13591William Plumer to Thomas Jefferson, 7 June 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to enclose to you a copy of my message to the legislature at their present session—& to assure you that I am with much respect & esteem Sir, RC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “Hon Thomas Jefferson Monticello V a ”; endorsed by TJ as received 20 June 1818 and so recorded in SJL . Enclosure: Plumer , Message from His Excellency The Governor of New-Hampshire, To The Legislature, June 4, 1818...
13592To John Adams from Hezekiah Niles, 6 June 1818 (Adams Papers)
I had the pleasure to publish your letters to Mr. Tudor, presenting subjects for national paintings—much to my own satisfaction & to the gratification of the American people. I respectfully acknowledge the reception of your very interesting letters to Mr. Wirt—they shall have a conspicuous insertion in my next Register. Grateful for the honor conferred by those communications, / I am, sir,...
13593From William Wirt to John Quincy Adams, 6 June 1818 (Adams Papers)
The enclosed letter from Mr. Bache, the post-master at Philadelphia, ought, I think, to be communicated to the President of the U.S. As it is not improbable that an application for pardon, in the case alluded to, may follow him, on his tour. Taking it for granted that, some channel of communication between him and your department, during his absence, has been settled between you, I have...
13594From John Adams to Daniel Putnam, 5 June 1818 (Adams Papers)
I received Yesterday your kind Letter of the 23d of May with a Copy of your Letter to President Monroe of the 21. of May. Neither myself, nor my Family have been able to read either with dry Eyes. They are Letters that would do honour to the pen of Pliny. I had before been indebted to the Politeness of Mr Brinley for the Pamphlet. You ask “Whether any dissatisfaction existed in the public mind...
13595André Thoüin to Thomas Jefferson, 5 June 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai eu l’honneur de vous faire passer en février d er au moyen de M r Beasly , consul des Etats unis d’amerique au havre de grace , mon envoi annuel de Semences. Il était composé de 73 Espèces differentes qui m’ont parues manquer à votre collection et devoir vous être agréables. J’y ai Joint comme de coutume une liste de nos desiderata et quelques brochures que J’ai cru devoir vous...
13596To John Adams from William P. Gardner, 4 June 1818 (Adams Papers)
I have received the Letter which you did me the honor to write to me under Date the 29 ult. I am happy to find that Mr. Delaplaine has succeeded in obtaining a good Likeness of you for his national work the Heads and Lives of illustrious Persons of America.—I hope he will meet with that encouragement which the magnitude and usefulness of the work so justly merit.—I shou’d be glad to see the...
13597To John Adams from Ann Frances Bulkeley Humphreys, 4 June 1818 (Adams Papers)
It was the wish of my lamented Husband, that after his death, small tokens of his affection & remembrance should be presented to each of his dearest & most esteemed friends… this sacred request of his, must plead my apology to the most valued & most highly venerated of his friends & Patrons, for presuming to write to him this note, & offering him a little braid of General Humphrey’s Hair, with...
13598John Barnes to Thomas Jefferson, 4 June 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
lest you should not have noticed the inclosed, curious dispute at Soleure —respecting the late, venerable dec d Gen l Kosciusko , of which probably you have—or may soon expect to learn, from his Relative or Confidential friends I judge it proper to inclose it, for your Goverment most Respectfully & sincerely RC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “Thomas Jefferson Esq r Monticello”; endorsed by TJ as...
13599William King (of South Carolina) to Thomas Jefferson, 4 June 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
some time past, I ventured to write to you on a subject that may perhaps be of great utility to the commercial world; but have receiv’d no answer. It is almost with a trembling hand, that I write a second time: the dread of not being noticed by one of the first Men in the united States, intimidates my mind. But the nature of the case induces the measure. If not mistaken, I have discovered a...
13600Caleb Atwater to Thomas Jefferson, 2 June 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Attatched to the Philosopher whom I address from my earliest years, permit me to lay before you, a letter addressed to President Monroe concerning the antiquities in the West. Perhaps I am committing an error, by intruding on that dignified repose, which by your distinguished services in the cause of literature, your country and of the freedom and happiness of mankind you so richly merit. To...
13601From John Adams to William Tudor, Sr., 1 June 1818 (Adams Papers)
No Man could have written from Memory Mr Otis’s Argument of four or five hours against The Acts of Trade as Revenue Laws Writts of Assistants, as a tyrannical Engine to execute them the next day after it was spoken. How awkward then would be an attempt to do it after a lapse of fifty seven years? Nevertheless, Some of the heads of his discourse are So indellibly imprinted on my Mind, that I...
13602From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 1 June 1818 (Adams Papers)
Mrs: Cruft has arrived here and it is with much pleasure I observe she has derived benefit from her journey—Her looks are very promising but in her complaint it is difficult to ascertain her real state through so treacherous as in her a medium; as in her complaints good looks are acknowledged to be false guides and frequently delude us into hope when in reality hope ought to be the least...
13603Thomas Jefferson to William H. Fitzhugh, 31 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to the enquiries of your letter of the 18 th as to the communications between Georgetown ferry & this quarter, I must observe there are three general routes practised, the lower one by Fredericksburg , the upper one by Fauquier C.H. and a middle one by Stephensbg . this last is many miles shortest, much the levellest, and being the particular one enquired after in your letter, I...
13604From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 30 May 1818 (Adams Papers)
I think I once heard you Say—to make a thing choice it Should be rare. your kind Letter last Evening received—possesst both those qualities. The very Sight of your hand writing—addresd as formerly gave a Spring to my Spirits, and your Father Sprung from the settee to place himself by my Side, while I read it to him—I have foreborne writing to you, during the Session of Congress, being...
13605Thomas A. Digges to Thomas Jefferson, 30 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
A variety of untoward incidents, to which we are all doomd, has for the last three summers rebutted my attempts to visit You and our good friends at Montpellier , and I was peculiarly vexd in Octo r last that I could not by a proferrd seat in M r Bagot s Barouche to M r Madison s & to have partaken of the pleasurable scenes they enjoyd there and of which they yet speak in rapturous delight:—...
13606Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 30 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Our banks being still unwilling to draw upon the North on the receipt of your favor of the 13 th Ins t —I wrote to Mess rs LeRoy & Bayard to draw upon me for the amount due by you which they have done say $2387.69 which is placed to your debit . I have not received from M r Robertson the money you mentiond in your letter of the 21 st ult
13607Archibald Stuart to Thomas Jefferson, 30 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknowledge with many thanks The rec t of a fine looking Merino Ram by your servant and I am really ashamed of myself for not having saved you the Trouble of sending him—He will be a Valuable acquisition to me & my neighbours— The peas you were so good as to send us are a great rarity, we shall have none of our own for a fortnight to come— The Legislature I presume in directing The...
13608From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 29 May 1818 (Adams Papers)
As Holly is a Diamond of a Superiour water it would be crushed to pouder by Mountainous oppression in any other country. Even in this, he is a light shining in a dark place. His System is founded in the hopes of Mankind, but they delight more in their Fears. When will man have juster notions of the Universal eternal cause? Then will rational Christianity prevail. I regrett Holly’s misfortune...
13609To James Madison from John S. Barbour, 29 May 1818 (Madison Papers)
As an opportunity presents itself of writing you I embrace it to give you what information I possess relative to the Chancery Suit. Upon my arrival in Fredericksburg it was disclosed thro the papers filed in the cause that a recent Sale of the mortgaged premises had brought into existence new interests which it became necessary to protect, and upon a suggestion of that fact by the opposite...
13610John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 29 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
As Holly is a Diamond of a Superiour Water, it would be crushed to pouder by mountainous oppression in any other Country. Even in this, he is a light Shining in a dark place. His System is founded in the hopes of Mankind: but they delight more in their Fears. When will Men have juster Notions of the Universal eternal Cause? Then will rational Christianity prevail. I regrett Hollys Misfortune...
13611Thomas Jefferson to James Le Ray de Chaumont, 29 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved lately a copy of your Address to the Agricultural society of Jefferson county in New York , which presuming to have come from yourself, I beg leave here to return you my thanks for the pleasure derived from it’s perusal. I see with great satisfaction these societies rising up, in different parts of the several states, and I expect from them much advantage to the agriculture of our...
13612Thomas Jordan to Thomas Jefferson, 29 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
On my arrival in town this morning I had the honour of receiving your very polite favour of 21 st Instant , Covering ten Dollars, and Fifty Cents, being the amount of your subscription for the Emporium of Arts & Sciences due Kimber & Richardson of Philadelphia , in whose name I beg leave to return you my sincere, and gratefull thanks & RC ( DLC ); at head of text: “Honourable Thomas...
13613Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Itch Lotion, [after 29 May 1818] (Jefferson Papers)
60 grs = 1. drachm 8 drachms = 1. oz 480. grs = 1. oz 16 oz. = 1. pint 2880 480 7680 = 1 pint 3840 11520 = 1
13614Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 29 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
On the reciept of your favor of the 11 th (which did not come to hand till the 23 d ) I proceeded to examine my papers as to the information they might give you on the subject of your Green sea lands. the result I now send you, to wit, my original letter to Col o Newton , his answer, and an entry in my pocket Memorandum book which I found under the date of Nov. 21. 99 . I am not able to say...
13615James Sloan to Thomas Jefferson, 29 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me, sir, to present you a copy of, “Rambles in Italy,” as a sincere though slight acknowledgement of the pleasure, and instruction I have derived from your Notes on Virginia, and as a testimony of my admiration, of your talent and accomplishment RC ( DLC ); dateline at foot of text; endorsed by TJ as received 4 June 1818 and so recorded in SJL . RC ( DLC ); address cover only; with PoC...
13616Horatio G. Spafford to Thomas Jefferson, 29 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty to enquire for thy health, & am anxious to learn if any of the seeds, with which I am stocking my Farms, would be acceptable on thine? I have lately obtained some very superior oats , from Russia , & some summer wheat & rye Summer rye ; th four or 5. varieties of wheat , from Europe & Africa
13617Thomas Jefferson to James W. Wallace, 29 May [1818] (Jefferson Papers)
On the Suddenness of the request in the moment of your departure for a keep- sake in the style of Gen l Washington ’s & General Braddock ’s razors, I could not at once recollect any thing exactly suitable. it has since occurred that the travelling razor case which I have been in the habit of using, might be a deposit for those razors, and make a compact thing of the whole, and as it is light I...
13618From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 28 May 1818 (Adams Papers)
You tell me in your last Letter that “you believe you did not write to me, because you had not received a Letter from me” I think you have in some of your former Letters mentioned that you kept a book in which you copied them; by refering to this book you would be able to know positively how the matter stood. but at any rate you must not be so punctilious as to wait for a Letter from me but...
13619Thomas Jefferson to John Gardiner, 28 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Gardiner and his thanks for the handsome Map of the Alabama territory , which he has been so kind as to send him . the rapid advance of that portion of our country into notice and estimation renders it now entirely interesting. he salutes mr Gardiner with esteem and respect. PoC ( MHi ); on verso of reused address cover of Charles Willson Peale to...
13620Thomas Jefferson to James Leitch, 28 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
at the meeting of the Commissioners at Rockfish gap it will be very important to have a copy of Madison ’s map of Virginia with lines traced on it , and through the different places proposed for the University , so as to shew the quantum of population on each side of those lines. it should be one of those with the boundaries of the counties colored, but not their whole surface. I wrote to mr...
13621Thomas Jefferson to Mordecai M. Noah, 28 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the Discourse on the consecration of the Synagogue in your city, with which you have been pleased to favor me. I have read it with pleasure and instruction, having learnt from it some valuable facts in Jewish history which I did not know before. your sect by it’s sufferings has furnished a remarkable proof of the universal spirit of religious intolerance, inherent in every...
13622Thomas Jefferson to James P. Preston, 28 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
The letter of the 20 th with which you have honored me did not come to hand until yesterday. with mr Hassler I have not the pleasure of a personal acquaintance; but I have information entirely satisfactory of his scientific character. as an Astronomer and Mathematician he is certainly highly qualified; and the former commission you mention him to have held of Director of roads, bridges and...
13623Thomas Jefferson to Hugh Steel, 28 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Apr. 12. came to hand on the 23 d instant. withdrawn by the effect of age, from the labors of correspondence to which that has rendered me unequal, I am able only to forward your letter and communication to a member of the American Philosophical society at Philadelphia . it is long since I resigned the office of their President, and D r Wistar , who succeeded me is lately dead,...
13624Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 28 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Our fathers taught us an excellent maxim ‘never to put off to tomorrow what you can do to day.’ by some of their degenerate sons this has been reversed by never doing to-day what we can put off to tomorrow. for example I have been more than a year intending to send you a Merino ram, next week , and week after week it has been put off still to next week , which, like tomorrow, was never...
13625Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 28 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
The 4 th of exchange for M r Appleton recieved in yours of May 14. happened to be overlooked by you, and is on endorsing , & is now returned for your signature, with a request to seal & forward th under the cover by any opportunity. it is in fact only to make security more secure. mr Steel’s papers are for communication to the society.
13626From James Madison to James P. Preston, 27 May 1818 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd. your letter of the 20th. requesting such information as I may [be] able to give with regard to the qualifications of Mr. F. R. Hassler, for the place of Principal Engineer, to the Board of Public Works. I have but a slight personal knowlege of Mr. Hassler; but I have sufficient reason to believe, that he possesses, in an eminent degree, every scientific requisite for such an...
13627From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to George Washington Adams, 26 May 1818 (Adams Papers)
I do not recollect whether I answered your last Letter my memory not being remarkably good and keeping no account of dates but I rather think I did not in consequence of your father having undertaken it. I thank you for your attention in sending me the North American Review but your father has it at the Office now, so that it will not be worth your while to take that trouble any longer You...
13628From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Adams, 26 May 1818 (Adams Papers)
Since I received your last Letter we have been kept in a state of great anxiety who was on account of poor Mrs. Caldwell the only Sister of your Uncle Boyd who was suddenly siezed with strong convulsions without any previous suffering or apparent cause; which fell upon her brain and after eight days of great distress to her friends she expired—Leaving a husband who adored her and sir Children...
13629John M. Perry to Thomas Jefferson, 26 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have unexpectedly to go to Lynchburg again—My son Tho s has got So much worse since I left there that my Brother has sent a Messenger for me a second time— M r Dinsmore who will hand you this has promised to begin to work on the pavillion I have undertaken to do for the College —I hope by this araangement arrangement that we shall be yet able to have it done in time or So near that it will not
13630From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 25 May 1818 (Adams Papers)
I am ashamed to find upon my file of Letters to be answered , one from you of 29. January; besides two or three from my father of as old standing—you know however the only cause, which has occasioned so long a postponement of my reply—There has been I believe no change in the office of Collector at Plymouth; and it was with much pain that I learnt it was probable there would be. Should it...
13631From John Adams to Benjamin Owen Tyler, 24 May 1818 (Adams Papers)
I have received your Copy of the declaration of Independence for which I thank you. It is elegantly and exquisitely executed— I should think that our Harvard Colledge ought to be as proud of it, as of the Manuscript Copy of the Aphorisms of Hypocrites lately presented by Mr Nichols of London through Mr Boylston of Prince Princeton, which is said to be worth in England fifteen hundred Guineas.—...
13632To John Adams from Daniel Putnam, 23 May 1818 (Adams Papers)
Will you allow me Sir, the honor of presenting, and afford me the gratification of perusing the pamphlet herewith forwarded? containing an account of the Battle of Bunker Hill by Major Genl. Dearborn, and a feeble endeavour on my part, to repel the charges therein made, against the character and conduct of the late Major Genl. Israel Putnam. In ordinary cases, I have deemed the pamphlet in its...
13633John McKinney to Thomas Jefferson, 23 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
With esteeme, I imbrace this appertunity, of writing to you—Alho, I wrote you the other Day by male— as the Bearer M r Thatchers , is to pass through your County, & whereas our males, have lately, been very Uncertain—I have that thought it most adviseable to write by him, too as I am now Anxous for an Answer Imme diately — Sir—I was formerly Acquainted wi have been Several times at your...
13634To John Adams from Daniel Putnam, 21 May 1818 (Adams Papers)
However untimely or improper may the thought an address of this kind, from an obscure, individual to the President of the U. States, I cannot repress the impulse which urges me to trespass on the high duties of your exalted station, and to solicit your condescention to a short vindication of my Fathers memory from the foul aspersions cast on it by a man who has held stations of high...
13635From James Madison to James Monroe, 21 May 1818 (Madison Papers)
I have just been favored with yours of the 18th. inclosing the Moscow document. I had previously recd. that written on your setting out for Loudon. The Russian paper accounts for the confident tone of Spain towards the U. S.; and throws light on the equivocal conduct of G. B. in relation to Spanish America. It corroborates, at the same time the circumspect policy observed by the Govt. of the...
13636Thomas Jefferson to John Cook, 21 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments and his thanks to M r Cook for the N o of mr Frend ’s Astronomical amusements of 1818. which he has been so kind as to send him . he has looked over it with pleasure, and considers it as an instructive publication for many who have not time to devote to a more serious study of the subject. he salutes mr Cook with respect. PoC ( MHi ); on verso of an...
13637Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Jordan, 21 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return home after an absence of 3. weeks, I found here your letter of Apr. 20. and it was not till yesterday that I could procure an US. 10.D. bill; and just in that moment recieved your 2 d favor of May 13. I now therefore inclose 10.50 D to the care of D r Stewart as you desired. the perplexity of keeping the numerous little accounts for periodical publications had occasioned it to...
13638John McKinney to Thomas Jefferson, 21 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
After my best Respects to you, I would just inform you, I Never have had it in my power to procure to you, the Panther skin, you Requested Me to have with it’s head & Teeth, feet & Nails (or Claws) all to it, & to be as near in form, as possible like as if it was alive—But I still Look out to have it: as soon as possible & if I Do, I will forward it to you, with all speed— Also, I now have in...
13639Thomas Ritchie to Thomas Jefferson, [ca. 21 May 1818] (Jefferson Papers)
After all my exertions, it is impossible for me to execute your commission . I cannot find in this City one map of V a which is not pasted on linen and mounted on Rollers.—The Agent of the map resides here; but he has one no Copy of the description you desire.—A new Edition of it is in hand, and he has therefore pushed off the old ones as fast as he could. If you will instruct me to purchase a...
13640From Abigail Smith Adams to William Cranch, 1817 to 20 May 1818 (Adams Papers)
I yesterday received your Letter from Annapolis of May 8th. I congratulate you my dear Sir, that altho the clouds have been darkned round you, and altho You have experienced by death the loss of kind and worthey Friends, others are rising up to Supply their place. the opening now which presents itself, is Such as may give you Sanguine hopes & Light prospect. I sincerely wish they may be...