7351John Wayles Eppes to Thomas Jefferson, 3 September 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of aug. the 6 th arrived here when my house was filled with my own and M rs Eppes ’s connections— M r Burton and his family left us on Saturday— my sister and M r Lane on Tuesday—I could not conveniently leave them here and the season is now so far advanced that you will I presume soon return to Monticello — We are begining to experience the inconveniences of the wet and cold & our...
7352Joseph Coppinger to Thomas Jefferson, 2 September 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to pray your acceptance of a Copy of the inclosed little tract which I lately caused to be publishd here entitled Catholic doctrine and Catholic principles explained in the hope (As I state in the preface) that it may tend to remove some of the prejudices which are but too generally prevailing against the Catholic Religion in this Country. Your liberal and distinguished protection so...
7353Hezekiah Niles to Thomas Jefferson, 2 September 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I thankfully acknowledge your letter of the 22nd . enclosing 5$ in payment for the Register to Sept 1818. I have hopes that this work will survive the fate of most things of the sort. The present prospect is cheering. I find an interest for its welfare that I hardly dared to hope for, & think it will prosper by the arrangement lately adopted. “ From the fullness of the heart the mouth speaketh...
7354Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 1 September 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
You will recollect that I formerly troubled you on the subject of a proper course to be established in a College of general science . such an establishment in my neighborhood (near Charlottesville ), then in contemplation only, has lately advanced so favorably as to get into a course of execution. the single county in which it is located has contributed 30,000.D. and we expect the rest of the...
7355Thomas Jefferson to Hugh Chisholm, 31 August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your letters of the 10 th & 23 d and am glad to learn that the bricks are in such forwardness. I wish you would by every week’s mail drop a line stating what has the progress then is. I am anxious to know that the cellars are dug, and their walls commenced laying. but be careful to inform me in time and exactly by what day you will have got the walls up to the surface of...
7356Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 31 August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Ellen tells me that a request is communicated thro’ M r Randolph & yourself from the Freemason societies of Charlottesville to be permitted to lay the first brick of the Central college . I do not know that I have authority to say either yea or nay to this proposition; but as far as I may be authorised, I consent to it freely. the inhabitants of Charlottesville deserve too well of that...
7357Daniel Brent to Thomas Jefferson, 30 August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the Honor to receive yesterday your favor of the 22 nd of this month, enclosing a letter for M r Appleton , our Consul at Leghorn , with a request that I would forward it to M r Appleton by some safe, rather than early opportunity, with the Consular Despatches of this Department; and I have now the pleasure to inform you, that it will this day be sent, under an Envelope of this Office,...
7358Chapman Johnson to Thomas Jefferson, 30 August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Yesterday morning I received your letter from “ Poplar forest ,”— enclosing M r Divers’s answer to your bill against The Rivanna company —together with your notes thereon — I have filed the answer; and in pursuance of your request, will send you office copies of the answers, as soon as they are filed—None others have yet been filed—I will endeavour, too, to effectuate your wish, of preventing...
7359John Martin Baker to Thomas Jefferson, 29 August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the Honor this day to see M r Madison , who is pleased to inform me, that you were not at Monti-cello : but at your Seat in Bedford , which unhappily deprives me the Honor of paying you my respects in person, as I had proposed on my leaving George-town. D.C. where my family now reside: and who beg Sir to be Respectfully presented to you— permit me sir, to add, that unfortunately...
7360Thomas Jefferson to Samuel L. Osborn, [29] August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of July came to hand on the 18 th instant. and I am very sensible of the favor with which you are pleased to express yourself towards me. if, in the course of my political term of service, my fellow citizens think I have effected any thing useful for our country, my reward is in their approbation. I am thankful that I have lived to see the sacrifices of the revolutionary generation,...
7361Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, [29] August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
You have sometimes made favorable mention of our Central college , and Gen l Cocke , one of our visitors, gave me reason to believe you would still do so occasionally. many, supposing that a brief account of our views, if laid before the public, might have good effect, I have, in compliance with their requests, prepared the within, disguised however as to it’s source, because I am unwilling to...
7362Absalom Townsend to Thomas Jefferson, [ca. 28] August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
You will perceive, by the notice in the last Numbers of the A merican M agazine , edited by Mr. S pafford , that the Subscription to that work, has been duly assigned to me.—I must therefore earnestly request you to send Three Dollars, the amount of your subscription, to my Office, No. 84, State-street, Albany , by Mail or otherwise, without delay. ABSALOM TOWNSEND, Jr. Attorney at Law . RC (...
7363Anonymous (Thomas Jefferson) to the Richmond Enquirer, [ca. 29] August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
In compliance with your desire on my departure for the springs I availed myself of a short stay in Charlottesville to enquire into the plan, the progress and prospects of the Central college , which has been sometimes spoken of in your paper. I will give you the result shortly, & so much only as I get from sources to be relied on. A law , it seems, had been past, authorising a board of...
7364Stephen Cathalan to Thomas Jefferson, 27 August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor of adressing you a Long Letter on the 8 th July ult o , it’s original & 2 ta via Havre , with Inclosures;—in this last, was also my Letter to you of the 16 th d to , with your Acc t Cur t with me, bearing a Balance in your Favor for F 102–
7365Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Henry Latrobe, [25] August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Our letters, crossing one another by the way, have produced some confusion. their dates are as follows, in the margin. your lres when rece d when answ d June 28. July 15. July 16 July 24 Aug. 2 Aug. 3. July 18 Aug. 7. Aug. 7. Aug. 12. Aug. 22. Aug. 24. I shall be glad to recieve your drawings; but not at this place, to which the mail is uncertain, and I shall be at Monticello
7366James Pleasants to Thomas Jefferson, 25 August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter covering a subscription paper to the Central college reached me at our last court. on that day also I received a letter from General Cocke on behalf of the visitors , directed to my self and several other citizens of this county , who were associated with me, empowering us to solicit subscriptions for the benefit of the institution. Five of us out of seven, were at court, and had a...
7367James Rawlings to Thomas Jefferson, 25 August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour of 31 Ult o has remained unanswered for some time, in consequence of an absence from home— The Statement touching the mill formerly Insured by John Henderson for the legatees of Bennet Henderson , which you have given, is sufficient to shew that the Mutual Assurance Society can have no claim on you for the Insurance thereof—And as all of the demands of the society, now appearing on...
7368Hugh Chisholm to Thomas Jefferson, 23 August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the satisfaction to inform you, that, in spite of the wet weather, we have completed about eighty thousand bricks; which shall be prepared for burning the last of next week. I must beg you will not engage the workmen for the building ‘till you again hear from me; which shall be before your deporture from Poplor Forest . The objection which I made, in my letter to you , against the...
7369Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Newspaper Subscriptions, [ca. 23 August 1817] (Jefferson Papers)
1817. Jan. 25. remitted him 70.D. of which 10.D. was for his paper to May 1. 1817. June 19. sent him 5.D. to May 1. 18 Duane . Nat l Intellig r 1813. Oct. 17. pd to Oct. 31. 12. 1817.
7370Thomas Jefferson to Hezekiah Niles, [23] August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of July 31. came to hand on the 18 th inst. at this place, very distant from Monticello . I learn from it with real concern that there is danger of a discontinuance of the Weekly Register, for want of due support. I have found it very valuable as a Repertory of documents, original papers & the facts of the day, and for the ease with which the Index enables us to turn to them. these...
7371David Bailie Warden to Thomas Jefferson, [ca. 12–22 August 1817] (Jefferson Papers)
a few days since I had the pleasure of receiving your letter of the 6th of June last , by duplicate, I am glad to know that you are pleased with the Books and the manner in which the De Bures ’ have executed the commission: they expect to forward those, which you lately ordered, in the course of a week. It appears that the trunk of Books and pamphlets left at ghent nearly two years ago, has...
7372Thomas Jefferson to John Goodman, Joseph Reed, Isaac Boyer, and William J. Duane, [22] August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 6 th inst. is delivered to me at this place with an extract from the Franklin Republican of July 29. in these words. ‘Extract of a letter from Virginia . July 13. 1817 . the day before yesterday I was at Monticello , & had the gratification to hear the chief of the elevated group there [mr Jefferson] express his anxious wish for the success of the democratic republican...
7373Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Appleton, [20] August [1817] (Jefferson Papers)
On the 1 st inst. I dispatched the Original of which the preced g is a dupl. thro’ mr V. and soon after it the departure of the mail I rec d one from mr Carmigniani of Apr. 11. by this I found that he had not rec d mine of July 18. and on recurring to your diff t
7374Thomas Jefferson to Giovanni Carmignani, [20] August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Apr. 11. came to hand just as I had dispatched one to mr Appleton , of the 1 st inst. on the same subject, which he will probably recieve and communicate to you before this reaches you. that which you wrote the preceding year , covering a copy of the last will of my deceased friend Mazzei , and the attestations respecting it, had come to hand in due time; & on the 18 th of July...
7375Thomas Jefferson to Fernagus De Gelone, [20] August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday evening, and at this place 80. miles South West from Monticello , your letter of the 5 th inst. and lose no time in inclosing you the 8 D. 50 cents, the amount of the books last sent. I am in hopes that notwithstanding the increased distance, they may reach you before your departure. on your return with a new cargo of books I shall be glad to recieve your catalogue as...
7376Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 18 August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I now do myself the pleasure to enclose you the list of English Books sold by Barrois at Paris , agreeably to my promise to you at M r Madison’s . Upon examination I find there are but few works, which you would probably wish to purchase. You would oblige me by the return of the catalogue at some future day, as I shall wish to make use of it from time to time. But I shall not want it for a...
7377Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, [18] August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of Aug. 11. came to hand yesterday & I now inclose the note of 3000.D. for the bank of the US. signed. I note the observations on the articles of 250.D. which I recollect, that of the 31. D of which I had not before been ascertained, and the 10. respecting which I have not the papers here, but I presume your corrections are right as to that as well as the others. accept the renewal of...
7378Francis W. Gilmer to Thomas Jefferson, 18 August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I am penetrated with regret at the death of your illustrious friend, and I would fain call him mine— Mr. DuPont (de Nemours) —It is a consolation to me that I had redeemed before his death every promise which I ever made him.—His treatise on National Education was translated, of which I apprized him before I heard that he was indisposed. So long as he lived his own genius preserved the...
7379Randolph Harrison to Thomas Jefferson, 18 August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Yesterday’s mail brought me your letter of the 4 th inst t , and I avail myself of its return, to assure you of the heartfelt pleasure I enjoy, at the prospect of seeing a seminary of learning established in our State , upon so enlarged and liberal a scale. The favourable auspices under which it has commenced, afford the most flattering views of a successful issue. It will be pleasing to me to...
7380Thomas Jefferson to Chapman Johnson, [18] August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I now inclose you mr Divers ’s answer I given without form or the ceremony of an oath. his health, and hurry to depart for the springs rendered it necessary to dispense with useless formalities. I furnished the def s with a copy of the bill some months ago, but I know nothing of the progress of their answers. as soon as they shall be given in, I will pray you to send me office copies as guides...