301To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 15 January 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Sales of Sixty Barrels Flour by Bernard Peyton 1823 Rich d for a/c Thomas Jefferson Esq: 13 Jan y To Jn o & W m Gilliat in Store at 30 Days: 42 Blls Superfine flour at $4⅞ $204.75 18 do. Fine do. 〃 4½ 81. 60
302To John Adams from George Sullivan, 11 January 1821 (Adams Papers)
As you take a deep interest in our College and the conduct of its affairs, I enclose you Mr Websters report made on that subject to the convention. Its object is to confirm by constitutional provision the law of Judge Parsons’ contrivance in 1810, re-enacted by an additional act in 1814.—laws admitted by the amendment itself to be invalid without this confirmation! This devise, to say the...
303Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Leake, 9 March 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of Feb. 26. and am sorry it is not in my power to give you the least information on the subject of it’s enquiry. you have justly imagined that a lapse of half a century, filled up with business of various kinds would probably have erased the recollection of the circumstances you mention. they have so compleatly done it as not to have left a single trace of them...
304From James Madison to Richard Peters, 17 December 1823 (Madison Papers)
I return my thanks for the agricultural Almanack for the coming year, the value of which is not a little enhanced by your instructive contributions. You take a refuting notice of the opinion that the grains of wheat are the ridus [ sic ] of the Hessian fly. This error commenced the appearance of the insect among us, and threatened to injure the foreign market for that great staple. The danger...
305Marie Louise Martel Walsh to Thomas Jefferson, 26 November 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
la haute Consideration et le profond respect que feu m r Walsh mon epoux m’a inspiré pour votre personne, joints a la conviction ou je Suis de votre Caractere genereux; m’enhardissent a vous entretenir de mes malheurs, et implorer votre Bienveillance pour la veuve d’un zelé Concitoyen, que vous avez daigné jadis honorer de votre puissante protection. Nommé Consul americain au port de Sette Sur...
306To Thomas Jefferson from Creed Taylor, 8 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Will you have the goodness to accept a copy of the journal of the law school; and believe me, when I assure you, how much gratified I should be, if the system should meet your approbation, and you would allow me, to make it known, through the medium of the press. Permit me, as one of your fellow citizens, to tender you, my most sincere thanks, for your unwearied exertions in the establishment...
307To John Adams from Hezekiah Niles, 5 March 1817 (Adams Papers)
I am, indeed, gratified by the receipt of your letter of the 27th ulto. The approbation of those we ourselves reverence for their virtues, is, perhaps, the sweetest reward for our efforts to be useful. Only eleven volumes of the Weekly Register are yet finished. These may be forwarded, if you please, immediately to Boston, & can be easily sent to you, through Mr. Dawes; or by my agent there,...
308To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 21 April 1826 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Wirt declined the offices proposed to him. Mr. Lomax has accepted the Professorship of Law, and will open his school on the 1st. day of July. He has paid us a visit, and his appointment appears to have given the highest degree of satisfaction to every body, Professors Students, Neighbors, and to none more than to myself. We have now 166. students, and on the opening of the Law school, we...
309George S. McKiernan to James Madison, 8 October 1834 (Madison Papers)
An individual, who is totally unknown to your Excellency, presumes to beg a slight favour, which lies only in your Excellency’s power to grant. As all he desires is a mere specimen of your Excellency’s hand writing an acknowledgement of the receipt of this letter, will be cherished as an invaluable treasure by one who has ever admired the wisdom, and sublime qualities of your Excellency. Your...
310Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 15 April 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
M. Leshot found me yet confined to my bed; he gave me 125 Dlrs, and by the time he returns from New York , I shall in all probability be enabled to procure the Stoves. Mr Slack goes tomorrow to Norfolk & thence to Charlottesville . As to the Seal, I must wait till I can get up, and procure a classic drawing of the Peplon. The Peace Minerva, I believe has wings to her helmet. I know of no...