4371To James Madison from George Ticknor, 29 March 1825 (Madison Papers)
Ever since Mrs. Ticknor & myself reached home about a month ago, we have been desirous to send yourself and Mrs. Madison some expression of our gratitude for the kindness you showed us, while we were in Virginia. Different circumstances have prevented us from doing this earlier; but, chiefly because I have not earlier obtained a copy of a remarkably happy engraving of General Lafayette, which...
4372From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Pendleton Barbour, 29 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
In your favor of the 12 th inst. I observe an expression which did not strike me at the time, nor indeed till it occurred to my recolltn yesterday it seemed to open the way for a proposition from us which has not been made. it presents the idea of a possibility that at the end of the year you might make an election in favor of our Professorship of law in preference to the office you hold . if...
4373To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Everett, 29 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
By order of the Standing Committee of the Bunker Hill Monument Association, I beg leave to inform you, that you were this day elected an honorary member of that institution. Its object is, by the erection of a permanent monument, to commemorate an event highly interesting in its consequences to the cause of American freedom. Should it, as is hoped, be agreeable to you to be thus united with...
4374From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 29 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Not knowing whether you may have obtained mr Barber’s acceptance in the visit you proposed, I have thought of a proposition which it has been suggested to me would reconcile him to our offer. if therefore he has not accepted that of joining us at the end of his first circuit, and you would approve of giving him a year on his assurance that he will then accept, be so good as to forward him the...
4375To Thomas Jefferson from William Turpin, 29 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
among the Numerous papers Sent to me from the friends of humanity both in England, and US, was one Containing Copy of your Letter dated August 25 th 1814, to Edward Coles Secretary to the president, in which you highly Approve his principle in fav r of the oppressed Affricans, and “Recommend to him as a Young man to persevere until Complete emansipation Shall be Affected, excusing yourself as...
4376To John Adams from Ward Nicholas Boylston, 28 March 1825 (Adams Papers)
Your kind letter just rec’d is a Cordial to my spirits, in the lengthend days of my confinement to a sick room since the 22d of last January, without any exercise but that of patience, under pain and debility, or even a Rocking Chair to give releif— I am now convalesing, tho’ at one time I apprehended from the attack being similar, I was soon to follow Govr Eustis & Gen Brooks—& a multitude of...
4377From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 28 March 1825 (Madison Papers)
I saw Col. Barbour yesterday, as I intended. He remains decided agst. relinquishing his Judgship without a previous experiment of the Chair in the University. He feels evidently a strong attraction towards it; and I think a growing one. It is quite possible that the experiment he is making of his Judicial duties, carrying him as they will beyond the Mountains, will diminish his preference of...
4378From James Madison to Alexander Scott, 28 March 1825 (Madison Papers)
I have reccd. your letter of the 24th. inclosing copies of letters from President Monroe Judge Washington, & Mr. Wirt. Having for a considerable time past, found it necessary to adopt the general rule of declining all interposition in cases of appointment to office, more especially where I could offer no evidence of claims or qualifications not attainable from others more capable of speaking...
4379To Thomas Jefferson from Philip Pendleton Barbour, 28 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your letter of the 21 st inst. and hasten to answer it, before my departure for my Judicial circuit. At the time when I submitted the proposition which I did, I had not seen the regulations of the University. I certainly would not wish any course to be taken, which might affect it’s prosperity, for I feel the deepest interest in it’s complete success; and had I considered the...
4380To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Addis Emmet, 28 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The object of this letter will I trust be, in your eyes, an apology for the intrusion I am committing. The college in your neighbourhood, of which you are I understand the most efficient prop, has been pleased to designate my son Doctor John P. Emmet as the Professor of Chemistry &c, & he is now about to proceed to the college, & undertake the duties of his office. It is an object very near my...
4381To Thomas Jefferson from M.D. Hill, 28 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
With this letter you will receive a copy of a little work of mine on Education, which I learn from Miss Wright you have expressed a wish to see—Your least desire would be received by me as a command. for though my lot has been cast under a monarchy I am a warm admirer of republican Institutions, & I feel that in common with all mankind I owe the founders of the American Constitution a debt of...
4382To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 28 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I saw Col. Barbour yesterday, as I intended. He remains decided ag st relinquishing his Judgeship without a previous experiment of the chair in the University. He feels evidently a strong attraction towards it; and I think a growing one. It is quite possible that the experiment he is making of his Judicial duties, carrying him as they will beyond the Mountains, will diminish his preference of...
4383To Thomas Jefferson from George Ticknor, 28 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Ever since my return from the South, I have borne in mind your desire to have a list of the principal German works in literary History and of the best of their belles-lettres writers. The lists were easily made out; but there was some difficulty in obtaining the prices of each. This difficulty, however, I have at last overcome, & I now inclose the two lists, with, I believe, the exact cost of...
4384To John Adams from Ward Nicholas Boylston, 27 March 1825 (Adams Papers)
I rejoice to hear you are in better health than when I left you on Sunday Evg and earnestly hope that your approaching birth day will give a promise of greater improvement—I count with impatience the pleasure we have promised ourselves of finding our hopes confirmd— Yesterday my Nephew my Sisters only Son arrived from England by the way of Canada—with your leave, we shall bring him to pay his...
4385From Thomas Jefferson to John H. Nash, 27 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I am a subscriber to the N. American review and understand you are agent for that work in Richmond. it will be more convenient for me to have it furnished from that place because payment there is easier made. I shall be glad therefore to recieve it from you and this letter presented to Col o Bernard Peyton my correspdt of Richmond will ensure your recieving payment for him on my account, once...
4386From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 26 March 1825 (Madison Papers)
I recd. some days ago yours of Mar. 10. The last Mail brought me that of Mar. 22. inclosing the letter of Col. Barbour & your answer, both of which I return. If you have not satisfied him of the value of your proposition, he must at least be convinced of the unreasonableness of his own. I have not yet seen him since I recd. your letter requesting me to do so, having been confined by a very bad...
4387From James Madison to Mary Randolph, 26 March 1825 (Madison Papers)
The copy of your little Volume accompanying your letter of the 17th. instant, came duly to hand; & I am very sensible of the politeness to which I owe the favor. Of the value of its precepts on paper I cannot undertake to judge: when reduced to practice on the table, the question will be less beyond my pretentions. But altho’ I cannot decide on the merit of the Author by the book, it is a case...
4388To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 26 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I rec d some days ago yours of Mar. 10. The last mail brought me that of Mar 22. inclosing the letter of Col. Barbour & your answer, both of which I return. If you have not satisfied him of the value of your proposition, he must at least be convinced of the unreasonableness of his own. I have not yet seen him since I rec d your letter requesting me to do so, having been confined by a very bad...
4389To Thomas Jefferson from John Patterson, 26 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 22 d Ins t found me in town & I applied immediately to the friend of Professor Pattison for the information you asked for. The Atonomical Museum was purchased by the Faculty of the Medical college at Balt o for $8000, & it was previously valued to that amount by two of the most eminent physicians of the City, neither of them being connected with the institution. The...
4390To James Madison from Augustus B. Woodward, 25 March 1825 (Madison Papers)
Allow me to present my acknowledgments for your obliging letter of September 11. 1824; which I had the happiness of receiving at St. Marks, in Florida. The principle, on which is founded the proposition of a standard of measure, in the memorial to the Senate, is at once so novel, and so simple, as to require time to admit its recognition. When the abstract verity of the principle is...
4391To Thomas Jefferson from Richard Emmons, 25 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Some years since, I sent you some crude poetry: I now transmit three numbers of my political essays. The Judges in this State seem determined to to turn us all out of doors and to fatten on the spoils.—In the communications which I send you, you will perceive that I have endeavour’d to unite wit and argument against them and their supporters. I have made use of your name to give dignity to my...
4392To Thomas Jefferson from William F. Gray, 25 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the pleasure of acknowledging the reciept of your favour of the 16 th Inst.—I also duly recieved, through the hands of Col. B. Peyton, $15.25 in full of your a/c. I regret your determination to recieve your Ed bg Reviews in future from Richmond. The payments heretofore made me and the manner of them have been perfectly satisfactory. Intending to pay particular attention to the...
4393From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Livingston, 25 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I know how apt we are to consider those whom we knew long ago, and have not since seen, to be exactly still what they were when we knew them; and to have been stationary in body and mind as they have been in our recollections. have you not been under that illusion with respect to myself? when I had the pleasure of being a fellow-laborer with you in the public service, age had ripened, but not...
4394To Thomas Jefferson from Augustus Elias Brevoort Woodward, 25 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to enclose a fac-simile copy of a letter received from President Madison. He corrects an error into which he conceives I have fallen in ascribing to you the first modern written constitution. President Monroe, who carefully compared the constitution of Virginia with other documents known to have proceeded from your pen, was originally of opinion that my statement was...
4395From James Madison to James Brown Jr., 24 March 1825 (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd with your letter of the 19th. inst, a copy of the 9th. annual report of the proceedings of the Board of pub: Works, forwarded by Direction of the Board: for which you will be pleased to offer my respectful acknowledgments & thanks. With friendly respects. Draft ( PHi ). Incorrectly dated; conjectural year assigned based on the date of the report (see n. 2 below) and a similar...
4396To James Madison from Alexander Scott, 24 March 1825 (Madison Papers)
I am still unfortunately an applicant for office, and very reluctantly troublesome to my friends. In my appointment to Pensacola I was disappointed; the place not only being destitute of commerce, but there being no chance of improvement. The sterility of the neighbourhood and want of a back country are insuperable obstacles to its prosperity. Previous to Mr Monroe’s leaving Washington he sent...
4397To Thomas Jefferson from James Barbour, 24 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The Military Academy at West Point, has become an object of great National importance, as well on account of the number of youths of great Scientific acquirements, which it annually discharges, as the very improved system of Education adopted there, which has produced this beneficial result. The Pupils are subjected to an Annual examination, commencing on the first Monday in June, by a Board...
4398From James Barbour to University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 24 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The regulations of this Department for the government of the Military Academy, at West Point, direct, that the Students of that institution shall be examined in all the branches of Sciences and instruction, through which they have passed, in the presence of a Board of Visitors, and such other Literary Gentlemen as shall be invited to attend. In conformity with which, I have the honor to invite...
4399Bill of Lading for Books shipped from Hamboro’ for the University of Virginia, 24 Mar. 1825, 24 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
[page 1] The University of Virginia D r to J. Bohn. 1825 (Books shipped from Hamboro’ in the Mazzinghi. Capt. Rob t West, March 24, care of Bernard Peyton Esq. Richmond) ⃟ U.V.C 10, 11 &12 Gruber über die Bestimmung des Menschen 2 vols 8 o } 5: 6 Spalding über die Bestimmung des Mensching 8 3 —
4400From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Bonnycastle, 24 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of Mar. 6. I mentioned to you that the Visitors would suspend coming to any immediate decision on the subject of yours of Mar. 4. until mr Gilmer could be heard from, I wrote to request his report on the subject which I have now recieved in a letter of the 12 th and inclose for your perusal—in that he promises to be here within a fortnight from that date which is now within a day...