3911Wilson Cary Nicholas to Thomas Jefferson, 30 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
My first impression after receiving your letter , in answer to mine about M r Coffee , was that I wou’d not let him go; on account of your reluctance, but upon more reflection, I determined otherwise. I had experienced that he did not give much trouble, I was sure he wou’d give an excellent likeness , and was satisfied it wou’d be a great gratification to thousands of your country men to...
3912Wilson Cary Nicholas to Thomas Jefferson, 30 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this moment received your letter of the 26 th instant . I have mentioned to as many of the directors as I have seen, your wish to obtain a further accommodation at our office of $3000. It is their opinion as well as mine, that it will give the board pleasure to comply with your request. Much country paper (I mean exclusively) has been done, it is however contained . but how long this...
3913Lyman Spalding to Thomas Jefferson, 30 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
You will be pleased to permit me to enclose to your address, the circular for a national Pharmacopoeia. RC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “The honble. Thos. Jefferson Esqr.”; endorsed by TJ as received 7 Apr. 1818 and so recorded in SJL . Enclosure: communication from a committee of the Medical Society of the State of New-York composed of David Hosack , John R. B. Rodgers , Samuel L. Mitchill ,...
3914From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 29 March 1818 (Madison Papers)
The day on which the first instalment for the Central College becomes due, being near at hand, I think it not amiss, as no conveyance of mine offers, to intimate, that it shall be paid on draft, or if requisite sent by a special hand. Yrs. affectionately RC ( MoHi ). Docketed by Jefferson, “recd Apr. 2.” JM subscribed $1,000 to the Central College fund (Cabell, Early History of the University...
3915James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 29 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
The day on which the first instalment for the Central College becomes due, being near at hand, I think it not amiss, as no conveyance of mine offers, to intimate, that it shall be paid on draft, or if requisite sent by a special hand. Y rs affectionately RC ( MoSHi : Lewis Fields Linn Papers, autograph scrapbook of Elizabeth Linn); endorsed by TJ as received 2 Apr. 1818 and so recorded in...
3916Frank Carr to Thomas Jefferson, 28 March [1818] (Jefferson Papers)
Browse Trist ’s going to Mo ntice llo gives Frank Carr an opportunity of returning M r Tic knor ’s letter with his hearty Thanks for the pleasure M r Jefferson has afforded him in the perusal of it— Frank Carr will shortly avail himself of the kind offices of M
3917James Smith (of Baltimore) to Thomas Jefferson, 28 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope your well known philanthropy will find an excuse for a Citizen Who wishes to present you with one of the first Copies of his Plan to render Vaccination more universal and better understood in the United States . I beg you will do me the honor to peruse it, and if approved I will be much gratified to record your Name on the Books of this Institution as one of its first Founders. Any...
3918James Leitch to Thomas Jefferson, 26 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Under cover you will receive the Only Scetches of the Law required I can procure, also m r Cabel s Letter to you it being the only paper I have the others I enclosed you Some time Since RC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “ Tho s Jefferson Esqr Monticello ”; endorsed by TJ as received 26 Mar. 1818 and so recorded in SJL . Enclosures not found.
3919William Tilghman to Thomas Jefferson, 26 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honour, Sir, of presenting to you, an Eulogium on the late Doctor Wistar , delivered at the Request of the American Philosophical Society . I do not flatter myself, that my performance has done Justice to the subject—Yet I thought it might not be unacceptable to you, being an honest effort to represent faithfully the character of a man, highly esteemed by all, & honoured, not...
3920Ann C. Bankhead to Thomas Jefferson, [received 25 March 1818] (Jefferson Papers)
M r Bankhead feels a delicacy in mentioning to you the subject on which M r Lighfoot has writen to us & I am very sorry to be obliged to give you the trouble of reading his letter . but he has always been so kind & attentive to me that I should like to perform his requests as far as it is in my power and conclude that the best way that I can serve him is by sending his letter to speak for...