201Thomas Jefferson to John Wood, 14 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
My grandson Francis Eppes left us a fortnight ago, and carried from me strong recommendations to his father to take advantage of your kind offer to recieve him in your school. he has past the two last winters with us, the preceding one in learning French, the last Spanish. in French he is a tolerable proficient: but of Spanish he will need to read a little every day to keep it up & improve it....
202From John Adams to William Tudor, Sr., 15 April 1817 (Adams Papers)
I have received your obliging favour of the 8th. but cannot consent to your resolution to ask no more questions. Your questions revive my sluggish memory—. Since our national Legislature have established a national Painter, a wise measure for which I thank them, my imagination runs upon the art & has already painted I know not how many historical pictures. I have sent you one give me leave to...
203To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 15 April 1817 (Madison Papers)
I sincerely congratulate you on your release from incessant labors, corroding anxieties, active enemies & interested friends, & on your return to your books & farm, to tranquility & independance. A day of these is worth ages of the former, but all this you know. Yours of the 10th. was delivered to me yesterday. Mine of the 13th. had been sent off the moment it was written. We are made happy by...
204Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 15 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I sincerely congratulate you on your release from incessant labors, corroding anxieties, active enemies & interested friends, & on your return to your books & farm, to tranquility & independance. a day of these is worth ages of the former. but all this you know. yours of the 10 th was delivered to me yesterday. mine of the 13 th had been sent off the moment it was written. we are made happy by...
205Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 15 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Finding subsequently, what had not been before attended to that the law had appointed the 1 st day of our Spring & Autumn District court for the stated meetings of the Visitors of the Central College , it is concluded that our meeting should be on the 5 th instead of the 6 th of May (noted in my letter of the 13 th ) and that being the 1 st day of both our County & District courts, the...
206Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 15 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have secured the return of the 1500.D. you were so kind as to lend me, by a sale of part of the land to mr Dawson , the price payable July 1. this will enable your negociator in Kentucky to ask a shorter day of payment. should you fail in that negociation, I can still find use for the money according to your own convenience. I set out for Bedford tomorrow morning to be back on the 29 th . I...
207André Thoüin to Thomas Jefferson, 15 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai l’honneur de vous anoncer que j’ai remis mon faible tribut annuel au Capitaine Chazal , de Charleston , dont le navire etait en chargement au havre de grace et Se proposait d’en partir pour retourner dans Sa patrie vers la fin de février dernier. Il est composé d’une centaine d’especes de graines de vegetaux utiles et agréables renfermées dans une petite caisse à votre adresse. Je desire...
208To James Madison from George Joy, 17 April 1817 (Madison Papers)
The Speech of Mr. Monroe reached town yesterday, and is in the Chronicle of this morning. I suppose it is an Error of the Press that states the Commencement of the Revolution almost 40 years ago, and that it should be almost two & forty, contemplating the 19th Inst. —it is more than 40 since the declaration of Independence. But the felicitation that follows in this Paragraph is so much at...
209To James Madison from William Harris Crawford, 18 April 1817 (Madison Papers)
The Lupinella seed has just arrived in a packet from Baltimore. I have the honor to enclose you a parcel of it. In Italy it is sown, or planted in March, and October, in high dry land, and in three years enriches the poorest soil so that it will bring two successive crops of wheat abundantly. The description which I have recd. of it, is not very perfect, but it contains all the information...
210To James Madison from Richard Rush, 18 April 1817 (Madison Papers)
I beg leave to send you, enclosed, a few English newspapers. I have not been able to look over them myself, but perhaps you may be able to glean an hours amusement from them. They are the latest we have in the office. I shall have great pleasure in sending you others that arrive. Our last letters from Mr Adams are to the 29th of January. He takes no notice of the report of 19 ships of war...
211Horatio G. Spafford to Thomas Jefferson, 18 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
If, from more important duties, & reading of greater interest, thou canst spare time to read my little Novel, I should be glad to learn how it is approved. RC ( MHi ); dateline adjacent to signature; addressed: “Hon. Thomas Jefferson, LL.D.”; endorsed by TJ as a letter from Spafford received 29 Apr. 1817 and so recorded in SJL .
212William Thornton to Thomas Jefferson, 18 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
M r & M rs Madison left this City for Orange County on the 6 th Inst. and were so kind as to take the Drawing by M r West and the Painting by M
213From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 19 April 1817 (Adams Papers)
My loving and beloved Friend, Pickering, has been pleased to inform the World that I have “few Friends.” I wanted to whip the rogue, and I had it in my Power, if it had been in my Will to do it, till the blood came. But all my real Friends as I thought them, with Dexter and Gray at their Head insisted “that I Should not Say a Word.” “That nothing that Such a Person could write would do me the...
214John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 19 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
My loving and beloved Friend, Pickering , has been pleased to inform the World that I have “few Friends.” I wanted to whip the rogue, and I had it in my Power, if it had been in my Will to do it, till the blood come. But all my real Friends as I thought them, with Dexter and Grey at their Head insisted “that I Should not Say a Word.” “That nothing that Such a Person could write would do me the...
215William Jay to Peter Augustus Jay, 21 April 1817 (Jay Papers)
The last Mail brought me your letter of the 19 th . Inst: I am glad you bought the family plate. Do you know anything about a likeness of Uncle F. I have been busy the last week in setting out young Locust Trees, & have planted about Seventeen hundred. I enclose Notes of the Negociation In Spain. To condense the contents of a large Volume into the compass of 8 pages is I assure you no...
216From John Adams to James Madison, 22 April 1817 (Adams Papers)
As I can make no Apology for so long forgetting to return the volumes inclosed, I must, without qualification beg your pardon. This Work, tho’ it bears the name of Condorcet alone was understood to be written in concert between him and his great Patron, the Duke de la Rochefaucoult, as well as the “New Heaven,” and several other publications in favour of a Government in one center genuine...
217From L. Caton to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 22 April 1817 (Adams Papers)
Will you, and Mr. Adams attend my marriage which is to be on Thursday Eve. at the Duke of Wellington at 9 Oclock—he has just desired me to write, and say he shall be very happy to see you—as he is to give me away, he wishes it should be at his house— believe me my dear Mrs Adams—very truly / yours MHi : Adams Papers.
218To James Madison from John Adams, 22 April 1817 (Madison Papers)
As I can make no Apology for so long forgetting to return the Volumes inclosed, I must, without qualification beg your Pardon. This Work, tho’ it bears the name of Condorcet alone was understood to be written in concert between him and his great Patron the Duke de La Rochefaucoult, as well as [“]The New Heaven,” and several other publications in favour of a Government in one Center genuine...
219To James Madison from James Maury, 22 April 1817 (Madison Papers)
I was highly gratified by the perusal of your message at the opening of Congress; but indeed one well might say how could it be other-wise, when even the Editors of the Times and of the Courier , with an host of others equally hostile to you, acknowleged its merits. I now see you have returned to Montpelier, where I wish you the enjoyment of every comfort: and where I have already commenced...
220Tristram Dalton to Thomas Jefferson, 22 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honour to send You, herewith, another number of “The Massachusetts Agricultural Repository and Journal ” — By this it appears that the growing of Wheat is becoming an object worthy attention, in this section of the Union: which, for many years, has been deemed impracticable. The causes assigned were various: by the friends in Pennsylvania , to the persecution of the Quakers, so...
221James Dinsmore to Thomas Jefferson, 22 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
your favour of the 13 th Ins t was duly received, and I beg leave to return you my most Sincere thanks for your Continued attention to my Interests—the proposition you make is most agreeable to me and I with pleasure accept of it, as I prefer that Neighbourhood to any I have yet lived in—tho in a pecuniary point of view this is the preferable place—we expect to finish our present engagements...
222From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 23 April 1817 (Adams Papers)
Your kind Letters of 12 and 17. March, the latter enclosing one (copy) from Mr H. G. Otis to my father reached me on the same day with a Letter from the New President of the United States, informing me that with the concurrence of the Senate, he had appointed me to the Office just vacated by himself—I had never received from him any previous intimation that it was his intention to make this...
223From James Madison to Richard Rush, 23 April 1817 (Madison Papers)
I duly recd. the English papers you were so good as to send me; and which I now return. Altho’ less interesting than they usually are even when the Parliament is not in session, they contain some things which were worth looking at; and I thank you for the opportunity of doing it. We reached our home without accident, and in the computed time. I found the agricul[t]ural prospects in this...
224From James Madison to an Unidentified Correspondent, 23 April 1817 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 23 April 1817, Montpelier. Described as a one-page autograph letter, signed, in Stan. V. Henkels Catalogue No. 873 (20–21 Feb. 1902), item 204.
225James Baker to Thomas Jefferson, 23 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Immediately on receipt of your order of Feb y 9 th I requested my friend in Boston to forward me a quintal of best Dun Fish (there being none in this city) the receipt of which has been prevented ’till this time— mr Gibson will forward it to you—Should any other article peculiar to the northern market be wanted it will afford me pleasure to receive your order— RC ( MHi ); endorsed by TJ as...
226Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 23 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived at this place yesterday evening on my return home from the election in Goochland . Gen l Cocke informs me that he met you at Enniscorthy on his as you were going to Bedford , and that he learned from you that the meeting which you proposed of the Visitors of the Central College was intended to be on the day fixed in the Law for the Gen l meeting in the Spring, viz, on the first day...
227James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, 23 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknowledge three letters from you, of the 8 th 13 th & 15 th of this month . The note, in the first, of the different kinds of wines, to be procur’d in France & Italy , and of the persons to be applied to for them, will be of great service to me. I shall immediately profit of it, and shall be very glad, to be able, to render you, any service by extending the order, to such as you...
228From James Madison to William Harris Crawford, 24 April 1817 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. my dear Sir, Your favor of the 18, with the Lupinella Seed, for which I thank you. I will endeavor to make the most of it by sowing a part now, and the rest in October. It will be a valuable acquisition, if it has half the merit ascribed to it. The British affairs appear to be approaching if not already in a paroxism, which but for the horrors of the Revolutionary experiment in...
229Elkanah Watson to Thomas Jefferson, 24 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Knowing You are already Sufficiently oppress’d with numerous correspondence—and probably Some unprofitable Ones, It is Sir with No Small diffidence I presume to intrude myself: I Stand pledg’d however to confine myself to a Specific object, in which I am well convinc’d, we have congenial feelings, and views. You have doubtless been informed of with the Successfull efforts, & progress of the...
230To James Madison from George Bomford, 25 April 1817 (Madison Papers)
The acting Secretary of War has advised me of your ability to supply the United States with a quantity of Stocks for Muskets, and also of his having intimated that the price would not exceed thirty Cents each. By a reference to the Contracts hitherto executed and the proposals recently received from Baltimore, it appears that the uniform and fixed price is twenty five Cents for each approved...
231Christopher Clark to Thomas Jefferson, 25 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeably to my expectation met Capt Irvine at this place and we have had a little conversation on the Subject of the Roads he seems not to have formed a correct estimate of the Relative goodness of the two and will again travel the new one with a View to a further examination he is satisfied with the old one and appears unwilling to abandon it on a mere conjecture of obtaining an other that...
232DeWitt Clinton to Thomas Jefferson, 25 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the pleasure of receiving Your interesting letter respecting the contemplated communications between the great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean ; and I now send to You the laws of the State on this subject. The work will be undertaken this season and will be prosecuted with order and with rapidity. I thank you most cordially for the communication—And I assure you that it always affords me...
233Lafayette to Thomas Jefferson, 25 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I Was a few days Ago in paris when M r G. Ticknor Left a Card and a Letter from You which I Hastened, with Affectionate Eagerness, to peruse . not a little perplexed Was I to Understand Some parts of it, when I perceived that Since it Had been writen two Revolutions and two dynasties Had Successively Reigned in france . m r Ticknor whom I Had the pleasure to See the Next day Confirmed by His...
234John Laval to Thomas Jefferson, 25 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Letter of the 11 th inst t came to hand, a few hours after M r Dufief’s departure from Philadelphia . I have forwarded it to him, yesterday, by Ship Andrew, bound to Liverpool . According to your previous request, I have, at length, Succeeded in procuring, for you, a copy of Enfield’s History of Philosophy; the work is not to be had in any Bookstore, & it is only by accident that it has...
235Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Robertson, 25 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
This being the season in which the farmer recieves the fruits of his year’s labor, it is that also in which he is to pay attention to his debts. no debt of mine gives me more anxiety than that to yourself, in which I have had great indulgen c e. two years of embargo and non-intercourse, 3 of war, and 2. of disastrous drought have successively baffled my wishes to be reducing it. the failure of...
236Josephus B. Stuart to Thomas Jefferson, 25 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
On the eve of my departure from the City of Washington , I had the Honor to receive yours of the 8 th of February last . From that time to the present, Journies & business have denied me leisure; & even now I should possibly, forbear obtruding myself upon your verry precious time, were it not that certain considerations constrain me, in common with many of our fellow citizens whose opinions...
237From John Adams to Price Greenleaf, 26 April 1817 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your kind Letter which is received; and for the delicious present which is arrived, and will soon be received.— As every Specimen of improvement in Agriculture and Manufactures, gives me pleasure, the Cultivation of the Cane, is peculiarly delightfull to me.— You Southern Gentlemen have so many advantages over us, that I fear, our good old Mother, New England will be totally...
238Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 26 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I am this day setting out on my return to Monticello and have drawn on you in favor of mr Robertson for 230.96 D in my last letter from that place I mentioned that there were about 80. barrels of flour still to go from Albemarle . it turned out to be 96. of which 45. were sent off before I came away, and mr Tho s Eston Randolph (tenant of my mill) promised to send off the remaining 51. without...
239Chapman Johnson to Thomas Jefferson, 26 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter dated the 14 th of this month , was not received by me, until a few days since, on my return from an absence of a fortnight—Since that time, I have been very busily engaged in court every day, and must beg you to accept this fact as some apology for my permitting one or two post days to pass, without sending you the subpoena, you desired me to enclose—I hope the delay will produce...
240From John Adams to Richard Sharp, 27 April 1817 (Adams Papers)
Mr Theodore Lyman Junr. a Gentleman of a Studious, inquisitive and irreproachable Character, is ardently desirous of seeing Gentlemen of Letters in England. The few, that I had the pleasure to know, excepting One or two, have departed to a World where I hope there are neither Politicks or Wars.— By the information I have received from my Son and Grandson of your remembrance of me, I am...
241From John Adams to John Adams Smith, 27 April 1817 (Adams Papers)
I have received your luminous letter of 15th Feby. for which I thank you: but cannot enlarge upon it at present.— I write this to introduce to you Mr Theodore Lyman Junr. a Gentleman whose Talents Virtues and Connections deserve your Respect.—I know you can be of little Service to him, but you may be of Some—I wish you to be acquainted with him, and him with you—He is a Nephew of Mr Williams.—...
242To James Madison from James Monroe, 27 April 1817 (Madison Papers)
I hope you have enjoyed good health since your safe return home, and that Mrs. Madison has been equally fortunate. You have, I doubt not, found sufficient occupation in domestic concerns, to interest you. Notices from this quarter, will for a while, judging from my own experience, rather interrupt a cherished tranquility, than give pleasure. I should now write you a long letter, if I did not...
243James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, 27 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have decided to comply with your summons, and shall be with you at the time appointed. RC ( MHi ); endorsed by TJ as received 30 Apr. 1817 and so recorded in SJL .
244From John Adams to Hezekiah Niles, 28 April 1817 (Adams Papers)
I have received eleven Volumes of your Register, well bound and in good order, for which I have paid 41.D 75C to Mr Ballard, (according to your order,) and I thank you for the promptitude with which you have obliged me. “Vive la bagatelle” The light Sketch inclosed, is at this day of no value: not even an object of Curiosity, except on account of the critical moment in which it was crayoned,...
245To John Adams from Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, 28 April 1817 (Adams Papers)
I Most affectionately partake in the Gratification You are going to derive from the Arrival of Mr and Mrs Quincy Adams with your grand children to the Satisfaction of a father you will join that of a patriot, the Appointment of Your Son to the place of Secretary of State being a great public Advantage. I Refer Myself to Him for European News, in this Extensive Question in Betwen Rights and...
246From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 28 April 1817 (Adams Papers)
Two more Letters accompany this for mr Lyman and if time will allow I have no doubt but I shall get an answer from mr Jefferson, as Luck would have it. George in his Letter to his Grandfather, Speaks of mr Sharp as having dinned with his father and having spoken of his Grandfather in handsome terms. this was a good opening to renew old acquaintance—I inclose to you two of the letters which...
247John Wayles Eppes to Thomas Jefferson, 28 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I regret that I was not at home when your servant returned with Francis — It was so late when my servant returned from North Carolina with the grape slips that I thought it best to set them out at once and put the part designed for you into a very rich bed in my garden— Martha sent part of them to you—The others still remain and shall be particularly attended to—By sending down at the proper...
248Enclosure: Calvin Jones to Hutchins G. Burton, [before 28 April 1817] (Jefferson Papers)
I have not time now to give you as full an account of the Scuppernong Grape, as I intended when I promised it to you some time ago, as it would be necessary to consult the files of the Star. Should, what my recollection is able to furnish, be insufficient to answer the purposes of your friends, I will take another opportunity of supplying what may be deficient. The vine, the leaf & the grape...
249Thomas Jefferson to LeRoy, Bayard & Company, 28 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
A journey of considerable absence, from which I am just now returned has prevented my earlier informing you that I am not unmindful of the approaching term for paying the 1 st instalment of the debt which the indulgence of Mess rs Vanstaphorst and Hubard has so long left in my hands. on a view of the time necessary to get our produce to market in the spring season, for selling it, and...
250From John Adams to Timothy Alden, 29 April 1817 (Adams Papers)
You have been kind enough to send me five Numbers of your Allegany Magazine, for which I can only return you my Thanks. It must be a very useful Publication in your Neighbourhood, and there are curious papers preserved in it. I should willingly become one of your Subscribers, but I am already bound by so many Subscriptions and have so many demands for the Subsistence of my Family, that I can...