1To James Madison from Benjamin Vaughan, 6 November 1824 (Madison Papers)
I presume to introduce to you my cousin Miss Emma Jane Gardiner, who is travelling in company with my friends Mr. & Mrs. Ticknor of Boston. I ought rather to do this on account of her excellent & amiable character, & a confidence in your hospitality & deference to the ladies; than for any established claim I can have upon you for the attentions I presume to ask on her behalf. This young lady...
2Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Vaughan, 23 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I am much indebted for your kind attentions to the confirmation of my health, as well as to D r Physic for the interest he has been so good as to take in it. of the value of the medical advice you have been so friendly as to give and to collect for me, no one can be more sensible than myself. these dispositions, so kindly manifested by you, assure me you will learn with satisfaction that since...
3Benjamin Vaughan to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 23 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I presume to send you the inclosed, the writer of which seems to wish to put the religious party on his side.— A new attack has been made on vaccination by a certain D r Brown in Scotland ; but the sum total of it is, want of candor in argument, & the use of spurious kine pox in practice. D r Jenner , D r
4Benjamin Vaughan to Thomas Jefferson, 21–22 April 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
{ Philadelphia , April 21, 1819. Bordentown, N.J. April 22. I have taken the liberty to send you, through M r J. Q. Adams , a tin box containing D r Physick ’s prescription for the cutaneous application, as mentioned in my letter . The
5Benjamin Vaughan to Thomas Jefferson, 16 April 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
After a little excursion, I returned to this city yesterday, & found that D r Physick still continued unable to see me; but I have the pleasure to send his opinion, taken from his lips by the only person allowed to have access to him upon business. It is to the following effect. ‘ D r P. has seen several cases analogous to that in question, in elderly people; particularly if of a gouty...
6Benjamin Vaughan to Thomas Jefferson, 6 April 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived here on the evening of the 4 th and was prepared on the 5 th to wait on D r Physick ; but I learned from my brother & D r P ’s deputy for attending his patients, that D r
7Benjamin Vaughan’s Notes on Climate Change, March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
NB. There is something in the averages of the snow in p. 5. which perhaps requires revision. The temperature of the springs in Kennebec has been given by a “friend” higher than the truth. The Abbé Du Bos in his work on Criticisms &ca from some slender passages (easily explained away,) first endeavored to shew that there was an amelioration of climate since the times of the antients, as regards...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Vaughan, 10 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Forgive the liberty which I take in introducing my cousin Mr. Robert Hallowell Gardiner to your notice, which he will claim after a time, more upon his own account, than mine. He is a young man who has not only acquitted himself honorably in his collegiate studies at Cambridge in this state; but has travelled in several parts of Europe. Since his return, he has with great good sense, good...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Vaughan, 24 March 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
In the travels of Tournefort , Vol. 1. 4to. edition, there are two chapters containing the description of Constantinople; & in one of them is a brief statement, that the Turkish gallies are there housed. Whether they are kept in wet or dry dock’s, I forget; for I now write remote from my books.—In Snodgrass’s folio letter to Mr. Dundas, printed some years since, you will find that the building...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Vaughan, 29 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Notwithstanding your wish to insulate the continent over which you preside, from the confusions of the other hemisphere, yet while the citizens of America pursue trade & navigation, they must necessarily mix with European nations; & it is seldom safe to remain in troublesome company. Quarrels may even reach the U.S. in their own home; for three of the governments of Europe possess territories...