1To James Madison from Augustin Thierry, 12 January 1817 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Augustin Thierry. 12 January 1817, Washington City. “M. Thierry aura l’honneur de se rendre Jeudi prochain à l’invitation de Mr. et Mde. Madison. “Il les prie d’agréer l’homage de son profond respect.” [Mr. Thierry will do himself the honor of complying with the invitation of Mr. and Mrs. Madison for next Thursday.] RC ( NNC-RB : Schaefler Collection). 1 p.
2Andrew Jackson to John Payne Todd, 12 January 1817 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ Andrew Jackson to John Payne Todd. 12 January 1817, Nashville. His friend Maj. John H. Eaton is en route to Philadelphia to oversee the publication of a work commenced by Capt. Reid (deceased). Requests that Eaton be introduced to JM “for whose private charector he has a great respect.” RC ( NHi ). 1 p. Jackson referred to The Life of Andrew Jackson, Major General in the Service of the...
3Charles Thomson to Thomas Jefferson, [by 7 January 1817] (Jefferson Papers)
I received your letter of January last when I was under a paralytic stroke but not Sensible of it. I felt no acute pain, and my Sight was as usual. I could read without spectacles but could not comprehend what I read, nor its connextion with what preceded or followed. I read your letter and was pleased. I made sundry attempts to answer it but in vain, and what at last I sent as an answer , I...
4Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 12 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour of 1 st inst is now before me. With the nature & object of the petition you allude to, I was already acquainted from having received an explanatory letter from your grandson , covering a copy of the remonstrance. I had also conversed as well with him as with m r maury . I advised m r maury without delay to have an interview with his colleague , and to endeavor to obtain his...
5Isaac H. Tiffany to Thomas Jefferson, [received 12 January 1817] (Jefferson Papers)
If a sense of error can attone for the length of my last , it is fully acknowledged. With intent to do some good in the little circle of my exeri exertions , the enclosed scheme to awaken a spirit of enquiry & action, by enabling every man to become known & useful, is drawn up. And I have ventured to invite your perusal & correction of it, if you may think it worthy of a moment’s leisure. The...
6Enclosure: Isaac H. Tiffany’s Plan for an Institute in Schoharie County, New York, [before 12 January 1817] (Jefferson Papers)
The Institute of the County of Schoharie is composed of a President 2 Vice President s , Senate and five Committees Objects Committee of Religion and Morality N o of Ministers, Churches, and Religious Meetings, State of Social Intercourse— t T o promote Charity of Opinion—Obedience to Parents, reverence to Age and respect for the Laws, to direct taste in sports