6601Constantine S. Rafinesque to Thomas Jefferson, 10 August 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I propose to describe in this last letter some remarkable remains of sculpture, &c. belonging to or performed by the Alleghawians, which have lately fallen under my notice. They consist in 16 specimens. No. 1. Is the head of an Idol, about one inch in diameter. It is made of a soft white stone, a real pagodite or graphic Talc (Bildstein of the Germans) which may be easily carved with iron or...
6602Thomas Jefferson: Memorandum, Estimate of Funds for Rotunda, 31 Dec. 1823, 31 December 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
1823 $ 1823 Dec 31 st Fund in hand or due by Bursars acc t } 44.295.09½ Dec r Debts by Proctors acc t 3. 6 71.11½ Off Annuity of 1824 15.000 estimate of work to be done 1.800.
6603From John Adams to Jonathan Mason, 3 October 1820 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your kind letter—And will proceed with my abrupt narrative— The practice of the British Government—by their instrument the Governor, and his friends and subordinate Agents in this little Parish of Quincy—was as Arbitrary and disgusting as their professed Religions, and Political principles and Theory.—You know the general History of Governor Shirley but perhaps you may not...
6604To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 13 December 1827 (Madison Papers)
In the expectation of finding there a letter from Mr Coolidge, I rode to the post-office yesterday, and was not disappointed. From this, I give you the following extracts. Speaking of Mr W. he says “he is, I have no doubt, fitted for the place, though I should not suppose him equal at present to Bonnycastle or Key.” “If Jones does not accept, or leaves you, I should recommend to appoint W. He...
6605William Alston to Thomas Jefferson, 10 November 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
It is highly gratifying to me to be held in remembrance by one whom I so greatly respect & esteem. I feel, very sensibly, the kind Sentiments towards me, that you have been pleased to express in your very friendly letter , which I did not receive until lately, as it lay a long time in the Post-Office, in Charleston , where I have not been since my return to Carolina ; and my friend there, not...
6606Charles J. Ingersoll and Others to James Madison, 1 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
The Penn Society, request the honor of Mr. Madison’s company at their Anniversary Dinner, to take place the 25 instant, at 5 o’clock in the afternoon at the Mansionhouse Hotel, Philadelphia. The favor of an answer is requested and a communication of your toast if you do not attend. RC (printed invitation) (DLC) . Docketed by JM.
Mary is amusing me as usual in crying and whining because I suggest to her the necessity of some occupation She has written one page of your fathers Bible Letters and imagines that after such an immense exertion she must rest from her labours altogether. I will leave it to you to decide whether the Sabbath is to be literally understood as a day of total inactivity both of mind and body or...
6608From Thomas Jefferson to Jonathan Thompson, 11 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 3 d is just now recieved, and I have this day instructed the Proctor of the University to remit you immediately the sum of 658. D 32 c on account of that institution which wish the 127.19 formerly remitted for my portion of what was due, makes up the whole sum of 785.51 the only motive for proposing a postponement of the duties was the supposition that Congress might more...
6609From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Carrington Cabell, 11 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
We are dreadfully non-plussed here by the non-arrival of our three Professors. we apprehend that the idea of our opening on the 1 st of Feb. prevails so much abroad (altho’ we have always mentioned it doubtfully) as that Students will assemble on that day, without awaiting the further notice promised. to send them back will be discouraging, and to open an University without Mathematics or...
6610Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Brown, 3 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer of this is the son of mr James Maury an antient class-mate of mine, & the only one now living. I am not personally acquainted with this gentleman; but I love the father, and cannot be indifferent to the wishes of the son to be made known to the good of your state which he is about to visit. I commit him therefore to your kind attentions & good offices, and, from what all say of him...
6611Conway Whittle to James Madison, 26 January 1835 (Madison Papers)
It has been my good fortune to be selected as the channel by which to forward a package to you which appears to have come originally from Havre. A box to your address was to day delivered at this Office from on board a New York packet. On reflection I have concluded to acquit myself of the trust by sending the box to Major Gibbon the Collector of Richmond whom I have requested to send it...
6612From James Madison to Mathew Carey, 11 June 1824 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of June 5th. in behalf of Mr. Saunderson came duly to hand. I have so much confidence in your judgment of his character & scholarship, that I should feel a pleasure in forwarding his views of turning them more to his own account as well as that of others. But I know too little of the condition or wants of the Seminaries in this State, other than its Embryo University, to venture on...
6613Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Jones, 15 January 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I am very thankful to you for the trouble you have been so kind as to take with respect to my wines and other articles recieved from mr Cathalan of Marseilles . I import annually my wines from that place, and as there are not many vessels going thither from our ports, my correspondent is obliged to send them by any vessel which happens there to whatever port bound on her return, and consigns...
6614To Thomas Jefferson from Rufus King, 25 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
According to my letter of the 20 th Ultimo, I have now the honor to send you enclosed the promised Despatch of M r Secretary Canning. I gave M r Barlow notice thereof, and measures are prepared to have the matter brought to a Conclusion—A M r Warwick of Virginia is to ship the goods to your order in Virginia, taking care to have them previously insured—The first shipment will probably take...
My journal does most assuredly take a considerable portion of my time, my dear George, but that is not the reason of my not having written to you so often as you seem to have expected—I need not tell you who know me so well, that I am apt to fret under disappointments, and more particularly when they proceed from those whose interests are so deeply connected with my happiness, and that it...
6616From Thomas Jefferson to John Winn, 25 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Gentlemen, for your kind invitation to participate in the celebration of the approaching Anniversary of the birth-day of our nation. no occasion could arise of higher excitement to my feelings than one which recalls the recollections of that day; no society with which I could join more cordially than with that of my beloved neighbors, in congratulations on it’s happy issue.—but...
6617To John Adams from J.B. Binon, 21 January 1819 (Adams Papers)
Vous avez sans doute vu dans les journaux que le congrés s’occuppe d’eriger un monument à la memoire de l’immortel G. Wachington; j’aurois intention de faire un modéle de ce monument, comme je trouve differents inconvénients, a éxécuter le plan projetté par la résolution de 1783 je desirerois faire part de mes idées au committé chargé d’en faire le rapport; n’étant connu d’aucun de ces...
6618Reynolds Chapman to James Madison, 3 April 1836 (Madison Papers)
I am about to trouble you in a matter of delicacy and of interest. I do so, not without great reluctance: indeed nothing could impel me to it, but what I consider an imperious duty to a friend, and to truth. Mr. Smith, the competitor of Mr. Slaughter, in the Senatorial Canvass, asserted on thursday last, at a publick meeting, in the upper part of this county, as a gentleman of intelligence and...
6619To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 29 March 1825 (Madison Papers)
Not knowing whether you may have obtained mr. Barber’s acceptance in the visit you proposed, I have thought of a proposition which it has been suggested to me would reconcile him to our offer. If therefore he has not accepted that of joining us at the end of his first circuit, and you would approve of giving him a year on his assurance that he will then accept, be so good as to forward him the...
6620To Thomas Jefferson from Robert G Scott, 3 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I must apologize, for trespassing on the slight acquaintance, I have with you, in introducing to you Mr Nicholas Brown; a most respectable citizen of Rhode Island, & son of the Honorable Nicholas Brown, the founder of Brown University—Mr Brown visits Charlottesville, to examine the University, & obtain some information in relation to its discipline, the course of instruction &c—I am Sir with...
6621From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Adams, 11 March 1819 (Adams Papers)
My Lecture was intended to warn you against imprudently expressing your feelings even in a good cause, and to guard you against misconstruction. I know your heart, and how utterly incapable you are of so selfish a feeling as that I mentioned in my last; but every body has not the same acquaintance with you, and are therefore liable to misjudge you—Your reason for making your visits less...
6622From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Earle, 24 September 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Aug. 28 with the pamphlet accompanying it was not recieved until the 8 th instant. That our creator made the earth for the use of the living and not of the dead; that those who exist not, can have no use nor right in it, no authority or power over it; that one generation of men cannot foreclose or burthen it’s use to another, which comes to it in it’s own right, and by the same...
6623From 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...
6624Gerard Troost to Thomas Jefferson, 21 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to transmit you two books one of M r Faujas de S t Fond and the other of D r Kesteloot with a letter of M r Thoúin . having been Captured at Sea—and having been Subjected to other disasters of war, are the reasons why I was not able to forward them Sooner as I only receive them this Spring. It is only by accident that I can Send you this works put under my care; it was not my...
6625To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 11 November 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I am favor’d with yours of the 6th: ul t & have this day purchased a dft: on Boston for $73.93. at a Precu er of 1 p r C t , & remitted it to Gen l Henry A. S. Dearborne, on your a/c, as directed, which places at your debit on this a/c $74.67—I also paid W m Barrett $750 on your a/c, as requested, on the 6th: Inst:, & hold his rec t for the same When your dft: for $220 Dollars, favor W. &...
6626John Barnes to Thomas Jefferson, 1 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
This morning the Hon ble Rufus King of the Senate called on me to make inquirey into the particulars of the late Gen l K— Affairs—having learnt of my Agency thro you &: &c—I answered him—namely—to what was generally known. viz: that the good Gen l K— had previous—to his leaving this Country left you his sole Executor—by his Will—to which—the late John Dawson —then a Member of Congress
6627From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to George Washington Adams, 14 July 1825 (Adams Papers)
We have been suffering so much from intense heat this Summer my dear George it has been impossible for me to attend to any thing like a regular correspondence and indeed our lives pass in such ar a routine of invariable sameness there is not wherewithal to furnish an anecdote for a Letter or a line to interest a reader— I yesterday received a melancholy Letter from Mr. Pope announcing the...
6628From James Madison to Benjamin Waterhouse, [ca. 16] March 1817 (Madison Papers)
On a long list of epistolary debts which I could not attend to, during the period of my public duties, is your favor containing explanations relating to “A Journal of a young man &c.” I beg leave now to thank you for that mark of your attention. The reception given by the public to the work is the best evidence of its interesting character; and a perusal of a part of it only, a sufficient one...
6629Hutchins G. Burton to Thomas Jefferson, 2 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have purchased for you, a barrel of Wine two years old.—I think it much better than the barrel I sent M r Eppes —I shall forward it by the first opportunity to Richmond —I hope it may not be adulterated, as the Waggonners sometimes take the liberty of playing tricks with articles of this kind, confided to their care,— It will not be necessary to give M r Gibson any instructions about a draft...
6630To John Adams from Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 13 July 1820 (Adams Papers)
Having observed in the papers that the reason assigned for your declining to accept the invitation on the 4h. was on account of indisposition Mr. Adams and myself are anxious to hear from you and to be assured that it was rather the dread of over fatigue than real indisposition which caused your refusal to attend. It would have been altogether improper to make such an exertion and I rejoice...
6631To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Walker Gilmer, 12 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just arrived in 35 days from Cowes, of Continuel tempest, emaciated to a shadow, not by sea sickness only, but by the bitter aggravations of a violent fever the whole way, exasperated by want of a physician, of medicine, of food, of rest, & of attendance. I shall be here some time to recruit. I am happy to inform you, I have engaged all the professors but for the chair of natural...
6632Thomas Jefferson to Josiah Meigs, 13 August 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to your enquiry as to the proper mode of application for a Professorship in the University of Virginia ? I can only say we are not yet advanced to the point where Professors will be wanting. our whole funds are applied to the comp le tion of our buildings, and when that they will become liberated from that so as to enable us to employ Professors is quite uncertain. I am very...
6633To Thomas Jefferson from Ira H. Taylor, 21 February 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
In behalf of the Franklin Literary Society, of Jefferson College, we have the pleasure, to inform you that you have been elected an honerary member, of our infant institution, Contemplating the pleasure, and advantage, which, we may derive from having an experienced Patriot, a Statesman, and a friend of science, and religion, an honerary member, one, too, who has taken so deep an interest in...
6634From John Adams to Mr. Thomas, 5 October 1820 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for a valuable present of the transactions and Collections of the American Antiquarian Society, it is a work no less valuable than curious— Posterity as well as present Age will be under no less great obligations to your society—for their labours and researches—I have always regreted my inability to become a Member of it—but a great variety of reasons too many to be enumerated had...
6635From James Madison to William F. Gray, 24 October 1823 (Madison Papers)
I return my thanks for your obliging aid in procuring the remittance of $154.[o]4. to Mr Copeland, and inclose that amt. with the $22 due to yourself. The little surplus of $3.96. may pass into our future acct. Draft ( DLC ).
6636James Dinsmore’s Report on Tin to Central College Board of Visitors, 10 November 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Haveing been requested by the visitors of the Central College to Examine and report on the Eligibility of Tin as a Covering for Houses as Introduced in Staunton —I beg leave to inform them that I have repaired to that place. was Introduced to the owners of the two Principal Houses Coverd with Tin— m r Smith , and m r Cowan and also to m r Brook the workman who put it on—they all acted with...
6637To Thomas Jefferson from Sidney Edwards Morse, 18 February 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Accompanying this letter is a New System of Modern Geography, prepared by me during the past year, for the use of colleges and academies. The part of the work, in which I have presumed you would be interested, is the Appendix, & more especially, the Tables relating to the population of the United States, included between pages 604 & 622. Some of the results mentioned in the Remarks on the...
6638John P. Kennedy to James Madison, 28 July 1834 (Madison Papers)
At the suggestion of my friend Mr John Barney, I have taken the liberty to send you a copy of Swallow Barn which will reach you with this letter. In this attempt to make a few pictures of the characteristic scenery of the low country, you may perhaps find some agreeable recollections awakened, and derive an hour’s amusement from that source. I shall feel happy in the belief that I have, even...
6639From John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 20 August 1826 (Adams Papers)
I have received your Letters of the 13th. and 14th from Lebanon, and rejoice with exceeding joy at the recovery of your health—From other Letters received here I learn that you intended to remain at Lebanon, only a very few days, and I scarcely know whether this will find you there My Letter of the 17th. which I hope you will receive this day will inform you of Mr Boyleston’s affectionate...
6640To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 12 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I sent forward your cask Wine some days ago, & hope it is safely with you before this—the Bundle of Books from New York, of which you enclosed me a bill of lading, was rec d to day, & immediately forwarded to J. & Raphael, together with another small parcel, from a M r Lewis of Spottsylvania, intended for yourself & D r Blaettermann—I hope they will also get safe to hand— I am deeply mortified...
6641Frederick A. Mayo to Thomas Jefferson, 7 April 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
The Books you where pleased to send to be bound, are done, but the bundle beeing too large (as I supposed) to forward by Mail, I therefore left the same at Capt: Peyton ’s, who informd me that he had chances most every Day to forward the same by waggon, he also promised to give the Bundle to some carefull person, I inclosed with your honour’s books, also Hennig ’s Justice , which should have...
6642From Richard Rush to Abigail Smith Adams, 2 April 1817 (Adams Papers)
I am to thank you for the kind wishes contained in your favor of the 24. of last month. You have often, indeed, gratified and flattered me by similar ones, and I feel how much I owe to your over partiality. The appointment of Mr Adams gives, as far as I can ascertain, the highest satisfaction. If ever a citizen of our country owed his elevation to the solid merits of his own character, your...
6643To John Jay from Edward Livingston, 1 December 1822 (Jay Papers)
On my return to this place, I had the honor to receive your Letter of the 28 th July last,— acknowledging the receipt of a Pamphlet which I took the Liberty to address to you. Aware of the dignified manner in which you had voluntarily abstracted yourself from public concerns, I should not have offered, any disquisition of a merely political nature, as one that would have afforded you...
6644To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Walker Gilmer, 13 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have deferred writing to you, with the daily expectation of setting out to see you. My strength after so long a confinement naturally returns very slowly, and even now it would fatigue me too much to travel by the stage to Albemarle, nor can I consent to accept the private carriages which have been offered me. I am very desirous to see you, & to report to you fully my conduct, opinions &c....
6645John G. Robert (for Patrick Gibson) to Thomas Jefferson, 6 April 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
When I wrote you on the 30 th ult o annexing sales of your Flour & your acc t curr t I was not aware of your notes being curtailed in the V a Bk (80$) which reduces it now to 1450$ the bal e therefore I have in hand which you can draw for will be only about $57— the dfts fav r
6646Thomas G. Watkins to Thomas Jefferson, 5 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I have made this year a small experiment of r the probable advantage of raising the mangel Wurtzel of the germans in our part of the country—It is the Disette of the f French —scarcity root of the English—Beta altissima of Botanists. Those I send you are not quite the largest I have—one with the leaves weighed 10 ¾ ℔s without—8 ℔s— I intend to report
6647From James Madison to Clara Baldwin Bomford, 8 September 1822 (Madison Papers)
J Madison with his best respects & many thanks returns Mrs Bomford’s manuscript copy of the History of Arnold’s plot by Mr. Marbois, which has been so long detained for want of a good conveyance. He had erroneously supposed that the history contained some incidental mention of Napoleon’s motives for parting with Louisiana to the U.S. with which Mr. Marbois must have been particularly...
6648To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Walker Gilmer, 6 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received both packets you forwarded. I arrived here this morning at 10 o’clock, and have already taken a birth, on board the Cortes, (Capt. De Cost) which sails on Saturday (the 8 th ) at 10’ o’clock for Liverpool. Permit me to suggest that if the Bursar has any option in the matter, he would find the Bank of Virginia more prompt and liberal in its dealings than the F.rs. The Cortes is...
6649From James Madison to Henry Lee, 25 June 1824 (Madison Papers)
I have received, sir, your letter of the 18th. inclosing the proposal of a new publication under the title of “American Gazette & Literary Journal.” Of the prospectus I cannot say less than that it is an interesting specimen of cultivated talents. I must say at the same time that I think it concedes too much to a remedial power in the press over the spirit of party. Besides the occasional and...
6650Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Potter, 17 January 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Doct r Potter and his thanks for his learned and ingenious treatise on contagion which he has been so kind as to send him. he has read it with great satisfaction, and the more as it maintains an opinion which has long been his own and which he once ventured to declare in a public document in the hope that it might induce foreign governments to relax in...