10181To John Adams from Nathaniel Bowditch, 30 October 1820 (Adams Papers)
I have taken the liberty to forward to you a pamphlet containing a few papers prepared for the 4th vol. of the Academy’s Trans with a request that you would do me the honor to accept it— It gives me great pleasure to find that the situation of your health permits you to accept a seat in the convention, where your advice & influence will be extremely important in preserving a constitution,...
10182From John Jay to Peter Augustus Jay, 30 October 1820 (Jay Papers)
I have rec d . your Letter of the 20 Inst. I concur in your opinion that a well for the Livery Stable, had better be placed in the Street than in the Yard— Let it be made or postponed, as you may think most adviseable.— The Sums paid on assessments— the Monies applied to ordinary Expenses, and which should have been replaced at Interest, together with the Debts contracted, have so reduced my...
10183Nathaniel Bowditch to Thomas Jefferson, 30 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I have forwarded a few papers just printed in the 4 th Vol. of the Memoirs of the Academy , with the request that you would do me the honor to accept them It gives me great pleasure to hear that your health is better than it was a few months since & I pray that it may long continue so. RC ( MHi ); endorsed by TJ as received 28 Nov. 1820 and so recorded in SJL . RC : left half of address cover...
10184John H. Rice to Thomas Jefferson, 30 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Allow me, Sir, to offer thro’ you to the Library of the University of Virginia , a copy of the new edition of Smith ’s History. It is a small donation, indeed, but a token of deep interest felt by the donor in the prosperity of that institution. May it become an honour and a blessing to our native state , and a model for the literary establishments of others. Pardon me, a stranger, for adding...
10185From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Adams, 28 October 1820 (Adams Papers)
An indisposition which confined me to my bed in the first instance and moving in the next into our house in F Street has prevented my answering your Letter earlier and my papers are all in such confusion that I cannot pretend to find it now so as to answer it correctly— Our House will hardly be well fixed before you come on and at present Charles is obliged to sleep in the Drawing room which...
10186Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 28 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Since mine of the 23 d I have drawn as follows in favor of Alexr Garrett 217.29 and John Watson —72.76 and I have still two more to make, to wit for Joel Wolfe from 100. to 150.D. and in favor of E. Garland for 800.D. Will you be so good as to send by the boats about 15 or 20. gallons of linseed oil. as it is apt to leak in a cask you will judge whether it is better or not to have it in jugs....
10187Michele Raggi to Thomas Jefferson, 28 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Si puol persuadere Sig re , che se mi fosse stato bene spiegata la ricevutta che lei qui mi a rimesso copia nella pregiatissima sua letera , non avrei avutto coraggio di ricercare il giusto viaggio; lei ben sà che io non lego l’inglese; ⅌ conseguenza quando il Sig r Brochenbord scrisse la ricevutta, aciò io mi firmassi, lo pregai prima di metere il mio nome, che avrei desiderato mi fosse...
10188Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, with Jefferson’s Note, 28 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of the 14 th I mentioned the circumstance of the illness of my horses which was likely to delay my visit to Poplar Forest . three of them are nearly well and the others begin to mend. I hope we may by high feeding get them able to take the road in 12. or 14. days, and I shall do it the moment they seem able. my hope is to set out about the 8 th of Nov. the advance of the cold...
10189From John Adams to Jonathan Mason, Jr., 27 October 1820 (Adams Papers)
When the enterprise against Cape-breton was planed and adopted by the Legislature of Masschusetts I was ten years old—My Father took the Newspapers and gave them to me to read—so that I became some what attentive to publick affairs—But my attention was more forcibly attracted by the din of Arms The Militia where frequently called to-gether, And the Ensigns with their Colours—and the Sergeants...
10190From John Adams to John Sanderson, 27 October 1820 (Adams Papers)
I return you Hancock, with some Notes—partly by the Secretary of the Common Wea l th and partly by a Gentleman who speaks from his own knowledge, being sufficiently advanced in Age to remember all he says—Infinite injustice has been done to Mr Hancock As it has to every other Man in Massachusetts who was conspicuous in the Revolution—The fortune he left at his Death—Notwithstanding all his...
10191To John Adams from Henry Channing, 26 October 1820 (Adams Papers)
I cannot refrain from expressing my high gratification in perceiving that the Convention for amending the Constitution of Massts is to be honoured by your presence as a member. It must be gratifying to yourself to have this renewed proof of the undiminished confidence of your fellow-citizens, at this advanced period of life. I perceive, with some surprize, in the Boston papers several writers...
10192Martin Dawson to Thomas Jefferson, 26 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr Edmund Meeks hath drawn on you in my favour for eighteen Dollars Thirty five cents payable 1 st Jan y next Please to write me—whether I may put the same to your Acco t or not With Esteem $18.35 RC ( ViU: TJP-ER ); addressed: “ Thomas Jefferson esq re }
10193Bernard Peyton to Thomas Jefferson, 26 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I was favor’d last evening with your two esteemed favors of the 21st: & 23 d Inst: the latter addressed to “Capt: Craven Peyton ”; expecting tho’ it was a mistake, ventured to open it:— the former covered one addressed to R. Rush Esq r
10194Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Edmund Bacon, [ca. 1 May 1820], with Jefferson’s Note, 25 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
C r 1819 Received from John Wells $ 200 a horse 120 An Order on the mill for ofall 4 324 D r Sep r 22. 1820 1819
10195William Short to Thomas Jefferson, 25 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I could hardly have thought it possible that a letter from you could have remained in my hands unacknowleged so long, as I find your last to be, which I have now before me. It is of the 4 th of August last , but was not recieved by me until the 23 d . I was then on the sea shore, whither I had fled from the heats of Philadelphia , in pursuit of cool air—As this is a retired part of the state...
10196Thomas Jefferson to Jesse Wharton, 25 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Sep. 25. is just now recieved, and to answer it will require some explanation. our legislature , at their last session authorised the Visitors of the University to borrow money to finish the buildings, pledging the public annuity of 15,000.D. settled on it for the repayment of the loan. money was accordingly borrowed and the buildings will be compleated by this time twelvemonth....
10197To James Madison from Maury & Latham, 24 October 1820 (Madison Papers)
We beg to hand Accot sales of your Tobacco pr. scipio, with your Accot Currt. balance £35..12..5. due to you. By the next vessel for Virginia we shall ship the 10 sacks of Salt which you wish for. Mess MacKay & Campbell handed us your dft for £100. on us, & which we shall accordingly appropriate to them if such is your wish—it will in that case leave a balance of £64.7.7. against you,...
10198Thomas Jefferson to José Corrêa da Serra, 24 October [1820] (Jefferson Papers)
Your kind letter, dear Sir, of Oct. 11. was handed to me by D r Cooper , and was the first correction of an erroneous belief that you had long since left our shores. such had been Col o Randolph ’s opinion, and his had governed mine. I recieved your Adieu with feelings of sincere regret, at the loss we were to sustain, and particularly of those friendly visits by which you had made me so...
10199Pascal Etienne Meinadier to Thomas Jefferson, 24 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
In the year 1819 I had the honour to address a letter to you requesting your friendly aid in enabling me to pursue with effect my just demands against Isaac Cushing , my former partner, who carried off a large amount of property; and I had the honour of an answer from you on the 31 st August of that year. I have lately heard of the death of Cushing by the enclosed advertisement dated at...
10200Andrew Smith to Thomas Jefferson, 24 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I yesterday was favor’d with your respected Letter dated the 19 th Inst , enclosing your Draft for $68–78 on Capt n Bernard Peyton , which was promptly paid, together with interest from the 18 th of June 1819 , say $5–57 in all $74–32. for which be pleased to accept my thanks— I believe I already informed you of my having resumed the Agency of the Boston Glass Manufactory , in my Individual...
10201To James Madison from Thomas W. Maury, 23 October 1820 (Madison Papers)
My relation Mr. Wm. Maury of Liverpool will in a short time commence a long tour thro Kentucky, Tennessee & Mississippi, and from thence to New-Orleans. Being now absent on a tour to the eastward, and expecting to have no leisure on his way thro Virginia, he has requested me by letter, to ask the favor of you to give him letters to a few of the distinguished gentlemen in those states. If you...
10202Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 23 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
My draughts on you have been as follows D Sep. 30. in favor of Joel Wolfe 100 . Oct. 13. Taxes Albemarle . 197 .21 d o Bedford .
10203Bernard Peyton to Thomas Jefferson, 23 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I am in rec t this morning your esteemed favor covering J. W. Eppes ’s draft on the Virg a Bank for thirty five hundred $3,500 dollars payable to my order, which is drawn & at your credit, & will be paid to your orders as fast as called for— In the last three or four days have paid several small drafts of yours to various persons— I have met with the half of a delightful double Gloucester...
10204Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 22 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 16 th was safely recieved with the check on the bank of Virginia for 3500.D. inclosed. the expression in the reciept I sent you of 2 checks on the bank E t c for 4000.D. will I think comprehend with sufficient certainty the deposit of 500 D. as well as the check of 3500. I did not know at the time whether the 500.D. had been paid in cash, or by a check, but thought it...
10205To John Adams from François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 21 October 1820 (Adams Papers)
Yesterday I was highly gratified with your affectionate Letter, and answer it directly, not to renew my thanks, as I can no more express these as lively, as I See it impossible to reciprocate these—and then you dare to ask me, if my residence at Montezillo had been tolerable—did not then my friend read my contentment—in every gesture, in every feature of my visage—then certainly my countenance...
10206From John Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 21 October 1820 (Adams Papers)
My Eyes were delighted with your handwriting this Morning—And my heart Cheered with the Contents of the letter Your apology for the interruption of your Correspondence is amply sufficient, and indeed as I have previously found in my own reflections apologys for you, It was more than was necessary—I am delighted with your studing Latin—The Town of Quincy have been pleased to Elect one a Member...
10207Thomas Jefferson to James Leitch, 21 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you an order on Cap t Bernard Peyton for 533.D. of which I would wish 500.D. to be credited on my bond, and the balance 33.D. to be placed in our current account to reimburse the 33.D. on my order of Apr. 15. in favor of Josiah Leake . I assure you I have not before had that sum in my hands at any moment when urgent calls have not required it from me. I believe you settle the...
10208Thomas Jefferson’s List of Books to be Acquired in London, 21 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Grammatica Anglo-Saxonica ex Hickesiano Thesauro excerpta. Institutiones grammaticae Anglo-Saxonicae et Moeso-Gothica Hickesii Vocabularium Anglo-Saxonicum à Benson . The Saxon Heptateuch by Thwaites . Spelman ’s Anglo-Saxon Psalter. Marshal ’s Saxon gospels. 4 to Dordrecht . 1665.
10209Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 21 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Having occasion for some books from London , the inclosed letter requests my friend mr Rush our Minister there to engage some bookseller to furnish them. I state to him that you will be so good as to put into my letter a bill of exchange of £40. sterl, and that you will forward 2plic s & 3plic . by other conveyances. I leave the letter open for your perusal and request you to put a copy of...
10210To James Madison from Charles D. Coxe, 20 October 1820 (Madison Papers)
On the dismissal of Lieut Col. Gale from the Marine Corps, The officers have alledged to me, through my friend Mr. Pleasonton of the Treasury Department, that, as they do not conceive I have resigned my commission in that Corps, they would be very glad of my being placed at the head of it; to which the date of my Commission would entitle me. I conceive it now to be in your power to do me a...
10211Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 20 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I think the raising the windows above the floor will be proper for the reason you mention . with respect to the arches & entablature of Hotel A . there would be 3. modes of doing it. 1. to make the arches of the width of those of the dormitories. but this would make the piers too heavy. 2. to raise the cornice entablature as you propose, th e objection to which is the breaking the line of the...
10212Thomas Cooper’s Order on Alexander Garrett, 20 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Please to pay to my order, at the Bank of Virginia in Richmond , on the first day of January 1821 , Seven hundred and fifty dollars, being the remaining portion of the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, allowed me as Professor, by the Visitors of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville . MS ( ViU: TJP-PP ); in Cooper ’s hand, with notations in other hands as indicated; at foot of text in...
10213Thomas Jefferson to Richard Rush, 20 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
In your favor of May 3. which I have now to acknolege, you so kindly proffered your attentions to any little matters I might have on that side of the water, that I take the liberty of availing myself of this proof of your goodness so far as to request you to put the inclosed catalogue into the hands of some honest bookseller of London who will procure and forward the books to me, with care and...
10214Arthur S. Brockenbrough to Thomas Jefferson, 19 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I must beg leave to suggest some few alterations in the arcade in front of Hotel A without altering the height of the building, as the Span of the arch is 6 feet and the arches in front of the adjoining dormitories are only 5. F 4 I it requires 4 inches more height for the arcade in front of the Hotel than those in front of the dormitor i es, I think it will look better to let the entablature...
10215David McClure to Thomas Jefferson, 19 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Some time since I took the liberty to forward you a description of a plotting table. I have concluded to present it to the public and the pamphlet I forward you contains a sufficient description by which to make, and apply the same. The pamphlet you will perceive is my report on a late survey of a section of the River Delaware , and contains some original matter which I would be happy to have...
10216Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 19 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I avail myself of the first moment it has been in my power to commence the repaiment of the sum with which you were so kind as to accomodate me by sending you an order on Cap t Peyton for 500.D. as much as I am indebted to you for your friendly forbearance, I am afraid to name dates for further payments. the spring will be the earliest, at which I shall be able to pay the half or the whole of...
10217Craven Peyton to Thomas Jefferson, 19 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I am favoured with Yours of today inclosing a Draft On Capt Bernerd Peyton of Richm d for Five hundred Dollars at sight, to be placed to Your Credit with me, I was spoken to by Your Amiable Grand Son , y several months past, a s king my indulgance, On the debt due from You, untill I might want it; I informed him; I had made Arrangements for its use, On the 25 Dec r
10218Thomas Jefferson to Andrew Smith, 19 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I avail myself of the first moment it has been in my power to inclose you an order for the 68 D–78 which has been due to you so long, with interest from June 18 th 1819 . the date of the account . I will not repeat the explanations of my letter of Sep. 5. but am not the less sensible of my own delinquency nor of your indulgence, with which assurance be pleased to accept that of great esteem...
10219Tobias Watkins to Thomas Jefferson, 19 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
As it may afford you some gratification to know the result of your representations concerning Mr. Gerardin , I have taken the liberty to intrude on you once more, to say, that that Gentleman has been unanimously elected by our Board of Trustees , Principal of Baltimore College . Permit me to use this opportunity to thank you for your polite and prompt reply to my letter , and to renew to you...
10220Thomas Jefferson to Henry Clark, 18 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Oct. 4. is recieved. you have been quite un misinformed as to my having any intention to lease my possessions in Bedford . nothing would induce me to put my negroes out of my own protection. from the good opinion I entertained of your father I should have as willingly listened to proposals from yourself as from any body, had I the intentions you supposed. I tender you the...
10221Constantine S. Rafinesque to Thomas Jefferson, 18 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I lately took the liberty to address you three Letters on American or rather Alleghawee Antiquities, which were published in the Kentucky Reporter I now transmit you Prospectus of a new literary undertaking, with some details of its future contents, (in a number of the Reporter). I will be the principal Editor of this Journal, to which many eminent Individuals will contribute. We solicit your...
10222Resolution of the President and Directors of the Literary Fund, 25 March 1820, with Jefferson’s Note, 17 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
At a Meeting of the President & Directors of the Literary fund , on Saturday, the 25 th of March 1820 — Resolved, that the following be adopted, as the form of the security to be given by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia , for payment of the interest and principal of the loan directed to be made to the said Rector and Visitors , by the Resolution of this Board, bearing...
10223From John Adams to Joseph E. Worcester, 17 October 1820 (Adams Papers)
I have received the honour of your letter of the 5th. together with your Elements of Geography, Ancient and Modern, with an Atlas, and an Epitome of Modern Geography with Maps for the use of Common Schools—for these valuable presents, I pray you to accept my best thanks—It always gives me pleasure to see attempts and endeavours to promote in America the means, and Instruments of Education for...
10224Thomas Jefferson to William Munford, 17 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this day duly executed, and now inclose the bond you were so kind as to prepare & forward me for the 20,000 D. now proposed to be borrowed of the Literary fund by the Visitors of the University . and I have executed it as I found it prepared, requiring that the interest should commence on the 1 st day of the present month. it is a question however which it is my duty to refer to the...
10225From John Adams to Wilkes Allen, 16 October 1820 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your obliging favour of October 1st. In my former letter I forgot to mention that Mr Marsh had by Miss Fisk another Son whose name was Danil—an Eminent Shop keeper, and a worthy Deacon, in one of the Churches in Boston—and he had a Son Educated at College and became a preacher—but I believe died early Mr Fisk of Braintree who had a Son—who removed and Settled in Salem—had a Son...
10226From John Adams to Samuel Sewall, 16 October 1820 (Adams Papers)
In a Letter from the Revnd. Mr Wilkes Allen of Chelmsford of October 1st. I am informed that you have two or three large Volumes of the Journals of the most Ancient Chief Justice Sewall, in which he mentions his frequent Visits to his Cousin Fisk of Braintree; and which contains other information respecting Characters and events of that Ancient Town—If you sir will be kind enough to transcribe...
10227From John Adams to Susanna Boylston Adams Clark Treadway, 16 October 1820 (Adams Papers)
Your favor of October 7th. has given me pleasure—by the information of your safe arrival at Utica—But much regret the necessity you was under to return there—The hopeful prospect of Susans recovery is a great Satisfaction to me. I, for one long to see her—and her Mother—and I am not alone in that wish—I pray you to return to Montezillo—I am persuaded that her Native Air from the proximity to...
10228From John Quincy Adams to Josiah, III Quincy, 16 October 1820 (Adams Papers)
In answer to your obliging Letter of the 8th. instt I have only to renew the request that you would procure the necessary shelves for my books though the cost should be to the extent of your estimate observing only the caution mentioned in my former Letter that the shelves be made adoptable to removal to any other place I am as ever &c &c &c. MHi : Adams Family Papers, Letterbooks.
10229From James Madison to Joel K. Mead, 16 October 1820 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 12th. inst: & I can not speak too favorably of the object which employs your thoughts or of the disinterested zeal with which you devise means for accomplishing it. Of those which have occurred you ask my opinion. I wish it were better entitled to the confidence, you seem to attach to it. Such as it is I give it with the candor, which I can not doubt you will...
10230William Charles Jarvis to Thomas Jefferson, 16 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 20 th Ult o I have received, and the pleasure it gave me is by no means diminished by the objection you make to what seems to be the opinion expressed in pages 84 & 148 of the Republican , . I acknowlidge, that there is too much ground for the inference you have drawn, in regard to those parts of the book; but I have a satisfaction in saying, that I have exposed myself to your...