to present a veteran with a copy of his “Conversations on the Science of the Human Mind.” If you have leisure to read the little book, which I send you through the mail, I hope it will afford you some philosophical recreation. Were you not continually plagued with such things, I should solicit the expression of your opinion upon it. Possibly it may be of some use,...
6616Arthur S. Brockenbrough to Thomas Jefferson, 12 August 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your two favors of the 28 h and 29 h have both followd me to Richmond where I am endeavouring to get my family and effects up to the University as soon as possible— nothing but the rivers being almost dry and the great scarcity of Waggons has prevented my being fixed up there in some way or other, (for M r Perry has not yet given up the house)— I shall this evening write up to
6617Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 24 November 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Your welcome favor of the 12 th came to hand two days ago. I was just returned from Poplar Forest which I have visited four times this year. I have an excellent house there, inferior only to Monticello , am comfortably fixed and attended, have a few good neighbors, and pass my time there in a tranquility and retirement much adapted to my age and indolence. you so kindly ask an explanation of...
6618Bernard Peyton to Thomas Jefferson, 17 July 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
This morning’s mail put me in rec t your two esteemed favors of the 13th : & 14th : of this instant, together with their several enclosures— The Bill of Exchange drawn by D r Everett in favor Tho s J. Randolph Esq e is herewith returned, for want of form, & a correct one accompanying it for his signature—You will observe the amount of
6619Isaac H. Tiffany to Thomas Jefferson, 18 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Accompanying The accompanying is a political chart of the U.S. in 6 Tables or sheets, which is offered to your acceptance. The objects are mentioned in the printed postscript; & I will thank you for suggestions of any improvements or corrections in the plan or matter . Few copies are struck off, in its present imperfect state more than sufficient for correspondence for the purpose of...
6620Thomas Jefferson to John M. Perry, 3 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
In the purchase of the site of the College from you, there are two questions entirely distinct; 1. as to the title, which must be clearly so it is our duty to have conveyed to the institution clear, & unembarrassed by any conditions other than the usual one of the payment of the price stipulated . the 2 d who shall do all the various works which the prosecution of the object may require? these...
6621To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 31 January 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The extraordinary operations against the cause of self government is manifest in the old world, and the unprecedented combination against liberty under name of the holy alliance, together with guarded but effective cooperation with them on the part of Great Britain, and some of the minor powers appear to threaten the world in which we must prosper or suffer and act with many trying...
6622Robert S. Garnett to Thomas Jefferson, 20 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Presuming that the Trustees of the University are desirous of employing a person well qualified to teach the languages; I take the liberty to forward you some certificates & letters, recommending, as highly competent for that office, a Mr Escopiniche , who is anxious to get employment in some seminary which can afford a liberal encouragement. I am not authorised to state the terms upon which M...
6623To Thomas Jefferson from Hiram Haines, 10 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
You may probably recollect the young Virginia Mountaineer, who presented you a domestic pocket knife in the fall of 1821—for which, at his suggestion, you were pleased to return a copper plate likeness of yourself: its safe receipt with the very handsome, and to me flattering letter, which accompanied it, is now thankfully acknowledged with the assurance that both are carefully preserved and...
6624Peter Poinsot to Thomas Jefferson, 18 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
À la recommandation de mon digne & vertueux ami le Genéral Kosciuzko Je me permis de vous écrire le 25 Juin dernier , & vous envoyai une de ses lettres par la voye de M r Barnett mon ami, votre Consul Genéral a Paris , & le duplicata le 15 Juillet Suivant par Bordeaux , N’ayant pas été favorisé de vos nouvelles. Je viens Solliciter de vôtre bienveillance, pour vous prier de vous interesser...
6625Richard Claiborne to Thomas Jefferson, 29 [August] 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Within 2 or 3 days of each other, I received your friendly favor of the 10 th of May last , and one from the Marquis De Lafayette . Such a working of feelings as took place within my breast, at the occurrence, you may very well imagine. Reflecting too that we were among the few remaining characters of old revolutionary times, I was filled with a serious degree of melancholy. But providence...
6626From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 14 January 1824 (Madison Papers)
I return the letters from Docr. Cooper inclosed in yours of the 7th. It is truly to be lamented that at his stage of life and in the midst of his valuable labours, he should experience the persecutions which torment, and depress him. Should he finally wish to exchange his present birth [ sic ] for one in our University and make the proposition without any advances on our part, there could be...
6627Jean Guillaume Hyde de Neuville to Thomas Jefferson, 3 December 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
un evenement heureux Pour la france et Pour lhumanité ne peut que Vous interesser vivement, jai donc l’honneur de vous adresser l’ extraît du moniteur qui annonce officiell t l’evacuation entière du territoire francais Par l’armée d’occupation. Lundi dernier ma patrie a été rendue à toute Son independance; Le Sentiment de Bonheur que cette Pensée me fait eprouver est si vif que je ne resiste...
6628To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 6 January 1823 (Madison Papers)
I send you a mass of reading, and so rapidly does my hand fail me in writing that I can give but very briefly the necessary explanations. You will observe that mr. Cabell, if the loan bill should pass, proposes to come up with mr. Loyall, probably mr. Johnson, and Genl. Cocke to have a special meeting. This is necessary to engage our workmen before they undertake other work for the ensuing...
6629Bernard Peyton to Thomas Jefferson, 19 August 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
The balance of your Tobacco is now all here, say ten Hhds:, in addition to the five before advised of , & will be sold tomorrow—by the next mail you will receive the ℀ sales — The River is so extremely low, that Boats can scarcely pass, particularly up the Rivanna , this has prevented my sending earlier, the stone Ware left with, & p d for by me, to Rich d Randolph , for you, & will probably...
6630James P. Preston to Thomas Jefferson, 20 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
From the determination of M r Baldwin the late Engineer to withdraw from the service of the State, The President and Directors of the Board of Public works, are under the necessity of appointing a suitable person to sup p ly the vacancy thus produced. M r F. R. Hassler now of New Ark, New Jersey , is among others an applicant for the appointment. In his letter to the Sec y of the Board in...
6631John H. Peyton to Thomas Jefferson, 19 November 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
The chancellor has pronounced his decree in your suit with the Rivanna company this day—It is too lengthy to procure you a copy otherwise I would enclose it—I think however I recollect enough to be able to give you an idea of it in its material bearings He decides that the bed of the river is clearly embraced within the boundaries of the Patent to your father —That that patent vested the fee...
6632To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 30 April 1823 (Madison Papers)
The anxieties expressed in the inclosed letter are pointed to 3. articles. 1. the size of the lecturing rooms. 2. depositories for the Apparatuses. 3. the arrangement of the seats for the Students. 1. If we could have foretold what number of students would come to our University, and what proportion of them would be in attendance on any one Professor at one time, lecturing rooms might have...
6633Abner Kneeland to Thomas Jefferson, 7 February 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Having long since learned from your Notes on Virginia , your liberality of sentiment in regard to religion, and having recently perceived, by a late petition to Congress , that you are placed at the head of a literary Institution , I have taken the liberty to send you this Prospectus for a Greek and English Testament; any encouragement which you may feel disposed to give to such a work, in any...
6634Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 17 February 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
The result of all my enquiries convinced me that the only course left us was to aim to get the present & future surpluses of the Literary fund, & to amend the Bill lying on the table of the Senate & giving the counties the right of drawing out their arrears. m r Johnson & myself concerted measures: & with the aid of m r Hay in the debate, carried the Amendment unanimously thro’ the Senate ,...
6635To Thomas Jefferson from William Duane, 5 June 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your kind and consolatory letter of the 31 ult. I have just received on my return from Washington city, where I have been since the 10 th of Feb. engaged in settling accounts of ten years standing and rescuing myself from the opprobrium of being classed among the public defaulters. I will not plague you by a recapitulation of the vexations and injuries I have suffered thro’ the baleful system...
6636Thomas Jefferson to Destutt de Tracy, 15 May 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the reciept of your two letters of Feb. 4. & Dec. 24. 16. and, with the last, your Principes logiques, and a 2 d copy of your 4 th vol. of which I had before recieved a printed one as well as the MS. the Analysis of Dupuy and the luminous tract on public instruction I had possessed some time before, and had availed myself of some of the leading ideas of the latter in the...
6637Honoré Julien to Thomas Jefferson, 7 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Permettez qu’en me rapellant à votre Souvenir e j’aie l’honneur de vous informer de la triste fin de votre ancient Maitre d’hotel M or Le Maire , arrivée dans le commencement du mois passé pendant un court séjour de ma femme à Philadelphie : ce brave homme avoit prété une Somme de cinq Mille dollars a un de ses amis, qui lui avoit hypothequé une maison pour sureté de payement, cette personne...
6638A. F. De Laage to Thomas Jefferson, 31 July 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Je me Suis rendu ce matin à Monticello , pour vous présenter mes respects, et vous temoigner toute ma reconnoissance des Bontés que vous avez eues pour moi pendant mon Séjour à Charlottesville : Croyez, je vous prie, Monsieur, que je sens bien vivement l’extrême Distance qui existe entre Vous et moi, et qui les Politesses dont vous m’avez comblé, Sont pour moi un honneur dont je Serai toujours...
6639To Thomas Jefferson from John Patten Emmet, 27 May 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Feeling apprehensive that you may be putting yourself to inconvenience by an immediate visit upon the subject contained in your last note to me, I have taken the liberty of replying at once, still, however, hoping to see you not only upon this occasion, but upon all others when you may visit the University. I have been also induced to explain thus early, from a very unpleasant suspicion that...
6640Hiram Haines to Thomas Jefferson, 25 June 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
As a prelude to my business I must commence my letter by offering an apology for the Liberty I have taken in addressing you, conscious that (from your nobleness and Generosity of heart which you have always displayed, thro’ a long and arduous life in the Service of your Country and fellow Citizens,) I shall be forgiven. To obtain a correct knowledge of our own Country in General and our native...
6641Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 2 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Our two Italian Sculptors arrived at Charlottesville the evening before last and we have to make immediate provision to reimburse to mr Hollins of Baltimore the sums he has been called on for on their arrival. mr Appleton found it necessary to advance to each of them 200.D. apiece to prepare for their voyage and to leave some provision for their families, at a loss of exchange too of 10. p....
6642John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 24 September 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for your favour of the 12 inst t . Hope springs eternal . Eight millions of Jews hope for a Messiah more powerful & glorious than Moses , David , or Solomon who is to make them as powerful as he pleases. Some hundreds of millions of Musslemen expect another Prophet more powerful than Mahomet who is to spread Islamism over the whole earth— Hundreds of millions of Christians expect...
6643Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 23 November 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
The hand of age, my dear friend, has been pressing heavily on me for the few last years, and has rendered me unequal to the punctualities of correspondence. my health too is lately very much broke n down by an illness of three months from which I am but now on the recovery. if therefore I am slack in acknoleging the reciept of your much valued letters, your goodness will ascribe it to it’s...
6644Robert Walsh to Thomas Jefferson, 25 January 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I send the Analectic Magazine for the present month. Circumstances have induced me to decline any further Co-operation in that journal, but Judge Cooper will still continue to supply it with an article from time to time. He has written for it a critique on De Tracy’s Political Economy. I do not know what representation he has made of the book, or whether his studies have been of such a nature...
6645Cérès de Montcarel to Thomas Jefferson, 24 November 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Retirée depuis quelques mois a la Campagne pour raison de Santé Je n’ai appris que fort tard qu’il S’élevoit, Sous votre protection, une maison d’éducation près Charlotteville ; Nous ignorons S’il y a quelqu’un de nommé pour être à la tête de L’instruction de cette maison C’est pourquoi, malgré que nous n’ayons pas L’honneur d’être connus de Vous Monsieur, nous nous empressons mon mari et moi...
6646Benjamin Henry Latrobe to Thomas Jefferson, 28 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have found so much pleasure in studying the plan of your College , that the drawings have grown into a larger bulk than can be conveniently sent by the Mail. If you can point out to me any convenient mode of conveyance within a few days, I should gladly avail myself of it. I have put the whole upon one very large sheet, which I am very unwilling to double; and to roll it on a stick will make...
6647Joshua Dodge to Thomas Jefferson, 25 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been favored with your esteemed favor of 13 July last with a note of sundry articles you wish me to procure & forward to you, consigned to the Collector of the Port to which the Vessel bearer of them is bound, I thank you Sincerely for having afforded me this opportunity of being useful, as nothing can be more gratifying to me than to Shew the warm & respectful attachment I Shall ever...
6648Thomas Jefferson to Charles K. Mallory, 27 January 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just learnt that the brig Planter Cap t Anderson bound from Marseilles to Petersbg has put in to Norfolk for repairs. she has on board for myself and my grandson Tho s J. Randolph the articles noted below, which were consigned by mr Cathalan of Marseilles
6649To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 2 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I regretted very much that my duties here, with the necessity I was under to pass through Loudon & remain there some days, detaind me so long, as to deprive me of the pleasure of seeing you, on my late visit to albemarle. Being informed by M rs Randolph that you intended to return in a fortnight I should have prolongd my stay there for that term, but was compelled to return, to revise the...
6650Frederick D. Tschiffely to Thomas Jefferson, [received 19 July 1822] (Jefferson Papers)
Having an impediment in my speech, permit me to have the honor of addressing you in writing. Not to intrude too long on your time, Sir, I shall be brief & concise. In 1808 I was introduced in public Office by M r Gallatin , with a salary of $310 p r annum; from that I rose gradually to one of $1,400. On the 15 of March 1821 , the Commissioner of the General Land Office dismissed me, by order...