I received your Letter my Dear Charles yesterday Eveng. and hasten to answer it from the apprehension that some expressions in your Letter indicate a sort of temper to the Col Tutors which may become dangerous although at this moment it may be harmless—Words of strong signification brought into familiar use frequently I believe produce effects which we have no idea of while using them and...
I am very sorry my Dear George that you should have received so much pain from my Letter as it was only intended to remind you that family intercourse might be punctually and affectionately sustained in the midst of the most active and severe duties more especially if it is actuated by a spontaneous affection of the heart—Your father was sorry as well as myself that so slight a censure should...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Sigourney, 15 August 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of July 30. has been duly recieved, and with pleasure, there being nothing of which I am more desirous than to see a spirit of cordial fraternity cultivated among the various seminaries of our country. their only legitimate object is the extension of instruction among our fellow-citizens, towards which it matters nothing whether it flows from one place or another. our’s has not yet...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Henry V. Somerville, 15 August 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
It is impossible, Sir, you could have appealed to a worse chronicle than my memory for an answer to the enquiries of your letter of the 5 th inst. it is all but a blank. yet I will endeavor to give you the best of it’s efforts. mr John Q. Adams was a member of the Senate during a part of the term I served as V. President in that body. about the middle of the term (I think) he went Minister to...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Ira H. Taylor, 15 August 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Believing that you take a deep interest in knowing the state, and success of the colleges throughout the U.S.A. and especially that which is indebted to you for its existence, and which bears your name. I take the liberty of sending you a cataloge of its officers and students— NB Any communication from you will ever be received with gratitude— MoSHi : Thomas Jefferson Collection (formerly Bixby).
6Jefferson College: Catalogue of officers and students, 15 Aug. 1824, enclosed in Ira H. Taylor to Thomas Jefferson, 15 … (Jefferson Papers)
CATALOGUE of the OFFICERS AND STUDENTS of JEFFERSON COLLEGE, Canonsburg, Pa. BOARD OF TRUSTEES . Rev. Samuel Ralston, D. D. President, Rev. William Swan, Gen John Hamilton, James Kerr, Esq. Rev. James Ramsey, Craig Ritchie, Esq. Andrew Munro, Esq. Rev. Francis Herron, D. D. Rev. Robert Johnson, Samuel Logan, Esq.
7From Thomas Jefferson to George Ticknor, 15 August 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor fo July 26. has been recieved, and with it the prospectus of the Northampton school. this will certainly prove a great blessing to the individuals who can obtain access to it. the only ground of regret is the small extent of it’s scale, in the few who can share it’s advantages it will lay a solid foundn of virtue as well of learning. but leaving it at the age of 13. they will still...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas G. Watkins, 15 August 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Always feeling with gratitude the recollection of your kindness to me personally, and reluctant that separation shou’d sever all association between us I am constrained occasionally to remind you of my continued existence and affection—and although I am sensible that the oppression of your numerous correspondents makes the sight of a letter in general operate like a torpedo on the hydrophobia...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Willis White, 15 August 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I must beg to be excused from writing the prospectus for your edn of Thomas’s Co Littleton. I have made it a point never to be the recommender of books to the public. it would be presumption in any case but especially in that of a book addressed to a learned profession as that of the law so entirely capable of judging for themselves . I suggested, at your request, this book as one the ability...