1To Thomas Jefferson from William Wirt, 8 April 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I hasten to acknowledge your favor of the 6 th inst. just rec d by which I have been both pained and gratified. I beg you to be assured that I had no agency, direct nor indirect, in giving this trouble to the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virg a and I regret exceedingly the suggestion that led to it. I am very sensible of the kindness of the motive which prompted my friend to make...
2To Thomas Jefferson from William Wirt, 13 July 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
My friends Colo Tennant, a distinguished merchant of Baltimore, and his son in law, M r Kennedy, one of my favorite brethren of the bar of that city, being about to pass through your part of the country, are desirous of an opportunity of paying their respects to you; and I give them this introduction with great pleasure, not only on account of their own merits and high standing in society, but...
3To Thomas Jefferson from William Wirt, 11 June 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Doct. Caldwell, of the University of Transylvania, being on his way homeward from a short excursion to the North of us, and being desirous of paying his respects to you, as he passes, is yet fearful that you may possibly not recollect him and has accepted the offer of this note of introduction, which I have much pleasure in giving him, both as it may contribute to the gratification of a...
4To Thomas Jefferson from William Wirt, 2 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
A letter from my friend, M r Thomas A. Emmet, of New York, informs me that his son, Doctor John P. Emmet, has been chosen Professor of Chemistry & c in the University of Virginia, and, as he is going to a land of strangers, he feels the solicitude natural to a parent that he may find his happiness as well as his interest promoted by the change of residence. I have not the advantage of a...
5To Thomas Jefferson from William Wirt, 20 July 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be handed to you by M r Benj. Lincoln Lear whom I had the pleasure, some time past, to recommend to you as qualified to fulfil your wishes with regard to Gen l Kosciusko’s will. A further acquaintance with Mr. Lear has confirmed the favorable opinion I then expressed of him. He is one of the most correct, amiable, inteligent and respectable of our young gentlemen: and I am sure you...
6William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 9 March 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
The gentleman who hands you this is M r Albert Insinger , who has been introduced to me as Son to the Prior of the great commercial house of Insinger, & Co. of Amsterdam . M r Insinger being on a tour through Virginia , & being desirous of paying his respects to you, I have been requested to give him a letter of introduction, which I do with very great pleasure, because I am sure you will,...
7William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 23 September 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
A young gentleman of S t Mary’s county , in the state of Maryland , M r William Edelin , being about to become a student in the college at Charlottesville , I have been requested to give him a letter of introduction which will make his reception in your county respectable and his situation, as a stranger, more comfortable. I have not the pleasure of a personal acquaintance with M r Edelin ;...
8William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 6 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
The only court in this district which has original cognizance in matters testamentary is the Orphans’ Court , the laws of Maryland , which, you know, are in force in the district, not having been altered by congress in this respect. If you will send me Gen l Kosciusko ’s will, with a certificate of it’s proof and of your relinquishment of the executorship, I can have the will proved here and...
9William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 28 December 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 10 th Ult o reached this place after I had set out for Baltimore on public business, which kept me from home a full month, tho’ in the expectation, all the while, of returning on every succeeding day or two, at the farthest. I regret this delay, as I do most sensibly my misapprehension of your first letter relative to the proper court of probate of the will of General...
10William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 9 September 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
The rev d John H. Rice , of this place, a gentleman of great erudition, is about to publish a magazine, in which he proposes to give a view of the literature and literary men of Virginia . To this end, he is anxious to procure a complete catalogue of all the works, of any merit, which have been published, by Virginians, since the first foundation of the colony—the names of the respective...