1011To John Adams from Charles Francis Adams, 25 December 1825 (Adams Papers)
On this day, one which in this part of the country is considered much as Thanksgiving day is in New England, I beg leave to express my wishes for your welfare & comfort during the cold weather which accompanies the Season in which the festival comes. It is not properly speaking a festival this Year with us as it comes on a Sunday, but the family dinner which for years past hast happened at my...
1012To James Madison from Dominick Lynch Jr., 14 June 1817 (Madison Papers)
“The American Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Manufactures,” instituted in this city, sensible of the zeal, you have uniformly displayed, in the promotion of every object, connected with the Welfare and Independence of our country, had the honor to elect you a member, at their last meeting convened on the 13th. Inst., for the purpose of initiating into the Society, James Monroe,...
1013James Madison to Jonathan Elliot, 1 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
I recd in due time your letter of Aug. 19. On what relates to my manuscript papers, I could only repeat what I have heretofore observed. With respect to an Edition of the Federalist, with remarks saving it from an identity with that covered by a copyright, alth I am sensible that the work under that title would admit of pertinent comments having that effect, yet I can not conceal from myself,...
1014From John Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 22 December 1820 (Adams Papers)
This day two hundred years our adventurous Ancestors landed at Plymouth—and two years hence will compete two hundred years since a more jolly company of them landed at Mount Wollaston—I have been made an honourary member of the new Plymouth Institution, and have been urged with warm invitations to go and Celebrate the day, and hear the Oratory of Mr Webster which I doubt not will be...
1015James Madison to James Maury, 13 May 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. yours of March 31st. and hasten to give the information you request. Mr. John Walker the lawyer to whom you allude, is still living in the adjoining County at a very advanced Age. He has long been well known to me as he was to my father, and has always been regarded as of the strictest probity, and in every respect a most worthy character. He is not affluent, but in very...
1016Gerard E. Stack to Thomas Jefferson, 3 September 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Enclosed I return you fifteen dollars of the forty which you enclosed for the tuition of J. M. Randolp h . He returned to the Academy about the first day of April last ; and from that time to the present, his tuition fees amount to twenty five dollars which I retain in full for all pecuniary demands on you. RC ( MHi ); addressed: “To Thomas Jefferson Esq r ”; endorsed by TJ, in part, as a...
1017From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 3 February 1821 (Adams Papers)
I have just read a sketch of the life of Swedenborg, and a larger work in two huge volumes of Memoirs of John Westley by Southey, and your kind letter of January 22d came to hand in the nick of time to furnish me with a very rational exclamation, “What a bedlamite is man!” They are histories of Galvanism and Mesmerism thrown into hotch potch they say that these men were honest and sincere, so...
1018Enclosure: James Gibbon’s Memorandum on Treating Rheumatism, 9 September 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Gen l W m North s remedy for the Rheumatism sent by him to Maj r Gibbon viz t ¼ to Nitre } these must be rubb’d in a mortar with a pint of sweet oil, till it has the consistence of soft pomatum, & rubb’d downward on the part affected— ¼ to Allum
1019To Thomas Jefferson from U.S. Military Academy at West Point, December 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Applicants for the situation at W Point vacated by the death of Doct. Cutbush Applicants for the situation in the Military Academy vacated by the death of Doct r Cutbush M r Jacob Green, late Professor of Chemistry at Princeton, recommended by W m Staughton, Honb e S. Van Rensellaer, Geo. M c Clellan, J. S. Skinner, Henry Vethake, E. S. Ely, Doctor Arthur C Porter, of Vermont, recommended by...
1020Thomas Jefferson to Henry E. Watkins, 27 November 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your fav r of the 6 th did not get to hand till the 23 d and I now with pleasure send you as much of the Succory seed as can well go under the volume of a letter. as I mentioned to our Colleagues at the Gap , I had forgotten which of them expressed a willingness to try this plant; and therefore I have waited for their application having taken care to have a plenty of seed saved. Sow the seed...