2301From John Adams to William Bentley, 15 July 1819 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your kind favour of the 12th. Mr Dunlaps Oration is well written and discovers talents, dispositions and views, which will secure him success at the Bar, in publick and private Society; it is conformable to the general sense and public opinion of the World. Thank him for it, for me, and wish him all possible prosperity A few weeks ago I received an Essex Register Containing...
2302From John Adams to William Bentley, 21 August 1819 (Adams Papers)
Thanks for the Rarsley Register and National Register Intelligencer . The Plot thickens! The name of the Cato of N. Carolina, the honest hoary headed, Stern, determined Republican, Macon, Strikes me with great force. But here is an accumution of Miracles. 1. The Resolutions are Such as every County in the thirteen Colonies ought to have taken at that moment. 2. The Suffolk Resolves taken about...
2303From John Adams to William Bentley, 20 July 1819 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for myself, and for Mr Marston for the kindness you did us by your Letter of the 17th.—Which I received this morning.—And at the Same time, I received the letter from Mr Jefferson—of which my Son has made the inclosed Copy at my desire for your use.— This letter is to me inestimable for the most material facts in it, I certainly know to be correct and exact, It has convinced me...
2304From John Adams to William Bentley, 30 August 1819 (Adams Papers)
The Mecklenboug Declaration of Independence is “en bon train.” Vive la Verite. But this letter has another Subject and Object. Mr Russell our late Ambassador to Sueden informs me that he has brought with him, from Italy a printed Volume containing large extracts from Six Orations of Cicero long lost. This Volume he had thoughts of presenting to Dr Kirkland for the Library of the University, on...
2305Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Hart Benton, 24 December 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Th:J. returns his thanks to m r Benton of Missouri for the copy of the petition of the University of Virga he has been so kind as to send him. he recieves it as an augury that mr B. approves of approbn of it’s principles object ,
2306Thomas Jefferson to Allen Bernard, 30 July [1818] (Jefferson Papers)
The Commissioners for the University of Virginia being to meet at your tavern the day after tomorrow (Saturday) I propose to be with you tomorrow evening (Friday) the bearer, with my baggage will be with you some hours before. as I supposed you might find it difficult to provide beds for so many, I and it was convenient to me to send a mattrass & trussels for myself, I have done so, preferring...
2307From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Bernard, 23 June 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you Sir for the copy of your Polyglot grammar which you have been so kind as to send me. the comparative view it presents of the grammars of diff t languages is curious and useful. I have looked over it with much satisfn and being withdrawn myself from the contempln of metaphysical subjects, (and none is more so than Grammar,) I am happy in having an oppty of placing it at once where...
2308From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Bernard, 8 March 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Altho’ too old to expect to see publicns now only in contempln I subscribe willingly to your Polyglott grammar. the comparative view of languages it proposes to take is interesting if it finds me living I shall con it with pleasure, if not, it may still be of use to the seminary we are providing here. Accept my respectful salutns DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
2309Thomas Jefferson to Simon Bernard, 8 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honored with your letter of Feb. 21. covering one from my friend the General la Fayette . I sincerely congratulate you on your arrival in this land of peace and safety, and still more I congratulate my country on the acquisition of your talents, which, directing our preparations for war, are most likely to continue it a land of peace and safety. I wish that in any circumstances of your...
2310James Madison to Simon Bernard, 16 July 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd. your letter of the 12 inst. However much you may overrate my title to the sentiments it expresses, it will always be a gratifying recollection, that I had any share in obtaining for the U.S. your invaluable aid in the defensive system now so well matured and so extensively executed. It is with great pleasure, I add Sir that whilst your distinguished talents & indefatigable...
2311James Madison to Simon Bernard, 3 August 1831 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison presents his respects to General Bernard and asks the favor of him to take charge of the inclosed letter for General Lafayette RC (ICU) .
2312From Thomas Jefferson to William Bernard, 5 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Dec. 9. did not get to hand till the 27 th which must acc t for a great portion of the delay of my answer. we are in the hourly expectn of hearing of the arrival of 3 of our professors embarked as we suppose in Nov. from Lond. for Norf. until they arrive we cannot open the univ ty two of them being of the important deptmts of Math. & Nat. Phi l the moment I hear of their arrival...
2313From James Madison to Nicholas Biddle, 31 May 1827 (Madison Papers)
Finding by your favor of the 27. that the Library of the Philosophical Society does not contain a Copy of the Revised Code as reported by Mr. Jefferson & his Colleagues, I send for it the promised one herewith inclosed. The Copies being now very scarce, I have not been able to furnish one in a less Soiled Condition. With great & very sincere esteem Draft ( DLC ). [Thomas Jefferson et al.],...
2314From James Madison to Nicholas Biddle, 16 April 1825 (Madison Papers)
Such has been of late years the unfavourableness of the Seasons for the staple productions in this quarter, and of the markets also for the main one; and such the disappointment in collecting debts on which I counted, that I find it necessary to resort either to a moderate loan, or to a sale of property, which at the present juncture would be made to great disadvantage. The first alternative...
2315Thomas Jefferson to Nicholas Biddle, 20 February 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns thanks to mr Biddle for his very able and instructive address to an Agricultural audience, and is pleased to see the stores of science so happily blended with science. practice. it will surely produce a salutary excitement among our farmers and especially at a moment when the habitual Cannibalism of Europe promises a demand for bread with their blood. he salutes mr Biddle...
2316From James Madison to Nicholas Biddle, 2 May 1825 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. the letter with which you favored me on the 26th. Ult. In the application made in that to which it is an answer, I was misled by what I understood to be occasionally done by Banks possessing affluent funds, and apprehending neither ultimate loss, nor an early pressure. Of the System adopted by the Bank of the U.S. as explained by you, I can not speak but with entire approbation;...
2317From James Madison to Nicholas Biddle, 17 May 1827 (Madison Papers)
I thank you very sincerely for the copy of your “Eulogium on Thomas Jefferson.” I have derived from it the peculiar pleasure which so happy a portraiture could not fail to afford one, who intimately knew and feelingly admired the genius, the learning, the devotion to public liberty, and the many private virtues which characterized the distinguished Original. Ably & eloquently as the subject...
2318From James Madison to Nicholas Biddle, 18 December 1826 (Madison Papers)
At the request of Mr Reynolds Chapman, a very respectable neighbour, I take the liberty of making him known to you, for a purpose which he will particularly explain. I understand that as Executor to Doctor Shepherd, who was another respectable neighbour, he has occasion, in adjusting a transaction relating to the Estate of the latter, to obtain some information from the President or Cashier of...
2319James Madison to Nicholas Biddle, 2 January 1834 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison with his respects to Mr Biddle thanks him for the Copy of the very able and important "Report of a Committee of the Directors of the Bank of the United States RC (DLC : Nicholas Biddle Papers); draft (DLC) .
2320From James Madison to Nicholas Biddle, 23 February 1822 (Madison Papers)
I duly recd. your favour of the 9th. accompanied by a copy of your agricultural address, which I have read with much pleasure, and I can add with instruction also. It is made particularly interesting by the views taken of the ancient and modern husbandry, where unless parts of China be exceptions, the earth has made the greatest returns to human labour. The advantage of contracting and...
2321James Madison to Nicholas Biddle, 29 September 1831 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison returns his thanks for the copy of the "Report to the Stockholders of the Bank of the U. States," politely forwarded by Mr. Biddle. So well digested a view of the interesting subject cannot fail to receive the public attention to which it is entitled. (DLC : Nicholas Biddle Papers).
2322James Madison to Andrew Bigelow, 2 April 1836 (Madison Papers)
I have received, with your letter of the 15th. inst: a copy of your "Election Sermon on the 6th of Jany.," and thank you for the pleasure afforded by the able, and instructive, lessons which it so impressively adapted to the occasion. I cannot conceal from myself that your letter has indulged a partiality, which greatly overrates my public services: I may say nevertheless, that I am among...
2323Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Summary of Weather Observations, 1810–1816, [ca. 11 April 1818] (Jefferson Papers)
1. the greatest & least height of the thermometer every day. 2. the greatest, least, & mean height of the thermom. in every month, with the mean of each year, & the mean of the 7. years, which last was 55 ½ °. 3. the minimum & maximum of the whole term, to wit 5 ½ ° and 94 ½ ° 4. the number of freezing nights in a winter [50.] & of freezing days [10.] 5. how long fires are necessary in our...
2324Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Bigelow, 11 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Sir, for the comparative statement of the climate s of the several states, as deduced from observations on the flowering of tree s in the same year. it presents a valuable view, and one which it is much to be desired could be extended thro’ a longer period of years & embrace a greater number of those circumstances which indicate climate. I closed, the year before last, a seven...
2325From John Adams to Tyler Bigelow, 1 February 1824 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your address to the Peace Society. I have heard it with great pleasure It is ingenious eloquent and learned. It shows a fine talent and I always read such benevolent compositions with delight. They always reccommend themselves to the best feeling of my heart—My natural wishes are for their success, but War is a mightier river than Mississippi or La Plata. We may wish it should...
2326Thomas Jefferson to Julius A. Bingham, 2 July 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of June 24. is recieved. age, debility and the manual pai difficulty and pain of writing, have obliged me to withdraw from every thing possible which requires writing, and especially from every thing political; on which subject I read nothing, but leave the future to the generation which it concerns. they are to feel the good and the evil of measures, and therefore have alone the...
2327From James Madison to Julius A. Bingham, 1 July 1822 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 24. Ul. with it a Copy of the prospectus to which it relates. The collective form in which the proposed Documents are to be printed, will doubtless be a recommendation of the work. But most of them have been so often before the public in other forms that the success of the publication might be questionable without an interesting addition of original matter. This...
2328Thomas Jefferson to Binney & Ludlow, 5 February 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I am much indebted to you, gentlemen, for your attention and civility in n the notice I recieve from you of a box cask of garden seeds from Marseilles , supposed to be intended for me. but I think it probable the Capt n was mistaken in supplying from his memory the defacement of the address on the cask. I never had a correspondent in Marseilles but mr Cathalan our late Consul and his...
2329From John Adams to John Binns, 20 September 1819 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for the Copy of your Declaration, which I have just received and will return by the first Opportunity. I pray you to save yourself the trouble and expence of sending any other Copy to Sir your / humble Servant MHi : Adams Family Papers, Letterbooks.
2330From John Adams to John Binns, 8 September 1819 (Adams Papers)
I have received your obliging letter of September 2d. but have not received the Declaration of Independence. it has been lost, or at least retarded in the Post Office—whenever it arrives I will indeavour to send you such remarks as may occour to me.— I have no pretensions to any Critical taste, in any such elaborate and elegant Efforts of the fine Arts.— I am Sir, with much Respect for your...
2331Thomas Jefferson to John Binns, 31 August 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of July 27. f inds me at an occasional b u t distant residence from Monticel l o . the delays of the cross post between the two places, altho’ great, will scarcely account for my not recieving it till yesterday. to avoid burthening the mail nothing but letters are forwarded to me here. books, pamphlets & papers of any volume await me there always. hence it is that I recieve your...
2332From John Adams to J.B. Binon, 7 February 1819 (Adams Papers)
I have received your polite favour of the 3d: of this month. I am afraid that you are engaged in speculations that will never be profitable to you. The age of sculpture & painting have not yet arrived in this country and I hope it will not arrive very soon. Artists have done what they pleased with my face & eyes head & shoulders, stature & figure and they have made of them monsters as fit for...
2333From John Adams to J.B. Binon, 11 October 1821 (Adams Papers)
To all who may see this letter I certify that I have been acquainted for several years with the barer J B Binon and have found him a Man of letters, taste and sense, very much of a gentleman—and a Manly candid & generous Man—he is eminent in the fine Arts, especially in sculpter and statuary which are his professional occupation, he has been employed in Boston in making many Busts—& in the...
2334From John Adams to J.B. Binon, 11 October 1821 (Adams Papers)
The inclosed letter you may show to whom you please—there is not an individual in the havana with whom I have any acquaintance / and am sir you / most obident humble / Servant MHi : Adams Family Papers, Letterbooks.
2335From James Madison to Morris Birkbeck, [ca. 9 November] 1817 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of Sepr 18 though at a much later day than that at which it was due. The letter inclosed in it from Mr. Coles wd. have been recd. with additional pleasure from your own hand if you had found it convenient to take Montpellier in your Westward route. He was a few days ago with me, and confirmed verbally His esteem & the friendly interest he takes in your behalf. I can...
2336From Thomas Jefferson to Peter Birkman, 30 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Sir, for your chart of German grammar simplified, which I shall preserve for the use of our Univ ty whenever it shall be opened. this depending on future acts of our legislature, renders it indefinite in point of time, it has often been a subject of regret to me that I never learned the German language, now among the richest depositories of human science: I regret it particularly...
2337Thomas Jefferson to George Blackburn, 4 April 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the reciept of your favor of Mar. 8. and to thank you for the Synopsis of your process in teaching Mathematics, which is lucid as far as it goes, and goes as far as utility requires with us. what transcends it may be considered as the luxury of science, rather than as immediately useful. I am strengthened also by your sound observations on the art of instruction generally....
2338Thomas Jefferson to the Seventy-Six Association, 1 August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to the members of the ’76 association at Charleston , as well as to their s S tanding Committee, for the communication of the eloquent oration of mr Elliott which he has read with great pleasure. he assures them of his sensibility on this mark of their kind attention, and salutes them with the tender of his high consideration and respect. PoC ( MoSHi: TJC-BC );...
2339James Madison to George Blaettermann, 2 January 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have recd yours of Decr. 20 20 and am more sorry for the view it has taken of its subject than convinced that it was a necessary view. Premising that I have no authority as Rector, nor any as a Visitor in the view of the Board that as one of the 3 members of the Ex--Come I can only observe with respect to the provided Report of the visitors, that it does not appear to warrant the injurious...
2340From Thomas Jefferson to George Blaettermann, 26 April 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Apr. 24. of the last year was not recieved until the 16 th of June, and could not be presented to our board of Visitors until the 1 st of October, their earliest meeting after it’s reciept. it was then communicated to them, as we knew that nothing certain could be stated to you till the meeting of our legislature which was yet 2 months distant the answer was postpon d until...
2341From Thomas Jefferson to George Blaettermann, December 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of Doct r and mrs Blaettermann mr & mrs Deverill to dine at Monticello tomorrow, Saturday, the hour of dinner is half after three. DNDAR .
2342James Madison to Francis Preston Blair, 28 October 1832 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison with his respects to Mr Blair, informs him in answer to his letter of the 25, that the letter with the name of James Madison to it, published in the Newspaper referred to, was written by him; but without marking for Italics, the words & lines which appear in that character. RC (NjP) ; draft (DLC) .
2343From James Madison to James H. Blake, 4 March 1817 (Madison Papers)
I am much indebted to the Citizens of Washington, in whose behalf you speak, for the expressions of regard and respect addressed to me. These sentiments are the more valuable to me, as my long residence among them has made me well acquainted with their many titles to my esteem, at the same time that it has enabled them to mark more particularly the course of my public and personal conduct....
2344Thomas Jefferson to Theodorick Bland, 26 June 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 18 th was recieved yesterday. the state of our University is such that we cannot say when it will be opened. the buildings for the professors and students will all be finished the ensuing winter. but their erection will have left us very largely indebted, and if to be paid out of the annuity settled on it, it will be many years before it will be free. it is believed however...
2345From Thomas Jefferson to Cornelius C. Blatchly, 21 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I return thanks for the pamphlet you have been so kind as to send me on the subject of Commonwealths. it’s moral principles merit entire approbation, it’s philanthropy especially, and it’s views of the equal rights of man. that, on the principle of a communion of property, small societies may exist in habits of virtue, order industry and peace, and consequently in a state of as much happiness...
2346Thomas Jefferson to Francis Bloodgood, 18 February 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his salutations to mr Bloodfood and his thanks of for the offer of in his letter of the 5 th inst of the collectio n of minerals to the University of Virginia ; and he regrets that that institution is not yet advanced to the stage for making such purchases, the whole of the funds at command being necessarily devoted to the erection of buildings. he tenders to
2347Thomas Jefferson to Willie Blount, 27 April 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 16. is recently recieved, and the object it proposes of an early initiation of our youth into the sound principles of our republican government is worthy of cordial approbation. I mean the pure and genuine principles of it’s birth. my hope has been that systems of education, primary and ultimate would be carried into execution and that books would be composed for the use of...
2348James Madison to Joseph Blunt, 19 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of & with it a copy of the 3d. Vol of the Anual Register. As I was not a subscriber, it was my intention, as I intimated, to return the 2. precedings Vols. with wch I had been favored, as they might be useful to you in making up sets. Inattention in part, wth. a disappointed hope of findg. a private conveyance, must explain if it shd. not apologize for, the omission. I...
2349James Madison to Joseph Blunt, 29 May 1829 (Madison Papers)
I recd. Sir, some time ago your letter of the 8th Ulto accompanied by the 2d. volume of the "American Annual Register;" At a later day, the 1st. vol. was also recd. I am sorry it has not been in my power to give them such a perusal as was my wish. My health has been much interrupted since the opportunity was afforded; and is at present in so feeble a state, that at my advanced age, and with...
2350James Madison to Joseph Blunt, 25 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
Apprehending that I may have inadvertently addressed a letter on the 19th. which was intended for you, to Joseph Hunt , it is proper that I should authorize you to receive the letter, in case the mistake shd. have been committed. The letter inclosed, $15. in payment for the three Edited Vols of the annual Register. I may repeat now without apology a wish for a line from you on the occasion...