26601To Thomas Jefferson from Peleg Barlow, 10 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
My object in writing, you will see by reading the enclosed print and hope it will be sufficient apology—You say in your Notes on Virginia, The toughness of the cast iron of Ross’s and Zane’s furnaces is very remarkable. &c. You will please to inform me if those works are in operation, in what town, county and by whom occupated.—Yours Respectfully N.B. Direct to—South Amenia Post-office...
26602To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Walker Gilmer, 10 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your letter of the 5 th and should have called to see you, but for my constant unwillingness to add another to the crowd of visitors who harass & oppress you. My health is much improved, and I hope the Springs will quite restore it to me. I set out tomorrow or the next day for “Bowyers White Sulphur,” where I shall remain about three weeks. MoSHi : Francis Walker Gilmer Papers.
26603To Thomas Jefferson from Chapman Johnson, 10 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 4 th was received yesterday, and I hasten to answer it— I am glad, that we have it in our power to return to our first choice of a law professor—and very chearfully give my consent to the reappointment of M r Gilmer. You will probably find, that it will be agreeable to him, not to commence the duties of his office, for some months—His ill health since his return from Europe,...
26604To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 10 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Circular of the 4 th instant did not come to hand till yesterday. In the present attitude of things the reappointment of M r Gilmer to the Law Professorship seems a matter of course: though I am sorry to learn that there is some ground to apprehend that his qualifications are not as well understood & as highly estimated as they deserve to b DLC : Papers of James Madison.
26605To Thomas Jefferson from John Hemings, 11 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope you ar well we have got through the 15 boxis of tin and it will take 4 boxis more to fenish the house I hope you hav got inforemathion of before by m r F Eppe s I am in hopes we shall sit the stuff fore the gutters in 2 weeks it Coms much Loosr by giting the inch stuff from him it coms at 3 dollars Pdy a hundred and four Dollars a day for to waggin to hall it he says he can hall the...
26606To Thomas Jefferson from Edgar Mason, 11 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
We a Committee of the Jefferson Society of the University of Virginia, appointed for that purpose, have the honour to inform you of your election as an honorary member of that Society; And in doing so, permit us to express, in the name of the Society of which we are the organ, and for ourselves individually, the sincere respect which we entertain for your character as a man, and the profound...
26607To Thomas Jefferson from James Breckenridge, 12 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your fav. of the 4 th ins t has just been rec d . I can see no impropriety in the reappointment of M r Gilmer to the Law chair of the University. He was our first choice & nothing has occurred that I know of to diminish his claims and if reappointed before our meeting in October, I will then cheerfully unite in ratifying it. Indeed I wish that it may be done, that we may get rid of the...
26608To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 13 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeable to your request, hand under cover herewith, the triplicate of the bill of exchange, the first & second of which are now on their way to London & Liverpool— Your dft: favor & for fifty dollars has been presented & paid— MHi .
26609To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Harrison Smith, 14 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the pleasure of presenting to you my friend, M r Coswell, a of the Baptist Church, and Professor of humanity in the Columbian College at this place. He is a young man of much moral worth, and devoted to the interests of learning, and will be highly gratified with your views on this interesting object. We all look, with a deep interest, at the work of your hands, and hope that its...
26610To Thomas Jefferson from John V. Kean, 15 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the pleasure to inform you of the recovery of M r Hilliard’s account enclosed in your’s of 8 th Ins t . This paper was found bettween this place & CharlottesVille separately from your letter which I can hear nothing of—I have 5 or 6 cases prepared for the reception of the books, contained in this catalogue, which I suppose we may expect dayly. I have also, just recorded a present from...
26611To Thomas Jefferson from William Maclure, 15 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 8 th August received and am sorry for your indisposition but hope you have recovered your accustomed good health long to regulate your usefull and important establishment for the diffusion of knowledge to the rising generation after having done so much for the spreading of the usefull and necessary information thro’ the present age—Its a cause of high congratulation to this...
26612To Thomas Jefferson from John Henry Sherburne, 15 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 5.th. inst. informing me of your having received (you presumed) from me a Copy of the Life and Character of the Chevalier John Paul Jones; I must apologize to you for not mentioning in a Note that it was presented to you by the Author, which I thought had been done, as I had given directions so to do . MHi .
26613To Thomas Jefferson from George Loyall, 16 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor advising, Judge Wades’s decline of the Law Chair, of the University, has this moment reached me. I had little apprehension that this difficulty would occur, having almost persuaded myself, as well from the tone of your last letter, as from I had heard through other channels, that the appointment was already accepted To remove this difficulty, by a return to the first choice, I...
26614To Thomas Jefferson from Philip Slaughter, 16 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The undersigned being Deputed by the Committee of Arrangement to Invite you, to partake of a Dinner, to be given to Gen l La Fayette by the Citizens of Culpeper County at the Courthouse of said County on the 22 d day of this present Month do themselves the pleasure of Soliciting the Honor of your Company on that day Phil, Slaughter Gabriel Long MHi .
26615To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Clark, 18 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to say that I am now taken pen in hand to write to tho’, so that I may Receive an answer with thy name subscribed by thy ne own hand writing so that I make store it up as a Relic—I am a poor man but I hope an honest one. and have little or no Education yet have Imbibed the strong notion of liberty. Ah! me the poor Enslaved Africans curtails our liberty. yes we are in a Labyrinth of...
26616To Thomas Jefferson from Craven Peyton, 18 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have written Gen l Lafayette On the subject of an exchange of Land and have refered him to You, I did wish much to of asked Your advice, but it has appeared to me for some time past that You did not appear to possess that degree of cordiality as formerly & my fealings cou d not bare a Change from You, who I have for such a great length of time imbraced every Opportunity of rendering You...
26617To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 19 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of 4 th ins t reached me by the mail of last week. Shortly after it came to hand I was called to Bremo on business, where I authorised Gen l Cocke, if he should reach Monticello before my regular written reply, to inform you that I should vote for the immediate appointment of M r Gilmer, as the Professor of Law. I am confident he would be appointed at the meeting in October, and the...
26618To Thomas Jefferson from William John Coffee, 19 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Some time ago, M r Antrim The Plastorer for the University, called on me with Drawings for ornaments to decorate the in side of the Rotondo, and requested that I would state to M r Brockingbrow the terms on which I would execute them, this I did in as plain a manner as I could, but owing to something I have not receved any reply to those terms so long sent in, or to a letter since sent to M r...
26619To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Miller, 20 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The circumstances of my being without friends or even acquaintances in the United States likely to assist me in my present enquiry added to that of my knowledge of your unprecedinted Kindness to my poor Father. and the high character I have ever heard attributed to you of all that is just & good emboldens me tho’ an entire Stranger to you to ask your advice & assistance.—By a letter dated...
26620To Thomas Jefferson from Lancelot Minor, 20 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Within is a statement of my Account with Mrs Marks. The unimproved state of her land has, and will present any a nd I have never had any offer in the way of purchase—I will beg leave (if it is your wish to sell) to suggest selling it on a Credit of 5 or 7 years the bonds to carry Interest from the date I suppose the land to be worth at this time from 4 to $5 ⅌ acre. with my best wishes for...
26621To Thomas Jefferson from James Westhall Ford, 21 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
J W Ford returns by the bearer the two portraits that M r Jefferson had the goodness to Loan him a few days since and is extremely Oblidg—to him for the use of them MHi .
26622To Thomas Jefferson from John V. Kean, 22 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
There came sa t morning 3 boxes of books: I have not opened them yet, but in reading over the catalogue of their contents I find, a copy of, ✓ Pinkertons’ Geography ✓ Leland’s Demosthenes ✓ Northern Antiquities (of Europe) translated from Mallet, by Percy— Cleaveland’s Mineralogy—all of which we already have. If you do not wish to retain a duplicate of the same work, am I authorised to deliver...
26623To Thomas Jefferson from Jonathan Thompson, 23 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I herewith transmit a letter for you which I received enclosed in one to me from M r Appleton our Consul at Leghorn—The thirty seven cases of marble per the Ship Caroline without Invoice I will cause to be forwarded by the first opportunity after they are landed from the Ship.— of which I will advise you, will thank you to forward me the Invoice that the duties may be accurately charged— MHi .
26624To Thomas Jefferson from Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 25 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you an acc t of Gowan & Marx of London handed in by M r Gilmer where in you will see there is a Balance due the U. V a £41.1.6 sterling—& their letter to M r Gilmer—I also send you a letter from D r Boswell informing us of his having forward’d the 2 Boxes of Minerals the receipt of which you have been informed of—I have replied to his letter acknowledging the receipt of the minerals &...
26625To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Lee, 26 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I am unwilling that my enthusiasm in favour of your university should not be effectively known to you, I therefore take occasion, even at the risk of tasking your condescension & patience, to mention that in addition to M r Wallace who is now at the university, the two Browns, Richard & Frederick, are removed from the college here, & are to be sent at my instance, from to the University. I...
26626To Thomas Jefferson from Matthias E. Sawyer, 26 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Wishing to partake of the advantages arising from the University of Virginia; and having no personal acquaintance from whom I could derive the necessary information; I have taken the liberty of applying to you; under the gratifying thought, that you will not consider it unworthy either of your time or talents to devote a few moments to the instruction of the young men of this country. The...
26627To Thomas Jefferson from Michael Fortune, 29 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
About twenty four years ago I wrote two national Songs that were set to Music—the first entitled “Jefferson and Liberty”—the second “The Acquisition of Louisiana.”— I had the pleasure of transmitting to you, two copies of the same for which I received your kind thanks and Salutations, by Letter dated Washington June 26 th 1801.— These Songs, long since, attracted public attention, and continue...
26628To Thomas Jefferson from Rufus King, 29 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I received at Cheltenham on the 17 th Ins t your Packet, containing among other letters and Papers, a letter from you to me covering a draft for £1350 Stg; accompanied with a request that I would consent to become the Depository of this sum for the purpose proposed. I accept with pleasure this trust, and have accordingly sent the Draft to Mess rs Baring Brothers and C o Bankers of the United...
26629To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 29 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I am distres d that my absence from Town a day or two should have delay d the forwarding the Catheter’s ordered, one Mail, they will go by the same with this, & being carefully packed, hope they will reach you safely—I sincerely regret to hear that your discard is unabated, I hope the approach of cool weather will be beneficial— MHi .
26630To Thomas Jefferson from George Tucker, 30 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I submitted your proposition to the Faculty the day it was made, and it seemed to be the opinion of nearly all the gentlemen that altho’ we might give a license to teach dancing here, we had no right to dispose of the rooms in the buildings, but that such a power rested with the Procter or perhaps the Rector—I believe I can say there was every disposition on the part of the Faculty to further...