1531To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 14 July 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I am favor’d with yours of the 9 th current, covering later to Sam l Williams Esq r of London—I will tomorrow obtain from Jo: Marx & son, a bill on London, for the am t you wish, at a premium of 6p r C t (which is the current rate held at present) I remit the two first, by different conveyances, to M r Williams, the first accompanied by your letter:—the triplicate, I will remit you by next...
1532To Thomas Jefferson from John George Jackson, 12 July 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
We have just witnessed another anniversary of our Independance. Its recurrence brings in splendid review, the eminent services of the immortal Dead, who with the few Survivors remaining to us, atchieved it, by efforts, reflecting lustre, upon the human race. The Declaration of Independance, alike the immortal monument of the Nation’s glory, & the fame of its authors, has been ascribed by the...
1533To Thomas Jefferson from William P. Farish, 11 July 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr Howard yesterday eavning came over to see me to know whether Mr. Bankhead let Chishance Lewis have a lamb for the Barbecue he furnished at your Spring On Sunday 6 th July— that it was your wish and Cap t Randolphs to punish all that was at the Barbecue as the law directs & cal d on me to assist which I did with Mr Bankheads entire approbation—Mr Bankhead did let Lewis have a lamb as he was...
1534To Thomas Jefferson from Jonathan Thompson, 11 July 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I rec’d by the Mail this morning your letter of the 4 th & by the same conveyance rec’d a letter from Col. B. Peyton with a draft at five days sight for the sum of $ 649 08/100—be pleased to accept of my services upon any future occasion. MHi .
1535To Thomas Jefferson from Adamantios Coray, 10 July 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Vous vous rappelez peut-être un Grec qui vous fut présenté il y a quelques années par feu Mr. Paradise, et qui eut même le plaisir de dîner chez vous, à Challiot. C’est ce Grec même, dejà fort avancé en âge, au moment où sa patrie va renaître, qui prend la liberté de vous écrire cette lettre. Il n’a pas été au pouvoir de nos tyrans d’empêcher cette renaissance; mais c’est precisement parce que...
1536To Thomas Jefferson from Bayard & Co. LeRoy, 10 July 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Occupied with transmitting to our Amsterdam friends their semi=annual acc ts we will thank You to inform us if an,y further delay for the payment of the Bond to Mess rs van Staphorst is required, in which case we should be pleased to receive the Interest thereon— MoSHi : Thomas Jefferson Collection (formerly Bixby).
1537To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 10 July 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this day paid a further curtail of $200 on your smallest note at Farmers Bank, and leaves it now $1600—your other note, for $4,000, at that Bank, falls due in a few days, when 10 p r C t , or $400 will be paid upon it, as required by the board of Directors. I have not yet been able to move the Marble for the University from Rocketts to the Basin, four of the pieces are so enormou s ly...
1538To Thomas Jefferson from Joshua Dodge, 7 July 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of informing you of my arrival in this City a few days since, highly gratified with my Journey to the southward & particularly with the truly hospitable state of Virginia which in fact is the land of hospitality. I no longer wonder at the attachment every one who has visited that State expresses towards it for it is impossible for a stranger to visit it without feeling proud...
1539To Thomas Jefferson from William Wisner, 7 July 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have Just read in one of the new York papers the copy of a letter purporting to have been written to Hon. John Adams by yourself bearing date June 1 st 1822. Now Sir you will pardon me when I tell you that the publication of your correspondence with Mr. Adams is the cause of my troubling you with this letter. I cannot but respect the man who has for a long period presided over the councils...
1540To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Lehré, 5 July 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me as one of Your old friends to send you the enclosed paper, by which you will see that your Political friends here, on the return of every 4 th of July, cannot in gratitude, forget the Services you rendered them & our blessed Country, by your Labour, particularly in drafting the Declaration of our Independence, which they are determined, to hand down, Annually to Posterity through the...
1541To Thomas Jefferson from John Brennan, 4 July 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you herewith, a copy of my late publication, entitled, “ Official Letters of the Military and Naval Officers of the United States during the war with Great Britain in the years 1812. 13. 14. &. 15. &c. ” which I beg you will do me the honor to accept. The object of the compilation, you will perceive by the preface is, to hand down to posterity the, names and deeds of our gallant fellow...
1542To Thomas Jefferson from James Cutbush, 3 July 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
You will receive by this days mail a copy of my lectures. I intend if I re receive encouragement, to publish a complete class book on the Applications of Chemistry. There are some errata in the work owing to the printer living some 8 or 10 miles from us, and all my communications with him were in writing: I have made the corrections, however, with a pencil. As to the book itself, it contains...
1543To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Garland, 3 July 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have withdrawn your bond to the late firm of A Robertson & C o from Mr Branch of Richmond, Mr Miller for whose benefit it is, has become so very impatient and importunate on the subject of his collections that I must insist on your paying the balance of the bond during the current year. I beg to hear from you upon this subject. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
1544To Thomas Jefferson from Frederick Winslow Hatch, 1 July 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
By a letter which I have just receiv’d from one of the Trustees of our Theological school I am inform’d that a proposition has been made by a part of the Ep. Clergy of Maryland, to unite their influence & funds with ours of Virginia with a view to extending the influence & encreasing the means of the establishment. This subject is to be had under consideration as also the location of the...
1545To Thomas Jefferson from Joel Yancey, 1 July 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Yancey Joel 1816. Dec. 31. 1 st note 550 off 1 st instalm t Univ y 50 500 1818. May 1. 2 d Note 400 off 2
1546To Thomas Jefferson from Hugh Holmes, 30 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Untill reminded by your favor the 1 7 th ins t I had entirely forgotten the monied transaction with Blackford Arthur & C o you have made it as clear as Sun beams and I now see how it was that in making my last payment to the University I had to pay $165 instead of $150. I shall see the gentleman in the Course of the summer & have no doubt they will acc t for the $15 MHi .
1547To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 30 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The view which you have communicated of the condition, relation, & disposition, of Cuba, & its inhabitants, founded on the information of M r Miralla, is very interesting. It accords also in every particular, with that which has been taken here, aided by all the light which we have been able to obtain, through the most authentic channels, from the Island. The people consider Columbia, too...
1548To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 30 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Last week being infavorable for opening & sales Tobacoo, postponed the inspection the other 9 Hhds: of yours, until to=day, & regret to say, that the order of it was generally about the same as the other Few , much too high, five of them were tolerable, in this respect, & brot” $8.30 round—two were refused, & brot” $3.05 and $4.60, the other two $4.95, & $6.55—By next mail will hand sales the...
1549To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 29 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived here with my family on the 24 th instant after a prosperous voyage of 34 days from Havre: but I could not open my baggage till yesterday. By this day’s mail I send five packets directed to you, and another will accompany this letter. Of the state of your health I have not lately heard, but hope that you have recovered & do not sensibly feel the effects of your accident. I am well...
1550To Thomas Jefferson from Jose A. Miralla, 28 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived here last noon & I have seen a part of your Capital; I like it very much: the situation is truly beautiful.—I regret that I will not be able to spend here the time necessary to enjoy of its genteel society, as, according to my letters just now received from home, I must go immediatly to New York, and most probably in succession to Havanna.—At present there is no idea in that Island...
1551To Thomas Jefferson from John Trumbull, 28 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I avail myself of the offer of your agent Who is on his way from Italy with marble Capitals &c for your College, to recall myself once more to your remembrance: and have great satisfaction in acquainting you that the Engraving from my picture of the declaration of Independence is very nearly completed. M r Durand the Engraver is a young man born & educated in this vicinity, who has acquired...
1552From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 27 June 1823 (Madison Papers)
I return the copy of your letter to Judge Johnson inclosed in your favor of the instant. Your statement relating to the farewell address of Genl. Washington is substantially correct. If there be any circumstantial inaccuracy, it is in imputing to him more agency in composing the document than he probably had. Taking for granted that it was drawn up by Hamilton, the best conjecture is that...
1553To Thomas Jefferson from John Laval, 27 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I Sent you, on the 20 th inst t , A Nautical Almanac for 1823 & One for 1824. I forward, By this day’s Mail, Jno Bailey’s Phadrus, 8 vo , London Edit. 2 d hand, they are the only Copies I Could Obtain in all the city. the Book not being used in Our Schools, has not been reprinted here, this Accounts for its Scarcity & the price. Agreeably to your request, I, herein, inclose Your Account. DLC :...
1554To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 27 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I return the copy of your letter to Judge Johnson inclosed to me in your favor of the instant. your statement relating to the farewell address of Gen l Washington is substantially correct. If there be any circumstantial inaccuracy, it is in imputing to him more agency in composing the document than he probably had. Taking for granted that it was drawn up by Hamilton, the best conjecture is...
1555To Thomas Jefferson from Jonathan Thompson, 27 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
By due course of Mail I rec’d your letter of the 18 th instant, relative to the Marble Capitals for the University.—previous to which I rec’d a letter and bill of lading by the Brig Draco, Capt. Perkins, from the U.S. Consul, M r Tho s Appleton, at Leghorn—Agreeably to your request, I have caused the cases to be shipped on board a first rate new & sound vessel & at lower freight than I could...
1556To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 26 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Sales Ten Hhds: Tobacco by Bernard Peyton for a/c. M r Thomas Jefferson 1823 Rich d 23 June— To Sundry persons, Viz:— T.J. N o 1.— 1590–150–1440 ℔s: nett to Ben: Hatcher at $9.20 $132.48 〃 〃 2—– 1620=150=1470
1557To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 24 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I returned home on the 3 d ins t and yesterday attended as one of the members of Nelson Court, where I was engaged with others to procure a suitable plan for a new Jail for our county, in conformity to the provisions of the late act of Assembly on the subject of Jails. A committee had been appointed at a former term to procure & report to the court at the June term a plan for the new Jail: and...
1558To Thomas Jefferson from John Winn, 24 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
A number of your friends and neighbours intend to celebrate the approaching Anniversary of their country’s Independence at M r D. Fitch’s in Milton; and the undersigned committee of arrangements, in compliance with the wishes of those by whom they were appointed, respectfully invite your attendance. In doing so they feel it unnecessary to express to you the high gratification it will afford...
1559To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Ritchie, 23 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I had asertained previously to the receipt of your last letter (in consequence of Enquiries Set on foot by your first,) that there was a material error in the Acct. presentd to you. Instead of $60 being due, there had been 60 paid—leaving only $15 even up to May next. How this error has crept into the Agent’s book, I am at a loss to know—certain it is, there is none such on the office book. It...
1560To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 19 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I was favor’d with yours of the 13th current, last evening, & immediately paid M r Rawlings $89.77, in full of your dft:, on me, in his favor— I have never failed to pay M r Ritchie what ever claims he presented against you, and recollect distinctly paying him $7.50, for six volumes of sessions Acts, on 23 d Augs t 1822, which you will find in your a/c of that date, I was not apprised that you...
1561To Thomas Jefferson from James Rawlings, 19 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have rec d your favour of 13 t Ins t with a draft on Col o Bernard Peyton for the amount of your Quotas due to this society—. That draft has been duly honoured, and I have now to acknowledge the receipt, thro’ that medium of $8977/100 in full of all demands of this society on your property at Monticello, and also in full of all claims up to and including the quota of 1823 on the building in...
1562To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Cooper, 18 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Foreseeing an approaching storm, I wrote to you, on the chance of being able to find shelter against its effects; but I have expressed myself in my letter to you not so clearly as I ought. I am fully of your opinion, that those who govern your University neither can or ought to give countenance to any rival establishment public or private in its neighbourhood. My views were these: It is...
1563To Thomas Jefferson from Maria Hadfield Cosway, 18 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
As I have found a favorable oportunity of Conveing a letter, I am happy to profit of it, to thank you for Good & friendly letter which I received at Lodi. I congratulate you in the undertaking you Announce me of the fine building which occupies your taste & knowledge, & gratifies your heart, the work is worthy of you, you be worthy of such enjoyment Nothing, I think, is more usefull to Mankind...
1564To Thomas Jefferson from William Pannill, 17 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The Volunteers of Petersburg entertaining a grateful recollection of the eminent patriotic services you have often rendered to your country, in the hours of danger and trial; respectfully solicit the honor of your company, in participating with them, in the celebration of the approaching anniversary of our political existence; and confidently hope that the countenance of one of their most...
1565To Thomas Jefferson from John Brockenbrough, 16 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you M r Coffee’s communication with my thankful acknowledgments for it’s use. I learn that the undertaker of the locks of the James River Canal has succeeded in making the chambers impervious to water, by laying the masonry in a mortar of Roman-Cement, without lining the walls with plaster. He supposes that with well burnt bricks, or such as have a vitreous coat, a cistern may also be...
1566To Thomas Jefferson from George Richardson, 16 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have lately rec d a letter from W m Richardson of Alabama State, that he has lately rec d an account that my brother Richard is dead & knowing that he was sometimes in the habit of corresponding with you, I take the liberty of asking the favor of you to Write to me, if you are in possession of any information relative to his affairs & if he is dead, What steps his relations had better take...
1567To Thomas Jefferson from George Ticknor, 16 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
It is very rarely that I venture to address a letter to you; because I am quite aware how constantly you are exposed to the solicitations of correspondence and, how they must, in a situation like your’s, resemble persecution. But, I wish now to send you a copy of the Syllabus I have prepared for my course of Lectures on Spanish Literary History & Criticism, and should be sorry to have it go...
1568To Thomas Jefferson from John Gorman, 12 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Jefferson I will Do one floor for you on the terms you purposed If you will Board me while laying and Cutting which will not Belong as I will Cut the most of them in the qarry N.B I will Require a hand from you to assist in laying and by this fall I will try and Get one floor Done and as for the steps I will see you shortly about them But at present I will Be Getting some steps for you....
1569To Thomas Jefferson from Elijah Mead, 12 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Knowing how eminently you regard and appreciate American worth and talent, it is therefore, with much diffidence that I intrude upon your notice the feeble effort of a young man; but having the honour of being a Member of the Lennaean Society of Paris, of which you are the most conspicuous American Member, I have taken the liberty of enclosing a paper containing my address on the 24 th Ult. at...
1570To Thomas Jefferson from George Alexander Otis, 12 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The writer of the work, which I have the honor herewith to address to you, I had the pleasure to become acquainted with in 1816, when I was travelling in Italy, for the recovery of my health. He has recently sent me a few copies of it, with a request that I would present them to such of our eminent fellow-citizens as were remarkable for their love of the five arts; “being desirous, to be read...
1571To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 11 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Sales four Hogsheads leaf Tobacco by B Peyton for a/c M r Tho s Jefferson 1823. Rich d 11 June To sundry persons for Cash 4 Hhds: (viz) ℔s TI X 14 = 1331 = 144 = 1187 nett at $5.15 $ 61.13 〃 15 = 1762 = 140 = 1622
1572To Thomas Jefferson from P.P.F. Degrand, 10 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Your esteemed favor of Inst t is just rec d & your enclosures will be immediately forwarded, by two different opportunities, for Marseilles.—Mr Dodge has got as far as Bristol R.I. on his way to Boston.—His partner will undoubtedly hasten to attend to your wishes. Happy in having had the opportunity of corresponding with a man who has done so much for the cause of Liberty, I beg leave to...
1573To Thomas Jefferson from Francis B. Dyer, 8 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to introduce to your notice Doctor De R’eider from Vienna—He is performing the Tour of the United States, and is anxious to visit Monticello in passing—He is highly recommended as a Gentleman of talents and information—. MHi .
1574To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Bruce, 7 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
an extract of your letter to M r Adams and his answer fell into my hands. the sastisfaction they gave me is more than I can express to find my opinion of death preported by two of the greatest character’s in the Union, It was a considerable time before I could get my own consent to address you. but believing if their was nothing that would entertain or amuse you it would not give offence to...
1575To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 7 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I deeply regret to have been compelled, as you will see by the gazettes, to advertise my lands in albemarle for sale, but in truth the debts which I owe, owing to bad management, bad crops, expensive trusts with incompetent salaries, untill the present, the savings from which, with the most rigid œconomy, will do little more than pay the interest, leave me no alternative. I am too far advanced...
1576To Thomas Jefferson from James O. Morse, 5 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Your highly esteemed favour of the 30 th of April last came to hand, and after the Presidential election is over I shall put it in a frame and bequeath it to my children.—I have long been anxious to have in my possession some memorial of our republican patri ar ch, and am now happily gratified. as your name is frequently in conversation, and sometimes in the newspapers made use of to advance...
1577To Thomas Jefferson from W.H. Sumner, 5 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
In enclosing to you a printed letter to Mr Adams on the importance of the Militia, as a civil, as well as a Military institution, you will permit me to express a hope that the Sentiments it contains will meet with your approbation. MHi .
1578To Thomas Jefferson from John C. Calhoun, 2 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of introducing to your acquaintance M r Ruggles, who, in taking an excursion on account of his health intends to visit your neighborhood and is desirous to pay his respects one, who occupies so much of the affection of the American people, as yourself. He is a young gentleman of respectability, and I take much pleasure in gratifying his desire of making your acquaintance....
1579To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 2 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I regretted very much that my duties here, with the necessity I was under to pass through Loudon & remain there some days, detaind me so long, as to deprive me of the pleasure of seeing you, on my late visit to albemarle. Being informed by M rs Randolph that you intended to return in a fortnight I should have prolongd my stay there for that term, but was compelled to return, to revise the...
1580To Thomas Jefferson from John Brockenbrough, 30 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
From your well known patronage of the arts I take the liberty of asking some information concerning the construction of water-cisterns. Our arid climate & the difficulty of obtaining good well-water at my residence render a resort to this plan of domestic economy indispensible to the comfort of my family. I have hitherto had a wooden cistern made after the manner of the ordinary tan-vat, that...