12811Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 18 January 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Grateful, truly grateful, is it to my heart, to be able to announce to you; the result of this day’s proceedings in the House of Delegates . In Committee of the whole, the question was taken, after an elaborate discussion, on the question motion to strike the Central College from the Bill . The vote was as follows;—for striking out 69—against it 114—majority ag t striking out 45 . This is a...
12812Mathew Carey & Son to Thomas Jefferson, 18 January 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
We hope you will have the goodness to excuse the long delay of an answer to your favour on the subject of Baxter ’s Edition of Hume ’s England. The arrangements of our business are incompatible with the undertaking such a work at present. Should any new plan take place, we shall give the subject that serious consideration, to which the high character you bestow on the work entitles it...
12813Joseph Jones to Thomas Jefferson, 18 January 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
This morning I was informed by m r Patrick Durkin of the house of Durkin, Henderson & co. owners of the Brig Planter , Daniel Anderson master from marseilles that the Brig w d not come up to City point to unload but w d at Norfolk — I wrote you dated 8
12814Joseph Milligan to Thomas Jefferson, 18 January 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 15 th instant I received the Box of Books to bind I exchanged two or three letters with M r Gray of Fredericksburg befor I received them the delay has been between Fredericksburg and this place as during the frosty weather the steam boat has been laid up and the stages are not as yet regular but I trust the steam Boat will run again as the river is now entirely open and I trust as the...
12815Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 18 January 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
You oblige me infinitely, dear Sir, by sending me the Congressional documents in pamphlet form. for as they come out by peice-meal in the newspapers I never read them. and indeed I read no newspapers now but Ritchie ’s, and in that chiefly the advertisements, as being the only truths we can rely on in a newspaper. but in a pamphlet, where we can go thro’ the whole subject when once taken up,...
12816Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 18 January 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Jan. 18. 19. inclosed to Cap t Peyton the rec t for a box of books from Fernagus . also ment d the cask of rice which would be deliv d him from Charleston . all to be forwarded by Johnson ’s boats & exp. reimbursed by
12817Thomas Jefferson to John Bent, 17 January 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just recieved your letter of Dec. 24. and am sorry it is not in my power to give you the information you request as to the steps you must pursue to get your bounty in land. but retired as I am from all public business and scarcely ever going from home, I have paid no attention to the subject on which you ask my advice, and am entirely ignorant of it. but the best thing you can do is to...
12818Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Potter, 17 January 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Doct r Potter and his thanks for his learned and ingenious treatise on contagion which he has been so kind as to send him. he has read it with great satisfaction, and the more as it maintains an opinion which has long been his own and which he once ventured to declare in a public document in the hope that it might induce foreign governments to relax in...
12819Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 17 January 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
The waggons arrived here on Wednesday a little after the middle of the day. we were under extreme sufferance for the want of a short job of hauling, and I thought it better to set both about it that they might go back together; and the rather as every day’s stay enabled Johnny Hemings to add another plough frame. they will accordingly carry you three made on Thursday, Friday & Saturday, and...
12820To John Adams from Hezekiah Niles, 16 January 1819 (Adams Papers)
I am honored with your brief note, & enclosure of many letters & papers. So far as these are shew the spirit and feelings of the times, they are very acceptable; & thought not used in extremis , will furnish many interesting extracts. I shall next week put to press my long contemplated collection of revolutionary papers. I cannot yet even myself venture an opinion as to what its merits or...