651John Steele to Thomas Jefferson, 13 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 27 th ult. was duly received, and the two cases of wine have been forwarded to Richmond agreeably to advice, as ⅌. enclosed bill of lading. I send you also a memorandum of the duty, freight and other charges—Any service that you may occasionally require will be rendered with pleasure RC ( ViU: TJP-ER ); endorsed by TJ as received 1 Sept. 1818 and so recorded in SJL . RC ( DLC...
652Charles G. Haines to Thomas Jefferson, 18 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of sending you my pamphlet, concerning the Great Western Canal, written at the request of The New York Corresponding Association for the promotion of Internal Improvements . I cannot but congratulate a Statesman, so distinguished as yourself among the Fathers of our Republic, that you have lived to see the day, when your toils and your sacrifices are repaid by the...
653Victor Adolphus Sasserno to Thomas Jefferson, 18 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your honoured letter of april 5 in due time, it mentions, your preceding of feb. 22 , which has not reached me till now, the same is with my consular commission you think in my power; i certainly would not have failed to make it Know to you, and to answer to your letter; t’is the less i ought do in return of the trouble i have caused you for the said commission, i don’t forget it...
654Ate. Bourier to Thomas Jefferson, 20 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Je viens d’ètre informé que qu’ une académie d’enseignement allait S’établir sous peu à charlottes-ville . Dans le cas oû il faudrait quelqu’un pour enseigner la langue Française, Je prends la liberté de me recommander à vous pour l’emploi de professeur. Veuillez avoir la bonté de m’addresser votre réponse, au Soin de M r le Doct r S. Henkel ( New-Market .) avec qui je demeure actuellement. Je...
655Nathaniel Bowditch to Thomas Jefferson, 20 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I did myself the honor to present you a few months Since some mathematical papers , printed in the fourth volume of the Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences . I have now taken the liberty to forward another paper of the same series, lately printed, which I hope you will do me the honor to accept. RC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ as received 2 Sept. 1818 and so recorded in SJL . RC (...
656Robert B. Stark to Thomas Jefferson, 20 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
At the request of M r Rob t Greenway of Dinwiddie —I address you—for the purpose of making a tender of a Botanical work (in manuscript)—accompanied with a “ Hortus siccus ”—written & carefully collated by his Father, the late D r James Greenway . It purports to be a collection of three hundred plants, growing spontaneously in Virginia & adjacent parts of North Carolina
657Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 21 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Our election for the chemical chair comes on the first day of September . The issue is uncertain. I think the family influence of M r Rob. Hare is likely to prevail. I have received an invitation from De Witt Clinton , D r Hosack and D r M c Neven
658Spencer Roane to Thomas Jefferson, 22 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
On my arrival at this place, a few days ago, I found your favour of 28 th June . The postmaster here had not sent it to Hanover , where I usually reside in the spring & Summer.—I am much flattered by the terms of your invitation, and should certainly have called on you had that letter been duly received. As it was, I sh d have given myself that pleasure, had not my departure been delayed ’till...
659Thomas Appleton to Thomas Jefferson, 26 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have receiv’d, Sir, only this morning, your letter in date of 4 th of April , covering the Statement of your account with Mad: Pini ; and as a vessel will depart for Balt o in the course of an hour, it affords me just the time to say, that your letter was accompanied by one from m r John Vaughan , mentioning, “that he then inclos’d a bill of exchange by S: Girard on La fitte & C o
660Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 26 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I write now in reply to yours from the warm Springs, of the 7 th Instant . D r Patterson is not chosen Chemical Professor, nor do I think he will be. The election does not take place till the first day of September . The event you shall be informed of, without delay. If I should not succeed (a very possible case) M. Correa , M rs Cooper and myself, set out forthwith for Charlotteville . She is...
661William D. Simms to Thomas Jefferson, 28 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
In the absence of the Collector, I have the honor to address you, with the information, that I have shipped (via Norfolk ) nine Boxes of wine and on e Bale of Macaroni, to the care of M r Gibson at Richmond .— Below is a note of the duties and charges which I have paid. Am t of Duty on wine 8 Bottles
662Richard Claiborne to Thomas Jefferson, 29 [August] 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Within 2 or 3 days of each other, I received your friendly favor of the 10 th of May last , and one from the Marquis De Lafayette . Such a working of feelings as took place within my breast, at the occurrence, you may very well imagine. Reflecting too that we were among the few remaining characters of old revolutionary times, I was filled with a serious degree of melancholy. But providence...
663Alfred H. Dashiell to Thomas Jefferson, September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me for one moment to obtrude myself on y r notice.—Being about to establish an Academy near Balt o I am anxious to secure all means of success. As you were pleased to express a favourable opinion of the School near N London , & did me the honour of placing y r grandson under my care, could you send me a line w h I might give to the publick as a recommendation?.— Excuse, Sir, the liberty...
664Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 1 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Hare was elected to the chemical Chair of this University to day: Hare 10. Cooper 7. Patterson 3. On a second vote the three for D r Patterson came over to Hare . I have therefore lost no reputation, it being generally understood that the family influence of M
665Robert Miller (1775–1861) to Thomas Jefferson, 1 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I Take the Libberty of Enclosing for your inspection, a few Heads of a Subject I have been Employ’d in for Some Months. I cannot Suppose it is Strange to you, but certainly it is to myself. chance and a Little spare time has Enabled me to Go a Length that Alarms myself. Yet I Should think the pursuit of Knowledge and Truth Should not be Laid asside, meerly to please the caprices of Self Styl’d...
666Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 2 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
W d it not be well to get some thing like the inclosed inserted in the papers of Virginia , Kentucky , & Carolina , with a set of queries whe r this is not the time to ascertain if students cannot be taught medecine in Virginia by Virginians, as well as in Phila a by Virginians? Whe r the morals as well as the studies, and the expences also, of the sons of virginia planters, could not be as...
667Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 3 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
M. Correa and I will set out about the 16 th . He will have to stay 2 or 3 days in Washington : we then set off for your Place. In mean time, I think the present opportunity afforded us by Hare ’s election ought not to be lost; but the moment should be taken to appeal to the Parents in Virginia , on the strange infatuation of sending their children to be educated here, when they could have...
668James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, 3 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
mr Poinsett , whose name & character are I presume well known to you will have the pleasure of giving you this introduction. He was employd very usefully in S o America , several years, under mr Madison , & had previously travelled thro’ most of the European countries & particularly Russia , by whose Sovereign he was known, & treated with much attention. I expected to have presented him...
669Stephen Cathalan to Thomas Jefferson, 7 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Poinsot , now at Cette , Recommended to me, by a Relation of mine, M r J s Cathalan of Marseillan , has Requested me to Send him a Letter in his Behalf addressed by me to you, & to be Forwarded by him Self; (by 2 ta
670Archibald Stuart to Thomas Jefferson, 8 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I presume you have seen M r Wirt’s Sketches of the life of Patrick Henry ; and that he denies M r H. favored the project of Establishing a Dictator during the revolutionary War.—Even doubts respecting events of such recent date tend greatly to impair the credit of History.—There are many now living who witnessed the part M r Henry took on that subject.— After the Assembly was dispersed at...
671James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, 9 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Sometime ago you intimated to me a desire to dispose of a small tract of land, which you have between mr Alexander s & my land lying below the Blenhims tract. As this is detatched from your other lands, it is probable, that you may still be desirous of parting from it, and that it may fall into other hands, [which I should regret] without an arrangment between us. If my impression is correct,...
672Honoré Julien to Thomas Jefferson, 11 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
je vous Ecrit ce peu de Lignes que je Desire qui Vous trouve en Bonne Santé …. ainsi que La famille de M r et M dm Randolph .— vous Récevré par Le Courié une Boite Contenant un fromage Suisse ordinairement on Le mange Rápée Sur des tartines de Beur— il-i-à des Lentille Si vous jugé apropos de Les Semer Ce Doit Etre a La fin de mars ou au Commencement Davril La nouvelle Lune—Dans une tere...
673Peter Poinsot to Thomas Jefferson, 12 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
D’aprés la lettre de recommandation de mon digne ami feu General Kosciuzsko de Soleure du 3 Juin 1817 que j’eus lhonneur de vous addresser le 25 suivant , avec le plan & Copie de mes terres par duplicata: N’ayant pas eu l’honneur d’être favorisé de vos nouvelles Je me permis de vous écrire le 18 mai d er sur le même Sujet, en me référant à leur contenu. Je me permets de joindre inclus une...
674Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 14 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I am truly concern’d to find from your letter of the 10 th Ins t that your health has suffer’d so severely from the use of the waters—I trust however that the painful effects produced will be but of short duration and that they will prove ultimately beneficial to you— The 50 bls: flour sent down I sold at $9 ½ and am sorry more was not sent at that time, even at an extra expence of carriage,...
675Wilson Cary Nicholas to Thomas Jefferson, 14 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I was sincerely concerned to hear of your indisposition: On saturday it gave me infinite pleasure to hear you had recovered. Will you pardon me if I take the liberty to entreat you, to spare your self the fatigue & exposure you so frequently encounter. Your life is too precious to be risqued. But for your indisposition, I wou’d last week have sent you the enclosed with a request that you wou’d...
676Craven Peyton to Thomas Jefferson, 14 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
The suite I had in the Staunton Chancery Court has been desided in my favour. Your being absent from home, prevented my informing You sooner. Your warm friend Judge Brown has given a lenthy Opinion which I will send You On my getting a coppy. I hope Your health is improveing fast. RC ( MHi ); endorsed by TJ as received 14 Sept. 1818 and so recorded in SJL .
677José Corrêa da Serra to Thomas Jefferson, 16 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
In the mountains of New Jersey i read in the Newspapers that your Legislature had decided that the central college of your University was to be at Charlottesville . Immediately on my return in Philadelphia i have witnessed the injustice done to M r Cooper , by preferring to him a man poor in science , and unfit to increase his capital. I congratulate you for both these events which contribute...
678Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 17 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I received this morning under blank Cover your note to Tho s J. Randolph , on which I observe you have, I presume inadvertently, written a special indorsation, making it payable to me, which renders it necessary that I should put my name to it, or erase the indorsation, in which case I presume the Bank would not receive it—and as the addition of my name would be of no service to it, you will...
679James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, 17 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
J. M ’s best respects to mr Jefferson . He has the pleasure to send, for his perusal, a late letter from mr Rush , which it may be gratifying to mr Jefferson to see. J. M. will retake it, the next time he calls at Monticello . He hopes that mr Jeffersons health continues to improve. RC ( MHi ); dateline at foot of text; endorsed by TJ as received 17 Sept. 1818 from
680Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 18 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I am very sorry to hear of your weak state of health, but I hope to find you better by the comforts of home and rest. M. Correa ’s carriage has undergone repairs, and will not be fit for use till Sunday morning when we propose to set out. I suppose it will require seven days to bring us to Montecello . M rs Cooper declines being of the Party. I defer all further communication, till I have the...
681Mathew Carey & Son to Thomas Jefferson, 21 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
By last Mail, we took the liberty, which we hope you will excuse, of sending you a Volume of a very interesting work , which we have an idea of publishing, with such corrections & alterations as may be found necessary. The editorship is undertaken by a literary gentleman, whom we believe fully competent to do it justice. Our wish is, if you should deem it right, to be favoured with a very...
682DeWitt Clinton to Thomas Jefferson, 21 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Gov r Clinton ’s respectful compliments to Mr. Jefferson & takes the liberty of enclosing a small publication RC ( MHi ); endorsed by TJ as received 5 Oct. 1818 and so recorded in SJL . RC ( DLC ); address cover only; with PoC of TJ to William Radford and Joel Yancey, 31 Dec. 1818 , on recto and verso; addressed: “Thomas Jefferson Esqr Monticello Virginia”; franked; postmarked
683Joseph Dougherty to Thomas Jefferson, 21 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Conscious that your knowlege of my promotion will give you infinite pleasure—especially when sensible of being the original cause of it. I am appointed, or, (perhaps elected) Superintendent of the buildings occupied by the State , War and Navy with a sallary of 500 Dollars per. an. It was your letter — recommending me to the Senate in 1811: that got me the situation, and, as it will not...
684Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Invoice of Books from de Bure Frères, 22 September 1818, enclosure no. 1 in de Bure Frères … (Jefferson Papers)
facture de livres Remis en une Caisse cordée, emballée en toile grasse et maigre, marquée, Libri 3. M.T.J. adressée au havre a M Beasly , consul americain, par la Diligence de la Rue notre dame des victoires . 1818. 7 bre 22 . fr. vetus testamentum. gr. edente
685Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 24 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
The last load of 50 barrels which I mention’d to you as having been exposed by M r Randolph ’s boatman to a very heavy shower of rain I had sold to Davenport & Allen at 8$ dft on Philad a , but on shipping it one of the heads came out, and I discover’d that it was damaged, some others were then open’d on board and were equally injured, I offer’d the purchasers to make a deduction, but as they...
686James Maury to Thomas Jefferson, 25 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Should my Son Matthew happen to be near Monticello , I have desired him to pay his respects to you: this son has already been in the United States , whence he lately returned; but it has been deemed prudent for him to spend this winter there also , on account of his health. I am your obliged friend & sevt RC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “ Thomas Jefferson Monticello ”; endorsed by TJ as received...
687William J. Coffee to Thomas Jefferson, 26 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I Am Sorry to Intrude on y retirement tharfor I hope you kind ness to me will Excuse my present Application for you Asistanes Acording to your former promies that of Sending of Imeaditly those boxes Containg my Laboure s I fear much they will be Spoilt and tharfor let me prevail on you Indulgence I hav wrote so mainy time to mr Randolph and not having recevd the favor of Any kind of Answer am...
688John Vaughan to Thomas Jefferson, 26 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received a letter from M r Stephen Catalan 16 June advising reciept of 2205 f r dft of Girard on Paris he will write to you soon but requests that I will inform you that he has rec d the Bill— I do not know whether M Correa has yet reached you—I enclose a letter for
689Reuben G. Beasley to Thomas Jefferson, 28 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the pleasure to receive your letter of the 8 th of April ; and for the friendly sentiments you express be pleased to accept my thanks. I shall be happy at all times to be useful to you, and I hope you will command me freely. By this conveyance, the ship Dumfries bound to Baltimore , I forward to the Collector some Books for you received two days ago from Mess rs DeBure , which I...
690de Bure Frères to Thomas Jefferson, 1 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
quoique nous ayions reçu de bonne heure la note des livres que vous desiriez avoir cette année, cependant il ne nous a pas été possible de vous les procurer tous, et nous avons été obligés de faire venir d’angleterre le grabe , dont il n’existoit pas un seul exemplaire a paris . nous avons egalement été obligés de differer l’envoi, pour des livres d’allemagne , mais nous n’avons pas voulu le...
691Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Account with de Bure Frères, [ca. 1 October 1818], enclosure no. 2 in de Bure Frères to … (Jefferson Papers)
Avoir une Lettre de change payée le 23 aout de 630 fr payé a M Warden 88 fr 00 c } 426 25 redu sur L’envoi de 1817 15 25 facture de ce jour 323
692C. S. Haven to Thomas Jefferson, 2 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
you will be surprized at the liberty I take of add r essing a letter to you, and asking a favour in this manner, indeed I shudder at my impertinence and dispare of obtaining my request, but the hope of being successfull and the impression that you are ever ready to alleviate the misery of humanity urge me to the trial (the favour I beg is money Suffecent to purchase a small share of a Ticket...
693Joseph Hutton to Thomas Jefferson, 2 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
To express doubts of your cordial cooperation in any attempt to promote the extention of literature in our Union, would be doubting against conviction, and to solicit your patronage, under such a belief, for the enclosed prospectus, will not, I feel confident, be deemed by you, impertinent. Respectfully I request your name, & any other in the immediate circle of your retreat, which, without...
694Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 3 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I put in writing what I have to observe, respecting the College at Charlottesville , because I think you will prefer having my remarks so stated, to any recollection of them. I am not at Liberty to consult my Inclination alone: duty to my family, requires that I should attend to their Interest; and to those proposals which are most likely to promote it. I presume, nothing can be permanently...
695James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, 3 October [1818] (Jefferson Papers)
J. Monroe has the pleasure to submit to mr Jefferson ’s perusal a letter from Judge Bland , on S o american aff rs , which he mentiond to him sometime since. If the weather & mr Jefferson ’s health permit J. M. will be very much gratified by his company to day, with the gentlemen, now at Monticello , who promisd, with Col Randolph , to dine with him to day. RC
696Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 6 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I was a little surprized yesterday, when M. Correa congratulated me on having agreed to come to Charlottesville . This is one of the mistakes so often arising from making a contract, matter of conversation, instead of writing. Therefore, I take the opportunity of the first post-town, to set it right. I was tempted to say, that if the permanent salary were 1500 in lieu of 1000 dollars, I would...
697James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, [ca. 8 October 1818] (Jefferson Papers)
I was much gratified in learning from the President that you were so well recovering from the attack your health suffered beyond the mountains. I wish I could join you at the meeting of the visitors on monday, & attend also that of the Agricultural Society . But circumstances do not allow me that pleasure. RC ( ViU: TJP ); undated fragment; with a later attached slip in an unidentified hand...
698Lewis D. Belair to Thomas Jefferson, 9 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I Have the Honour to here Inclose a Consise Catalogue of a valuable Collection of Books Just Rec d : I shall be Highly Honourd to Receive your order. RC ( MHi ); endorsed by TJ as received 22 Oct. 1818 and so recorded in SJL . RC ( DLC ); address cover only; with PoC of TJ to Joseph Jones, 15 Jan. 1819 , on verso; addressed: “Thomas Jefferson Esq e Montecelo Milton V a
699From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, [ca. 10 October] 1818 (Madison Papers)
I was much gratified in learning from the President that you were so well recovering from the attack your health suffered beyond the mountains. I wish I could join you at the meeting of the Visitors on Monday, & attend also that of the Agricultural Society. But circumstances do not allow me that pleasure. RC ( ViU ). 1 p. Fragment. Undated. Unsigned. Conjectural date assigned on the basis of...
700Josiah Meigs to Thomas Jefferson, 12 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honour to present, with this, two Copies of Abstracts of Calculations to ascertain the Longitude of the Capitol .—and I take the liberty to express a wish that further efforts may be made to effect this object— A private Citizen, of the illustrious character of M r Jefferson , can give to every useful object an impulse which multitudes could not effect. RC ( DLC ); at foot of text:...