101Thomas Jefferson to David Michie, 22 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 20 th was recieved on the day of it’s date. I do not know why that part of it is addressed to me which complains of insinuations against your integrity as a man, and honor as a gentleman. I am not aware of having uttered such myself, and cannot be answerable for what may have been uttered by others. As little do I percieve why ‘a note which you say is of a nature a little...
102Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Eston Randolph, 22 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I sincerely regret that we happen to see the same subject in lights so very different, with respect to the mill . but the rent of a real property must, you know, be a fixt thing. as it’s original cost cannot be varied, so the interest or rent on that cannot vary with daily and transient occurrences, and especially on a lease for time. it is easy to reduce a rent, but impossible to raise it...
103Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Dougherty, 23 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
your letter of the 10 th did not come to hand until the 20 th instant. on examining my files I find that the letter to mr Lambert was an exact copy of that to Gen l Varnum and all the others to whom I wrote on that occasion. I have therefore recopied it and addressed it to mr Lambert , which I now inclose, and return you the copy of that to Gen l Varnum . wishing you success in your...
104Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 23 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
You sometime ago had corn for sale which you were so kind as to offer me. if you have still any to spare, I will be glad to take it at the price at which you are selling. be so good as to inform me by the bearer , and as to the quantity and price. PoC ( MHi ); on verso of reused address cover to TJ; at foot of text: “Craven Peyton esq.”; endorsed by TJ.
105Craven Peyton to Thomas Jefferson, 23 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I am raeley sorry to inform You, I fear I have sold my corn two close, I regret very much I had not of kept for You, the eighty Barrells You named to me but M. Bacon informed me, You was fully supplied, RC ( ViU: TJP-ER ); addressed: “Thomas Jefferson esqr Monticello”; endorsed by TJ as received 23 Mar. 1817 and so recorded in SJL .
106Thomas Jefferson to Joshua Stow, 23 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved the copy you have been so kind as to send me of the Address and Constitution of the Connecticut society for the encouragement of American manufactures, and beg leave thro’ you to return thanks to the Society for this mark of their attention. no one more zealously wishes success to their views, from a very thorough conviction of their importance to the Cement, as well as...
107Thomas Jefferson to Robert Walsh, 23 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, kind Sir, for the favor of sending me a copy of the American Register of the present year. I had not before an opportunity of witnessing it’s merit. a first view of it’s matter and manner now assures me that I shall read it with interest and satisfaction. altho’ at my age little more is forgotten than newly learnt, yet I am still glad to know what is going forward in the literary...
108Thomas Jefferson to Jethro Wood, 23 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved on the 7 th of Nov. your favor of Oct. 1. and delayed it’s acknolegement until the arrival, within this week past, of the plough you have been so kind as to send me on the part of the firm of which you are a member. for this mark of their attention I pray them to accept my thanks. I have examined it with care, and think it promises well in all it’s parts; and shall exhibit it with...
109From Abigail Smith Adams to Richard Rush, 24 March 1817 (Adams Papers)
I was rejoiced when I found the justice of Congress had made some necessary Provision for the office you now hold, altho they withheld a Clerk. I Should have been more gratified if their Liberality had extended to that, and an increase of the Sallery. the Duties of your office, must I am Sure, occupy the greater part of your time; but nothing is harder than to convince the purse holders that...
110Joseph Miller to Thomas Jefferson, 24 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
yours of the 11 th Came to hand on the 22 th and I am hapey to heare from you this Day I have Shiped on Board of the Slope Hope Capt Lawrance a Small Ball Baill of Corks Which hopes Will Come Safe and Please you Did Say whether them that I Sent in Dec mr Came or not I have Been Very Lame all thes Winter but now the Warm Weather Coming on I am in Hopes of Getting Better I intend
111Alden Partridge to Thomas Jefferson, 24 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Although I have not the honor of a personal Acquaintance with you, yet I trust you will excuse the liberty I take in introducing to your Acquaintance the Bearer M r Benjamin O. Tyler . M r Tyler resided at this Place a considerable part of last year in the Capacity of Professor of Penmanship. The improvements which he has made in the Art of writing, and the success which has attended him as an...
112From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 25 March 1817 (Adams Papers)
The great question was “Whether Writs of Assistants, were legal, or illegal; constitutional or unconstitutional”? “Writs of Assistants”! You will indignantly say. “What are Writs of Assistants”? “I understand no more about Writs of Assistants, than about ‘ The great question ’.” I believe you; and will endeavour to give you Some hints. When the British Ministry received from general Amherst...
113To John Adams from William Tudor, Jr., 25 March 1817 (Adams Papers)
I set out the first of next week on the journey to the South in execution of a State commission to examine the various penitentiaries. I have a desire to visit Washington if time will permit, and will certainly attempt to get there if my brother in law Captain Stewart will accompany me from Philadelphia as he has proposed—I knew Mr Monroe in England, and I may perhaps say he honored me with a...
114To John Adams from Ward Nicholas Boylston, 25 March 1817 (Adams Papers)
I rejoice in the expectation of seeing you & Mrs Adams; and Miss S A—and as the Day that is most convenient to you wou’d be most agreeble to Mrs B & myself we have settled it with Mr. Vaughan & his family for Friday the 4th. April at 1/2 past two o clock but pray you will come to us an hour or two earlier, and be so kind as to let Judge and Mrs Adams know the day fixd. My Lord tells me you...
115To John Adams from Hezekiah Niles, 26 March 1817 (Adams Papers)
I am, indeed, gratified by the receipt of your letter of the 27th ulto. The approbation of those we ourselves reverence for their virtues, is, perhaps, the sweetest reward for our efforts to be useful. Only eleven volumes of the Weekly Register are yet finished. These may be forwarded, if you please, immediately to Boston, & can be easily sent to you, through Mr. Dawes, or by my agent there,...
116From Abigail Smith Adams to William Cranch, 26 March 1817 (Adams Papers)
Mr W S Smith with Mrs Smith are upon a visit to her Relations in Washington. he is desirious of paying his Respects to you, as a Relation, and as a desendent of the Venerable Characters, whom he remembers with Respect and veneration— He is desirious of obtaining employment under the Government. in what Capacity I do not know. His being So nearly Related to me, deprives him of all the advantage...
117John Barnes to Thomas Jefferson, 26 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of inclosing—the Messenger of this Town, 24 th as it contains,—two—interesting— Prothetic letters, of the late President Adams in 1756.—to the late Judge Cushing (—then Brother school master,)—will, I am sure please you—his friend Dalton was I presume—a Branch—if not the very man—the good & worthy—but unfortunate T: Dalto n late of the City of washington whose former...
118John H. Cocke to Thomas Jefferson, 26 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your letter of the 10 th March and shall not fail, without some unforeseen obstacle to attend the meeting, you propose, of the Visitors for the establishment of the College in the neighbourhood of Charlottesville . I accept your polite invitation—and will be at Monticello on Monday the 7 of April. I have been long desirous to obtain some of your Marseilles fig—and send the...
119John H. Cocke’s Description of Central College Board of Visitors Meeting, [5 May 1817], document 2 in a group of … (Jefferson Papers)
5. A Cloudy Morng. Left home at ¼ before 4 O’Clock, and reached Monticello at ¼ after 8—Found the Family just up from Breakfast and the three illustrious Gentlemen with whom I was to act waiting for my arrival.—After getting Breakfast— rode again over the grounds offer’d as a site for the College by M r Perry & already approved of by— M r Cabell , M r Jefferson
120To James Madison from William Bainbridge, 27 March 1817 (Madison Papers)
Permit me to trouble you with the perusal of the enclos’d copy of a letter, I have this day written to the Secretary of the Navy to remove, in case you have decided on my Claim, any unfavorable impressions on your mind, which a knowledge of the circumstances alluded to, in the enclos’d communication may have made. As an Officer of the American Navy I most assuredly have felt the highest...
121DeWitt Clinton to Thomas Jefferson, 27 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Some days ago I sent to you a treatise on Canals compiled at the request of the Canal Commissioners of this State. I now forward all the reports &c. which relate to the contemplated Erie & Champlain Canals & which will give you a full & commanding view of the whole field of enquiry, with the addition of a map of this State in order to supply the want of a topographical map in the case of the...
122Thomas Jefferson to John H. Cocke, 27 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson is very thankful to Gen l Cocke for the sample of Scuppernong wine which he has been so kind as to send him, and which he considers to be as fine, as it is a singular wine. he sends him plants of the Marseilles fig & of his the Paper or Otaheite mulberry, & cuttings of the Lombardy poplar which he brought from France , very different from the common one, being a tree of some shade.
123Thomas Jefferson to George Divers, 27 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I write to you because you are a Director of the Rivanna company , yet not as a Director , but as an individual and friend for consultation. the present condition of the locks is such as to call ere long for an entire new rebuilding. before this is proposed, it is certainly desirable, both for the company and myself, that we should know of a certainty on what ground we stand in point of...
124George Divers to Thomas Jefferson, 27 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have receiv’d your note together with the Bill mentiond , to which I will give the attention you require, & shall be glad to see you here to dinner the day after tomorrow, I have been in a bad state of Health for some time past, but am rather better today than usual— The large potatoes you gave me turn’d out very well, I send you in return seven that was produced from seed that came from the...
Permit me my dear Madam to introduce Mr Preston to your acquaintance, a young Virginian of high talents & fortune, who visits Europe for his amusement & will be happy to find you in England. We hope to see you before long, surounded by your friends in America— yours most truly, MHi : Adams Papers.
126Richard Flower to Thomas Jefferson, 28 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
The Familiarity of this address you will readily excuse as you are aware that without personal acquaintce one can esteem in the highest degree from a knowledge of Character Talent & virtues. and altho distance has prevented any personal Interview with you I assure you of my high esteem for you, from an intimate knowledge of your Character as president your public Speeches to Congress and many...
127From John Adams to William Tudor, Sr., 29 March 1817 (Adams Papers)
Is your daughter, Mrs Stewart, who I am credibly informed is one of the most accomplished Ladies, a Painter? Are you acquainted with Miss Lydia Smith, who I am also credibly informed is one of he most accomplished Ladies and a Painter? Do you know Mr. Sargent? Do you correspond with your old companion in Arms Colo. John Trumbull? Do you think Fisher will be an historical Painter? Whenever you...
128To John Adams from William Cranch, 29 March 1817 (Adams Papers)
Please to present my thanks to my aunt for her kind letter; and accept my congratulations on the prospect of your soon seeing your excellent son again after so long an absence; as well as upon the occasion which recalls him to his Country. I am rejoiced to see all parties approximating those orthodox political principles which you have so long advocated, and for the rigid adherence to which...
129Thomas Jefferson’s Notes and Drawings for Barboursville, [before 29 March 1817] (Jefferson Papers)
f. running measure 2 walls 1 ½ brick thick 41.f long = 82 6. d o 19. = 114 1 d o 22 = 22 2. d o
130James Barbour to Thomas Jefferson, 29 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearers of this, James Bradley and Edward Ancel are the undertakers of my building—the former a Carpenter—the latter a bricklayer—I have resolved on the plan you were good enough to present me and for which I return you my Sincere thanks—You were kind enough to accompany the plan with a Suggestion that it would be well for my workmen to See your building and receive such verbal...
131From Abigail Smith Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 30 March 1817 (Adams Papers)
We promise ourselves the pleasure of visiting you on fryday next, and hope that a Severe Cold now attacking both the President and myself, will yiald before that day, to Herb Tea, and mild weather. nothing but indisposition will prevent our accepting Your kind invitation, or I Should add, Stormy weather. Many thanks for the Balsam My Neice continues way weak, altho’ She has not had any return...
For some time past I have been wishing to have the pleasure of writing to you, to express my thanks for the very kind and flattering letter you addressed to me by Miss Sumner; also to repeat to you the gratification I felt at an introduction to Col Sumner and herself. All agreed that they were ornaments to the society of Washington this winter. It was not however in my power, and truly did I...
133Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 30 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had a good hunt for among my papers for Main ’s recipe for the preparation of Haws: and at length, after almost despairing, have found it in the midst of a small volume of extracts from Brown ’s Rural Affairs. I now send it to you, agreeably to your desire. I am, dear sir, very respectfully & truly yours RC ( ViU: TJP-PC ); endorsed by TJ as received 8 Apr. 1817 and so recorded in...
134Thomas Jefferson to Peter Minor, 30 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letter to Maj r Watson is to request him to meet the visitors of our proposed college here on the day or evening of before our next court (Monday) that by an evening’s conference together we may come to an understanding of what should be done at our formal meeting which is to be at Charlottesville the next day Tuesday. Can you contrive it in time, or give it such a direction as,...
135Peter Minor to Thomas Jefferson, 30 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have rec d your packet enclosing a letter to Maj r Watson , & a communication to M r D. Minor . I will take care to send the letter to Maj r Watson by a special messenger, as I feel greatly interested in the success of the central college , & if his health will permit I know he will attend: but I hear that he has been a good deal confined of late by the Rheumatism—
136Francis Adrian Van der Kemp to Thomas Jefferson, 30 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
As I have nothing—deserving your attention—to communicate, I rather Should deem it improper to answer Your favour of the 16 with which I was honoured, was it not—that your courtesy imposed upon me a duty—to free you from an error which caused you some concern—not that I am apprehensive—that you had any thing to fear from a clamorous rabble of ignorant—bitter bigots—as I would do you the...
137Thomas Jefferson to David Watson, 30 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
A letter, of which the inclosed is a copy, was addressed to you on the day of it’s date, but misdirected both as to your Christian name and post office by the mistake of a friend who happened to be here. I send a duplicate therefore and renew urgently my request that you will be so good as to come here the day or evening before; as you will meet mr Madison , General Cocke , & mr Cabell here,...
138To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 31 March 1817 (Adams Papers)
As the Season of business and of gaity in London, advances, we have found from the experience of the last year, a sort of necessity to be for some time nearer its centre than our residence at Little-Boston; and as a mezzo termine between a complete removal, and an inflexible adherence to the country, we have taken Apartments in Town by the week without altogether abandoning our rural...
139From James Madison to William Eustis, [ca. 31] March 1817 (Madison Papers)
I cannot take my final leave of Washington, without calling to mind the epistolary debt remaining due to you. On consulting with Mr. Monroe some time ago, it was understood that your stay in Holland would be prolonged untill next fall, if not next Spring, by a joint negociation with the Govt. of the Netherlands, on the subject of a commercial Treaty. You will have received the communications...
140From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, [ca. 31] March 1817 (Madison Papers)
Notwithstanding the lapse of time, nothing definitive has taken place, in concert with Mr. Hassler, in relation to Mr. Le Sueur. Mr. Crawford has the subject in hand, and will communicate the result. I can add but little to the public information which goes to you from the official source, and thro’ the press. You will find that specie is at length re-instated in its legitimate functions; at...
141Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas G. Dufief, 31 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I am unlucky in the dictionaries I recieve from you, this being the 2 d time I believe that I have recieved them with a false half sheet, from the carelessness of the binder. the 1 st volume of the set last recieved had the 6. leaves now returned instead of the 6. from ‘Notopede—to Onglee’ inclusive, which I shall be glad to recieve from you in exchange for those inclosed. RC ( ViU: TJP ); at...
142Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 31 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Francis will set out tomorrow for Mill-brook . he has his constant health, and has applied himself assiduously & solely to Spanish. he now possesses this so well that reading a little in it every day, he will be in no danger of losing it. in the French he is well established; and the possession of these two languages is well worth the little check he has recieved in his Latin, I think he...
143Thomas Jefferson to Fernagus De Gelone, 31 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 15 th is at hand, covering an account of the books forwarded, balance due you 13.D. which I now inclose you in Virginia bank bills. I hope shortly to hear of the safe arrival of the books at Richmond , and tender you my salutations and assurances of respect. PoC ( MHi ); on verso of reused address cover of John Barnes to TJ, 28 Feb. 1817 ; at foot of text: “M. J. Louis...
144Thomas Jefferson’s Account with William Mitchell, [April 1817] (Jefferson Papers)
W m Mitchell in Account D r with Th: Jefferson Cr. b ℔ Bar. flour D.C
145Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 1 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I am really afflicted at having suffered the renewal of my note to have escaped attention; and the more so as yours of Mar. 28 did not reach me till after the departure of our post yesterday, Monday and our next Richmond mail is not till Friday, 4 th the very day on which my note becomes due; and it will not reach you till the morning of the 6 th . but regret is useless, however sincerely...
146Thomas Jefferson to William D. Taylor, 1 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
A friend informs me he has seen in the Enquirer a tract of land of mine in Rockbridge , of 157. acres including the Natural bridge advertized for sale for the taxes. I suppose this must have been in that paper of Mar. 21. which has failed to come to me and therefore not seen by myself. the lands being under lease I had relied on the tenant for the payment of the taxes. I must now ask the favor...
147From Richard Rush to Abigail Smith Adams, 2 April 1817 (Adams Papers)
I am to thank you for the kind wishes contained in your favor of the 24. of last month. You have often, indeed, gratified and flattered me by similar ones, and I feel how much I owe to your over partiality. The appointment of Mr Adams gives, as far as I can ascertain, the highest satisfaction. If ever a citizen of our country owed his elevation to the solid merits of his own character, your...
148Hutchins G. Burton to Thomas Jefferson, 2 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have purchased for you, a barrel of Wine two years old.—I think it much better than the barrel I sent M r Eppes —I shall forward it by the first opportunity to Richmond —I hope it may not be adulterated, as the Waggonners sometimes take the liberty of playing tricks with articles of this kind, confided to their care,— It will not be necessary to give M r Gibson any instructions about a draft...
149Wilson Cary Nicholas to Thomas Jefferson, 2 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have written to M r Harrison for his permission to print the work of Col. Byrd , that I Sent you, I have no doubt he will consent to it, I am satisfied your wishes will be conclusive, & that the family of Col. Byrd will be highly gratified. When I received your answer to my application about the consulate at Leghorn for my son, I at once abandoned all thoughts of it, as nothing can induce me...
150Thomas Wells to Thomas Jefferson, 2 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the pleasure to inform you that M r G. Divers has several prime Muttons but no Veal, I shall send out this morning else where, should I succeede it will give me infinite pleasure to furnish you— Suffer me also to inform you that thire is a Machine come to this place yesterday that shaves a Side of leather with greate virility say Half a Minute which there is a patton for, the Stranger...