4381Thomas Jefferson to Levett Harris, 22 June 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 15. and sincerely regret the misunderstanding mentioned in it, of which that letter was the first notice. I can say conscientiously that your services gave me, while in office, the most perfect satisfaction. not apprised of the service I can render you at the interview proposed, retired as I am from all intermedling with the transaction s of the...
4382From James Madison to Levett Harris, 21 June 1820 (letter not found) (Madison Papers)
¶ To Levett Harris. Letter not found. 21 June 1820 . Offered for sale in John Heise Autographs, Catalogue A (1921), item 26. This letter was probably the one listed for sale in Stan. V. Henkels Catalogue No. 836 (2 Feb. 1900), item 4, as to an unidentified correspondent.
4383Thomas Jefferson to Levett Harris, 12 December 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to return you thanks for mr Adelung ’s view of the languages of the earth, and to pray you to make them acceptable to him also for this mark of his attention. it is a work of vast learning and unparalleled application. it seems to present a Summary of the great Vocabulary of which I had a copy thro’ your agency & kindness. I am sorry we lost the pleasure of your visit at the time you...
4384From James Madison to Levett Harris, 24 February 1826 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 8th. expressing your solicitude concerning the debt of J. P. Todd, on which I am sorry it is not in my power to make any definite communication. His protracted absence leaves me without such a knowledge of the extent of his situation as might throw light on the suggestions suited to it. It is his wish I trust, to give to the transaction so unfortunate in its...
4385From James Madison to Levett Harris, 29 March 1826 (Madison Papers)
I have recd yours of the 21st. inclosing a copy of your correspondence with J. P. Todd, and referring to expressions in mine of Feby. 24. The correspondence accords pretty much wth. my inferences from your former letters. With respect to the expressions, I must explain them by saying that I regarded the transaction in its origin, unfortunate to both the parties, blameable also in one of them,...
4386Thomas Jefferson to Levett Harris, 21 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return from a visit to a distant and occasional residence of mine, I found here your letter of the 2 d inst. with the Essay of Professor Fischer for whose attention in sending it to me I am very thankful, and, should you have other occasion to write to him, I will pray you to express my thanks to him. I assure you that I am disappointed in your failure to be nominated to Petersbg . soon...
4387Thomas Jefferson to Levett Harris, 3 August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of July 24 . came to hand yesterday, and I sincerely congratulate you on your safe arrival in your native country. you will find it I am sure much altered from what you left it . a great but somewhat dropsical increase of wealth, with a vast progress in luxury. I am much flattered by the notice of the Emperor . I have been acting on the humble field of promoting peace, and leaving...
4388Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Harrison, 17 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Dec. 14. came to hand last night only, and that of July 11. was the only previous one I had recieved so that if an intermediate one was written, your conjecture is just that it had never come to my hands. mr Gwathney delivered the folio MS. safe, accompanied by a written Mem o from mr C. B. Page addressed to him, & only noting that it was to be delivered to me. the pocket MS....
4389Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Harrison, 26 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
The American Philosophical society (at Philadelphia ) are in possession of a MS. journal of Col o Byrd , father of the late Col o W m Byrd , while he was on the line of Virginia & Carolina . I suppose it went with the Westover
4390James Madison to Gessner Harrison, 10 August 1828 (Madison Papers)
Learning from Mr. Johnson, who had been requested to communicate with you on the subject of the vacant Professorship of Antient Languages in the University of Virginia, that you would accept the same on the terms prescribed by the visitors, I now have the pleasure to enclose the authorized appointment, and to offer you the expression of my esteem and of my best wishes. [enclosure] In persuance...