401To 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...
402To 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...
403To 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...
404To 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...
405To 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...
406To 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 .
407To 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...
408To 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...
409To 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 .
410To 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...
411To 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 .
412To 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...
413To 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...
414To 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...
415From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 10 August 1825 (Madison Papers)
Your Circular of the 4th. instant did not come to hand till yesterday. In the present attitude of things the reappointment of Mr. 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 RC ( DLC ). Fragment. Remainder of text, closure,...
416To 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...
417To 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.
418To 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,...
419To 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.
420To Thomas Jefferson from Theodorus Bailey, 8 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter enclosed to me on the 28 th July for M r King in London was duly rec d and was forwarded yesterday by the Packet Ship Silas Richards bound to Liverpool and addressed to the Care of M r Consul Maury, & advising him it related to business of the University of Virginia. MHi .
421To Thomas Jefferson from Gurdon S. Mumford, 8 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I received the Honor of your Letter under Date of the 26 July—When I wrote you on the 18 th I did not expect to tax you with an answer, it would be unreasonable to think at your time of life that you could spare time to answer the numerous communications which are daily made to you. The threaten’d aspect of our National relations when I had the satisfaction to act in concert with you, has made...
422To Thomas Jefferson from R. Riker, 8 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to send you herewith the report of the law Committee of the Corporation of the city of NewYork, on the subject of the interment of the dead, within the populous parts of our city. I hope you will think that the decision of the Common Council is judicious & salutary. MHi .
423To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 7 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeable to the request contained in yours of the 4th, have procured, & will forward this day to Lynchburg the four Boxes of Tin ordered— Until the rest of yours now before me, never heard of your wish to transmit a bill for $500 to S. Williams of London—Jefferson Randolph wrote me some time ago that you would need $500, & asked me to advance it for you, which I wrote him I would do with...
424To Thomas Jefferson from William Jones, 6 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to interrupt your repose so far as to make some enquiry respecting your seminary of Education at Charlottesville in the Vicinity of your Residence. I have a Son now at Oxford whose Intelect is Judged to be promising, having a very slender Education myself such only as a common country school would afford 35 years past I am not capable of Judging the boys capacity with that accuteness...
425To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Coolidge, 5 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
After ascertaining the name of the best clock-maker in this place, I called upon him with the memorandum you had given me; he asked a few days to make his calculations, and then answered that a first-rate time-keeper, warranted to perform satisfactorily, and of the size wanted for the Rotunda, would cost eight hundred dollars: for this sum he engages to make “as good a clock as can be found in...
426To Thomas Jefferson from William F. Gray, 5 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The last evenings mail from the west brought me the 47 th and 48 th nos. of the North American Review, which I had heretofore sent to you; and also your letter explaining the cause of your returning them. I understood your letter of 16 th March as interdicting my sending you the Edinburg Review, alone, and not as applying to the North American Review, otherwise I should not have taken the...
427To Thomas Jefferson from George Hancock, 5 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
A large portion of the last five years I have devoted to the collection of Minerals particularly those to be found in the western part of Virginia and The States of Tennessee and Ky. the collection consists of about 600 specimens many of them rare, and among them a large collection of Organic remains, I have also a very pretty collection of Shells probably the most perfect in this state— I had...
428To Thomas Jefferson from John Neal, 5 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours (with no date), arrived yesterday. Allow me to thank you, for your kindness, in replying so fully. It has enabled me to communicate with mr Rey, in a very satisfactory shape. He was much afraid that his letter, or mine, had miscarried. But I knew your habits—the multitude of your engagements, and attributed the delay, partly to those engagements, and partly to your having no such news to...
429From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 4 August 1825 (Madison Papers)
Having but little hope that Judge Dade will accept the place offered him, and having occasionally heard Mr. Lomax of Fredericksbg. spoken of favorably, I sought an occasion, yesterday, without disclosing my object, of learning more of him, from Judge Barbour, who has long been at the same Bar with him, and is otherwise well acquainted with his character. The Judge considers him as a man of...
430To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 4 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Having but little hope that Judge Dade will accept the place offered him, & having occasionally heard M r Lomax of Fred g spoken of favorably , I sought an occasion yesterday of learning more of him from Judge Barbour (without disclosing My object ) who has long been at the same Bar with him, and is otherwise well acquainted with his character. The Judge considers him as a man of solid talents...
431To Thomas Jefferson from William Hilliard, 3 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
We regret to state, that previous to the reception of your last, our orders to Europe had all been completed and forwarded. The Books mentioned as having been received from England shall be countermanded, & if received in season, they will not be sent. It is unfortunate that you ordered the new edition of Stephens, by subscription, as copies are frequently sold much below the subscription...
432To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Moore, 2 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Joseph bland, an officer of the Mint whose reputation as a chemist and Mineralogist is known to you, has been engaged for nearly twenty years in forming a mineralogical Cabinet. Possessing many advantages and great assiduity in this pursuit, his Collection is now probabily surpassed by very few in the United States. His specimens amount, I understand, to about 4000, are according to...
433To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 1 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Having reached Boston in safety, my dearest grandfather, one of my first cares is to write to you, to thank you for all the kindness I have received from you, & for all the affection you have shewn me, from my infancy & childhood, throughout the course of my maturer years: the only return I can make is by gratitude the deepest & most enduring; and love the most devoted; and although removed by...
434To Thomas Jefferson from Robert A. Thompson, 1 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Several of the students having formed a class, and employed Mr Xaupi to instruct them in the use of the small sword, hope you will grant them the use of the large room in the vacant Hotel formerly occupied by Mr Bias, which they may use so long as it remains vacant. The privilege of using this room, would be esteemed a favour by the class, and their committee.—Yours with sincere esteem and...
435To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 31 July 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeable to the request contained in yours of the 20th:, have remitted check to E. Copeland of of Boston, for $64.57 Dolls:, have procured the medecines ordered, which are deposited in the same mail with this, and hand herewith your a/c current to date—all which hope will be satisfactory— The cheese ordered was forwarded by a Waggon to charlottesville yesterday, care of Jacobs & Raphael— I...
436To Thomas Jefferson from J. Evelyn Denison, 30 July 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my return to London I have made some enquiries among the bookssellers for publications relating to the dialects of our different English counties: upon which subject I recollect you expressed some curiosity, when I had the pleasure of being at your house in April; particularly as to the connection that might be thus traced between the Anglo-Saxon, and the language confined to the vulgar,...
437To Thomas Jefferson from William Maclure, 30 July 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I return’d home a few weeks ago after a long absence and was highly gratified to find such a change for the better in all the classes of society—before I left Paris finding a British Bookseller from London trying to purchase M r Andrew Michaux’s Silva Americana I bought the whole edition for our schools and public societies as well as the copper plates and intend one coppy for you and one for...
438To Thomas Jefferson from Daniel Brent, 29 July 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Robello, Chargé d’Affaires of the Government of Brazil at this place, is about making an excursion to virginia, and would be particularly gratified by the opportunity to offer his personal Respects to you before he returns hither—I take great Pleasure therefore in furnishing him with this Letter, to make him known to you. This Gentleman has resided amongst us several years, and no foreign...
439To Thomas Jefferson from Gerard Alexander, 28 July 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to introduce to you my son Doctor Edward Alexander. Being on his return to Baltimore, in the vicinity of which he resides, and expecting to pass by Monticello, he expressed a wish to call and pay his respects to you. The seasons have been very unfavorable to us in this part of the State the present year: our wheat crop so much injured by Fly and rust as to be scarcely merchantable,...
440To Thomas Jefferson from William A.G. Dade, 28 July 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
After the most deliberate review of the arguments for and against my acceptance of the Chair in the University, which has been lately offered to me, I still retain the opinion, with which I left Monticello, and must decline the invitation. It is not without great reluctance that I determine on a course in anywise thwarting your views, touching an institution, in which you have taken so warm an...
441To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Lee, 28 July 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I now dispatch one of the youths I had some time ago the honour to mention to you, whose qualifications are less extended than those of the other two , but whose preparations for movement are more foward. His name is Robert Wallace, & his birth place the county of King George—though I know not that it is important to say, “to whom ( he is ) related, or by whom begot.” His age exceeds 16...
442To Thomas Jefferson from Archibald Robertson, 28 July 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer of this M r George W Turner being called to Charlottesville as a witness, I avail my self of the opportunity of his calling on you, with your notes to Mr Yancey which he has assigned to me, for the purpose of consolidating them to which I hope you will have no objections, should it be inconvenient for you at this time to take them in— MHi .
443To Thomas Jefferson from Joel Yancey, 28 July 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
In looking over your notes to me for my services in superintending your plantations in Bedford, I find that they are made to carry interest from April, Instead of the first Jan y you know, that the year ended the last of December and I always thought, (although I did not expect to receive the money till the crops were sold), that I was entitled to Interest after my year exspired, but should...
444To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Eaton Haynes, 27 July 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
At the request of a friend who proposes to place a son at the University of Virginia, I beg leave to enquire of you what are the facilities & terms of instruction to students in that institution, particularly, in the science of law. I fear that applications of this nature are calculated to touch upon that time which would be devoted to other & more important avocations, & must request you to...
445To Thomas Jefferson from Theodorus Bailey, 26 July 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been duly favored with your Letters covering a communication from you to M r King on the subject of an apparatus for your university. and likewise two accompanying letters from two of your Proffessors on the same subject addressed to persons in London; and in obedience to your wishes I have put these several letters in the letter Bag of the Packet Ship Hudson which departed from this...
446To Thomas Jefferson from William Hilliard, 26 July 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
We herewith send you an invoice of such American Works, & of those imported, as we could furnish upon terms, as we consider better than to order them anew. Most of the imported Books were purchased in Europe at Auction, & could not probably be again procured upon the same terms, viz: Phil. Transactions, Byzantinae Hist. Kennicott’s Heb. Bible, Stepanie Thesaurus, Cassianus &ca. These mostly...
447To Thomas Jefferson from Frances Wright, 26 July 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I c d have wished & had intended my dear Sir to see you on the subject upon w ch I now write but the indisposition of my sister urged me to place her under the charge of a friend to proceed slowly to Bedford spring on the Alleghany where I must Join her so soon as I have procured some necessary information in this city. You will receive from my paternal friend the prospectus of a plan on w ch...
448To Thomas Jefferson from John Brennan, 25 July 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I flatter myself that when you will have read this letter through, you will admit that my attempting to make any appology for obtruding my self on your notice, would be superfluous—The periodical Journals of the last 4 or 5 years, have shewn, that when called upon to sanction any useful work; or confirm the truth of any conflicting, or contested political matter, that was radically necessary...
449To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 25 July 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this day rec d a Box from Boston for you, which is forwarded by a Waggon to Charlottesville, care Jacobs & Raphael,—hope it will reach you safely— In sending blanks for the renewal of your several notes at Bank, I observe you omit one of $2,000 at Farmers Bank MHi .
450To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Vidua, 24 July 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Par la prochaine occasion pour l’Europe devant ecrire à M. de Humboldt tout en le remerciant de m’avoir adressé à vous, je desire lui donner des nouvelles de vôtre santé. Lorsque j’ai été à Monticello, elle n’etait pas parfaite. Permettez donc, que je m’adresse directement à vous même, et que je vous prie de vouloir bien m’ecrire deux mots pour me faire savoir, si vôtre santé est maintenant...