1Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 27 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 7 th was recieved in due time. mr Perry is entitled to what we agreed to, not to what he proposed . we agreed that Gen l Cocke ’s bargain with Whately should be ours. that was that he was to find all and do all for 11 ¼
2Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, [after 27 June 1819] (Jefferson Papers)
Palladio ’s measures of the Fortuna virilis are not in Modules & minutes but in quarter inches of the Vicentine foot , this the diameter of the column being 2 f–8 ½ I or 130 quarter inches which he calls minutes. then 130 ¼ I : 60′ :: 95 ¼ I his projection to 43′ 17 20
3Thomas Jefferson to John L. Meredith, 27 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I cannot hesitate a moment in advising you to proceed in the work described to me in your letter of May 14. to obtain a compleat history of the human animal we should enquire into the habits of man and the condition of his mind under all the various forms of society in which he is found. that of the American Indian before his intercourse with the whites was a remarkable one. the shade which...
4Thomas Jefferson to William Wirt, 27 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
My letters of Jan. 5. and Nov. 10. of the last year had informed you generally that Gen l Kosciuzko had left a considerable sum of money in the funds of the US. and had, by a will deposited in my hands, disposed of i t to a charitable purpose: & I asked the favor of your opinion in what court the will should be proved. according to that opinion, expressed in your favor of Dec. 28. I proved the...
5Thomas Jefferson to Nicholas H. Lewis, 27 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson left with mr Davenport yesterday a notice directed to mr Lewis of taking the deposition of John Coles at Fitch ’s tavern in Milton between 9. & 11. aclock tomorrow morning. he hopes mr Lewis recieved the two copies, and that he will be so good as to return one of them by the bearer, with the acknolegement. he salutes him with friendship & respect. RC ( NIC : bound in at p. 10 of...
6Thomas Jefferson to Vine Utley, 27 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 10 th is recieved. I hope your predictions as to my longevity are not to prove true. in youth & health with all the avenues to the enjoiments of life open, it’s pleasures over-weigh it’s pains: but weak and decaying, our faculties leaving us one by one, the cares of life hanging on us, and it’s comforts gone, the balance shifts into the other scale. to me an increasing...
7From James Madison to John Quincy Adams, 27 June 1819 (Madison Papers)
I return the list of yeas & nays in the Convention, with the blanks filled, according to your request, as far as I could do it by tracing the order of the yeas & nays, and their co-incidences with those belonging to successive questions in my papers. In some instances, the yeas & nays in the list, corresponding with those on more questions than one, did not designate the particular question on...