3741James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, 9 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Sometime ago you intimated to me a desire to dispose of a small tract of land, which you have between mr Alexander s & my land lying below the Blenhims tract. As this is detatched from your other lands, it is probable, that you may still be desirous of parting from it, and that it may fall into other hands, [which I should regret] without an arrangment between us. If my impression is correct,...
3742Archibald Stuart to Thomas Jefferson, 8 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I presume you have seen M r Wirt’s Sketches of the life of Patrick Henry ; and that he denies M r H. favored the project of Establishing a Dictator during the revolutionary War.—Even doubts respecting events of such recent date tend greatly to impair the credit of History.—There are many now living who witnessed the part M r Henry took on that subject.— After the Assembly was dispersed at...
3743Stephen Cathalan to Thomas Jefferson, 7 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Poinsot , now at Cette , Recommended to me, by a Relation of mine, M r J s Cathalan of Marseillan , has Requested me to Send him a Letter in his Behalf addressed by me to you, & to be Forwarded by him Self; (by 2 ta
3744Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 3 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
M. Correa and I will set out about the 16 th . He will have to stay 2 or 3 days in Washington : we then set off for your Place. In mean time, I think the present opportunity afforded us by Hare ’s election ought not to be lost; but the moment should be taken to appeal to the Parents in Virginia , on the strange infatuation of sending their children to be educated here, when they could have...
3745James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, 3 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
mr Poinsett , whose name & character are I presume well known to you will have the pleasure of giving you this introduction. He was employd very usefully in S o America , several years, under mr Madison , & had previously travelled thro’ most of the European countries & particularly Russia , by whose Sovereign he was known, & treated with much attention. I expected to have presented him...
3746Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 2 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
W d it not be well to get some thing like the inclosed inserted in the papers of Virginia , Kentucky , & Carolina , with a set of queries whe r this is not the time to ascertain if students cannot be taught medecine in Virginia by Virginians, as well as in Phila a by Virginians? Whe r the morals as well as the studies, and the expences also, of the sons of virginia planters, could not be as...
3747Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 1 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Hare was elected to the chemical Chair of this University to day: Hare 10. Cooper 7. Patterson 3. On a second vote the three for D r Patterson came over to Hare . I have therefore lost no reputation, it being generally understood that the family influence of M
3748Robert Miller (1775–1861) to Thomas Jefferson, 1 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I Take the Libberty of Enclosing for your inspection, a few Heads of a Subject I have been Employ’d in for Some Months. I cannot Suppose it is Strange to you, but certainly it is to myself. chance and a Little spare time has Enabled me to Go a Length that Alarms myself. Yet I Should think the pursuit of Knowledge and Truth Should not be Laid asside, meerly to please the caprices of Self Styl’d...
3749Richard Claiborne to Thomas Jefferson, 29 [August] 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Within 2 or 3 days of each other, I received your friendly favor of the 10 th of May last , and one from the Marquis De Lafayette . Such a working of feelings as took place within my breast, at the occurrence, you may very well imagine. Reflecting too that we were among the few remaining characters of old revolutionary times, I was filled with a serious degree of melancholy. But providence...
3750William D. Simms to Thomas Jefferson, 28 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
In the absence of the Collector, I have the honor to address you, with the information, that I have shipped (via Norfolk ) nine Boxes of wine and on e Bale of Macaroni, to the care of M r Gibson at Richmond .— Below is a note of the duties and charges which I have paid. Am t of Duty on wine 8 Bottles