2951William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 24 August 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I accept, with gratitude, the terms on which you are willing to remark on my manuscript—and send herewith three sections, ninety one pages. There will be an advertisement prefixed to it, stating the authorities on which the narrative is founded, and appealing to the candor and indulgence of the public on account of the peculiar disadvantages under which the work has been written. This, I...
2952William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 2 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I sent you about three or four weeks ago a second, and by the last mail, a third parcel of my biographical M.S.—Not having heard of their arrival and having had frequent proofs of the irregularity of the mails, I begin to be fearful that the packets have miscarried.—I beg you to be assured that it is not with the most distant intention of hurrying you in the kind and obliging office which you...
2953William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 10 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the remarks with which you have been so good as to accompany the return of the sheets. The story of Livy I had from Judge Nelson who gave it as a declaration to him from M r Henry himself. I think with you that the statement must be inaccurate: his indolence forbad it and Livy I find is not among the books left by him, of which I have a catalogue—I have moderated the passage...
2954William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 10 August 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I suppose it proceeds from the circumstances of my having lived in your neighbourhood, for several years; the brotherly intimacy and affection which has always subsisted between your nephews, the M r Carrs , and myself; and the paternal kindness with which you have always treated me, that I feel a sort of filial right to be more troublesome to you, than my judgment can entirely approve: but I...
2955William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 27 June 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your last favor was brought to me from the post-office, too late, by some accident, to be answered by the returning mail. It gives me pleasure to assure you that succeeding interviews have completely removed the apprehensions expressed to my friend D. Carr in relation to this cause: and did I not know to whom my letter was addressed & by whom, alone, its contents are known, I should regret...
2956William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 24 July 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Henry ’s resolutions , as given by Judge Marshall , were copied from Prior Documents . Your conjecture that the 5 th resolution was the 5 th as offered by M r Henry , or at all events that which produced “the bloody debate” derives great strength from the resolutions of
2957William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 20 July 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just rec d yours of the 13 th and can only assure you of my constant attention to your interest. I can not think with patience, of your having this repose, to which you are so justly entitled, interrupted, in this way and yet, rather inconsistently I am sincerely pleased at having an opportunity of being any way useful to you: for I am yours in very truth devotedly yours Tr ( MdHi :...
2958William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 27 July 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
The summer vacation of our courts, gives me an opportunity of taking up the materials which I have been for several years collecting for a life of Patrick Henry , and seeing what I could make of them. Will you have the goodness to excuse the following questions suggested, in a great degree, by a comparison of the communication you were so kind as to make , with others, from different quarters....
2959William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 15 March 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
The clerk of the court of chancery has, this day, for the first time put into my hands the fi: fa. in your case with Scott which I hasten to enclose to you—and beg you to believe me as ever RC ( MHi ); endorsed by TJ as received 17 Mar. 1815 and so recorded in SJL . RC ( DLC ); address cover only; with
2960William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 24 May 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just recieved your favor of the 19 th and will, with very great pleasure, attend to its request and instructions. M r Wickham had previously made known your desire both to M r Hay and myself: he cannot join us in the defence although he is still unresolved to take the plaintiff’s case. You conjecture rightly as to the cause of action—it is Livingston’s expulsion from the batture by an...
2961William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 15 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have your favor by the last mail, covering an hundred dollars (a draft on Gibson & Jefferson ) as a fee in the suit of Livingston against you. This is much more than an equivalent for any trouble I have had in the case. In truth, I have had no trouble in it. The investigation has been to me both a pleasure and instruction, and in itself, a compleat remuneration. From you I should never have...
2962William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 10 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have your favors by the last mail and will attend to them with much pleasure. If any thing could be done for Colo. D. here, it would be by shewing the copy of your letter to him. I shall retain it for another mail that I may recieve your directions as to making use of it or not. You may rely upon it that D.’s name has no magic in it here: he is considered as the foe of M r Madison . And the...
2963William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 10 July 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Alexander M c Rae esq r & Maj r John Clarke , two gentlemen, justly reputed for integrity and talents, and well known I believe, Sir, to you, are just about to embark for Europe , with views which I am authorized to state to you. In conjunction with severa l other gentlemen, they have formed a project of introducing m anu factures into Virginia
2964William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 18 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
About four years ago you were so good as to state that if the life of Henry was not destined to come out very speedily you would endeavour to recollect what might be of service to it and that having run your course with him for more than twenty years and witnessed the part he bore in every great question you would perhaps be able to recal some interesting anecdotes. I do not refer to your...
2965William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 25 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
W m Wirt , with respectful compliments to M r Jefferson , sends a few more sheets of the biography—and thinks he may venture to add the consoling assurance that a few more pages, (20, or at the most 30) will put an end to the trouble to which M r Jefferson has been so kind as to subject himself. RC ( MHi ); dateline at foot of text; endorsed by TJ as received 1 Oct. 1816 and so recorded in SJL...
2966William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 23 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I now submit to you the last sheets of my sketches of M r H. which I am sorry to find more numerous than I expected, and I pray you to forgive the very great trouble which I am sincerely ashamed of having imposed on you.—Your remarks have been of great service to me not only by enabling me to correct mistakes in fact, but by putting me on a severe inquisition of my style which I am perfectly...
2967Caspar Wistar to Thomas Jefferson, 24 February 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to present to you the Bearer D r Stevenson , a very interesting young gentleman of New York , who is about to embark for Europe but makes a previous visit to the Southward. He has lately returned from Lake Superior & can give you a good account of what he has seen on his Journey, & also of the present state of public sentiment in New York . I hope to receive by his return an...
2968Caspar Wistar to Thomas Jefferson, 9 October 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
My last letter was So long & multifarious that M r Correa would Say it was “ de Omnibus Rebus, & quibusdam aliis .” I ought not to intrude upon you So Soon with another epistle, but I have lately returned from a journey, during which I thought of you very frequently, & determined to write as Soon as I had leisure— I spent a few days in Centre County in this State, where Logan once resided—His...
2969Caspar Wistar to Thomas Jefferson, 29 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
After a long interval I have great pleasure in writing to you on the present occasion. The Bearer, Correa da Serra , has a wish to See you, & all your friends here are desirous that he Should do So. He leaves this to morrow, for that purpose, & I am now to State to you my Reasons for wishing him to make the visit. He is a Gentleman of excellent understanding, greatly improved by education—He...
2970Caspar Wistar to Thomas Jefferson, 27 April 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
If I were not Conscious of the fact I should not think it possible to defer So long any thing which is So gratifying in itself as writing to you. Among many inducements to write there is one of great force, to thank you for y e many demonstrations of kindness which you have exhibited, & especially for the last , when you Retired from the Chair of our Society . I have allways Regarded the...
2971Caspar Wistar to Thomas Jefferson, 5 February 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I believe that I have never been So much in arrears in my epistolary account with you & certainly I never felt more disposed to discharge my debts. In a few days I hope to Send you a short account of Some an ineffectual effort to improve our plan of Education, in which D r Franklin took a part, & also an account of a Mammoths Head which was in existence three years ago, & probably now exists....
2972James Wood to Thomas Jefferson, 5 September 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received accounts from various hands, that you are in a more than common degree affected by the general calamities of our county. This is by no means a matter of surprise to me, as it in some measure corresponds with what passes in my own bosom Nevertheless, I cannot but regret that a man of your superior understanding should not rather enjoy his own good fortune, than vainly disquiet...
2973Jethro Wood to Thomas Jefferson, 1 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
The Firm of which I am a partner requests thy acceptance of a plough , as a respectfull tribute to thy Ingenuity in improving that important Instrument. We shall feel ourselves amply recompenced by thy approbation; or, additionally obliged by any suggestion which may tend to render it more Complete. By an accin accident occasioned by the warping of the wooden patern the edges are raised ⅓ of...
2974John Wood to Thomas Jefferson, 21 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your obliging favour of the 11 th instant . It would afford me real satisfaction, could I myself be impressed with the same favourable opinion as you are pleased to express in regard to the publication which I sent you. The daily duties which I am obliged to perform, would not have permitted the execution had I been adequate to the task of a work which required much mathematical...
2975John Wood to Thomas Jefferson, 26 December 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg leave to request your acceptance of the small volume on the rotation of the earth, which accompanies this letter. As the theory I believe is new, it would afford me much satisfaction to be favoured with your opinion of the principle upon which it is founded; for I am perswaded there are few persons in this country so conversant with mathematical and philosophical subjects. It gives me...
2976John Wood to Thomas Jefferson, 2 August 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I received a letter by last mail from M r John Tyler , member of the executive , informing me that I was appointed to survey the principal rivers of Virginia , from their mouths up to their falls , and afterwards to ascertain Latitudes and Longitudes of such places as they may hereafter name. He says, it is not expected that an actual survey of the rivers is to be made by running the chain,...
2977John Wood to Thomas Jefferson, 16 March 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of soliciting your interest with the Executive in my favour, for the purpose of being appointed to survey the exterior boundaries of the Commonwealth according to the 7 th section of the act passed by the last Legislature , which orders the Executive to employ a Surveyor or Surveyors upon this business to ensure greater accuracy in the contemplated Map of Virginia . The many...
2978John Wood to Thomas Jefferson, 18 July 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of addressing you as the friend of literary establishments, on a subject which may be beneficial to the youth of this state. I received a few days since, a letter from Professor Thomas Cooper of Carlisle College informing me that he quits that seminary in October next, and has yet fixed on no future place of residence and wishes that I might suggest some situation that would...
2979John Wood to Thomas Jefferson, 6 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your favour of the 1 st instant yesterday in Petersburg ; and I beg leave to return my sincere thanks for the favourable opinion you are pleased to express of my qualifications. Having had occasion to come to Richmond to day, I waited upon the Governor in order to receive some information in regard to the contemplated survey of Virginia. The Governor informed me, that it is the...
2980John Wood to Thomas Jefferson, 2 February 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
From there being little prospect of the survey of the state of Virginia , being prosecuted farther than those contracts, which the Executive had entered into previous to the meeting of the Legislature; I have opened a seminary in this place, with the intention of completing the remainder of the rivers for which I had engaged during my vacation in summer. I would have resumed my establishment...
2981John Wood to Thomas Jefferson, 23 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I conceive it my duty to inform you of the progress made by your Grandson M r Randolph , during his residence at the academy. His mathematical talents and the attention which he gave to his studies were in the highest degree satisfactory. I have only to regret that frequent indisposition, and an unfortunate accident which confined him to his room for several weeks, considerably retarded his...
2982Augustus B. Woodward to Thomas Jefferson, 21 April 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been diverted by public business from waiting on you so early as I expected. I contemplate setting out for Monticello to-morrow, or the day after. I am charged with two packages for you from D r Barton , of Philadelphia ; which I shall have the honor of presenting you, on my arrival. RC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “The Honorable Thomas Jefferson”; endorsed by TJ as received 30 Apr. 1814...
2983Augustus B. Woodward to Thomas Jefferson, 16 August 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
It would have been a great satisfaction to me to have had the pleasure of rendering you a visit at a more early period than the present. As I contemplate a resignation of the station I have held in the Western country , and settling in New-york , I propose to myself the happiness of seeing you previous to my return to the latter place. At this time, and in this place, I may consider the...
2984Augustus B. Woodward to Thomas Jefferson, 22 April 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I left Washington this afternoon in prosecution of my journey to Monticello , and shall proceed on, in the stage, to Fredericsburgh , to-morrow morning. Presuming that the mail will travel faster than the state of the roads and weather will allow me to do I forward this line, from this place; not contemplating to write again on the road, unless detained by some unexpected contingency. Col....
2985Augustus B. Woodward to Thomas Jefferson, 3 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Woodward has the honor to transmit a small Philadelphia publication, which contains among other singular cases the case and speech of Eugene Aram ; and to present his respects.— RC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ as received 12 Aug. 1814 and so recorded in SJL . Enclosure: The Criminal Recorder: or, An Awful Beacon to the Rising Generation of Both Sexes, Erected by the Arm of Justice to Persuade...
2986Augustus B. Woodward to Thomas Jefferson, 3 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of may 27. awakens, sir, anew, my sense of your undeviating kindness and condescension.— The system, of which the work I have transmitted is a partial developement, was formed in 1795, in rockbridge ; and just before I had the happiness of a first interview at monticello . The result of the presidential elections of 1796, and 1800, prevented me from presenting it to the public. In...
2987Augustus B. Woodward to Thomas Jefferson, 25 April 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to transmit to you, Sir, a work on the Executive of the United States . In every constitution formed in America , during the æra of the revolution, a council was attached to the executive. It is even a part of the British constitution. The federal constitution is the first without it. It is certainly of less importance in the State governments, than in that of the Union. You...
2988John H. Woodward to Thomas Jefferson, 29 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I contemplate publishing, under the patronage of D r David Ramsay , a succinct biography, of all the most eminent persons; who have done honor to our national character. Should my design meet your ideas, and you feel disposed to favor my undertaking, I would thank you for a catalogue of the names of such persons, as you may think worthy of being commemorated in such publication RC ( MoSHi :...
2989William W. Woodward to Thomas Jefferson, 30 March 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Will you be kind enough to inform me, whether you will have your last Volume of Scotts Bible bound in one or two vols.—I mean in boards as the other three were, which you have receivd—the Volume is larger than the others by 2 or 300 pages—the difference in the price will be 75 cents making the whole, as you were an original subscriber, 21.75 cents of the amount you have been kind enough to pay...
2990William W. Woodward to Thomas Jefferson, 27 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I have sent to the care of Mess rs Gibson & Jefferson , as you requested the last part of Scotts Bible. Should you have it full bound, the binder will find the General Preface in the first volume of N Testament which will be put in the first Vol. of the Old Testament when bound. The bundle is on board Capt. Lewis schooner Liberty —sails on Sabbath next. RC ( MoSHi
2991Noah Worcester to Thomas Jefferson, 18 October 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Although a stranger to you I take the liberty of addressing you on a subject deeply interesting to humanity. I am encouraged to do this by a recollection of some things in your state papers which I then regarded as indications that you had become convinced of the impolicy of war, and that you wished to avoid a rupture with foreign nations. Near the close of the late war, I was some how excited...
2992Noah Worcester to Thomas Jefferson, 31 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
As, in pursuing the cause of peace, I make a free use of your name And your writings, it is but just that I should Submit to your inspection what I publish to your inspection. For this reason I put into the post office directed to you No’s 4 And 5 of the Friend of Peace, And shall now Send No. 6. It is my Aim to be impartial, but I Am liable to misapprehend. If in Any thing I have mistaken...
2993William G. D. Worthington to Thomas Jefferson, 4 [February?] 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I presume to offer to your perusal a Speech—in which I have spoken of the late President of the U.S—with my sincerest and warmest feelings— I regret it is not in my power to present you with something more worthy of your attention—But I trust—that if it should not please, yet it will not offend you— RC ( MoSHi : TJC-BC ); probably misdated; addressed (torn): “ Thomas Jefferson Monticello...
2994Tunis Wortman to Thomas Jefferson, 30 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
With diffidence I have undertaken the task to establish and conduct a new press in this city, under the title of Standard of Union. A copy of its prospectus is inclosed for your perusal. Not venturing to make any promise in regard to the talent of the paper, I shall only answer for the integrity of its principles, and its unshaken devotion to that great cause, which from my youth upwards, I...
2995Robert Wright to Thomas Jefferson, 6 [July] 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
After a tedious, an Anxious Session, but one which I confidently hope will be gratifying to the patriotic Feelings of the American people, whose Honor and Interest we have felt it necessary to secure, by a Declaration of War, We are just returning to our Constituents on whom we rely, for a Justification of the most important Legislative Act—I have said so much as an Introduction to a...
2996John Wyche to Thomas Jefferson, 7 September 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
In complyance with the wishes of the Members of the Library Society established at this place—I now have the honour to inform you that a general meeting is to be convened on friday the 6 th day of October next for the purpose of designating books to be purchased, and to claim of from you a fulfilment of the promise you were so condescending as to make of pointing out to us the best books on...
2997John Wyche to Thomas Jefferson, 19 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your retirement from the presidency of the United States affords (I hope) a favourable oppertunity for me (although an entire stranger) to address you on a Subject which (from your known Patriotism—& Opinion that to be happy & free we must be Informed) I am assured will be pleasing to you: And without farther preface I will proceed to state to you that some fifteen or eighteen Months ago the...
2998Charles Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 27 December 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
enclosed is a bill which has for its object an alteration of our state Constitution any Information You may feel disposed to give after Reading it will be thankfully Rec d I expect You See the public prints & can be informed of our proceedings. accept of my good wishes for Your health & happiness with Sentiments of esteem I am Your friend & Mo. Ob Ser t RC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ as received 9...
2999Charles Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 24 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have always conceived it my duty when in the legislature , to give You all the information I could & Should have written to You, before now, but Seeing Stenographers Admited within the Bar of our house I thought it useless as You Could be More fully informed by the papers. I expect from the present temper of our house , Some more Banks, to the west, will be Chartered. we have upwards of 100...
3000Charles Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 14 October 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 11 th is this moment Rec d & it’s with great pleasure, I inform You that it’s in my power to have the Stones Cut as You direct. I think them equal to Any Country Stones, I have seen. but for Corn, or rye, I would prefer Cologne Stones. I have tried the Stones you allude to. Shall endeavor to have them cut agreeable to the dementions, you mention. tho’ You have not mentioned the...