1691To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Delaplaine, 21 February 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed letter is from one of my best & worthiest friends. He is the Cashier of the Bank of Germantown near us, & is well known for exemplary conduct.—It would afford me peculiar gratification if you would answer his letter. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
1692To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Magruder, 20 February 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
May I be permitted, once more, to trouble you on the Subject of the university? I precieve with great pleasure, (indeed I was at Richmond at the time), that the Legislature has loan’d the sum required for the Completion of the buildings necessary to Carry that institution into Operation. My boys are almost idle now; and unless I can dispose of them almost immediately in my own State,...
1693To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 20 February 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Coffee and Corks went by a Waggon on tuesday last, to Charlottesville, care M r Raphael, the Wine is double cased, & ready for the first trusty Boat— MHi .
1694To Thomas Jefferson from John Watson, 20 February 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
At the request of Col o Monroe, Hugh Nelson, John Kelly, Martin Dawson and myself—Valued, his Lande, from his own papers. there is stated to be 2000 Acres. of Mountain Lande, which was Valued at $25. ⅌ Acree 1,500 below the Road at $10 ⅌ acree a Certificate to this effect was sent on to the president by his Nephew James Monroe. Signed by Hugh Nelson John Kelly and John Watson MHi .
1695From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 19 February 1823 (Madison Papers)
The inclosed letters & papers being addressed to you as well as me, I am not at liberty to withold them, tho’ I know the disrelish you will feel for such appeals. I shall give an answer, in a manner for us both, intimating the propriety of our abstaining from any participation in the electioneering measures on foot. I congratulate you on the loan, scanty as it is, for the University; in the...
1696To Thomas Jefferson from Jeremiah Elkins, 19 February 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
It is my wish to collect the few remaining fragments of the Official letters of our land and Naval Officers of the revolution, together with such other documents and anecdotes as relate to the war of that period—I have in part accomplished the work, and shall, perhaps, be able to render it more complete than at this time could be expected—it will, I hope, serve to rescue from the grave some...
1697To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 19 February 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letters & papers being addressed to you as well as me, I am not at liberty to withhold them. tho’ I know the disrelish you will feel for such appeals. I shall give an answer, in a manner for us both, intimating the propriety of our abstaining from any participation in the electioneering measures on foot. DLC : Papers of James Madison.
1698To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 19 February 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I congratulate you on the loan, scanty as it is, for the University; in the confidence that it is a gift masked under that name; and in the hope that it is a pledge for any remnant of aid the Establishment may need in order to be totus teres atque rotundus . Can you not have the hands Set to work without the formality of a previous meeting of the Visitors? I have rec d no notice from Richmond...
1699To Thomas Jefferson from G. F. H. Crockett, 18 February 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Tho’ I have never had the pleasure of an acquaintance with you, I have taken the liberty (unwarranted, it may be) of addressing you. Expecting to visit you, on my way to or from the state of Delaware, e’er a great while, & knowing your fondness for any thing literary, or otherwise valuable—are the only apologies I offer. I will briefly state, that, I was born in the state of Delaware—was a...
1700To Thomas Jefferson from Sidney Edwards Morse, 18 February 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Accompanying this letter is a New System of Modern Geography, prepared by me during the past year, for the use of colleges and academies. The part of the work, in which I have presumed you would be interested, is the Appendix, & more especially, the Tables relating to the population of the United States, included between pages 604 & 622. Some of the results mentioned in the Remarks on the...