1From John Quincy Adams to Robert Selden Garnett, 5 December 1816 (Adams Papers)
Mr. and Mrs. Adams request the Honor of Mr Garnetts Company at Dinner on the 12th of December at ———— o’Clock The Favor of an Answer is requested. DLC : John Adams Papers.
2Thomas Jefferson to Robert S. Garnett, 4 April 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved in due time your favor of Mar. 20. contain covering recommendations of Don Marcus Escopinachi as Professor of modern languages. they abundantly establish his qualifications for that office, and your own recommendation of D r Speed & more particularly of mr Bonfils would be equally sufficient. but the Visitors of the University are of opinion that it’s whole funds should be applied...
3Thomas Jefferson to Robert S. Garnett, 18 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 20. was recieved in due time, and it’s contents communicated to the Visitors who met on the 29 th of that month. the recommendations of D r Speed , mr Bonfils , and the testimonials of Don Marcus Escopenichi would certainly have commanded their serious attention and respect, but that a previous question had precluded all proposals of the kind. they had decided that it was...
4Thomas Jefferson to Robert S. Garnett, 26 February 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, dear Sir, for the Report of the Agricultural Committee on the subject of the Tariff, inclosed in your favor of the 14 th . I have read it with pleasure. between that and the Report of the committee of Manufactures, the justice and the expediency of the system of protecting duties, is ably discussed. of all the questions which fall within the scope of the human mind, none are more...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Selden Garnett, 14 February 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to thank you for the copy of Col o Taylor’s New views of the Constitution, and shall read them with the satisfaction and edification which I have ever derived from whatever he has written. but I fear it is the voice of one crying in the wilderness. those who formerly usurped the name of federalists, which in fact they never were, have now openly abandoned it, and are as openly marching,...