Your Sister informs me my dear Thomas that you are preparing to enter College in the Month of August next and the information give me so much pleasure I write to tell you how much I am gratified as it convinces me that you have been industrious and laudably ambitious to perfect your advantages in the completion of your education. There is but little passing among us that can afford topics of...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 19 June 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of May 16. came duly to hand. I had before heard of the accident which had happened to you, on your return from Washington, & could the more feeling ly sympathise with your sufferings, as having some two or three years ago, experienced also the pain of a fractured arm and dislocated wrist, at a more advanced age too when these accidents are slow in recovery. your letter relieved me...
3To Thomas Jefferson from John V. Kean, 19 June 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
There arrived here Friday, 3 boxes of Books from Hamburg amounting in all to 5 or 600 Vols wholly German; I presume your health would not allow it, if you felt inclined to undertake the labour of arranging them—Dr. Blætterman has commenced & will complete it. Shall the se works be arranged, under the chapters to which they belong, on the shelves with the old set; or be kept separate untill...