I am almost ashamed to trouble you on such a subject but depending on your kind and friendly disposition towards Mr. Adams and myself I am induced to request you will have the goodness to procure us a young woman strong and capable of work in the kitchen and house and a Boy to do the usual work in a family under an upper Servant from among the Swiss or German emigrants who are daily arriving I...
The German Woman and Boy you were so obliging to purchase for me arrived safe; and I return you many thanks for your goodness for having so readily undertaken and so perfectly executed your my Commission—Mr. Adams received your second Letter acknowledging the receipt of the money and unites with me in assurances of the highest Respect and esteem. PPAmP .
3John Vaughan to Thomas Jefferson, 22 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
In hopes that my friend the Rev d M r Bigelow of Boston may be gratified in his wish of being able to extend his tour South to pay his respects to you, I have desired him to take Charge of this Letter to procure him this advantage . He is a friend of M r Tickenor ’s & saw him in Europe —
4Letter of Recommendation for Richard Ware from James C. Fisher, Edward Burd, John Vaughan, and John Read, 17 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
An advertisement having been published in a number of Newspapers, by Nelson Barksdale , Proctor of the University of Virginia , encouraging the applications of Mechanics of all kinds for employment in the erection of an edifice for that institution, Richard Ware , of the City of Philadelphia , Carpenter, is desirous to obtain from the Subscribers that recommendation of his character and...
5Enclosure: Report on Thomas Cooper’s Collection of Minerals, 9 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
At the request of Professor Cooper , we have examined a Collection of Minerals, selected for the College of Charlottsville , and find them to consist of— 1st. Specimens of all the Rocks constituting the Primitive, Transition, Secondary and Flötz Formations. The specimens are large, and chiefly American. They fully illustrate the Geology of the United States , as far as it is at present known....
6Enclosure: Extract from Henry William DeSaussure to John Vaughan, [2 May 1820] (Jefferson Papers)
“ Ever since Dr Cooper has been here, he has performed the duties of his professor-ship—so ably & so faithfully, that there has been a Strong desire on the part of the trustees Trustees who reside here to retain him altogether—That desire has been greatly increased by the pleasure derived from personal intercourse with him. His mind is wonderfully Stored with learning , & wisdom, communicated...
7John Vaughan to Thomas Jefferson, 4 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I have gratified more than one of my Boston friends by introducing them to your interesting retreat ; I am desirous of affording the same pleasure to my friend The Rev. M r Greenwood of Boston , one of the liberal & enlighten’d ministers of that place; having been brought up at Cambridge Mass. he can answer any enquiries you have Yet to make on the subject of Havard Colledge — D r Cooper ,
8Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 9 April 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
D r Cooper was so kind the last autumn as to get a seal engraved for our University by mr Robert Lovett , engraver of Philadelphia , for which payment was made, but no opportunity of sending it to us occurred before he left Philadelphia , and with whom he left it I know not. I hope, with you; but perhaps with the artist, or with mrs Cooper . we are in very urgent want of it to conclude a loan...
9Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 7 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
The season for my annual call for books and wines from France now recurring, I had desired my correspondent mr Gibson of Richmond to remit you a sum of 400.D. which he writes me he has done. this I must request you, according to your usual goodness, to dispose of for me by investing it in a safe bill on Paris , where I wish 135.D of it made payable to Mess rs Debures, freres , libraires de...
10Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 28 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
The 4 th of exchange for M r Appleton recieved in yours of May 14. happened to be overlooked by you, and is on endorsing , & is now returned for your signature, with a request to seal & forward th under the cover by any opportunity. it is in fact only to make security more secure. mr Steel’s papers are for communication to the society.
11From Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 20 November 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my lre of Nov. 10. I have learnt that a new reguln has been adopted in the Navy deptmt, by which no person can recieve a Midshipman’s warrant unless they have been on some actual service at sea 6. mo. at least. it was further observed that a considble proportion of the applicants within that period become so disgusted with sea-service as to relinquish their intentions altogether, mr...
12From Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 2 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
It is more than a fortnight since I recieved your favor of Nov. 11. stating the balance due from me 11. D 59 C for duties on my cases of marble, and I have been that long endeavoring to get US. bank bills to remit it to you. but a single 10.D. bill of that bank is all I have been able to get in our uncommercial place. I add therefore a 5.D. Virginia note, which I presume is passable at it’s...
13From 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...
14From Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 4 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
The copy of the catalogue of the Society’s library which you were so kind as to send me, came safe to hand. you mention that to meet the expence of the publicn the members have been obliged ‘ de se cotiser .’ you will permit me therefor ‘ de me cotiser aussi ’and to recieve herein my contribn of 25. D. if it is less than the pro ratâ say what it ought to be and it shall be made up. I join with...
15Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 22 August 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I learned but lately the death of my friend Cathalan of Marseilles , and I think he had no partner in commerce to whom the authority would survive of drawing on Lafite for the 250.D. placed at his order, which may disappoint me of my supplies for the year. the inclosed letter to mr John Dodge of Marseilles is left open for your perusal, with a request you will forward to him an authority to...
16Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 14 February 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I know your love of science, and therefore set you down as one of the patrons and well wishers of our University , and willing to render it such good offices as may lie in your way. on this ground I inclose you a draft of the US. bank in Richmond on the Farmer & Mechanics bank of Philadelphia for 400. Dollars, which sum I pray you to remit to Thomas Appleton of Leghorn . it is on account of...
17Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 20 April 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you two letters yesterday, the one direct , the other thro’ Cap t Peyton . after sending them to the post office the messenger brought me in return yours of the 12 th . I never recieved from you either the 6. vols of the Dictionnaire of Nat. history, nor the two missing of the Dictionnaire medicale. to this information I add my friendly and respectful salutations. PoC ( MHi ); on verso...
18Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 2 July 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of June 24. and I now inclose you two copies of my letter to Dodge which I hope he will still recieve in time to have my wines here before the winter storms set in. — can you tell me any thing of Correa ? I salute you with thanks for your kindnesses and assurances of my constant friendship and respect. PoC ( MHi ); on verso of reused address cover of William W....
19Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 15 February 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I yesterday took the liberty of inclosing a draft for 400.D. with a request to remit it to mr Appleton , and promising promised by the ensuing mail to send the letters of advice for him as to it’s disposition. this I now do, and therefore pray you to forward them to him with the remittance, and repeat to you my affectionate and respectful salutations. RC (University Archives Auctions,...
20From Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 10 November 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Oct. 31. is just recieved. certainly no service which I can ever render to any member of the Family of my deceased friend Doct r Wistar shall be witheld. the only access to employment in our navy is thro’ the grade of Midshipman; and so numerous are the aspirants for admission to that, that it is long before the turn of a new one comes about to entitle him to a warrant. if this...
21Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 8 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I now renew to you my annual trob trouble for supplies of books and wines from Paris , Marseilles & Leghorn . for this purpose I have requested mr Gibson to send you 1000. Dollars of which I ask the favor of you to remit 120.D. to Mess rs De Bure freres , booksellers of
22Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 2 August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have occasion to remit a sum of 400 Dollars to mr Thomas Appleton our Consul at Leghorn , and must therefore again have recourse to your friendship to do it. for this purpose I now inclose you 400. Dollars in bills of the bank of Virginia , which I am in hopes are good with you. no bill of the US. bank has yet reached this. I know nothing of the exchanges between the US. and foreign...
23Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 28 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your two letters of the 2 d and 18 th have been recieved in due time. mine of the 7 th had partly anticipated your requests of the 2 d I thank you for the advance to mr Girard , and now inclose 70.D. to cover it in bills of the Virginia bank which I understand pass with you. the duplicates you advise for Cathalan & Debures , I had
24From 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...
25From Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 12 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have not a scrip of a pen on the subject of the marbles you mention as arrived for me at Philada, neither invoice, nor advice nor letter of any sort. I must therefore substitute conjecture for certainty. in Aug. 1823. an Italian stone cutter Giacomo Raggi whom mr Appleton had sent us was returning to Italy, with an intention however of coming back to us. he agreed to bring me 2. alabaster...
26Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 6 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of Sep. 26. with the inclosed for mr Correa . he & D r Cooper had left us in the morning, & going direct to Philadelphia , I cannot dispose of it better than by returning it to you. I rec d also last night a letter from mr Cathalan , acknoleging the remittance of 2205.ƒ = 420.D.
27Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 24 April 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 16 th with the seal safe. I would indeed much rather have recieved it from the hands of mr Correa . if he is still with you, pray tell him so, and further that my journey to Bedford is postponed indefinitely and that therefore I shall be happy to recieve him at his own convenience. you ask an explanation of our seal. the engraving in the field is a...
28Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 8 March 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
By a letter from Doctor Cooper of the 10 th ult. from Columbia he desires me to communicate to you, for the information of mrs Cooper , some things relative to his concerns with us. The pavilion intended for him is finished except as to being plaistered and painted. for the 1 st of these operations we must allow to the end of this month on account of the uncertainty of the season. the house...
29Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 11 June 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
The season is come for paying you my respects of annual trouble. I have occasion to remit to mess rs Dodge and Oxnard of Marseilles for wines E t c the sum of 180.D. clear of exchange. I now desire my friend & correspondent at Richmond Col o Bernard Peyton to remit to you that sum with whatever addition may be necessary on account of exchange. if mr Girard indulges us as usual with his bill,...
30Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 7 December 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday from mr Appleton of Leghorn a letter of Aug. 26. in which he says ‘ your letter of Apr. 4. was accompanied by one from mr John Vaughan , mentioning that he then inclosed a bill of exchange by S. Girard on Lafitte & co. Paris for francs 2415. ₶ but no such bill was found therein by me.’ he has probably written the same to you, and I have no doubt the inadvertence has been...
31Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 28 May 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
The season for procuring from Europe my annual supplies of books & wines being now come round, I desired my friend , mr Gibson of Richmond , to place in your hands 800.D. to be remitted to Paris . he replied to me that to get in Richmond a bill on Philadelphia was impossible, and that he had written on to you to request that you would draw on him for that sum. in some way I hope therefore the...
32Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 8 April 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 24. was recieved on the 31 st . the acquaintance I had the pleasure of forming with mr Vanuxem while he favored me with a visit gave me a high sense of his merit and qualifications. in addition to this your recommendation, that of mr Duponceau & of D r Cooper place him on high ground. but I fear we are yet far from the time at which we may think of special professors. our...
33Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 13 July 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I informed you some time ago that I should desire mr Gibson to remit you a sum of about 650.D. to be transmitted to Leghorn , and Marseilles . yet it was not till the 1 st of June I could place in his hands the sum of 444.D. (for which your’s of June 23. informs me you have drawn on him) nor till this day that I have been enabled to provide the further sum of 200.D. this I have done by...
34Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 12 March 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Two days after mine of the 8 th your’s of the 3 d came to hand. that will have informed you of every thing relative to D r Cooper , and particularly that we should be ready to pay him the 1500.D. the 1 st of May , the I herein committed a mistake, for I should have said 750.D. in his letter of Oct. 25. 19.
35From Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 16 September 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I am not able to give you any particular account of the paper handed you by mr Lee, as being either the original, or a copy of the declaration of Independence, sent by myself to his grand father. the draught when compleated by myself, with a few verbal amendments, by D r Franklin and mr Adams, two members of the Committee, in their own hand writing, is now in my own possession, and a fair copy...
36Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 19 April 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
The revolving year brings with it my annual tax on your goodness. I write this day to capt Bernard Peyton , my correspondent in Richmond to remit to you 300 Dollars, of which I pray you to place in Paris , 100.D. to the order of Mess rs DeBures et freres libraires
37Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 29 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letters of May 24. 27. & June 19. have been recieved in due time: and in the last came quadruplicates of the remittances you have been so kind as to make for me. as I shall have to replace some balance to you, permit me to add a little domestic article to it, to wit a small box of Vanilla, which I was always able to find in Philadelphia but is not to be had here. in Paris & Philada I...
38From Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 27 August 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
In May or June 1821. you were so kind as to remit for me in mr Girards bills 200.D. to Dodge of Marseilles and 100.D. to Debures libraries of Paris. the former has credited me the 200.D. as recieved Sep. 21. 21. the Debures wrote me Aug. 24. 21. that they had not yet recieved the 100.D. remitted them. I have no doubt they recieved it soon after the date of their letter; but they have never...
39Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 12 April 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just recieved a letter from mr Dodge which will save you the trouble of answering the paragraph in mine of the 8 th respecting him. affectionately yours PoC ( MiU-C : Thomas Jefferson Collection); on verso of reused address cover to TJ; at foot of text: “ M r Vaughan ”; endorsed by TJ. TJ received Joshua Dodge ’s
40Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 18 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the receipt of your favors of Jan. 22. & Feb. 12. with expressions of my deep felt grief at the deplorable loss of D r Wistar . altho Philadelphia possesses a large stock of worth and science, yet such a loss would make a sensible void in any city whatever. the continuation of his weekly assemblages of the science of the place is well worthy of your attention. after a dilig...
41Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 3 September 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
We have in our employ at the University two Italian sculptors , whom we imported the last spring from Leghorn thro’ the friendly agency of mr Appleton . they request that 300.D. may be remitted to him for their wives whom they have left there. I have accordingly instructed our Proctor ( A. S. Brockenbrough ) to place that sum in your hands, and I have to ask the favor of you to remit it to mr...
42From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn, 11 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Col o Bernard Peyton, the bearer of this letter is my friend and Correspondent of Richmond, where he has been established for some years a Commission merchant, and with good success. of this he is entirely worthy, enjoying the general confidence and esteem of his countrymen, for his great punctuality and integrity. proposing to take a trip Northwardly with views of enlarging his business, I...
43From Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 24 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
My grandson, Th: Jefferson Randolph, the bearer of this letter, on a journey to the North, will pass perhaps a few days in Philadelphia. I cannot permit him to do this without presenting him to you, a friend of another century, and to whom my affections are bound by so many kind offices. he goes on a business of which you have seen much mention in the public papers. age and ill health having...
44Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 6 January 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I have a great desire to send to mr Botta of Paris a copy of his best of all our histories of the revolution, as translated by mr Otis . the difficulty is to get it to him without it’s passing thro’ the French post office, which would tax him beyond it’s cost. this can be done only thro’ a passenge r and I think it must be a gratification to any passenger to deliver it to him in person, & I...
45John Vaughan to Thomas Jefferson, 11 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
My young friend M Lardner Vanuxem accompanis accompanies M Cooper , & will also be mentioned to you by M Correa —It would seem a work of supererrogation to add my recommendati o n to theirs— But having for a Series of years been
46John Vaughan to Thomas Jefferson, 24 March 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Great pains has been taken in our City of late Years, to induce some of our Young men of good Education & promising Talents, to go to Europe after havg finished their Studies here; to qualify themselves in the higher Branches, to bring home an accession of knowledge, & to impart it to their Country in the Station of Professors—Situation too often filled, from the Interest of personal friends,...
47John Vaughan to Thomas Jefferson, 12 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of enclosing a list of queries which Judge Tilghman has handed to me—Many of these are local—but if to any of them you can give a reply which may assist him in the Task he has undertaken & enable him to do the Justice he wishes to our Deceased friend ( whose loss we every day feel more & more) it is very desireable—
48John Vaughan to Thomas Jefferson, 29 April 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I am gratified by the receipt of your favor of 24 th The Seal is elegant simple & Classical & I cannot doubt the superior success of an institution So liberally planned; I hope the jealousy of those who are disappointed because the managem t is not given to them will be perfectly harmless—altho’ I Suppose those attached to W m & Mary , will try to give importance to their efforts I have...
49John Vaughan to Thomas Jefferson, 19 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I have purchased of m r S Girard three Bills of Exchange on James Lafitte & C o 16 June at 60 days S t N o 400 order Thomas appleton 2362 .50 450 $ 401.
50John Vaughan to Thomas Jefferson, 3 March 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I am your Debtor on the Score of Correspondence & hope you will accept my apology— The Vanilla I could not procure Your letter for M Dodge was forwarded & I have his reply—Your wines he Sent to adress of our Collector who enterd & will forward same—I offerd to pay expences which he declin’d recieving without an order to that purpose from you— They have r only recievd a few Days on acc t of the...