2851Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Marx, 24 August 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a renewal of the two notes of 10,000.D. each, for which I am by endorsement responsible to the US. bank , for Col o W. C. Nicholas . I do this on his information that it will be recieved as sufficient for 60. days: within which term I will execute a bond jointly with him for the amount of these notes, with a third person made acceptable to the bank. in seeking for a 3 d name my...
2852From John Jay to Aaron Clark, 14 February 1820 (Jay Papers)
I have rec d . your Letter of the 29 Ult. inclosing a Prospectus of a proposed Publication of “New York State Papers”— If the Collection should be sufficiently comprehensive, and the Selection be judiciously made, the work will in my Opinion be justly entitled to general Patronage— You have undertaken a Task which requires too much Research and Investigation ^and Research^ to be hastily...
2853Ferdinando Fairfax to Thomas Jefferson, 13 March 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be presented to you by M r Thomas Ragland , one of the Committee of (5) Cadets, whose case, now before Congress , you probably have looked into. He has with him the best credentials, shewing his Qualifications, as one of the proficients, and as one of the Assist t Professors, at West-Point ; and his object in visiting you, is, to obtain your patronage, in seeking a respectable...
2854James Madison to Martin Van Buren, 14 February 1833 (Madison Papers)
J. M presents his respects to Mr. V. B. & thanks him for the Copy of the Report of the Joint Comtee of the Senate & Assembly of N.Y. on a Communication from the Governor kindly forwarded to him. He has recd. from a Perusal of the Document a just impression of the ability with which it was prepared & of the praiseworthy spirit of moderation & conciliation, which pervades it Draft (DLC) ; FC (ViU) .
2855Power of the President to Appoint Ministers and Consuls during Recess of the Senate, [post–6 May 1822] (Madison Papers)
Power of the President to appoint publick ministers & Consuls, in the recess of the Senate. The place of a foreign Minister or Consul is not an Office in the constitutional sense of the term. The place of a foreign minister or Consul is to be viewed, as created by the Law of Nations: to which the U.S. as an Independent nation is a party; and as always open for the proper functionaries, when...
2856Alden 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...
2857G. Woodson Payne to James Madison, 16 January 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have not the pleasure of a personal acquaintance with you but as you Marrid a near Relation of mine I hope that will be a sufficient apology for the liberty I have taken to introduce myself to you in this way, as it may suit your convenience to Call on me with your Lady on your return from the convention home, I assure you both it would afford myself & Mrs. Payne great Pleasure if you would...
2858Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 17 September 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
my letter to you respecting Williamsburgh was put in the post before I rec d yours . The Professorship which you do me the honour to propose is yet in the distance. I long to be settled somewhere, almost any where, provided I move to pecuniary advantage; for having the common motive of a family to provide for, I must act on that motive. I have written to Varro at Frankfort . When I am prepared...
2859From John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 26 August 1822 (Adams Papers)
Instead of four 5 dollar bills, I enclose you a draft, payable to your order , on a Bank in Philadelphia—I am a little shy of entrusting to the Mail Bank Bills payable to the bearer —for they are more apt than all others to make themselves wings and fly away—A draft which will not be paid without your endorsement is safer. We have had a little, but very little rain, and it comes too late to...
2860Thomas Jefferson to William J. Coffee, 14 June 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I am in the daily hope of hearing from you on the subject of the engraving of the ground plan of our University , as to price and any other particulars you would recommend. When in Bedford I examined the Doric entablature for which I should want ornaments, on the model of that of the Thermæ of Dioclesian , of which you took a note. my room will require 16 of the human busts, 20. ox sculls...
2861From James Madison to Mathew Carey, 7 December 1827 (Madison Papers)
Since the receipt of your two letters of the 5 & 6th. of Ocr. a third with additional proofs in the manufacturing cause, has called for my acknowledgts. I now pray you to accept them for the whole. Your second letter arrived in time, for the destruction of the documents accompanying the first; and I have disposed of the corrected ones as occasions offered, & shall do the same with those last...
As Mr. Pope is so good as to offer to convey your skates to Boston I have siezed the opportunity of writing you a few lines in answer to your Letter my dear Charles which was very gratifying to me as it afforded ample proofs of your being good at school by the compliment so handsomely paid you by Mr. Gould—Such a compliment when it is addressed by a person in the capacity of a master or...
2863From Thomas Jefferson to Augustus Elias Brevoort Woodward, 3 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 25. has been duly recieved. the fact is unquestionable that the Bill of rights and the Constitution of Virginia were drawn originally by George Mason, one of our really great men and of the first order of greatness. the history of the preamble to the latter is as follows. I was then at Philadelphia with Congress, and knowing that the Convention of Virginia was engaged in...
2864James Dinsmore and John M. Perry to University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 27 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
the Subscribers haveing leveled from the doric pavillion to the springs on the mountain —find the two first to be 6. feet above the water table—at the distance of 1100 yards—one hundred yards further is another sp r ing 26. feet above the water table of pavillion—and still further—say abut 60 yards there is another 75. feet above the s d level—all of these are bold good springs—the furtherest...
2865James Madison to A. G. Monroe, 12 November 1833 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter of the 29. Ult. I sincerely regret that the situation which suggested it is such as you describe it: and it would well accord with my good wishes that a more eligible one could be substituted, but that in which I am placed does not permit me to take the step to which your letter points. The numerous applications I have received for interpositions in behalf of...
2866Thomas Jefferson to George Washington Jeffreys, 12 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege your two letters of Apr. 8. & May 11. on the subject of the broad-tailed sheep. it is to be observed that there are different races of them, very distinct, & very different in merit, three of these have fallen under my observation. 1. those from the Cape of good hope with broad tails turned up like that of a nicked horse, long legs, light bodies & slight fleeces. 2. those...
2867From James Madison to James Monroe, 10 February 1820 (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd. your favor of the 5th. followed by a copy of the public documents; for which I give you many thanks. I should like to get a copy of the Journals of the Convention. Are they to be purchased & where? It appears to me, as it does to you, that a coupling of Missouri with Maine, in order to force the entrance of the former thro’ the door voluntarily opened for the latter is, to...
2868Genealogical Chart of the Quincy Family, 18 September 1823 (Adams Papers)
Quincy Family Crest Saer de Quincy Son of Robert, Son of Saer, was by King John. Ano, regnis) made Earle of Winchester Obijt Ano, 1219, quarto regni Henry tertij, his Bowels & heart had honourable Intermt, in the Abbey of Gerondon in Comt. Leicester Bears gules, 7 Masculs-Voided Or, 33, & Je Vide Mills’s of Honnor, p. 914. Quincy Family Genealogical Chart John Quincy Adams Coat of Arms Edmund...
2869To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Johnston, 4 April 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
In Compliance with the wishes of my friends and with my own inclination I am about publishing a narrative of my Capture & detention by the Indians as a prisoner in the year 1790—in which I have had the assistance of a friend much more Competent to such an undertaking than I can pretend to be. The work is in Considerable forwardness but will not be ready for the press for some time yet to Come....
2870James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, 19 April 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
My absence from this city on a visit to my farm in Loudoun , prevented an earlier attention to your letter of the 8 th , respecting the fund appropriated by the gen l assembly at its last Session, for the use of the university , expected to be deriv’d from the settlement of the claims of the State , on the general government. I now enclose you a report
2871From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 12 January 1818 (Adams Papers)
In your Letter of the 21st. of October you Say that Mrs Knox said to you that “her husband was the parent of the American Navy.” It is interesting to enquire what Idea that Lady could have had in her Mind. Have you Seen Mathew Careys History of the Rise and Progress of the American Navy? If you have read it you have Seen that the American Navy was begotten and born and a System of Naval...
2872From 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...
2873Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Henry Latrobe, [25] August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Our letters, crossing one another by the way, have produced some confusion. their dates are as follows, in the margin. your lres when rece d when answ d June 28. July 15. July 16 July 24 Aug. 2 Aug. 3. July 18 Aug. 7. Aug. 7. Aug. 12. Aug. 22. Aug. 24. I shall be glad to recieve your drawings; but not at this place, to which the mail is uncertain, and I shall be at Monticello
2874Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Account with William F. Gray, [ca. 20 January 1820] (Jefferson Papers)
Thomas Jefferson Esq r To William F. Gray Dr 1818 Octo 23 For 30 No s Edinburgh Review from No 28 to No 58 inclusive } 37 50 Nov r
2875From William Cranch to John Quincy Adams, 19 February 1825 (Adams Papers)
Mr. John Douglass Simms of Virginia is the son of Colo. Charles Simms for many years collector of the port of Alexandria, and wishes to obtain employment under government. You are not unacquainted with the revolutionary services of his father, who was a very brave officer, & distinguished himself at the defence of the fort at mud island. He was the personal friend of Genl. Washington and a...
2876From John Adams to John Farmer, 16 January 1823 (Adams Papers)
my apology for neglecting so long to acknowledge the receipt of your Historical Collections, is that eighty seven years is a heavy load to carry, or in the more expressive and more elegant language of one of my Farmers, the eightyeith year of a Mans life, is a hard outside roe of corn to hoe, but I am weary of alledging age and infirmity as excuses for procrastination.— You have sent me a very...
2877John Taylor to Thomas Jefferson, 24 July 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
When I first wrote to you on the private subject, I supposed that Col o Nicholas had left at least one young son, and that it would be better to pay $125 annually towards his education, than a larger sum at once. Upon learning from you the state of the family, it now seems to me that $500 contributed at once, will probably do them more good than the four annual advances. In a former letter you...
2878Thomas Jefferson to Tarlton Saunders, 19 April 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 9 th was duly recieved, and, having taken time to examine your statements of my debt , I find them correct and satisfactory: so that there is nothing to be agreed now between us but the times of payment. I have before stated to you my determination to sell property, and to relieve myself in that way as soon as business shall resume a settled course and a regular intercourse...
2879From James Madison to Henry B. Bascom, 27 March 1827 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 19th. inst. saying that the Trustees of the College recently established in Union Town have been pleased to call it by my name. Regarding every new Institution for the wholsome instruction of youth as a gain to the cause of national improvement and to the stability and prosperity of our free System of Government, I feel that my name is greatly honoured by such...
2880James Steptoe to Thomas Jefferson, 22 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received information this morning, that my Son George , who has been confined to his Bed for eight or ten days past with a violent Fever, is much worse, so much so, that his recovery is doubtful—I must see him today if possible—and this must be my apology for not being with you. RC ( DLC ); with PoC of TJ to Francis B. Deane, Willis Wilson, and John G. Daniel, 2 Aug. 1819 , on recto and...
2881To James Madison from Alexander Scott, 2 January 1820 (Madison Papers)
In addition to the acts of kindness heretofore received from you, it wou’d seem like imposing on benevolence to make any further request. Presuming however further on that benevolence, I once more take the liberty of soliciting your friendly assistance, promising at the same time that I shou’d be much distressed, were you to do any thing on my account, in the smallest degree repugnant to your...
2882To John Adams from François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 16 November 1824 (Adams Papers)
I delay’d to write you a few lines—to congratulate you cordially on the happy arrival of the 30th of Oct—and join your Relatives and frends in celebrating the anniversary of your 89 Birthday fostering the hope, that before this time I might have Seen a happy desired conclusion in our Legislature—with regard to the Presidential election—But the caucus-cabal thus far disappointed me in my ardent...
2883Enclosure: Notes on Occult Knowledge by Robert Miller (1775–1861), [ca. 1 September 1818] (Jefferson Papers)
Atoms are Natures Laws Seperate and apart, they are Eternal and obtaind from fate . Seeds are their Declinations or unions in planting all her various fields of changes. Heaven is the Seat of their union, or House of Light and Life and they are the Stars which Enlivn it. the Moon their Disposition to unite or womb of all unions. the Sun Light, Life and cause, yet born after the Stars & Moon...
2884James Madison to Ralph Randolph Gurley, 19 February 1833 (Madison Papers)
I have received your Letter of the 15th informing me that I have been unanimously elected to the Office of President by the American Colonisation Society." The great and growing importance of the Society and the signal Philanthropy of its members give to the distinction conferred on me a value of which I am deeply sensible. It is incumbent on me at the same time to say, that my very advanced...
2885From James Madison to Robert H. Rose, 5 October 1827 (Madison Papers)
Yours of Augst. 4. came safe to hand after a detour into which it was misled by an identity in the names of place. I am very sorry for the disappointing incidents it mentions as well on your account as my own. I hope they will be more than balanced by the success of the Crop on hand, which from its exuberant promise at such an advance of the season can scarcely fail to enable you to make good...
2886Thomas 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.
2887George Joy to James Madison, 22 June 1830 (Madison Papers)
It is long since I had the pleasure of addressing you, and still longer since I had that of hearing from you. The Time was when I should have troubled you with a long narrative of my political movements; but I have great repugnance to invading your repose:— otherwise I could have sent you half a Dozen folio Sheets of Correspondence with the Powers that be; in which you would recognize...
2888Sloan & Wise to Thomas Jefferson, 18 September 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Contrary to our wishes, but in justification, of our private reputations , we feel it an imperious duty to write you on a subject, that we are almost certain, must be unpleasant, to you. We have been made the instruments, (from present appearances, An imposition) of giving publicity to a “ letter from Virginia ” in which it is said that the “chief of the elevated groupe” at Monticello...
2889James Madison to John Quincy Adams, 22 March 1828 (Madison Papers)
Your favour of the 29th. Ult: accompanying the little packet for Mrs. Madison from Mr. Hughes, was duly recd., and she wishes you to be assured of her particular sensibility to your polite attention. The article in question did not, according to any suggestions of her memory, merit the friendly solicitude felt by Mr. Hughes: but the obligations to him are not the less on that account. As you...
2890From John Adams to Edward Everett, 2 September 1820 (Adams Papers)
I have received within this hour, the Inclosed letter from Mr. Jefferson—Which, as it is infinitely too Learned and scientifical for my dull Genius, and poor attainments to grapple, I send to you—who are, or will be, equal to all these things—If any Man is, or is like to be—I send it especially, as it has relation, to the North American Review—As I have barely read it over, and not yet...
2891Spencer Roane to Thomas Jefferson, 27 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty to introduce to you the bearer, M r Arthur S: Brockenbrough . He goes up to see whether his services will be needed by the trustees of the university , and whether it would be worth his while to leave his occupations here. He is a man of great respectability. He was regularly bred a house-joiner, and has, I beleive, a good taste in architecture, of which the new banks in...
2892Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 1 September [1819] (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 28 th came to hand yesterday. the engagements for work, as well as I can state them from imperfect memorandums which I have with me aided by recollection, have been as follows. in the Western range the Pavilion N o 1. the brick work was engaged to Carter & Philips , the wooden work to Oldham ; N o 2. is done with. N o 3. brick work and wooden work engaged to
2893To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 2 January 1818 (Madison Papers)
Expecting daily an answer from the President authorising me to sign the within for him I had rather not take on myself a 3d. and therefore send it to you. I have adopted your amendments and made some other small ones. To economise writing I make one letter do for the other gentlemen, joining you with them, altho’ it contains no more than I had before written to you. After signing yourself be...
2894Thomas Jefferson to Louis Pio, 13 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved, my dear Sir, your letter of Aug. 29. with great sensibility. it recalls to my memory scenes in earlier life which were very interesting, and many of them past with you. I have not forgotten either them or you, altho’ so much of time and space has intervened, and events of so great and different characters have occupied our attention. you have seen the horrors of Robespierre ,...
2895James Madison to Reynolds Chapman, 22 December 1830 (Madison Papers)
Yours enclosing the paper of Mr Patton was duly recd. Fearing that the delay in hearing from me may be misunderstood, I think it not amiss to mention that I have been prevented from giving it the proper attention by several jobs of the pen, & especially by a painful Rhumatic attack not yet abated. It will give me pleasure to comply with the request you communicated as soon as I can: though it...
2896To James Madison from Edward Wyer, 11 February 1820 (Madison Papers)
Permit me to offer you two iron casts of Washington the well beloved, which I had taken from my seal [ sic ] at Berlin last year. They are said to be good. Ever mindful of your kind attention to me during the time you was in public life, I remain Dear Sir, with all respect, Your devoted Servant. May the smiles of Heaven rest in your abode, and continue to make you happy. P S. If you have any...
When I left you I did not think you were so soon to assume the sacerdotal vestment but I sincerely congratulate you on having even the external appearance of that which I so much advise and of course cannot wish to shorten the term which places you in so respectable a light— That you should be eclipsed is not remarkable at all—but that you should make great exertions to shine by your own light...
2898John L. E. W. Shecut to Thomas Jefferson, 11 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I cannot deny myself the pleasure of renewing to you the assurances of the high sense I entertain of your exalted character, your unbounded esteem for the Arts and Sciences and your Fostering regard for the Infant Literature of our happy Country. It has impell’d me to seek you in retirement, to lay before you an Essay on the late awful disease with which our City has been visited. Feeble as...
2899James Madison to Marquis de Lafayette, 21 August 1828 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Borowski the Bearer, is very desirous of being presented to you, & has been recommended to me from a source, and in terms, that make it a pleasure to give him this introduction. His estimable qualities and interesting communications will, I doubt not, quickly satisfy you of his title to it Always & Affectionately Yours RC (Cornell University Library: Dean Collection of Lafayette); draft...
2900To Thomas Jefferson from Jonathan Boucher Carr, 7 April 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Note of yesterday has been handed me by the Boy—From a conversation will Gen l Cocke on Tuesday, I expect I am apprised of the nature of the subjects on which you wish to see me, & as far as they relate to matters within my Functions as the Atty for the County, feel every disposition to do any thing within the limits of my authority as such, to support & punish any state of Things...