13181From James Madison to James Riley, 28 December 1818 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 19. and have looked over the printed Statement of Mr. Simpson which it enclosed. I leave to the files of the Dept. whatever information may concern the facts of his case, as more to be relied on than my memory. I say very cheerfully however that during the periods of my public service at Washingto[n] Mr. Simpson was always regarded as a faithful and very useful...
13182Thomas Jefferson to James Riley, 31 December 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
The correspondence which mr Simpson mentions having commenced with me in Feb. 1793. while Secretary of state must have closed at the end of the same year, when I retired from that office. of it’s particulars I have no recollection: but they are certainly to be found in the office of state. from 1801 . to Mar. 1809 . the conduct of mr Simpson , as Consul at Marocco , was of course under my...
13183James Madison to Tench Ringgold, 12 July 1831 (Madison Papers)
I recd. in the due times your two favors of July 7.& 8: the first giving the earliest, the last the fullest account that reached me of the death of our excellent friend*; and I can not acknowledge these communications without adding the thanks which I owe in common with those to whom he was most dear, for the devoted kindness on your part, during the lingering illness which he could not...
13184James Madison to Tench Ringgold, 24 October 1831 (Madison Papers)
On the rect. of your obliging letter of the 23d. Ult. I requested a Friend at our University, to examine the letters deposited there by the grandson of R. H Lee. The answer informs me that in the Mass of deposited letters there are a number from Mr. Pendleton, but that a search into them had met with none on the Fedl Judiciary, nor any of a later date yn. the year 1785. Supposing it possible...
13185From John Adams to Eliv Ripley, 14 April 1817 (Adams Papers)
I am greatly obliged to you for your kind letter of the 10th. of Feb’y, & you cannot be more sensible deeply impressed, than I am with a sense of the great importance of its contents. New England could never be said to have a commanding influence in the counsels of the Union. In times when she has been constantly obliged to make many concessions beyond the bounds of justice to herself, to the...
13186Thomas Jefferson to Ritchie & Gooch, 13 May 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I am thankful to you for the paper you have been so kind as to send me, containing the arraignment of the Presidents of the US . generally as peculators or accessaries to peculation, by an informer who masks himself under the signature of ‘ a native Virginian .’ what relates to myself in this paper, (being his N o VI . and the only N o I have seen) I had before read in the Federal Republican...
13187Thomas Jefferson to Ritchie & Gooch, 10 June 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter to you of May 13. in answer to a charge by a person signing himself ‘ A Native Virginian ’ that on a bill drawn by me for a sum equivalent to 1148.D. the Treasury of the US. had made double payment , I supposed I had done as much as would be required when I shewed they had only returned to me money which I had previously paid into the treasury on the presumption that such a bill...
13188Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 7 December 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
It is long since I have ceased to read any newspaper but yours , and I shall continue to read no other. withdrawing therefore from all others I pray you to have me discontinued as a subscriber to the Compiler. should the legislature have the report of the University Commissioners printed in a pamphlet be so good as to send me half a dozen copies. mr Gibson as usual will pay you for these as...
13189From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 9 November 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Oct. 29. was duly recieved. our Report was ready on the 6 th of Oct. except as to a single blank to be filled with the result of an account not then in hand, this was not rendered to me till the day before yesterday and I this day commit the whole to the mail under address to the Gov r as required by law. I hope you will always print our reports in 8 vo being most convenient for...
13190Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 19 June 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I find it impossible to get a copy of Madison ’s map without linen or rollers, and as it is indispensable to have one at the meeting of the Commissioners for the University I must pray you to get me one of those which you say can be had with linen & rollers. I should prefer one with the borders of the county counties coloured, but not the body. the agent who has them, will roll one very...