1To Thomas Jefferson from Green Clay, 4 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I hardly Expect you recollect me, I am the Brother of Parson Charles Clay once of albemarle C o I went out with a Troop of light horse to the Northward in company with your Brother Randolph: in 177.8. from your house. The object of this letter is to enquire of you if you have a knowledge or recollection of any Treaty made with the Cherokee Indians which was in force in 1779 at the opening of...
2To Thomas Jefferson from William Branch Giles, 4 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
This letter will probably be presented to you by my son, M r Thomas T. Giles, whom with some of his college companions, I beg leave to introduce to your acquaintance. These young Gentlemen, propose to make a rambling visit to your university on foot; and they cannot reconcile it to their feelings, to pass so near to your residence, as the university, without presenting their respects to you,...
3To Thomas Jefferson from John Thomson Mason, 4 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr José A. Miralla, a distinguished South American patriot, wishes to see & know you—the great apostle of liberty. An enlightened foreigner, seeking in our country a knowledge of our free institutions and collecting maxims of political Science from our wisest Statesmen, has a passport to the good feelings & kind offices of every patriot & philanthropist. With you he will want no other...
4From Thomas Jefferson to James Westwood Wallace, 4 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Your frdly lre of Apr. 25 t was duly rec d and altho so much a cripple in both my wrists as to make writing slow & painfull I cannot resist the impulse of the spirit to acknolege it’s res t the degencracy of man, its interesting subject is still a most question , but if a fail I do not think it is on this side the Atlantic we are to seek it. were Buffon alive the holy alliance would point it...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas G. Watkins, 4 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been much rejoiced to hear from a friend in your vicinity that your general health has continued good and the amendment of your arm progressive, and although I have much reason to believe and indeed to know that your correspondents are already too numerous for your comfort, I must not resist the desire I feel to tell you, how sincerely I pray, that, God may continue to you the blessings...