1From John Adams to Joseph Milligan, 31 December 1818 (Adams Papers)
I know not how to express my obligation to you for the repeated presents of beautiful books the proof of Mr Jeffersons Convalescence was more precious to me than all the rest I had indeed before received a most excellent letter from his own hand which convinced me that his health might be restored but the spirit which dictated the resolution to mount the sovereign Doctor Horse convinced me...
2To James Madison from Jacob Brown, [31 December] 1818 (Madison Papers)
I have received your friendly letter of Novm: 7th. for which I beg you to accept my thanks. The pursuits of agriculture, in which I was brought up, have ever been my favorite employment; and I look forward with great satisfaction to the time when they will engage my sole attention. The institution of the agricultural society of this county was an object which I had much at heart; and I feel...
3Thomas Jefferson to William Radford and Joel Yancey, 31 December 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I agreed the last winter with mr Matthew Brown of Lynchburg for the execution of certain brickwork at the Central College , for which he was to be paid the price at which similar work should be done in Lynchburg this present year 1818. that price is now to be settled, and as all the evidence on the subject must be found in Lynchburg or it’s neighborhood, to which place I shall not be able to...
4Thomas Jefferson to George H. Richards, 31 December 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Age and declining health having rendered me unequal to the labors of letter-writing, I can make but a short acknolegement of the obliging propositions of your letter of the 15 th . in the various stations in which the public have thought proper to require my services, I have endeavored to discharge my duty with care and integrity. but I have seen thousands of my fellow citizens serving in...
5Thomas Jefferson to James Riley, 31 December 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
The correspondence which mr Simpson mentions having commenced with me in Feb. 1793. while Secretary of state must have closed at the end of the same year, when I retired from that office. of it’s particulars I have no recollection: but they are certainly to be found in the office of state. from 1801 . to Mar. 1809 . the conduct of mr Simpson , as Consul at Marocco , was of course under my...