561From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 1 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I thought I had mentioned to you some time ago that to prevent people’s passing through the grounds on the North side of the Rotunda, the gate at Dinsmore’s corner should be taken away and a fence run from there leaving a lane to the gate at Hotel B so as to leave an entrance into the gate at East street but not to pass on further Gen l Cocke mentioned to me yesterday that you proposed to run...
562To Thomas Jefferson from Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 1 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I wish to get the ground immediately around the University surveyed in order to get the lots of the Professors & Hotel Keepers layed off to the best advantage, I can get some of the young gentlemen here (that understand surveying) to assist me if you will do me the favor of lending me your compass & chain they shall be taken particular care of, and returned immediately after the work is...
563To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Crockett, 1 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I am a bout to petition Congress to see if they will do me the same Justice that was done to other officers who fought by my side in the Revolutionary war. In stead of half pay for life the officers present mad choice of a commission of full pay for five years in the highest rank they held in the Army during the revolutionary war. Which was a greed too Many many young officers who had not...
564From Thomas Jefferson to Bradfoote Davidson, 1 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
You have laid me under the greatest obligation, by your kind forbearance on the note of my grandson, endorsed by me. age and infirmities have for some time disabled me from business and obliged me to turn over every thing of the kind to my grandson Th: J. Randolph in whom I have unlimited confidence. I had before recieved notice from the bank and sent it directly to my grandson, to whom I had...
565To Thomas Jefferson from William Campbell Preston, October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of writing this introductory letter to you for the purpose of diminishing the embarrassment, with which my young friend M r Davis will present himself at Monticello to pay his homage to you I venture to assure him, of that kind reception, which is merited by the feelings that prompt his visit to you; MHi .
566From Thomas Jefferson to James Barbour, 31 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sure you have found, ere this that the being in a position to bestow offices, is not a very pleasant circumstance and you had before experience enough that the sollicitation of them is not more so. I have therefore made it a general rule not to trouble the government with such sollicitations. yet there are now and then cases which oblige one to disregard rule. I dare say you must well...
567From Thomas Jefferson to James Mease, 30 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Sep. 8. enquiring after the house and room in which the Declaration of independance was written has excited my curiosity to know whether my recollections were such as to enable you to find out the house. a line on the subject will oblige D r Sir DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
568From Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 30 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The kind good wishes you have so often manifested for the success of our University has encoraged me to levy on you as a contribution the little services we may have occasion to ask in Philadelphia, which I am sure you will consider rather as occasions of exercising your benevolence than as burthens. I had engaged a most excellent Brewer to furnish our boarding houses at the University, and...
569From Thomas Jefferson to Va. Postmaster at Lynchburg, 29 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the Postmaster at Lynchburg, and having requested him in a note of yesterday to send by mail to this place a letter which he supposes to be lying in that office for him, he has now to pray he will send it by the bearer, being an earlier opportunity than he had expected would occur: & tenders him his salutations. Privately owned.
570To Thomas Jefferson from John J. Moorman, 29 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Wishing to purchase a small tract of Land in the vicinity of the Natural Bridge and being informed that you wish to dispose of your “bridge tract” I have taken the liberty of addressing you on the subjects. If you are disposed to sell it, I would thank you to drop me a few lines informing me of your price, the payments you would require, the number of acres in the tract & c & c CtY .
571To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Ritchie, 29 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I hate to trouble you about such a matter; but for the reason I have assigned, for the two last Years, may I take the liberty of asking you when it will be convenient for you to transmit to the Governor the Annual Communication about the University? The Legislature having directed it to be laid on the table of the House, on the 1 st day of its session I am anxious, as Public Printer, to have...
572From Thomas Jefferson to John Pickering, 27 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to thank you for your favor of the 10 th inst. and the two pamphlets accompanying it on the subject of Greek grammars. I confess I should have been of an opinion very different from that which excluded it from a place in the Review. the subject is interesting, is learnedly treated, and I think worth pursuing until a general accord shall be produced. for I concur with you in believing...
573From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Massie, 26 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I will be glad to take of you the present year about 9 or 100. gall s of cyder, which I hope you will chuse for me of your very best. p. be pleased to accept my best wishes and respects MHi .
574From Thomas Jefferson to Achille Murot, 26 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Murot and acknoleging the reciept of his favor of Sep: 29. informs him that he has never heard of any English translation of the Works of Filangieri. he prays him to accept his respectful salutations and best wishes CSmH .
575From Thomas Jefferson to James Westwood Wallace, 26 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
My daughter puts into my hands a letter from you which I answer with pleasure. I must first correct your misrecollections of the name of the person appointed Collector of the stamp-duties in this state. it was not Norton , but Col o George Mercer, brother of our quondam Judge Mercer. I rec d a lre of Sep. 9. from John Vaughan, of the A.P.S. informing me that R. H. Lee, gr. son, of the...
576From Thomas Jefferson to George W. Lewis, 25 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I do not know whether the Professor to whom Antient and Modern history are assigned in the University, have yet decided on the course of historical reading which they will recommend to their schools. if they have, I wish this letter to be considered as not written; as their course, the result of mature consideration, will be preferable to any thing I could recommend. under this uncertainty,...
577To Thomas Jefferson from Eliza Kello Flournoy, 24 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Language is inadequate to form an apology for this presumptous address and if mental distress or isolation of situation were not the only plea to meet the forgiveness of You most Respected Sir I would not dare to elicit its incentive now to apologise is impossible & to you I feel no humility; of a Proud & deserving family of Virginia Educated with Maternal care Widow of a highly eminent...
578From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 23 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I am very anxious to see you, and the sooner the more I shall be gratified. the dissensions at the University, depend, for a thorough healing on a delicate conduct of it’s friends at this time. a party schism among the Professors is the thing to be feared. my health is subject but to small changes. paroxysms of pain succeeded by intervals of ease, more or less short. I am far from foreseeing...
579To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Walker Gilmer, 23 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I reached this place last monday exhausted by fatigue & long sickness almost to death. The daily hope of being better, & able to visit you, has prevented my even sending to inquire after your health. I shall wait on you in a few days. Mr. Johnson (whom I saw at Lynchburg) had given me a great deal of very unpleasant intelligence of the university. The temper of Mssrs. Key & Long toward me as...
580From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Smith, 22 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Eighty two years old, my memory gone, my mind close following it 5. months confined to the house by a painful complaint, which, permitting my neither to walk nor to sit, obliges me to be constantly reclined, and to write in that posture, when I write at all, you, as my friend would not propose or permit me to take up such a case as is the subject of mr Cau st en’s letter, commencing with the...
581To Thomas Jefferson from William F. Vick, 22 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Desirous of becoming a student of that Collage, I have taken this method, of whriting to you. Wisthing to know the regulations of the Collage; particularly when the next cession commences, and what is the price of tuition and also board and lodging, and what amount of money will be sufficient for a student to remain there, yearly. and how long it will take an indu s trious scholar to graduate;...
582To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Waterhouse, 22 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I rejoice, and so will you, that I am enabled to inform you that our aged friend M r Adams has recovered, remarkably, from that sunken state of debility, which appeared to indicate his dissolution last November, & the following winter. He cannot, besure, walk without help, nor see objects distinctly, neither can he feed himself; but he sleeps well & wakes refreshed, & eats very hearty. From a...
583From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 21 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Raggi called on me yesterday while at dinner with company whom I could not leave to open the budget of Appleton’s letters. he promised to come again tomorrow. Appleton informed me expressly that Raggi had not repaid our 50.D. there, and of course that we must look to them here. he claims them on the ground that the price at which he contracted for the bases was too small. but that is nothing...
584To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn, 21 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 13 th inst. enclosing the bond &c, has been rec d , also one from John Brockenbrough Esq— of Richmond enclosing a Draft on the New England Bank in this city for 885.8/100 Dollars which has been paid.— On paying the premium notes for insurance I find that the charges for the policies were included in them, & therefore return you the two dollars, in a Draft from the New...
585From Thomas Jefferson to Nicholas H. Lewis, 21 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just now recieved your letter of Sep. 22 on the subject of appointing Commissioners in my case with the Rivanna company. I have long since put all my business into the hands of my grandson Th: J. Randolph, and must the more especially refer this to him, being unable to leave the house myself, nor likely to be otherwise soon if ever I will immediately communicate your letter to him and...
586From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 21 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a letter from N. H. Lewis as Secretary of the Rivanna company, as also a copy of the interlocutory decree of Chancellor Brown for the appointment of Commissioners, which is the object of this letter. I have informed mr Lewis that I leave all further proceedings in this matter to you, and shall confirm whatever you do in it. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
587To Thomas Jefferson from Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 20 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Dr Blaetterman has purchased of M r Raggi his alabaster & Marble ornaments left with me and has drawn on me for $100 in favor of M r Raggi—I advanced M r Raggi when he left this to return to Italy which he states was paid to M r Appleton, is there any such credit in M r A. accounts? if not I must hold on fifty dollars of Dr: Blaettermans order for the sum advanced him most respectfully CSmH .
588From Thomas Jefferson to William Maclure, 19 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Sep. 24. was recieved in due time and with great thankfulness on behalf of our University for the kind offer of mineral and geological articles. we are young, and have as yet little or nothing in either of these branches of science. and we will request you so far to add to the proffered favor as to chuse for us what you think would be best for us of your collection and of what...
589From Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 19 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Raggi called on me yesterday and explained to me the contents of the two boxes of marble arrived at Philadelphia to my address from mr Appleton. the one containing a truncated column 32. I. high, 16 I. diam the other contains the base of the column. I have recieved no bill of lading from mr Appleton, nor other invoice but his general account which therefore I now inclose you. it is the upper...
590To Thomas Jefferson from John Vaughan, 19 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I submitted your letter of 12 th to our Collector who has assumed the value mentiond in your letter receiving the Duty as a Deposit, until you can inform us further of the Value. I have shipped them per Schooner Cumberland Capt Wheaton to the care of M r Peyton, desiring they may be carefully handled—when the charges are ascertaind you shall know them: I had a small balance in my hands which...