1Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 30 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you two draughts on mr Gibson , the one in favor of mr Woods for 174.70 and the other in favor of yourself for 63.85 this last is to enable you to pay 48.85 to mr Maupin and 15.D. to mr Stout . the two former sums include interest from last court. I am afraid it may not be convenient to mr Lietch to advance money for these draughts, and that it is merely an accomodation to me that he...
2Thomas Jefferson to Allen Bernard, 30 July [1818] (Jefferson Papers)
The Commissioners for the University of Virginia being to meet at your tavern the day after tomorrow (Saturday) I propose to be with you tomorrow evening (Friday) the bearer, with my baggage will be with you some hours before. as I supposed you might find it difficult to provide beds for so many, I and it was convenient to me to send a mattrass & trussels for myself, I have done so, preferring...
3Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 30 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
my letter of yesterday had gone off, and the draughts therein mentioned had been delivered out of my hands, and I was in the moment of setting out for Rockfish gap , when your letter of the 27 th with the notification from the bank of the US. came to hand. that notification is really like a clap of thunder to me, for god knows I have no means in this world of raising money on so sudden a call;...
4Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 30 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you by my brother William , the signatures of the majority of the subscribers to the funds of the Central College in Nelson County to the deed of conveyance of the property of the College to the Commonwealth on the condition of the location of the University at the Scite of the College . I have met with the ready assent of every subscriber to whom I have yet presented the paper; & I am...
5From James Madison to Dolley Payne Madison, [30 July] 1818 (Madison Papers)
We arrived here about half an hour by sun. We had a hot ride, but have not suffered from it. The ladies enquired affectionately after you, and recd. the message with which you charged me. None of the deputies were with Mr. Jefferson. We set out this forenoon for Mr. Divers, with whom we shall dine & pass the night, and tomorrow morning proceed for Rockfish Gap. I fear I shall not have an...
6To James Madison from Richard Peters, 30 July 1818 (Madison Papers)
I very thankfully acknowledge the Receipt, yesterday, of your very entertaining & apposite Address to your Agricultural Society. It is well calculated for your Auditory; & would be so for any other. But peculiarly for Virginia Gentlemen Farmers; who must have mental Amusement, mixed with practical Instruction. And you have done great Justice to your Subject in both Respects. I am very much...
7Thomas Jefferson to Charles Simms, 30 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I this moment recieve from M r Cathalan of Marseilles information that he has shipped for me on board the ship Fair trader G. Fletcher master 8. boxes of claret & a basket of Maccaroni, & that the ship is bound to Alexandria . being in the moment of departure on a journey to be absent a month, I take the liberty of requesting that these things may in the mean time be forwarded to mr Gibson
8From John Adams to William Tudor, Sr., 30 July 1818 (Adams Papers)
Another Passage, which Mr Otis read from Ashley gave Occasion, as I suppose, to another memorable and very curious Event, which your esteemed Pupil and my beloved Friend Judge Minot has recorded. The Passage is in the 42 page. “In fine, I would humbly propose that the duties, on foreign Sugar and Rum imposed by the before mentioned Act, of the 6th of King George the Second, remain as they are,...