4591Jane Battles to Ann Carrington Cabell, with Postscript to Thomas Jefferson, 19 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I embrace this opportunity to Inform you that I am well and am In hopes that these few lines will find you and famely enjoying the Same Blessing please to recollect that you promised to assist me In geting my pay from the United States I have Been In their Service Considerable time Since I Saw you I went through Kentuckey by the way of the falls of the Ohio river from thence on to wabash river...
4592James Lyle (1798–1850) to Thomas Jefferson, 20 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
The subject of my letter will I hope be a sufficient apology for my addressing you—From the books of my Grandfather James Lyle , Geo: Kipen & Co , & Henderson M c Call & Co , I find that there are some unsettled accounts with you; Statements of which will be handed to you by Mister T: Saunders , who is autherised by me to make a settlement—I am fully persuaded from your letters to my...
4593Bernard Peyton to Thomas Jefferson, 20 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I am favor’d this morning with yours of the 15th: Inst: & observe contents— Your draft favor M r Garland for $600 shall be paid on demand—all the others of which you have apprised me, have been presented & paid:— and a few days ago, by a Milton Boat, forwarded the 18 Gallons Linseed oil you wrote for , in a former letter , in 6 three Gallons Gallon Jugs, which I hope will reach Monticello
4594Edmund Bacon to Thomas Jefferson, 21 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you a line informing you that Mr Meeks is not disposed to remaine with us the ensueing Yeare. he has not given me the information himself but his wife informed my family that he intended going away. what proves the thing to me I saw a cart th at his house loading with his cabage yesterday I inquired whare they was carrying them to the reply was to the place that he was to live at the...
4595Joshua Dodge’s Invoice of Items Shipped to Thomas Jefferson, 22 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Invoice of Sundries shipped by Joshua Dodge of Marseilles on board the Brig Union of Marblehead Cap t Simon T. Williams bound to the United States , consigned, by order & for account of Thomas Jefferson Esq r of Monticello
4596Thomas Ritchie to Thomas Jefferson, 23 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
T Ritchie , in his own name & that of the Author , requests M r Jefferson ’s Acceptance of this Book.— T.R. trusts he will read it—and, if perfectly agreeable to M r J. hopes, that at his leisure he will give his opinion of it.
4597Destutt de Tracy to Thomas Jefferson, 24 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Il y a precisement aujourdhui deux ans que vous avez pris la peine de m’ecrire une lettre bien aimable —et qui a excité toute ma reconnaissance. elle m’est arrivée le 13 janvier 1819 avec la traduction de mon Economie Politique, et qui lui fait tant d’honneur puisque vous avez Daigné y donner vos Soins. Je Suis confus de la peine que cela vous a causé, et je voudrai bien pouvoir me flatter que...
4598John Sanderson to Thomas Jefferson, 24 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I have addressed to you, by the Post Office, the first No. of the Biography. &c.—which I beg the favour of you to accept, with my grateful acknowledgements of your kind attention to my former letter . The hurry with which this vol. has been urged into the world, to meet the conveniences of printers & publishers, has left me no time for elaborate research, or for studying the graces of...
4599Joshua Dodge to Thomas Jefferson, 25 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been favored with your esteemed favor of 13 July last with a note of sundry articles you wish me to procure & forward to you, consigned to the Collector of the Port to which the Vessel bearer of them is bound, I thank you Sincerely for having afforded me this opportunity of being useful, as nothing can be more gratifying to me than to Shew the warm & respectful attachment I Shall ever...
4600D. Mariano to Thomas Jefferson, 26 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honour of writing to you from Lexington K y , and requesting your patronage in order of obtaining a birth in your University :—since that time having constantly applied myself to the study of the English language I dare to think myself more entitled to it, and now renew my request. Among the languages which I know those which I think myself qualified to teach are the Latin, Italian...
4601Joseph Milligan to Thomas Jefferson, 27 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
By this days mail I have sent you a copy of Ricardo s Political Economy which please have the goodness to give a place in your library It is long since we have exchand exchanged letters but I am the debtor The Bookselling part of my business has passed into other hands since the 1 st of June 1819 . At that time my business was drawn to a crissis by having to pay Endorsements. I then declined...
4602Lebbeus Chapman to Thomas Jefferson, 30 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Enclosed you will receive my Work on interest which I have taken the liberty to send for your perusal when at leisure. I am now preparing a work on interest which will consist of nearly 400 Quarto pages, with the calculations all made at 6 p r c t p r Annum on all sums from $1– to $400. then by 50 s to $2000.. then by 100 s to $3000.. & then by 1000 s to $10.000.. from 1 to 365 days. Every day...
4603Bernard Peyton to Thomas Jefferson, 4 December 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Your draft favor M r Garland for $600 has been presented & paid some time since, & I will on Wednesday next pay $500 towards your $3,000 note due at the Farmers Bank on that day, being the am t of curtail called for by them on that note. on Friday last rec d from Jefferson Randolph three Blank notes for the renewal your several notes under my management, which are in time, & shall be duely...
4604Michele Raggi to Thomas Jefferson, 4 December 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Dalla mia Scritale di New york avra inteso che M’inbarcai in detta Cità ⅌ questo porto di Gibiltera il qual passaggio l’abiamo fatto felicemente in trenta Giorni asieme à tre altri passegieri Americani che vengono in Italia ⅌ loro divertimento, e ⅌ vedere le antichità di Roma Napoli ed altre cità questi l’i ò ritrovati bravissimi giovani dai qualli ò ricevutto delle grandi fineze nel...
4605Edward Wiatt to Thomas Jefferson, 4 December 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
The known benevolence of your character renders apology for this address scarcely necessary. I am anxious to make some enquiries respecting the Virginia University about to be established at Charlottesville , and, as I am personally unknown to any person from whom to expect it, I have taken the liberty of trouble troubling you to inform me. About what time is it expected the course of...
4606George Alexander Otis to Thomas Jefferson, 5 December 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honour to address to you the Second volume of my translation; which I have laboured with all the industry and care I am capable of, and Should deem myself amply rewarded if it is so fortunate as to find acceptance with the highest authority in my Country. The President Adams is so good as to wish me well and success to my labours; but he complains that in the first Volume, there is...
4607Alexander Garrett to Thomas Jefferson, 7 December 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 13 th ult. the Lit er ary board deposited in the Bank of Virginia $20.000. for the use of the University , $10.000. of which you will recollect you check’d for in my favor as Bursar that sum I had passed to my credit and since my return home from Richmond the drafts on me being very heavy I have disbursed the whole and yet left some amount considerable unpaid, I have therefore now...
4608John Wayles Baker to Thomas Jefferson, 8 December 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived here on the 10 th of Nov. but defer’d writing you until after the examination that I might give you some account of my studies. I have enter’d the Sophomore class in which are read Horace s Satires and Art of Poetry together with Collectanea Græca majora we also study Geography and Hutton s mathematics as far as Cubic equations. this comprises the whole of the Sophomore studies. The...
4609Edmund Bacon to Thomas Jefferson, 9 December 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours by last weeks mail came to hand I shall certainly be on the serch for a workman and to imploy him on the best terms in my power. I have not yet been able to get off any flour. the rent wheat was deliverd so long after that which was deliverd by others in the mill that it seems to give them the right to their flour first indeed thare is only a few hundred bushels of the rent wheat yet...
4610Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 9 December 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 15 th Ult o inclosing a blank note was received in the due course of mail, but too late to renew your note in bank due the 14 th for which I had to substitute another in the meantime— Flour has fallen below anything I have ever yet known, and from the great anxiety shown by the Holders to sell, there is every appearance of its being still lower it is now offering at 3 ½ $ and...
4611Francis W. Gilmer to Thomas Jefferson, 10 December 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a little treatise which I wrote in Albemarle during my summer’s visit; on what is growing every day to be an important question in jurisprudence & politics. The notions of Bentham are every day becoming more popular in Virginia , and it is time the other side should be heard. I do not know your opinions on the subject, nor do I hope to edify you at all on the matter; I send you...
4612James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 10 December 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of Nov r 29. came to hand a few days ago. The letter from T.C. is returned. I had one from him lately on the same subject; and in consequence reminded the President of his political career; dropping at the same time a few lines in his favor of to our Senator M r Barbour
4613Elijah Griffiths to Thomas Jefferson, 11 December 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Your much esteemed favour dated May 15—20: was duly received. It gives me great satisfaction to believe, that I have been thought worthy to be enroled, amongst the number of your friends. The period of our former acquaintance has often recured to my mind with pleasing reflections; and the then portentous state of our national affairs, has since in happier times, greatly increased my confidence...
4614Richard Rush to Thomas Jefferson, 11 December 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I hasten to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the 20 th of October , enclosing a bill of exchange on drawn by Joseph Marx and son , for 40 pounds sterling. It got to hand this day. The list of books enclosed , it will afford me very great satisfaction to procure in the best manner in my power. I shall hope for the pleasure of writing to you again respecting them, and beg permission to...
4615John A. Robertson to Thomas Jefferson, 12 December 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
“ Ne quid falsi, dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat . ” It may be presumed, that some apology for thus obtruding on you, a communication from a private individual, in whose interest, perhaps, you have no concern, ought to be made. The sequel must substitute that apology. Endued by nature, with the outlines and confirmed by education in, at least, some of the minutiæ of that dignity of...
4616Peter S. Du Ponceau to Thomas Jefferson, 14 December 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Du Ponceau presents his respects to M r Jefferson , & has the honor of Sending to him at the request of M r Pickering a cop corrected sheet of his Essay on an uniform Orthography of Indian languages, to be Substituted for the Same Signature in the copy formerly Sent , which is now cancelled. RC (
4617Thomas Gimbrede to Thomas Jefferson, 18 December 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I was appointed two years ago professor of Drawing to this Institution ; the Situation is highly respectable, but the Climate of Virginia would be more Congenial to my feelings & no doubt better for my familly. I Take the Liberty to bring myself to your recolection, for that University which rises under your Protection; as a Draftman Painter & Engraver. a Communication from you on that Subject...
4618John Mantz to Thomas Jefferson, 19 December 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you by M r Elijah Brown —one side upper leather tanned alltogether with wood— and no Bark in any way whatever has there been applyed—to Complete it—you will please to accept the same—and remain yours respectfully— Ob H S RC ( MHi ); endorsed by TJ as received 31 Jan. 1821 and so recorded in SJL . RC ( MHi ); address cover only; with
4619Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 20 December 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you sincerely for your favor of Nov: 28. which I received on my arrival here on 5 th ins t . I should have written you before now, but that my whole time has been taken up by the scandalous attack on Governor Randolph ’s character. Thank Heaven! we were fortunate enough to make the blow recoil on the heads of his accusers, and I trust we shall never again be insulted by the intrusion...
4620Edwin Lewis to Thomas Jefferson, 20 December 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
read the enclosed and See how you have ruined a native american a Child of a firm patriot of 76 to promote a vile foreign partizan RC ( MoSHi: TJC-BC ); dateline at foot of text; addressed: “The Hon l Thomas Jefferson Monticella Virginia ”; franked; postmarked Mobile , 23 Dec.; endorsed by TJ as received 19 Jan. 1821 and so recorded in SJL . Edwin Lewis