13761Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 4 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Not having received the order from M r Tho s J Randolph as I expected by last mail, I obtained permission of the Cashier to draw the money, engaging to furnish him with the order in a few days—and have been endeavouring in vain to procure a check, or dft to remit to M r Vaughan , I have therefore written to that Gentleman on the subject, requesting him to draw upon me for $1000. on your...
13762From John Adams to Justin Griswold, 3 May 1818 (Adams Papers)
I was born on the nineteenth of October 1735, and consequently was eighty two years of age, on the thirtieth of October 1817. My Son John Quincy, was born on the eleventh of July 1767, and consequently will be fifty one years of age, on the eleventh of July next. If this information can afford any gratification to the old revolutionary Gentleman of your vicinity, everyone of whom I love, it is...
13763Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 3 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I set out from this place for Monticello tomorrow morning and shall leave this letter at Flood ’s. I have engaged Francis ’s board with mr Dashiell himself, who takes only three others. Francis will be much pleased with the family, which is a very genteel one, and they live well as I saw by going in upon them at their dinner unexpectedly. he is an excellent teacher as I judged, at his...
13764Enclosure: Stephen Cathalan’s Invoice of Items Shipped to Thomas Jefferson, 28 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Invoice of Sundries Shipped by order for the account & risk of Thom s Jefferson Esq r at Monticello Virg a on board the american Ship Fair Trader of Alexend a Geor g Fletcher
13765To John Adams from Richard Rush, 2 May 1818 (Adams Papers)
An old Scotch woman, in North-Shields, signing herself Ann Hewison, has sent me a manuscript Quarto of what she calls extracts from the diary of William Langborn, an American officer, kept during his travels through several parts of Europe. I copy, word for word, the following passages. London July 18. 1786. “Saturday—Did myself the pleasure, agreeably to yesterdays invitation, of dining with...
13766From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 2 May 1818 (Adams Papers)
My health has been so indifferent and the City is so flat since the adjourment of Congress that I cannot find materials for a Letter—It is difficult for me to say what the nature of my indisposition as the Doctor cannot ascertain it no more than myself but I believe general weakness and a slight attack of what they here call chills and fevers has been my chief complaint and the latentness and...
13767To James Madison from Richard Rush, 2 May 1818 (Madison Papers)
I received through Mr Brent, in January, the favor of your few lines, accompanied by the letter for Mr Keilsall which was forwarded to my care. I am sorry to say that all my efforts to find him out, have, thus far, proved fruitless. I will not give them over, and hope that this instance of ill success in the beginning will not deter you from calling on me again whenever you have occasion. Your...
13768Stephen Cathalan to Thomas Jefferson, 2 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Confirming you my here inclosed letter of the 25 th April ult o ; this is to remit you herewith the invoice of 8 Boxes containing together 192 Bottl s old red wine of Bergasse & one Basket Macaroni, I have Shipped on the Ship Fair Trader, G ge Fletcher master, for Alexd a to be forwarded to you by the
13769Thomas Jefferson to Wilson Cary Nicholas, 1 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved at this place, and yesterday only your favor of the 19 th . if it has not loitered on the road, it mus t have been at Lynchburg with which I have but uncertain communications. were a hesitation possible at the request it contains, it would proceed only from the wish to leave at the close of life as clear a state of things as possible for those who are to come after me; to be able,...
13770From John Adams to John Adams, April 1818 (Adams Papers)
I am much pleased with your Translation The Character of Anacreon is one of the many Mysteries of Antiquity which the Researches of your whole life will not be able to unridle. He did well to renounce the Heroes for he either knows nothing of the Sons of Atreous of Cadmus the Theban King or of Hercules and his twelve Labours or if he knows any Thing he dared not tell what he knows. It is...
13771Matthew Pate’s Survey of Eighteen-Acre Tract Adjacent to Poplar Forest, 30 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Surveyed for Thomas Jefferson 18 acres of Land (by Virtue of a Land Office Treasury Warrant granted to him the 27 th day of June 1812 for 100 acres & N o 4915) Situate in the County of Bedford & Bounded as follows viz Begining at pointers Corner to his own popler forest tract thence along his own lines S 40 ½ E 68 poles to pointers S 62 W 38 poles to Cobbs Corner Red oak thence along his line...
13772To John Adams from William P. Gardner, 29 April 1818 (Adams Papers)
A Stranger to you, an Apology is justly due on my part for the Liberty I take in addressing this Letter. The Hand of time will, ere a period but short in it’s Duration must elapse, sweep from this sublunary stage of Existence the few remaining revolutionary Patriots who, by their wisdom in Council and their valour in the field plannd and establishd the Liberty and independence of our happy...
13773Thomas Appleton to Thomas Jefferson, 29 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
The unexpected departure of the Brig. Free Ocean Capt: Bartholomew , this day for Phil a together with many avocations for the Squadron of Com o Stewart now here, allows me only the time to say, that I have shipp’d on board the above mention’d vessel, two Cases cont’g 84 bottles of montepulciano wine, which exactly balances, what you term the “ atom ,” after paying mad me mazzei .— It is...
13774From Abigail Smith Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 28 April 1818 (Adams Papers)
You justly appreciate the Sympathy of your Quincy Friends under the heavey affliction you have met with. they do in deed feel for you. when the Aged fall, it is the Curse of Nature, but when the young and promising are cut down e’er they reach the meridian of Life, we are led to inquire wherefore? and it is only in the belief of a “Being of unerring wisdom and goodness, that the from whom the...
13775To James Madison from Blackford, Arthur, and Company, 28 April 1818 (Madison Papers)
We received a few days since a letter from ⟨the?⟩ Hone. Judge Holmes requesting us to forward on a Corn & […] Machine for your use to Orange Court House, if practicable, of[…] apprize, to what place we could conveniently Send one. At p⟨resent?⟩ we have no orders for either Castings or Bar Iron, direct to the C⟨ourt?⟩ House, but calculate on receiving some during the ensuing month, […] we with...
13776To James Madison from James Monroe, 28 April 1818 (Madison Papers)
The late session, considering the flourishing & happy condition of the country, has been unusually oppressive on every branch of the Executive dept. There have been more calls for information, than I recollect to have been made at any former session, and in some instances, with a portion of the H. of R. a very querulous spirit has been manifested. The questions, involving the right in...
13777Stephen Cathalan to Thomas Jefferson, 25 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
your most honored Favor of the 18 th January , Inclosing a Copy of the Letter your So Long Continued Friendship for me dictated to the H ble B. W. Crowninshield Sec ry of the navy, with one of his answer to you (which you was So Good, as to take the Trouble to transmit me, with & by your Good Friendly Hand) Reached me on the 21 st Ins t by an american Vessel arived on that Day, from new york
13778Gamaliel H. Ward to Thomas Jefferson, 22 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote You on the 20 th January from Wilmington N o C . by the advice of my friends there, and as the subject and my plan seem’d to excite a deal of interest & anxiety, perhaps the letter might have been intercepted, I therefore take the liberty to enclose a copy and to crave your reference thereto. But as I desired an answer to care of Robert Cochran Esq re Collector of that place and left...
13779From John Adams to William Tudor, Sr., 23 April 1818 (Adams Papers)
I have Seldom read so much good sense, in so few Words as in your Letter of the 5th. Your Judgment of Mr Wirts Biography of My Friend Mr Henry, is in exact Unison with my own. I have read it with more delight than Scotts Romances in Verse and Prose or Miss Porters Scottish Chiefs and other Novels. I am sorry you have introduced me. I could wish my own Name forgotten, if I could devellope, the...
13780To James Madison from John Rhea, 23 April 1818 (Madison Papers)
I received Your letter of the sixth instant, and would have written sooner but expected that I might have the pleasure of Visiting You on my way to Tennessee. To know that Mrs Madison and Yourself retain good health affords to me great satisfaction and I hope it will be continued to You. Not being heretofore in the habit of leaving this city immediately at the adjournment of Congress, as usual...
13781John Rhea to Thomas Jefferson, 23 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
John Rhea , presents the assurance of his respect and Esteem, with the enclosed copy of a Circular letter to Thomas Jefferson Esq r late President of the United States — RC ( MHi ); endorsed by TJ as received 6 May 1818 and so recorded in SJL . Enclosure: Rhea to his constituents, Washington , 3 Apr. 1818, highlighting the uniqueness of the American republic, the symbiotic relationship between...
13782To John Adams from Justin Griswold, 22 April 1818 (Adams Papers)
I am requested by the old Revolutionary Gentlemen of this vicinity, to ask the favour of your Hon. to give your, and your son: John Quinsey’s ages, for their gratification— Your conceding to the above will oblige / theirs, and—, / Your obedient / Hum. Sert.— MHi : Adams Papers.
13783To John Jay from Peter Augustus Jay, 22 April 1818 (Jay Papers)
Sister Sallys Troubles are all ended. It has pleased God to take her to himself. She expired this Afternoon about half past three oClock. She retained her Senses to the last, knew her Situation & was perfectly composed & tranquil. M r Milnor prayed with her a short time before she died. May God comfort you my dear father, I am your Affectionate Son, Maria & Nancy are as well as can be...
13784Henry Dearborn to Thomas Jefferson, 22 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Being persuaded that you have more letters to notice than can be perfectly convenient or agreable, I have refrained for some time from adding to the list, we may not always be sure of what the governing motive for our actions may be, but as far as I am capable of deciding in the present case, my motive for writing is principally, that of saying, that neither time or space, has in any degree...
13785John Wood to Thomas Jefferson, 22 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Understanding that there will be soon a meeting of the Trustees of the Central College , I beg leave to acquaint you; that in the event of the Trustees not having procured a mathematical Professor , that I should be happy to have the professorship. I regret extremely that I was not more explicit in my answer to your letter last summer on the subject of the classical Professorship. My...
13786Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 21 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved here your favor of the 13 th . I had seen on my way here Col o Nicholas who told me he had advised the suspension of my note until his return which was to be the last of that week, and of course I presume he is now in Richmond . I write by the mail to Charlottesville to desire my grandson to send you a proper order for the reciept of the money, the propriety of it’s going from...
13787From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 20 April 1818 (Madison Papers)
I take the opportunity by Judge Holmes of sending my first Instalment for the Central College, which I beg the favor of you to have put into the proper hands. The only subscription to the lists I distributed is the inclosed one from Gen A. T. Mason. Is it worth while to avail ourselves of his solitary liberality in that distant quarter, which connects him so little with an institution as yet a...
13788John Cook to Thomas Jefferson, 20 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed Publication which I have the honour to present to you I received very Lately from the Author, now in England , a very near acquaintance and intimate Friend of many Years standing. Permit me to observe Sir, that this is the only one of a series of numbers which commenced some Years ago and are published annually in England , which has appeared in Amer i ca . Having published some...
13789Ferdinando Fairfax to Thomas Jefferson, 20 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I know that you must be very much plagued with Letters & communications of all descriptions: it is a Tax upon your celebrity; which makes most of your fellow Citizens solicitous of your approbation. This accompanies a little production that appeared to me adapted to the present posture of affairs: but I do not solicit of you an answer to this, unless both leisure and inclination should render...
13790Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 20 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I had dated and prepared to put in your note on Wednesday the 22 nd but by the advice of Col l Nicholas did not offer it until yesterday, when it was discounted, I cannot however make use of the proceeds, not having yet received the necessary check from M r T. J. Randolph , it will fall due on the 21 /24 th June . Our flour market continues to decline, the present prices are 8
13791Thomas Jordan to Thomas Jefferson, 20 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Being empowered by the above Gentlemen to collect all sums due to them, I beg leave to annex your Small acc t , which I shall thank you to send me the am t of to the care of Doctor May of this City. your sending the amount by Return of Post will oblige Sir Tho s Jefferson Esq r & c To Kimber & Richardson Philadelphia
13792James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 20 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the opportunity by Judge Holmes of sending my first Instalment for the Central College , which I beg the favor of you to have pai put into the proper hands. The only subscription to the lists I distributed is the inclosed one from Gen A. T. Mason . Is it worth while to avail ourselves of his solitary liberality in that distant quarter , which connects him so little with an institution...
13793Robert Walsh to Thomas Jefferson, 20 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
As there is now no likelihood of the resurrection of the American Register, & as I am about to return with my family to Philadelphia , I think it proper to restore to you at once the valuable manuscript of M r de Tracy . It certainly deserves to be well translated, & published among us; but I doubt the sale would defray the expence of printing. The taste for Such profound speculations is...
13794From John Quincy Adams to John Adams Smith, 19 April 1818 (Adams Papers)
Mr John Edwards Holbrook the bearer, is a Gentleman recommended to me, as of a highly respectable character, nephew of George Edwards Esqr. of Charleston, South Carolina—He is going to Scotland, and afterwards to London, with the intention of completing a medical education, and other views of liberal improvement and curiosity. I beg leave to recommend him to your kind attentions, and if...
13795Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 19 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your letter yesterday. For the present I am bound here. The friends who exert themselves in endeavouring to promote my interest, require of me that the pains they have taken shall not be rendered nugatory. If D r Dorsey be elected in the room of D r Wistar , which is likely: if D r Coxe be elected in the room of D r Dorsey , which also is likely but by no means void of doubt, it...
13796Wilson Cary Nicholas to Thomas Jefferson, 19 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I am about to take a liberty with you, that I hope you will pardon. Before I do, I beg you to understand, it is sincerely my wish, that you shou’d not comply with the request, I am ab o ut to make, if it shou’d be either inconvenient or unpleasant to you, in any respect. I want the use of a sum of money for a short time, I can obtain it from one of the Banks, but to do so, I Must have an...
13797“Laban Stringfellow” to Thomas Jefferson, [by 19 April 1818] (Jefferson Papers)
This circular which I take the Liberty of addressing to you is the effusion of an old fellow who has like your Honour retired from the world to repose on the Bosom of Literature, and tho: my “ Circular ” will not give me place with Campbell and Tom Moore I dare swear your excellency will agree it is equal to the subject. Before I take my leave allow me in the fullness of my heart to seize upon...
13798Enclosure: Poem by “Laban Stringfellow” on a Footrace between William Darby and Joseph Aborn, [by 19 April 1818] (Jefferson Papers)
F or your edification and amusement, I send the following poem , in which my feeble muse endeavors to describe a Match Race , run about the year 1809, at Oppelousas, in Louisiana , between W illiam D arby , Esq. geographer and map maker, and Mr. J oseph A born , deputy collector of the district of the Teche
13799To James Madison from John S. Barbour, 18 April 1818 (Madison Papers)
I had until this moment intended visiting you this Evening with a view to full information in the matter so long since entrusted to me. The indisposition of my child of which I am just apprised renders my immediate return indispensible. For the present I can only say that there will be a decree for the Sale of the Mortgaged premises at the present term of the Fredericksburg Chancery Court and...
13800Mathew Carey & Son to Thomas Jefferson, 18 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour of the 8 th we have duly Rec d The Books in question have been regularly forwarded according to order—& we have no doubt will shortly reach your hands. They were forwarded to care of in a box to F. A. Mayo , Richmond , Jan 13. on which day, Capt Peyton was advised that such a parcel was addressed to his care.—
13801James Leitch to Thomas Jefferson, 18 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this Day Changed a Subscription paper to the Central College , making it payable in three Annual Installments have presented it to three persons two have Subscribed $175—my zeal for the Institution have Induced me to act in this (unauthorised) Should this Course meet your approbation I am of Opinion a Considerable Subscription may Still be obtained, & if an Idea Could with propriety be...
13802William King (of South Carolina) to Thomas Jefferson, 17 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
the subject on which on I venture to address a few lines to you I hope will not be disagreable. With becoming modesty I venture to say I have discovered a Method for finding the Longitude at Sea, exceedingly plain & easy. The President of the So. Carolina Colege has examied it, & has writen on it that he has not seen any thing similar to it in any Author. By this Method, both the Lattitude &...
13803John G. Robert (for Patrick Gibson) to Thomas Jefferson, 17 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have sent by Ja s Johnson s boat to you Eleven cases wine & one of macaroni in good order— You will pay toll for passing the locks at Columbia — I wo d wish M r T. E. Randolph to be more explicit hereafter in sending your flour down as a great deal of trouble has been unnecessarily incurred by the boatman Eye’s not knowing where to deliver it— it has in consequence remained sometime in a...
13804From James Madison to James Barbour, 16 April 1818 (Madison Papers)
⟨The las⟩t mail bro⟨ught⟩ me your favor of ⟨the⟩ 11th. and in ⟨than⟩king you ⟨for it?⟩ I do the same for the documents on ⟨f?⟩orn: affairs previously sent me. Your speech has taken a more correct view of the principle on which the colonial monopoly rests, than has been generally taken of it; and your statistical illustrations have an important bearing on ⟨the⟩ question depending. I entirely...
13805From John Adams to William Tudor, Sr., 15 April 1818 (Adams Papers)
I HAVE received your obliging favour of the 8th, but cannot consent to your resolution to ask no more questions. Your questions revive my sluggish memory. Since our national legislature have established a national painter—a wise measure, for which I thank them, my imagination runs upon the art, and has already painted, I know not how many, historical pictures. I have sent you one, give me...
13806From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 15 April 1818 (Adams Papers)
My correspondence has been much interrupted the last fortnight Susan has been So feeble and weak, that She has required much care and attention She is now but just able to leave her Chamber, and that only for a short time, and we have had ten days of dismal wet weather, in which the Sun has not once Shone,—it has produced much Sickness, of the Quincy and Croup kind, with Children—My Son T B As...
13807Enclosure: Circular from Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 30 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
IN resigning my office as Surveyor of the Capitol , I publickly assigned those reasons whi c h were personal. It was my intention to lay those that regarded the public interests, before the proper authorities: but a severe illness, which confined me immediately after my removal from the city , and especially the consideration of the thanklessness, and general uselessness of every attempt of an...
13808Enclosure: Nicholas Biddle to William Tilghman, 6 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the pleasure of depositing with the Historical committee , the papers & books which accompany this letter, in compliance with the request of Governor Clark in his letter to me of the 10 th of Oct 1816, transmitted by M r Jefferson — It may perhaps be usefull to add such notices of other objects connected with them, as may enable the committee to extend its researches— It was in the...
13809From John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 14 April 1818 (Adams Papers)
I thank you, for giving the necessary Bonds for the entrance of my Son George at the University and am very glad he is there—Market Projects, have lost most of their attractions for me—I desire to have nothing to do with that which is in contemplation, till something comes in the shape of returns from the other. I yesterday received a Letter from Messrs: R. P. & C. Williams of Boston,...
13810Extract of Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge) to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 14 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Grandpapa has been taking such a long nap, my dear Mother that I began to despair of getting ink in time to write to you, but he has at last made his appearance, and as I have very little to tell you, I shall in spite of my fatigue, make an effort to write. we did not stop at Warren the first night as we intended, but after dining with M rs Patterson got on to M rs Gibson’s who received us...