1To James Madison from Elizabeth Parke Custis, 6 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
In this quiet place where I came to attend the sickbed of a relation, I address once more my Dear & Honrd friend Mr. Madison with almost ruin’d health, & a mind long harass’d by deep affliction, few causes could induce me to intrude upon your time, but friendships sacred claims impel me to do so, & I trust to your oft experienced kindness for my excuse. You possess the enviable power to serve...
2To James Madison from Alexander J. Dallas, 6 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
The Petition of Cap. John Hazelton is respectfully submitted to the President. The authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to remit fines, penalties, and forfietures, is confined to cases, in which there is neither wilful negligence, nor an intentional fraud. The statement of the District Judge presents a case of wilful negligence, at least. But the President can pardon the offence, and...
3Thomas Jefferson’s Title and Prospectus for Destutt de Tracy’s Treatise on Political Economy, [ca. 6 April 1816] (Jefferson Papers)
Title. ‘A Treatise on Political Economy by the Count Destutt-Tracy , member of the Senate and Institute of France , and of the American Philosophical society , to which is prefixed a Supplement to a preceding work on the Understanding, or Elements of Ideology, by the same author, with an Analytical table, and an Introduction on the faculty of the will, translated from the unpublished French...
4Thomas Jefferson’s Note for Destutt de Tracy’s Treatise on Political Economy, [ca. 6 April 1816] (Jefferson Papers)
A Note communicated to the Editor. Our author’s classification of taxes being taken from those practised in France , will scarcely be intelligible to an American reader, to whom the nature as well as names of some of them must be unknown. the taxes with which we are familiar class themselves readily according to the bases on which they rest. 1. Capital. 2. Income. 3. Consumption. these may be...
5William McIlhenney to Thomas Jefferson, 6 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of submitting to your consideration some remarks on perception, which altho’ they throw no light on that mysterious faculty may tend to shew the errors which arise from the use of indefinite terms. I particular l y allude to the use of the word image in explaining vision . I shall remark that our knowledge of each of the senses is alike limited, and when rigidly examined...
6Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 6 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 6. did not come to hand until the 15 th . I then expected I should finish revising the translation of Tracy ’s book within a week, and could send the whole together. I got thro’ it, but on further consideration thought I ought to read it over again, lest any errors should have been left in it. it was fortunate I did so, for I found several little errors. the whole is now...
7Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 6 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have really placed myself in a very mortifying situation before you with respect to Tracy ’s book. I shall state the case. when I recieved information from mr Duane that he could not print it, mr Millegan of Georgetown happened to be here. I proposed to him to undertake it, and promised, if he would, that I would revise the translation. he agreed to it, and the more readily as he said Duane...
8Jesse Torrey to Thomas Jefferson, 6 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
In compliance with an intention *The object of carrying this intention into effect, by communicating with you personally on the subject, formed a great share of the inducements which led me to visit your residence at Monticello , in August last. But from your having declined an investigation of the physiological problems, which I proposed to suggest, and from your being under an engagement to...
9John Wood to Thomas Jefferson, 6 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your favour of the 1 st instant yesterday in Petersburg ; and I beg leave to return my sincere thanks for the favourable opinion you are pleased to express of my qualifications. Having had occasion to come to Richmond to day, I waited upon the Governor in order to receive some information in regard to the contemplated survey of Virginia. The Governor informed me, that it is the...