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...